Because developing for it isn't worth it.  The thing isn't selling and handheld gaming has moved to the iPad and iPhone.

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Prince of Persia is a lot of fun.

Fable has sex and sexually transmitted diseases, fwiw.

If Psychonauts is still available and supported that was great.

I'll also echo Kameo.

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A little more info:

Two conservative nonprofits, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together, new spending estimates show... Conservative social-welfare nonprofits have spent about $70 million on TV ads in the election cycle so far, compared to just $1.6 million by liberal groups, CMAG data shows.

I picked up Doom 3 during the steam sale.  Pretty much only to play the Dark Project (thief-esque mod)... Haven't loaded it up yet though.

8-3

I can't believe that I just pulled the trigger on this (it's still .99)

You gotta go with the proven winners. Every president since Nixon has called for energy independence.

It's not the specifics that matter, it's having five simple bumper-sticker points that everybody agrees with.

He is generic Republican.  There is nothing different from the Bush agenda there.

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The Harry Potter series is not only a favorite film collection, but a true achievement in the translation from text to big screen.

I'm one of the few people I know that never read the Harry Potter books. Seemingly all of my friends have read the series and are huge fans. Due to the sheer number of my friends who read the series, I always found myself going to the Harry Potter movies (sometimes even midnight premieres). And I have to say that the movies do almost nothing for me. It's one of those odd things where I can see why people would love it, but I just can't get excited about it. I don't know if that's because I never read the books, or if Harry Potter is just one of those things that's massively popular that I just don't "get".

No, the movies are very disjointed.  There are maybe 2 good ones, and the rest are extremely mediocre.  There just is not a good way to get enough necessary material into a movie and have it be a decent length and coherent to someone who hasn't read the books.  It really needed/needs to be a series, with probably one season per book, with the first few being shorter seasons, if the tale is ever to be done true justice.

PS  Go read the first book.  It's quick and good. 

Saw this onImgur and couldn't resist

Is it just me, or is everyone in that photo overweight?  OK, everyone but the adolescents...

Saw this onImgur and couldn't resist

Why would you assume all those people are Christians?

Christians are vociferously opposed to gay rights and statistically very likely to self-identify as Conservative.  This controversy, including "Chick-fil-a Appreciation Day," has been heavily promoted through Conservative channels like Fox News and a battery of national talk radio shows.

But it's always possible there's, like, one guy who only listens to Top 40 stations and is quietly wondering why the line for his daily lunch stop was suddenly ninety minutes long.  That's why the caption doesn't read, "You'd never see a photo showing no one except independently verified Christians lined up...."

The few news stories I read on it showed people coming out in support of "free speech" with no mention of religion in it.

Yes, and the people who still hammer the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate and suspect him of secret Muslim affiliations are very good about never mentioning race.  We can still see the dog whistles.

-Autistic Angel

Evangelical Christians.  Some other sects actually support gay rights and marriage.

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Because Romney's tax platform is to cut his own taxes.  If he hasn't had any income tax due/hasn't owed anything it says a lot about why more tax cuts for the wealthy aren't needed.

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The owner said nothing bigoted, but rather that he supported a biblical definition of marriage.

Gay hatemongers twist his words and lie like they often do (see NC marriage ammendment)  and cause a firestorm.

Liberal politicians citing their amazing tolerance are completely intolerant about a company with different views and that has no history of discriminating against anyone.  Irony is lost on them. So is the 1st ammendment.  Yay facism!

How many openly gay franchise owners are there?

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And its official.  The Hobbit is now a trilogy according to PJ.

http://blastr.com/2012/07/confirmed-peter-jacksons.php

I think I've decided to skip this.  At least until video.

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As a title, I think that would be a winner.

Movie is called Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name.

Cloud Atlas is going to be really difficult to do justice to as a film.

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Bond, James Bond.  Hands down.  The series is now 50 years old.  Then probably Star Wars 4-6, the rest never happened.  Die Hard and Lethal Weapon are two other series that kept the flame bright.  The Godfather would probably win if there hadn't been a third.

I'm going to say that LotR doesn't weather well for me.  I really can't bear re-watching it much.  There really isn't a good villain, and there's no love interest.  Sauron doesn't have any lines, and doesn't act, Saruman is ok, but is essentially a bit part.  The Nazghul and the Balrog are cool, but really don't matter much.  The themes are kind of blah.

But Bond, Bond runs the gamut.  You've got great villains, love interests, humor, the best stunts and the epitome of cool.  You've got sword fights, gun fights, laser fights.  Car chases, ski chases, underwater missiles, etc. You've got Jaws, Oddjob and Agent Triple X.  Bond defines multiple genres.

