I'm playing on the 360 and have only jumped into the Original Alice (it was an ~ 1GB download with a code in the box).  No manuals, just 'Manual on Disc, accessible from menus - which aren't accessible from the Original Alice.  I would have like a controls insert at least.

Y button to climb up a ledge that you're hanging from is a little slow to react, usually taking a couple of tries to work.  This hasn't really hindered gameplay for me yet, and I can't remember if there are any occasions when it would (I'm not remembering anything like the end of Psychonauts which almost had me screaming in frustration - wait, scratch the almost - I'm pretty sure I did scream at least once).

The Original Alice hasn't been spruced up much, and seems easier (I'm playing on Normal).  I'm not sure if this has to do with using a gamepad instead of mouse+keyboard (I traditionally turn with the mouse and strafe with buttons, which probably wasn't the best setup for this game, as I'd get the camera turned around 10 years ago playing on PC.  It may also be that I played the Original on Hard, or something (it's been awhile).  The engine looks to be the same Quake engine, with the same textures, etc, but it does run in widescreen on my 1080i plasma.  The cutscenes are letterboxed (some zoomed in, clipping the tops of some heads), while the intro is 4:3.  I'm enjoying going through it again - I just love the atmosphere the music lends.  I've gotten past the 1st boss battle (The Duchess), and it was a lot easier than I remember it on PC, but it's probably a lot easier to throw Jack in the Boxes with the gamepad than when I was trying it on the PC.

The "View all unread topics" button for me just returns no results. The weird thing is that sometimes it works and shows results and other times (like just now after not visiting the site in 12 hours or so), I get nothing.

this is my biggest complaint right now...feature that i used all the time as an effecient way to catch up on the forums doesn't give me any results most of the time.  instead of getting an organized list of all the topics with new posts, i currently have to go into each subforum individually and it takes a lot more time to skim for new stuff.  it's strange that it does work correctly once in a while, but it's faulty most of the time.

Just in case it helps: the "View all unread topics" button seems to always work correctly with on my IPod. It's only when browsing with my computer (using Firefox 3.6) that I experience the problem.

it's still very hit or miss for me...works one time, but fails the next (with Chrome on my desktop, and Firefox on my laptop).

I've also noticed that it seems to happen when I've been away from the forums for awhile. For example, it seems to always happen the first time I check the forums in the morning. Maybe it has something to do with how the date or time is registering?

Have you tried clearing your cache?

I just came to post about this. What seems to happen for me is that the first time I hit the link it works, but if I hit it again it shows me (I think) just the posts that have been made since the last time I clicked the link. So, first click = 30 topics, second click = 2 topics. I'm not sure if that's exactly what's happening, but it might be.

Curiously enough, my bookmark to www.gamingtrend.com/forums... seems to be working correctly  (black day theme), but the link to gamingtrend.com/forums... is the one exhibiting the strange behavior.

Finished off Halo: ODST

Which most of us fast forward through when the show airs. 

This is such a gray area.  He made a good faith effort to record them on his personal device and was let down by a failure of his equipment.  He then wants to watch the episodes in a fairly timely manner after he discovers the issue, but not timely enough for the network's arbitrary decision.  It's not like he's trying to compile an archive of all the episodes so he can watch them later to avoid having to purchase the DVDs.

And remember, torrents are not inherently dishonest.  It's a tool like any other that can be used for good or ill.  But as this forum is not owned by me, the rules of the owners would stand as to what is an approprate discussion.

Rhetorical question:

Would you be ok with breaking into the bar of a catering company from a wedding you were at with an open bar in order to get a beer after the catering company shut down for the night?  You grabbed a six-pack before they shut down, but you spilled one all over the place and wanted to replace it.  Or would that be theft?  Realizing that open bars are paid for by the hour...

Pre-Ordered for the 360 on Amazon today.  Pre-orders come with Chris Vrenna's soundtrack (code to download) for the new one.  Awesome that he's back on board - his music added so much to the first one...

Any chance you can edit the OP, so that people aren't thinking those are on sale?  Just add the date, etc.

Down again? Or is it just me?

Dave

Down again from here

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Don't forget the used $15 Activation codes for Gamefly, etc:

but used game buyers will miss out on special guns, game types, and other perks to be added later. To get these features with a used copy of the game, you’ll have to buy a $15 activation code.

Sony’s spinning this bundle of features, dubbed “SOCOM Pro,” as an enhancement for new game buyers, rather than a drawback for used copies. It’s semantics, sure, but it’s also the direction in which these used game restrictions should be going.

Up again

TurboTax Premiere
TurboTax Business

I have to get these two off of my backlog before I can get to any other games.  I expect that I might get some Dawn of War 2 in though...

Wait a minute - "Ms. Duncan"? Mind. Blown.

You obviously didn't see the photos of his(?) new Jeep... 

I think my biggest problem with the Republican approach to health care is that the past 20 years has proven that free market mechanisms cannot control health care costs, and instead lead to an ever increasing rate of increase.  Obamacare isn't serious about addressing that either, but it lays the framework for a future that can address it.

I tend to agree about your first point in that goes back to what I believe is the single most damaging factor to Republicans......greed.

