The costs of the consoles have been increasing since the days of the NES. I remember when I first got the Nintendo when it was about $100 brand new. I remember getting the N64 when it was about $140. Now we have consoles costing $300+. Even adjusting for inflation the prices have gone up.
You Fail at math. The earliest release model of the NES included ROB and launched at $249. The control deck+ Mario release which came later was $199. The NES only became $100 late in it's life, AFTER the SNES was out. The N64 also launched at $199.
For example there was a recent Minecraft update. I haven't turned on my PS3 in a while, but if I was to turn it on, Minecraft on the PS3 would already be updated without me doing anything.
That huge advantage was lost when consoles became essentially PCs without keyboard.
Unless you hook a keyboard up to them. And in fact I recommend doing so if you buy a new PS3/PS4, makes the initial setup easier. And also text chat, naming items in Bethesda games, the web browser, messaging, etc etc.
Pop that CD in and... install an update for your system. Go online to register it. Download some shit for that online content you don't give a fuck about. Install some more shit. Update the system once more because you changed your sitting position. Choose your avatar. Upload it to some server. Customize your avatar. More time to upload it again. Here, buy some bling! Or some new levels! Reboot your console after the update. And FINALLY you get to... oh fuck it's bedtime.
It's not that bad.....though at times it "could be" with specific games on the PS3. Background updates help a a lot now.
Now what was that PS3 game I had to create an account for? Defiance? It was a slow annoying process, because the website didn't work in the PS3's browser. If I'd had a tablet at the time.... The PS4 has a better browser which you can use WHILE you have the game running.
Simple, easy to use and most of all NO FUCKING LOAD TIME! For fuck's sake, given that these games come now on BluRay discs and most PCs have a SSD HD, load times are SHORTER on PC than they are on consoles!
On the PS3 that's the case, even with the aggressive and LARGE caches on the HD some games used, but not on the PS4. If you use disc based games on the PS4 it installs to the HD and the disc is only used for a "disc check" when you start it. It's not actually used while playing.
certain genres (such as RTS's) not even available on consoles!)
The RTS genre actually originated on consoles. The first ever RTS, Herzog Zwei, was a Sega Genesis game. ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was a big influence on Westwood, it inspired Dune II. Blizzard also acknowledges it as an influence on Warcraft/Starcraft. Several early RTSs were ported to various consoles.
What happened was the Playstation, particularly the PS2, was built on cooperative and competitive multiplayer games.
It was? Maybe if you were 13 playing after school or 19 playing in some dorm room.
But I thought it was based on the MASSIVE number of singleplayer RPG's and action RPG's, and the fact that as an adult I could play some games online, including MMO's, on MY schedule, and not have to worry about the logistics of OTHER peoples schedules.
It's only the best if you're a weeaboo anime-fansub watching sega fighting game fanboy. If you're a generalist gamer or RPG fan, the PS2 has it all over the Deadcast.
This is not even taking into account the PS2s utter hardware superiority over the Deadcast. Faster CPU, More RAM, faster GPU, Faster RAM, hard drive support, USB ports, firewire and a DVD drive.
If a system update takes 20-30 minutes, perhaps you need to upgrade that 768K DSL. And if you have the thing set up right, that is done while you're not using it.
It should have done the game update in the background as well, while you're playing a different game...what...you don't have a PS4?
Since the days of at least the Commodore 64 though, I can't think of a single console that's been more powerful than a home PC
Depends on which PC and which price and which game. Sure the C64 was a fairly good machine, but it was no NES. The NES could do things with its sprites and tiles the C64 couldn't. And the NES use of ROM cartridges meant no 2 minute load times for an RPG from the slow 1541.
The SNES was a pretty good machine for the time, 1991, it could do a fairly good approximation of the 256 color low resolution 320x200 mode of VGA, and that SNES stereo sound chip was probably as good or better than the average soundblaster. And again, HARDWARE sprites let the SNES do things an Amiga or ST couldn't. The Jump to 3D with DOOM, now that sort of thing the SNES had trouble with..
A PC of the same price perhapsbut a console is vastly less useful, and if you had a PC you could spend the cost of a console to upgrade it far beyond the capacity of the console.
