The first 2 warp whistles would have been included in the game in SMB3 and the 3rd would have been DLC. :)

Haha...I really liked the sarcasm in this post in reference to FF3. Since it's one of my favorite games of all time, it just made me laugh. Good job!

I have a friend who has actually returned TVs because they take too long to start up. He was buying an LCD TV for his bedroom and if it took "too long", he returned it. However, he's also a weird guy who obsesses over some really trivial stuff so I wouldn't use him as an example of what gamers are looking for in…

Hopefully he does. :)

We don't have Blockbusters around me anymore. They all shut down a few months ago. So I can really only rent games from Gamefly or Redbox now.

I can definitely see myself using this when I want to check out a title before I purchase or just grab something that I'd never want to buy and play it for a weekend.

The way Redbox works for movies is that they don't charge you until you return it, so I'd guess you'd see the single $60 charge.

I think that's probably the downside he's referring to. Anyone who wants to reconcile their bills will then have to count the 30 charges and all that. But, yeah, you're right, it's not really that big of a deal.

I can't say I'm surprised and I'm not really concerned about it. I have a PS3 and that's good enough for now. If I ever want another Bluray player, they are getting cheaper every day.

True. I'd guess that he'd prefer taking the black since he'd be available for counsel and such, but he'd have sacrificed himself in a second to protect Sansa and Arya. On the other hand, his survival would have helped deter Rob from continuing the war which might have been a good thing, too.

Well, he could have easily taken the stand that his honor and principles were worth dying for and refused to admit his treason. That would have been a typical Ned Stark move. He learned, a bit too late, that you can't always do what's honorable and survive.

*SPOILERS IN THIS COMMENT*

The moral ambiguity, imo, comes later in the series. The first book laid the groundwork for the characters and the other books showed them change and grow. In the first book, the characters are who they are.

Thanks for my new desktop wallpaper at work! :)

Not sure what it is. It could very well be some kind of proprietary protocol they've developed. It might run on top of some other well known protocol or something though.

Without specific details I can't say for sure, but my guess is that the controller was simply displaying the video that the console was streaming to it. And when it "sent the video" it was really just telling the console to stop streaming to the controller and instead display it on the TV.

Exactly. That's what I was telling a few people. Why wasn't this implemented using the 360 headset? Why can't it work with a Bluetooth mic on the PS3? As far as I can tell, there's no reason other than for them to say that it supports the Kinect.

No way. There is not a chance in the world that this thing will cost $500 or more. For one, that would be a marketing and sales disaster when the PS3 and 360 are both $300 or so.

I was convinced that Sony wouldn't release this for less than $300. There was just no way that Sony would do something correctly and find a way to really compete (and it looks like outdo) the 3DS.

I'd agree, which is why we'll never see the NGP at $250. That would be awesome though!