Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

We've dropped the price to $249.99, but what we really want is for you to keep paying $299.99. So we're going to include a first-party game and a slightly larger hard drive to hopefully keep you paying the same old price as always (cost to Sony much less than $50). Read more

Or in Canada, our SIN numbers (Social Insurance Number numbers). :) Read more

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Canadians 4 Half Life 3! Read more

Coincidentally, I Just watched The Last Samurai yesterday. Read more

Kind of reminds me when one of the political parties in Canada (the Reform Party of Canada) ran an ad saying that they intended to look after the interests of all Canadians, rather than just the interests "of Quebec politicians", followed up by face shots of Quebec politicians (at the time the Prime Minister, the…

You're back?! There's hope for Kotaku post new-Gawker-layout after all!!! Read more

They were... except for one that gets frequently referenced that Bush was actually right on the money for. "Space is a huge priority for NASA," or something along those lines. The thing is, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and they do lots of terrestrial stuff (weather balloons,… Read more

Superman was created by a Canadian originally anyway, so... yeah. Read more

Red is the colour of the Liberal Party of Canada, and blue the Colour of the Conservative Party of Canada. I found that confusing at first, until I got used to them just always being the opposite of each other. Read more

Bravo, an excellent use of this meme (Rick Perry's posture is perfect for it). Read more

Interesting! Thanks for pointing that out. I feel as silly as the first time it was pointed out to me that "PIN number" expands out to "personal identification number number". :) Read more

I first read that as the "Mad Max haircut" and was a tad confused. :) Read more

Hence why anime girls have huge eyes. Read more

We're genetically hard-coded to find big eyes endearing, it would seem, so that we find children endearing and want to love them and protect them. A person's eyes don't change size as they grow (though the amount of the eyeball covered by your eyelids does) so babies appear to have massive eyes. Read more

I hear they're simply the best, better than all the rest. Better than anyone, anyone I've ever met. Read more

I hope they upgraded it to gorilla glass. Read more

I suppose that if we saw a drop to $250 USD/CAD/Euro on the PS3 and a corresponding increase in HDD size, that we'd see some clearouts on the old configuration below that price point. But they'd be quite temporary, as you say. Read more

Will PS3 prices drop further? Absolutely yes. Will they drop it steeply and quickly? I'd wager not, given the HDD being a limiting factor on their ability to reduce costs. There's always the possibility of price drops *outside* the U.S. and Europe, though, since the U.S. dollar and the Euro have taken the brunt of… Read more

"Orangutans, it turns out, love the iPad and its games just as much as some humans do." Read more