about gaf: biggest problem is that everyone comes off as a shill now, myself included (for Just Cause 2). chances are the closest you'll get to unfiltered opinions are in unrelated threads or months after the game came out. The period before and around release is either a bunch of high praise or trolling. it's not thing new but the ratio and frequency of the trolls or shills is just much greater. the trolls aren't even clever anymore. it's a lot of passive aggressive insincere ignorance bullshit.
about linux on ps3: from what I understand there are two groups that really use it. you have the people who use it like a computer, like the military or something, and the four people nerdy enough to put linux on their PS3. chances are the people using it as a computer won't care that they can't play games on the same hardware and the second group probably have linux running on dozens of other hardware in their rank bedroom. I'm guessing the reason they're taking linux out is the potential for piracy. it is always lame when a company will remove features, but I don't think it actually matters for most everyone. It's affecting those people who want to run linux AND wand to stay current with PS3 games and features.
though, if they get rid of my PS2 BC, I'd probably rage hard. I shouldn't judge the minority who use smaller forgotten features of the PS3.
it would be hilarious if they released a firmware upgrade that disabled the memory card reader shit under that little hood. there is a compact flash slot!
