Posted 10/15/2009 at 09:55:59am

Using the overused, nonsensical phrase "epic fail", nullifies your opinion, and makes you a failure.

Posted 09/18/2009 at 02:53:40pm

I really want one of these, but with them not releasing it outside of the US, I can't get one without it being even more expensive than it already is.

Posted 09/17/2009 at 03:00:43pm

If I was a fan, I would rather pay for good quality downloads of their songs than get free mp3 versions. mp3s are fine for mp3 players, but at home, they don't cut it.

Posted 07/20/2009 at 01:30:59pm

I didn't know that a lot of people still used AIM. I thought it disappeared a long time ago with ICQ. I guess I haven't been keeping up with social aspect of the internet like I used to.

Posted 02/13/2009 at 11:07:51am

I am glad I don't ever visit Digg, or any of those other waste-of-time sites. And this is one more reason why I won't visit Digg in the future.

Posted 02/13/2009 at 11:05:11am

Not so much geeks as losers. A party because some clock within UNIX reads 1234567890? Who cares, apart from losers with no life?

Posted 01/07/2009 at 03:01:28pm

I find myself having to creat hacks and exceptions to get my pages to do what I want in Firefox, not IE. If I use CSS to tell something on my page to do something (ie. be 200 pixels wide and align to the right edge), and then view it in IE, it looks just how I want. If I go look at it in Firefox it looks different. So then I have to fiddle to get Firefox to work right. All the browsers have quirks; some just more than others.

Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:48:17pm

BUt compared to CDs, MP3s sound like crap. If I have a high end sound system at home, I don't want to be playing some garbage mp3 or aac file that I downloaded from PureTracks or iTunes. I want a good quality recording; at least CD quality; APE, FLAC, or an actual CD, or better yet, Audio DVD. As long as digital distribution consists of 5meg files for 3 minutes songs or what have you, CDs won't die off.

Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:17:09pm

I think Future US is in a lot better shape than Ziff-Davis was. All their magazines seem to be doing quite well. SAme with IDG (GamePro, PC World)

Posted 01/07/2009 at 02:10:58pm

@ willsmith, re: "EGM, Games for Windows (CGW), and PC Magazine shut down because Ziff Davis's business model collapsed, not because of any inherent flaw in magazines, the editorial staffs, or print in general."

You haven't read EGM lately, have you. It was painful to read. I had a free subscription and I didn't enjoy reading that magazine. While EGM's fall from pretty good magazine in the 90's to complete dreg today isn't the sole cause, or even main cause of it's demise, I am sure it had even a small part in it. While almost all of the financial problems are the fault of Ziff-Davis, the lame content in EGM is not their fault.

I used to enjoy EGM in the 90's, but over the last year it's been a burden to read. Insulting the readers in the Letters section, complaining for most of a game review on a game that gets an A, the article in the back written by that "Seanbaby" idiot...it was all just very annoying. While the nostalgic side of me is sad that it's gone, the up-to-date side of me is kind of glad it's out of it's misery. I do, however, regret that they didn't make it to the March issue, which would have been their 20-year anniversay. Or at least to one more issue in which to wrap things up, reminisce, and say goodbye, as I am sure the next issue was near completion at this point.

There are still other game magazines out there, most of which I consider better than what EGM had become.