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[Still Servant]

I honestly don't understand people putting their CC on PSN or XBox live. They sell PSN cards for a reason. It's way safer and you don't have to worry about your CC information.

Also, the people who are selling their PS3's are just idiots. The PS3 is not just an online system. It has tons of great games that can be played offline. I don't want to turn this into a whole PS3 vs. XBox debate. Both consoles have their pluses and minuses. I for one would never abandon the PS3 because it has too many exclusive games that I love. Games that XBox just can't match, IMO. Not to mention it plays Blu-rays.

XBox people can sit their and make fun of PS3 owners all they want. Xbox Live is not perfect either. They can be hacked just as easily. Also, XBox has their own problems with the whole Red Ring of Death. Every friend I have that owns an Xbox is on their 2nd or 3rd system. In some cases, they are on their 4th.

This is certainly a black eye for Sony. They are losing money in many different ways. The PlayStation store is pretty profitable for them. I think they should have been honest from the start and made people aware that the personal info might be in jeopardy. I think they will rebuild PSN and Sony will rebound. These things happen.

[OchrisO]

Xbox live is certainly as at risk for hacking any anything else connected to the internet, but to my knowledge, it hasn't been, and definitely not on this sort of scale. The problem isn't so much the hacking as how Sony chose to handle it anyway.

What Sony should have done was avoided so ruthlessly prosecuting the guy that was jailbreaking the PS3 OS, so much that he fled to South America until an agreement was reached that involved him no longer pursuing or talking about his ps3 mods. I expect that that angered the hacker community and now they get to pay for it, probably over and over again.

[Tatts4Life]

Seriously WTF I've NEVER been sea sick or car sick. But have me play Hal-life and I can only play for about an hour before I feel like I want to die. It only happens when i play Half-life 1,2 and episode 1 and 2. Portal doesn't bother me.

[fernandito]

I finally got Assassin's Creed Brotherhood last night. Only plugged in one or two hours, but I can already tell I'm going to love it as much as II.

[Tatts4Life]

Seriously WTF I've NEVER been sea sick or car sick. But have me play Hal-life and I can only play for about an hour before I feel like I want to die. It only happens when i play Half-life 1,2 and episode 1 and 2. Portal doesn't bother me.

Strangely, that sounds accurate. for Episode 2 at least, I've gotten a kind of motion sickness while playing, especially in the antlion caves.

Yeah it was really weird. I think I've gotten use to it though. Because I've played some more and don't feel weird when playing.

[Tatts4Life]

I finally got Assassin's Creed Brotherhood last night. Only plugged in one or two hours, but I can already tell I'm going to love it as much as II.

AC is one of my favorite series. I loved the ending of 2 and Brotherhood is just as good.

I just read about the next Brotherhood coming out later this year.

sequel

looks like they are making a third game starring Ezio. They apparently wanted to make the story of Ezio a trilogy. My guess is after the next game then they'll probably bring the game to Desmonds present time.

[SigTauGimp]

Been meaning to post this for a while now, but I thought some Tower Junkies would enjoy my recent Black Op emblems that I've created.
This was my first Tower-themed emblem...took somewhere around 5 hours, total, and I still didn't have enough layers to get exactly what I wanted(Like removing some fingers.):


I also had this up until a few days ago, when, for some reason, it mysteriously disappeared on my profile before I could photograph it:



I'm trying to come up with my next emblem, but I haven't decided what to do yet. I think I may do either Blaine the Mono, or Crimson King on his skull throne. I just wish that there were more than 12 layers. =/


Oh, and if you're looking hard, you may see my clan tag. We have about 8 members, and all have read the series.

[fernandito]

D00d, that shit is nice ! Good job !

[Tatts4Life]

I can't figure out how to imbed this video but it made me LOL

http://www.break.com/game-trailers/g...lays-black-ops

[Tito_Villa]

Watching that has proper cheered me up! Thanks

[fernandito]

Brotherhood is a masterpiece. A MASTERPIECE.

[Tatts4Life]

Watching that has proper cheered me up! Thanks

I was hoping so hard that it would end up really being him.

[Tito_Villa]

Watching that has proper cheered me up! Thanks

I was hoping so hard that it would end up really being him.

I recognised quite a bit form Pulp Fiction if thats right?

[SigTauGimp]

The middle bit had me laughing nearly constantly.

[Tito_Villa]

Just trying to download an update for my ps3 now ... could it mean psn is back up?

[fernandito]

PSN IS BACK ONLINE !

[Adumbros]

addicted to rpg's like a crackhead. nuff said.

[Adumbros]

i feel your enthusiasm feev but i can't bring myself to share it it was bad enough PSN's network was so casually thrown together like it were done by a third-grader, what with the non-existent security and all; but the final straw for me was when they started putting different excuses out to the media literally by the week for the network's failure. first they claimed an x-box user hacked them, which was ludicrous but not entirely impossible if one had enough knowledge of the root servers, then decided to claim the slightly more credible programming frag, finally downgrading it all the way to the wholly beleivable (by anyone BUT Sony at this point) "inside job". and when that idea doesn't pan out i suppose they'll claim that elves didn't it because santa got pissed off that bill gates forgot to leave out his milk and cookies. yes i know bill gates has nothing to do with Sony. that's the point. _|_ Sony.

[Yaksha]

I just bought a PSP cause I am that bored at my summer job. Birth by Sleep here i come

[Tatts4Life]

the PSN is partially back up for me. I can log in and change my password and update but I can't get on the store.

[mystima]

sounds good..still haven't finished original story in New Vegas yet...to much stuff to do...and seems my xbox has some issues with freezing still. let me know how Birth by Sleep is. Don't have a PSP so will have to wait for that one.

[SigTauGimp]

Raging soooo hard right now. Working on the "Stand-In" achievement on the new Black Ops: Zombies map "Call Of The Dead"...Round 11, had a Pack-A-Punch RayGun, just got the VR-11, had the green light in the lighthouse, turned my last crawler into a human, followed him to the lighthouse, then...right before he hops into the light...George fucking kills him, and I get overrun by round 12 zombies. So close to finishing that...I think I'm gonna give it a few days before I try again, now.

In other news, I was bored last night, and figured out the main zombies theme on Black Ops, "The Damned" by Kevin Sherwood, on guitar.

[The Road Virus]

In most shooting games I prefer to use assault rifles. They're usually the most versatile and the best for tagging domes and what not.

On a side note; Played the new MK a couple times this weekend and am def a fan. What do you guys think?

[Tatts4Life]

So. New Vegas DLC Tuesday.
Honest Hearts.
Story of the Burned Man.

I just recently picked up NV for the PC. I'll get the DLC when I finished. When I picked up FO3 I waited till the GOTY edition since at the point I thought of getting it they had announced the GOTY edition.

[fernandito]

On a side note; Played the new MK a couple times this weekend and am def a fan. What do you guys think?

Love the new Mortal Kombat. I've been a fan of the series since the first installment so it's refreshing to see that they've dropped all the gimmicks in favor of going back to their roots.

I always master Sub Zero and Raiden first as they've been my go-to guys for ages. I also really , really like Cyrax. Can't stand Smoke's new look though.