Additional food for thought, the end of brotherhood seems to imply that the current genetic makeup of at least two individuals in modern times were practically predetermined for some yet unknown reason, so none of this discussion may really matter.

if there were only a handful of humans (even if it's in the thousands) that were the genesis of the entire human race, the odds are pretty reasonable that *someone* could be descended from two different strong bloodlines. this isn't about the chances being 1 in 6 billion, but that we have a game that talks about that…

-AC2 spoiler- not that it matters if anyone has read this far probably :)

If you really want to capture BSG's feel, a human wingman is a must, because that's how you survive a big scale battle. If the interface was good enough to help follow and assist your mates quickly, I'd really, really love a quality combat sim with co-op.

I still think it dried up simply because every big name space shooter turned into half-assed quick-buck games at the same time as everyone was focused on rising genres that provided new gameplay and cooler graphics. The few attempts at revitalizing it in the midst of the rise of the modern FPS missed their target…

I'm going to add to the call of BS, I also buy more random crap when using a cart, but the simple fact is that you make healthier choices at the grocery store.... when you make healthier choices at the grocery store. The single best thing you can do to eat healthier is make a list. If you combine that with a basket,…

That doesn't matter when talking game types - it's not like a new turn based FF on the PSP would sell any worse than an Action title. Nothing I mentioned has any significant impact on dev costs.

"To me, "photographer" means it's your main occupation."

It's not that costly - It's $98 because Square can get that much money for a final fantasy game in Japan, plain and simple. The same happens with lots of big franchises, anime, etc.

I still don't understand why square keeps releasing all action based FF games (not counting remakes) for the PSP. The PSP is the platform where my fingers cramp and eyes hurt after 15 minutes of action, and where having a game where I don't have to stare intently at the screen when my bus stop is coming up makes…

I assume you mean subtitles that are embedded in the mkv, not actually subtitles hardcoded in the video (which nothing can get rid of :)). If you are using MPC to process your subtitles it's easy, you just right click, subtitles, unclick enabled, but if you have it set to use another filter or MKV splitter to handle…

In my experience, MPC has better compatibly with odd iterations of various formats and codecs, and is more stable with mkvs than VLC (not nearly the problem it used to be, but VLC on osx *still* crashes scanning through large mkvs sometimes). Because it's easy to switch codecs it's also easier to fix compatibility…

One of the US based design groups mentioned in the video, ideAttack, actually has the balls to promote this as one of their projects on their website: [www.ideattack.com]

No hard feelings if that wasn't your intent - clearly I'm just feeling the internet hate this morning. ;)

The surcharge is $2 or $3 for the lower plans, I was suggesting it should be $1, something more minimal and just as a mental barrier to regulate the number of users. I've heard from multiple reliable sources that the cost of blurays individually is no longer the main barrier for netflix, just distribution and support…

@giz: flash ads over the text? really?! I hate the internet so much these days.

The slow motion combined with a completely pointless result just served to put me in a very stabby mood.

I don't even use hotmail for anything except as a backup option on occasion and for xbox live (gmail is my norm), but I'd still say it's really not that bad, and massively improved from what it used to be. The webmail interface is fairly straight forward and functional, it works properly on various browsers, unlike…

In a lot of areas there is only one realistic option, and that is usually the cable company - which is almost always a monopoly within its region. In central city areas DSL is technically an option but much slower, and fiber is scarce, not to mention scaling back now because Verizon didn't make money off of it.

I'm going to counter some previous posts with a clarification - the internet, at this point, is considered a right, and the reason is because information, support and forms for essential services including healthcare in many areas/countries are now only available on the internet in order to improve quality of service…