Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Would a double-barreled shotgun produce a double rainbow?

Generally speaking a huge chain fails because of either a dying market, or because of an intense scandal, or (most common at all) mismanaged cashflow and crushing debt. The smaller number of stores, the worse it is to manage the company's debt. Read more

Did someone say super brother?!

I guess there's no recourse for Kickstarter donators when that happens, eh? Read more

Depends on where you live, I suppose. It's $50 less than 20GB launch 360s where I live (Canada) and comes with a 16x larger hard drive, and Kinect, and a game). Read more

Same here. The difference here is that such audio was state of the art in 1982 when the Commodore 64 came out, but less impressive 8 years later when the Game Gear came out. Read more

For me, the ability to run the same code on a desktop, a tablet, and a phone is the killer app. I'll be upgrading to Win 8 on my laptop, and getting a Win8 tablet and a Windows Phone 8 handset. Read more

The longer I look at this pic, the more details like that I see! Note the Commodore 1541 drive on the stool, for example. Love this. Read more

What bookstore do you work for? Is it part of the Chapters/Indigo/Coles empire, or an independent? I've recently gone all Kobo on my bookreading habits, and I've never read more in my life. Read more

Time to get one then, they've never been cheaper. :) Read more

Shenmue has sold over a million copies I believe, so it can go to Games on Demand, which avoids all the XBLA restrictions. That's how they released Resident Evil 4 on the 360 (one of a small number of full-sized Xbox 360 titles that never got a retail release). Read more

Oh I get now, John Madden is the American version of Don Cherry. Suddenly it all makes sense. Read more

What the heck, really? The article is *really* deceptive then. It just says 4 player multiplayer isn't in the 360 version, while you're saying local isn't. Weird that they'd be able to do 4 player online, and not do 4 player local multiplayer. I think that doesn't have anything to do with architecture, as lots of… Read more

Really? I've heard nothing but good things about them. I was planning to pick one of the up soon and try it. Have you read them? Read more

"Rumors reportedly have the console code-named Durango , claim that it won't be a disc-based machine and speculate that it won't play pre-owned games." Read more

How is this dystopian? Read more

Wow, I thought I was the only onoe who felt that way about Sony's executives. Apparently I was wrong. Read more

Wow... this is a really interesting, and astute, observation. I'm impressed! Hearted. Read more

Hell, Shenmue II (original Xbox) is backwards compatible and hasn't been released on Games on Demand. What a waste. Read more

Shenmue II's camera control was much improved on the Xbox due to the second analogue stick. That's reportedly true on the HD remake of Jet Set Radio as well. I really hope this is true, as I'd love to play the original Shenmue with shorter load times and better camera control. Forget HD visuals, those would be true… Read more