Years ago, I made a new year's resolution to never make another new year's resolution again. I'm proud to say that's one resolution I've kept without fail.

@Skiddy: I haven't really played Halo online since the early days of Halo 2. I liked the original Halo at LAN parties, but I felt that the multiplayer in Halo 2 was severely unbalanced, and lacking in coherency. But maybe it did get better. I still don't really feel like I can enjoy it properly though, because I'd…

@Ishanji: I had a feeling someone was going to argue about that one. But the thing about Transformice that you have to appreciate, is that trolling is the spirit of the game. Sabotaging other mice and using glitchy techniques actually makes it a better game. For instance, it's much more fun and challenging to try to…

You know what the real problem is? Game developers do not treat the issue of multiplayer game development with the respect it deserves. They do it in a half-assed way, often trying to shoehorn single player game designs into a multiplayer experience, and end up with broken shit. If you look at well designed games that…

@Shinigami_Chop: Not exactly. The existing exploit was more than just emulating a dongle. Normally all a dongle is good for is putting the PS3 in service mode, which still doesn't let you run unsigned code. The PSJailbreak exploit involved a clever buffer overrun than allowed them to put unsigned code into memory in a…

@DigitalTwisted: Nope, the hackers also found a way to downgrade the firmware that can't be patched without a new hardware revision. Sony are pretty fucked right now. Besides, the logistics of getting everything in place and tested they would need to switch to a white-list are prohibitively difficult. I don't think…

@Roger Johnson: The ultimate problem that they will have in patching this, is that the updates themselves have to be signed with the current keys in order to be installable on existing PS3s. If they changed the keys before the update was installed, existing PS3s would reject it just like any other incorrectly signed…

@moothemagiccow: This can't be fixed by a system update. These hackers have owned the PS3 in a rather unprecedented way. If Sony were to issue an update, they would have to change all their existing cryptographic keys, and use a massive white-list of every known legitimate piece of software for the PS3 to determine…

Wow, what politically astute artist decided to do an expose on the U.S. criminal justice system as their album cover?

Right, Usenet it is then.

@Korsi: Good question. I've seen both of the new Evangelion movies released so far, and I don't recall ever hearing that music. I really have no idea where it's from.

@Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(ColonialMarine): Actually, it is, now that I listen to it. That pachinko stuff sure must be serious business in Japan.

That is by far the most dramatic music I have ever heard applied to the subject matter of a pachinko game.

@truthtellah: That is remarkably profound. I like it.

@Pray4Mojo: I think there are better investments to be had. Like I was saying to metronome, the game company is the only one who wins every time in this scenario. The best investments are the ones where everyone benefits, and productivity is created. Not taking on someone else's risk, any paying them to do it.

@metronome49: He may have made money, but the game company made more. It's just like a casino. Some people do walk out with more money then they came in with, but at the end of the day the house always comes up ahead. The people getting screwed may have had a little fun, but they still got screwed.

@Pray4Mojo: I'm with you. That's why I'm trying to warn people that getting into these kinds of financial transactions for virtual assets is a bad idea, rather than picketing in from of congress to get them to regulate the companies selling them. People should be able to decide what they think is a fair way to spend…

@Dutch JaFO: I did not make that mistake. If you allow the operators of virtual worlds to have the level of control that they have over the property you "buy", you are essentially throwing your money in a hole. It doesn't matter how much the content cost them to make, because you aren't buying the rights to the…

@MichaelPalin: I tread lightly on that issue because I don't want to get into the piracy debate that inevitably comes with it.

"Lastly, things aren't really infinite in abundance. Data costs storage and storage eventually breaks down to physical space, power, and money. Not to mention it costs money and time to create things in this digital world, run the servers etc."