It's not an "improvement". Its an improvement. No scare quotes required. Its a little dicey when used in rewind, I'm sure, but this feature was LONG overdue from Comcast. This allows you to actually fast-forward at full speed without worrying about having to back up again. Before it would take me nearly 30 minutes to watch a half-hour show on my Comcast DVR because of the jerkiness of the fast-forward and rewind features. I'd zoom through the commercials but land a couple minutes into the show, I'd try to back out only to end up a couple minutes back into the commercial break. It was an enormous aggravation and while they aren't as good as Tivo yet, its a huge improvement. Sorry you can't deal with it, but the old system was already ruining TV watching for plenty of people.
@Shippoyasha: *smack* Yes, shame on your for knee-jerk hating on people for not having a body you find attractive and having the audacity to enjoy themselves and have enthusiasm for something.
@DrakeDatsun: Seriously. I don't think you understand the music gaming DLC model at all and I don't even know where to begin explaining how off track the OP's complaint is. Music game DLC is designed to be optional so players can tailor their music catalog to their tastes. The discs basically come with a starter pack and then you can choose to add songs as you please. This isn't horse armor, either. They are more like new levels for the game. Only, you just buy the kind of level you enjoy playing.
@Retsaot: You are ignoring the facts. He didn't try to get his boss fired. He tried to get his boss thrown in prison. And in doing so committed the crime he was trying to get his boss thrown in prison for. So he very much earned both punishments.
Had he lied to try to get his boss to lose job, I'm not sure its even a criminal issue. That isn't remotely what happened, though. He may not be a pedophile (we assume), but he did exploit child pornography and the law is meant to cover this kind of criminal conduct as well. The gravest charge, though, is the perversion of justice issue and he very much deserves a stiff penalty for that. HIS focus should have been on constructively resolving his professional issues, NOT destroying someone's life. The offense here is so outlandish that we've zoomed decidedly past rehabilitation and the interest of society are best served by appropriate punishment. Most people don't try to get people they don't like imprisoned. Most people don't regard child pornography as fodder for pranks and schemes. The offenses here are beyond the pale. The sentence is just.
Had he lied to try to get his boss to lose job, I'm not sure its even a criminal issue. That isn't remotely what happened, though. He may not be a pedophile (we assume), but he did exploit child pornography and the law is meant to cover this kind of criminal conduct as well. The gravest charge, though, is the perversion of justice issue and he very much deserves a stiff penalty for that. HIS focus should have been on constructively resolving his professional issues, NOT destroying someone's life. The offense here is so outlandish that we've zoomed decidedly past rehabilitation and the interest of society are best served by appropriate punishment. Most people don't try to get people they don't like imprisoned. Most people don't regard child pornography as fodder for pranks and schemes. The offenses here are beyond the pale. The sentence is just.
@Unfather: Way to miss my point. When you win stuff, you are happy for lucky. You don't self-righteously complain about how you got screwed. If you want to whine that badly, give you PS3 away and buy one with your own money so you actually have something to complain about instead of weeping over how entitled you think you over stuff you paid no one anything for.
@Unfather: You won your PS3. Why on EARTH are you bitching? I'm pissed about the lack of backwards compatibility too but I actually spent money on my machine so I have cause to be annoyed. With the money you saved winning your machine, you could have bought a PS2 and got Shadow of the Colossus.
Um, okay.
I mean, it looks pretty and all but as others have noted they really don't understand the concept of a skyscraper. A "horizontal skyscraper" defeats the entire purpose of a skyscraper. All they did was built a massively long structure. Its an achievement, sure, but the whole reason we have skyscrapers is to take up as small a footprint as possible. Building up is a response to population density which also creates efficiencies in transport within the building that a horizontal complex cannot match. If a building of this season was justified by a local community, then using up such a vast amount of real estate is a major long-term mistake. It may claim a small footprint, but that hardly matters if it renders all the space it hovers over undevelopable. Its just for show and probably damn expensive to achieve for a gimmick. Maybe there are some reasons to build a complex like this instead of a series of low rising buildings, but calling to mind a skyscraper just emphasizes how much this fails at everything a skyscraper sets out to do.
