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stripeypants · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:41 am Post subject:

I'd actually use it. If it included a TV and games to play. But then I have other console to play with.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

I wouldn't use it for games, but that's partly because the only gaming I ever do of my own volition is sporadically and briefly obsessing over some tower defence game or that candies game or something piddly like that.
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stripeypants · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:07 am Post subject:

I'd probably use it for movies, really. Because I have no DVD player, which deprives me of the many fine films available at the public library for free.

I could finally finish Babylon 5.
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Snorri · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:29 pm Post subject:

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Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

aaaaand I don't particularly care

I had an Android tablet in my care (not my possession) for most of a year and I only ever used it as an alarm/gps/thing_to_test_Android_applications_I_had_written_on.

Playing tower defence on a console doesn't really appeal to me either
it's just a maybe-once-every-three-months distraction to my usual computer activities
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fritterdonut · Joined: 24 Jul 2012 Posts: 1462

On a somewhat related note, anyone have any experience with those $50 Android iPad ripoffs?
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 14389 Location: Unknown Kaddath

They're never worth it. None of them will ever have anything approaching a screen that won't make your eyes bleed.

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 11274 Location: PDX

Or a processor/RAM that doesn't handle like a 15-year-old driving a manual transmission. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Die. Start. Die.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

It's really hard to make a decent tablet under $100
and $200 is a better bet
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Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11331

Man like I'd give OUYA a pass if its hardware ran shit better than present-day smartphones it was conceptually based on providing an alternative to. Or if the controller wasn't such a flimsy POS.

Even the PA-noted emulation bonanza is just unambiguously superior on the pc (surprise, surprise?) and you can use an xbox controller or whatsoever you fancy.

Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11331

I guess ouya isn't just meh, a lot of people really totally think it's bad

The SA Ouya thread:

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