Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

It is important to vote with your wallet. It's the only thing some companies understand. Read more

And British and Canadian implementations have been around longer than that. Read more

The article also assumes you live in the U.S., which we know a significant chunk of Kotaku's readership does not. Heck, at least two of their contributors don't. Read more

I'm increasingly doing just that. Between Zune and Netflix (which has a growing number of TV shows), I've purchased/watched Primeval, Jericho, The Walking Dead, Chef, Jekell, and more, just in the last couple of weeks. Read more

Maybe, but it sounds like they actually made some very valid points all the same. Read more

Knock-offs? Depends on how tightly they lock it down. MagicGate, for example. Read more

*Spoiler Alert* Read more

Margaret Atwood is Canadian. I haven't read the Handmaiden's Tale, perhaps it's set in the U.S.? Read more

You're quite right that they gave up. B/C updates seem to have ended for two reasons: 360 software was taking off, and the remaining OG Xbox games were the hardest ones to solve emulation problems for. I still have an extensive OG Xbox game collection myself, so keep a couple of OG Xboxes around since a few of them… Read more

The line is still there, it's the last sentence of the first paragraph. I can't tell you why it didn't come up when you searched for it, that's kind of weird. Read more

Don't forget the anti-globalisation protesters who organise, globally, over the internet. It is ironic, no question. Read more

"But look at that DualShock 3 layout. How will we ever play the PS3?! That thumbstick is so close!" Read more

But how do you feel about the Playstation fucking controllers? Read more

I believe I'm an open-minded person, and I was really interested in reading what Matti had to say. Even being Canadian on Kotakuexcludes me from a lot of the discussion (something as simple as people talking about Hulu or posting links to Comedy Central, neither of which is generally available outside the U.S.), so I… Read more

The Barbie games didn't exactly hit the hardware very hard, nor did the developers dig deep and use tricks to eek out performance increases. Read more

Everything you ever wanted to know about the CFL: [lmgtfy.com] Read more

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Grey Cup: [lmgtfy.com] Read more

As a Canadian without much knowledge of soccer/footy, my experience reading this article must be what's it's like for the average American to read an article like this about hockey game cover athletes. They likely haven't heard of any of the people mentioned, and have a dim recollection of maybe once or twice hearing… Read more

The Xbox was annouced and released in the same year, I believe (announced late winter/early spring 2001, released late 2001. Read more

This from the woman who brought us the teddy bear lapdance. I'll just leave this here.