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pokoko on 21 August 2012
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Psyberius said:
pokoko said:
Psyberius said:
Slimebeast said:

Was it really Jim Sterling who wrote that article? Isn't he supposed to be a quality gaming journalist?

So cheap with all that foul language and grotesque metaphors. Such a primitive and juvenile attempt at sarcasm.


SEN-SA-TIVE.

 

It rooled thnx?  If u canut handle teh humors perhaps u shuld not read de humorz.  kthnx.

pokoko said:


I think you missed where that one guy started all of this by presenting "XBLA > every online-game-service on the market" as a fact, despite being told many times that "best" is a relative thing.

For example, when he asserted that LIVE having "more and better apps" was one of the reasons why it's worth the cost.  My desktop computer is ten steps away from my bed and my laptop is always hooked up to my television.  A gaming console having apps is one of the most meaningless things in the world to me.  That guy is never going to get that value is a relative thing.  If you're going to call out anyone for preaching that one service is absolutely superior, shouldn't he be one of your primary targets?

Yes, tell that to netflix that rocks about 2 kajillion xbox owners on any tv in their house.  Didn't computer purist thinking go out with y2k?

I literally have no idea what you're talking about and you seem to have no idea what I'm talking about.  Computer purist?  Wha ..?  Seriously, what are you talking about?

 

Computer purist meaning someone who thinks his computer is going to do it all or even NECESSARY to do it all.  I used to be the same way as you are until I opened up my mind to see how much I was constricting my choices.  Netflix on the xbox is a MASSIVE success because it's simple, takes advantage of existing hardware and doesn't require plugging a pc into whatever tv you have in the house.  The point?  The apps on XBL rock for many many many people.

Now that I have an xbox at every tv(5), a kickass media center with 8 tb of movies/music and netfix, i'm no longer wandering around my house with a laptop to plug into a tv in order to watch or listen to something.  Perhaps you only have 1 tv and a small house but between streaming to xboxes and having a ps3/wii set up in my games room, I really find less and less time needing a pc at all other than to download more movies and music to stream to the xboxes.  Best of all, my gf, myself and my 2 kids can all be watching or doing something different and it doesn't involve someone wasting time screwing around with a keyboard.

 

See, I don't even know what you're talking about again.  Are you mixing up conversations?  A small house?  Where did you even get that from?  Perhaps 3 bedrooms is small, but damn if I care, it's bought and paid for.  Why are you making up things about someone else's life, anyway?  It's creepy, and it gives me a headache trying to understand why you would do it in the first place.

You want five xbox 360s?  Go ahead, knock yourself out.  Good for you.  It has nothing to do with me, though, you know?  You have billions of movies?  Awesome.  Me, I've got three computers in three different rooms, one of which is always hooked up to a television.  The other television is hooked up to a set-top box which I rarely use.  Why the hell we're sharing this information, though, I have no idea.  I also have 2 cars, 3 house plants, and a picture of Audrey Hepburn.

 If you think hooking a PC up to a TV is some kind of major, difficult undertaking, then I don't know what to tell you.  Stick with using consoles, that's fine with me.  All I'm saying is that I PERSONALLY prefer using a computer to using consoles or set-top boxes when it comes to the internet.  I PERSONALLY find it faster and more convenient.  Do you see, now?  That's what I like, and I have every bit as much right to like that as you do with all your gaming consoles.  Computer purist?  OK, if you want to call it that.  Wouldn't that make you a console purist, then?

My entire point was that the value of all the apps and extras that come on a console is relative.  I don't need them and wouldn't care if they vanished tomorrow.  I buy gaming consoles to play games on.   "It has better and more apps," to me, is a meaningless criteria, and assuming absolute value is foolish.  What is "best" depends on the person using it.

I never thought I would have to explain this so carefully when I first wrote it.  It seemed like a pretty obvious position.  Live and learn, I suppose.