I don't have a facebook account, I think facebook is for dumb people.
 
I don't use twitter, it's only good for stalking celebrities.
 
last.fm?  Well I haven't ever bothered with the site, I mostly listen to MP3s, and I've put a lot of my favorite songs on my 360's HDD.  You can't listen to last.fm on the 360 in games, so it's almost completely useless.
 
All things considered, it's the most worthless 360 update yet.

Not going to post this to the forums, unless I make some horrible mistake.  The reason for this is self evident by whom I am about to quote.  This is from the main page at Penny Arcade today, here's what Tycho had to say about the MW2 dedicated server crisis :
 
"Everywhere the discussion is takes hold, the conversation surrounding Infinity Ward's decision to forego dedicated servers is an absolute fuckfest. I understand why this would be. It's an aggressive assertion that the universe is not as they claim.

On Four Zero Two, Robert Bowling's clearing house for Infinity Ward PR, the thread quickly reached one hundred and nineteen pages. The petition at the core of the conversation, entitled " Dedicated Servers for CoD:MW2," has (at the time of this writing) reached 143,991 signatures.

To read such lamentations, you'd get the impression that PC gamers still think they are the focus of the industry, when that hasn't been true for awhile. Indeed, hardcore gamers in general - and the dedicated PC enthusiast, which is a subset - haven't been the object of their desire for some time. I was under the impression this was well known, but it does require a willingness to perceive factual information, which is not a universal trait among cultists. Maybe if you had just put out, instead of becoming a signatories to a vow of consumer chastity, the old twinkle might return to his eye."
 
So true Tycho, so true.

Forza 3
Modern Warfare 2
Halo 3 ODST
Uncharted 2
Tekken 6
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Brutal Legend
Assassin's Creed 2 (not necessarily absolute must own, I may skip it, but right now I have it preordered)
Ballad of Gay Tony
 
Demon's Souls is coming out soon in the US, but I imported it, but it'd be a must own for me if I hadn't.

A good half of ALL the best games are download only these days.  Bionic Commando Rearmed, Braid, Shatter, WipEout HD, Super Stardust HD, Pixeljunk Monsters, Trine, Trials HD, PacMan CE, Castle Crashers, just to name a few.
 
I worry about being able to play these games in the future, but for now the prices are fair enough.
 
Obviously it'd be hard to imagine getting these to work as a product in retail.  Castle Crashers on a disk for $30?  Probably would be the most likely outcome.

My 6800GT gave up the ghost the other day.  I had occasional really messed up glitches displaying simple things like the Windows startup and its fan was making horrific noises so I removed it from my PC to give it a thorough dusting with my typical level of care, slapped it back in, dead.  I had installed a NVSilencer on it a few years ago, the thing only made the videocard quieter and cooler for about 3 months and the last year or so had been bad.

So I popped in my 5900 which is in barely better shape, but at least I can use Windows as I have no onboard video.  I modded the 5900's firmware back in 2003, and the thing never ran correctly when clocked fully, but right now I'm running without any hardware acceleration at all.  I used safe mode driver cleaners and still no dice on getting any Nvidia drivers to work right with the thing.

Between the fact that this PC is over 5 years old and the HDDs first started clicking about 2 years ago (they're older than the PC itself), and many other issues I gave in and I'm buying a new PC.  I built my last PC, and between accidentally killing my X-Fi and now my 6800GT I decided it was best to let someone else build it for me.  I don't think I could handle the stress of a RMA or bad build.  I'm ordering over AVADirect for the first time, so I'll tell you what I think of it when I recieve the computer.

The specs are as follows :

CPU : Intel E8400 (Core 2 Duo)
case : Antec 300
mobo :Gigabyte P45-UD3L (no use for RAID or crossfire)
RAM : G. Skill 4GB CAS4
HDD : WD 500GB Cavier Black
PSU : Corsair 550W
GPU : EVGA GTX260 core 216

just a typical Lite On DVD drive, but I'm also ordering Vista (don't have a copy yet)


I wanted to balance cost with efficiency, and not feel like I spent too much or too little.  Figured I might as well be able to play the latest PC games well, seeing how my computer even before the 6800GT died couldn't run TF2 anywhere near max details comfortably.  The price difference between a low end PC and gaming class PC wasn't big enough for me to comfortably go with a 'no games' build.  Anyways, I probably won't be posting so much on Giant Bomb until I get my new PC because right now this computer is running like shit.