Oh, it's not a complaint. Just an observation. Color pallets are a funny thing. You see a lot of blue/orange in movies and movie posters. Blues are appealing/cool colors, and oranges generate enthusiasm. Kind of weird how the mind works.

So gold is the new brown?

@TheRealDoshu: Works just fine on the Xbox 360. Textures are slow to load at full res sometimes (the Gears beta does the same thing, FWIW), but otherwise, it plays just fine.

That's all I'm sayin'.

Called good cop/bad cop in contemporary times.

That stinks, dude.

@William Henry Harrison: Don't forget MAG, which is completely dark.

@Roaming Weeaboo, Class II: I had 2 Xbox 360s Red Ring on me, and I never paid a dime. Free shipping on both consoles and had them both back withing 2 weeks of asking for the coffins to be sent to me.

the guy with the glasses is probably an instructor

You probably die.

Just a small-town paper in Martinsburg, WV. It had/has a daily circulation of about 20-30,000 which makes it about a tenth of the size of some of the bigger metro-area papers. But in that area, it's the daily paper of record for most folks. It's a dying industry, but sometimes I miss the work.

@trs: Ever page designer lives for moments like that, however hard and stressful it is to get done. I used to design the front page of a newspaper, and it's exciting as all hell, but it can wear on you. I only had to make the call to stop the presses 2 times in 2 years. It's expensive and it means a lot of people are…

Not really. I got a $15 credit on Amazon when I bought it, and I'll get a $25 trade-in credit on it. So, $40 off my next couple of gaming purchases, plus more credits from Amazon.

I just want the PSN back so I can link my account to my Steam account so I can download my free copy of Portal 2 on PC, then sell my PS3 copy. I also want it back so I can watch baseball on TV, with the MLB.tv app.

@Josh_Geyer: Remember, this is a story about someone ELSE making an observation, potentially a misguided one.

Does this mean we'll start seeing your put AutoHotkey scripts down your pants?

Exactly. Game developers can be original. But gamers aren't. They like a certain thing and the majority rarely venture outside of their comfort zone. So, game publishers, who are what actually determines what games come out, aren't original either.

@nexusheli: I'm the same age as you and I'm very confident that a Mars landing will happen by the time we're 62, if not sooner. Innovation increases exponentially. It will only take one or two key breakthroughs in materials science or propulsion. And those breakthroughs kick off more breakthroughs and so on. It's a…

Salutation and signature block on the first message (new one i'm sending or first reply) then neither one for each successive message. Cuts down on unnecessary scrolling.