anime chat thread vii: 600 pages in like a week

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Mio	26	18.18%
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Motto: Aug 3, 2013

people trying to cope with the concept of dying by saying that it's not bad and even actually good are the biggest bullshitters in the world

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 18:42

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

Budget Prefuse posted:

the funniest dude and this is another thing i'll never forget is the loving poster that wrote a super long email to his entire loving family about why the xbox one is bad and how they should NOT support it

oh thank god i found it

univbee posted:

The new consoles are arriving soon, with Microsoft and Sony competing for the success of their latest consoles, which should be out sometime in or around November. Normally I wouldn't write something like this, but there are some pretty important things at stake with this particular battle that could change for worse the way future media is distributed. You may have heard it discussed on the news, but there's been a lot of misinformation floating around that I'm going to attempt to set straight.

The short version is that if you want to buy one of the next generation consoles, I implore you to go with the Sony PlayStation 4. The good news is that this system will be $100 cheaper ($400) than Microsoft's Xbox One ($500), so we're already off to an excellent start. Neither unit is backwards compatible with its predecessor, so even if you have a lot of Xbox 360 games you can keep that console and start fresh with a PS4; you'd be starting fresh with an Xbox One anyway.

The main difference is that Microsoft is looking to permanently change how media ownership works. Basically, if you buy a game you are more or less stuck with it, with very few avenues to sell it, exchange it, or give it away. Every game comes with a unique serial number, or product key code. You're probably familiar with how these work if you've ever installed Microsoft Office or a paid Adobe product like Photoshop. These must be registered to your account before you can start playing the game. Once registered, transfers have to go through Microsoft. A license can be given away once to one of your friends; they can't intern give the game to someone else or give it back to you, they are then stuck with it forever. Trading in games at stores will only be possible at stores that have a service agreement with Microsoft and a computer system allowing them to manage licenses, which will cut off smaller stores and likely be limited to larger outfits like EB Games and Future Shop. This will also not be possible initially when the system comes out, and a publisher can disable all of these functions; first buyer is the only allowed user.

In order to manage these licenses, the console itself will require a persistent high-speed internet connection. If the Xbox One is unable to communicate with Microsoft's online license servers for longer than 24 hours, ALL games will be automatically disabled until the connection is re-established. The system will be locked down to 21 countries initially, with some fairly important markets missing, including all of Africa, Asia, as well as Japan, a country so video game crazy that Space Invaders' 1978 caused a coin shortage in the entire country. All games will have to be purchased in your home country and the system can only be used in your home country (this likely means no travel between Canada and the U.S. with it). When Microsoft was challenged with what that meant for soldiers stationed overseas on R&R time, or in the Navy on a connection-less submarine, Microsoft's answer was a smug "We have a system for [you], it's called the Xbox 360 [the system they released 7 years ago]". (http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertc...alled-xbox-360/)

All Xbox One consoles come with a Kinect, a camera that must be connected and pointed at your couch for the system to work. Microsoft took out a patent that leverages the technology to limit the number of people in your living room for pay per view events and the like. If your world cup party has too many people, it will either disable the signal or bill you, and the amount billed could be huge (like what sports bars pay). You can view the patent here: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...=DN/20120278904

Finally, it's likely that in the future, when the Xbox One's successor is released, Microsoft will take down the activation servers, once they've decided that they're no longer cost-effective to keep up and running. They've already done exactly this for their first Xbox, a few years after the Xbox 360 was released. (http://www.itworld.com/personal-tec...inal-xbox-games) These blatant money-grabbing anti-consumer tactics are in sharp contrast to Sony's, a region-free console that uses traditional discs. If you want to trade a game, all that has to happen is for the disc to change hands. That's all, the end. (A video demonstration here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA)

