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@AhmadMetallic: Imma go make a 3min video highlights of all the dumb things Jeff or Ryan have said too. Or better yet, i'll browse through all your forum posts (and that's a boatload of them) and make a highlights reel out of say, 50 of them that are wrong and then proceed to smear you.

He says dumb things occasionally, as everyone does, and i've seen a ton of episodes of pach attack and the number of time i raise an eyebrow at what he says because it sounds stupid is far less than the amount of time he's provided good knowledge on the subjects he really knows.

Everyone saying he's a joke and not to take him seriously are only basing this on his predictions. Everyone can try to make predictions and be completely wrong. But his understanding of finance and how markets works is what make this guy keep his job, plus he's pretty good at explaining that part of the business and he's got a good personality as others have said. You could have any other financial analyst do the same while being a whole lot more boring to listen to.

Punched to death by a brute in Uncharted 3.

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White, French Canadian.

@FeelTheFunkness: Tom's Hardware has regular articles about most bang for your buck.

Best gaming graphics card for the money.

Best gaming CPU for the money.

Both of those links are from this month.

And the last system builder's marathon they did can also be helpful. Dating from March but prices and parts won't have changed to much since then. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-a-pc-budget-overclock,3160.html

You should read the entire articles, its long but pretty informative on what to look for and will often mention alternative parts to those they ultimately picked.

@RollingZeppelin said:

I hate to be that guy, but I had a real nit-pik with the physics behind his shield. I can accept that it is made of some crazy rare material with insane damping properties, suspension of disbelief and all that. But this shield is supposed to absorb any and all vibrations, period. And yet every time something hits the shield in the movie we hear a ping or a loud clang, the shield even hums when it is struck violently enough. Sound is vibrations of air molecules and the source of the ping and hum noises is the surface of the shield. We should not hear anything at all if it absorbs vibrations in the way it's described.

Secondly, Captain America is able to block any magnitude of impact force, sure he's super strong but the impacts he stops with his shield are beyond that which even Thor can stop. Crazy dampening properties do not explain the Cap's ability to absorb these impacts.

/rant

If movies were more scientifically accurate there wouldn't be any sound in space scenes in Star Wars/Trek and so on. I would rant way louder if that was the case.

The 35GB requirements could be something along the same line as Space Marine for example. Space Marine asks for "Hard Drive: 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)". Essentially it downloads or copy the files to the hard drive first and then intalls the game and delete the install files afterwards.

The internet in general needs to have a lot less scores and a lot more actual thinking.

That's a no.

I didn't find this article snobbish or condescending. He either states facts that are accurate or opinions about the always-on DRM that are largely along the same lines has pretty much every other articles on the subject.

Regarding the DRM thing i absolutely agree when he says "Oh, and if you’ve not had server issues, others have, and that doesn’t make server issues okay". There's essentially two types of opinions on this subject. Those who don't care about it provided it works fine, which is probably mostly the case by now and will continue to be so for the rest of this game's existence. And then there are those who will refuse to play it at all out of principles against DRMs. One thing remains though. The always-on DRM for Diablo III has been put in place, and has so far caused a lot of issues, because of the introduction of the real money auction house and PVP, features not currently in the game, and apparently delayed even more than initially planned in the auction house's case. Whatever camp you are in on that specific issue, right now there are no good ways for Blizzard to justify the issues that have plagued the game.

I would also add that if people try to diminish the importance of the always-on DRM by saying that every massively anticipated games like this have had server issues at launch than it is only fair to judge the game against other release that too suffered from server issues. You don't need to look far back in Blizzard's catalog to find example and from my experience, Diablo III's launch has been more problematic than Cataclysm and Starcraft 2's launches. Add to this that the features requiring the always-on DRM aren't even in the game yet and Blizzard really does look worst than before.

The rest of his criticisms don't seem too far fetched either and it certainly didn't feel like he was trying really hard to find negative things to say about the game. It is a very simple game and any issues will always be more apparent in simpler games and it is harder to give them a pass compared to other games with more complex mechanics and environments. I didn't see anything condescending in there.