Unfortunately NObamacare will not snuff it out either.

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It does lay the a framework though (which is more than the Ryan plan does):

The Affordable Care Act’s central hope is that Medicare can lead the health-care system to pay for value, cut down on overtreatment, and cut out treatments that simply don’t work. The law develops Accountable Care Organizations, in which Medicare pays one provider to coordinate all of your care successfully, rather than paying many doctors and providers to add to your care no matter the cost or outcome, as is the current practice. It also begins experimenting with bundled payments, in which Medicare pays one lump-sum for all care related to the successful treatment of a condition rather than paying for every piece of care separately. To help these reforms succeed, and to help all doctors make more cost-effective treatment decisions, the law accelerates research on which drugs an...

...If those initiatives work, they head over to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which can implement cost-controlling reforms across Medicare without congressional approval — an effort to make continuous reform the default for Medicare, even if Congress is gridlocked or focused on other matters. And if they don’t work, then it’s up to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, a funded body that will be continually testing payment and practice reforms, to keep searching and experimenting, and when it hits on successful ideas, handing them to the IPAB to implement throughout the system.

The law also goes after bad and wasted care: It cuts payments to hospitals with high rates of re-admission, as that tends to signal care isn’t being delivered well, or isn’t being follow up on effectively. It cuts payments to hospitals for care related to infections caught in the hospitals.

Deja vu all over again...

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I think my biggest problem with the Republican approach to health care is that the past 20 years has proven that free market mechanisms cannot control health care costs, and instead lead to an ever increasing rate of increase.  Obamacare isn't serious about addressing that either, but it lays the framework for a future that can address it.

What do you play, Shooters or Strategy?

Shooters - get the better videocard.  Strategy - get the processor boost (better/quicker AI).

It's just a web forum.  People are allowed to post any uninformed, uneducated or wrong facts or opinions they like.  

I lol'd

Meh.  Time Bandits could have been a lot better, and since it would go to fund a Terry Gilliam project, great!

I'd seen it on ars about a week or so ago.

Razgon the Zombie Layer.

It's not necrophilia if they can still move...

As to Jackson herself, IMO she was about the biggest loser that was ever allowed on the SNL set.

Oh come on. She was cute and stupid and she had big knockers. What's not to love?

obviously, her mouth

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No one has yet mentioned how annoying her voice was.  That squeak sent the bad kind of chills down my back.  Listening to her was like nails scratching a blackboard, only worse.

Well, and you learn something new everyday (thanks for posting that article), which is that the "In God We Trust" motto came out of the same 1950's Red Scare mentality that put "under god" in the pledge (which I did know about). Which makes me even more angry about this.

Yup, but it does kind of go with the New McCarthyism meme, just Radical Muslims instead of Communists (though the damn pinko commie bastards are still working to bring down America).

Also, if you use the Windows RSAT tools (Remote Server Admin), they won't install once SP1 is installed, so install RSAT first, then apply SP1.

[Spoiler]

Yeah, I think you're thinking of K-Pax, Pyper.

Nope,

Spoiler for Hiden:

the kid gets killed by the bullies when he tries to help defend one of his 3 pay it forwards...

First of all, the cameraman was able to pull aside the taller kid. I think this is staged.

Secondly, there are other kids around there. The answer to bullying is to teach ALL of the kids to stand up to bullies. Without an accepting audience, bullying is hollow and will end up isolating the behaviour.

Ever see Pay it Forward?

Remember the end?

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Nothing like gutting your public education system by effectively making teaching a last resort job choice.  Eventually, failure won't be an option in Ohio...because no one will know how to spell it.

Did you see this paean by a teacher in Oregon?

I don't want to be a teacher anymore

Put me in the 'loved the first one" camp.  The gameplay trailers look really pixelated and low-poly/low-res though.  I hope this is from a system that's been dumbed down pre-optimization.  Otherwise it looks like the same Quake engine.

Have you tried amazon uk?

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Todays the day. Catch you all on the flip side.

I hope it goes well.

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Wait, did Zeke just say he wants the States to make a profit and he'd be ok with unions?  Was that the argument?

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woohoo!  June 14th release!

Seriously?  Sweet.

(linky?)

I'm not entirely sure consolidating 2100 "Data Centers" would be wise.  Especially military ones.  Which is $200 billion (over 10 years) per the articles.  It wouldn't be cheap, either (witness Homeland Security's attempt at just making them talk).

When the report says there are centers only using 5% of capacity that is just insane.

Servers, not Data Centers.  Big difference.

I'm not entirely sure consolidating 2100 "Data Centers" would be wise.  Especially military ones.  Which is $200 billion (over 10 years) per the articles.  It wouldn't be cheap, either (witness Homeland Security's attempt at just making them talk).

some rights. let's not exaggerate here. it's not like thousands of people will suddenly be standing in food lines if some of the union stranglehold is broken up.

and I could argue if many of these workers really are middle-class.

You could try to argue it, but without any supporting data. Here's the data on Wisconsin teachers:

Teachers in Wisconsin fare slightly worse than the national average with starting salaries of $32,642 and a maximum with a master's degree of $60,036.

