If they're hot, should we call them GMILF?

Region locking is already in place on Steam. There are hundred of titles on Steam that users living in Japan can't buy because of it. Retail codes don't work either, unless you use a VPN -which is deemed illegal by Steam's EULA:

Frankly the currency isn't as much of an issue as the fact that the majority of games available via Steam are either not localized (or very poorly localized) in Japanese or that the Japanese publisher is preventing them from being sold in Japan. And of course, Steam is enabling region locking, which means that you can…

The issue is not so much with "pretty girls" as with pretty girls wearing skimpy outfits.

According to the article "They weren’t just older than your typical booth babe, one was literally a grandmother."

I think that's what they meant; I was just pointing out that their assumptions that everybody has an upgradable, Windows-based tower PC lying around and the skills/time to shop for parts and build their own rig, is very inaccurate.

If it was only the wrists... This is all over the place, broken shoulder, one arm several inches shorter than the other, and WTF is happening with his obliques?

Back in the days before the Internet was as common as it is now, LAN parties were basically the only way to play multiplayer games (console multiplayer was limited to sports, 4 player Bomberman and Micro Machines, ...). Lugging around 17" CRT monitors and big ass full tower PCs builds character.

I've tried to explain the concept of having different console manufacturers and format to the wife; needless to say, I'm in charge of all game purchases or we'd probably end up with a lot of garbage bin games for systems that we don't own.

This reasoning is always based on wrong assumptions. I'm a Mac user (my work PC is provided by my company) and most people around me have either a laptop (MacBook or PC), an iMac or only have a tablet (Android or iOS); if you look at PC sales in the last few years, you'll see that they're representative of typical…

Unless she's buying you games, in which case you should probably correct her. If not, your time is probably spent better talking about something else.

For handhelds maybe. For consoles, I'd argue that the Wii U has shown that the Nintendo brand name alone doesn't mean much anymore.

The problem with this reasoning is that you forget to mention that you need to buy a fully functional PC on top of the $130 GPU and the costs associated with the upgrade.

The point is to play the game with all its graphical enhancements on a $400 system. I highly doubt that you can play this on a $400 PC; in the $400-450 range you can get something like an Inspiron 660s or an HP 110-210xt, which gets you a Core i3, Intel HD 4000 and 4GB DD3 RAM, which don't even meet the minimum…

It seems to me that Sony is "on top" mostly thanks to top selling Western-developed games (COD, GTA, Uncharted, LoU, GOW, Resistance, Killzone, RDR, inFamous, LBP, MotorStorm, etc.) and US technology ; the internals of their consoles are mostly made by Nvidia, AMD and IBM -US companies- and so are their online…

I hear that a lot, but what are the fields where Japan is "year ahead of the US" in terms of technology? The only things I can think of are average internet connection speed and the wide adoption of NFC (for mobile payments). Video on demand, cloud based services are way behind. Sony's streaming game service…

The thing is that the phones that do "more" -i.e. the higher end handsets like the top tier Galaxy- are not the ones that sell the most; the vast majority of phones being sold these days are the cheaper Android models that don't do much.

The guy in Thailand apparently went through over six kilograms of rice in an hour, though, so I don't know how accurate the 4 liter figure is.

OK you win. But I may get a Vita later if it turns out Remote Play on PS4 is as awesome as it sounds. Win-win.

You should have used these posters: