@m_coal: You think this is bad, the Gamefly year-end sale starts on the 22nd. Both sales going concurrently will murder my wallet.

You guys don't have it listed, and for some reason it doesn't show up as one of the deals on the main client page, but The Adventures of P.B. Winterbottom is 90% off today, making it $0.49...

@MrGOH: I'm with you on that one. Gallop Racer doesn't exist in America anymore, and the Triple Crown is a much bigger event than some of those Owen mentioned, particularly the Winter Classic. It's arguably even bigger than the College World Series. The problem is that unlike the rest of those sports, horse racing is…

@WillyG15: Lost Planet 2 and Kane & Lynch 2 were $9.99, $9.99, and $8.50, respectively (Amazon-Gamefly-Gamefly), and Kinectimals was $10 (Toys'R'Us 12/17-18 $40 giftcard offer). So in total I spent about $40 for all four of those.

@Behrditz: I mean, wouldn't you stop for five somethings? Stopping five times for nothing, just because you can, seems wasteful and contrary to purposes. Although it is hard to illustrate, precisely what is a something and what isn't. I guess it's all a wash, right?

@Jezuz: Don't get me wrong, my friend, I'm not trying to say it's wrong at all. It just seemed like a lot of time, although when you break it down like that it seems more manageable. I suppose the difference in my case is that I don't find I'm inclined to play anything unless I can devote a fair amount of…

I haven't used my Kinect all that much to this point— I haven't had it that long and I don't enjoy a whole lot of free time of late— but I've been very impressed with its accuracy so far. I'll be quite pleased if Microsoft can improve it much further with a firmware update.

@Jezuz: I don't know, man. Even forty hours is more than five and a half hours every single day. That alone seems like an awful lot for anybody juggling all the stuff it seems like we're all responsible for anymore (work, school, relationships, family, friends). I'm lucky if I can put it twenty hours a week on my…

@buddhatooda: You tell him, authoritative man. What an ignorant dick that guy is, to think he's entitled to his opinion about Cataclysm or something. That's bullshit, and I'm glad you straightened him right out.

@KaneRobot: Not that I'm going to argue against Rock Band 3's quality... but your last sentence is completely undone by Power Gig, remember?

I'm moving this weekend, and playing a shit-ton of stuff I've picked up recently: Lost Planet 2, the Humble Bundle stuff, Kane & Lynch 2, Nier, Kinect Adventures, Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Dance Central, and Fable 3.

@akuma_619: Perhaps it was... it was working on the 13th, 14th, and 15th, at least... here's the Engadget story on it. [www.engadget.com]

@o0RaidR0o: Samsung is bad, but with the exception of the Behold II (where they've just been unforgiveable, lying dicks) they're usually just slow. It's one thing for the five Touchwiz-based Galaxy S devices to still be on 2.1, but Sony-Ericsson and Dell have modern devices still running 1.6, with no firm ETA on even…

@akuma_619: Saw it mentioned just yesterday, on Engadget or BGR, that T-Mobile was doing it for $50 through the holidays, but only through the site, not B&M.

@Derfel: I want to go to Windows Phone, I really do... but Android's just so capable.

@Biokinetica: More like, get with it, Dell and Sony-Ericsson. The telecoms really have less to do with updates and fragmentation than those few wretched manufacturers who release modern hardware with ancient software.

@joshmchau: Navigation is part of Maps. Google Earth, sure, but Maps, Places, and Navigation are all the same thing.

@HunterShoptaw: I have to respectfully disagree... there are great Android phones which cost a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of what you paid for your Garmin— the Aria on AT&T is $9.99 on contract, the G2 on T-Mobile is currently $50 with contract, the Huawei One devices are (I believe) $9.99 on contract... those are just…

@mandin82: It's deeply questionable if this awesomeness will make it to the iPhone. I don't think the iPhone version of Google Maps ever offered turn-by-turn voice navigation, and the Android version's had it forever. Some features that happen in Android, stay in Android.

@TheNobleRobot: Evil but very, very well done.