I'm in Japan. And yes, Japan has committed many crimes of snack flavor depravity but even here we have standards. No salad ice cream. Would anyone go for a cucumber pepsi?

I saw on the news that one of the winners of the Powerball lottery is a man in his thirties who lives in Arizona and moved there with his wife from Pennsylvania. Doesn't that fit PeteRock pretty well? Is his life going to get even more fabulous?

Yes, no doubt. I just figured it out. How do you see what the bonus is? I can't read it when looking at the whole board but then when I zoom up on the card it doesn't show me the bonus (as far as I can see). I think I'm really warming up to this card game! I'm sure I'll play it more than either of the MTG games I bought on steam and it cost half as much!

Yes I also saw that and I don't understand it either.

[Drift]

I finished up Drift by Rachel Maddow. Man that was a good book and surprisingly non-partisan.  The section on the nuclear stockpile was particularly scary.  The very idea that we are no longer technologically knowledgeable enough to create replacement parts for the nuclear weapons that our fathers or grandparents were able to make is especially frightening. Did nobody think it would be a good idea to write down instructions on how to do this kind of stuff before all the old guys died/retired?

Once I zoom in fairly close all the bombmarkers disappear and it seems to be continually updating or something. Site is getting hammered perhaps?

I see the game is getting solid 7 and 7.5s so far. Not bad for $5. Normally I would wait until it went on sale or free on PSN± but my Christmas vacation just started so I may jump on this.

So I'm playing through Uncharted on the Vita (which is friggen awesome by the way) and every time I find one of the treasures or take pictures of certain locations I'm rewarded with a card which I assume is for the new game. Has this always been in the game since the beginning or was the uncharted game updated to include this? Pretty cool I guess.

I picked up the latest Vita bundle deal from Amazon and got 3 one-month trial codes for PSN+. Unfortunately you need an account registered to a US credit card to use them which I don't have so I thought I would sell them off here.  They're a couple bucks cheaper than the regular 3 month deal with the added advantage that it gives you the flexibility to re-up whenever Sony offers a really great game give away but not need to pay for it during the lean months.  If anyone is interested let me know.

I played through the demo and boy is it ever beautiful. I hadnt heard too much about this game so I didn't know what to expect exactly. I had no idea it was an RPG! Pretty interesting battle system where you have these pets that have spells and traits all of their own and you seem to be able to switch them in and out during the battle. I'm not a big RPGer like I used to be back in the Playstation days but it reminded me a lot of Final Fantasy 12 the way you can run around the place and make attacks on the enemy while others in your party are doing their own thing.  Pretty good potential!

In the US do they just leave something sitting outside the door if you're not at home? In Japan, if it doesn't fit in the mailbox or is any kind of package then they'll leave a slip of paper with the details on how to arrange for them to come again and when they do you have to sign for the package.

It sounds like the PC version is not as good as the original with mods so it sounds right now like you might only want to buy it if you want to play it on the ipad.

I picked up Civ 5 Gods and Kings, Xcom EU and..thats it! Well, I did get that PS Vita bundle.

Well I hope we get something good! RE5 is good I suppose for a lot of people but I got around to trying it last week and boy, RE5 is not the Resident Evil I remember.  It's actually worse because while controlling your characters is still totally shitty, they've changed it so that you get attacked by hordes of zombies rather than one or two at a time.  No fun at all for me.

I was a goddamned idiot and bought Civ 5 off of Amazon when I meant to buy Civ 5 Gods and Kings. I've sent them an email to see if I can get it cancelled but if I can't then I'd be willing to sell it here for $5 and pay a $2.50 "stupid" tax to Amazon.

Most games seem to max out at 1500mb at most. I suppose they means I should be able to keep 10 games on with a 16GB card. It's enough that I can have a variety of games and don't need to reload too often. 16GB seems like a decent compromise between space and value.

So Sony just practically gave the Vita away and only two of us seemed to have bought it? I managed to get it for about 17,000 yen and I'm planning on selling both games, the memory card and the plus codes for about 7,000 yen so hopefully in the end I'll have gotten a PS Vita for about 10,000 yen or $130 US
What is the appropriate memory card size to get. 4 GB is ridiculously small which is why I would like to sell it but 32 GB is pretty damned expensive for what you get. How big are the average PSN game sizes anyways? I'm thinking of full games, not the arcade games.

It looks a lot like a Magic the Gathering type of game.  I would have preferred a card game in the style of Metal Gear Acid.  Still, it could be cool.  For $5 you can't go wrong.  I'lll probably wait a couple months and see if it shows up for free on PSN Plus and if it doesn't I'll buy it then.

Eddie A, I could kiss you!
I forgot to order Persona 4 Golden but what the hell-I can get it some other time. In Japan, just the basic WIFI PS Vita costs almost $300! I will never have as good a chance as this to get a cheap vita. I have never gotten a console so cheaply and started off with so many free games (6PSplus + 2 package + 1 free Motoracers game from a long time ago).

