There are no words for how happy this little clip makes me. More to the point, that this woman did this. This is the human experience. This is what it's all about. #inarticulate
Although I'm positive an 8" iPad would make for a satisfying tablet experience, I know from small screens (as I had a 13" netbook with a 720'ish resolution and I am pro at squinting) and I wonder if it would not detract from the whole idea that tablets are challenging the almighty laptop? I know that I don't care to own a tablet unless I also own a keyboard peripheral, because I am simply dissatisfied with the entire nature of touch-screen two-hand typing. I feel like if I'm going to bother to drop a half a grand, or in the ballpark thereof, on a tablet on which I plan to do a lot of keyboard typing, an 8" device would be sort of a pain, what with the keyboard dwarfing it in size and and me having to squint. It just seems impractical. Then again, I'm only talking about a personal negative. I'm sure people would love to have an iPad that they can pull out of their coat pocket. And I'm sure Belkin would love to be selling two SKUs of iPad jackets as soon as they can. But that's just the bitter retail guy in me talking.
Aesthetically, I don't think it makes a lick of sense, but I love it nonetheless because houses that are dug out of hillsides make me a happy guy.
My backward compatible PS3 (60GB) was lovely...except that it got the Yellow Light of Death and swallowed my Rock Band 2 disc in its death, leaving me more than a little jaded about even needing a PS3 if I still have a working Xbox. There might even be a working PS3 in my house but in over a year I haven't mustered the energy to plug it in even once, and I'm sure by now I've lost the controller. I feel like I had some minor hiccup with the backward compatibility, though...I think it was while playing Chrono Cross. I went and looked it up when it happened and I think I was not the only one to have that issue. Kind of lame. Pointless comment end.
I have done a lot of thinking about the Vita. Initially, I was very impressed, and I suppose I still am. The dual analog sticks, touch screen, and large screen all appeal to me. However, I can't shake the feeling that it's just not something I need in my life. I am usually either at work, sleeping, or waking at home. If I rode the bus or made lots of long trips, I could see the Vita as an oustanding investment...but I just can't imagine when I'd ever play it. If it covered other necessities, like making phone calls and texts, I could see it being the sort of thing I'd want to keep on me at all times, but of course it does not do that and I have a (shitty) iPhone. It's that case of, "do I really need another gadget in my pocket? Do the features of the device (games, music, web browsing, video) overlap the other gizmos I carry already? (the answer is yes, of course). I support the Vita in spirit, but I--like I imagine many other people--already have too many financial priorities to go throwing a couple hundred dollars on a device I might not even use, and then I'll be broke and no more entertained than I was before.
Sounds like he got the message.
Eh. "Steve Jobs 2.0" by The Onion was funnier.
Sing it, Tony.
To you, I'm a random Kotaku commenter, but in reality I am a human being behind a keyboard giving an opinion just like everyone else. In fact, I make it my business to concern myself with history, current events, and the way the world works in regards to things like politics, corporate capitalism, globalization, etc. If I conclude that we ought not have gone to war over the last several decades, then it should follow logically that I don't feel any of America's servicemen and women should have been put in harm's way in wars I feel oughtn't have been fought. It is a simple opinion, and I've got a right to it. Just because you are not privy to me, my life, my opinions, my considerations, etc. does not mean that my opinions are hollow, unfounded babblings from a name and an avatar on a website.
I have nothing to say about the article because I'm useless, but I did want to state quickly of the cover image that I love Rumiko Takahashi's art style, and it always takes me back to earlier days of anime, watching Ranma 1/2 and Kimagure Orange Road. Also, Inu Yasha was terrible.
I have nothing to respond with, but am only commenting to promote this comment which I believe has not yet been validated. Good comment.
I am often mortified by the state of the world...I, of course, don't know the numbers for Japan (which a small country, obviously very mountainous and tight on space) but at least in America, our number of empty houses is greater than our number of homeless. It is only the concept of "money" that stands in the way of us sheltering everyone who needs it. Fuck.
Did someone mention video game lawyers?
The military person giving the quote has a fine point, but I feel that if one looks at the wars of the last 30 years, noticing that they have all been motivated by politics rather than self-defense, I have a very hard time pitying someone who finds entertainment a painful reminder of the realities of war, for I cannot escape thinking to myself that this person, and all others like him, had no place being in combat in these various wars in the first place. Perhaps that doesn't add up logically, but that's just what popped into my mind while I read this.
I hope they do something about the graphics. I bought Myst for the iPhone and came to realize that there is only so much charm one can get from the grainy, antique nature of its most important asset, its art. Perhaps someone's still got the original art assets and they could be brought up to code? I'd also settle for a re-build of the game, rather than a port, which attempts to imitate--with cleaner visuals--the game's original presentation. Also, I don't own a 3DS and so my point is moot.
Ads are hardly my concern with the new layout--in fact, I haven't been troubled by them in the slightest. Since the "NXE" and its subsequent Kinect-y re-skinning, I have always had to deal with the obstructive, useless "Spotlight" channel; indeed, having to scroll up once before being able to access the game I wanted to play. Now, all it takes is a quick tap of the A button, the way it always should have.
No, my biggest issue with the new layout is simply how hard it can be to access things one once could get to quickly. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the Windows Phone 7 / Windows 8-inspired layout, and although that might be a pretty cool concept it ultimately leaves me fumbling around across screens like a baffoon because Netflix is in the "Apps" category, instead of "Video".
Also, Windows Media Center for Xbox 360 sucks ass. It sucked ass before the update, and it sucks ass now. Why is there no Pause command? Why, when I hold down the right trigger which by default skips forward X seconds, does the scroll marker shoot to the beginning or end of the video? I either tap the trigger 60 or so times to find the part of the video I want, or hold the trigger down to get to the unwatchable end of the video, the last part that only leads back to the main menu, that no one would ever, ever, ever need to have a dedicated fucking command to get to. There is basically a command assigned for "go to the very end of the video", but not a pause function. IT'S THE END OF 2011 FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
WMC can really get me angry. Apparently.
As a 12 year old, everything about FFX for the PS2 captivated me, because I did not own the system, and therefore it all sparkled with that untouchable perfection that we often imagine of things. Tidus looked so interesting...boyish, yet wry and even a bit manly. Yuna was the most Japanese thing I'd ever seen in a FF game, and she was beautiful. When I finally did get to play the game years later, I loved it, and still do--in fact, I often have to defend it against the onslaught of "haters" amongst my group of friends. They can't stop complaining about FFX while I can't stop singing its praises. I miss the old days of Final Fantasy. Every two or three years, another one would come out, different and shimmering with highly-detailed FMVs and new gameplay concepts. After X, the slog began, and it became this painful clusterfuck of online games, long waits between installments, and titles that failed to grab audiences in the way they used to--and spin-offs to said boring shit. I miss the days when characters, scenes, commercials, and games captivated my imagination. I miss protagonists who wore yellow shirts with white hoods and navy blue sort-of-shorts-which-are-also-overalls.
Wrong. This looks like it was done in Flash. 5 years ago. It also has changing screens--you run so far, then it loads up the next chunk of the level. This looks fucked. Watch this Egoraptor video and compare it with what you see here.
As most native speakers do, I appreciate his attempt to speak to me in my own tongue, and find his slip-ups entirely endearing.
I'm so...fucking...into it.
