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It's not, you know. Mohs of 6.5 compared with diamond at 10.

Hamsters don't like microwaves

Not really: It's also a guide as to flexibility of the engine, gear ratios etc. For example, I might not necessarily need a car that does 0-60 in 5secs, but one that lets me overtake with ease is very important. A diesel would have a crap 0-60, but it would have bags of torque in that range so the 30-100 could be very impressive. I get where you're going though, straight line speed is pretty irrelevant these days when everything vaguely interesting is plenty quick enough.

30-100 is far more important real-world, but it's a stat that's very hard to come by.

M2 is coming soon. Now that is going to knock spots off everything at this price point. I still reckon they forgot to order yours.

At some point, it'll make the difference, but it'll take the Xbone a while to catch up (if ever). PS4 is $400, Xbone is $350. Kid wants new console for Xmas, Black Friday is coming, parents wander into the shop and buy the cheaper one... Neither console has a system-seller game yet, but the Xbone has more decent enough exclusives at this point in the life cycle. Could it make a difference? I don't know. MS have been showing their strengths again compared with the traditional Sony weaknesses (the OS updates and the backbone of the network), but will it ever be enough to get past that point of "Yeah, but the PS4 is cooler than the Xbone!"? A lot of the people who really gave a crap about the Xbone launch shambles have made their choice, and bought their console now. The majority of gamers don't care about 1080/60 vs 1080/30 vs 900/30 vs whatever, and they're going to start buying the console that either their mates have (PS4) or that offers them access to CoD in the cheapest way (Xbone) or that has more AAA exclusives (arguably Xbone at this point). At the moment Sony is very much sitting back and letting the wave of popularity carry them and MS are having to work ridiculously hard to catch up (I can only imagine the loss they're making on every console!), but at some point the consoles will reach parity to the point you cannot notice any difference. The PC Master Race are the ones making the biggest noises about the weakness of the current range of consoles: Those of us that have them really don't care, we just want some more games to play on them! Both systems are really lacking that one AAA+ game that will have them flying out of the doors. Titanfall wasn't it, Driveclub certainly isn't. Halo 5 is over a year away and lord knows where GT7 is. Whilst I'm personally enjoying the games so far, I've not played anything that's blown my socks off. If The Order 1886 is any good then I might pick a PS4 up for that, but it's a way off right now.

Well, colour me shocked. Fair play

Great stuff, glad to hear it's all done Just shows what can be accomplished by talking to someone, rather than writing emails...

No-one needs to see your ass again bro

Huzzah!

A group of young rabbits is called a kindle.

Not too late... Xbone just got reducedby $50 in the US, can't be long until they match that here too.

Yeah, Ricey put it much better than me!

I've not touched Watchdogs since I finished it. Can't wait for WD2 though, I suspect it'll be amazing

Well, good luck. You have zero proof he didn't tighten the plug though. Yes, it's very very very unlikely, but it's now your word against his. Are you prepared to go to court over this? Someone's gotta buckle at some point here. Given the fact you've already said you're not going back there, it's not like he's going to lose a customer any way if he doesn't back down at this point. Sorry bud, but I can't see you winning this one. If the owner backs down then fair play to him: I'm not sure I would at this point. I'd have done it much earlier and sucked it up.

How much do they weigh?

It's not impressive. Check Metacritic out if you want a broad sample of reviews. Downloading the eVolve alpha test now

If you won't even call the guy to have a civil conversation with him, then you're not going to get anywhere. He's not going to back down from here, so if you won't do a bit of acting to get your desired result, then I'm not sure what you really expect to happen? Actually, what DO you want to happen?

Well spotted. Probably just screwed in a bit while the tech went to put the bottle of oil back in the cupboard.

Let me guess, the plug was hand tight? The tech clearly wound it in by hand to stop him losing it, then forgot to tighten it up. Human error it happens, it's frustrating but no-one's perfect. The tech does not want to own up so tells his boss he did tighten it, boss has no choice but to accept his word and so then comes back to you. If it were me, I would CALL HIM (no email), put on a nice smiley voice and just suggest that's what happened. Tell him you're not that bothered, that mistakes do happen but no serious damage was done, and suggest to him that he purchases and fits the gaitor for you and you'll call it a good job and will be back in the future. If you go postal at this point he won't offer you any more, so I'd play super nice just to get the result I wanted. People respond better to compliments and pleasantness than when customers get stroppy. Stroppy can work, but I use it as a last resort.

Nice

Because belly

HR? Confidential?? :lol: It'll be round the office in a flash that she wants to leave.

What does it say in the contract? That's the only thing that matters.

No different to the CoD series, where Xbox players have always had first dibs on the DLC. Just depends where the manufacturer wants to chuck their money. Given that Destiny is an MMO, and for that you want rock-solid networks, I would say that the Xbone is the better gaming machine since PSN went down again for Destiny players on Tuesday