No, I am questioning the extent to which you think something is bad. There's a huge difference.
That would depend on the context of the conversation and you've chosen a pretty poor example either way.
Good Lord. Just throw the phrase in an editorial software like Style Writer or any online editor and see for yourself if any redundancies, double negatives or any other grammatical error comes up. Go ahead. I dare ya. Because you're really acting like a thickhead here.
There is only ONE. NEGATIVE. IN. THE. SENTENCE.
The verb "decrying" was never and is never considered as a form of negation in the English language. Go brush up on your reading comprehension and stop eating my brain. Dumbass.
Even after company execs clearly laid it out in layman's terms? Then it's not my problem you want to keep your heads buried in the sand.
Are you...deliberately acting dumb? The episodic content can be considered as a kind of mini-expansion packs which MS will sell through the Live Marketplace. I really can't believe how you're constantly baffled by the idea.
JUST GO AND READ YOUR OWN GODDAMN NEXT-GEN.BIZ LINK!
Microsoft announced in the E3 press conference that Xbox Live had reached the 7 million mark as of July 2007 (which will most definitely increase significantly with the release of Halo 3). That is almost 65% of the total user base. You are the one who is reaching here. Why don't you do your homework before babbling nonsense like a clueless baby that needs to be spoonfed every bit of information?
I'd love to post actual prices of components from online retail stores but I'm starting to lose patience with your bull**** already and knowing you, you'd simply act like an incorrigible moron yet again not reading my posts and post even more gibberish. You want to play Alan Wake on the PC? Fine. Knock yourself out.
Wow, I actually thought you had quit. Alrighty, here we go again. Wow, there are actually two battles happening concurrently.
1. What would depend on the context of the conversation? The use of the words "as bad as" in association with something? this is as bad as this is the only logical way the sentence can be formulated.
My argument, so to speak, was that you could have formulated your sentence better instead as in "as bad as you ignorantly claiming.." because you already made it abundantly clear that I was condemning something when you mentioned "bad." Sure, the exact degree isn't explicated there, but neither is it explicated with "decry" either. In other words, your entire sentence never contended the "extent" of anything. Edit: I meant that your use of "decry" never clarified the extent of anything. And lol I said that obviously it wasn't a double f***ing negative. My point is that it falls into the same fallacy. You use two words to imply what one word could have already.
2. It's 54% of the 60 something percent of all online users. I was wrong about it being closer to 20%, but I could have sworn it was around those numbers a minute ago lol. Anyways, my bad. Avid PC gamers make up about 41% of that install base, so they don't count. And then you have the casual gamers who play poker and ish. So, about 54% play on Live, give or take. That's great. But do you think that will be significant enough for gamers. Especially considering as how the episodic content might very well be like 2 more missions? Moreover, due to price, the PS3/XBOX 360 communities don't really overlap as much as they once did. So, if you have a 360, you'll get it regardless and the same with PS3. My point is...the DLC isn't really relevant for..well...anyone, so it seemed as though Microsoft was "reaching" when they thought that that would attract new consumers to not only the game, but to their system itself. GTAIV is a system seller, but if you like Xbox, you'll get the one on Xbox and if you like PS3, you'll get that one regardless of two measly episodic missions.
Here's what Reeves had to say about it.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=26702
3. Woah, I though a minute ago we tacitly agreed that insults were bad.
Anyways, with Crysis, the video card alone might cost $600 and up. Since I'm not sure if Alan Wake is requiring something over a Nvidia 7800GTX/ATI X1800XT (SM 3.0) or DX10 equivalent, I can't comment on that. But in terms of CPU costs, what I'm saying is you can combat that with selling your s**t. like, a 2.7 GHZ process costs about $540 retail, which is around what you need for Crysis. An AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPu is $320 dollars retail. That's more than enough for Crysis. Core 2 Quad Q6600, which is a top of the line, is around $851. But that's top of the line. And, like I said, you only need a tri or maybe even a dual. With all the s**t that you can sell...the costs aren't so bad. But no..I'm probably not going to get Alan Wake because I'm still waiting for Max Payne 3. I loved those games.
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