no no no no no
no no no no no no no
no no no FUCK NO
OMG, you guys are acting like this is the very first time something like this has happened in the series.
*Hint: It isn’t.
Peter Cushing played The Doctor in two different movies (in 1965 and 1966) and Richard E. Grant voiced the Doctor in a failed 2003 animated series.*
Alright, if you’re a consumer and you’re considering picking up the new Xbox One console, then please, take a moment to listen to me. Before we begin, no, I am not a fanboy or a hater. I have no console Bias. I have a PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and a Gaming PC. Each has their pros and cons but now onto business.
DO NOT BUY AN XBOX ONE. Why? See the reasons below:
Xbox Requires an internet connection. Here’s how it works: Every 24 hours your Xbox will try to connect to Microsoft’s servers for verification. If it is unable to connect, sucks to be you. You’re blocked from playing even single player games until it can connect.
Source: http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-509164109
Do you like renting games, lending them to a friend, or even borrowing them from a friend? No longer possible. Every Xbox One game you get must be registered to your Xbox live account to be played. After that point it will only work for you. No one else can use it unless they pay a fee. Essentially it works like this. You pick up a used Xbox One game from somewhere or someone, pop it into your console. The system verifies it’s been registered to your account. Uh-oh, it isn’t! In order to play it, you have to pay Microsoft a fee, which is currently slated to be full retail price. Doesn’t matter how scratched up it is or how cheap you got it at gamestop or from a friend. You aren’t just buying the physical copies anymore. You’re paying Microsoft for a LICENSE to be allowed to play that game.
It is worth mentioning Microsoft is exploring ways for you to trade in and resell your used games. This is rumored to mean that you can sell your digital license to play the game (registration) back to microsoft, likely for microsoft points. You can then trade in the game at gamespot for some cash if you like. Either way, as it currently stands, the new owner would still have to pay a fee on top of the price of actually buying the physical copy.
Source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-fee-for-buying-used-games-full-retail-price/
Is it worth mentioning that Microsoft if shafting Indie Developers as well? Where as on Playstation Network or (whatever the Wii has) Indie Developers can self publish their content easily. Playstation even encourages this. Microsoft however forces these Indie Devs to enter publishing deals with them to be allowed to market their content. You don’t go through them, you don’t get to sell what you developed.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/indie-devs-cant-self-publish-on-xbox-one
I’m not quite done yet! Now, I’m sure you heard a lot about “TV TV TV TV SPORTS TV TV SPORTS SPORTS TV.” Yes, the Xbox is slated to be able to stream live tv, live sports, etc. So let me ask you this. You obviously already have something like cable or DirecTV. Do you really want to shell out hundreds of dollars more and pay a monthly subscription fee to have another television provider? Yes, I said hundreds of dollars, and I don’t mean the cost of the console. To view live TV from the Xbox you are required to purchase ANOTHER separate device for it to work. Why would you even consider shelling out more money for something you already have anyway? Even if you didn’t, DirecTV is cheaper. Or you could even subscribe you Hulu.com and watch live tv on your computer. FOR MUCH CHEAPER. You essentially have to buy another cable box if you don’t have one. And if you do… what do you need the Xbox One for?
Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-in-us-only-at-launch-requires-separate-device/
So far we’ve discovered that the Xbox One is not really a gaming console, at least… not a consumer friendly gaming console. It’s being marketed as an all-in-one home entertainment system. Something to replace all of the other devices in your house. But there are drawbacks even to that. Put on your tin foil hats for this part folks. Take from it what you will, all I’ll say is… possibilities…
The Xbox One’s features will not function unless the Kinect is plugged in and active. This is not an optional piece anymore.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached
So imagine your Kinect piece breaks? Tough luck, no more Xbox for you. But you know what’s worse?
Pay attention, because this is important. The Kinect is always watching. Always listening. Even when the system is off.
Yes. One of the ways to turn the system on is to audibly say: “Xbox On” while the system is off. The Kinect, which is always on, hears you and turns it on. Now this might seem like a cool feature, but did you know Microsoft patented a feature that would allow the Kinect’s camera (It’s no longer just a sensor, but a camera) to spy on you for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America?) While they may not actually do this, it is actually possible for them to do this now. It has a camera, and a microphone. The Kinect is always on. It is ALWAYS listening, ALWAYS watching.
