Updates on all consoles require approval by the user.

Doesn't mean it won't download the update so it's ready to install when you approve, but, frankly, the download is only part of the hurdle.

There's no way any of these consoles will update your system automatically.

just make it like it is with the xbox- you start up the console, if there is an update it ops up with a simple yes/no question as whether or not to do it.

Right, and when you agree it downloads then installs the update.

PS3 is almost the same, but it makes you look at a(n) EULA first.  It's more than just a click of yes or no, though.

Careful you don't get sued (a decade ago): http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm?AID=4992781&PID=4003003&SID=q82gjeu31qlp

I can't believe it's not Stonehenge!

or

Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches.

Butter stop while you're ahead.

Usually the iOS app store updates at 11pm Eastern, so look for it then.

I read a recap here:  http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-15-hawken-art-prank-changes-ceos-mind-about-scantily-clad-women

Fantastic story.  Had me applauding at the end.

Updates on all consoles require approval by the user.

Doesn't mean it won't download the update so it's ready to install when you approve, but, frankly, the download is only part of the hurdle.

There's no way any of these consoles will update your system automatically.

Up since 2:30. Spent 90 minutes trying to fall back asleep tormented by the theme song from WKRP in Cincinnati in my brain. Don't ask me, cause I don't know.

just think of Charles in Charge.

Was that a euphemism?

nope, if I wanted a euphemism I'd have gone with Laverne & Shirley or The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

Awwww, yeahhhh...bwow chicka bwowow...

If you want to go WAY back, this is the first album that I ever owned. I must've listened to it 20 times and could recite all the stories verbatim.

Holy shit, i remember that!

The full boardgame is multiplayer. It's coming in the future to the iOS version.

Actually, from what I understand, it's coming to iOS as a separate game, not as an addition to the prologue.

It's more than multiplayer, though, it's also the full game experience, meaning the goal of the game is to build up enough to get to the center section and grab the whatsit instead of achieving whatever goals are set out for you on each mission.  There will also be the possibility for the many expansions that are available for the board game.

Personally, I think the prologue gives more than enough gameplay to warrant the price and if it's an indication of the quality of the full game, I'll be getting that too.

Deep dish pizza and plenty of soda that day.  Going to sit down and have myself a marathon.

Dood. You need to savor this. SAY VORE!

trust me, you do not want to say VORE to the Google Image search.

Who would think to. But now that you have, what'd you find?

Ew.  That's what.

I loved the first game (though like most JRPGs I never finished it). 

The sequel got mixed to negative reviews.

liking Talisman Prologue, though.

I picked that up on Saturday and played through a few games.  I'm not familiar with the original board game, but this seems like a very well-done port.  Not terribly crazy about the completely luck-based gameplay, but would still recommend it.

Yeah, even though it gets very frustrating when you're trying to roll to get to a specific space (especially because your rating is based on how many turns it takes to complete the given task), I'm really enjoying this.

I've owned the boardgame for a while, but haven't bothered to break it out.  This iOS port made me dust it off.  I've reread the rules and hope to play it this week.  It's much more boardgamey than a lot of BoardGameGeek fans would like, but that's not a problem for me, especially if I'm playing with my daughter.

A lot of folks have complained about the notion of paying so much for what is essentially an extended tutorial for a future release, I really like the episodic nature of it and think there's a lot of gameplay here.  Still looking forward to the full game, though.

Yikes.  

We had a good day that turned to shit in the last minutes.

Gifts were a hodge podge but included a work-out bag that she was even more excited to get than I expected and PJs in her favorite color, along with a "Keep Calm and Don't Blink" t-shirt that had her more giddy than I imagined, too.

Nice game of lacrosse.  Mom's coaching and daughter is playing.  Though she's a little half-assed about it.  Part of the problem is that they've neutered the game of it at this level (no score, no checking, mumbled chant at the end of every game about how the score doesn't matter and we think the other team is neat).  Another issue, though, is that my daughter's depth perception is a little off.  She went to very expensive vision therapy to correct this.  Watching her try to get a ball today, I asked when she last did her VT workout that she's meant to continue twice weekly.  She told me she'd done it that morning.  This is where the seed of the horrible ending was planted.

Great brunch at a "bohemian French" cafe.  Wife and I both had bacon-fat fried french toast with a fried egg and bacon.  Plus a glass of sparkling rose followed by a glass of wine.  And dessert.  Good stuff.

Watched the finale of Doctor Who series six which almost catches our daughter up to where we are.  Just the first half of seven (and a couple of Jenna Louise-Coleman episodes) to go.  

Just before the end, my iPhone reminded me that my daughter is supposed to do VT practice the next day.  I mention this.  My wife asks when she last did it.  I said she told me this morning.  It quickly becomes apparent that this was a bold-faced lie.

So I had to go into cold parent mode.  My wife talks about how important (not to mention expensive) VT was and that if she doesn't practice, it was all a waste.  To me, though, the much bigger issue is that she could lie so flatly to my face about something that would have had little impact if she'd told the truth (frankly, it's also our responsibility to remind her and make sure she does it, and we would have just had her do it that evening anyway).  I tell her I'm furious (which I am) and disappointed.  We were going to watch another Who, but she goes to bed instead.  I do not go in to kiss her immediately, which causes no end of heaving tears.  She comes in to apologize and hug me multiple times, but for me to respond by kissing her goodnight would have sent the wrong message.  Of course, I do kiss her right before she has to sleep, but with the message that all is not smoothed over and though I love her, I'm still disappointed and angry.

Hell of a downer for an otherwise great day.

Agreed. 

I've read EG, but it's not required reading to see the movie.  The thread is about the movie.  Use spoiler tags.

preview.

