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Minato

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It turns out that Microsoft is a crucial partner to the NSA's Internet expansion surveillance program

What is this 1st Amendment you speak of?

Maybe I should buy an Xbox One. Download some adult smut on it; Happy myself up; then yell "Your move, government!"
To you and the people that "liked" it, that's not really what the first amendment is though. The First Amendment is a privacy of beliefs or assembly.

It's the Fourth Amendment is what you're probably thinking of.

Edit: I actually take some of that back, it does infringe on some of the First Amendment by spying on free speech. But it doesn't really infringe by restricting anything.
 

finalark

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To you and the people that "liked" it, that's not really what the first amendment is though. The First Amendment is a privacy of beliefs or assembly.

It's the Fourth Amendment is what you're probably thinking of.

Edit: I actually take some of that back, it does infringe on some of the First Amendment by spying on free speech.

I liked it because I got a good laugh out of it.

If you want to get technical, the Xbone denies freedom of assembly since only one person is allowed to play a game or watch a movie with the Xbone. Although through major loopholes the First Amendment says that Congress can never make a law denying assembly, it says nothing about corporations. Since this is The United States, and land in which Corporations can abuse loopholes to do things the government can't, it's technically legal.

We really need to update the amendments, since many of them were written at a time when government was the only defining force. Capitalism has changed.
 

Minato

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I'm actually confused if Xbone's really going to implement that. Restricting the amount of people watching/playing just sounds so dumb. I want to think what was said in the patent was just a bad example on how it really can be used, but who knows. I'd like to think it's just limiting the amount of players (like controller ports) so the game doesn't act all crazy, but who knows. I can never be too sure with MS now.

And true. And the amendments can be so vague now. A lot of uses for it basically is, "We didn't say this, but we meant this."
 

finalark

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I'm actually confused if Xbone's really going to implement that. Restricting the amount of people watching/playing just sounds so dumb. I want to think what was said in the patent was just a bad example on how it really can be used, but who knows. I'd like to think it's just limiting the amount of players (like controller ports) so the game doesn't act all crazy, but who knows. I can never be too sure with MS now.
Pretty much. When rumors were flying around about MS banning used games and how the console always had to be connected to the internet I thought it was too stupid to be true. These days, anything is possible.
 

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Seeing how incredibly and laughably deep of a hole they've been digging themselves in ever since the console reveal, this is all I need to say when I watch the Microsoft press conference:

 

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Why do I get this feeling that each news or rumor about the Xbox One is even worse than what we had already known?
 

Mic_128

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There is no good news. There's only bad news and worse news
 

Minato

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An insider just said that the DRM is even worse than what we currently know. That's not good.

Also, for those that are interested, it's said that Mirror's Edge 2 will be shown.
 

LivewiresXe

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Call of Duty: Roman Warfare looks meh. And KI3? Holy crap. It's just too bad that as long as it's an Xbox1 exclusive it can NEVER have a tournament scene.
 

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Killer Instinct did excite me a bit. Seeing it again.

But it was only on there for a couple seconds. And was the ONLY thing
 

theeboredone

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Games that have intrigued me so far that are Xbone exclusives...

1. Max: The Curse of the Brotherhood
2. Sunset Overdrive
3. Quantum Break
4. Killer Instinct

Also, two "technical difficulties" moments.
 

LivewiresXe

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The only games that have really interested me as exclusives are KI3 and Dead Rising 3. But as much as I love KI and want to play it, I unfortunately never will unless it becomes multiplatform. And that was actually Battlefield 4, but same thing.
 

theeboredone

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I felt like 50-60% of these "exclusives" were shooter related -_-. That or the combination of third party and first party games seem to be of the shooter kind.
 

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I felt like 50-60% of these "exclusives" were shooter related -_-. That or the combination of third party and first party games seem to be of the shooter kind.

Or they gave us little to no information about. Like that one Black Tusk studio game. I don't even think we got a title for that.
 

TheBluAssassin

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Okay, coming from a guy who actually likes Microsoft, I have to say, the PS4 and Wii U will absolutely **** the X-Box One.
 

finalark

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I only caught the tail end of the conference. The only thing that really caught my interest was Titanfall, I was pretty underwhelmed by the constant minuet-long CG trailers for games.

Although I apparently missed KI3 and Dead Rising 3.
 

Minato

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Yeah, this console isn't for me. I only picked up a 360 because they moneyhatted some JRPG developers and they pretty much gave up this time. I'm surprised at the spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon? I never played the original though so it's not going to do much for me. It's not like it's Shenmue or anything.
 

finalark

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Yeah, this console isn't for me. I only picked up a 360 because they moneyhatted some JRPG developers and they pretty much gave up this time. I'm surprised at the spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon? I never played the original though so it's not going to do much for me. It's not like it's Shenmue or anything.

Hold up, new Panzer Dragoon kinda?
 
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