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I named a kitten fatface once. I had a hard time coming up with enough names, and she had a very fluffy face

To be fair, he said the 5000 halo players were from all over the area, not from the town.

Hi there, EM3! Former STS1(SS) here. When you graduate from nuc school, you'll have to do this thing called "going underway" for about half the year. You can bring your xbox if you want (you can even bring a small tv so you don't have to share your xbox if you don't want) but they sure as shit won't let you connect…

half a million or so sailors deployed underway and another million soldiers and marines boots-on-ground doesn't seem like a "unique situation" to me

Ah, how the hell did I miss that one? 5-8 years from now, when the Xbox 2 (or whatever the hell they will call it then) comes out all nice and shiny and pretty, I'm sure they will still support the Xbox One for a while. Maybe even a few years. Eventually though, they will stop putting money into the system that is…

Spoken like someone who has never been through an emergency situation.

You've intentionally tried to pick a poor example for the situation, but I'll roll with it. Did the previous iterations of this boat all drive on land? Is the person angry wtih the newest boat model angry about the newest model's inability to do exactly the same thing as all previous models? (drive on land). You're…

Let's see, how many different reasons...firstly, a junior enlisted servicemember (the most likely person to buy a console since they're otherwise just stuck in their barracks rooms when not at work/on duty) might not be able to budget cable or internet in if they have a car. These guys don't make a lot of money, so…

Here's a scenario that applied to me up until recently: Check kotaku/giz/lh/jalop posts during breaks at work on my phone or after work at home. Work was a submarine that would go underway. Xbox and 360 went with me underway and worked fine with single player. Guess that new xbox will have a hard time connecting to…

None whatsoever. Well, cost maybe. I was more responding to the second half of yout question talking about not charging the controller while the xbox was off, which you can do already. But yes, in my mind, a console that nearly costs as much as a middle of the road PC should come with a pair of wireless controllers…

Your rechargable battery packs will charge on your 360 while it's off now. When I've got the charging cable plugged into mine and I turn off the 360, the little red charging light goes out, then comes back on, and after it's done charging, it turns green just as if the xbox had been on the whole time

GDDR5 is great for its intended application- VRAM, where you are doing a huge amount of reading or writing all at once, but not both at the same time. It does this by using what's referred to as "clamshell mode" where it sacrifices the ability to read and write in the same cycle, but in return it doubles its…

GDDR5 is DDR3 with a wider prefetch buffer and the ability to go into "clamshell mode" and double its data rate by eliminating a direction of communication per cycle. i.e. it can write to memory or read from memory twice as fast as similarly rated DDR3, but it can't do both in the same cycle, which DDR3 can do

Consoles have been on par with low end PCs for a couple of generations now. The first Xbox and PS2 had games that were pretty for their time, and PC games of that time didn't look that much better (Munch's Oddysee came out in 2001, about the same time as the reboot of Wolfenstein, the first Sims series, and…

Laptops can't really be ranked with gaming computers unless they're gaming laptops, which don't cost $600. Laptops sacrifice that level of performance for portability. Need to cut down costs and extend battery life? Axe the dedicated GPU, integrated GPU will do just fine for playing MPEGs and scrolling through…

This. As long as there have been shooters, shooters have been among the most popular games out there. When I was in grade school, everyone that had a computer (and permissive parents) was playing Wolfenstein 3D. When I got a little older, it was Doom, then Quake, etc. Quake opened the door into fragging your…

I am not trying to speak for new york, although I understand that everything is more expensive there than here. I also don't own a house, I rent, which was one of the first things I mentioned. I understand that I am above the national average slightly, while living in an area that is rumored to have a lower cost of…

The C64 also had a max resolution of 320x200 with 2 colors per block or 160x200 with 4 characters per block, so it wouldn't be able to display this image even with the number of colors reduced

F12 is the 4th least common key used by the polled Japanese? What is their hotkey for Save As in MS apps?