Recent content by nametakentwice

I get the point you're trying to make, because it is the exact same point you and the writer are making over, and over, and over again without discussing any of the other statements anyone with a differing viewpoint has made. I wouldn't say you are being particularly insulting about it, but the...

A twitter on The Escapist's Water Cooler both furthers my point and provides a counter-perspective to the marketing point. The writer seems less interested in discussion than furthering controversy. From a marketing point of view, though, engendering controversy, particularly controversy...

I understand the point. "People shouldn't buy DRM stuff if it's bad and they know about it." What I'm saying is that they are looking at it from one fairly closed perspective on the issue, and it is also the one that would be the most potentially antagonizing to members of this community...

I agree with what a lot of the forum-posters are saying against this article. The server outages may not surprise me, but the angle that The Escapist is coming at this from does. This is the tagline for this article at the start of this thread: It's all well and good for the writer to...

It seems to me WoW could be practically straight-ported to PS3... it's got the tech, the hd, and you can hook in a keyboard and mouse. It wouldn't need a new control system. Of course, how many PS3 gamers would be willing to use a keyboard and mouse for a game, and pay $15/month for one...

Maybe this was just a Ubisoft conspiracy to get bad publicity in the highly coveted realm of IT security... http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/03/08/plug-pulled-video-game-players-ubisoft-drm-servers-attacked/

Q on CBC radio apparently did a piece on how many things reference Ayn Rand, including Bioshock. The podcasts and youtube videos don't seem to have that part, though, all I could find was this blog entry. http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2010/02/jesse_wentes_list_of_ayn_rand.html

I don't see Buzz being any threat to Twitter. I already get stuck reading twitter posts on facebook and livejournal, and it seems they show up just as easy in Buzz. #twittersucks (though I'm aware it's not going away anytime soon and I do find myself caught up in it to some slight extent)

My PS2 slim wiped a memory card while I was playing Jak X Combat Racing. Internet research indicated it was due to overheating associated with the slim model. I never had any problems with my regular PS2. So, I remain skeptical of the new Slim model. I also didn't care for the PSP 3000...

I'm a fan of the old-model PS3s that can play PS2 games. Note that there are two different forms of backward compatibility - hardware and software. I managed to get a used PS3 last December that has the PS2 hardware built in. I would say the console virii potential with a used system is...

I have looked at Home a bit. I imagine it could be neat to meet previously met friends in there to start a game, but I'm not one to easily start talking to random avatars in a not-directly-game-based setting (as opposed to WoW where you can form guilds and work together). However, I agree...

I find it a bit high; if I had more disposable income and time I might resubscribe. Yet, I think the amount of content and updating they do is decent justification. But, consider that eHarmony is more expensive, and that is mainly just a databasing system with ongoing running processes with...

I agree that it would be nice if StarCraft II had a LAN option, and that gaming is evolving in different directions. And yet, in recent years there is a renaissance of social gaming in terms of games that anyone, even non-gamers, can enjoy. Quiz games like BuzzQuizTV and SceneIt, karaoke...