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  1. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Delayed launch in the EU is 9 months off for XB1 - no? (late Q3 2014 I thought? With 2015 for the rest of the world) Holding back for localities is a 3 month thing generally. JPN is about 2 months away for PS4, EU extension is not. And of course that's how most people - even the hardcore but...
  2. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You do realize most "sold out" items never hit 100%, right? And that a hypothetical 1m sitting in JPN warehouses waiting to ship is another thing too right? Or if say companies are holding back 5% of their stock each to replace defective units (if that's still a worry), etc. You try to ignore...
  3. Vaclav

    Board Games

    College/high school age are usually at our store too - but they tend more towards the MTG spectrum mostly - and segwaying to WH40k and other minis games before tabletop from what I've seen. (And then the couple folks older than us are back into minis again)
  4. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Or they're holding X amount (likely around 1m from how their launch sales compare to US launches from what I can see) for the JPN launch coming up... and shipping times with more territories is going to be slower, that's logic a third grader would understand.
  5. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yea, just ignore the rest of my statement where I talk about shipping time and holding a product for secondary markets, etc. You know, things that are factors that will artificially deflate the figures to make it not representative of demand. Additionally demand is entirely driven by quantity...
  6. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Portion sold is a valuable figure now? So if there were three XBones made and they sold two of the three it would be an overwhelmingly better success story than PS4? (66.6%) Really? Reality is that the sales figures and such lag behind in reporting and some are going to be in transit at...
  7. Vaclav

    Board Games

    In my area that's about the norm - think the wife and I are the only retired/unemployed folks at our gaming store - and for those that do tabletop RPGing it's all the 25-35 age bracket. (And heavily those that work as programmers for some reason, oddly...)
  8. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Ah, yea I missed that part... But yea, it's goofy as crap to add Pyro to it - since there's always 1 critter per dog to kill them unless they're running lots of 0/X's.
  9. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    You do realize his plan includes planning for the dogs to instantly die, right? Thus all the "gets benefits from the dogs dying" critters he mentioned... It seems really janky and subject to failure, but the combo was intended to kill the dogs.
  10. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Yea, pic did nothing for me was just translating the allusion you made into originalBSG era TV for a guess - gogo Jeopardy skills.
  11. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Is that Logan's Run? Been such a long time...
  12. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

  13. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Those "other statistics" are estimates based on absolutely nothing, the 11m figure was figured out based on how many were found in a given area by INS - and the number is additionally bolstered a bit from what the numbers were when Reagan gave amnesty back during his term, back then it was 2.2%...
  14. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Depends on the category - there's plenty of categories where those "dirty Euros" are kicking our asses in medical technology and procedure research. Knee replacements in the UK for example are the cream of the crop of the world currently. Heart, liver and cancer tend to be the only ones we...
  15. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    "Less government" is a farcical term anyhow - everyone wants government there for them for a list of a select few items that varies person to person - no one but a few idiots (that live on compounds generally) want no government whatsoever. Now we all have some items we'd rather not have them...
  16. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Eh, it's a corner case that probably means nothing - wouldn't be worth recording, but wife was watching it too and agreed with me that it was 4 turns. (Which was easy to track mentally with her HP - 12 to start (card 1), hit her with a 4 power down to 8 (card 2), had no critters from the sweeper...
  17. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    US illegal population is 11.7m, the US population is 313.9m - 10% does mean per capita they're overrepresented for how many there are, three times as often as a citizen - but that's still a drop in the overall bucket. And I never said a word about people being turned away because of no...
  18. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Saw something interesting again in Arena... Person has Ysera out for 4 draws - has only played one card from her so far (a Laughing Sister). Plays one of the THREE cards left in his hand - but it wasn't a Dream card. Scratching my head over that oddity. [Not that Swipe vs. most of the...
  19. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Likely true, especially in Arizona where sedated illegals have been deported while under sedation. But regardless of "why" the figures show that they're a drop in the bucket to the getting free healthcare equation unless you start counting clinics which aren't really tracked to my knowledge.
  20. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Technically before ANYONE who wanted free healthcare got free healthcare. Go to the hospital, don't show insurance and claim you're unable to pay when the bill comes - got written off and wasn't even legally allowed to be thrown on a credit report (although there were some states where there...
  21. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    OnLive with its limited library handled it quite well - I was doomcrying it before I tried it and it was only SLIGHTLY sluggish in controls (like the original wireless controllers were for home consoles - not terrible just slightly off)
  22. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Honestly, we'll have to see once it's actually running how well it does I think - I think bad connections like yours are screwed, great ones however it's plausible it might be decent to good. OnLive the times I tried it at folks places ran stuff amazingly well with only small microlags (On DSL...
  23. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010; 111th Congress H.R. 3590) - GovTrack.us Just right off the bat with your quote is that: a) I wasn't referring exclusively to the Senate b) There were 3 Republican signatures on bringing it forward, not just one. c) I was only referencing...
  24. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Something like 4 republicans voted for it technically - it gets buried by most media though, but if you look at the votes on the Congressional website its there clear as day.
  25. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Missed my first 12 win arena by a single match today because of it - depressing. (Had tons of adjacent effects between 2 flametongues, 1 defender and a doggy)
  26. Vaclav

