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Next gen consoles for sure. Getting a fancy PC might be nice, but only for a few months before you start running into problems. Before you know it your drivers will go wacky or some software will screw with certain games and half the time you won't even be able to play the games you pay for. Besides would you rather pay $400 for a next gen console or $1,500 on a gaming PC?

The next gen console will get you at least 8 years of gaming that is just as good as the average PC. I still think games on the 360 look as good as most people running games on their PC.

Mass Effect 3 was better than the first two, Halo 3, better than the first two, Battlefield 3, better than the first two, The Elder Scrolls III, better than the first two, Forza 3, Modern Warfare 3, Fallout 3......

That sounds incredibly boring to me. I'd rather have it on easy and blindly run and gun.

Not a picture, but here is my latest outdoor adventure (not the most thrilling video in the world, but meh). I love the snow and love to ski.

As for summer adventures, I'm probably going to try rafting this summer and explore different hot springs.

Here are some pictures of my favorite summer 'adventures' from last summer (from McCall, Idaho):

A controller is a million times superior to mouse in keyboard in everything but an RTS in my opinion (and a touch screen out does a mouse in keyboard in those even). Long live the controller!

Haven't tried FIFA yet but I heard it's pretty good.

So I just happened to notice EA is having a President's Day iOS sale. I picked up 7 $10 games for $0.99 each! Great deal. Got Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, FIFA 13, and Dead Space to name a few. I was going to buy some of these full price last week, glad I waited.

Just wanted to share. If anyone has any other EA iOS recommendations feel free to share. I thought about grabbing Risk, Need For Speed Most Wanted and Madden 12 as well. Maybe Sim City HD also.

They'll continue to sell to the people who already buy Nintendo but they won't be getting very many new customers at all. Their attempts to innovate are nice but it doesn't help when they can't get good third party games and a platform on par with the current gen systems. They'll end up even farther behind when the next gen hits. I don't think you can consider the WiiU a next gen console, it was merely an attempt to catch up to the current gen....way too late.

So I've only gone skiing a handful of times but have been having more and more fun each time. We're going again tomorrow, however it's been sort of warm lately and some of the snow on the mountain has melted. Last Friday when I went there was 36" of snow, and now it's sitting at 33". They don't make snow on this mountain because of difficulty getting water up there (it's in a desert area). Other mountains further away are sitting at 80+ inches.

I've heard some seasoned snowboarders say the snow sucked today, but do you think we should bother driving up there?

I just really want to go, especially if it keeps getting warmer, but I just wondered why its considered 'bad snow'. 36" last week seemed fine. Would a loss of 3" make that much difference?

Hitler thought getting rid of people with different tastes was cool too. Good one.

I don't like Japanese games / anime... I don't like arcade crap. I knew absolutely nothing about Devil May Cry other than there was a new one out, and I didn't even know it was made by Capcom when I bought it, it was $6 so I bought it and figured if it was cool I'd try the new one. I have the new one from GameFly I just haven't tried it yet. I've heard they've modernized it or whatever, so maybe it's not as anime-ish / Japanese? Or is it still a game for that niche audience?

That niche isn't something I'm into. I don't care about combos, scores or getting "good" at pressing buttons. I'm also not into video-gamey video games. I prefer simulation types that don't make it seem like you're in a game by flashing scores and all kinds of crap across the screen and then completely taking you out of the game to be like 'hey dude here's your score'. Why is there a score at all? Why can't it be a game about saving the princess or whatever the fuck it has me doing? All I see is spikey hair, giant swords, guns and Catholics....I have no fucking clue what's supposed to be happening. Maybe that's because I haven't played the first 3 games??? I mean you start off being chased by monsters with absolutely no explanation of what's going on....

Anyway, I just want to have fun. The game has been fun as a button masher, but I don't get scores better than C-B and it's just annoying that if I spend the time to beat this game I'll get literally nothing out of it...maybe like 20 gamerscore for killing 100 enemies and the stuff like that, but that's it....