Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

The PS3's feature list has been a strange beast. They have added a bunch of things, as you listed, but they've also removed a bunch of things. Some of them were removed before launch (multiple ethernet ports), others over time (Linux support, card reader ports, backwards compatibility, now apparently HD over… Read more

How was backward compatibility not removed? They absolutely removed it, in two stages: Read more

Sony is apparently making this move. AACS has only come up as a possible explanation as to why. Nothing precludes Sony being more restrictive of their own volition. Read more

While I use an HDMI cable at home, I use a VGA cable on my Xbox 360 at work (with Microsoft's official VGA adapter). Read more

The made for TV mini series "Robocop: Prime Directives" is actually pretty good and is required viewing for any Robo fans, IMO. Not to be confused with the terrible TV series'. Read more

"Crucially, he pointed out that Universal itself had proven this in court in 1975." Read more

"Just Meet" shouldn't be more accurate than "Hit", but no one asked me. :P Read more

The blurry photo of a ninja leaping from a rooftop really makes this ONN piece work. :) Read more

"What separated The Last Ninja series from most other games was that in C64 version all three SID sound channels were dedicated to music playback, meaning that there were no in-game sounds" Read more

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Commodore 64's sound abilities were absolutely *worlds* better than the competition when it came out, and it was a very long time before an even remotely affordable system (computer or game console) came out that was even close to its sound capabilities. Read more

Awesome in that good cheese kind of way, from what I understand. My only familiarity with it came from a review of its cheesiness. Read more

The Last Ninja is a truly legendary game. It's avoid-'em-up gameplay was also innovative in its day. Read more

The Winter Uprising was awesome, with a steady stream of high quality games including: Read more

I thought it was a fire-breathing Canada Goose, but same difference! :D Read more

If someone feels they need to change their gender to feel "right" then I support their right to do so. Read more

I'm not so sure about the immigration policy front: Canada let in huge numbers of Germans, Poles, and Ukranians during that same timeframe despite remaining part of the British Empire for a while longer, so it might not have been an issue. Read more

Thank you for that feedback, that's interesting. To me the war against Britain was even more avoidable than the American Civil War; the latter (Civil War) happened because of social and economic inequalities and differences that were going to be hard to reconcile, whereas the former (war against Britain) happened… Read more

By 1982 British influence over Canada had already been ceremonial for a long time. World War I is usually seen as Canada's "coming of age" event. And keep in mind how small a country Canada was up to that time, we gained full independence when we were ready to "leave the nest" as it were. Read more

Glad I'm not the only one who remembers it, or the awesome theme song Body Count made for it.

FWIW, it's worth noting that Steam won't put up just any old indie game, there's an approval process that Valve's in charge of. Read more