toliman commented on Five Best Media Converters

"@longbourne: FUW has no hope with MPEG4 in blu-ray. most of the problem exists in the fact that the groups that make wizards, GUI's and frontends, can't rip off other programs to do the legwork, because the simple tools for blu-ray don't work yet. There are programs that can rip out the content of the BD into their constituent files and then mix them into .mpg or .avi or .mkv files, and vice versa, but the features like menus, subtitles, java, popups, etc."

toliman commented on Five Best Media Converters

"@cwdeem: yeah, clonedvd mobile and more frequently, ConvertXtoDVD v3 has made my life a lot easier, since i recently tried to do it the 'other' way, i.e."

toliman commented on How Many Futures Does Heroes Actually Need, Anyway?

"@OW-Holmes: just like robot chicken lampooned Buffy season 8/9's non-jumping-shark storyline of soulless cabbage patch kids attacking people, there seems to be no QC to the time-travelling hijinks in the show, it's really just a mess and don't they know it. sure, for time travel, you get one good do-over like charlie and hiro, but peter's do-over screams out 'oh god, we got nothing for S3' perhaps there's another quintessential ability they can pull out of the deck, i.e."

toliman commented on More Deus Ex 3 Details Emerge

"@Nik in NOLA: yeah, have to agree on stealth and autohealing being somewhat dumb and insulting, i.e cover/crouching = hidden is something that has been abusive to common sense for a while."

toliman commented on Here, Your Bionic Commando Box Art

"looks just as good as the E.T."

toliman commented on Why No Gears Of War 2 For PC? Well, Piracy For One

"yarr."

toliman commented on Bejeweled Twist Will Make Casual Games History

"until there's a bejewlled movie in the works, it's not news. heck, even minesweeper has one, just check youtube for the trailer."

toliman commented on These Far Cry 2 Screens Will Shoot You in The Throat

"... 1."

toliman commented on Penny Arcade Digs into DRM, Now With More Crecente

"@coalhalo: there's more than 2 sides to DRM, there's the customer side, the distributors, the companies who make money selling DRM to distributors, and those that believe in jesus riding dinosaurs. the question becomes, which one is less plausible an an argument, and which one has a more cogent argument."

toliman commented on Penny Arcade Digs into DRM, Now With More Crecente

"if EA could make a steam-like system... it would still be a dismal failure since it's run by a company that still sells retail boxes for their games. there is no current company that significantly or observably discounts the Download versions of their games."