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rafimama:

shortformblog:

wired:

We got an EXCLUUUUUSIVE first-hand look at the brand-spakin’-new Xbox One.
GO CHECK IT OUTTTTTTTT.



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… [E]ven multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.

Welcome to 2002. Battlefield 1942 could host 64 players on one map (if I wanted to be really snarky, I would pull out Gemstone III or Neverwinter Nights or UO or Meridian 59). 
I’ll admit, the entertainment system / streaming aspects look intriguing. But not enough that I’d shell out paper on this thing. 
Overall, though, I’m very underwhelmed. It has the horsepower of a middle-of-the-road gaming PC, and all the vendor-lockin you’d ever want.
I’ll stick to playing fun games on Steam Big Picture, rather than shelling out $80 for a not-so-fun-but-cost-orders-of-magnitude-more-to-develop game on this hunk of dissapoint.

rafimama:

shortformblog:

wired:

We got an EXCLUUUUUSIVE first-hand look at the brand-spakin’-new Xbox One.

GO CHECK IT OUTTTTTTTT.

(deleted some interim comments to not give too big a wall of text)

… [E]ven multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.

Welcome to 2002. Battlefield 1942 could host 64 players on one map (if I wanted to be really snarky, I would pull out Gemstone III or Neverwinter Nights or UO or Meridian 59). 

I’ll admit, the entertainment system / streaming aspects look intriguing. But not enough that I’d shell out paper on this thing. 

Overall, though, I’m very underwhelmed. It has the horsepower of a middle-of-the-road gaming PC, and all the vendor-lockin you’d ever want.

I’ll stick to playing fun games on Steam Big Picture, rather than shelling out $80 for a not-so-fun-but-cost-orders-of-magnitude-more-to-develop game on this hunk of dissapoint.

(Source: Wired)

17threasonforfallingoutofthesky:

itsvondell:

johnthedragon:

d-dinosaur:

Look at this cute fucking thing.

I want twenty of them.

OMFG BABY

oh wow that’s SO cool i’ve never seen one of these before

THAT. THAT RIGHT THERE…IS A PREYING MANTIS AND A HORNET HYBRID.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! IT WILL STING YOU, MATE WITH YOU, THEN EAT YOUR HEAD.

AUGH. SCIENCE YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR.

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

Exclamation: Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square

yahoo:

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By Jackie Reses, Chief Development Officer

I am so pleased to share that our New York City-based Yahoo! team will soon move into an incredible, four-story space just around the corner from Times Square. It’s thrilling for us – and really an important sign of the new direction of Yahoo! –…

You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.

When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

Priceless.

(via lauraemily)

(Source: bostonreview, via spytap)