WTF360 (via Shouts from the Abyss)

Apparently “Project Natal” has a name now. Microsoft is calling it the Kinect.

For the scariest possible Halloween I plan to dress up as a “Kinect” this year. (I just peed myself.)

Here are my predictions: This is one of the dumbest devices ever conceived. Therefore, of course, the public will gobble it up like lambs led to the slaughter.

The last thing I want to do while video gaming is stand up, much less jerk around like a drunken fool. This is one bad, bad idea.

Microsoft has forgotten one of the most important core principles about video gaming: It’s about sitting on your lazy ass as much as humanly possible.

Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, and FAIL!

I just can’t wait to do this shit in the fucking “cloud.”

Oh Microsoft, you know me so well. From Xbox.com: You Are the Controller. Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is life experience. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Abort … abort … abort! Listen up Nintendo, Microsoft and any … Read More

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8 responses

  1. The last video game I played looked like this. http://tinyurl.com/25cds45

    I’m not so cool. Small world, mine, but it’s cheap.

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    1. Ah! Classic gaming goodness. You just went up a notch in my book! 🙂

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  2. Standing up? I’m not convinced that what legs were invented for.

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    1. You got it! When I recreate I prefer to move my finger no more than 1/4″ in any direction. Now THAT is fun!

      When the “Kinect” can connect directly to my brain and I don’t even have to move my finger then we’ll be on to something big.

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  3. I want one! Even if it ends up never being used
    :p

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    1. I look forward to seeing the home movies with that device. Something tells me it is even worse than singing in the shower. 🙂

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