Zeusthecat

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/12/xbox-one-will-support-live-in-these-countries-at-launch/#continued Jesus it just keeps getting worse. Seriously, no love for Japan at launch (not to mention the entire rest of the continent of Asia)?

You have no idea how tempted I am to click that tag.

This seems like the best thread to post this. I am still playing Monkey Island 2 and am stuck again (which doesn't bother me at all, I am having a great time at work going over all the possibilities in my head). I have a dog that never smells anything interesting, a charter ship that can go anywhere but no clear indication of where the Mad Monkey sank, a dude that I can do a drinking game with and switch out my grog with a colored drink which he then notices isn't colored correctly and gives me his grog, and a telescope that shines a light into an empty mirror frame in the drinking dude's house. There is also some fish in the kitchen in Elaine's mansion that I can't get to because of the asshole chef and a hut on top of a tree with a pile of maps. I'm thinking some possible outcomes of these factors are as follows: No idea yet what the dog might be used for. I've tried to get him to smell everything everywhere but I'm sure I'm being stupid and just overlooking something. I keep visiting the library thinking there will be a book that will clue me in to the location of the Mad Monkey. Beyond that I am just keeping an eye out for a pair of numbers somewhere in the game that might represent the GPS coordinates. I'm not quite sure about the drinking game. I'm pretty damn sure I'm supposed to dump the grog out on the tree and refill the glass with one of the colored drinks but I've literally tried every one and he always says the color is weird. I'm thinking it's possible that I need to find a mirror to put in the mirror frame to reflect the light from the telescope into my glass with the colored drink to make it the right color or something. The only problem is that fucking parrot in the shop on Booty Island needs his mirror and that is the only one that seems possible to obtain. I have an empty bag of parrot feed and a beware of parrot sign but I don't yet see any way to use those or anything else to get that parrot or his mirror. But this could be a huge waste of time trying to figure that out if I am wrong about the mirror thing. I figure I need the fish from the mansion's kitchen to show to the fisherman (pretending I caught it) so I can get his fishing pole. Then maybe use his fishing pole to get the map piece hanging on the edge of the cliff. I've banged that trash can and blown my horn so many times and can't seem to find a way to distract him when he comes out so that I can sneak in and grab the fish. I need to figure out some way to maybe have something else make noise so he doesn't think it is me, allowing me to sneak in. I thought the dog would come into play with the pile of maps in the tree hut. Maybe sniff out some useful map that will show me the coordinates of the Mad Monkey or something. I figured I'd share this with everyone since most of you have probably played this and might enjoy seeing how someone else is going about trying to solve these puzzles. Please don't post any solutions unless they're in spoiler tags (although if I get too frustrated I might ask for vague hints later).

True, but it will be some time before I will be able to afford building a new PC that can outperform the PS4. The one I have now will probably come close but not close enough. $399 man. Can't beat that for such a powerful piece of hardware.

That's pretty much my answer too. I always have to get at least one console at launch (cause I'm a fuckin hardcore gamer) so might as well get one with sweet graphics.

I'm on board too. I don't think I could be mad if I opened a box and was punched in the face by a spring loaded boxing glove. I would just get all nostalgic and go watch The Goonies.

Congrats! Last game I did that with was Skyrim and it felt so good.

I can't explain why but that made me chuckle.

Or another way to look at it is that there are an infinite number of parallel universes where every possible outcome of every choice exists. That's how I prefer to think of it. I don't like the idea that if I was presented with two equal choices that the way it turns out is the only way it possibly could have turned out. Because that would mean video games really are just movies.

I think you're a cool dude. When I find myself becoming consumed by thoughts of my future and all of the insecurities that come along with it I find it helpful to just stop and focus on doing whatever I can in the present that will make me happy right now (which usually means play video games). I say fuck the future. I'll get there eventually one way or another. Yeah, I need to make more money, save for retirement, make my huge impact on the world, blah blah blah. Or I could die tomorrow. So I just try to live it up in the present while trying to make sure if I do live for awhile that I can at least continue to do things that make me happy in the future. More often than not doing what makes me happy now in some way feeds into building a better future for myself. I also used to feel pretty awkward all the time and just thought everyone viewed me as a weird person. I realized at some point that absolutely everyone (especially super outgoing people) runs that same thought process through their heads. I guess it's kind of like picturing everyone naked if you have stage fright. Just realizing everyone is super insecure has made me okay with it. You're probably a lot cooler of a person than you realize. And if just writing down what you are going through helps, start a blog or something. I'll read it. I promise.

