Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Amazon only offers 3G on relatively limited devices, where there isn't much you can do with them aside from purchase content from Amazon. Do you really want to browse the web on a monochrome, and slowly updating, e-ink display on a system with very little horsepower? Some will, but most won't. Therefore, the… Read more

I don't see how focusing exclusively on games keeps costs down. Is the Xbox 360 any more expensive because of Netflix, Zune music, Zune video, etc.? If anything it's the reverse, the profits support the eco-system and support the business model of keeping the hardware inexpensive to get it into more homes. Read more

Disagree. To be a vibrant home for great games, the PS4 must be a success. To be a success, it must be what the market demands of it. Increasingly, inspired by tablets, smartphones, and ever-more-capable set-top boxes, people expect their devices to be the electronic equivalent of swiss army knives. Like it or not. Read more

While some elements of the design do seem t-800ish, with that breast plate it looks more like a T-888 to me (from Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles) than a T-800 (from Terminator 1 and 2). Read more

I can't disagree more strongly. I share your feelings about the prequels and the changes to the classic trilogy, but people begged him to do prequels, and then demonised him when he didn't do them "right". It's hypocritical. Everyone's sense of art is different, and he has no obligation to make films that you as an… Read more

Yes, agreed on that. Kotaku generally acts as a blog, and eschews impartiality when it suits them. Ergo, I would have absolutely no problem with Kotaku expressing their opinion on the issue. Read more

I disagree with a lot of the commentary below. Read more

The 360 was the top selling console of 2011 all told, for the first time since 2007. The Wii's decline has been precipitous over the last 18 months or so. Read more

What's wrong with you two. You're not supposed to have, and be fair and charitable, towards multiple systems. You're supposed to dogmatically love one and hate the others, owning competing systems only to inform your hate with personal experience. Read more

I actually read the headline a couple of times, just to make sure it wasn't actually a clever play on words. Apparently not in this case. Read more

The holy grail for me is a new rendition of Full Spectrum Warrior, or perhaps even Brothers in Arms, where you control your character with the controller, and issue commands to your squadmates with a combination of voice and gestures. You know, kind of like how a real squad leader would do it in the field. Read more

But Kotaku doesn't protest to be a traditional news site, with full impartiality. They profess to be a blog, where opinion and fact can intermingle. Read more

"Oh and I'd just like to note how hypocritical you're being if you're praising Wikipedia and damning Kotaku over this." Read more

"Our mandate is to report news and sometimes offer opinion about video games, gaming culture and the way gaming intersects with the culture at large. I believe it is our job to cover protest movements but not to be part of them." Read more

I haven't played this game, but "Dress Up Your Bikini-Wearing Cowgirl Killer!" (taken literally) suggests you play a character who kills cowgirls. Yet since one of the characters is a cowgirl, the literal interpretation seems unlikely to be correct. Read more

I take it I wasn't the only one who read "Dress Up Your Bikini-Wearing Cowgirl Killer!" and wondered why she was killing cowgirls? I guess it should have read "Dress Up Your Bikini-Wearing Killer Cowgirl!". Read more

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Read more

An e-reader I would believe, you don't need much power under the hood for that, but to make it into a fully-featured tablet is something else yet again. Not that I'm saying it's a bad idea, but they'll find it drives up costs if they want to do it right. And by do it right, I mean make it a tablet that won't seem… Read more

I read it like a conjunction of "iReport" and "has". Read more

All joking aside, branding is the new frontier of the body mod crowd, if I don't miss my guess. Read more