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Telling by how often this happens in a gun loving country like America and how rarely it happens in UK where guns are illegal I can safely say I would rather live in the UK.

It actually doesn't happen that often, and per capita it actually happens less than in the UK, the current political climate is what is elevating these stories to national status.  They need sensational headlines to stay alive.  Also, California is a very strict state for gun ownership.  FBI crime stats show that states with less restrictive gun laws and concealed carry permits have far fewer crimes involving firearms than states that have stricter laws.

Also, the rate of gun crimes has been steadily decreasing nationwide since the early 90s.  the worst of it was from the 20s through the 60s.

EA has recently recanted their past statement and now consider Wii U part of their "Gen 4"

http://nintendoenthu...as-competition/

I'm glad you're doing good. I have to say, the way you avoided that car was awesome. Would've been much worse if you didn't.

Also, those motorcycles are pretty sessy. Especially the black one.

I wish you the best.

Thanks

When you get training it tends to kick in when you need it most, without your even knowing it at the time lol.

I prefer the styling of the Ninja as well.

Well I'm glad that you didn't sustain life threatening injuries. I've been wanting a motorcycle since I was a little kid (specifically a classic with a side car). Was your wife pretty mad at you? Or was she scared?

My wife is ultra supportive.  To give you some perspective, she's pregnant, and while this did scare her, she recognizes that motocycles can be safe if the rider is properly trained and properly geared for the experience.

She was instrumental in helping me find a replacement.

I did notice you were absent, a few days ago! Glad you are ok.
To be honest, if i were you, i would never ride another bike ever again. I think bikes aren`t safe enough.

Honestly, I would rather be knocked off a motorcycle than trapped in a car.  I wear armor that protects vital organs, at 55MPH I only sustained minor fractures and some road rash on my hand, that says a lot about the worthiness of protective equipment

I wanted to make this post to let some here know why I haven't been as active on the forums recently, as among other things, I was involved in a motorcycle accident.

Three weeks ago I was cut off on the highway while riding my motorcycle to work.  In order to avoid running headlong into the car that had changed lanes with less than three feet of room in front of me, I applied the front and rear brakes too fast and too hard to recover control over the bike.

I fishtailed (rear wheel lockup), hit the kill switch and turned the bars hard to the right to lay my CBR600F4i down at an angle that would push me and the bike onto the left shoulder of the highway.  I came off underneath the bike and rolled several yards before coming to a stop.  No damage to the other vehicle.

At first I felt little pain, more frustration than anything, as my adrenaline took over.  After getting up and attempting to sit on the median dividing wall, others that had stopped for me laid me on the ground, as I had sustained some road rash and my left shoulder was completely immobilized.

EMT's and firefighters came to assess the situation, they removed sections of my jeans and my riding jacket to get access to injured areas, and prepared me for the ambulance ride to the ER.

I was diagnosed with a broken scapula and a fractured L4 vertebra.  The prognosis was positive, both required simple immobilization and rest to heal within months.  I am still dealing with back and shoulder pain, but it has improved dramatically.

 To anyone considering owning and riding a motorcycle know this.  Had I not worn every piece of protective gear that day, rolling down the highway after a fall at 55MPH would have destroyed my arm, hands, and back.  I would not have had the opportunity to continue riding.  If there is any advice I can offer it is to get as much protective gear as possible and wear it ALL THE TIME.  No exceptions.  We call it ATGATT: All the Gear, All the Time.

My motorcycle was totaled because the repair costs exceeded the value of the bike, and I will be picking up my new bike today.

RIP 2005 CBR600F4i, you will be missed.

Welcome to the family 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R

Look routerbad its clear I absolutely and utterly disagree with you so its pretty obvious nothing has been proven to me. Why on earth would you mention iwata-san in your comment in response. As it stands 100% of the evidence is on my side because the wii u simply isn't performing to the level people like you are claiming. Your argument is some golden dawn where the wii u performs to a higher level but that has yet to happen and I would say it never will at least not to any significant level beyond current performance.

 

Again I'm only saying something that is controversial in this environment which is a nintendo forum. Outside this forum in a multi-console environment most of what I have said is already accepted by the majority.

 

Why not at least wait until there is some evidence to your viewpoint available. That's real evidence based on how the wii u is performing. I'm a wii u owner and would love the wii u to be more powerful than it is but the evidence dictates it is in the same area of performance as 360 and PS3. You'll not win any argument while the wii u is still struggling to outperform 360 and PS3 because most sane people will realise that a console that can not outperform current gen consoles is hardly going to be competitive with next gen consoles that are much more powerful.