Uncle Clive is that you? To the parents: "Buy a Speccy, your lad can do homework on it and it is not just a games machine" To the lads: "Psst, we know you won't be doing any homework on that horrible keyboard and that all you'll be doing is copying tape games from a rich mate, but by telling your parents it can help with school we can get them to buy you one."
Sure you CAN upgrade, but there is a cost/benefit ratio to think of. If you just have that computer, if you're using it, no one else can. Sometimes it's better to have multiple dedicated devices rather than just ONE general purpose one. Besides, it's all about the games and the coherent easy experience.
By now it's more complicated to use a console than getting a PC to play your games for crying out loud.
No it's not. Why do you say that?
You know what would be the tits? Imagine a console with something like Steam.
Have you been living in a cave? Haven't heard about the Steam boxes yet? However the SteamOS ones...well they suck. And the Windows ones have all the faults of Windows.
hell, let people create their own if they wanna but don't MAKE me join your fan club just so I can play that fucking game of yours
That's how the PSN communities feature works, if you're a PC gamer you probably haven't heard about it or know how it works...
"You don't wanna cough up the dough for my online gaming platform, you don't play online, fuck you."
No, dear console maker, fuck you. It's free on PC.
It's not actually "free" someone pays for the hosting/bandwidth. Whether it is the publisher or developer, or some altruistic guy with a well paying tech job hosting a Quake II and teamspeak/mumble server for the past 20 years....SOMEBODY is paying. And don't some private servers ask for donations? Besides, PS+ is only $49 a YEAR.
And it's not quite accurate to say that ALL online play requires payment on the PS4
F2P games don't require PS+ for Online play. This includes games like War Thunder, Warframe, Planetside 2. F2P MMO's like Onigiri and DCUO also fall under this rule.
Subscription based MMO's don't require PS+, currently this means FFXIV.
Games that do a "play by mail style" send turn feature also don't require PS+ SCEA used an example of a chess game with a send turn feature
Buy to play games, which is the vast majority of PS4 games, require PS+ for online mutliplayer, this includes the MMO TESO since subscription is optional and it is not a F2P game. It doesn't include Destiny which lets you do "some" online play without PS+
PS3, Vita and PSP games still don't require PS+ for online play.
So why lock myself in to the restricted console? What does the console do that the PC doesn't?
It doesn't do Windows, so it has none of the drawbacks of that operating system.
Lets put it this way, think of all the services your Windows machine runs, and how when you boot it up, it might be sluggish while a dozen applications and Windows itself checks for updates. It's got to maintain security with a firewall and malware protection. It's probably running SMB and printer services and god knows what else.
A PS4 has none of that.
And lets talk about games and the system infrastructure. If I buy a physical game I don't have to check a tiny area on the box for system requirements. All I need to see is the PS4 label. I put the game in, it just works. And one goes digital, PC gamers still have to check the system requirements.
I don't have to install/keep updated a half a dozen VOIP apps because a guild in one game favors mumble but a different guild favors teamspeak or skype, or whatever. VOIP is integrated into the PSN service as a whole. It just works. It would be like if ALL WoW players just used the built in voice chat and nothing else and it just WORKED.
And if I stream, capture video, or capture screenshots, I don't have one guy telling me I should use "appfoo" and some other guy screaming that appfoo is for weaksauce noobs and how I should use some other "appfoo". On the PS4 it's just integrated into the whole experience and it's one button easy. Really, a single tap on ONE button takes a screenshot. Heck I don't even have to touch a button, I can just say "Playstation Take Screenshot"
Think about how you do that on the PC. There's Steam Broadcasting, but that doesn't work on Linux/SteamOS or OSX, there's OBS, FRAPS, etc etc.
The whole experience is a Coherent One Button Easy Experience.
PS3 added TV, PS4 took it away again.
I take it you're in the UK or Europe? PlayTV? They didn't "take it away", they're simply just not offering a tuner. for the PS4. They probably think it's not as necessary these days with the heavy use of IPTV like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the like. In the US we have Playstation Vue, maybe you'll get something like that.
But to Sony, the PS4 is primarily a games machine, they decided to focus more on games than other features believing that was one of the reasons the 360 was more successful last generation.
Though, since neither is doing a good job of backward compatibility (Xbox One doing a better job with a growing "ported" list), console loyalty is down.