 

and that's not even a pro-union article.

Or you can search here and find that there is at most 1 public education union employee making more than 100k/year (which is not upper class, though upper middle class is a possibility).  Everyone but 1 making more than 100k is a Director or Administrator, and thus most likely not a union employee.

there is far more to it then just wages, pensions, heath care plans and everything else figure into total compensation.   Public employees in general have far better benefits then private sector employees.

So you think that makes them upper class????  Once again, reality check.  Health care and a $2000/month pension doesn't make you upper class.

some rights. let's not exaggerate here. it's not like thousands of people will suddenly be standing in food lines if some of the union stranglehold is broken up.

and I could argue if many of these workers really are middle-class.

You could try to argue it, but without any supporting data. Here's the data on Wisconsin teachers:

Teachers in Wisconsin fare slightly worse than the national average with starting salaries of $32,642 and a maximum with a master's degree of $60,036.

 

and that's not even a pro-union article.

Or you can search here and find that there is at most 1 public education union employee making more than 100k/year (which is not upper class, though upper middle class is a possibility).  Everyone but 1 making more than 100k is a Director or Administrator, and thus most likely not a union employee.

I wish I watched this regularly... will definitely netflix season 6 when it's out. I did catch it this week, lots of fun

I'd have to say that this has been a very disappointing season so far.  I am still 3 or 4 episodes behind tho.  I rather think that as they made Sam darker they lost the sense of humor that made the show worth watching.  I guess I'll have to catch up.


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The other thing is that flash drives have a finite life, and that is in part based on how many times it is written to, so (at least per my understanding), using it as RAM would tend towards lots of the kinds of writes that would shorten the viable lifespan of a flash drive.

So not only can you not show any sign of fairness, you continue to be even more closed-minded?  

And Republicans are the ones being narrow-minded and un-bending?

Damn, dude.

So, Scott Walker isn't being narrow-minded and un-bending?

NPR broadcast an interview they recently had with Walker and I got to hear it on my way into work this morning.

He didn't come off well.  When pressed on his time in the Bush administration and his support for tax cuts without equal cost cutting, he kept trying to blame the Clinton administration...the defacto method of defense when you don't have an answer that makes you look good, I've come to believe.  At least offer some insight on why instead of  just "it was their fault!" 

That being said, the dems running away and hiding also annoys me.  It needs to be nipped in the bud before it becomes the standard response to not getting your way.  Shutting down the system because you don't like where it's heading is just a temporary fix, imho.  Fight...and if you can't win immediately, don't give up.  Regroup and come back harder tomorrow.

FWIW hepcat, here are the links investigating Walker's claim that he campaigned on eliminating collective bargaining rights for public sector unions (as I don't think I've seen them in this thread):

Andrew Sullivan's initial investigation

PolitiFact's conclusion that Sullivan had it right and that Walker never said publicly in any campaign speech or published material that he would do anything but cut pay and benefits.:

Future livelihood? LOL!

I think what you meant to say was it might just knock them down a little to where everyone else is. Right?

And what's this I hear today......Obama has a personal trainer that needs flown in from somewhere? WTF is that?
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/28/obamas-fly-personal-trainer-dc-every-week

Ya, I can see where we all just need to pay higher taxes so this douchebag can do something like this.

Brett and I put a fairness hey-maybe-both-sides-pretty-much-suck branch out there, but some of you still just continue to point fingers and blame. So i guess that's what we'll continue to do here, huh?

 

Was I addressing your post(s)?  Does this effect a lot of wisconsonian's livelihood?  Yes.  Are 90% of them democratic?  Yes.

What does Obama's trainer have to do with this at all?  Oh yeah, taxes for health care (preventative in this case), because the people of the United States don't have a vested interest in their president being healthy enough to do the job.  It's not like he gets personal time to go to the gym on his own time.  god help him if he actually dares to sleep or eat.

You know what - your dime is also going to pay for the time it takes him to take a dump.  Suck it up.

So not only can you not show any sign of fairness, you continue to be even more closed-minded?  

And Republicans are the ones being narrow-minded and un-bending?

Damn, dude.

So, Scott Walker isn't being narrow-minded and un-bending?

NPR broadcast an interview they recently had with Walker and I got to hear it on my way into work this morning.

He didn't come off well.  When pressed on his time in the Bush administration and his support for tax cuts without equal cost cutting, he kept trying to blame the Clinton administration...the defacto method of defense when you don't have an answer that makes you look good, I've come to believe.  At least offer some insight on why instead of  just "it was their fault!" 

That being said, the dems running away and hiding also annoys me.  It needs to be nipped in the bud before it becomes the standard response to not getting your way.  Shutting down the system because you don't like where it's heading is just a temporary fix, imho.  Fight...and if you can't win immediately, don't give up.  Regroup and come back harder tomorrow.

FWIW, it's been pretty well documented that Walker did not campaign on ending collective bargaining rights, only reducing compensation (including health and retirement benefits - which the unions have agreed to).  This isn't a response to "not getting your way", this is a response to a bait and switch threatening the future livelihood of a lot of wisconsonians.