Yeah, I saw your posts. This is annoying me as well. Not all of these students can be that carefree... You'd think having their classmates killed would have been enough of a wake up call, but nope. What will it take for them to realize they're not mere highschoolers anymore? They gave up on a normal high school the moment they went along with Shoko's proposal to become an independent country and oppose Dorssia. The time to play is over.

Lot of good posts in the XBox One thread (I agree with your newest post completely), and I liked your most recent VM on Tempester's page. One thing I've always liked about you is your outspokenness and willingness to confront people on things.

What makes the Xbox One's restrictions and pricing more annoying too, is that, as The Verge points out, the console's controller+Kinect control scheme may allow developers to do some interesting things:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/44...-interactivity

The examples in there seem a bit unambitious (I don't think Ryse offers you to give very specific orders to your troops, for example), but if the new version of Kinect is good enough to pull off finger tracking, you could, say, cast a spell in something like Skyrim using a quick gesture then return to the controller for melee combat. Heck, some PC games like Arx Fatalis and the Void allow spellcasting by drawing runes, it's just clunky to do it with a mouse cursor - I've heard it works better on a touchscreen phone. Though, the Wii U's controller/touchscreen controller offers similar possibilities and developers are hardly jumping up to take advantage of them.

Just some food for thought.

New content!If I remember right it's based on what happens in another timeline with Kurisu as the MC, here's the first trailer and here's the 2nd trailer with new footage

I'd go more specific than user unfriendliness. Windows 8's UI is fine for what it was designed for (portables that can act as both tablet and PC), but they should have allowed desktop users to just use the start menu and run Modern UI apps within it - which is absolutely technically possible:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/wi...indows-desktop

What bothers me is their move towards being restrictive - whether it's shoving a "convertible" UI down desktop user's throats, only allowing apps from their app store on Windows Phone/RT, the technical restrictions that make it tricky to share files between desktop and modern UI apps (yes, really) or even restricting Office Home and Student licenses to one PC to encourage multi-PC household to move to their subscription licenses (Office 2010 licenses allowed installation on 3 PCs IIRC), it all seems to come down to various annoying restrictions.

Plus, Windows 7 had better advertising:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeMPbUYJCA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGDbxL9EHaI

One other thing I find interesting about this console generation: the number of games being developed that are not only cross-platform but cross-generation: Dragon Age: Inquisition, for example, is supposed to come out on 360/PS3/One/PS4/PC and is slated for fall 2014 - pretty much a full year after the One and PS4 launch. It makes sense - taking assets from a next gen release and scale them down to a current gen console is probably a cost-effective method of widening your audience - but I feel like we're seeing much more of that this generation than previously.

I sort of want to compliment Sony on pulling an elegant finishing move with the $399 pricetag but I honestly facepalmed when Microsoft anounced $499 - then $399 has been a consistent rumour for Sony.

So I guess we can add the Xbox One to the list of Microsoft products in the last year whose direction I dislike. Said list already includes Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Office 2013, so pretty much everything MS has put out in the consumer space in the 2012/2013. Which considering how much I use and like Windows 7/Office 2010 is just f***ing depressing.

Someone told me Oreimo s2 is good if you don't watch any of the Kirino scenes. Well.... I'm not sure how much we have left.

Too bad you aren't tuning into Ore no Imouto S2: The Greatest Shit Storm of Our Times. The leaps of logic it takes to get where the anime is currently heading would have befuddled even the greatest minds in human history.

i'm not sure what's Dark Material Fate is, but she is Vivi Alhazerd from an eroge...I think, call
Shinigami no Testament. her model looks very nice, so I just have to make
her my avatar+sig. ^___^

anyways, Screwbox 1 is screwing themselves.

If you want to know more about her, you can wait for the upcoming anime:
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...ht=daitoshokan

She's a pretty special character in the story, so you might not want to be spoiled by going to the game thread