@ARCH_27: I thought JRPG fanboy titles were all about too many repetitive random encounters.

@Fernando Jorge: Again, you're missing the point. What's being said here is really that there's no real problem with using Dante's Inferno as a jumping off point for your own ideas, telling a story that's influenced and inspired by it. If this game were simply called Inferno or something else and made that claim, it…

@markitoxs: I hear the fan but I don't notice it as exceptionally noisy. Also, if you're only using your netbook for those things, that's fine, but I manage to simultaneously run OpenOffice, browse the net and do some coding while listening to music fairly regularly on mine. (Doing all this on battery runs it down…

@dragon9770: On top of all that, it's an episodic game. That was supposed to mean a shorter length for a shorter wait. Proportionally speaking, we're probably looking at DNF-levels of fucking around going on.

@shane10101: I personally never liked the powertoy virtual desktop, but I concur with your statement overall. I personally prefer VirtuaWin, and there are others out there to try, too.

@sototallycarl: If your netbook doesn't require you to open up the whole thing to get at the RAM, I'd do the upgrade anyway. Like the article says, it's cheap, and even though you can get by without it, it's so much nicer when you have it.

@markitoxs: I've been using Ubuntu on my EEE 1000HA and it works fine. Before that I was using Mandriva and it worked just as well, maybe even a little better, I only switched so I could get a few apps more easily as Ubuntu .debs are more common than Mandriva .rpms. My gf still uses Mandriva on hers. I'd recommend…

No word on processor speed or anything like that I see. If that's decent, then this could be a pretty sweet device. Would be nice to get support for more ebook formats, though. I wonder how easy they'll be to add as third party software that takes advantage of the e-ink.

@Komrade Kayce: I fired it up after buying it yesterday and noticed the lag right away. I figured it was just because the servers were getting hammered with all the new players. I'll try it again down the road and see if it's improved, but I don't play multiplayer FPSes that often, I mainly bought it because it was…

@Komrade Kayce: I'm a little late now, but I just wanted to point out that I paid 560 points for it. So that is over 50% off.

The only thing I have left to ask for from these media centres is support for flash streaming sites like UStream and launching executables from within XBMC or Boxee. I've got XBMC on my HTPC and I love it, I just wish I didn't have to shut it down to play NES or watch hockey.

@q335r49: No, you're not the nice person you think you are. You sound like the kind of self-righteous, self-important douchebag you're complaining about. "If I need it more, or if I have some other reason I can justify it to myself (such as not liking the pictures this guy took), I'm going to keep it." That's not…

@snap_understeer_ftw: I know it's 3 days late, but that is the best picture to show up on Jalop in ages. That needs to be the picture used whenever there's a Lutz article.

@CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: I'm assuming your rooted G1 is on either T-Mobile or AT&T. A rooted Droid would only be able to work on either Verizon or Sprint nationally (or Telus or Bell, if you're a Canuck), simply because the radio used (CDMA) is not compatible with the other networks. Your G1 will also not work…

@Trey: Check the photo of the shelf, also right in the article. There's a fuck ton of games on there. I didn't count them all, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were 131 games there. She uses Gamefly in addition to buying games, not in place of it. That's definitely an expensive habit, though I don't know if I'd go…

@peteer02: I have Fallout 3 and I managed to pick up the GOTY version for less than it would have cost me to buy all the expansions as DLC. F3:GOTY is really an awesome deal.

@stephen.morrish: I have my desktop switcher up on the top panel. Just right-click the panel and select "Add to Panel", then select the Workspace Switcher. Then you can get rid of the bottom panel and have Docky handle taskbar-related stuffs. I also prefer having a keyboard shortcut to do it, Win+F1-F4 are configured…

@Seth_L: Just a small correction here. It's not to discourage innovation, it's to discourage competition. Discouraging innovation is just a side effect. #microsoftsudopatent

@GrandmaSideways: It's like caffeinated grape Kool-Aid. #nos

@PowerTryp forever Minardi: To follow up on T5Killer's post, the Chevy 302 was basically a 350 block with a 283 crank in it. Bore and stroke are almost identical to Ford's 302, and both had the same function. The 305, on the other hand has small bores, but has a stroke comparable to the 350. The small bores make it…