BSG
COs sent. I've got a FIOS installer on the way so I'll be dark soon for an indeterminate length of time.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
Laga - Aug 12, 2009 8:54:19 am PDT #3357 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
StuntHusband - Aug 12, 2009 9:09:14 am PDT #3358 of 26134
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
FIOS installer on the way
This is me, INSANELY JEALOUS.
Can you believe that FIOS isn't readily available here, near MICROSOFT?
Laga - Aug 12, 2009 9:20:05 am PDT #3359 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
We did the math and realized we'd be paying less if we switched everything over to Verizon and dumped Time Warner. Ironically our computer is a piece of crap so we won't be able to tell the difference with internet, but we're getting a DVR and a slew of extra cable channels.
Tom Scola - Aug 12, 2009 10:49:09 am PDT #3360 of 26134
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, look. Somebody told Sony that girls are gamers too.
Dana - Aug 12, 2009 10:53:34 am PDT #3361 of 26134
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is it pink?
t clicks
Oh, my mistake. It's lilac. And comes with a Hannah Montana game.
omnis_audis - Aug 12, 2009 12:44:25 pm PDT #3362 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
anyone play with the Xbox improvements? Seems you can have a Netflix party with some video's. And you can buy crap for your avatars. The biggest thing is you can buy/dl games from Microsoft, and pay with credit card rather than the crazy points system thingy.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 12, 2009 12:46:27 pm PDT #3363 of 26134
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
The only thing I'm interested in with the new update is that it's supposed to make the whole dashboard experience run faster. Everything else leaves me underwhelmed, especially the buy shit for your avatar nonsense.
omnis_audis - Aug 12, 2009 12:59:10 pm PDT #3364 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
eh. I dunno if it was all that much faster. Granted, it was 2am, and I was fighting to stay awake. The one improvement I liked, when watching a Netflix stream, if you hit info, you saw where you were in the video, like before, but then it showed a meter with your net connection. Nice to know why your picture quality is dropping.
As for the buying crap. Ya. Not wasting my money. I'm also hesitant to plunk down $50 on a game that takes hours to download, and is only available on the HD. How do you trade it in? How do you take it to a friends place to play on their machine? What happens when the tiny little drive fills up? Or when the drive crashes???
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 12, 2009 1:46:49 pm PDT #3365 of 26134
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Well, in the case of a drive crash, Microsoft has on file all the things you downloaded, they're tucked away in your profile. That's why if you buy a new machine you can re-download any of your downloads for free. The ones on your old drive would become unusable I think.
Laga - Aug 12, 2009 2:14:18 pm PDT #3366 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm back. And wonder of wonders, the internet is faster!