An idea has been tossed around that by using this feature, it will allows game developers and movie produces to set a limited amount of how many people can be allowed to view the entertainment. So as a hypothetical example, you and three friends are watching a movie, which is the maximum allowed. A fourth friend enters the room and the Kinect’s sensor registers the fourth individual. The movie stops and you a prompted to pay a fee so that the extra individual may also view the film. Again, that is NOT currently the case, but these are the ideas currently being tossed around with the system’s current capabilities.
Source for listening: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352596/the-xbox-one-is-always-listening
Source of spying: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa
Now, just two more things and I’ll be done here!
This isn’t really a good or bad thing, but it’s annoying. It also explains how they can prevent you from playing a used game if you didn’t pay their fee. Xbox one no longer plays games off the discs, you HAVE to install them to the hard-drive in order to play them. I believe PS3 also has you do this (on a number of games but not always it seems), except that PS3 isn’t trying to Nickle and Dime you at every corner. It also seems according to this article there is something related to the Online portion at the beginning of this post. The option is there for Developers to require the Xbox to always be online to play their particular game. Well, it seems PC gamers and console gamers have one thing in common now… DRM.
(At least pirates on PC can bypass DRM easily. Not an option for Consoles.)
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs
And last but not least, another annoyance… Xbox One will not be compatible with any and all current headsets. Nope, companies will either have to make new headsets altogether specifically for the Xbox One, and they have to adhere to what Microsoft wants. Look forward to price gouging.
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-incompatible-with-current-gaming-headsets
Oh, one more thing… If you have an Xbox 360, don’t get rid of it. Why? Well if you want to keep playing your old 360 games you’ll need it. The Xbox One isn’t backwards compatible. At all. Not only that, but President of Microsoft’s Xbox Division Don Mattrick insults the very notion of backwards compatibility! He calls it: “Backwards thinking.”
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty
Source of insult: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355984/xbox-one-backward-compatibility-backwards-thinking-don-mattrick
That is all I have to say currently folks, and I hope you took the time to read this far. I’ll conclude with the following… please… PLEASE do not buy this console. Paying for this supports greedy and anti-consumer business practices. Speak with your wallet, and pass up the Xbox One. No matter what games it might have that you want, even if they are exclusive. Do the right thing and make a statement. Refuse to be nickle and dimed like this. Refuse to be seen as a mindless consumer who will buy anything tossed to them.
We won’t know much else until after E3, but as it stands now, the PS4 or a decent gaming PC is the best way to go.
If you are willing to do so, please spread this post around. Liking is not even remotely necessary, but do please share it if you agree with and acknowledge what you’ve read here. The more people know, the fewer of them waste their money.
Thank you, kindly.
~Dylan Jordan
(Originally posted on Facebook by one of my friends. He brings up many valid points. Mind you, I haven’t been a fan of Xbox in a long time and I will most likely get a PS4. But this confirms further for me that I won’t be getting an Xbox one any time in the foreseeable future.)
> How to destroy your company’s claim in gaming
This is seriously worse than the PS3 reveal. Worse than GIANT ENEMY CRAB.
screw you steven moffat
and not in the affectionate “MOFFAAAAAT” sense that your idiotic fandom says it
like legitimately screw you
your awful writing and stupid convoluted plots have put me off doctor who and made me avoid sherlock like the plague
“lets make sherlock an autistic sociopath played by benedict cumberpatch who falls off a building and lives!!!”
“lets give the doctor a wife who’s not only an unattractive old lady with a terrible hairstyle but is also the daughter of my ~TWO~ companions!!!!”