I will also throw an honorable mention towards The Naked Gun series.  Agent Frank Drebin remained funny despite how dreadful most comedy sequels are.

it's a 4-1 margin:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/30/13034655-top-ceos-donate-to-romney-over-obama-by-4-1-margin?chromedomain=nbcpolitics

The chief executives of America’s top corporations have thrown their financial support to Mitt Romney over President Obama by more than a 4-1 margin, according to a review of federal records conducted by NBC News.

The presumptive Republican nominee’s presidential campaign has received almost $322,000 in direct donations from the CEOs of the companies listed on the annual “Fortune 500” list of the biggest U.S. companies.

By comparison, the Obama campaign has raked in $75,500 in contributions this election cycle from CEOs of the companies included on the list, according to records through the second quarter of 2012 on file with the Federal Election Commission.

While the sums are but a drop in the bucket relative to the hundreds of millions of dollars raised by both campaigns, they paint a picture of where the upper echelons of corporate America’s sympathies might lie at this point in the campaign. Overall, the Obama campaign has raised about $300 million in total, and the Romney campaign has collected roughly $153 million.

Federal records indicate that 147 CEOs have made some level of contribution directly to either the Obama or Romney campaign. Eighteen of those individuals contributed to Obama; 129 gave to the Romney campaign. Many of the CEOs – though not all of them – donated the maximum $5,000 to their candidate of choice, hewing to laws limiting contributions to $2,500 each for the primary and general election campaigns.

"People who support Mitt Romney do so because they support his pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda for the country," Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said. A spokesman for the Obama campaign declined to comment for this story.

let the Obama spin machine begin!  I can see it now:  'Romney: Bought and Paid for by Corporate America' without mentioning how little it is in the grand scheme of things.  kinda surprised to see funds raised being so different though; I was under the impression that Romney was doing better than Obama.

That's because all the Romney money is going to the SuperPacs where the real power brokers can hide and avoid the spotlight.  Approximately the same balance as the CEOs (roughly 4-1) is seen on the Super Pac money:

As of July 31, 2012, 698 groups organized as Super PACs have reported total receipts of $318,769,081 and total independent expenditures of $165,567,116 in the 2012 cycle.

80% of that money comes from less than 200 people:

80 percent of super PAC money spent in the presidential election so far has come from just 196 Americans. As Upworthy points out, that's less than the capacity of a single Boeing 767....

...Whispers checked in with the Center for Public Integrity to look at the top five of those 196 donors. And, surprise surprise, as of the June FEC filing, 4 of the top 5 biggest super PAC donors support Republican candidates.

If Romney does win (and I'd say right now he's got a 40-50% shot), it will say a lot about whether we have an oligarchy or a democracy.  Not spin, just the facts.

Here it is:

Doom 3 (for the Dark Mod)   $11.99
Demigod 4-Pack   (sing out if you want a copy) $9.99
Dear Esther   $2.49
Trine Bundle (Summer 2012)   $4.99
The Witcher 2   $15.99
Tribes: Ascend - Steam Starter Pack   $4.99
SpaceChem, SpaceChem: 63 Corvi mission   $2.98
Total:   $53.42

Not bad, though the only games I've played  have been Demigod and SpaceChem, though just like the Christmas Sale finally got me to play Portal 1 (which had sat in my games list for months, if not over a year), I finally got back to the first Witcher. 

SpaceChem
Demigod
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
The Witcher
Maybe some Team Fortress 2

Basically getting some steam lovin' in

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Techbargains usually has really good deals, as well as any coupon codes (including stackable ones), usually from Dell.  At least take a look around.

I'd say iPad with bluetooth keyboard and airprint photo printer (and Cox + WiFi setup).

Don't get a touchscreen PC.  Try using one for 10 minutes, and you'll find that the touchscreen is an ergonomic nightmare because it has to be in arm's reach to be worth it.

500 GB ssd drives can be found under $390 at both Amazon and newegg.  Think about going aftermarket there.

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Make sure you get your student discount on the office software.  I'd recommend contacting the student store to see what deals they have on software.

Sign up for your free year of Amazon prime once you get your student email.

Consider getting the dvd/cd as an external to be kept at home. 

Spring for a large ssd, spinning hard drives eat batteries and take longer to boot.

Max out your RAM, or make sure you have an available memory slot to do so.

Make sure you have back up capability and do so!

