Temple of the Dog. Although, they're really grunge not alternative, but I don't know how strict your definition is.

Hmm... I actually read a different article and didn't bother to read yours. Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was picking on you. The article I read did not give that as a justification, just that there will be more "innovation" and other equally vague terminology.

Well, I feel that most non-Whites, especially Blacks and Indians resent being in a White dominated country that politically and economically repressed them. There's also the fact that, well I believe it to be fact anyway, that racism is basically an inborn instinct to protect your genes and that everyone is naturally suspicious of outsiders. And it's just going to be that way no matter how much education people have. Generally speaking people are now aware enough to take a step outside themselves and objectively understand that someone not of their racial group isn't a threat.

Speaking as a white person, I think whites now feel attacked because our political power has been reduced. And it's not that we hate other races, it's that people like to be in control of their destiny. I think that's where the feeling that inspired the results of the OPs survey. Of course, I am not a representative of all white people. I can understand why Blacks and Indians might feel resentment towards whites, because they also want to be in control of their destiny, and living in a land that is controlled by white people isn't giving them that control, regardless of whether or not legal discrimination exists or not.

That really depends on where you live. That may be true in the Bible belt, but you better hide the fact you're Christian if you want to get elected in NYC or San Fransisco.

It has nothing to do with being able to choose your ISP. It has to do with being able to choose what content you want to view. The ISP's can now force that choice on you. They can now block one content provider in favor of the content provider that pays your ISP the most money.

There is no longer free speech on the internet. You simply cannot have it when you have these people dictating where you download your content from.

What would be totally awesome is if everyone just created our own ad-hoc network. But there are too many people who are too clueless about tech to do that, forget about finding enough people willing to do it.

So far as I understand there are no plans to bring it to the US. But maybe somebody knows better.

Well... I mean, the average PC does not have dual 780s in SLI . Most people just have plain crappy intel GPUs and an average CPU that isn't overclocked.

I absolutely hate the style of combat such as in the Witcher 2, it wreaks of console to me. Just my opinion so don't get all freaked out about it. Like it or not with Oculus Rift would this style of gameplay have any place at all?

I don't think it wreaks of console. I like that type of combat. It's a more "intimate" version of a strategy game. Many CRPGs have been 3rd person since the 1980s at least. Offhand, I can't think of a CRPG from the 1970s. Anyway, I could see this style of gameplay live on and work well within the Oculus Rift. You would be sort of an observer in the situation. Maybe a "god" of sorts which commands your PC what to do and be able to fly around the area to get perspectives you couldn't get in a 1st person game. Or maybe even a hybrid, it's 1st person, you press a button and check around the corner to see if an enemy is coming, and then press a button again and you're back "inside" your character as a sort out-of-body experience.

Maybe someone knows this, in older shooters, I means 1990s old, there used to be keybinds that would turn your head, but sometime around (before) the original Far Cry these bindings ceased. I mean, from a non-VR perspective, it's quite pointless to be able to turn your head without turning your gun. I would think they would have to rebind that to the oculus rifts gyro somehow. I'm curious if older games will have to be retro-fitted with these bindings back in.

I think they would make it a windows/xbone exclusive if SteamOS is really successful.

But the Halo series never really interested me all that much. I always thought it was a waste of Bungies talent.