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Why am I not surprised? Mitch McConnell claimed he did not support the bill "because Harry Reid is a big stupid head!"

Microsoft: Was earlier today. Was really boring and casual/sequel-centric, as usual. Kinect, casual stuff, Dance Central for Kinect, the mediocre-looking Fable game for Kinect, Gears of War, Forza, Halo 4, Splinter Cell, more social gaming stuff, Microsoft's new WiiU-controller-"inspired" app for PC, phones, tablets, etc. that lets games display some stuff on that screen while you play (such an original idea!), etc...

EA: Was earlier today. Solid, well-produced conference about 10 games they're currently working on. Good conference. The new NFS game is from Criterion, and looks pretty good. Reusing names again, this one's Most Wanted.

Ubisoft: Starts in 20 minutes. Hopefully it'll be fun!

Sony: 9pm EST today. I expect to be bored like usual.

Nintendo: Had a WiiU controller briefing yesterday. They also have their main, WiiU-focused briefing tomorrow (noon EST), and also a third briefing focused on their 3DS lineup at 9pm EST tomorrow. Yeah, lots of stuff!

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/ni...ead-of-e3/

The controller still seems set to be one per system, but has a lot of interesting little features.

There's some new developments with their upcoming online service. Here's hoping this really will be able to compete with Live, Steam, or even PS3's service would be an improvement.

So I had to double check my Xbox version to compare it to the HD remakes, and I noticed a number of flubs here and there. I checked online and I'm not the only one to notice. There's some serious Cain being raised about this port. This is mainly for SH2. Apparently SH3's port was a lot better done.

First thing I noticed was a much more subdued grain filter, the fog not being quite as intense, and the movies being poorly upscaled and stretched so they end up looking rather distorted and grainy. I also noticed that sometimes dialog doesn't match up and there's some framerate skipping issues. It doesn't help that I had to take up 4 gigs to install ports of PS2 games.

So here's the other thing, there's stuff I didn't notice that plenty of others caught. There are missing details all over the place. There's far less debris in the streets, and some background textures such as the island across the water at the beginning of the game that are missing or different.

Hijinks, the people responsible for this port, state that Konami actually gave them source code from a beta version of the game instead of the released code. Hell, even the GBA port of Mother 1+2 used the most up to date source code from the unreleased English translation of 1. Didn't Konami keep that code around? (Capcom screwed up once with keeping old resources too. They somehow lost a lot of assets for Okami requiring lots of them to be remade for the Wii port.)

So the world looks higher res, which is nice until you start noticing that the lesser fog and grain filter actually exposes the low quality of the textures, which were never updated for this version. They didn't even turn on antialiasing. Further, the streets feel a bit emptier and some of those headlines and little background details that peeps like Weltall love to speculate on are just gone.

That makes the original XBox and PS2 versions of Restless Dreams the definitive version of the game. That sucks...

Compare this to Konami's other big HD release, the Metal Gear Solid HD collection. That game looks and plays absolutely amazingly with things like antialiasing and so on added. Aside from the removed extras, the games are all around better now. (Though I still wish they'd kept those extras.)

Add in the simple fact that they didn't even bother making it a complete collection and skipped 4 and I get the impression that Hijinks just isn't a very talented company. Konami screwed up by giving them beta code for one of the games, but that's only a partial excuse. Other companies have been able to convert the games by reverse engineering the disks and didn't even need the source code.

Anyone want a cat? I only feel it right to warn you, she is a giant a-hole.. :)

This video shows the awesome power of the new Blender particle system. There are allot of things about my twister I don't like like, for example I think the simulation is to slow. But you get the idea, properly configured, Blender particles can do some pretty awesome things.

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HP just sent me a advisory with the title "USB 3 HDD exhibits slow transfer speeds." LOL, so I click on it and the resolution was something to the tune of nothing is wrong with our laptops your probably doing it wrong.. :)

So my question is that, they listed specific models this issue affects.. So I guess the moral of this story is if you own a:
HP EliteBook 8460p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8460w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8540p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8540w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8560p Notebook PC
HP EliteBook 8560w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation
HP EliteBook 8760w Mobile Workstation
HP ProBook 4230s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4330s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4331s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4430s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4431s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4435s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4530s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4535s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 4730s Notebook PC
HP ProBook 6460b Notebook PC
HP ProBook 6560b Notebook PC

You don't know what your doing and shouldn't be using a computer. The rest of us are good though.. :)

So I went out for a little byte to eat at Taco bell, WOW was that a big mistake!

There was a idiot parked in my driveway
There were idiots on the road
I came in and a idiot took my order
Then I sat down next to one idiot screaming at another idiot.
..Who then got up to scream at more idiots.

I was so scared I quickly ate my food and left as quickly as possible. I'm hiding in my house until Tuesday! :)