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@Robopengy: Reddit crap?

@JoeyRavn: What are you talking about? I see nothing but praise for Durante. What ungrateful PC gamers have you been talking to, because I see none.

Some proofreading would be nice.

"it's is"

@BonOrbitz: Nice to hear they were good about it. When I cancelled the woman on the phone really wanted me to talk to a tech about my "slow internet" problem. It took about 10 tries of me saying "It cannot be fixed, it is inherent to the technology you use" before she gave up and let me cancel.

With Uverse there is a 250GB monthly cap and higher pings due to the VDSL tech they use. I had it for a week before getting fed up with 70-80 pings to Texas (I'm in Florida). Also you have to pay extra for HD channels. Fuck that.

@valrog said:

Also, apparently a daily deal lasts for 36 hours. Because Valve just defined the length of a day.

The daily deals have always bled over into the next batch.

As long as it has online play I'll buy it.

@Frag_Maniac: I never said it didn't artificially lengthen those games, now did I? I did say that playing CoD on Veteran is tradition and Hard Reset brings me back to the Painkiller/Serious Sam days, so playing on Insane brought a certain level of enjoyment. I have no attachment to the Spec Ops: The Line series, so playing on a harder difficulty gives me no greater enjoyment. I'm not full of contradictions - you're the one implying them.

I did not imply third person shooters aren't worth playing. I implied that cover-based shooters aren't worth playing. Reading comprehension.

@SJSchmidt93: After putting in the promo code it should have been $0. You're not actually supposed to be able to buy it.

@Frag_Maniac: Sorry, the first sentence of the second paragraph was a bit hard to follow and I couldn't tell what you were getting at.

I didn't toss out any smug comments. You're reading far too much into my comments here - I said I casually finished it to convey that I was not attempting to speed-run the game. Also, what is smug about saying playing on hard would artifically lengthen the game? It's the truth, and it's exactly what you're telling me to do. Play it on hard because then it will last longer. I'm trying to say that making the experience last longer will change nothing, and might actually affect my opinion negatively.

Man up? Christ, are we talking about video games still? This isn't some dick-waving contest. I brought up Hard Reset and CoD because those are two games I chose to play on the hardest difficulty. Hard Reset because I enjoy that style of game (I'm an old-school arena shooter fan) and CoD only because I've always played them on Veteran, and it'd be wrong to change now. Plus they're really not that hard. Nobody has ever come out and tried to claim that either of those two games had "stories of the year," and if they did, I'd be the first person to call bullshit on that. I sufficed with Normal on this game because playing yet another cover shooter does nothing for me and I have no previous commitments to focus on.

Have you stopped to think that the game wasn't so hard for me because I'm playing on a PC with mouse and keyboard? I see you're an Xbox guy. Had I used a controller for this game it probably would have taken me more time to beat. My opinion, however, would still be the same and would still be valid.

Why has this so deeply offended you? You're on the internet. I have not punched your mother in the face. Chill the fuck out. It's a video game. Guess what? People have differing opinions.