travo said:

Thanks, guys.  My gut feeling tells me that he in in an early stage of Alzheimers.  The docotors said he had a UTI and that at his age, that could've caused his confusion.  The thing is, after days of antibiotics, his confusion seems to have gotten worse.   Two nights ago, he saw my sister on TV and my cousin was the baseball coach on TV.  Last night, he was in jail.

My grandma had alzheimer and it was very tough to deal with. Not because of my grandma but because my uncles couldn't believe that her mother (Which was a writer and founder of the first literature magazine for women in Mexico) had alzheimer. And instead they ridiculed her, got mad at her and pretty much ignored her.


My mom and I did take care of her a lot and all I can say is be strong and try to find things he likes, my mom used vintage music and movies to make her remember.

Yodariquo said:

aspro said:

Just spent a wasted hour lurking around gamespot. Reading up on what happened to the GGD->PGD and the moderation cahnges in December.

It's ground zero over there isn't it?  Sad to see really.  Vader had a huge old post on E3, only got five comments.

I'm starting to see what Leo was talking about. It's as if no-one has keyboards anymore and all communication is well-under 140 characters.

Not gloating or anything, just kind of astonished.

What you're saying is, we can declare victory?

aspro said:

I'm assuming since Valve is gaming royalty we won't see the same backlash we saw against Sony and EA when they did this:

"Valve has issued an update to its Steam Subscriber Agreement that effectively prevents all Steam users from joining in class action lawsuits against the company. Valve's new SSA requires that "you [the user] and Valve agree to resolve all disputes and claims... in individual binding arbitration," mimicking similar language added by EA to its Origin service agreement and Microsoft with Windows 8."

I'll sit back and wait for the moral outrage to flow through Patrick Klepeck's keyboard.

And here we go:

"I’m bothered by the response by most players to just shrug at this move, as they have in the past. You should carefully scrutinize the reasons your rights are being limited, even it’s by a company who has traditionally been exceptionally consumer-friendly in the past, Valve. There may never be a point in your life where a class action lawsuit benefits you, you may be tired of getting emails about being part of class action lawsuits you didn’t realize were happening, you may not understand why you received a quarter-sized check in the mail related to a class action lawsuit from a few years ago whose email notification went in your spam folder, but you shouldn’t be okay giving up your rights. One day, you may wish that right was at your disposal, and suddenly it won’t be."

Link

Dvader said:

Archangel3371 said:

No Kingdom Hearts 3D for me today, not sure if I'll pick it up later. I'm not planning on getting Borderlands 2 as I think I have more then enough on my plate for awhile.

I dont think I am going to finish Boarderlands 1 so definetly not Boarderlands 2. Its Darksiders 2 for me.

Only game I'm picking up this month is Last Story. I don't need ANY new games for awhile, but I make an exception for something that needs the support.

travo said:

Thanks, guys.  My gut feeling tells me that he in in an early stage of Alzheimers.  The docotors said he had a UTI and that at his age, that could've caused his confusion.  The thing is, after days of antibiotics, his confusion seems to have gotten worse.   Two nights ago, he saw my sister on TV and my cousin was the baseball coach on TV.  Last night, he was in jail.

You'll have a PLEASANT surprise waiting for you at home today, at least!

edgecrusher said:

I really want the new Transformers game, but even on the PC they want $60 for it. I'm sick & tired of some companies charging over $50 for digital versions of PC games. Should be $35 tops.

In Mexico any console or portable game costs around 60-80 dollars while every PC game (That isn't made by Blizzard, greedy twats) costs around 40 (Including EA games). So, you're kind of lucky that the game prices are even in the US.

aspro said:

So you know, that's where if I play a game from a genre I am not familiar with, I'm not going to jump all over it, because WTF would I know about RTS games? I'm not qualified to really give any salient criticism of it.

It's a tough distinction, though, from being an expert in a niche versus being casually familiar versus being completely baffled.  I think more the question you have to be asking is, are you the market?  Are you who the marketers expect to sell this product to?  If so, you have every right to tell them exactly what you think of their product.  So whether or not you've played a tonne or never touched the Barbie titles, the adult male demographic isn't really on their radar, so a review from one is somewhat irrelevant.  Whereas, if I were to play Black Ops 2 regardless of my familiarity with FPS games, my opinion is relevant because they expect me to buy into it.

Consider also that a lot of game design I feel is actually independent of the specifics of the gameplay.  I understand, though, that there is a problem with establishing or supporting relative quality.  Without being able to compare to other games in the genre, particular leading games in the genre, making a sound conclusion on score is suspect.

Yodariquo said:

It's a tough distinction, though, from being an expert in a niche versus being casually familiar versus being completely baffled.  I think more the question you have to be asking is, are you the market?  

Absolutely. I just heard an interview with the head dude from Fifth Cell on gamespot's rebooted podcast say that reviewers shoudl factor into their critique of a game,  "that game was not built just for them".

Yodariquo said:

... there is a problem with establishing or supporting relative quality.  Without being able to compare to other games in the genre, particular leading games in the genre, making a sound conclusion on score is suspect.

Yes. Relativity is everything in making quality assesments. It can cause scores to be both too high or too low.