PixlBit

30 degrees and freezing rain in my neck of the woods. It was 80 yesterday.

I spend a lot of time on Netflix when I'm just too tired to do anything else. Sorry to hear you've been sick.

Yeah, I find myself gladder and gladder that I pre-ordered Xenoblade, and I kind of wish I'd bought three copies so I could flip the other two on eBay like a good little scalper and keep one for myself. :)

I just don't want my console to have to be online all the time just so Microsoft can supervise me and make sure I'm not stocking my game library from The Pirate Bay. I resent being treated like a thief, for one. You want my money, you'd better not treat me like a thief or my wallet remains in my pocket, closed. The other thing is the connection. I don't live in Dry Hump, North Dakota or some other backwater. That's the problem. My Internet is better than Microsoft's. When Xbox Live is down for me, it's almost always a problem on MS's end, not mine. I remember the Xbox Live outage of 2007 and how pissed people got over that. At least they could still play offline. If I couldn't play at all because MS didn't have its shit together on keeping things open, I'd be super-pissed, and so would lots of other people. Online-only worked wonders for SimCity and everything Ubisoft makes, didn't it?

My favorite system is a toss-up between the PS1 (RPGs, RPGs, and more RPGs. That baby spoiled me!) and the PS2, which had a broader library but not as many memorable RPGs. The Gamecube is my favorite Nintendo console, however.

I'm sure some of that is the sheer volume of users and applicants they get there. It's probably a combination of crowd control and simply not having enough resources to vet everyone who wants to post there. However, I've read NeoGAF, and it's nothing special and certainly not worth waiting four years for approval to post there. I guess it's cool that it's well-known enough to attract industry insiders. Famously, Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights got NeoGAF's notorious banhammer upside his head. :)

Loved Punch-Out. Other than Xenoblade it's my favorite Wii game.

I just picked up Bioshock Infinite today myself. I was lucky enough to find a Premium Edition.

I never got into the whole spring break in Florida thing. I've never been to Florida and have never had a burning desire to go there myself, so I've never really understood movies about spring break. When I was in college, spring break meant upping my time at work to a full 40 hours for extra money, or if I had money, I went to Arizona to visit my family.

I started with Zelda in 1986 when it was brand-new, so I knew what to expect. Because I was experienced with Zelda, I found A Link to the Past to be a breeze because of the vast improvement of the controls compared to the original game.  The original game had good controls for its time, but the SNES in general improved on the controls of the NES as much as it did the graphics and sound of the NES.

I still have my SNES box. Mine came with The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past. :)