Branthog

I have respect for Anandtech in that they have not gone down the route of Arstechnica or -- worse -- Tom's Hardware Guide (which sunk so low as to do product and news updates once a day featuring a different busty female model presenting it each day).

Unprofessional Fridays are more about conversation and hanging out than gaming, I think. Also, the random and weird and awful games are just fine. The problem is, they don't give it enough time. They throw in a game and if they can't figure it out in thirty seconds, they abort. They've missed some fun by not pushing on.

It would be nice to sometimes see them do some Pathfinder/D&D/whatever, instead. Or just any sort of board games, too. Something where everyone could sit around and play for a prolonged period and talk. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll see much more table top games or table top RPG stuff with all of the gang split up across the country, now.

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That's a bit misleading. People are not all the verbs they have ever engaged in. Reading a cereal box doesn't make you a "reader". I have run, but I am not a runner. I have cooked, but I am not a chef. If running was something I put a lot of time and interest into, then I would be a "runner". That would be a word that describes something I am based on the fact that it makes up some meaningful portion of my life or activities. If I cooked professionally or cooking was something I did as a real interest, I might be a "chef". If I enjoyed reading and spent considerable time doing it, I would be a reader.

Likewise, if gaming is something that I engage in enough that it consumes some real amount of my time, I would reasonably be called a "gamer". If I played angry birds on my cell phone and used to play monopoly at the table with my siblings when I was growing up, I would hardly think of myself as a "gamer" any more than I would anything else that I've only occasionally verb'd.

Vinny looks insane.

Accurate.

Yep, I just looked and apparently the kinectless box has already been out.

I think it really does come down to "which one has the exclusives you prefer", but the other things can definitely add up to counter it. If you care about battery life or controller build quality or earlier access to DLC and so on. I'm the kind of person who, if I had to pick just one system, could very well decide that I want the most powerful one, period -- regardless of other perks.

But.. yeah... ultimately, if the games you *really* want are elsewhere (and there are very few of those so far this generation), then it doesn't do much good to have the console you can't play those on. :)

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