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    If you owned Season Pass for AC4 on PS3/4 you got $5 off on preordering it - but that's past tense, not sure if there's anything similar on PC anyhow though.
  27. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Nat I still don't have personally - but every time I've seen him played vs. me it's usually way under... RNG just hates on you with my anecdotal experience.
  28. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I think that was just implied with them talking about selling off the brand to separate it. Never seen it stated absolutely by MS.
  29. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Depends on what definition of "failure" you use - its a pretty wide-arching term. We've seen it on these very forums and its precursors used to label MMOs that are quite healthy as "failures" (i.e. EQ1 that still manages to chug along is a "failure" to most here - it suffered a market slide for...
  30. Vaclav

    Playstation Vita

    Ah my bad - checking it it's fighting Margaret and creating Izanagi-no-Okami they say are limited to second playthrough.
  31. Vaclav

    Playstation Vita

    Not for the 'true ending' from my read of trophy stuff for the wife...
  32. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    PS3, 150 gb, controller, HDMI cord and GTA V $150 OBOsounds like your area sucks - that one is the first on a CL search in my area, $150 for a 150 GB quoted as "working fine" with the controller and HDMI + GTA V (probably $20-30 savings if sold back).
  33. Vaclav

    Playstation Vita

    Is KZ: Merc supposed to be good? Surprised people are reacting well to it the PSV list looks shitty to me.
  34. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Nod. I do realize that possibility as well. I've noted TONS of odd decks in Arena though but he's the only one I've seen multiples since keeping notes. Regsrdless it was odd enough to report it to Blizz to check into. If it was all the same odd pool they'll note it and ignore me probably with...
  35. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Protip: It's got nothing to do with addons. Breaking street dates is what reduces priority, something Target and Walmart are constant offenders of. If addons were a huge deal, you'd not see online vendors with any priority since they have the lowest add on sellthrough by miles. (Mostly...
  36. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Beat him 2 out of the 3 times - just finding it odd regardless. (and the loss, second game was from Warsong + Molten x2 the same turn - had him ready to die next turn) PS - On MTGO during the OTJ era I was the one that first brought the pack seed "hack" (really was just a packet sniff though...
  37. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Third time running into some "XXXXGiraffe" guy in Arena in the past week (started taking notes of suspiciously close to constructed Arena decks on Wed) with a card for card clone of OTK warrior deck in arena with nothing deviating from the build with at least multiple epics represented...
  38. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Hilarious that so many people were giving me flak about my rumor I'd gotten wind of them doing exactly that.... course she was late in the timeframe she predicted, but 3 weeks or so off ain't awful. Not that it's looking like I'll ever be talking to her again since I didn't get the job though.
  39. Vaclav

    Hearthstone

    Run into 2 Arena decks this morning that would've passed for the OTK and Shadowpriest decks floating around reasonably often these days, every single card including epics represented... very odd.
  40. Vaclav

    GMO, Monsanto, organic dreadlocked nonsense?

    And what's only gotten a little airplay is at least one or two cases where Monsanto modifications that they patented became SPONTANEOUS mutations by all evidence and when they found out they still tried to sue. I don't mind too much of their stuff, but that one really irks me since apparently...