Chairslinger

I have been waiting 5 years for MS to give me an excuse to buy a One.

The best I have come up with so far is that it would be nice to have BC when my 360 dies.

We have been saying this ever since Jared had private meetings with foreign lobbiers

You don't get alone in a room with these people because even if you are not a lying, eqivivocating bullshitter you don't want to give them the opportunity of telling the world "what really went on" inside a secret, private meeting.

How fucking insane is it that the government behind MH17 has been more reliable about providing Americans with information about American/Russian government interactions then our own? And how dangerous for when they start dribbling in misinformation with it.

1 hour ago, Pikachu said:

July 24th

I just realized that should also be right around the time the console versions get the Aquatic update for Minecraft.

I remember this. 

At the time I believe I described it as a liberal fervor dream. Very self serving and just not credible.

8 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

It's not the asshole approach if giving him the refund opens up some crazy can of worms. Imagine having to refund everyone that is unhappy with the direction the game is going on? Even then, if you make an exception for him, are they going to make the same exception for everyone that claims a medical issue? Are they going to all for doctor's notes?

 

That's just too many questions and no company would/should have to ever put themselves in that situation.

This was my thinking, as well.

From reading the article and this thread, there sounds like legitimate gripes with the way the game's development has been handled.

But other then the argument about retroactive ToS change, this guy doesn't seem to have much of an argument other then, "Come on, man!". Seems like you kneecap the entire concept of things like Kickstarter if you can punish a dev every time they make a creative decision someone doesn't like.

5 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I almost could see how he may have been taken out of context until I saw the full transcript.  How silly of me.

I had the same thought process. 

I have found that trying to give Donald any benefit of the doubt is like taking Lucy's word that she won't move the football this time.

Like with everything else, they take advantage of any attempt by people to be reasonable. Sanders bold faced, gas lighting lie was said with confidence so as to convince those who don't followup on the initial back and forth.

Even if this administration was promoting things and issues I liked, I think I would still despise them for their dishonesty. As has been said before, it's not just that they're dishonest, they have shifted the very idea that honesty is an ideal that one should aspire to.

My guess is that he assumed since Einhander was on the PlayStation store for PS3 it would be there for PS4.

Unfortunately @GameDadGrant as far as I can tell, the PSone Classics are not available on PS4.

31 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

That's ridiculous.

Rachel could never get to the point in under 72 hours.

Trump has been playing fast and loose with affirming the intelligence community's findings for over a year now. Grudgingly kind of acknowledging it when he gets cornered, but then goes right back to his preferred talking points.

People are marveling at him turning himself inside and out over this, but Trump is probably a little blindsided by it because it's what he's been doing all along. 

I keep saying that it feels like the media is finally settling into the dangerous area of accepting Trump as the new normal. Becoming complacent and/or distracted with other shiny object stories. And right at the worst time leading up to the election.

What happened in Helsinki and watching Trump on stage, with Putin, for all the world to see reminds me of something like a wakeup call for an addict. You slowly get desensitized to the warning signs until you're naked at a bus station offering to blow a guy for 5 bucks.

Sadly, I have little confidence this wakeup call will last for more than a few news cycles.

This particular episode has me flashing back to the Bowe Bergdahl incident.

Once the Right emphatically rationalized that it was right to have our enemies torture and murder a soldier we could otherwise save this type of thing was on the table.

It might seem crazy now, but the real question is whether Trump, Fox News, and rightwing media can demonize Browder and McFaul enough for their base to rationalize that they "deserve it". Hell, the very fact that McFaul worked for Obama probably gets them halfway there.

I got a bunch of good stuff during the sale. Been spending most of my time with Rocket League and 10 Second Ninja X.

I can see what all the hype was about with Rocket League, it's pure fun.

I was never pissed at the game like many were, but I got it a couple years back and just couldn't get into it. I almost tried again last year when the Foundation update hit. I think I am definitely going to try it this time. Especially since it hits on the day my vacation starts

40 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Still not enough for me to shell out $60 for it.

I don't know about the other platforms, but it is gotten pretty easily for $20 or less on PS4. Gamespot has it for 20 right now and Amazon for $23.

29 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

 

That is an insult to jellyfish. At least they have some sting in them.

Little Marco is like a nerf jellyfish toy made for ages 2-5.

I wonder why @CayceG hasn't been posting much.

His reactions to this Russia stuff was always a fun read. Did this latest foray into Trump supplicating before Putin finally cause him to bust a blood vessel?

2 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

He's doing it again.

 

 

This would be sad if he weren't so dangerous.

Just got off work and I am disgesting this clusterfuck. I took a couple minutes just staring at a blank screen trying to decide what to say at this point.

When Mueller indicted the Russians on Friday someone posted a video here where someone on CNN said there is now as much evidence that Russia hacked the DNC as there was that Bin Laden was behind 9/11.

While that is true, I think the more politically poignant statement to make is that Trump is now at least as derelict in his duty as Commander in Chief denying the evidence that Russia attacked us as Bush was when he laid out the case for invading Iraq. 

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Jones' eye-catching demo that showed impressive destruction tech in a multiplayer Crackdown-themed environment, it turns out, was only ever about showing off the potential of the cloud. It was never intended to represent gameplay gamers might actually get to experience.

Calls to mind the repeated Microsoft dictates driven by hardware and business decisions that led to the implosion of Lionhead and Fable.

33 minutes ago, Dre801 said:

Never saw the excitement.  You got one pretty good  game followed up by one not so good, so why be so hyped for the 3rd game?

Also, as Wade joked, the genre has lapped Crackdown several times in the intervening years. At the time of the original's release it was new and fresh enough that flaws could easily be overlooked. 

What made Cracked so fun, using a whole city as a superhuman playground, is now fairly common. It's hard to distinguish yourself even when your dev cycle isn't a dumpster fire

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Trump on getting tough on Russia.....

3 hours ago, osxmatt said:

Paul Ryan says a family of woodchucks ate his car.

And by "family of woodchucks" he means the Koch brothers. And by "car" he means asshole. And by "ate" he means they ate his ass like they was trying to get some 'tussin out of it.

@Jason

I think my favorite is still Reality Winner.

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Well, consistent except for the fact that Trump still denies the Russians interfered at all.

9 minutes ago, elbobo said:

would be nice if they could indict a hacker they have greater than 0% of actually arresting 

It's looking like the Russians were the hackers. The American counterparts just received the goods. We know they exist because they have been mentioned in these indictments without being named. The longer Mueller takes to indict them is probably a bad sign for team Trump.

3 minutes ago, Chris- said:

 

Didn't the dossier lay out a scenario where the collusion was proffered to Trump, and he used that press conference as basically a way to look Putin in the eye and say, "Its a deal"?

Things fly by so fast in these news cycles that I think even many anti-Trumpers forget just how damning some of this evidence is. The storyline has settled into something like, "Well his subordinates might have colluded, but Trump is too smart or oblivious to have become directly involved". But no, there is still the very real possibility that this guy was balls deep in all of it.

Living right on the border, I think the best thing I can say about Ohio is at least it's not Indiana.

12 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Somewhere Roger Stone is screaming about the beating of that hideous heart.

If Russia really doesn't have kompromat on Trump, Putin must look at his intelligence guys everyday and be like, "You sure vee have no pee tape? You vould tell me if vee had pee tape, yes? He is sure acting like he thinks vee have pee tape."