Backwards compatibility? Do you really think that was going to be a big thing with the change in arch? Besides, PS3's didn't stop working the day the PS4 came out. Mine (a CECHE model with PS2 compatibility) is still attached to the same TV my PS4 is, though I don't use it as much as the PS4.
But one of things people complained about the early PS3 was the price! Some people even said that they should have left PS2 backwards compatibility out to get the price down. And when they DID take PS2 compatibility out, then you had people..sometimes even the SAME people complaining about that.
I double checked our Vizio E400i-B2 and you're right, you can't turn off the network. Though I wonder if it will turn off wireless if you plug in a network cable. The only solutions I could see were using an invalid/unroutable address and/or invalid password and/or playing around with MAC filtering or other router features..or going with a full factory reset.
For my sake, switching the thing to DHCP would also work since our setup uses static addresses and DHCP is not enabled on the router.
"Internet access" for the downtown core of a major city, for the suburbs and residential areas outside of dense urban zones, for small towns, and for rural areas 3 miles from your nearest neighbor mean *vastly* different things.
I live in a small town in Illinois, population of about 11000 or so. I have 50Mbps down/5Mbps up service through the regional cable company. And yes, it IS that fast. Usually it's slightly faster, the cable company has always undersold it. so it's more like a 55/7 connection.
Said cable company began offering broadband in town in 2002, back then it was a 1.5Mbps down/128Kbps up connection.
You can get the same service in practically every town in the county. Including villages with populations of around 500 people.
personally I would have awarded it to Rebel Galaxy as it managed to do far more with the money it had.
Really? Rebel Galaxy is good, but not THAT good. I'd personally rate it somewhere between a 6.5 and 7.5. It has it's own issues and slightly annoying ways....it's evil ways. You set out....cross that way...doing repetitive missions...to make your pay....and shoot neutron rays...at others evil ways. Though I must admit, I'm hoping they do a sequel with a somewhat bigger budget.
You actually had to manage resources, going in guns blazing on 20 hp was a sure fire way to die, sometimes you needed to eat irradiated food to survive or go the long way around and hope you didn't encounter any ghouls. Hell, going in guns blazing as a LV 4 character at the Corvega factory was asking to die. You had to be a little tactical, a little thoughtful in your actions.
Well yes, at least early on. The game IS better balanced than Fallout 3. You know how it was, you reach level 20 in 3 and you're pretty much quick death to anything NOT a Feral Ghoul Reaver or Enclave Hellfire team. But in F4, leveling and equipment is more granular. You're not going to be doing the F4 equivalent of picking up a set of Combat Armor (the best non-powered non-unique armor in the game) from the Talon Company on practically your first Moira mission to that grocery store, and then relying on that armor (and eventually the Reillys Ranger unique version) the rest of the entire game.
Fallout 4 is much less buggy than Fallout 3 or NV, which was an Obsidian game, not Bethesda. Easily the most "non-troublesome experience" from Bethesda game I've played other than Oblivion.
I've only pre-ordered ONE Bethesda game, that being ESO, which is Zenimax Online studios and not Bethesda Softworks. And THAT was for the PS4, when it had been out on the PC for a while and thusly was more likely to have issues worked out.
I live in Illinois where people can use the bathroom of the gender they identify with, for years now.
There have been ZERO issues. It's simply not a problem. The folks who want to assault women tend to be misogynists who would NEVER disguise themselves as "transgender" because
1. They consider women to be inferior. 2. They're homophobes and transphobes.as well.
No, it isn't, considering one of the seminal works about it was written over a century ago. And considering that various types of gender-variant identities have existed in various cultures across the planet for centuries.
proving it artificial:
No it doesn't prove that.
it is a behavior, a choice, and a lifestyle,
No, it isn't. Gender identity isn't a choice...did you choose yours? How one "expresses" that identity...well that's somewhat a choice.
My guess is they're probably trying to keep their interface "flat" to appeal to those who are converts from other systems aka former Xboxers who aren't used to Sony's XMB on the PS3...which DOES have optional folder style organization.
Also some people said they hated the XMB interfaces of the PS3 and PSP and chose other systems because of that.
One of the big reasons mobile gaming is taking over is because it's always available. Practically everyone has their own mobile device, so there's never a need to negotiate for TV or computer time.
What is this negotiate for TV time or "share the TV" you speak of? You don't have multiple TV's?
