CrossTheAtlantic

I'm guessing they just started doubling up on items on the Wheel of Hyperbole. It was inevitable.

My fat 80gb PS3 was the loudest thing ever. This weekend I decided to give that thermal paste replacement thing a shot in part as preparation for GTA V, and it's been a stupendous success. Watched a movie without the fan ever really kicking on when it used to go all the way to stage 3 from films alone.

Do we know for sure this is because of CBSi? Cause that sucks.

Hm. At first I thought it sounded like a more structured (maybe?) version of The Sims, but it seems like it could be really cool if it actually manages to nail the empathy aspect you mention, Patrick, and not just feel like a life-simulator.

Maybe not the greatest but going for something others haven't mentioned.

ALL the music in this game is really great and pretty crazy considering the hardware.

Also young me remembers this game being fucking hard.

Riven: The Sequel to Myst.

When I was a kid, my best friend's dad was playing it and had a notebook where he was working out base-6 (or something like that, don't totally recall) math to solve a puzzle. Blew my goddamn mind.

Pretty sure the initial PRISM reveal disclosed that the entire data gathering program was developed by Microsoft, so it's not really surprising they'd work directly with the government on it. As with most of this stuff, they probably say they didn't voluntarily work with the government because they didn't and were ordered by a secret court or some such nonsense.

Yeah, what this guy said.