I mean, it looks pretty and all but as others have noted they really don't understand the concept of a skyscraper. A "horizontal skyscraper" defeats the entire purpose of a skyscraper. All they did was built a massively long structure. Its an achievement, sure, but the whole reason we have skyscrapers is to take up as small a footprint as possible. Building up is a response to population density which also creates efficiencies in transport within the building that a horizontal complex cannot match. If a building of this season was justified by a local community, then using up such a vast amount of real estate is a major long-term mistake. It may claim a small footprint, but that hardly matters if it renders all the space it hovers over undevelopable. Its just for show and probably damn expensive to achieve for a gimmick. Maybe there are some reasons to build a complex like this instead of a series of low rising buildings, but calling to mind a skyscraper just emphasizes how much this fails at everything a skyscraper sets out to do.
That's a shame. I enjoyed it when I played it and my wife really got into it for a while. I hope they are just going to transition to an original IP game show concept as with Kinect coming, there is a huge potential for this kind of interactive entertainment.
@frankystainz: Hollywood prosthetics look seamless because they spend 6 hours applying them and applying make-up to hide the seems. I don't think that's a realistic option in this case.
But will it blend?
Not sure which snark is best.
I can't decide on the best way to snark about this.
@yah5: Who are the idiots buying XBoxes off Craigslist? With the impact of the banned list, anyone who does that is either ill-informed or sketchy to start with. Neither of which is someone I want to enter into a contract with. Never mind the ease of reselling at Gamestop.
Look, its information some people will find useful. Not you? Awesome. Just read another article.
Look, its information some people will find useful. Not you? Awesome. Just read another article.
@Cal Hawks: Its also worth noting that while army units were segregated during WWII, they also lacked super soldiers. So, if you're going to add a Super Soldier, its not exactly that much more of a leap of faith to allow for special units to be desegregated. When you're talking about a superhero fighting a guy when a red skull for a head who is also a Nazi, historical accuracy isn't exactly something to reasonably quibble over.
I have no desire to play the game, but man would I get a kick out of the uniform design aspect. That looks incredible. Given the fictional team aspect of the game, this is actually a really important feature for them. I might not bite, but if this is really well put together, don't be surprised if some in the Uni-Watch crowd buy the game purely for the uniform design aspect.
What interview did you watch, because it wasn't the one 60 Minutes aired. Maybe you're in a rush to be on the forefront on Conan backlash, but Conan is clearly moving forward with his life and career. If anything, he was boring in the interview, not bitter.
Hey, I went to college with Katie. Neat.
That's about all I have to say. I hope they get the game released. It sounds like a cool project. I liked King's Quest a lot back in the day and I think there could be an audience for fan created point and click adventure games in the style of the retro classics. Granted, I don't understand that to be what they are up to, but still.
@Zayus: No, I'm an adult with a real job that I respect. Not some entitled loser with a persecution complex who things imagined slights against his dignity justify behaving unprofessional towards a company that is paying him. "Blame Gamestop" is just a way of saying that Gamestop employees can be expected to be worthless, irresponsible leeches who can't be trusted to display minimally professional behavior. You aren't attacking GameStop, you are attacking their employees and slandering all of them for the self-important actions of a handful. Yet you seem to think you are championing them by declaring that you expect them to be low-lifes. Curious. I imagine the retailer workers who behave professionally would dispute your low-opinion of them.
@Zayus: No, I'm an adult with a real job that I respect. Not some entitled loser with a persecution complex who things imagined slights against his dignity justify behaving unprofessional towards a company that is paying him. "Blame Gamestop" is just a way of saying that Gamestop employees can be expected to be worthless, irresponsible leeches who can't be trusted to display minimally professional behavior. You aren't attacking GameStop, you are attacking their employees and slandering all of them for the self-important actions of a handful. Yet you seem to think you are championing them by declaring that you expect them to be low-lifes. Curious. I imagine the retailer workers who behave professionally would dispute your low-opinion of them.
@psychiccheese: One thing you are forgetting is that on TV, when they build a set or create a costume, they can potentially reuse it quite a lot. A movie would have no such luxury.
Another simple fact is that audiences expect more from a movie. A two hour movie will have more expensive effects than the average two hours of a comparable TV series. This isn't just about expectations, either. A movie needs to develop and resolve a large story in two hours, where a TV show can do it over 20 hours.
The stakes are also higher with movies so production is generally given more time than a TV show. A TV show will often produce an episode in a week. There are a lot of tricks to help this, but the simple fact is that this is quite fast. A movie represents a bigger promotional commitment from the studio so its wise to invest more time into getting everything just right. Which means more money.
