Should have been called Bloody Taffers.

It's more about being able to try before you buy but without a time/gameplay limit.

Let's say you've bought games, and accrued ten tokens. Each token is good for a set amount of time or number of levels in a game.

You want to try out a game, Sequel II, since you played the first and enjoyed it. You download it, and play…

It was more about me clarifying that it's not in a sleep state - where the machine has the minimum required power to the board to allow it to keep the RAM state active - but is instead in a standby mode where "higher" functions are shut down, and it is limited to simply waiting for a command.

Oh, sure, it's a minimal fee for a convenience. No argument there.

I wish there was a way for people to accrue points by buying games, then spend those points playing a game without buying it. Then, if they buy that game, they receive their points back.

That might make sense; if it was actually as easy to kill someone with, say, a baseball bat as it was with a gun.

You do realise that it's in standby mode, right? It's keeping minimal power to the CPU/RAM so that it can resume quickly. It's not actually off, which is why it is monitoring the Kinect microphone for the "xbox on" command.

Common sense is becoming less and less common.

It's still rather silly. A PC can cold boot in less than 30 seconds, can resume from hibernate in about the same time, return from standby in 5-10 seconds, and that's not even on Windows 8, nor with a UEFI motherboard.

I agree that it could be read wrong, and it wasn't terribly well written to begin with, but I (and I'm sure, others as well) took it to mean that either; Thor, Loki and Heimdall were characters he prefers to Sif; or that Hemsworth, Hiddleston and Elba (damn, Elba is awesome) were actors he prefers.

And honestly, no…

Fallout 2's K9 (in Navarro) isn't that much of a Doctor Who reference, no more so than it references Marvin the Martian at least.

If there were something beside the name, perhaps.

Well worth it. It's not particularly intrusive, and is good for a few laughs.

Yeah, "Zynga".

It still drives, too:

The difference between the Calico and the Killzone pistol is that the Calico actually has a way to deliver the rounds to the chamber.

The difference between the Calico and the Killzone pistol is that the Calico actually has a way to deliver the rounds to the chamber.

Is that pokemon actually a bag of rubbish?

I'm sorry, did you check the label on her outfit? Did it say "Generic Asian Dress #45, dry clean only"?

That's probably true to some degree, but I guarantee there will be a resurgence of people at Christmas complaining that their consoles are defective. Comparatively few people got a Wii U (like, a fraction of the amount that got a PS4/X1), and the Xbox will no doubt have a bigger number of people buying it who are…