So basically they want to sell you the same product twice. It's incredibly bizarre that of the big three Microsoft have the most proprietary crap as far as their consoles are concerned. Proprietary hard drives, proprietary wireless protocol for controllers, proprietary charging cables, and now a proprietary accessory…

That's funny, because I could have sworn it was you who did that. Oh yeah, you did.

And so defeated, the fool jakran seeks refuge in denial. His tail tucked between his legs.

Um, are you actually following any of this? You know, the article, the original comment in this thread? Did you read any of it or did you just see my comment and fly into a frenzy to reply to it. I will lay it out to you:

If you can promise me $10 of value in return then sure. What an asinine reply. The point was that you're not losing $10, it's still there. And the risk of you actually losing it is minimal. And not only is the risk minimal but the consequences of the risk are minimal as well. That's what I meant about it being a small…

Mostly it's just referring to the fact that they're not locking streaming video services like netflix behind a pay wall like Xbox Live does. The mention of non real time online play is interesting though. It's hard to think what kind of game play elements that could refer to.

I can understand not wanting to leave large amounts on there. But $10? Getting uppity over such a small amount is either being very tight with money or very paranoid. I don't care about having a little credit because I know I'll use it at some point. Ten bucks now or ten bucks later I've still spent ten bucks.

QA isn't foolproof. Never has been, never will be. Unless you can hire precogs who can predict bugs before they happen. The thing about software (and a lot of other things for that matter) is there's any number of factors you can be dealing with. To completely test anything you need to be aware of every factor…

It's funny really, because when you consider that Sony generally sells their gaming hardware at a loss (at least at first) it makes no sense for them to do such a thing. Microsoft do the same, which is why the red ring was a big sting. At any rate it's game sales, accessories, and services where the profit for console…

Less inconvenient than an RROD. Still, it only affected a very small number of users from the sound of it.

The thing is it's a defence mechanism as well. And I doubt we'd have survived as a species long enough to develop modern medicine without it. Problem is that the body isn't capable of discrimination between helpful and harmful foreign bodies. The only solution is to find and use materials that the body won't reject.

Hey Luke, if you could add a link to our TAY Howtu that'd be awesome.

Thanks. As I said I don't think it's ever been a major issue on Kotaku. You guys are pretty good at keeping a level-head. I just don't think it's ideal to combine the two roles

Also how he contradicts himself, in this thread he says that he doesn't have a dualshock anymore when not more than a week ago he made a comment about how the PS3 firmware update almost killed his 60GB PS3. So unless he happened to sell his PS3 in the course of the last week (which I'm sure he'll suddenly claim he has…

Oh don't I know it. It bugs me that he pretends to be objective while harbouring a clear bias.

I'm going to voice one thing that's always bothered me about Gawker, and that's that there's no separation between editors and moderators. There's too great a temptation to moderate based on the fact that someone is disagreeing with your article, rather than whether they deserve to be banned or not. Granted it's not…

Wow, what a convenient revelation. Christ, you're the worst kind of armchair expert. Next you'll be telling me that you're a lawyer too.

No, it's a science you think you're educated in because you've had some casual conversations with people who are educated in a related (but entirely different) field. That does not constitute an education.

That's just bad writing though, it's no the fault of the character. When you have to take away or otherwise modify a superheros superpowers just to challenge him though? That's a problem with the character design. Good Superman stories generally aren't about playing to the characters strengths, they're about covering…

They can if it's public domain, which I'm pretty sure the official map is.