A public wireless hotspot isn't meant to be inaccessible.

Why do you care if this is built in to Chrome? There are extensions that add this behavior.

Sincerely,

Politician Who Accepts Gobs of Money from Oil and Coal Companies


(Who wants blue skies anyway?)

And that politicians who apparently went to decent high schools and colleges and graduate schools subsequently forget any science they've learned when they realize that John Q Public not only cannot understand science, but hates people who do.

Ignorance is bliss.

I would appreciate it if my company fired the current sysadmins and hired someone competent.

See, I'm waiting for the 3DS XL, which is too big to take anywhere but with a much better screen and a worse battery life.

That or: more colors.

Well, I, and many of the people that I know, consider the two Super Mario Galaxy games to be two of the best games of this cycle. And I appreciate the fact that when I bought my Wii, it was a hundred or two cheaper than the 360 and three or four hundred cheaper than the PS3. I appreciate the fact that the games start out $10 cheaper. (For what it's worth, the Wii's crappy Internet connectivity and onboard storage means they gouge us less with expensive downloadable content. Each Call of Duty game, for online players, doesn't cost $60, it costs $105.)

Perhaps more importantly, almost no one I know who loves playing on their Wii console regrets buying it because it has lesser graphics. Consider that most people bought one knowing that going in---it isn't like Nintendo is hiding the fact that its hardware is inferior. Maybe it is true that you can't have graphics and fun, if graphics makes things too realistic as to ruin the gaming experience or if the focus on graphics means developers don't focus on fun (for which I revert back to my Transformers 3 comparison). Again, people can complain about graphics all they want, but if that is the *sole* reason they avoid one video game over another, then I question their taste.

This is like saying you won't read one of the best books of the year because you hate the weird serif they use on the letter "f". We'd all be much better off if game designers focused more on fun and playability than on graphics. That's why many people still go back to the classics---graphics don't matter to most of us, fun does. I get that movies like Transformer 3 make a crapton of money on the strength of fancy special effects, but such movies, from writing to acting to editing to anything outside of effects, are utter crap. So enjoy paying for graphics, I'll pay for fun.

Most blu-ray players, however, can do these things now too (and better as time goes by). Hell, most TVs can do these things now. An expensive console isn't necessary anymore unless you're really interested in the games involved. And since Xbox Live is far superior to online gaming offered on the PS3 (and the almost useless Wii connectivity), a PS3 is really only useful for people who largely play one-player games or for those who can afford multiple consoles and want the PS3 exclusives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest

Exactly. This game is a parody of NES area games. It's essentially a take on Dragon Quest, which isn't the type of game that PC gamers grew up with. There are very few PC games that I can think of that fit that mold. If we were looking at some parody of a point-and-click adventure ala Gold Rush, Monkey Island, or King's Quest, sure, PC makes sense. But the Zeboyd games are console thru and thru.

Well, and the question is whether he could have gotten on Steam in the first place without getting popular on XBLA in the first place---he'd be nowhere without XBLA. Steam promotes his game on their service because they already know it is popular among those who play it.