The image make me laugh a lot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZCS5I80X-8

This uploaded twice on itunes, just a heads up.

Is it weird that I didn't know PeeWee was still doing Playhouse skits?

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7a03edbd7/pee-wee-gets-an-ipad

Thanks for addressing my question. Though I get that there's a rush from succeeding against difficult odds (e.g. Samit's God of War example), I just felt like Anthony in particular (though not exclusively) seems to enjoy games with especially brutal consequences for small mistakes (Spelunky, Flood the Chamber) or with a constant sense of teetering on the edge of death (The Void, Pathologic). It just seemed like there was more to that preference than chasing an adrenaline high.

No one interrupts like Brad Nicholson. Thanks Brad...I mean Mr. Nicholson.

Who wants Shenmue 3 anyways? Bring back games like ChuChu Rocket!

Hrmm.. I listened to the entire thing minus the ME2 talk earlier. I can't say I really noticed anything that needed editing out, but the newly pushed version on iTunes is 5 minutes shorter.

Calling the iPad "just a big iPhone" is one thing but what are netbooks? Just little laptops that can't do jack because their hardware sucks, that's unenjoyable to use because they generally running regular old Windows or Linux on a scrunched screen that you can't turn to portrait orientation for comfortable web browsing or writing.

They also come with janky little keyboards (some can't even fit trackpads) that are as irritating to type on as the iPad's virtual keyboard will probably be. I don't think anyone would even consider buying an iPad if it really was just a big iPhone with a pixel-doubled interface (which it isn't) and it supports full physical keyboards. Played the VVVVV demo on my Mac yesterday and it uses only the keyboard, so it would play fine if they ported it to the iPad with keyboard support. Maybe it would get more attention and sales then.

Also, complaining that Apple doesn't let anything and everything onto the App Store is a bit naive when 1) you're playing on a PS3, which has an even stricter (not to mention expensive) approval process, 2) you're using Steam (which also doesn't house each and every game) and 3) when the iPad comes with an HTML5 web browser.

Blah blah, it doesn't support Flash. Who needs it when you can build native games that take advantage of the hardware and which generally are accepted onto the App Store. If that fails, you're still completely ignoring the future of web games, which is open standards like HTML5's canvas element and JavaScript. Flash is an archaic, closed, and thanks to HTML5, largely useless dead-end technology.

Anyway, great show as usual.

@natetehgreat

I would get the iPad if it had flash and silverlight. I'd want to watch hulu and netflix on the thing which is why I'm thinking about getting a HP Slate.

Mr eX

Netflix and Hulu are nice but there's nothing keeping either one from doing what YouTube and Vimeo are doing: serving up Flash-free HTML5 video that plays great on the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, in Google Chrome and Safari, and on other devices that currently lack Flash, like the Zune HD, Palm Pre, and the Nexus One, for to name a few.

Netflix and Hulu don't care about what's good for Adobe (let alone Microsoft). They care about what's good for Netflix and Hulu, which is page views.

Like YouTube, Vimeo and many other sites, they'll go to the users, it's simply a matter of time. And I would guess they'll do it by the end of this year.

I'm guessing you're a Windows user because if you've used Flash on almost any other OS, it's not pleasant to put it nicely. Flash has only ever worked well on Windows and even then it's far from ideal.

Wrapping video and ads in Flash made sense when it was essentially ubiquitos a few years ago. Now ~50mil iPhones/iPod touches have been sold and numerous other devices only support Flash, they don't ship with it installed, so web developers can no longer count on Flash.

H.264 video and gif ads are not years away, they're already here and play just fine without the battery-sucking resorce hog that Flash is. Many major outlets and blogs (incl. Dtoid) already present mobile-friendly versions of their sites with straight H.264 vids that consume nowhere near the power Flash would. And then you factor in Flash's constant secuity holes and Adobe's sole control over it—there's nothing else that works like this on the Web!

That basically leaves Flash games, which can be done better and developed easier using native apps.

Are Hulu and Netflix going to continue sitting on their hands when there are 100 million iPhones/iPod touches sold (not even counting however many iPads sold)? I doubt it but I can only speak for me. :)

I have an iPhone and up to about 8 months ago I had a Macbook(I traded it in and got a laptop with better specs than a MacBook pro for half the price).

Hulu already made it so the PS3 can't play it's videos so I don't really think it's interested in letting other devices access it's content. Netflix doesn't use flash as it is now, it uses silverlight and they said they have no plans to make an iPhone app right not but that could change.

Cutting featues because they'll be obsolete in the future really doesn't make sense when they're as widely used as flash.

My distaste for sports-sarkar actually fuels me to want a useless iPad just to prove him wrong (and he is on basically all accounts)

Honestly, the tree was the coolest part. At times it really did look like a Disney made thing. Still, it would have been SO MUCH more epic if he was playing on Expert on that tiny little tv set, with all the lights doing their thing. The garage door doesn't really add to this in any way.
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