But I thought "Consoles were dying, man, just dying. Terminal, even! Doomed!!"

I simply take it to mean that any analyst that states Platform X is "dead" or "dying" and Platform Y will take everything and claim the throne and offer free handjobs, or whatever, are either delusional, have no concept of exaggeration, or are trying to make it so to profit.

Wow. Wow yes, how could I not see that before? I mean, it's... it's so OBVIOUS, if I'd only looked. If only I'd noticed... My eyes, my eyes are OPEN, for I think the first time. Open to the reality, the reality and the TRUTH I will project from the mountaintops! I will! Yes, for now my mind is free!

So, for the same reason putting $10 of gas in your tank using a credit card at the pump can leave you with a $75 hold on your account for a week or more.

Haha, yeah. That would probably do it.

Ah, the "future" of game graphics... is using new tech and more effects to hide poor animation and design.

Honestly don't know. Didn't have cable when it aired, and hadn't bothered to check it out. I take it you enjoyed it? I might have to.

Oh my god, and it still only has the one thumbstick?

Damn. Well thank you for the input—I shall wait.

Okay, open thread question here:

TMNT went sour for me when they decided "wacky" should be a key word of every description.

This seems really nifty, and a very nice way of looking at it.

From what I've been led to believe, the CPU shouldn't matter at all—the DX API should work on anything with appropriate drivers. It's why the 360 gives up 10-15% of its processing power to run DX. I cannot for the life of me recall where I read this—some tech blog.

But that's the point, isn't it? If game companies want to change a product (I buy game, and use it how, when, and where I feel like) into a service (I buy a license, company dictates all terms that can change without notice), then they enter into a different legal category.

Look, Carly, yes. I get it. You are fiercely adorable, with your lips and your soft hair and alluring eyes, and with your adorably not-perfect teeth and awkward grin. You are. And you have talent, and can write and sing and play your catchy tunes.

Motherfuck it, pay the people

If they don't read Kotaku in Korea, how did Kotaku make this "500x worse"?

1) Release docs with speculative choices/decisions

All of this is why I feel adding an option to play a female or male avatar, or an avatar of any race (or at least adjust skin color), should be standard in almost every game. Because you never know which games people are going to identify with, or live through. We can't know which games are going to really matter to…

1) Real. Money. Auction. House.