The ESPN Cafeteria: Flat Screen TVs and an Xbox
ESPN, Food, Video Games July 22nd. 2008, 11:15am
That’s according to Jemele Hill’s blog (via SI’s temporary blogger). The real question – can you play Xbox live (to you non-video game freaks, live = online) while in the cafeteria? Because that’d rock if we got to destroy Stuart Scott in Madden 2008 in the cafeteria in front of all his colleagues. We’re close to mastering the buttons, so give us a few weeks, Stu-ness.
(Unrelated: Xbox customer support is the absolute worst. They won’t even tell you where they are taking your call from “for security purposes.” The imbecile had never heard of a high-def cable box. This, coupled with their simpleton efforts to try and get us hooked up with Xbox live – YOU DON’T THINK WE ALREADY GOOGLED IT, IDIOT? – prompted an expletive-laced tirade over the weekend. Two, in fact.)
* This is not the actual ESPN cafeteria. We’d love a photo, though. And we will accept camera phone photos. Anonymity assured.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 AM
what the hell? do you crank it thinking of working for espn or something??
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Stu Scott actually can play two madden online games at once
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 AM
TBL, please never think about trying to be edgy and tilt your blog on an angle like Jemele. I can’t read five words of that without getting sick.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Stu Scott actually suffered one his eye injuries playing Wii when Linda Cohn accidentally let go of the controller, so now it’s only Xbox in the cafeteria.
/true story
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Google is not impressed.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Thats what you get for buying a CrapBox 360. Expect it to die within a month. I’ll tell you where they are taking the call from, India.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 AM
goddamnit. IE has crashed on me twice already this morning and it appears that any site with mozilla in the URL is blocked by tech. what the fuck do people see in IE?
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 AM
+1 YYSA
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Already making calls to Xbox support …sure you made the right purchase ?
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 AM
(Unrelated: Xbox customer support is the absolute worst. They won’t even tell you where they are taking your call from “for security purposes.€ The imbecile had never heard of a high-def cable box. This, coupled with their simpleton efforts to try and get us hooked up with Xbox live – YOU DON’T THINK WE ALREADY GOOGLED IT, IDIOT? – prompted an expletive-laced tirade over the weekend. Two, in fact.)
This is hilarious, especially since the company I work for provides the training for the call agents. There are call agents all over many countries.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Oh and PS3 owns XBOX 360.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 AM
YYSA…..thats SO wrong….but why did I laugh at it, anyway?? hahaha
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 AM
It is controllable. Central IT can determine when and what updates are applied. They don’t have to worry about supporting different browsers and their various problems/vulnerabilities. The Dev teams need to only ensure that web apps run on one browser (trust me, getting sites to work/look good on 4 diff browsers is a huuuge pain in the ass). It sucks, but it does make life easier for them.
Tip, try changing the default install folder when installing firefox, sometimes the “blocking” is nothing more than denying exe’s from certain directories.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 AM
I played Stu Scott in Madden once but somehow he knew what play I was running everytime. He claims he was looking at the screen everytime, but for some reason I beg to differ.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:40 AM
i cant even get to the sites, they all come up as ‘page cannot be found’, unless mozilla’s servers are all down. i tried all their international sites too. it just seems IE cant run this page, gmail, and lexis at once without performing an illegal operation every hour. its infuriating
also youtube embeds dont show up anymore
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 AM
@mole: it sounds like a raid is coming like in Boiler ROom. get out of there while you can.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 AM
im taking vin diesel with me
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 AM
good choice.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Hardly. Speaking as a PS3 owner, I’d much rather have a 360 now that Final Fantasy 13 is going multiplatform. Live is 100x better than Sony’s online experience, no exclusives that I care about (screw MGS4), and I have no need for a bluray player. Only reason I went PS3 is because of the backwards compatibility that is no longer supported, and the aforementioned FF13.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 AM
I’m a Sony man, screw the XBOX 360 and it’s retarded controller.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 AM
I have the PS3 and pretty happy with the machine. The blu-ray imporves the quality of the dvd’s even if they are not blu-ray. My Ps3 is still backwards compatabile but all I have been playing is COD 4. If it crashes then I will lose use for my older games.
I agrees that the Xbox 360 has better online experiebce but Sony is improving.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 AM
@tallguy – which previous FF game is 13 going to be most like? Online like 11? or more like 10 or 12?
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 AM
i really prefer ps3 because i hate the xbox controllers.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:51 AM
that is the other thing all of the Sony’s controllers have never really changed designs from the PS1 to the PS3.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 AM
and i do not like paying for being online
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 AM
first, last and only time i go to that site.
memo to people who think they are being cutting edge: if i have to curl my neck like a dog just to read your site, or if i have to use the services of a chiropractor after reading your blog: change the design!!!
there’s a reason why 99.9 percent of books, magazines, newspapers and websites display copy on an even level. i’m not about to risk falling out of my chair just to read what likely is a worthless post.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 AM
I had a conversation with Jemele the other day and know her, albeit vaguely, from time I spent at the Sentinel while she was there; the slant on her blog suits her.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Shoulda got the ps3
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 PM
shes oriental?
im so so so sorry for that
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 PM
sometimes, not even i can pass up the fastball coming right down the pipe.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 PM
i guess there’s a reason why people call it the orlando slantinel.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Get a PS3.
Jemelle Hill isn’t edgy, she is stupid.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I have a PS3 love it. Playing online is easy and fun. Blu-ray looks amazing.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 PM
It’s offline, and I haven’t heard much about the battle system yet. Probably more in line with 10 than 12, because 12 was an Ivalice title.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I have all three, PS3 has the best hardware, but the online sucks, no one uses their mics to talk, fucking idiots. XBOX360 has hardware issues, but the online is well worth paying for, way more people playing online, game library is huge. WII is the most fun of all three, can play with my whole family, the wife is the one who wanted it, so makes it number one in our house.