Meh, switching subjects again?  What is it with you and straw men?  Where do I start?  Well, for starters, there isn't a single game, not one, that is "struggling to match PS3 performance".  It, isnt happening.  

Exactly 0% of the "evidence" is on your side.  Look, we've put evidence all over this site to the contrary, 90% of it (I can make up statistics too ) is in your quoted comment box.  You try and claim that the hardware that we see in the photographs clearly suggests its lack of "powah" then when you are summarily proven wrong, you go with "the games aren't performing like you are saying".  Make up your mind.

The Wii U performs at a higher level than any 7th generation device.  Simply put, it is more powerful.  Your ridiculous claims that somehow a port from a 7th generation device, using the same engine as a 7th generation device, running code as it would on a 7th generation device (CPU centric), and in some cases only using two of the available cores and still achieving either the same results or better is "evidence" that "Wii U is running on last century hardware" and that "Wii U is equivalent to a current gen system" have been put down time and time again.

I've explained also why you disregard every....single....comment that proves you wrong because you are unwilling to read what people who know more about hardware systems than you say and because you are unwilling to disregard your own confirmation bias.  Simply put, as I have said to you before, Wii U could put out the most technically advanced game engine of all time and you would still claim it is otherwise.

Also as I've said, Nintendo's own launch title proves you wrong instantaneously because it is pulling off effects that are either impossible or were impractical on last generation hardware.  You refuse to listen, or do any research, preferring to prop up straw men to cover your heine.

So you have current, commercially available evidence to take into account and you won't.  Software sells hardware, but software doesn't dictate how powerful the hardware is on its own.  The performance of the system, just the 50% that we know of the system, can be derived very simply.  Just 50% of the Wii U's GPU is more powerful than any of the last gen systems.  Period.  Until we know more about what the other half is used for that much is left up to speculation.  What you can take to the bank is that it is being used.  Now this is just raw performance.  This isnt even mentioning the fact that the logic is much more modern and capable of every single trick that any of the other next gen systems will be capable of, albeit to varying degrees.

What there has not been any evidence of is the Wii U being in even the same ballpark as PS3 or 360.  That's pure fanboyism and confirmation bias.  Everyone knows that you don't judge systems based on ports from different hardware.  PS3 had troubles running RE:R, does that mean that the 3DS is a more powerful system?  Not a chance.

I can point out the "evidence" you keep overlooking as many times as you are backward enough to post ridiculous fallacies on this board.  I've pointed it out multiple times, you are unwilling to read and comprehend.  I'm sure you'll say in some other thread today that there is no "evidence" that the Wii U is more powerful than the HD twins again.  It's bound to happen, you've fallen into a state of psychosis.  You don't even realize what your fingers are doing its drilled so far into your brain.

I mentioned Iwata-San because he did, in fact, make an idiotic statement about the Wii.  You suggested that everyone made similar statements, but no one else has.  No one is saying that the Wii U is as powerful as the PS4, but you'll try and accuse us of that later today as well, because that's what you've become known for.  Weak straw men and idiotic logic that you think supports your argument, but only makes you look foolish.

you opened a can on that one ^^ I agree with you saying that this is only controversial on a Wii U forum, anywhere else it would be considered reasonable (not saying right for the "fangirls").

 

I'm not a technical person when it comes to the Wii U, but I believe what I can see with my own eyes. I haven't seen or played anything on the Wii U that is obviously above the ps360 gen. "Wait till e3" i hear, "give it time" I hear, and sure, I will, but I won't really be surprised if nothing comes out that head and shoulders above the ps360. That killzone trailer is the first time I've had the "yah, THATS next gen" vibe from any of the consoles. (and no, im not a cod whore).

Killzone looks like a last gen game with more RAM for higher res textures.  That is all.  And see my comment RE: NintendoLand.  It is actually doing things that are simply technically unachievable on PS360, because the PS360 hardware does not support the effects.

They did not. They just got butthurt.

They didn't even get butthurt.  Everyone attributes a quote made by an iOS game developer at indie dev con to be the word from activision themselves, it isn't.  It's a mobile app dev with delusions of grandeur spreading rumor haplessly from idle chat that he himself only overheard between two other people who were also unaffiliated with Activision.

It's too bad for the Wii U that most big-named publishers like Activision and EA stepped off. That's really hurting the system since Activision and EA have possibly the largest pools of developers.

Acti haven't stepped off.

While I agree with the sentiment here, I disagree that the Wii U is ahead of its time. So far, I love it and admire it for delivering a home console to people who mostly just want to play games and not worry about TV and other random stuff. But I'd be fooling myself if I thought that it was ahead of its time. 

