Asher, As An Anal Sex Expert, Do You Think Microsoft Was Just Penetrated Anally?

[Colon™]

Seriously, the fact that Halo is a selling point for the Xbox is just disturbing.

[Guynemer]

I disagree, simply because there's no way even the dumbest Mountain-Dew-swilling fourteen-year-old CoD fanatic will miss out on the basic news that the camera must always be on.

I work with that demographic for a living. You couldn't be wronger.

[Elok]

Kinect always-on: Electrical tape!
Microphone always-on: 60 ohm resistor!

Assuming you're right about the auto-update bit, what if the system depends on those parts not only being on but receiving input they can understand? I assume they wouldn't insist on them being on all the time if they weren't determined to be gathering useable data (for some arcane purpose) frequently.

[self biased]

Seriously, the fact that Halo is a selling point for the Xbox is just disturbing.

i've already used my thanks for the day.

[Elok]

I work with that demographic for a living. You couldn't be wronger.

So do I (substitute teacher). If they don't learn it themselves they'll get it in magnified form courtesy the rumor mill. They might hear that Microsoft is going to report them smoking weed while playing to the DEA or some crap, but they'll hear it.

[Guynemer]

I just don't think they'll give a ****.

[regexcellent]

**** you sb I'm doing a wiccan pagan pentagram thing in my back yard, you and your unborn children will all be cursed

[Elok]

Hard to say. The raised-entirely-by-the-television crowd won't, but they're not the majority (yet), thankfully. I think a good percentage of the middle-class set will be weirded out by it, and if they won't their parents will. Man, the parents. You just know there are going to be some really histrionic e-mail forwards and Facebook shares about this stuff.

XPost.

[Elok]

**** you sb I'm doing a wiccan pagan pentagram thing in my back yard, you and your unborn children will all be cursed

I'm going to go ahead and guess you just earned yourself another barrage of images there.

EDIT: Okay, here I was wrong.

[regexcellent]

Seriously, the fact that Halo is a selling point for the Xbox is just disturbing.

Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 were all good games. Halo: Reach was mechanically also a very good game but the actual execution of the content was not as good. Halo 4 was playable. The original Halo in particular was actually very innovative. The two weapons, recharging health, and melee/grenades on their own buttons created a very fluid and very fun basic tactical building block of shoot/throw/whack.

[kentonio]

Hard to say. The raised-entirely-by-the-television crowd won't, but they're not the majority (yet), thankfully. I think a good percentage of the middle-class set will be weirded out by it, and if they won't their parents will. Man, the parents. You just know there are going to be some really histrionic e-mail forwards and Facebook shares about this stuff.

XPost.

Please stop being wrong Elok.

[self biased]

**** you sb I'm doing a wiccan pagan pentagram thing in my back yard, you and your unborn children will all be cursed

too little too late, bub.

[Elok]

Please stop being wrong Elok.

Just as soon as you cite something establishing that I'm wrong in the first place.

[Colon™]

Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 were all good games.

Halo was a game I decided on playing when drunk, because, what the **** does it matter if you miss out on immersion as there is none. It's frighteninly bland.

[Colon™]

i've already used my thanks for the day.

I'll make a mental note of it.