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Movie: Home Alone Video Game: Alone in the Dark I was homeschooled, can you tell?

If you want a cheap plushie, you buy one of the crappy ones from Hasbro. If you want a good quality plushie that looks like it came straight out of the show, you gotta pay the price.

y r u so dum and stupid and also dum :^)

The 3DS ports aren't really that impressive. The 3DS has more powerful hardware than the Wii, so why wouldn't it be able to run a Wii port?

I only preorder collector's editions, things that I know have limited stock. There's no point in preordering regular games. There's literally infinite copies of the game, so why waste your money buying something sight unseen?

i5-4690K Asus Strix GTX 970 16GB RAM Samsung 850 PRO 128GB SSD WD 3TB HDD

There were apparently floods up to three feet high in my city yesterday.

Not really, they just used somewhat misleading marketing based on the ignorance of the masses.

Welcome to Otter Tech 101! Have a seat, please. I've seen a lot of misconceptions about gigabit internet, Google Fiber in particular. People mistakenly believe that with Google Fiber, they'll be getting download speeds of up to a gigabyte per second. Unfortunately, that's not true. A byte is a unit of computer memory constructed of eight bits. (What's a bit, you may ask? Who cares, that's not important right now.) One byte equals eight bits, one kilobyte equals eight kilobits (or 8000 bits), one megabyte equals eight megabits (or eight million bits), so on and so forth. This is why you'll often see internet services advertised as 10Mb/s, when your actual download speed seems to top out at around one megabyte per second, give or take. This is where you need to be careful. The abbreviation for "-byte" is an uppercase "B," whereas the abbreviation for "-bit" is a lowercase "b." So if something is advertised as "50MB/s," it refers to bytes, whereas "50Mb/s" would be referring to bits. With internet speeds, you never have a perfect connection. Even with ethernet, there's going to be some lag when connecting to various servers, and data transmission can be slowed a bit as it travels back and forth from your router to the server, etc., so you'll never really get internet that's quite as fast as your advertised speed. The general rule of thumb is to take your advertised speed in megabits per second, divide by ten, and that'll probably be close to your actual download speed in megabytes per second. So, why do internet companies advertise their connection speeds in bits instead of bytes? It all comes down to cynical business. "100 megabits per second" sounds a lot more enticing than "10 megabytes per second." So anyway, back to Google Fiber. When they advertise their service as "one gigabit per second", what that actually means is "100 megabytes per second." Which obviously is still blazing fast compared to what most people have today, but not quite as magically speedy as some would believe. I hope that helped clear up some misconceptions you may have and bestowed some mega rad knowledge on you, brother!

There's apparently a sniper/multiple snipers randomly gunning down people in my city.

STOP YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW PAY THE COURT A FINE OR SERVE YOUR SENTENCE

I must say, I'm looking quite fantastic today.

Samurai Jack. I'm not sure if this is "underrated", per se, but I don't feel it gets the attention it deserves. I loved it.

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What are friends and where do I buy them?

I always have good luck with them. I don't win every time, but I have won a lot. One time, I played a claw machine five consecutive times, and got seven toys out of it. Cross my heart and hope to die, that actually happened.

You're still getting a product for free which you should have paid for.

I could just as easily cherry pick and make the exact opposite point you did. Gaming is at its creative zenith during its golden age. The prominent consoles are the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Nothing can hope to compete with the experiences of this time. I even pity old-school gamers. They are stuck with "Hydlide", "E.T. for Atari", endless derivative LJN movie-licensed games, and the bit wars (because it's obviously the bits that matter, nobody cares about gameplay, right?) While I have "Journey", "BioShock Infinite", and many other famous titles. Games are about fun and a challenge that was difficult yet fair, not about an insane difficulty curve that excluded almost everyone except for the super hardcore players. Gaming was uncreative and restrictive. It wasn't the inspirational form of art it has now become. The point I'm trying to make is that you're looking for all the bad stuff in modern gaming and ignoring the good. Sure, DRM is annoying. Sites like GOG exist which sell DRM-free games. Some games have micro-transactions, but a lot of the best ones don't. Games have become more accessible to the common person. Different difficulty levels accommodate ALL sorts of players playing at ALL skill levels, not just the very dedicated gamers who used to have to dedicate a lot of time into learning to play and beat a game. Try playing Dark Souls or Super Meat Boy at the highest difficulty level, or try playing some of the later levels in Cloudberry Kingdom. Sure, a lot of modern games are easier than older games were, but there are still plenty of tough-as-nails games being made to this day.

No generation of gaming is better than any other. I would hazard a guess that the reason you enjoy mid to late '90s gaming so much is because that was what you grew up with. I grew up with the 6th and 7th generation of consoles (GameCube/PS2/Xbox and Wii/360/PS3), so in my opinion, that is the "best" generation of gaming. Objectively, though, it isn't. Every generation of gaming has its pros and cons. Also, gaming has never been "just about the gameplay". Ever since the 8- and 16-bit era when the NES/SNES and Genesis were sluggin' it out, there was always graphics and power comparisons. "Genesis does what Nintendon't." "Blast Processing." Have a look at this ad: "http://speckycdn.sdm.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/12-super-nintendo-double-magazine-spread.jpg" The 16-bit graphics capabilities are one of the first things touted in the advertisement.