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i hear this constantly, and it's something i need to correct. with the advent of the jasper motherboard around when RE5 came out, squaretrade reported that console failure rates in the first year of usage dropped abruptly from around 31% - 1 in 3 - to around 4%, which is WELL below industry standards for high-end electronics. some 90% of these failures were either the power brick failing (due to insufficient cooling, even though jasper bricks are significantly cooler than the old metal ones) or dvd drive failing. only .4% of total failures were motherboard related (aka, RROD). all new 360s in the Arcade and Elite boxes are jaspers. you might find one from a year and a half ago still on a shelf somewhere - this is easily noticed by looking at the manufacturing date. if it's in 2008, it's likely not a jasper. i should note that the PS3's failure rate - be it blu-ray failure, psu overload, or hard drive failure - still sits between 7 and 8 percent in the first year. tl,dr: jasper 360s fail less than slim PS3s. around 45% less. that said, it comes down to exclusives. gears of war, halo, left 4 dead, mass effect, alan wake, splinter cell, and fable top the list of console exclusives for microsoft. i'm not as familiar with the list for ps3, but i know it includes, god of war, heavy rain, and most of the good JRPGs available. often microsoft will pay for console exclusivity for a time on a game, like fallout 3's DLC and bioshock's 18-month release delay. this can be good - for fallout 3, it worked out for 360 in a great way. it can also be bad, like Star Ocean 4, where the 360 version was basically a paid beta for the PS3 version that recently came out with significantly improved graphics and bugfixes. according to metacritic, 360 exclusives generally score about three to five points higher overall. this is raised by some 360/PC games which aren't technically exclusives. metacritic doesn't really showcase anything specific, though, since it's just an amalgamation of review scores. in general, on cross-platform content, it's rare to see a game developed lead on the PS3 - meaning that generally these games look better on the 360 despite the PS3's superior hardware (bayonetta and ghostbusters are recent examples of this issue). that said, when a game's developed lead on the PS3, it look incredible compared to the often shoddy 360 port. FFXIII is likely going to fall into this catagory. if you're into high-definition content, the blu-ray player is nice but somewhat negated by the availability of netflix on the 360. it's kind of a push.

don't forget that cameron spent like $500 million on developing the 3d technology to begin with, before he even made the damn film.

...hi! asdasd

i'm still fuming about that one getting boned by the panel, after three years.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA she's going to KILL YOU

happy birfday, missy. for those who don't know, her name is really missy. i'm friends with her 'real-life' facebook page. she even has real pictures of her on it!

again, thanks for keeping me updated. anything that saves characters is good.

thanks for keeping me updated.

i'm assuming that the fact that this thread isn't locked means that we're doing ok. huzzah.

welcome. don't forget to post once and a while! =)

neko, do something pendulum-esque. i'd dl that in a heartbeat!

it's relatively cheap to do multimonitor nowadays. current prices put a 28", a 22", and a 17" like i've got at around 500$ total - most of that being shipping.

avaris, your signature is genius.

oh, we're not. don't you worry =)

got a desk on craigslist for about 30$. steel sides, veneer top. it's sooooo much bigger than my last desk (which was a salvation army special, handmade and heavy as a tank). -axiom 49 (wish i knew how to use most of the features) -cavalry 1tb hard drive (backup only) -main screen's a 28" hanns-g, secondary's a 22" acer, the one side-on to the picture is a 17" crapper that only does mail. -the preamp on the right under the acer is an m-audio mobile-pre. -speakers are logitech x230s -keyboard and mouse are logitech g15 and mx revolution, respectively. -cat is Oscar -you can see one of the rear speakers for the logi z5500s that are my home theater system -cords haven't been 'optimized' yet, waiting on stuff to be shipped from ikea for that more direct shot. -computer is a zalman gs1000 case, gigabyte p55a-ud3 motherboard, 4gb of ddr3 1333 ram, i7-860 quad-core, zalman ZM600-HP, total of 3tb of hard drive space, with an evga gtx 260 core 216 for my main video card and an evga 7300le as my 'extra monitor' card. the fourth monitor is my tv, off-screen. -you can just barely see avaris's computer, waiting on a power supply to get shipped out. -the back filing cabinet and the white tupperware tower thing are all my components for systems -the lava lamp was free from a friend -out the back window you can see our mini-christmas tree. it died while we were visiting family over christmas =( and that's where i work.

once the final tracklist is organized, i'm going to do a bunch of kickass pokemon remixes and fux some things up around here. i need to get back to spamming the pkmn forums.

first post updated. i added extreme g for the n64 to my 'want' list there, too.

i've never played radical dreamers (more than an hour or two total).

never heard his film stuff. got any examples?

they had to save money somewhere, i guess.

might be better off selling that on ebay. the 640mb version is the G88 version, right? most everyone who wants an 8-series card is going to want a G92, since it runs cooler and more efficiently.

lol, am i a dick if i tell someone to chill out? guess so. one post makes a reputation, i guess.

dp! how much for just Ocarina of Time?

i've seen chrono trigger go for under 30$ on ebay multiple times, with book and box. i don't really care much about book/box stuff, i just want the carts. i'm not worried about big prices all that much. ryan, mind poking around at that store and seeing if any of those games on my list are reasonably priced? kevin, i saw that - emailed them about what games are in the list but they never got back to me.

ah, got it...i always forget that they count too =)