Just so you know, I'm joking with you, I understand how it is, and how remote play on more devices might make it easier for some to get more use out of their PS4. I have a desktop-like setup with a 22" 1080p screen for my PS4 ( and PC, and the PS3 and PS2 before it). It works well for MMO's (on the PS2, PS3 and PS4) and certain other games, like War Thunder and when I had Linux on the PS2 and PS3. My setup allows me to play whenever even when the Big TV in the living room is occupied. But I also have a PS TV hooked up to that big TV as well. Don't use it that often, but it's nice to have.for when I do.
while my wife enjoyed her DVDs of Gilmore Girls for the umpteenth time.
What, you don't like watching adorable actresses with large foreheads playing fast talking, caffeine addicted Gilmores? Does she know about the upcoming new Gilmore mini-series coming to Netflix? Why yes....I might be a Gilmore Girls fan.
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The costs of the consoles have been increasing since the days of the NES. I remember when I first got the Nintendo when it was about $100 brand new. I remember getting the N64 when it was about $140. Now we have consoles costing $300+. Even adjusting for inflation the prices have gone up.
You Fail at math. The earliest release model of the NES included ROB and launched at $249. The control deck+ Mario release which came later was $199. The NES only became $100 late in it's life, AFTER the SNES was out. The N64 also launched at $199.
The NES would cost around $450 if rleased now.
http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
http://kotaku.com/36-years-of-...
Forget to turn on automatic updates? The number of Slashdotters who seem to NOT know about that is surprising to me.
http://manuals.playstation.net...
For example there was a recent Minecraft update. I haven't turned on my PS3 in a while, but if I was to turn it on, Minecraft on the PS3 would already be updated without me doing anything.
That huge advantage was lost when consoles became essentially PCs without keyboard.
Unless you hook a keyboard up to them. And in fact I recommend doing so if you buy a new PS3/PS4, makes the initial setup easier. And also text chat, naming items in Bethesda games, the web browser, messaging, etc etc.
Pop that CD in and ... install an update for your system. Go online to register it. Download some shit for that online content you don't give a fuck about. Install some more shit. Update the system once more because you changed your sitting position. Choose your avatar. Upload it to some server. Customize your avatar. More time to upload it again. Here, buy some bling! Or some new levels! Reboot your console after the update. And FINALLY you get to ... oh fuck it's bedtime.
It's not that bad.....though at times it "could be" with specific games on the PS3. Background updates help a a lot now.
Now what was that PS3 game I had to create an account for? Defiance? It was a slow annoying process, because the website didn't work in the PS3's browser. If I'd had a tablet at the time.... The PS4 has a better browser which you can use WHILE you have the game running.
Simple, easy to use and most of all NO FUCKING LOAD TIME! For fuck's sake, given that these games come now on BluRay discs and most PCs have a SSD HD, load times are SHORTER on PC than they are on consoles!
On the PS3 that's the case, even with the aggressive and LARGE caches on the HD some games used, but not on the PS4. If you use disc based games on the PS4 it installs to the HD and the disc is only used for a "disc check" when you start it. It's not actually used while playing.
No couch multiplayer,
There are games with couch multi.
required internet connection
No console REQUIRES the internet, perhaps you are thinking of those early Xbox gaffes before release?
long boot times,
What do you mean by this?
frequent software updates,
They're not that frequent, why do you think they are?
input selection (PCs support keyboard/mouse, console controllers, etc, up to full HOTAS setups with rudder pedals and such).
Did you just time travel from 1999? The PS2/PS3/PS4 have USB ports for a reason. I've even hooked a Saitek x52 HOTAS up to a console.
https://store.playstation.com/...
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Consoles also lack the markets like Steam, GoG, GMG and Humble Bundle.
Because they have their OWN online markets, and places like Wal-mart, Amazon, etc etc.
certain genres (such as RTS's) not even available on consoles!)
The RTS genre actually originated on consoles. The first ever RTS, Herzog Zwei, was a Sega Genesis game.
'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was a big influence on Westwood, it inspired Dune II. Blizzard also acknowledges it as an influence on Warcraft/Starcraft. Several early RTSs were ported to various consoles.
https://store.playstation.com/...
There's also Warcraft II, Warzone 2100, and Dune 2000, but you'll have to find the discs for those. They aren't on PSN...yet.
And although RTSs haven't made too many recent appearances on consoles, a genre that is descended from them, MOBA, is.
