Nolan

According to Wikipedia... How much water do you drink if you wake up drunk? I usually suck a bottle or so down right away. Sometimes before hitting the bathroom even.

Turned 24 today, a nice dinner out with the Parents. A DELICIOUS 14oz New York Strip steak, rare (Because anything else is overcooked.) potato soup, and a big ass piece of Broccoli. Fuck yeah broccoli! Got Luigi's Mansion (Animal Crossing wasn't available, no biggie) $30 gift card, and snap-pop thingers. Throw em and they pop. Fun!

Dehydration is a large cause of the hangover. I use to get fucked up on 151 and chase with water. I'd drink 2-3x as much water as alcohol and wake up good. The other trick is to wake up drunk still and then sober back up. Also, Bananas, or Potassium in general helps. Not sure if it helps to sober up or helps hangovers...but something like that.

It comes with a headset, you just have to supply your own tape to attach the kinect to your head.

Just throw that first one right out. The CPU on that is....well...a step above a netbook seems about right. The second one would be passable. You could do basic computing happily, but I don't think games would be possible for the most part. 3rd & 4th are near as I can tell identical. Exception being the HDD sizes, basic gaming would be possible. I misspoke before in the thread, my Lenovo is an A6 not an A8. Skyrim could be technically playable...but it would play pretty bad and look kinda crappy. Otherwise I haven't experimented with it much beyond playing Binding of Issac. Light gaming approved basically.

Sadly very rarely. It's just not the same as those days before hats.

Yeah, I'm definitely getting it right away. And I too bought The Slip, and I love it, but it does have a different feel to it from the others. There is nothing NIN has done that I haven't enjoyed, even one off movie tracks (Perfect Drug, Deep, Burn). Gotta say though, The Fragile gets the most playtime from me though.

Smexy. If you're looking to upgrade the GPU, the Nvidia GTX760 just hit, and delivers great performance at a pretty good price.

Little bummed at the lack of anyone talking about Hesitation Marks by NIN. First real release since Year Zero in 2007 (The Slip was free, and Ghosts I-IV instrumental). So this is kinda big. Soundcloud-Came Back Haunted It's different, but grew on me part way through the track.

Sounds like a reason to ragequit for the opposite of last time. And awesome willpower there :wink:

Yup. I got it all patched up and get the dreaded ?????????????? message haha.

Took me faaaar to long to actually find the download link after running the benchmark. Downloading now though.

Because it was retail games. Comparable to if you could share your steam library (which beta code suggests is coming?) PS3 simply allowed sharing of digital goods. Which was FANTASTIC and under promoted quite frankly. Sadly though publisher pressure reduced the share limit from 5 PS3s down to 2...Maybe users? But I'm thinking consoles as users can share right? Not sure but still. It worked quite well really, I've done it once with Grandia for a friend since my disc was fucked (). I logged on downloaded the game logged off and he could play it anytime. Honestly allowing a 60 minute trial (similar to what PS+ does) would be FANTASTIC. So many games don't have demos because ermahgerd lost sales, even just an hour lended to someone you can't let borrow the disc could be enough to get them hooked. As to Demo's losing sales.....yeah look at Gunpoint. http://www.pentadact.com/2013-06-18-gunpoint-recoups-development-costs-in-64-seconds/ Actually this goes SO FAR towards the idea that the industry needs to Curb rampant spending. It's like minecraft to a smaller degree. He paid $30 for the software, made a (excellent) game, and earned enough through presales to quit his day job. At which point sales continued through the roof. Go figure he put out a demo because he didn't want to get initial hype sales without those people playing first. Edit, that was a helluva drunken tangent. But I like it.

@Deathjam is correct, on an APU the GPU doesn't have dedicated VRAM. @flameboy, the Newegg and Amazon laptops are the same, but the Tigerdirect is actually different. It has the A8/7640G APU instead of the faster A10/7660G. The difference isn't huge, but it is there. And I'll say also, that I quite like the quality of my Lenovo, with an A8 I believe. I don't play much on it though.

Gamers aren't terribly bright is what I'd go with...but at least they did speak with their wallets successfully for once.

Actually, these AMD APUs (CPU and GPU on the same die) are quite a bit better than any Intel offering without a discreet GPU. The HP Pavilion (AMD A8) is a 4 core and quite capable at playing games. Specifically it should be able to play everything @flameboy mentioned with the possible (but unlikely) exception of The Old Republic. Hell, a simple google search turns this up Skyrim on high@1600x900 30-35fps While I'm loath to link to Tomshardware....it paints a similar picture. AMD last gen APU (Llano, A8 w/ 6550D) still trounces the Intel HD4000 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,3181-5.html Get the Pavilion is what I recommend. Or slightly out of budget, http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834310645&IsVirtualParent=1 It's a single bump up in the APU line is all. Sorry, but you get the shaft in Canada as far as Newegg, and Tigerdirect's stock goes. I don't know if you could order from the .com sites and ship to canada instead. I do suggest looking into it though as Newegg usually has great deals and a large selection.

So closer to 2/3rds. I'm curious where you get the $37 figure. I've never seen anything concrete and have been led to believe it was a higher figure (though still obviously not the full 60). Honestly that's another reason stores like having Used games, the stores don't make much profit off of initial sales.

Built in 3G specifically just for authentication would be great. Knowing MS it would not be cheap though, (Anyone remember the Wifi adapter....).

I find it hard to believe used games are so damaging... If a game only sells 2,000,000 at $60 a copy (and yes that many new copies do get moved) that's $120,000,000. I just don't think that budgets truly run that high on average. Maybe I'm delusional about marketing costs. Games that are raking in near to that amount shouldn't be considered failures, and the publishers shouldn't be trying to push that blame on to us. They should be reevaluating their spending. Big publishers right now remind me a lot of the US government, just keep throwing money around and complain that you're losing money. Seriously ~$480,000,000 between 3 titles splitting 8 million sales...failures RE6, 5 milllion sold ($300,000,000) Failure RE5 has sold 6 million.... Dead Space 3 needs to sell 5 million to be a series worth continuing Used games are just a scapegoat for unrealistic expectations and unchecked spending. Lets not forget that these numbers don't include sales made on steam, last I knew those didn't get released.

That's all well and good, 24 hours was too restrictive though. And hell what if your friend doesn't have a particular system...or internet? You can't even lug the system over to play at their house directly. I know I use to do that with my 360, hell used to not have Internet myself. Phone tethering is all well and good, but some don't have Smartphones, and I know I'm not going to pay the extra $30 Verizon wants for me to be allowed to share the connection. That wouldn't have changed....I'm not sure why you think GAME would suddenly pay more for used games? Well, maybe because the license was only transferable once, but I doubt they would. What would happen is any small chain mom and pop stores that survive on used sales likely would lose support. Steam had growing pains, same as MS would have, but even on 56K I could use Steam. Can't use a Xbone without 1.5Mbps, well recommended. I'm sure 768Kbps would work just have some sketchy features. I always doubt we'd see equivalent sales. We can already see equivalent sales is MS was truly serious about cheaper games. There is no reason that current XBL and XBLA titles can't enjoy the same level of discounts as Steam...or even PSN, let alone PSN+. That looks like the same "Engineer" stuff that was quoted in full earlier in the thread. I responded to it's silliness once. Nice to know that we in the US are Morons for thinking that MS, a company already outed as happily giving info to the NSA, a company with patents that will allow Kinect to stop playback if there are too many viewers, is only planning on using Kinect for games, and saying "Xbox on". Of note to people saying sharing has been killed oh woe is us....http://www.bluesnews.com/s/142637/steam-game-sharing-planned Steam might be implementing sharing judging by some beta code. EDIT: http://www.destructoid.com/an-industry-that-needs-xbox-one-drm-is-a-failed-industry-256643.phtml I like Jim Sterling

WoW is a grindfest even at low levels..... I enjoyed Rift but didn't have time for it. I never got into the FFXIV Beta, but oh well.

My problem with the console is still not fixed. Kinect can eat me.

Yes, I know all that, but thanks!

Yeah, which is why no Console uses SSDs (though they are finally around the $1/GB point) Wii U uses standard Flash memory to my knowledge which is why I talked about SD cards. But you know what, just for the fun of it I'll humor you. 120GB Samsung SSD $99. $0.83/GB More expensive yes, drastically so compared to a large SD card, no. In fact most 128GB SD cards tend to be closer to $100 themselves.

20GB was not a lot 7 years ago or expensive. http://www.anandtech.com/show/1866 They list a WD drive as 250GB for $109. $0.43/GB So yes, they were more (1TB is less now...) expensive 7 years ago but MS just liked to gouge on their proprietary drive. As for Flash memory, a 128GB SD card can be had off of Newegg for $80. $0.60/GB They're not that expensive either, Nintendo has no excuse for their console having such low storage space. Especially considering the fact that products sold to consumers are marked up comparatively.