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[PA Comic] Monday, October 28, 2013 - Parabolic
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my fourth wall!
At least to my recollection.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
(And the demo)
I know for a fact you have Steam, sir. Go download and play the demo. We'll wait.
Well... yeah. There are still people who don't have Steam?
I meant more along the lines of what to expect. I'll have to look at some reviews today if I get a break at work.
But I have heard pretty good things about the Stanley Parable game, and some things that make it sound like it should be less boring than the previous offerings. I'll probably end up grabbing it if it ends up going on sale or when I manage to clear off my gaming plate (might be a bit though, between Pokemon and XCOM EW alone, on top of other smaller things).
But yeah, it definitely seems like a really polarizing game in terms of how people feel about it.
NO!
Trust me on this. Go in as blind as possible. No reviews, no videos; just go play the Demo when you get home.
That's really my only gripe about the game though, everything else is fantastic.
So I guess when people get into debates about this game, they get
8-)
Hyperparabolic?
Yeaaahhhhhhhhhhh
This one also looks like them (kinda)
Although not explicitly labeled as such in the WoW CCG series the other two players looked quite a bit like Mike and Jerry.
All four of them should play a game together.
Also, trust Mike to take a good review and twist it into an oddly defensive elitist rant. 8->
...but the funny thing is that in praising it the way he did he has provided a perfect explanation of why the Surface will never be a very popular product.
I actually was considering picking up one for my kids to use for schoolwork and Minecraft, and his post pretty much sold me on it as a neat, portable computer. Then he had to go "it's for creators like me, it's not for you" in his probably-not-intentional-but-he-does-it-all-the-time way, and now I don't want the device to see a single dime of my cash. Which is my not-serious-in-the-long-term-but-for-now-fuck-that gut reaction.
*shrug*
A person in a medical practice carrying a Surface around to run medical programs and take notes is not really a "creator" by any definition.
Which was my point. It's a terrific and positive review of the device before he tangents at the end there, getting all defensive about imaginary arguments against his review.
I'd say the unspoken part of Mike's review is that the iOS devices are commonly described as "consumption" devices. You don't sit down at the iPad to code up some sweet subroutines. You use it to read the news or watch a something. Mike appears to be saying "the Surface does what the iPad doesn't". From which you can take "if you don't want to create with it, buy an iPad you'll be happier".
Gamer Dater - My Video Game Dating Website full of Faygo
Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
Weird. I read the same review and that last paragraph just read as context to me. He explained what he and Amber were looking for in a device, noted that that was not the standard usage for a tablet, and enthused that that's what the surface pro 2 delivered.
I went back and read it again, and if I squint I can kind of see how it can be interpreted as elitist since he describes his and Amber's situations as special. And the line about angry birds I can see being read as dismissive.
But I think he's just providing a disclaimer -- If you're just looking for a tablet to play games and browse the web, you're not going to be nearly as impressed with this thing as he is, so take his review with a grain of salt.