I like how Sony being part of the consortium that brought Bluray and HDMI to the world, is somehow being listed as a bullet point as a negative.

I mean, there's a joke somewhere there, fizzling out quickly.

"I think he was a great graphic designer but not an artist."

I think you win.

To be fair, that quote that people have misconstrued time and time again over the years, was from Ken Kutaragi, who said in Japanese, "for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else".

Feel free to search "Alex Hanly Kotaku", I make a lot of stuff, not just gifs. And this fine site has been nice enough to feature some of my work on occasion.

I also said "they could crap out an app". I don't speak of Google fondly.

I'm a guy that bought a PS3 in early 2007, shortly after launch (the only reason I couldn't get one sooner, was due to it being sold out).

Yes, as I mentioned, webp in my original post. Even it, is inferior to png. Webp is meant more of a replacement to jpg (which in itself, is thoroughly outdone by png).

I'll admit that the PS3 had a rough start, but I've never taken Sony to be "smug assholes". They wanted it all, for us. They gave us a console that had backwards compatibility, a Bluray drive, Bluetooth, 1080p HDMI gaming, and free online service. It was Xbox who didn't see the same way, and short changed all of us…

Indeed, my friend, indeed.

So by that logic, Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans is not art, it's merely a reproduction. It's a painting of a Campbell's soup can.

Yeah, because Sony is a good company, and Microsoft isn't.

Why isn't the controller etched with "I'm an idiot"?

"There are shitty websites where you can upload videos and they'll compress them to death and make sub-par gifs with them"

In the end, I think even small derivations like that, if it promotes creativity in someone, it can't be a bad thing. I find people to be too passive, too consumptive, and too free to want to never produce anything. There's such a joy in creating something, even if it's something as small as a gif from something that…

As someone who makes a lot of gifs (which you can see here: http://exhan.tumblr.com/tagged/mine).

Allows for more cooperation, that's for sure. Makes the white phantoms much more dependent on the host.

I mean, it works, but nowhere near as smoothly as Demon's Souls does.

And what part of, "I hope the return to server based multiplayer in Dark Souls II alleviates a lot of the connection issues Dark Souls has" do you not understand?