What happened was the Playstation, particularly the PS2, was built on cooperative and competitive multiplayer games.
It was? Maybe if you were 13 playing after school or 19 playing in some dorm room.
But I thought it was based on the MASSIVE number of singleplayer RPG's and action RPG's, and the fact that as an adult I could play some games online, including MMO's, on MY schedule, and not have to worry about the logistics of OTHER peoples schedules.
In other words, your use case wasn't everyones.
It's only the best if you're a weeaboo anime-fansub watching sega fighting game fanboy. If you're a generalist gamer or RPG fan, the PS2 has it all over the Deadcast.
This is not even taking into account the PS2s utter hardware superiority over the Deadcast. Faster CPU, More RAM, faster GPU, Faster RAM, hard drive support, USB ports, firewire and a DVD drive.
If a system update takes 20-30 minutes, perhaps you need to upgrade that 768K DSL. And if you have the thing set up right, that is done while you're not using it.
It should have done the game update in the background as well, while you're playing a different game...what...you don't have a PS4?
Since the days of at least the Commodore 64 though, I can't think of a single console that's been more powerful than a home PC
Depends on which PC and which price and which game. Sure the C64 was a fairly good machine, but it was no NES. The NES could do things with its sprites and tiles the C64 couldn't. And the NES use of ROM cartridges meant no 2 minute load times for an RPG from the slow 1541.
The SNES was a pretty good machine for the time, 1991, it could do a fairly good approximation of the 256 color low resolution 320x200 mode of VGA, and that SNES stereo sound chip was probably as good or better than the average soundblaster. And again, HARDWARE sprites let the SNES do things an Amiga or ST couldn't. The Jump to 3D with DOOM, now that sort of thing the SNES had trouble with. .
A PC of the same price perhapsbut a console is vastly less useful, and if you had a PC you could spend the cost of a console to upgrade it far beyond the capacity of the console.
Uncle Clive is that you? To the parents: "Buy a Speccy, your lad can do homework on it and it is not just a games machine" To the lads: "Psst, we know you won't be doing any homework on that horrible keyboard and that all you'll be doing is copying tape games from a rich mate, but by telling your parents it can help with school we can get them to buy you one."
Sure you CAN upgrade, but there is a cost/benefit ratio to think of. If you just have that computer, if you're using it, no one else can. Sometimes it's better to have multiple dedicated devices rather than just ONE general purpose one.
Besides, it's all about the games and the coherent easy experience.
By now it's more complicated to use a console than getting a PC to play your games for crying out loud.
No it's not. Why do you say that?
You know what would be the tits? Imagine a console with something like Steam.
Have you been living in a cave? Haven't heard about the Steam boxes yet? However the SteamOS ones...well they suck. And the Windows ones have all the faults of Windows.
hell, let people create their own if they wanna but don't MAKE me join your fan club just so I can play that fucking game of yours
That's how the PSN communities feature works, if you're a PC gamer you probably haven't heard about it or know how it works. ..
http://manuals.playstation.net...
They're user created and totally optional.
"You don't wanna cough up the dough for my online gaming platform, you don't play online, fuck you."
No, dear console maker, fuck you. It's free on PC.
It's not actually "free" someone pays for the hosting/bandwidth. Whether it is the publisher or developer, or some altruistic guy with a well paying tech job hosting a Quake II and teamspeak/mumble server for the past 20 years....SOMEBODY is paying. And don't some private servers ask for donations? Besides, PS+ is only $49 a YEAR.
And it's not quite accurate to say that ALL online play requires payment on the PS4
F2P games don't require PS+ for Online play. This includes games like War Thunder, Warframe, Planetside 2. F2P MMO's like Onigiri and DCUO also fall under this rule.
Subscription based MMO's don't require PS+, currently this means FFXIV.
Games that do a "play by mail style" send turn feature also don't require PS+ SCEA used an example of a chess game with a send turn feature
Buy to play games, which is the vast majority of PS4 games, require PS+ for online mutliplayer, this includes the MMO TESO since subscription is optional and it is not a F2P game. It doesn't include Destiny which lets you do "some" online play without PS+
PS3, Vita and PSP games still don't require PS+ for online play.
So why lock myself in to the restricted console?
What does the console do that the PC doesn't?
