Fine, but abbreviation are intended to shorten the word. Whether or not Box technically takes the same number of syllables to say as Bah, it still take the same amount of time. Nothing has been abbreviated in terms of the time it takes to speak the words. It may work as a written abbreviation, but it does not work…

It's still an abbreviation. XBO is not an abbreviation because it does not abbreviate anything.

It's not obvious because it serves no purpose as an abbreviation. It's literally the same number of syllables.

So what you're saying is there is a chance he's telling the truth, and we should wait for some actual information before jumping to conclusions.

There's a huge distinction between "playing the race card" and "calling out blatant racism."

I think we have a winner.

I've played most of the major horror franchises, and many indies as well. Alan Wake may not be the scariest of them, but it has a better story and characters than just about any other horror game.

Couldn't disagree more. One of the best horror games I've ever played.

It's an issue of immersion. I don't want to pilot my car from a flying camera zooming along behind it or from the front bumper. I want to pilot it from the driver's seat.

Microsoft’s new servers, which the company increased to 300,000 from 15,000 currently used by the Xbox 360, will be able to do some of the work creating images for that background landscape and then stream them back to the console and TV...

Are you intentionally refusing to answer questions about the removal of cockpit view?

According to Codemasters it's a deal-breaker for about 5% of us, and they don't give a shit.

You're preaching to the choir. I've already decided to pass on Grid 2.

Don't bother. This question has been asked (and specifically ignored) a dozen times in this Q&A. They're just pretending it's not an issue and glossing over it.

No question, I just want to let you know that since you nixed cock-pit view I'm skipping Grid 2 and waiting for Forza.

People who use terms like "always" and "never" rarely know what they're talking about.

A lot of those people subsidize their console purchases by selling the previous console. This was easy when consoles offered BC. Now it's no longer an option.

Nice. Event capacity reached.

There used to be a place near where my Dad lived when I was a kid that let anyone who wanted to staple a business card to the wall. It had been around so long that the entire wall had been covered several times over. The cards were 5 and 6 deep all over the entire wall.

You talk a lot about what the female ideal wouldn't look like (and even then you say nothing about the ideal female depictions of male characters), but that's not what I asked. You don't say anything about what it would look like. Frankly, I don't think it would be much different.