“LETS GIVE THE DOCTOR AMNESIA CUZ OF HIS TIME WAR FEELS AND INSERT THIS GUY IN AS 9th DOCTOR AND MOVE ALL THE DOCTORS UP AND CAUSE THE DOCTOR TO ANGST OVER HIS EVER SHORTENING LIFE BOOHOO”STOP
I BEG YOU TO STOP WRITING THIS UTTER CRAP YOU EGOTISTICAL JERKthis is why I dont want superwholock to happen, because it could work, but if moffat or someone inspired by him wrote the episode, it would be unbearable to watch, and it would literally just have a complete breakdown. On the other hand, if it was written by the writers of supernatural and the GOOD doctor who writers collaborating, I could possibly really enjoy it, in fact I really want it to happen!!
but moffat? screw him.
his writing is like a fanfiction, because it seems almost too crappy to be canon. bbc, please hire some fanfiction writers who would do much better jobs than him.
around this time last year people finally started taking notice of the food-related issues in the upper northern reaches of Canada; consider this your reminder that even since then, juice is still $26 in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, and that the predominately indigenous communities in Canada’s North are forced to pay extraordinarily exorbitant prices for basic groceries due to structural inequity and the contemporary effects of ongoing settler occupation.
For people that think there is no racism in Canada
^ Couldn’t it just be to transport products to Northern Canada it COSTS that much??? The market does not take into account ethnicity, it erases it.
white people are so conceited that you give them statistics, fact, evidence of racism
and they still find a way to imagine that they know better than everyone
un fucking believable
Yet more finger pointing coming from this blog.
Food costs more in Nunavut because of how much it costs to get it there. Not because of some white conspiracy to destroy the indigneous people that reside north of the Artic Circle.
While, yes, this food is outrageously expensive — there is no way to get the food there and have it cost what you and I would pay in a grocery store here in the States or even what they pay in the southern parts of Canada.
Infact, in Nunavut there is no roads or railways entering the town from the south, so goods have to be flown in daily. It has been noted that it costs around 1 cent per pound to send items to places like Winnipeg, whereas it can cost up to $3.00+ a pound to send food by air to places in Nunavut. Not to mention the issues that come from storing non-perishable foods when it’s cheaper to send them up during the warmer season of the year.
You’re a very angry person, and I’m sure that to get that angry you’ve been wronged at some point in your life — and I’m truly sorry for that. As I’m sure you know by now, racism will never go away if it keeps being perpetuated. That will never happen as long as you mix facts with feelings.
Racism is alive, no doubt about that, and it’s never going to go away when people turn blind eye to facts and just point fingers.
Wake up.
BOOM
I’ve always wanted to say that.
Bloomberg Business has an exciting new promotion: Parents are invited to use a ripoff someecard to tell their recent college graduate to move the fuck out. Bonus: 12 free issues of Bloomberg Businessweek! Because reading about business will make you better at finding a job.
I wanted to see what kind of life-changing career advice they were offering, and here’s one of the most popular videos from their front page: Why can’t McDonald’s serve Egg McMuffins all day? When you move out and buy a house and car and pay back your student loans early on your McDonald’s salary, you’ll have Bloomberg Businessweek to thank!!!
So do get it, recent grads? It’s your fault the economy is in the tank. Because you’re a drain on the economy for taking out college loans and being unable to find a job that pays above minimum wage after your graduate. Because you caused the housing bubble and the bank meltdowns. Because your generation are the ones in Congress letting Wall Street CEOs slide and not increasing the minimum wage and rewarding mega-corporations with tax writeoffs. Oh, wait, that was your parents! Tee hee. Move out, slacker!
This actually reminded me of one of my favorite Onion articles: Study finds college education leaves most graduates unprepared to carry entire American economic recovery
(Bonus points for anyone else who snickered that they abbreviate themselves to BBW)
This dude was happily taking pictures of girls legs, feet and whatever else he pleased without their consent. So I snapped my own pic and said “enjoy the internet motherfucker’. He laughed at me. Plz share. #publicshame #newYork #subway
Wouldn’t it be sad if this guy was just sitting there and op just wanted notes? :(
I would also like to kindly direct the people reblogging this to movethefuckoverbro.
Name one group of oppressed people who were able to end mass genocide and institutional ans systemic oppression by being nice.
show your work
See, I feel like this is pretty unfair because if you just pick up a gun and start shooting at people then you’re not really doing…
I held my breath at the last one.
IT WAS COOL AND THEN IT GOT SCARY AS SHIT