I've got a little tip for them:

The subject in an over-the-shoulder shot is supposed to be the actor talking not the giant blurry blob of a head of the other actor.

Bring it on!!

I liked what I played of the first Metro game, but I never came close to finishing it.

I'll wait for reviews and to see how important it is to have finished the first one.

Funny how the top 9 "Ace of Aces" for the British all have the same score: 9,223,372,036,854,775,807... and yes, I'm aware of the significance of the number. I guess it's a known iOS / Gamecenter hack / exploit.

Just what exactly is the significance of that number? It seems like a pretty random number to me.

I didn't know either.

I found out it's this:

The number 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 is the maximum value for a 64-bit signed integer in computing.  It is therefore the maximum value for a variable declared as a long integer (long, long long int, or bigint) in many programming languages running on modern computers, equivalent to the hexadecimal value 7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF16. The appearance of the value may reflect an error, overflow condition, or missing value.

I've seen a bunch of clips of Commander Hadfield answering kids science questions about space (go watch him wring out a towel, it's cool).

He's funny and smart and charming.

And the he recorded a version of Space Oddity.  In space.  And it's really good (some lyric tweaks might hurt the ears of purists).

 

Dead Giveaway music video

That is so damn awesome.

Impromptu gas pump karaoke.  Probably staged, but still pretty funny.

Well, the newscaster is the guy from Son of a Beach and the clip is from the Tonight Show, so at least that part is staged.

Bullwinkle, are you playing it safe and not playing, or did you get the corrupted save?
   
I'm in the same boat as you. I was level 30 and felt like I was just hitting my stride.

I never got the corrupted save, but I was supremely lucky because at one point I forgot about the issue and played for an afternoon (this is when I made some progress, finally).  Then I remembered and haven't been back.

[Spoiler]

I remember begging my dad for this one:

Spoiler for Hiden:

It came with a 45 of the main theme.

I'm not sure what the first album I bought for myself was, though.  I feel like I should know that.  Probably something like Thomas Dolby or Howard Jones.

I do know the first 45 I bought for myself was this:

Spoiler for Hiden:

I'm not sure how many times I listened to the song, but I looked at the cover a lot.

This is really bad.  I stopped right in the middle of a quest that had been daunting me forever, but I finally found the right route to take and was really kicking ass and getting back into the game as a result.  Now my momentum is dead.

Community has been renewed.  By itself, this is lame news, as the show got so bad this season, I stopped recording it (just for comparison's sake, I watched every single episode of Joey).

Rumor is, however, that Dan Harmon is coming back!

Thanks, Chevy Chase.

Dang, forgot about this in the madness that is my work right now... and expired. Sorry. 

No worries.  It wasn't the clearest deal in the world.

Yeah, I was hoping to try the demo to see just how unfriendly it is in SP.

This is finally up on XBLA.

As has happened in the past, though, with other games, it was released with no trial version (I think it happened just recently with Battleblock Theater, too).

Usually a trial version gets added after some time, but there's no way to tell how long that'll take.

IIRC, he just did the narrator VO for the iOS version of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I don't want to sympathize, but it must be tough to grow up and then never be able to understand yourself when you talk.

I was waiting for this all week, and it's even better than I imagined.

[Spoiler]

RE:Revelations demo and M&DK: Minis on the Move

Spoiler for Nintendo Weekly Download:

Wii U demo
Resident Evil: Revelations

Wii U Virtual Console
Xevious – $4.99
Solomon’s Key – $4.99

Wii U sale
Chasing Aurora – 50% off through May 16

3DS download
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – $9.99
SpeedX 3D Hyper Edition

DSiWare
Publisher Dream – $1.99 / 200 points

Launch delayed...due to massive private investments?

Ouya has received $15 Million from the likes of Nvidia and one of EA's original investors Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (a KPCB partner and long-time EA veteran was appointed to the board, too).

Eurogamer's take seems to be that with these folks being convinced by its potential, things are barrelling ahead.  It certainly seems likely that we're going to be hearing more and more about it now.

[Spoiler]

Totally NSFW:

Spoiler for Hiden:

Yeah?  I've been up since August 12, 2011.  AND I have Leprosy.  Oh, and my cable's out.  Did I mention the frequent Alligator attacks?

Well, sure, alligator attacks, what with all the leprosy.

Yeah, this seems like something that would be fantastic in co-op.  SP was still pretty good.  Not sure I'm over the moon about it, exactly, but I had a decent amount of enjoyment.

OTOH, it seems like the character interactions and story elements are only hinted at in the demo.  I imagine that might elevate the SP for me.

[Spoiler]

Of course, to all those people waiting in line, you walked past them to D-Bag seating.

You mean all those people who could have also bought their tickets online if it means that much to them? I fail to see the problem...

The problem is that the theater named the seating something that is easy to turn into D-Bag.

I kinda am a D-bag tho.

I have a favorite comeback for when people call me a douche.  Not targeted in any way at anyone here, just wanted to share it.
spoiler for nsfw/rude comment.

Spoiler for Hiden:

You just think I'm a douche because when I'm done banging your wife/mother/whoever they smell better....

 

Of course, to all those people waiting in line, you walked past them to D-Bag seating.

You mean all those people who could have also bought their tickets online if it means that much to them? I fail to see the problem...

The problem is that the theater named the seating something that is easy to turn into D-Bag.

I actually love the reserved seating at my local theater.  They offer motion seats called D-Box seating and they are reserved only. Nothing quite as satisfying as ordering tickets a couple days in advance, walking into a packed theater 5min before previews start, and sitting in the exact seat you want.

Of course, to all those people waiting in line, you walked past them to D-Bag seating.

Having just pulled this off myself two weekends ago, I have to say it is worth crowing about.  I was telling people right and left, and I was in a great mood.

Nothing people hate more than someone in a great mood.