Xbone Week #4

[VortexCortex]

Wouldn't it be great if they actually just asked us what we wanted, then made that? What do you want? Faster, more RAM, more storage, faster upgrade cycles instead of ignoring Moore's Law, but with backward compatibility so it doesn't strain the developers...

Wait. We already have those. They're just not called consoles.

 

[SonicWaffle]

'If we take off our ties and roll up our sleeves, we look just like the commonfolk.'

It didn't work for David Cameron and we won't work for anyone else.

Worked for Boris, if by commonfolk you mean tramps.

No, just 'no'. People like Boris because he's so much of an oaf that he can mask his horrible policies with his persona. They don't like him because of the way he dresses.

And part of that facade of oafishness (because the guy is clearly a lot smarter than he's letting on) is his wild and crazy attention-grabbing appearance. It's an obvious part of the package, especially evident when he's stood next to the multitude of faceless, indistinguishable politicians with tidy hair, practiced dead-eyed smiles and neat-as-a-pin outfits. It's a clear statement that "I am not like them", designed to fit in with the outspoken attitude and distance himself from the career politician archetype.

Where do you live where tramps look like Boris?

Winchester. We have a higher class of everything here. Granted they're still homeless, but I was raised in Southampton and lived a few years in High Wycombe so compared to the tramps in those horrendous shitholes, Winchester ones are rather clean and polite.

 

[Mr.Savage]

As someone who thinks that ties are one the worst abominations of this world, I really don't understand why MS are being ridiculed for NOT wearing them.

I mean, seriously, what are the point of ties? If they had pockets, maybe, but as it is, they're useless little flaps of cloth dangling from your throat. Utter Bollocks.

Personally, I don't think anyone should be dressing up at all for these types of things. We're not showing off the merging of two bank dynasties, we're showing off flipping video games! Put on a comfortable T-shirt, some cargo pants, and be done with it.

That leads into another problem I have with these shows...It's always some nob that knows absolutely nothing about games, nor cares about them, that ends up showing them off! Instead of the developers themselves doing it. But that's another issue entirely...

 

[Farther than stars]

'If we take off our ties and roll up our sleeves, we look just like the commonfolk.'

It didn't work for David Cameron and we won't work for anyone else.

Worked for Boris, if by commonfolk you mean tramps.

No, just 'no'. People like Boris because he's so much of an oaf that he can mask his horrible policies with his persona. They don't like him because of the way he dresses.

And part of that facade of oafishness (because the guy is clearly a lot smarter than he's letting on) is his wild and crazy attention-grabbing appearance. It's an obvious part of the package, especially evident when he's stood next to the multitude of faceless, indistinguishable politicians with tidy hair, practiced dead-eyed smiles and neat-as-a-pin outfits. It's a clear statement that "I am not like them", designed to fit in with the outspoken attitude and distance himself from the career politician archetype.

I misunderstood you at first. I thought you meant that the tramps or the 'commonfolk' or whoever were supporting Boris because he looks like them. But the idea that his persona separates himself with the political class and is thereby more appealing to the majority of voters, that's something I can easily agree with.
However, whether he's smarter than he's letting on really depends on what side of the political spectrum you fall on, but he certainly is Machiavellian in his attitude to politics, that much is true.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Eating children in a tie is less main street and more Wall street. We want them to feel safe

"With the Kinnect you can get up and walk"

You aren't fooling anyone.

"I feel happy! I feel happy!"

Audience: "Thank you." Grey: "Don't mention it."
While we're still on Holy Grail, it's hard to find who is the king here, the one who doesn't have shit all over him.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Not the first time I have heard this comment about the business casual, but the first time I've seen the issue's reasoning put as such.

Interesting.

Personally I like the look with a tie better.

 

[SonicWaffle]

However, whether he's smarter than he's letting on really depends on what side of the political spectrum you fall on, but he certainly is Machiavellian in his attitude to politics, that much is true.

I'm a dirty unwashed liberal scumbag by the standards of some (our more popular national newspapers, certainly) but even I don't think he's a foolish man. My money is on him being a supervillain beneath all that bluster and the friendly attitude. He's playing that stinking city like a harp from Hell!

 

[Lieju]

My money is on him being a supervillain beneath all that bluster and the friendly attitude. He's playing that stinking city like a harp from Hell!

I'm not convinced.

I mean, if he was, surely he would have taken the golden opportunity the London olympic games presented and use it to order the construction of a stadium that turns into a giant robot, or transmit a mind-control message in the opening ceremony.

That leads into another problem I have with these shows...It's always some nob that knows absolutely nothing about games, nor cares about them, that ends up showing them off! Instead of the developers themselves doing it. But that's another issue entirely...

Didn't they show off developers too, though?

 

[RJ 17]

They should dress up as devils for E3. It be a change of pace.

Honesty would indeed be a change of pace for them.

The long and short of it is that unless Microsoft's presentation at E3 is the sexiest thing since sex, I just don't see a way for them to come back from this horrendous PR nightmare. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft takes EA's "Worst Company in America" crown next year.

 

[SonicWaffle]

My money is on him being a supervillain beneath all that bluster and the friendly attitude. He's playing that stinking city like a harp from Hell!

I'm not convinced.

I mean, if he was, surely he would have taken the golden opportunity the London olympic games presented and use it to order the construction of a stadium that turns into a giant robot, or transmit a mind-control message in the opening ceremony.

Thing is, how do you know he didn't?!

Mind control, after all. All Boris would need to do is tell us to remember a pleasant opening ceremony and then go about our business. We have no way to know what really happened.

 

[Mr Companion]

I refuse to believe I'm the only person who read the executives' dialogue in the voice of Morbo from Futurama.

We all did.

 

[Mr.Savage]

Snip

Didn't they show off developers too, though?

I meant that in a general sense. I never actually watched the Xbone reveal, myself.

 

[Lieju]

My money is on him being a supervillain beneath all that bluster and the friendly attitude. He's playing that stinking city like a harp from Hell!

I'm not convinced.

I mean, if he was, surely he would have taken the golden opportunity the London olympic games presented and use it to order the construction of a stadium that turns into a giant robot, or transmit a mind-control message in the opening ceremony.

Thing is, how do you know he didn't?!

Mind control, after all. All Boris would need to do is tell us to remember a pleasant opening ceremony and then go about our business. We have no way to know what really happened.

Well, James Bond was there too, right?

I like to think we missed a big battle between Boris and Bond.
Boris standing next to the olympic flame, giving his evil monologue to the hypnotized growd, Bond jumping in, but look, Boris has an ace up in his sleeve; a Boris bike-atron, a giant robot transformer made of bicycles!
It almost seems like the agent is defeated, when the queen lands from the sky and beats him with the aid of her military-trained attack-corgis.

We all probably just missed it because everyone stopped watching when the flag-parade started. (I know I did).