FluffyPanda

@Vidikron Because Honda is a singular noun and Lego is a collective noun.

It's more like saying "I have a bucket of sands" or "would you like some pastas?"

You don't need to pluralise it because it is already being used to describe more than one unit. If you want to refer to a single element you need to talk about a grain of sand, a piece of pasta or a lego block.

@ Ironeyes:

Really? Never seen a post about the French being cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Or the English having bad teeth?

At least the post was actually true, the American car market places far more importance on price than any other feature. That's why ABS brakes and decent suspension took so long to reach the states.

And yes, a lot of us do have quite intimate knowledge of foreign cultures, having lived in more than one country.

But why RFID? I just don't understand the advantage to a contactless transaction.

The exact same system could be implemented with a chip that requires contact and people wouldn't be able to skim your RFID account number (by simply walking close to you with a scanner) and buy travel with your credit.

Keeping a single piece of info on the chip reduces the security risks down to a single vulnerability, but it's a pretty big one.

$400k is bad for a few years work if you give up a $150k a year consultancy gig in order to do it.

To make it worthwhile he doesn't just need to cover costs, he has to recover the 3 years of missed revenue that the game cost him. We don't know that his artist didn't turn down some lucrative commissions that he needs compensating for either.

If I left my job now and didn't get paid for the next 3 years I'd need to be pretty sure that I was going to recoup at least half a mill or I couldn't afford the risk.

Time = Money.

The demo was a mistake if you ask me. It showed the least creative level and gave no hint to the greatness of the complete game.

The time mechanics evolve as the game progresses and I can forgive someone who has only played the demo for thinking that it's a mario ripoff with rewind.

The reality is that as you progress through the game you encounter some of the most amazing puzzles you'll have ever seen and the platformer aspect falls away. The changing time mechanics really make you think in a completely different way at times and that's impressive.

This is a must-have game. The puzzle design and art style puts many full price games to shame. The writing is amazing and it manages to elicit a real emotional response more than once.

The ending is phenomenal.

Discussing price on a title of this quality is absurd. Just because it's delivered through Xbox Live Arcade doesn't mean it can't be worth 1/4 of a Madden game.

Skip a couple of trips to starbucks and buy a life-altering piece of art instead. This is one of the best designed games to have been released in the last few years. It's up there with Bioshock and
Portal and worth just as much as those titles were.

Pricing and value can certainly be relative. Root Beer Tapper was ridiculously overpriced at 400 ms points. Braid is cheap at 1200.

That's like saying that looking at a picture of a tree on your TV is better than looking at a tree...

A tiny, low resolution screen is in no way superior to the human eye and a lens.

Mr. Ed is pissed. He was auditioning for Mass Effect 2.

No wonder he has such a long face...

I'll get my coat.

At the moment my only HD content comes via the xbox 360. Hooking a PC up to the plasma is something I'll probably do before long though.

I've got a first edition unit and the only change of note is that the new units come pre-loaded with the newer firmware.

Mine is a fantastic little gadget and I'm really happy with it. I've used it for emulation, homebrew games, watching ripped dvds, reading ebooks and, of course, running my own code.

So far I'd say it has performed amazingly. I get about 3 hours out of a pair of 2500mah energizers.

It seems that Lik-Sang missed out on the deadline to get the units with "First Edition" stamped on and came up with this whole "we'll only ship it when everything works" story to cover up for having to delay a bunch of pre-orders.

I'd recommend buying from http://www.gp2x.co.uk or http://www.gp2x.de/shop/index.php