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It's going to be awesome when you can just order up a new heart or lung as needed.

Whilepublishershave never come right out to us at MS and say "We want you to do something about used gaming" we could hear it in their voices and read it in their numerous public statements.The used gaming industry is slowly killing themand every attempt to slow down the bleeding was met with...

Oh, I agree, it absolutely does sound sweet. But a company trying to NOT be devious fuck faces would have had those systems in place with an off switch. And switching off would deactivate the ability to play the movie. That's my beef with MS..I can see a lot of the directions they want to go...

My theory is that they are pushing the Kinect because they want to make inroads in the per person-per view market and compete with theaters. Imagine if Xbox was able to work out deals with studios guaranteeing them they could monitor home viewership of their movies and thereby get releases to...

(I was editing when you replied). Except, you know, if your kids do something wrong or your wife does--or any part of your family that would only be caught through a peep into your home (Speaking about the difference between surveillance from a personal effect and a home device). Do you even...

Have you been watching the news? Seriously. Yes, no one gives a fuck what you do on wed night. But if one day you do something considered subversive--like say, protesting a bank that's robbed people by forging signatures (Look up robo-signing)....then if they had access to taped records of...

Poor OZnever gets any love. Oz was the "trial run". Sopranos really introduced the style of shows being handled more like extended mini-series, or a series that did not sacrifice pacing, story and plot for the need to fill air time for ads (Last season kind of the exception, but even the last...

Chaose covered them, but yeah this is the dumbest thing said in the thread so far. America's need for salt on their god damn food is a more important issue to be focused on.

Damn Astro, the fuck? Sopranos started the Golden Age of TV--it's the grandfather of shows like Boardwalk, Deadwood and The Wire. Seriously, that's a treasure trove of entertainment waiting for you, I'm kind of envious.

These people are idiots. The future they want is one where people are asked to assume risk before seeing the benefit? MS could have easily gotten away with this DRM shit if they had released the system normally and then sold DRM enabled games for cheaper--and given those games other benefits...

Because their company is being run with the mentality of a used car salesman? This is why they are so out of touch. The company isnotbeing run by people who love the technology. It's being run by people whomarketand sell. Their gaming division is the same way because this asshole only has...

First I've heard of this tracking system but you know the old adage--if it smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit then it probably is.

I think it's the fact that such a plan was dependent on the entire game being loaded onto your HD. Without the need for a disc, this would allow people to sell the game while still playing it, and while I support secondary markets--that's not feasible. So after moving to require discs, they...

Should be used as an indication that you need new friends.

They should still be punished for their disingenuous responses and bullshit about how it's "needed"--essentially every reason they said they needed to do this was just proven to be bullshit. Much like Sim-city and it's mystical "server computation"--it came down to "DRM for more money."

The problem is what people saw with that visibility. What they saw was essentially a group of somewhat decent, but not at all "competitive" players reaping in money for nothing more than having tits. Seriously, the team got trashed multiple times in random diamond league match ups. So it was...

I was thinking along the lines of the fact that they could already survive in space. Space around the sun seems just as good as space anywhere else. So why follow the humans into deep space? There was no reason except to continue to war (And to mooch of the obvious superiority of tech travel vs...

So with red hair Trixie becomes Conan Obrien's female doppelganger.

I actually like Chamber's assessment about the Hizaudue: Number of fucks given=0. The machine is right, they are a hostile species that are not human anymore. Just because they were human hundreds, maybe even thousands of years ago doesn't matter. Especially since in the video's it seemed like...

What's this now?

Well, walked right into that one.

Anything with batteries gets me excited. Storing power is the albatross around humanities neck right now.

This is one of those plot points that is very, very obvious but also, if you just read the books, completely inconsequential. It really doesn't matter if Varys is playing the jailer or is the jailer. The only reason it was ever discussed is because it's a bit of a lynchpin in several other...

He also shows up as the Warden in the TV show.....

Haven't seen it yet, don't care about spoilers at all. Question for those that have--do they try to explain his (And the other Kryptonians) powers a new way? Is it genetic engineering/"science"? Just curious.

Unless this friend has big tits and a willingness to blow you while playing Xbox, it's time to cut ties. Fucker might decide to kill you one day because Xenu commanded it.

When what's happening in reality becomes obscene, the symbolism and themes in fiction will follow suit.

True, forgot about that. But even then, it's a very small aspect of it--and the initial risk for the average user was tiny. Steam was asking that your 9.99? (I remember the initial price being really low) game might suck. MS is asking that your 500$ system, and hundreds of dollars of games...

It's about his reliance on capital to push people toward where his market research says they want to go. The Xbone is a perfect example. He's probably got tons of research indicating digital distribution is preferred when offered. So Xbone is built to take advantage of digital distribution and...

Because it's run by a psycho who only hires sycophants for executive positions. Look up his comments about Google. The guy is so out of touch it's sick, but his asset base prevents his business from being flushed. The game studio is a different division but you can tell it's his...

Post I made a couple weeks ago about a type of marketing that's "pre-internet" but a lot of publishers still attempt to use. It's so obvious that MS is stuck in the fucking stone age, and too insulated to actually change in a direction that's needed for the internet age. They are using all the...

"We suck at telling our story"--That's an understatement. Someone should tell these morons--we get it, you want to be like Steam. You'll probably even offer crazy discounts on games because you can show publishers you'll improve their margins by killing certain markets. However, one things...

Bran could only do that because he was a Greenseer. In the book it said that only one in a thousand people are wargs and only one in a thousand wargs are Greenseers. The wilding was able to jump into the other humans body because he died--I'm pretty sure the book even says that it can only...

Dexter is what happens when you mix good (HBO level) acting and direction with broadcast TV writing. I enjoy it just for the characters and interactions, I really, really try to ignore the writing. But yeah, BWE is written far, far better.

Well, Microsoft isn't just attacking Amazon's resale business--they are also attempting to make a name for themselves as a distribution and production company. And it's a place where Amazon is vulnerable because they've been expending a lot of capital to compete with the accessibility companies...

Microsoft's inability to hit anywhere close to the iron while it's lukewarm is shocking. Seriously: Derp, lets make a unifying OS that works across Phones, PC's and maybe even are Xbone. But lets only market our games to one of those systems!

Yeah, this is one of the most colossal failures I've seen at a reveal conference. I would love to be a fly on the wall in the marketing board room of MS right now. I'm sure heads have been rolling.

It was edited, lol. There weren't any boos that I remember, there was however a really awkward silence after they announced the price and he did have a nervous stutter (You could see it on his face..like jesus, this sounds insane that I'm asking them to bend over with this DRM horseshit AND...

Modern feminism is a race to completely devalue words like "rape" with petty, inconsequential bullshit and make women completely toxic to be around, at all, in any enviroment, for fear they will take offense to any minutia of said bullshit (Had it been two guys it would have been considered...

They made this story into an Episode of Deep Space 9 I think, neat.