It doesn't do Windows, so it has none of the drawbacks of that operating system.
Lets put it this way, think of all the services your Windows machine runs, and how when you boot it up, it might be sluggish while a dozen applications and Windows itself checks for updates. It's got to maintain security with a firewall and malware protection. It's probably running SMB and printer services and god knows what else.
A PS4 has none of that.
And lets talk about games and the system infrastructure. If I buy a physical game I don't have to check a tiny area on the box for system requirements. All I need to see is the PS4 label. I put the game in, it just works. And one goes digital, PC gamers still have to check the system requirements.
I don't have to install/keep updated a half a dozen VOIP apps because a guild in one game favors mumble but a different guild favors teamspeak or skype, or whatever. VOIP is integrated into the PSN service as a whole. It just works. It would be like if ALL WoW players just used the built in voice chat and nothing else and it just WORKED.
And if I stream, capture video, or capture screenshots, I don't have one guy telling me I should use "appfoo" and some other guy screaming that appfoo is for weaksauce noobs and how I should use some other "appfoo". On the PS4 it's just integrated into the whole experience and it's one button easy. Really, a single tap on ONE button takes a screenshot. Heck I don't even have to touch a button, I can just say "Playstation Take Screenshot"
Think about how you do that on the PC. There's Steam Broadcasting, but that doesn't work on Linux/SteamOS or OSX, there's OBS, FRAPS, etc etc.
The whole experience is a Coherent One Button Easy Experience.
PS3 added TV, PS4 took it away again.
I take it you're in the UK or Europe? PlayTV? They didn't "take it away", they're simply just not offering a tuner. for the PS4. They probably think it's not as necessary these days with the heavy use of IPTV like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and the like. In the US we have Playstation Vue, maybe you'll get something like that.
But to Sony, the PS4 is primarily a games machine, they decided to focus more on games than other features believing that was one of the reasons the 360 was more successful last generation.
Though, since neither is doing a good job of backward compatibility (Xbox One doing a better job with a growing "ported" list), console loyalty is down.
Backwards compatibility? Do you really think that was going to be a big thing with the change in arch? Besides, PS3's didn't stop working the day the PS4 came out. Mine (a CECHE model with PS2 compatibility) is still attached to the same TV my PS4 is, though I don't use it as much as the PS4.
But one of things people complained about the early PS3 was the price! Some people even said that they should have left PS2 backwards compatibility out to get the price down. And when they DID take PS2 compatibility out, then you had people..sometimes even the SAME people complaining about that.
They don't use Linux because of licensing.
Sony does use open source, and has done so since the PS2 days. PS2 dev kits were Red Hat based
PSP's have "some" open source code in them, BSD licensed, things like libungif, libtiff, and the BSD networking stack IIRC.
The PS3's OS is FreeBSD derived but not BSD itself, it's not using a BSD kernel
http://doc.dl.playstation.net/...
Same goes for the Vita:
http://doc.dl.playstation.net/...
The PS4, however, is running actual FreeBSD:
http://doc.dl.playstation.net/...
I double checked our Vizio E400i-B2 and you're right, you can't turn off the network. Though I wonder if it will turn off wireless if you plug in a network cable. The only solutions I could see were using an invalid/unroutable address and/or invalid password and/or playing around with MAC filtering or other router features..or going with a full factory reset.
For my sake, switching the thing to DHCP would also work since our setup uses static addresses and DHCP is not enabled on the router.
The PS2 was still selling fairly well, for an old console, in 2012! It sold better than the Vita! IIRC, they stopped selling them a year later.
Sure there is. Delete the wifi password, and turn off the network connection.
Or do a reset.
"Internet access" for the downtown core of a major city, for the suburbs and residential areas outside of dense urban zones, for small towns, and for rural areas 3 miles from your nearest neighbor mean *vastly* different things.
I live in a small town in Illinois, population of about 11000 or so. I have 50Mbps down/5Mbps up service through the regional cable company. And yes, it IS that fast. Usually it's slightly faster, the cable company has always undersold it. so it's more like a 55/7 connection.
Said cable company began offering broadband in town in 2002, back then it was a 1.5Mbps down/128Kbps up connection.
You can get the same service in practically every town in the county. Including villages with populations of around 500 people.
Pretty much everybody but the very top brass
So basically all the Gomer Pyle's then.