I love my m11x for its portability and battery life.  Dell has discontinued them, but you might be able to find one and it has some power.

Get a good laptop backpack.

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Hey CeeKay - can you update the OP with the Gamestop info?

Thanks!

PS Bioshock 2 won with 34% of the vote to Metro 2033's 35%... FWIW (on my Steam)

I think the likelihood of the PS4 being more successful than mobile devices streaming games to your tv is getting slim. 

I hope all is going great.  Best wishes to you both.

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I think his plan is to have the Republican House on his side...

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Sins of a Solar empire: Rebellion

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I always start with most recent topics regardless of sub forum

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it's basically generic Republican vs Conservative incumbent black Democrat.

Romney is bland. Obama is not, but the whole republican premise for for years has been anyone/anything but Obama.

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He's a lot more likely to stick around developing for the business model he's taking about tho, than developing for the $60 disc market.  The $60 disc market is already shrinking.

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Awesome news Ken!  This is great news!  Update the title of the thread to share the news...

Worldnetdaily + Arpaio is pretty much the definition of scraping the bottom of the barrel.  All you need to add is some Orly Taitz and you'll have hit the batshit crazy trifecta.

Yeah - broken here too.

Looks like they changed the Prince of Persia to the Prince of Persia: the Forgotten Sands.

I don't have that one, though some people are peeved about the change in the comments.  Any good?

Their current forms will go extinct. However, it won't be the PC that will take over, it will be the more closed platforms that take over like iOS, including various boxes meant to stream in internet, and also play games.

We'll have this upcoming generation, then a very small chance of a generation after that.

100% correct.  There will be enough computing power in the phone and TV to eliminate the console.

Looks like some good deals on some older titles.  Maybe MS is getting some Steam competition going...  Prince of Persia is a Steal at $4, and Kameo was fun too.  Viva Pinata Party Animals and others could be good too...  Hit the link for the list.

You can try some of the Custom ROMs here:

* Please note that software labeled for GSM and software labeled for CDMA will ONLY work with their respective phone-types.
* Verizon RAZR and RAZR MAXX use the same software/ROMs and are both CDMA.

I  know that rooting/flashing Motorola Android phones can be tricky (though I've never had one), but in my experience, I've had better luck with the ROMs from xda on my phone than from the manufacturer.

Saw some interviews where the Devils had shaved their playoff beards.  What up? I thought tradition was that the beards stayed until the season was over

[complete absence of any legitimate problem.]

pr0ner, the proof is that the long, ever growing list of ways Republicans are dreaming up to make voting harder, more expensive, and less representative is being in enacted in the complete absence of any legitimate problem.  Every single independent study done on the issue of electoral fraud, including ones commissioned by true believers on the Right, has demonstrated that the "problem" is statistically nonexistent.

And these laws are a solution searching for a problem. Conservatives have long bemoaned the menace of voter impersonation, but the evidence for this threat is nonexistent. George W. Bush's Justice Department spent years ferreting out voter fraud and managed to prosecute not one voter for impersonating another. "Out of the 300 million votes cast [between 2002 and 2007] federal prosecutors convicted only 86 people for voter fraud," Rolling Stone reported. A 2007 study by the Brennan Center found the instances of voter fraud to be literally infinitesimal. "You're more likely to get killed by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud," says the Brennan Center's Michael Waldman. Which only makes sense: That thousands of people are casting illegal votes in others' names while evading determined detection (always managing to choose people who weren't going to vote anyway) doesn't pass the smell test.

When the stated goal of this legislative pattern is to prevent a crime that no one is committing, you start looking for other reasons why Republicans might benefit from laws that disproportionately discourage the poor, the sick, the elderly, college students, and ethnic minorities from casting votes.  You don't have to look very hard.

-Autistic Angel

In other words, there have probably been more laws introduced to address this alleged problem than there have been of confirmed incidences of it, to say nothing of all the noise being drummed up about it.

And amazingly enough, every one of those proposed laws manages to make it more difficult for citizens who would demographically tend to vote D to vote. 

Or maybe not so amazing, as they are all pretty much based on model legislation written by ALEC to do exactly that - reduce the effectiveness of democratic get out the vote efforts.

Staples sounded amazing those last few minutes.  Wow!

I've been hoping to get some Sins of a Solar Empire in, but I've only been playing Diablo 3.  I think I just want to see how the story ends (just finished Act 3 last night).

Finished D3, and finally got back to my SoaSe game last night at 11.  4.5 hours later I had conquered the star system (first win in a game with a medium ai) and was wondering wtf I was doing that for on a school night...