Most of the newer ones, like Sanyo Eneloops, that say "pre-charged" or "hybrid" on the label are pretty good. Prior rechargeable technologies tended to go dead quickly in low power devices, like clocks and remotes, and you'd need to replace them frequently. They were sort of useless in a flashlight because you'd go to use it and find the batteries needed to be charged. That's not really an issue with the hybrid batteries. I've had two rechargeable hybrid AAA Rayovacs in my kitchen scale for 18 months and they're still going fine without a charge.
I spent $35 on a very good charger (very similar to this one) and about $1.25 per battery 4 years ago and haven't paid a dime since. It's been worth it to me. That charger will do one at a time, help recondition batteries, and can help extend their lives by charging them better.
Prior to that I had a some rechargeable Energizers. There were lots of reports about their quality being terrible around the time I got mine and sure enough, after 5 charges or so, they stopped holding any juice for more than a couple of days regardless of how much I used them. I'm not buying any more from Energizer, even if their quality has bounced back. The familiar battery brands aren't necessarily better.
You can't go pro without being good at it. Every time he posts something like this it gets talked to death. He could crash NeoGAF's hosting servers by joking about always online DRM for Fez on Steam. People circulating this will probably let another 30 people know that Fez is available for preorder.
You can get it for $11.99 from Gamefly including the soundtrack with code GFDAPR20 but it's for Uplay, not Steam. That distinction is probably worth $3 to some people.
@walkertr77: Yeah, having more than a couple hundred in cash is probably unnecessary for most people. Using money for upgrades will help prevent those deaths from happening anyway. The bottlenecks for me in those tough fights that weren't just shooting rooms full of dudes was more about strategy than surviving. I had many game overs in that last encounter on 1999 mode while figuring out how to win. But, when I did find a good strategy I didn't die once and finished with about 2/3 of that meter left.
What's the distance? You could get a 50 ft HDMI cable and a wireless receiver for a 360 controller for less than the cost of the game. It would then work on other games as well.
I will buy the season pass when there are two packs out and they seem worthwhile. I'm not going to buy content that hasn't even been announced beyond, "we'll make some things."
People here are down about season passes. I have no problem with them. It's a discount over the normal DLC price (or tends to be. if not, you're doing something really dumb by buying). The problem is buying it before you know what you're getting.
I finished the fight on 1999 mode with about 2/3 of the health left. I tried to keep one weak guy alive to avoid letting more spawn and let him impotently fire pistol shots at the generator. I used Songbird on the guys on the deck and gunships at the bow. His recharge time is slower after attacking zeppelins so I boarded the ones on the right (it wouldn't give me a land spot for the one on the left) and took them out by hand. Then I used Songbird on the left zeppelin and the fight was over.
I finished my 2nd playthrough this evening on 1999 mode and get all of the collectibles I missed. I used the guide located here. It's got a checklist so I loaded it up on my phone and checked each voxaphone off as I found them. That made it really easy to make sure I got everything. If you're doing it because you want to wring out each and every bit of the story you might as well just get all voxaphones again because after knowing the ending and everything that happens some of them take on new meaning. My 1999 run ended up taking less time than my normal run even though I got each and every collectible and died more.
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