Matt

I wonder if you know what "offal" actually means here.

I'd hate to fight the Flood. Sure, its a target rich foe with swarms of them so you cna't miss, but they just overwhelm with pure numbers. Nothing like getting eaten alive.

Microsoft encourages (responsbile) blogging, since they have a whole section of MSDN for it.

totally entering this

"Aargh, is it just me, or is the Halo franchise the most over-hyped and overrated game in the history of gaming?"
No, it is just you.

"A hair over 1,000 isn't exactly polling. I can't imagine the lack of a vibrating controller would actually cause people not to buy a system."
Actually, 1000 people is a very good sample size. Too bad you've never taken a statistics class.

"something americans don't ever quite understand..."
Well, Americans also didn't ever quite understand the "poke people in the butt" game either, I gather.

Japanese games are frequently overrated by otaku...

"at all for the gamer"
Either Joystiq misquoted, or they forgot a [sic] tag. Such bad grammar in a press release...

"You probably remember the old hack that lets you change a couple of digits in a registry key in order to burn a disc capable of installing Windows XP Pro when all you paid for was the cheaper Home edition"
This is only partially true. In actuality, the hack only enabled certain features of Pro. From what I remember of reading about it, some things from Pro were still gone because the code simply wasn't there. I don't think there is any way at all to get XP Home, hacked or not, on a domain because it simply wasn't there.

The last one is actually the funniest to me... I LOL'd