If you're wondering what happened with the Xbox 360's success, well, the short version is that Microsoft got lucky because Sony screwed up the PlayStation 3's launch. While it had a subscription fee, Microsoft's multiplayer services were unprecedented since the original Xbox's 2002 launch, and the PS3's version of the service, while free, was lacking in a lot of areas, especially since the Xbox and Xbox 360 simply had more people playing them (which is very important for multiplayer). Coming off the runaway success of PlayStations 1 and 2, Sony launched their system a year late at an incredibly high price point ($500-$600), mainly in an attempt to get Blu-ray into as many homes as possible to defeat the then-contender HD-DVD. While Blu-ray eventually won that war, it cost them some success in the video game world, which took an especially hard hit when their servers were compromised and many of their online services were disabled for several weeks. Sony did an amazing thing by pretty much admitting that they screwed up and were doing everything possible to make it right, which is unheard of for a corporation, especially one based in the notoriously face-saving Japanese culture (you can view their apology here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u8W784FTkw). Their services have improved by leaps and bounds, and they have caught up nicely. The Xbox 360 was only really successful in the U.S. and Canada, with many of its benefits being U.S.-only, something they don't appear to have learned from this time around. Their first units also had a failure rate so high that a class action was eventually leveraged against Microsoft for the design flaw.

Coupled with Windows 8, it's clear to me that Microsoft is management culture gone berserk, with the decision makers insulated by yes men and who think they can impose their will on the public, which you can also see with Windows 8 as they tried to impose their app store onto everyone (they wanted their cut the same way Apple gets theirs). I'll be sticking to Windows 7 outside of work, and my next laptop when the time comes will, despite the high cost, likely be a Mac.

If you have any questions about anything I've said, or any other computer/video game questions, let me know. Thank you!

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

nothing will ever be funnier than that post

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

Phobophilia posted:

tallest from base doesnt count

That's what tallest means!!!

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

Davincie: Jul 7, 2008

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

he own the gta panty shot game

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

dogsicle: Oct 23, 2012

i really need to go back to playing the piano, even though it's been forever and i will suck

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

lesbian baphomet: Nov 30, 2011

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

i remember this one. but lmao again.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:31

Erg: Oct 31, 2010

dogsicle posted:

there's an entire subforum here for drug use

e: quoted the wrong Erg post but too lazy to fix

The only thing I know about that is they had the Krokidile thread which sounded insanely hosed up

E: don't know how I hosed up quoting that bad

Erg fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Sep 19, 2015

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

Davincie: Jul 7, 2008

Droyer posted:

The coolest of cool kids play the triangle.

were you the also the guy in music class that wanted to play the triangle

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

FartRomancer.EXE posted:

who wouldn't want to do drugs and hang out with a moderator of the something awful forums

id totally do pcp with zoqfotpik

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

lesbian baphomet: Nov 30, 2011

Motto posted:

people trying to cope with the concept of dying by saying that it's not bad and even actually good are the biggest bullshitters in the world

dying is probably alright imo and i'm at peace with it, but becoming Elderly sounds hellish.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

Motto: Aug 3, 2013

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

it's okay because he made the big aids post as a joke, ironically.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

FartRomancer.EXE: Jun 26, 2012

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

wow

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:32

Lt. Dans Legs: Jul 3, 2008

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

I'll take your word for it, that this is funny

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:33

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

lesbian baphomet posted:

dying is probably alright imo and i'm at peace with it, but becoming Elderly sounds hellish.

people live too long

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:33

Droyer: Oct 9, 2012

Davincie posted:

were you the also the guy in music class that wanted to play the triangle

I play the clarinet actually, but I gotta give respect to my triangle playing peeps

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:33

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

Lt. Dans Legs posted:

I'll take your word for it, that this is funny

he wrote a letter to his grandma that said "The short version is that if you want to buy one of the next generation consoles, I implore you to go with the Sony PlayStation 4"

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:33

Phobophilia: Apr 26, 2008; by Hand Knit

Strange Quark posted:

That's what tallest means!!!

by that definition cant you say everest starts from the base of the eurasian continental shelf???

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:33

Smoking Crow: Feb 14, 2012; *laughs at u*

Motto posted:

people trying to cope with the concept of dying by saying that it's not bad and even actually good are the biggest bullshitters in the world

being dead is really cool and good

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:34

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

lets all die together

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:34

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

being dead will be extremely sick if its like yu yu hakusho but what if its like freaking bleach or something. i dont want to be stuck in bleach

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

dogsicle: Oct 23, 2012

I'm going to watch the scary episode of Mushishi, then a bunch of Kawajiri movies

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

That's why Everest is the highest mountain!!