Ok I fail at math. That's 8am my time. I should be ok.

The Amazon Vita bundle has changed.  It's now starting at 3 PM Eastern US time on Friday and the bundle contains -
White Wi-Fi Vita
Assassin's Creed 3 : Liberation
4 GB Memory Card
Download code for Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale on Vita
3 Months of Playstation Plus
$10 gift card good towards XBox or PS3 version of AC3

All for $179.99

I wasn't planning on getting a Vita anytime soon, but this is way too good a deal to pass up.

Oh god dammit. That's 2am my time.

Thanks for the heads up.  3AM Eastern time would be tomorrow at 5PM for me. Muhaha.

If God really had wanted the Republicans to win wouldn't he have made it so already?

If Vita goes on sale for $199 on Amazon for Black Friday I will buy it. I just found out that Amazon will actually sell to me even living in Japan and the thought of getting the Vita, a pack in game, a memory card, 6 free games from PSN+ and a potentially awesome game in Persona 4 will push me over the edge I think.

I think the real cover up is what Susan Rice is taking to make a 50 year old woman look so young!


Also, adding "gate" to the end of a noun does not immediately make something a scandal, Eco.

The lack of hype is very troubling.  I've never seen less hype for any console launch. I've no doubt that they'll sell out of all of their launch units before Christmas but I'm wondering what will happen in 2013.  Still, it's Nintendo. I'm smart enough not to bet against them.

She was just giving an opinion so obviously she's not racist! She'd only be a racist if she had said it as a fact! Anyways, for the rest of her life whenever a potential employer Googles her name its going to come up with a story of her calling the president the N-word. So it all works out in the end!

I would be except that you cannot have a smart phone without a data plan.  This should be viewed as collusion.

If you're buying an unlocked phone you shouldn't need a data plan. The Nexus 4 is unlocked.

Well an election is essentially a popularity contest so I can't see anyone enforcing anti-discrimination laws for that. No doubt if Christie tries to get a job as a customer service representative then he'll suffer no indignities.

Its exactly the same as in job interviews - Obese people are less likely to be offered a job than if they were slim. There are several reasons for this, but mainly its because people in general think its the obese persons own fault that they are in the state they are, i.e. its a character flaw that is clearly visible. If you have two candidates, one with a visible character flaw, and one without, you will likely choose the one without.

And this is bullshit and discrimination when and if someone does such a thing.

You're right. Being fat is something your born with and as such it's completely out of their control.

Sounds like you might have noro virus. Very contagious be careful around other family members. Yes drink lots of fluids as it sounds like you're expelling all the fluid from your body!
Just make sure that your wife and kids wash their hands well and keep yourself quarantined.

Guys, come on. If you want to troll Brett go do it over in the fat president thread. That's much more fun.

Well, the last president who was overweight was Taft. So yeah, it does matter that Christie is pudgy. That doesn't mean he's unelectable by any means, it's just that being a fatty fatty boombalatty is going to make it more difficult.

Why should it matter thought?   What specifically about a person being overweight makes them somehow unfit to be president for some people?

Fat people are more likely to keel over and die? Most people like to think that a Presidential figure should somehow be better than themselves on every level and they don't want someone who looks like they spend their time eating bags of chips on the couch in front of the TV? Americans won't elect a president without nice hair-do you really think they're going to elect a fatty? Come on.

Haha touched a nerve did I?  Funny you have no comment on my point regarding Obama's scandals prior to this election.

You missed Benghazi! That's the biggest one of them all! I'm thinking how Obama blackmailed Petraeus into having an affair and then firing him over it (all to cover up Benghazi) will be the big one of his second term!

So you couldn't find the forum on your phone and now you can't find the thread on your phone. I think we've found the problem here.

If his lover was trying to illegally access his classified email then I would say that is a problem. Awesome book title though. I wonder when she came up with that one.

I would celebrate 420 but not by "potting up" as those in the know are calling it these days. I would celebrate knowing that a horrible period in our society has come to an end, where billions of dollars were was wasted on an immoral war and thousands of lives were ruined (disproportionately black) for partaking in an innocent activity no more harmful than drinking a few beers. The war on drugs makes Prohibition look like a brilliant idea. I say this as someone who has never smoked pot or indulged in any other illegal drugs in my whole life. Hopefully Washington and Colorado have started an inexorable shift towards a more free society. All it takes is one state. Two is a bonus.

Oh this was the quote, "Is this math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?"

Does anyone have a link for the clip where the Fox blonde asks Rove whether his numbers are just made up numbers to make Republicans feel better about themselves?  That was classic.

I have it on good authority that Obama fathered two African-American children.

Yeah and I'm not sure which one it is, but the older one is actually starting to look hot.

I wouldn't go that far just yet but I did do a double take when they came out on the stage the other night. I thought Obama's kids were little kids! At least that's the way I remember them.  I hope I'm not getting old as fast as they're getting old.