It does offer an interactive TV service, it just isn't touted as the main focus of the console.

 

Nintendo has detailed on an official Wii U Tour 2013 website six iconic locations where Nintendo fans can test drive the Wii U along with several of the currently available games for the platform.  The first location we’ve already heard about, as the tour kicked off on May 26th in Anaheim, California at Disneyland Resort’s Downtown Disney.  The events are set up as a living room setting with backdrops of some of Nintendo’s most iconic and beloved characters.

Future event locations include:

• Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, FL – June 5th – June 23rd
• Navy Pier 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL – June 28th – July 21st
• Bloomington, MN – June 28th – July 21st
• Boston, MA – August 10th – September 2nd
• Hollywood & Highland Center – August 10th – September 2nd

A few of the venues have yet to be determined, but they have the cities and dates mapped out to coincide to popular vacation destinations throughout the summer months.

Nintendo have also given a list of what can be seen and experienced at these locations:

• Nintendo Land
• New Super Mario Bros. U
• LEGO City Undercover
• Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Demo Version)
• Need for Speed Most Wanted U
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Resident Evil Revelations (Demo Version)
• Rayman Legends Challenges App

The events will also let attendees experience the features available on Wii U, to include the eShop, TVii, Wii U Chat, Wii Street U, and more.

Is Nintendo coming to a city near you or a city in your vacation plans? I know I’ll be making a trip to Hollywood to see it for myself.  Let us know in the comments below.

 

http://nintendoenthu...ough-september/

Dealthstroke DLC was confirmed by Amazon, we contacted them to make sure it wasn't a mistake.

http://nintendoenthu...-wii-u-is-a-go/

Jaguar is an x86 chip, meaning that it is generally the same architecture as the first x86-64 chips of 2006. Anything else would be incompatible with Windows and such unless Microsoft rewrote the os for that platform.

Espresso, while being based on the Power architecture, is under the full control of Nintendo which can tailor the chip to handle the exact workload that gaming requires. X86 on the other hand has to be more of a generic chip that handles anything from gaming to daemons/services to Microsoft Office, meaning that not all of it's processing abilities are directly usable for gaming.

No, it has a similar instruction set.  Actual architecture varies greatly between even x86 cores, otherwise they would never need to iterate and create "better" versions of the same architecture.  Just like FLOPS only tells part of the story with graphics instructions, x86 only relays that it is compatible with the x86 instruction set, and more recently, it also confers that it is also compatible with the 64 bit extensions to the x86 instruction set.

Ouya is the same eighth generation as wii u, ps4 and the xboner and is easily beaten by the dreamcast for many types of games. The generation thing is not signfiicant.

 

As for performance this should be judged and based on the specification and the performance of games. As specifications can vary on so many levels and developers can vary the amount of effort used to create games people can always find some way of expressing an opinion that x is better than y on some level. When the wii was launched many claimed it had comparable performance to the 360 and PS3 and there are plenty of old arguments on forums predicting the next wii game would be equal to the  360 or PS3 version. I think for about 2 years there were people predicting this until they finally accepted reality and stopped posting such comments. Same will happen with wii u I'm sure.

I've never seen one person, ever, save Iwata-san himself (who was dead wrong) make a claim that Wii would have games that look anywhere near the same as on PS360.

You are still ignoring everything that's being said and proven to you, and now you are creating fantasy arguments to support your claim again, because you are unable to level with reality yourself.

The HyperScan and the Zeebo were both included in the seventh generation along with Wii, 360 and PS3... Does anyone actually consider them to be on the same level as any of the big three? No. Generation designation doesn't matter.

Arguing that something isn't next gen because of a hardware specification is beyond ridiculous, and it shows that people are willing to rewrite the dictionary to support a flawed argument.

In the grand scheme of things, you are right, it means very little to the end customer what someone wants to call it.

I call the Wii U current gen. How can you call something next gen when it's already released!

It is current gen, PS360 are last gen.

But hasn't Nintendo used pretty much the same engine since Mario 64? I know Shin'en has used the same engine since their DS games, just adding new features when they need new features.

 

Essentially, it doesn't matter if a game is using a new engine, just how it uses the engine.

 

The Wii U will get the enhanced engine. I agree.

No, Nintendo introduced new engines with the GC, and carried them over to the Wii.  They are creating new ones for the Wii U, but demos like the Zelda tech demo ran in a Wii engine that was modified.  The problem is that the COD engine is the same one introduced in 1996.