I'd quote if Awful wasn't buggy as poo poo!

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Davincie: Jul 7, 2008

i hope i meet a nice franken fran when i die

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Zoq-Fot-Pik: Jun 27, 2008; Frungy!

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

Such win...

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Erg: Oct 31, 2010

Budget Prefuse posted:

oh thank god i found it

I stopped reading when he had "intern" instead of "in turn"

How am I supposed to take advice from someone with such slipshod proofreading

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Lt. Dans Legs: Jul 3, 2008

lesbian baphomet posted:

dying is probably alright imo and i'm at peace with it, but becoming Elderly sounds hellish.

You can grow up to be a legendary puzzle master, and young'uns will come from everywhere to challenge you at Money Puzzle Exchanger

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Stairmaster: Jun 8, 2012

Budget Prefuse posted:

being dead will be extremely sick if its like yu yu hakusho but what if its like freaking bleach or something. i dont want to be stuck in bleach

but the waifus...

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:35

Everything Burrito: Jun 2, 2011; I Failed At Anime 2022

dogsicle posted:

I'm going to watch the scary episode of Mushishi, then a bunch of Kawajiri movies

which movies?

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:36

Zoq-Fot-Pik: Jun 27, 2008; Frungy!

Stairmaster posted:

id totally do pcp with zoqfotpik

Take your illicit substances elsewhere,

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:36

Droyer: Oct 9, 2012

Budget Prefuse posted:

being dead will be extremely sick if its like yu yu hakusho but what if its like freaking bleach or something. i dont want to be stuck in bleach

It's gonna be like my lovely ghost Kana. I'm gonna get a cool human girlfriend and everything will be swell.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:36

Zoq-Fot-Pik: Jun 27, 2008; Frungy!

Thinking about watching anime tonight.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:36

Budget Prefuse: Sep 26, 2011

another bad thing about death: its really inconvenient

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:37

Zoq-Fot-Pik: Jun 27, 2008; Frungy!

Droyer posted:

It's gonna be like my lovely ghost Kana. I'm gonna get a cool human girlfriend and everything will be swell.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:37

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

dogsicle posted:

I'm going to watch the scary episode of Mushishi, then a bunch of Kawajiri movies

What's the scary episode of Mushishi? I kinda felt it was the first one personally.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:37

Everything Burrito: Jun 2, 2011; I Failed At Anime 2022

Budget Prefuse posted:

being dead will be extremely sick if its like yu yu hakusho but what if its like freaking bleach or something. i dont want to be stuck in bleach

Being stuck in Bleach wouldn't be ideal but I wouldn't mind hanging out w/some hot captains in the afterlife

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:37

lesbian baphomet: Nov 30, 2011

for most of my adult life i've tacitly assumed i'd either Die Young or be Uploaded Into Computer before the age of 40.

which probably makes being 26 feel more worrying than it otherwise would... its like, well i'm still alive and not a computer brain... so there's a chance that i'd grow Old instead of following the plan...

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:37

Erg: Oct 31, 2010

I would like to not die, because I doubt my ability to play video games with ghost hands

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:38

Srice: Sep 11, 2011

Erg posted:

The only thing I know about that is they had the Krokidile thread which sounded insanely hosed up

E: don't know how I hosed up quoting that bad

Like a month or two ago a regular died because he overdosed on "research chemicals", which as far as I can tell are drugs that nobody even knows the side effects of yet.

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:38

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# ? Jun 11, 2024 18:42

Lt. Dans Legs: Jul 3, 2008

Budget Prefuse posted:

he wrote a letter to his grandma that said "The short version is that if you want to buy one of the next generation consoles, I implore you to go with the Sony PlayStation 4"

I can't imagine being so out of touch with reality as to care about a console that much, and also think everyone else cares as much

It's probably kind of awesomr

# ? Sep 19, 2015 02:38

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