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.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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.
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
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!
billytea - Aug 12, 2009 5:03:31 pm PDT #3367 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
I have many many COs. I just need to check something concerning Adama's orders. Meanwhile, state of play is:
Destiny:
2 cards
Apollo:
1 card
Boomer:
1 card
Adama:
Roslin:
Baltar:
StuntHusband - Aug 12, 2009 5:45:06 pm PDT #3368 of 26134
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
BSG
Every time I see "Destiny" I think Young Frankenstein.
billytea - Aug 13, 2009 4:55:17 am PDT #3369 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
My apologies, I've been remiss. I've clarified Adama's COs, but now I've noticed I need to clarify Roslin's COs too. While I fix this up, the current state of play is:
Destiny:
2 cards
Apollo:
1 card
Boomer:
1 card
Adama:
1 card
Roslin:
Baltar:
Volans - Aug 13, 2009 5:39:10 am PDT #3370 of 26134
move out and draw fire
BSG
It's OK - Roslin plays no cards. She totally told me.
StuntHusband - Aug 13, 2009 5:48:59 am PDT #3371 of 26134
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
BSG
She totally told me.
Toaster-pillow-talk? EW!