The usual place, for those of you who are awake.

WE ARE THE CHOICIEST

YOUR FLAVORFUL AND SAVORY DELICIOUSNESS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN

only the choiciest of beefs will prevail

warnings from ex-pimps lead to the destruction of the earth

planet garr is a lovely red topping

Zoom out.

It's Mo0.

Fade to black.

Basically, it's all that amputee porn that made the difference.

ok so

Next week is sort of the release date of borderjerks 2: border harder

I am thinking like half of us are going to be on that yeah. Do we bail on next week?

Yeah the release of an amazing co-op game is an excellent reason to skip game night

Half of us are on xbox chief. There might even be some triple users in there.

Embarrassingly poor platform decisions do tend to cripple the co-op aspect of things, yes.

Not like I'm not going to take a month off to play XCOM though so who am I to talk

You know it's strange. You'd think that third parties wouldn't give a fuck about PS3 and 360 players playing each other or with each other if that were at all possible. Do they have to sign a contract against doing this or are the APIs and network shit really that different that they don't bother? I mean I GET PC versus consoles not being done since it's simply not fair to console players but PS3 and 360 should be about even in terms of controls.

Also I still haven't finished Borderlands so you can count me out I guess. Also I always considered Borderlands to be mostly played on PCs what with those steam multi-game packs being so enticing among other things.

Well, if it's like the original BL then multiplayer requires some guy to host the game. If you're hosting on your xbox and a ps3 player joins, then you're using Microsoft hardware to enable a Sony customer's gameplay. So yeah, that's probably a contractual no-no.

Oh that's right the only third party assholes in town that host their own servers for this shit anymore is activision right? My mistake - I can see how a console allowing another console would be bad juju.

Acti has deds for some PC versions of COD, but console deds are few and far between no matter what. BF3 and Gears of War 3 are the most obvious of these right now.

Neither of which are Activision.

Basically Garr is right. I'll likely double dip on borderjerks. With luck, people will have less hoops to jump through than last time.

Basically I know nothing because I refuse to buy most Activision games for myself. I only figured the premium whatever accounts you pay Activision for would include playing on dedicated servers but what would I know. I'm just making assumptions.

Yeah, I heard about that one and I kind of was implying that game when I said PC and console cross platform wasn't far because that game illustrates it. PC gamers wiped the floor with 360 players in that Shadowrun game.

Basically it boiled down to the PC players being weighed down with all sorts of handicaps Harrison Bergeron style while the 360 players got aiming assistance and all the other padded sumo suit shit that's typical of FPS on consoles.

And then the PC players still took a giant shit on them. So the online community didn't last too long on that one, nope.

So can I assume that no game night tonight because of Borderlands 2? Would be good to get this cleared up.

Aw, geez, sorry, should have said something, but yeah nothing tonight both because of Borderlands and because of some other stuff. Y'know, stuff. :(

Sorry if anybody was sitting around drawing dicks and wondering what was going on.

So what are we thinking about for Tuesday? I'm thinking about The Hidden: Source. Anybody object to that?

(Yes you need to own Half-Life 2 but seriously, if you don't own that by now, what the fuck.)

I have an extra copy to hand out if someone doesn't have it.

I have not Half-life two. Shame will be had by me apparently.