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Comment on KNM News Break: New Launch Trailer for Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 by Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:13:40 +0000

Sweet! Added to my wish list. And yes, bring back Wing Commander!

Comment on VOTE for Mark Hamill’s “Joker” as ‘BEST VOICE’ in video games! by Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:54:50 +0000

Hiya Wilson – thanks for the encouragement! I checked the link but its been removed from blip.tv so I edited it out so we don’t have dead links registering on the site. Thanks again for commenting!

Comment on Kennedy New Media: Resident Evil 5 Review by Tim

Tim — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:46:07 +0000

Thanks Cosmo – I actually have been playing a bit of the co-op and am finding it even more fun if the other guy isn’t a d-bag. Since most of my friends list has moved on, plus I’m playing on PC, I have to take a chance and hope the other guy/gal is cool.

Comment on Kennedy New Media: Resident Evil 5 Review by cosmo2389

cosmo2389 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:02:52 +0000

I freaking love Resident Evil, and I believe that RE5 is definitely a great continuation for the series! Despite the AI being far from the best, I still think it is an awesome game especially when you utilize co-op. Great review Tim!!

Comment on Run, Jump, Kill, Die… a LOT – Assassin’s Creed 2: Discovery Review (DS) by Twitted by LRavenwolf

Twitted by LRavenwolf — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:38:07 +0000

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Comment on League of Legends Review – DotA Revisited, Reshaped, and Really Free! by Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:47:05 +0000

You are correct, sir – was a typo on my end.

Comment on League of Legends Review – DotA Revisited, Reshaped, and Really Free! by James

James — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:47:30 +0000

Correction

“Riot Points that unlocks 10 champions permanently”
That should be:
“Riot Points that unlocks 20 champions permanently”

You can buy the collectors Edition and the booster pack to get all 40 champions.

Comment on Darkest of Days Preview by Twitted by LRavenwolf

Twitted by LRavenwolf — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:40:11 +0000

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Comment on Review of Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay by Tim

Tim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:27:29 +0000

Gamespot was referenced in my review, so I figured I would add them as a tag. I thought it would have been a good way to cross-reference and maybe gets some hits, lol. This was before I researched “good tagging practices” and before I really had any idea what my keywords were. Tags really should be search phrases or keywords that I want people to find the post off of. Categories are for inter-site navigation. If someone only wanted to see anything posted as reviews, they could click on the category up top, then subscribe to that particular feed by clicking the RSS button
and selecting the category view. Then they’d not have to worry about the other posts getting in the way.

Honestly, the flash tag-ball is a bit of visual flair. Neat little flash movable thing that people can play with. Not everything has to be business on the site. Good to have a little superfluous fun.

Comment on From Russia, with Frozen Love – Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason Review by Kennedy New Media by Tim

Tim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:14:10 +0000

You make some valid points here – I’ll address in-line.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Fair enough point. I was on a bit of a time crunch so I made a concious decision not to do screencaps. In the future I’ll be sure to have them.

“Hell, they’re even tired of the $60 price tag and went just over 1/2 that, at $40.”

Seriously? Products sell at the price the market will bear. The reason Halo sold at $49.99 and didn’t go “Platinum” until the release of Halo 2 was because people still wanted to buy it at that price three years after release. “Platinum”, “Players Choice”, and “Greatest Hits” are just labels that say “We couldn’t sell this anymore at full price, so will you buy it now? PLEEEEEEASE?”

I have to disagree with you here. “Willing to” and “want to” are not the same thing. Halo was revolutionary for its time and its impact on the console FPS genre. While I agree that games are going to sell for as much as people will pay for them, I cannot believe that people would rather pay more than less. The issue of modded consoles and pirated software would be moot if this were true. This model also does not apply to most other games that are released. They don’t have the staying power of being a genre-defining franchise.

Also, please define “just” because I might just say *smirk* that “$70 is just over half of $100″. To me, that statement is ludicrous, and yet it’s only three and a third percent more expensive proportionally to your suggestion. If claiming that 40 is near enough to half of 60, then the intent seems to me to be to exploit people’s displeasure to handle basic math.

I remember reading an article that mentioned how people in a study without the aid of rulers or tick marks were able to identify fractions of a line with numerators as high as 12. Forty dollars is equal to two-thirds of sixty, not fullPrice/2+epsilon where epsilon is “very small such that epsilon^2 is very near zero”.

I think Barbie said it best, “Math is hard. Let’s go shopping!”

Tim’s Definition of
Just Over

– numbers falling in between half and 3/4 of what would be considered the “full” number 40 is 66% of 60, so I probably should have switched to 3rds and said that its 2/3′s of the $60 release. Fair argument and I’ll try to be more mathematically accurate in the future.