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I still think he's running just to embarase the republican party. I mean, look at his track record. He has been a democrat for so long, what's all of a sudden changed. He has to know he's not electable by the majority of the country. What a dog and pony show!

@notnert427: angry much? LOL

In all seriousness though, we have M$ to thank for the controller support on PC. Were it not for them opening the 360 controller up to the PC the controller would probably still be a non-starter.

There's really no reason to be hostile to the PC as a game system. I mean the whole idea of an "exclusive" game is a bit ridiculous if you think about it. That's really the only thing that makes people cling to a particular platform over another. It's like politics. I'd much rather have openness and developers using there talents in developing rather than marketing. The only time exclusives make any kind of sense to me is when a platform tries something new like the Wii/U or the PSeye or the Kinect. I can understand the appeal of those. But if you're telling me this similar console plays games better than this other similar console then forget it.

@liquiddragon: I personally don't think it has anything to do with the GB crew and PC games. It more has to do with the ubiquity of Steam, the slowing down and bottoming out of the PC market in terms of price to performance, and the fact that graphics cards have really dropped in price due to the implosion of bitcoin and the lack of such mining. The miners have been ditching there high end graphics cards as of late, especially on the AMD side (mostly because they were kick ass at bitcoin mining.). It's also apparent that devs are actually making an effort at properly porting games to PC as well. Just about all newly released games run pretty darn well on modest hardware. I could go on and on about this but I'll just end by saying that consoles aren't much different from PCs anymore and this generation of consoles just doesn't cut it compared to the generations before.

PC....Oh Console, yeah, WiiU. I own it and love it. So do the youngins'. Just about everything on that console is exclusive!

The other two just don't interest me. I suppose if a gun were put to my head I'd go Xone simply because I already have a gold account for the 360 and I've already developed a library of games for the Xone because of "Games with Gold".

Seriously though, if your not on PC this gen something is wrong. That's where all the great games are these days. You can buy a used r9 280x for like $150 and that'll run anything you throw at it on a modest PC at 1080p. It can even go up to 1440p resolution for most games. It truly has never been easier to get into PC gaming.

@mattyftm: Yosh-i makes no sense as the Japanese alphabet doesn't allow it. It very clearly allows for for Yo-Shi. It's two Japanese characters long. There is no Yosh or sh characters in Japanese.

Edit: LOL at this tangent!

@arjailer: that sucks, I'm sure @rorie will handle it. Just drop him a line. Good luck.

@arjailer: I guess it might be a job for @rorie then. I'd do everything else first though to make sure it's not on your end. Ie: log out, erase the cookies in the browser, restart the PC, log back in. Sometimes software can get hung up if a memory flag doesn't change correctly due to a bug, an error in another program that hangs the system, or even an electrical issue.

@j_boy: log out of your account then log back in. I was confused at first too when I signed up but that didthe trick for me.

New thread: things Dan has done, you numb nuts haven't.

Write an insulting book about Jose Canseco for which Jose Canseco himself wrote the forward. Boom!

Kinda puts the whole food thing into perspective.

Stay weird and interesting Dan. Don't follow the Lemmings...(Speaking of good games. I love me some Lemmings!)

Fuck physical media,

I have 7 large, full boxes of VHS tapes that are destined for a landfill one day. I have maybe played A VHS tape once a year or three in the last decade and a half. I have 3 full boxes of cassette tapes and I think I might own a cassette player somewhere. Physical media is quite meaningless in the digital age. It's nice to think we can hold onto this stuff forever but at the end of the day it's just stuff. There's so much DRM even on physical media these days that the "Physical" part of it is quite superfluous. I just can't see physical media surviving for much longer. It's mostly around now due to certain countries Governments and telecoms holding back innovation and infrastructure. Collectors will find other things to hold onto as that is their nature.

As far as records go. I have to admit the intrigue is there but at the end of the day the idea of playing a record is so cumbersome that I just don't see the actual appeal. Can you take a record with you in a car? The record companies do however record to records at the highest possible quality though, so there's that angle. It's still all from a digital source though so most of the appeal of records for me is pretty much gone, replaced by overly produced auto-tuned garbage. we'll never hear that authentic studio sound again because music has moved on and no longer masters recordings in analog.

Someone mentioned photos. Perhaps they have forgotten just how much a PITA it was to take pictures from film. I remember quite well hoping that the picture I took actually came out then having a bunch of used canisters of film lying around unprocessed because I was just too cheap or lazy to take them to the photo mat. Then to show them to people I had to take out this 5lb. album of blurry pictures for someone to flip through. Now I just take my phone out and show them the very best of the thousand or so I took on my vacation because I didn't have to worry about film and whether my picture would develop properly.

I have my photos in so many places now I no longer worry about losing them. The cloud has taken care of me in that respect. I still keep them on my HDD as well but it's really just out of nostalgia. I would worry far more about my HDD crashing than Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon shuttering there doors.

Nostalgia is always rose-colored.