Oh right, the messaging. I totally forget how much different that is online...

Always seemed kind of pointless to me since you have no idea if it’s lying or not.

I’ve played through all 4 (now 5 with the remaster) souls games entirely offline, specifically because I had no interest in that dynamic, so I’m admittedly wildly ignorant on this topic, but I have to ask...

What would the point to online play be without the invasions? Strictly to get co-op help if you get stuck on a…

I’m ashamed to admit I recently read an interview with her that told the whole story. Mostly because my exwife played it incessantly, so when I saw the headline I couldn’t resist...

“Delilah” is Delilah DiCrescenzo, evidently a somewhat well-known professional runner who missed the Olympic team by a hair a few years…

Hah, true, and look how much the fans loved him. ;)

I’m with ya. I’ve seen enough of Boy Scout Grayson; I am wholly on board for this version. It’s entirely believable that an angry teenage orphan with massive Daddy issues would be this badasstic, especially growing up in Gotham.

I was going to subscribe just for YJ anyway, but now I’m completely on board the service.…

I have a bunch of them, and they’re “fine” for the price, but you’re not wrong...

I get an instance once every couple of months where Alexa simply can’t talk to them. No amount of rebooting or re-linking them seems to make a difference, they just can’t communicate with my Echo devices. Then inexplicably an hour or two…

I have a bunch of them, and they’re “fine” for the price, but you’re not wrong...

I get an instance once every…

I have to wonder why they don’t just focus on coin-ops instead... Especially since they could cheaply get cabinets for a lot of retro “console” games anyway...

Buy a few PlayChoice 10 cabinets, a Punch Out or two, a Ghosts N Goblins, etc... set them all to Free Play, and you’re not that far off from what they offer…

Totally agree, this review is more focused on, “Do you want to control a TV solely with your voice”... which is a dumb thing to ask. Nobody wants that, and that’s not in any way the point of this device. That would be insane and super-annoying to anyone in earshot of you.

As for the truth... After spending a couple…

I don’t think the intention is to completely remove the remote from the equation, this review is framing the use-case for this device in a strange way...

The point of the Cube is to add some of the voice functionality of an Echo+Harmony setup (“Alexa, watch a movie”... It turns on the bluray player, tv, surround sound…

Yeah, it is weird that they haven’t included that functionality. Especially since the voice remote for the fireTV can do it on its own anyway. You’d think it could just silently send a signal over your network to do it. That’s how it works with Harmony devices. I tell Alexa to turn on my projector, she sends a signal…

I agree with you in terms of single devices, but the larger power of these things are setting up scenes/activities. When I tell Alexa to “Turn on Ps4", it powers up my projector and switches it to the correct input, turns on my audio receiver and switches that to the correct input, selects the right channel on my HDMI…

I almost exclusively use Alexa to control my Harmony, and outside of it occasionally mistaking that I said I wanted something off or on when I asked the opposite, I never have any problems with it, and I have literally like a dozen devices connected to it.

Yeah, They’re smart enough for sure. If I ask my bedroom Cube to do something that my living room Echo has to handle, it just works.

Although I haven’t tried any conflicting actions yet (Generic, “Turn the TV on”) that either one might respond differently to, Amazon claims their echo location (or whatever they call…

Wow, no kidding, you’re absolutely right. I hadn’t seen this before, but I just read an article about a group that cracked the Ps4 with some exploit, which allowed them to run Ps2 games on what they claim is system-level emulation software.

That’s nuts. I guess the only thing actually keeping Sony from allowing BC(at…

Ah, fair enough. I have my Ps2 hooked up through component cables into an HDMI converter, but I don’t think I’ve ever put a PS1 disk in there... I just use the Ps3 for that.

It’s definitely a labyrinthine nightmare of cables behind my entertainment center with a bunch of converters, switches, and splitters, so I could…

Just out of anecdotal curiosity since I see this get brought up a lot... Do you have no current way of playing Ps1 games? Did you sell your older consoles as you went forward? What exactly is the benefit in BC going back that far?

I get the appeal of 360/Ps3 titles that may have run at 720p or something getting a…

I bought that travesty... At a point in my minimum-wage earning teen years where that was an entire week’s pay too. When I found out years later that it was never actually a SF game and they had just slapped a different sticker on the US version to fool us, it made so much more sense. So, so bad.

They sell articulated versions of a handful of them now called “Toy Box Figures” based on the same designs. Exclusively at the Disney Store I believe. The Star Wars ones still look great, the Marvel ones have lost some of the magic int he process.

That’s not a coincidence... Peter’s character in Pixels was directly intended to be a parody of Billy.

Todd Rogers already holds that record.