I tried to rent Wario Land today, and my Hollywood Video store claims they won't have it until Friday. WTH? It comes out today, right? They didn't have de Blob either, but I'd rather buy that one anyway.

edgecrusher said:

Not sure. They just look right together. What's amazing if you think about it is how the DC is just slightly bigger than Wii, yet it was a fucking powerhouse console when first released. Impressive for a system that was made in 1998. Probably more impressive than even the Gamecube's size.

Heh, I remember a friend saying "that can't be more powerful than the N64.....look its not even as big" then I put in NFL2K....

That just reminds me of gamer bonerhead mentality: The Xbox is twice and big and several times more heavy than all other consoles combined, that must mean that it's a fucking beast! Look! It has power grills!

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I got this email today. Only 250GB per Month usage? WTH? How am I supposed to download all of my porn--er, high res video game footage and demos with that ridiculaus restriction?!

In all seriousness, who the heck could use it that much? I wonder what my usage numbers are. Probably less than 3GB per month, I'd image.

Wow, I remember that sig, GG! When did you join GS, anyway? I joined in May 2003 but had been lurking for a year prior.

Why not change "own" to "pwn"? You know you want to.

Every time I see Moon on the DS it just makes me smile. It reminds me of a shooter that would have come out back in the late 90's on N64 and been a total classic. This and GTA are going to make me buy a DS...fuck.

I am so depressed right now, I dont even want to read the posts of this place, I dont care right now. The Little Big Planet beta opened, eurogamer was just giving away free codes and I could not get in time. People are playing LBP and I am not.

dvader said:

ravenprose said:

I tried to rent Wario Land today, and my Hollywood Video store claims they won't have it until Friday. WTH? It comes out today, right? They didn't have de Blob either, but I'd rather buy that one anyway.

Most rental stores wont get games that ship this week until late thursday, so they hold it till friday.  

They had TFU last Tuesday, so I assumed they'd get it the same day as other stores. I'll go back on Friday and see if they have it then. Thanks.

dvader said:

I am so depressed right now, I dont even want to read the posts of this place, I dont care right now. The Little Big Planet beta opened, eurogamer was just giving away free codes and I could not get in time. People are playing LBP and I am not.

Doesn't it come out in less than a month?

Surely you can wait just that little bit longer Vader.

ravenprose said:

comcast said:

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,

We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers' use of our service.

On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time.

In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers.

250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following:

* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).

And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month.

Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.

I got this email today. Only 250GB per Month usage? WTH? How am I supposed to download all of my porn--er, high res video game footage and demos with that ridiculaus restriction?!

In all seriousness, who the heck could use it that much? I wonder what my usage numbers are. Probably less than 3GB per month, I'd image.

Precisely. Who the fuck could use 250GB in a month? Torrenting a heap of new games won't even do that (I don't do it, I'm just saying).

darthhomer said:

dvader said:

I am so depressed right now, I dont even want to read the posts of this place, I dont care right now. The Little Big Planet beta opened, eurogamer was just giving away free codes and I could not get in time. People are playing LBP and I am not.

Doesn't it come out in less than a month?

Surely you can wait just that little bit longer Vader.

Man I cant even wait three days for MM9, I am insane about these things.

dvader said:

TFU had a street date so that game was sitting in all stores for weeks waiting for that date. Most games ship without a street date, so you have to wait for stores to get them, almost all get the games on Thursday (GS/EB gets them Tue. or Wed.).

Ah, that makes sense. I'll keep that in mind.