I think a lot of people project their own opinions of what their perceived roles entail. For example, two men may have very different views on what it means to be a "man" and, if they identify themselves as belonging to that role, might assign the behavior they exhibit to the "man" role. The general sentiment for a lot of people might be that a true "man" doesn't cry and should act tough. That is not what the role means to me, however. I feel that a true man should cry if he needs to and should never needlessly act tough. I think it is more "manly" to confront emotions rather than run from them. I also think it is more "manly" to be honest and show that you are in pain and need to go to the hospital if you just broke 4 ribs or something like that. But I think what you are saying is also true. For a lot of people, they most likely accept some general characteristics that society has attributed to a role and try to fit that to a certain degree. I also think what you hinted at with personal accountability has a major influence on how much importance people place on conforming to a role. Some people are scared or intimidated by the thought that they have free will (and yes I think people truly do have free will) and conform to certain roles as a way to avoid it.

I'm starting to lose all hope for the WiiU. I did not expect Nintendo's showing to be so disappointing.

This is so fucking Extreme!

This seems like the most logical conclusion to me.

Better watch out for her Downward Facing Dog move.

I look at new consoles now the same way I did back when they just did video games. Better graphics, higher detail, and bigger worlds. In that regard I am happy and am onboard for a PS4. It definitely isn't as exciting as the leap from SNES/Genesis to PSone/N64 but I'm hoping we'll see some new stuff that couldn't have been done on the current gen. Plus it will be nice to have console graphics that can compete with PC graphics for a little bit.

Yeah, what the hell is up with that? Maybe our brains are playing out some pre-scripted sequence and us trying to run from something doesn't jive with what our brains decide is supposed to happen in the dream.

You know, I really can't think of a good argument to counter this. I guess the way I look at it is that charging $60 a year (one Starbucks drink per month) is one way for them to offset the costs from selling the console at a loss for some time after it's initial release. Hopefully it means a more robust online offering but as you pointed out, it is hard to justify when you consider the situation on the PC.

My favorite dreams as a kid were always the ones where I realized I was dreaming in the middle of the dream. It happened only a couple of times for me and I would usually wake up shortly after realizing I was in a dream but I usually had enough time to run around and punch a few people and just do random crap in my own little dream world.

That's weird. Because I had a dream last night where I had become a zombie-like creature and saw my younger brother trying to run away with some girl. I really wanted to meet her so I chased after them to try to catch up. I finally caught up and started to introduce myself (I was a nice zombie) when my younger brother attacked me and then blew a hole in my leg with a shotgun. Then he dragged me into a forest to leave me to die and I woke up. I also have no brothers. But seriously dude, cool dream. I am envious of people that have crazy dreams and remember them the next morning. I rarely dream and when I do I rarely remember anything about it.

It felt weird playing my Xbox 360 last night. As I turned it on I realized we were nearing the end of our relationship. It has been a fun 6 years but sometimes when you love something you have to let it go. Plus I met a new console named PS4 last night. We stayed up talking for hours and it made some pretty lofty promises but we agreed to wait to take our budding relationship to the next level until this December when we will both be ready to commit to each other. There was this other console named WiiU that was kind of cute and asked me out but we agreed to just be friends for now. Plus, I think WiiU was kind of drunk.

Bravo Sony, bravo. No online requirements, no used game restrictions, $399, and a shitload of cool games. If this all stands as stated then this is the console for me.

Derp. You're right, I was getting a little ahead of myself and thought elmuerte was answering my first question about cloud computing. So, yay cloud computing!

Is that still the case if games are being installed to and read from the hard drive? In other words, is the seek time for a magnetic hard drive faster or slower than the seek time for a Blu-Ray disc and is it still so slow that you would see a tangible benefit from storing content multiple times to reduce this time? At either rate, I am starting to wonder if Microsoft was planning to have cloud computing integrated into all or most of their games from the start and then fabricated the whole once per 24 hour check-in thing once they saw the negative reaction to 'always on' as a way to not appear that it requires a constant connection. If this is the case then that whole check-in thing could just be smoke and mirrors because you would literally have to have a constant connection to play any game that is designed to take advantage of cloud computing. Edit: I just looked it up and seek times are much faster for hard drives as I would have expected but the question still stands regarding whether or not storing content multiple times on a hard drive produces a tangible benefit. My guess is that it does.

I guess we're soon going to find out just how much our internet infrastructure can handle.