That's how we got this whole "women in combat" and "gay integration" thing. Needless to say it will go away instantly with a Republican president.
Didn't go away with the second Bush, considering women have been piloting combat aircraft since 1993.
And Women flying AH64 Apaches who kill from above with 30mm cannons and Hellfires.
And gay people have been fighting for this country ever since this country was founded.
It's fixed. You can send systemd messages to the standard syslogs with a simple configuration change. As I pointed out here:
https://linux.slashdot.org/com...
personally I would have awarded it to Rebel Galaxy as it managed to do far more with the money it had.
Really? Rebel Galaxy is good, but not THAT good. I'd personally rate it somewhere between a 6.5 and 7.5. It has it's own issues and slightly annoying ways....it's evil ways. You set out....cross that way...doing repetitive missions...to make your pay....and shoot neutron rays...at others evil ways. Though I must admit, I'm hoping they do a sequel with a somewhat bigger budget.
You actually had to manage resources, going in guns blazing on 20 hp was a sure fire way to die, sometimes you needed to eat irradiated food to survive or go the long way around and hope you didn't encounter any ghouls. Hell, going in guns blazing as a LV 4 character at the Corvega factory was asking to die. You had to be a little tactical, a little thoughtful in your actions.
Well yes, at least early on. The game IS better balanced than Fallout 3. You know how it was, you reach level 20 in 3 and you're pretty much quick death to anything NOT a Feral Ghoul Reaver or Enclave Hellfire team. But in F4, leveling and equipment is more granular. You're not going to be doing the F4 equivalent of picking up a set of Combat Armor (the best non-powered non-unique armor in the game) from the Talon Company on practically your first Moira mission to that grocery store, and then relying on that armor (and eventually the Reillys Ranger unique version) the rest of the entire game.
Fallout 4 is much less buggy than Fallout 3 or NV, which was an Obsidian game, not Bethesda. Easily the most "non-troublesome experience" from Bethesda game I've played other than Oblivion.
I've only pre-ordered ONE Bethesda game, that being ESO, which is Zenimax Online studios and not Bethesda Softworks. And THAT was for the PS4, when it had been out on the PC for a while and thusly was more likely to have issues worked out.
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And I totally forgot #3! Thanks!
I live in Illinois where people can use the bathroom of the gender they identify with, for years now.
There have been ZERO issues. It's simply not a problem. The folks who want to assault women tend to be misogynists who would NEVER disguise themselves as "transgender" because
1. They consider women to be inferior.
2. They're homophobes and transphobes.as well.
It is a new phenomenon,
No, it isn't, considering one of the seminal works about it was written over a century ago. And considering that various types of gender-variant identities have existed in various cultures across the planet for centuries.
proving it artificial:
No it doesn't prove that.
it is a behavior, a choice, and a lifestyle,
No, it isn't. Gender identity isn't a choice...did you choose yours? How one "expresses" that identity...well that's somewhat a choice.
My guess is they're probably trying to keep their interface "flat" to appeal to those who are converts from other systems aka former Xboxers who aren't used to Sony's XMB on the PS3...which DOES have optional folder style organization.
Also some people said they hated the XMB interfaces of the PS3 and PSP and chose other systems because of that.
One of the big reasons mobile gaming is taking over is because it's always available. Practically everyone has their own mobile device, so there's never a need to negotiate for TV or computer time.
What is this negotiate for TV time or "share the TV" you speak of? You don't have multiple TV's?
Just so you know, I'm joking with you, I understand how it is, and how remote play on more devices might make it easier for some to get more use out of their PS4. I have a desktop-like setup with a 22" 1080p screen for my PS4 ( and PC, and the PS3 and PS2 before it). It works well for MMO's (on the PS2, PS3 and PS4) and certain other games, like War Thunder and when I had Linux on the PS2 and PS3. My setup allows me to play whenever even when the Big TV in the living room is occupied. But I also have a PS TV hooked up to that big TV as well. Don't use it that often, but it's nice to have.for when I do.
while my wife enjoyed her DVDs of Gilmore Girls for the umpteenth time.
What, you don't like watching adorable actresses with large foreheads playing fast talking, caffeine addicted Gilmores? Does she know about the upcoming new Gilmore mini-series coming to Netflix? Why yes....I might be a Gilmore Girls fan.