It's lasted me longer than 2 of my 360's and their red ring of death escapades, which Microsoft never gave me back :)

Consoles do have a place, they're good for drunken parties, in case it breaks, can always get another one cheap :)

See my above post, I can play most every game atm on the highest settings, didn't spend near 2k, please stop spreading lies :)

Nvidia does my updates for my automatically, Flash tells me there's a new update, how is that difficult? If I need a new version of direct x a game usually tells me. Do you need someone to tell you when to brush your teeth and when to shower to?

As for running into the pirated games, they were hawked very aggressively by people in Okinawa who scared me away with their aggressiveness, would much rather stay away from pirated products as I like not being in jail :P

In terms of piracy, the first pirated games I've ever ran into were for console games, sf ex III or w/e back in 2001 or so. When stationed in Japan I ran into a LOT of pirated games for consoles. I started gaming on an old Texas Instruments cartridge based computer back in the 80's, eventually owned pretty much every…

Thousands of dollars, yes and the xbox 360/ps3 can be bought for less than the price of items on the dollar menu.

Time and effort, um I gave my friend 500 bucks, got it a few days later all built up, he does my tech stuff for me that I can't handle, it plays blue rays, dvd's cd's, has more storage than any game console. I've had it for nearly a year now and not a single issue has popped up. Updates are automatic minus Java, which…

^ This, to the Nth degree.

When I first saw his pic I was like ooh Hipster scum

EQ2 2004, housing galore!

Actually the biggest gripe I have is that of gamers wanting games to be more like WoW. I played the CB of PSO 2 and in block 20 of ship 4 I think it was, all the U.S. players would say is wah it needs pvp and it needs such and such like WoW.

Not to be mean or contrite but Guild Wars only came out a year after WoW. I've played MMO's well before WoW even came out, started to play MMO's less due to WoW,(I can't stand idiots). Everquest 1 did fine and well and it wasn't a WoW clone , as did Ultima Online before that.

I'm rather fond of fonds.

Mechanized zombies.

At least it wasn't total garbage like Force unleashed 2

Why so angry?

Loved Fahrenheit 451, was forced to read it in grade school, but ended up loving it as well as Orwell's 1984.

No, it's not dead, I recall a year or so ago seeing the launch date on a valve site, it was listed as "when rapture happens" or something to that effect.

Oh, like half life's Episodic content? Still waiting on episode 3 which was delayed to work on Left for Dead 1....