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[Zangi]

Guaranteed income 'now' is probably better then maybe income 'later'.  Might be a school of thought.

Though, they also have to put in the development time for the other platform, which is an expense.  Getting paid to not spend time/money developing for an extra platform seems tasty.

[Rolan7]

I guess it works, because I've often been tempted to buy an xbox 360 for the exclusives.  Red Dead Redemption, Halo 3, Halo with fricken co-op not flipping *disabled* for no reason...
Yeah every time I think about it I decide it's not worth supporting the practice.  Besides, I have a Steam backlog.

Edit: And recently my brother and I found an original xbox and played some Halo 1 co-op finally.  And it looked and played like complete ass!

[Calidovi]

I guess it works, because I've often been tempted to buy an xbox 360 for the exclusives.  Red Dead Redemption, Halo 3, Halo with fricken co-op not flipping *disabled* for no reason...
Yeah every time I think about it I decide it's not worth supporting the practice.  Besides, I have a Steam backlog.

Edit: And recently my brother and I found an original xbox and played some Halo 1 co-op finally.  And it looked and played like complete ass!

just becus its old dosnt mean its bad like the beetles are oldies but goodies its a shame that no one in my generation can appreciate these things im the true defener

[Rolan7]

I'm not sure I got the joke but I do love the Beetles
My point was that Halo 1 looks a lot better on PC, but they don't allow co-op on the PC version.  Splitscreen or otherwise.  They wanted people to buy their console.  Then when they finally released Halo 2 for PC they required Vista, because they wanted people to buy their operating system.

These are understandable strategies, but I want to moneyvote against them as much as possible.  A less capitalist person would probably call them evil.

also my tiny hands suck at xbox controllers so I'm awful at halo on xbox, sue me

[Calidovi]

I'm not sure I got the joke but I do love the Beetles
My point was that Halo 1 looks a lot better on PC, but they don't allow co-op on the PC version.  Splitscreen or otherwise.  They wanted people to buy their console.  Then when they finally released Halo 2 for PC they required Vista, because they wanted people to buy their operating system.

These are understandable strategies, but I want to moneyvote against them as much as possible.  A less capitalist person would probably call them evil.

also my tiny hands suck at xbox controllers so I'm awful at halo on xbox, sue me

Moneymaking tactics may be disgusting, but they make money.

Also controllers in general are poorly designed for most games other than fighters.

[Aklyon]

PS2 controller was pretty alright though.

[Calidovi]

PS2 controller was pretty alright though.

It may be alright, it's just that I'm conditioned to the preciseness of a mouse. Controllers feel bulky in comparison.

[miauw62]

Dualshocks are life

[Rolan7]

I did well with the PS2 controller, even did decently at Half Life, Oni, SW Battlefront 2, and other "precision" shooters.  They did program around the controller a lot of course.  I'm sure I would do okay with the XBOX controller if I had more experience with it, and it was a little smaller.

Going from the Gamecube to the PS2 was a relief so I do think the controller size matters.  I'm glad Metroid Prime was practically all lock-on shooting.

[Bauglir]

You ever play with the Nintendo 64 controller? That thing was a beast. I always derived some amusement from being the only person I know who could grip the thing by the left and right prongs instead of having one hand on the central one. Giant hands yay

[Sirus]

You ever play with the Nintendo 64 controller? That thing was a beast. I always derived some amusement from being the only person I know who could grip the thing by the left and right prongs instead of having one hand on the central one. Giant hands yay

Oh hey, someone else was able to do that.

[Graknorke]

Guaranteed income 'now' is probably better then maybe income 'later'.  Might be a school of thought.

I think you're right. To stockholders, having all of the money you can have is better than having some of the money you could get later, even if the latter is more than the former.

[Arx]

>hard drive almost completely filled
>Windows automatically runs a disk cleanup
>apparently erases a bunch of temp files
>available disk space goes from forty-eight megabytes to thirty-five
>gj Windows

[LordSlowpoke]

>hard drive almost completely filled
>Windows automatically runs a disk cleanup
>apparently erases a bunch of temp files
>available disk space goes from forty-eight megabytes to thirty-five
>gj Windows

treesize is 5mb

download it and see where the junk is

then remove that junk from the premises

[Arx]

>hard drive almost completely filled
>Windows automatically runs a disk cleanup
>apparently erases a bunch of temp files
>available disk space goes from forty-eight megabytes to thirty-five
>gj Windows

treesize is 5mb

download it and see where the junk is

then remove that junk from the premises

I already have Treesize. I'll go full exterminatus on my hard drive this weekend (it's probably eighty percent junk) with it, Windows did this automatically. I remain baffled at how it reduces the available space by 'deleting' stuff.