Thankfully Microsoft incorporate advanced technology into the Xbox 360 to make sure you don't leave it on indefinately - its called the RROD...

I'm not entirely convinced that the target market for Blu Ray is country bumpkins who live so far away from an Urban centre that they can't even get online...

The sad fact of the matter that everyone seems to be ignoring is that the benefits BluRay brings are minimal and really only benefit people with large HD TV's and fancy surround sound systems. Fact is if i was a country bumpkin I could understand the benefits of DVD over VHS (looks better on my current tv, doesn't need to be re-wound, can be played in multi devices such as PCs, can contain multiple languages & subtitles).

This 'next generation' has been forced on us by greedy film companies who just want to sell us our favourite movies yet again. The next proper shift will be to digital download which has tangible benefits (instant access, huge catalogue, usable on multiple devices such as mobile phones etc, cuts out the middle man hence likely cheaper and so on) - In my opinion BluRay will mostly just be useful for its larger storage capacity

Damn if only i had put in that patent for my virtual tea-bagging simulator, 12 year old Americans would owe me billions...

Now if only they could find a way to ban those potty mouthed tea-baggers...

Personally i don't really think of Braid or any other game as 'art' but thats more to do with my negative concept of what makes something 'art' (where people who seem to think they are much smarter than the rest of us throw together a few bits & pieces, give it a 'story' and then tell everyone not to touch it while charging an exorbitant amount of money for it)

I'm only about halfway through Braid but I'm really enjoying it so far. The only real problem i have had with it is that some of the puzzles require a lot of trial and error/blind luck to solve. As an example I spent half an hour yesterday repeatedly trying to run through a level while grabbing a key to try and get to a puzzle piece that was behind a door which was slowly closing. All of this was on one screen and so the 'solution' seemed obvious but after numerous attempts I gave up and continued through the level, only to find a switch which negated the whole problem and made the solution obvious (but only after you knew what the switch did). However most of the other puzzles have been brilliant and have put a big smile on my face when i finally figured them out :)