That was my point. All Computer Manufacturers charge more for their parts and service than is reasonable. Apple is on the extreme end, sure, thats fine, but yeah, Bash or anybody else with more than 2 brain cells to rub together would balk at the quoted price and take it to another shop/person to do :P

I understand if you don't like or understand Apple computers, but at least be informed before you troll on them; there are plenty of REAL reasons to take issue with Apple, but unless you time travel back to the mid-90s or lack any technical expertise to just do the upgrade yourself, expensive component costs are not one of them.

They're rated to operate up to 95 degrees Farenheit (35 C) at up to 90% humidity, so if you're not experiencing operational problems I would just make sure your data is well backed up by Time Machine or something similar and store that HDD in as cool a location as possible, not much else you can do for the moment.

Heh, but I do like this list so far, a couple I don't like but its about 75% good.

Oh, was that not what this game was about?

That is all.

I was already impressed at the scope they were going for in MP, had no idea the SP was going to have craziness on this level.

Really? The carts are quite a bit larger than the SNES ones were, and they seemed to hold the game just fine.

Unless its not a remake, but even then it should work just fine, just won't have a bunch of unnecessary fmv cutscenes cluttering up the beauty that is Chrono Trigger.

On the other hand, given some of the recent games I've played from them (FFT D2 being a lone, happy exception), I probably wouldn't get that excited for it if it was a fully new game.

There is ALSO the licensing to consider, traditionally console makers never really turn a profit on hardware even when their costs go down, they simply recoup and profit from the piece they get out of every $60 game sold. From that perspective more regular price drops make even more sense, as the cheaper a console is in theory the more people will buy it and buy new games. Thats the reason Sony originally talked about locking games to each PS3 (an idea abandoned well before launch, of course, for obvious reasons) as a way to curb rentals and used sales, that hurts their profitability more than the money they're losing on the hardware.

Still, can't go wrong with Spoony, or any of the other people who have a ton of followers. Eagerly await those results.

Of course, I'm sure MS/Sony/Nintendo would be more interested in that if Activision wanted to share some of its own obscene money pile with them to help get it accomplished. What's that, Bobby Kotick isn't listening to that, too busy diving into a huge vat of money Uncle Scrooge style? I'm SHOCKED :P

Games (and lack thereof) alone won't kill Windows, but MS having this attitude about them sure isn't helping the situation any.

The review was so crappy I just HAD to see for myself what they were talking about, and yeah, its totally broken basically. I can't imagine, with the development time and resources being put into it, that Too Human even has a chance to be that horrible. It might not be great, obviously I have no idea since it isn't out yet, but on production values alone it has to be at least ok by comparison.

So yeah, I've reading this as "I haven't played that many bad games in the last 5 years" more than a specific knock on Too Human :P

And as others have said, this game NEEDS NO ONLINE, its a real fighting game, and as such is meant to be played in the presence of your real, physical friends. This is not a game that would tolerate lag, nor would they have been able to put it out as easily on XBL if they had to recode it to do so.

Also, this game rocks, might be work getting some points for since I haven't seen that disc in ages :(

Basically, all the politics and philosophy aside, the big point of the book and one of the things that made it so great at the time was the Gorilla Mech suits the human soldiers wore. Taking those out of the movie is one of the worst book-film decisions in modern cinematic history, as far as I'm concerned.

A book of his that I would like to see made into a movie, IF they could find a director who would approach it with the right mindset, is The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. TANSTAAFL, and everybody should know it. I would suggest that people who don't recognize Heinlein as a great author for that work alone need to get their eyes and brains checked.

Seriously though, if the game had to drop this year (I'm still in a bit of shock over that) they've handled it extremely well, and doing a simultaneous Europe release is a big part of that.

As others have noted, your statement is a bit redundant Owen, if Blizzard makes a game, it comes out for Mac at the same time.

Not surprised by this at all actually, I always thought next Spring was a more likely launch window than december.

Still, I'll probably go see this in the theaters, which will be a first for a Moore-derived movie, I stayed away from both League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta for various reasons. Even if the movie isn't great, just the attempt should be interesting enough to be worth watching.

(hope this doesn't Double Post)

So yeah, maybe if they got somebody who actually knows how to write Spiderman well (JMS we need YOU!) in comics to work on a game the results would be good, but the current creative team and their dark, evil master Joe Quesada are not the ones you would want.

In case anybody missed it.

Of course MINE was more...colorful in making a similar point :P

That is not to say that I don't also think Capcom owes the public and, perhaps more importantly, its loyal customers a more direct response to this issue, one that addresses the issues of race and how/if they factor into the plot. For all we know there will be an expository sequence in the game where Leon expresses his sincere disgust for being forced to mow down hordes of African Villagers because of their infection, with accompanying context to show he is not a tool of white supremacy and colonialism in any fashion, but all we see is these clips without any plot context.

Still, I don't find these discussions bad per se, anything that might advance the "conversation" about Race, both in the USA and other countries, is not inherently evil. To paraphrase what Yoda said, you have only what you bring with you in this discussion, try to make it something worthwhile and intelligent, rather than ignorant and hateful.

You aren't fit to lick the boots of any of our soldiers, let alone make ignorant comments about them. Hope you stay banned you piece of dog excrement.

Also says you can buy it and it ships in 3-5 days, so NM, sorry Spore guys for doubting you :P

It IS Intel only of course.

A) I didn't know you were so young as to still be in grade school when the movie came out.

B) One need fake no illness, Ben Stiller alone is enough to give me severe brain cramps.

Seriously though, I agree I never saw the point in REAL dodgeball, but video game dodgeball need not suck :P