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		<title>XboxOne reveal impressions</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/05/21/xboxone-reveal-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to not be a little disappointed that there weren&#8217;t more games announced at today&#8217;s XboxOne reveal, even though I think we all knew, deep down, that today&#8217;s reveal was about the actual box itself, and that if they blew their wad on game announcements today, there&#8217;d be nothing left to surprise us at E3.  Even the vague announcement of 15 exclusive games, including 8 all-new franchises, doesn&#8217;t necessarily inspire confidence &#8211; those 8 all-new franchises could very easily be new Kinect titles, which nobody will care about. And it&#8217;s also just been revealed, via The Verge, that XboxOne will not feature backwards compatibility.  Not necessarily that big a surprise, but still.  The PS4 won&#8217;t feature back-compat either, but they will offer PS3&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1457&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>disconnection and reconnection</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/05/21/disconnection-and-reconnection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I replaced my broken hard drive over the weekend. I&#8217;ve never been a fixer.   I&#8217;ve never had a mechanically-inclined mind.  When I played with Legos as a child, I never created things &#8211; I gained intense pleasure from building the thing that was on the cover of the box, following the instructions to the letter, and that was the extent of my creativity with physical objects.   (This is, I think, a reason why Minecraft holds no appeal for me.) So, yeah; I had a busted hard drive and absolutely no idea how to fix it, and even less desire to learn.   The broken hard drive was a $100 problem; if I tried to fix it and ended up breaking something else,&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1450&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>and now a brief bit of self-promotion</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/05/14/and-now-a-brief-bit-of-self-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce that my very first solo album, &#8220;UNTRUE SONGS&#8221;, is now available for purchase, should that be something you wish to do. http://jeremyvoss.bandcamp.com/ This is a collection of songs, sketches and loops written and recorded over the last 8 years or so; I picked the best 15 out of, say, 100 or so&#8230; cleaned them up a bit, trimmed a little fat, tried to put them in some sort of order that made sense, and, well, here you go.  I hope you enjoy it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1445&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>yet another interruption</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/05/13/yet-another-interruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know posting&#8217;s been light around here lately, and so this post is here to explain that, unfortunately, it&#8217;s going to be light for considerably longer than I&#8217;d anticipated, as I woke up Sunday morning to see an error message on my PC indicating that my hard drive failed, and that I needed to back my shit up IMMEDIATELY and then turn everything off and don&#8217;t come back until a new hard drive is ready to be installed.  I then spent around an hour with Dell customer support in an attempt to get a second opinion, and, well, yes &#8211; my hard drive is toast.  Now, they tell me I ordered a new hard drive and some free Windows 7 installation discs, but I&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1435&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>apologies and eulogies</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/04/29/apologies-and-eulogies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to start this post by apologizing to Dishonored, but before I do I must address this news item that just appeared on my Twitter feed &#8211; Kotaku is reporting that as a consequence of the EA layoffs, there is no Tiger Woods game in production for next year, and that the franchise&#8217;s future is in doubt: I have learned, from persons with knowledge of the series&#8217; development, that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 is not happening. On any platform. EA&#8217;s plan was to outsource that edition of the game, to give the in-house team two years to make Tiger Woods 16, taking advantage of all the PS4 and the next Xbox would have to offer. When CEO John Riccitiello gave his resignation last month, that plan&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1430&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a few words on intimidation, over-compensation, and apathy</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/04/25/a-few-words-on-intimidation-over-compensation-and-apathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post might be a little rambly and random; last night the baby had, to put it kindly, an &#8220;uneven night&#8217;s sleep.&#8221;  I keep thinking I&#8217;m getting used to his sleeping patterns, but then every other day those patterns change into something totally different, and I get totally derailed.  It&#8217;s funny; I used to complain that I didn&#8217;t have enough hours in the day to do all the stuff I need to do; but now it feels like each 24-hour day actually lasts for, say, 72 hours, and yet I feel more and more incapacitated. As always, Steve Martin says it a lot better: *     *     *     *     * A few nights ago I attended a&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1424&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a to-do list of sorts</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/04/19/a-to-do-list-of-sorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should sort of go without saying that posting here is going to be pretty light for the next few weeks.  Taking care of my newborn son takes up a fair amount of time, and the time I have that&#8217;s left over is generally spent trying to get back to sleep as quickly as possible.   There&#8217;s just not a whole hell of a lot of gaming going on. But I think that would be the case even if I weren&#8217;t changing diapers and trying to stay awake.  The release calendar is light, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.  The only real must-have on my schedule for the rest of the year is GTA5, which doesn&#8217;t come out until September.  Certainly I&#8217;m intrigued by Metro&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1421&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the last two weeks</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/04/16/the-last-two-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m just going to say this up front:  this is going to be a weird post to write.  I&#8217;ll do my best to keep it easy for you, but even getting these first few sentences out has been a lot more difficult than I&#8217;d anticipated. My last post here was written on Friday, March 29th; I had intended to write a more critical, spoiler-laden post about Bioshock Infinite but wasn&#8217;t quite ready to do it, and so I half-assed a post about iOS games and Tiger Woods 14 instead.  Still, Bioshock Infinite was running around in my brain, and I figured I&#8217;d maybe play the opening again over the weekend and see if I could start putting my thoughts into some order. My wife went into&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1418&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>intermission</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/03/29/intermission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not quite ready to talk about the ending and other spoiler-laden topics of interest related to Bioshock Infinite.  I replayed the ending last night just to make sure I&#8217;d remembered it correctly, but now I feel like I need to replay the whole game again and see if anything changes, now that I know what I know. That might take a while, though, and in the meantime there&#8217;s a bunch of other games that I&#8217;m playing right now that ought to get talked about. For starters, this week&#8217;s iOS hotness is Nimble Quest, from the makers of Pocket Planes and Tiny Tower.  Instead of being a resource sim, however, this is an action RPG played as a game of Snake.  Super charming art style and very,&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1414&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bioshock Infinite &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://shoutsfromthecouch.com/2013/03/27/bioshock-infinite-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jervonyc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently in Day 2 of a horrific stomach bug, so I&#8217;m home again.  Yesterday, my day was spent finishing Bioshock Infinite.  Today, my day will largely be spent thinking about how to talk about it. In fact, I may have to do this in two posts, ultimately &#8211; one post devoted purely to how the game actually plays and looks and sounds and feels, and then another post about the story, necessarily filled with lots of spoilers, because, for better and for worse, there are things that need to be talked about.  I think I can combine elements of the second into this first post without getting too spoilery, though &#8211; or at least I&#8217;ll do my best to keep spoilers well advertised. You know,&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shoutsfromthecouch.com&#038;blog=21052206&#038;post=1331&#038;subd=shoutsfromthecouch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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