I would also like to add that a sense of humor in a game is great to break up the monotony of go here, get item, get points.

As I've gotten older I notice myself picking games more for the story than the multiplayer aspect as I once did. I used to love gathering friends around a console to play Goldeneye or any number of popular games, but now I've began to realize most of these blockbuster games have the same basic premise where I know the outcome and the only selling point is "buy this game because everyone else will so you can play online together."

I now pick games on how well the gameplay is used to tell the story. The most recent game I played and I'm now playing through again because of the story is Fallout 3. It seems to me I could play through as several different personas and have a different outcome for the story. The game doesn't require lightning fast reflexes to just survive as the enemies are mostly used to advance the story. It should probably be noted I play most games on the easiest difficulty, unless it's a complete cakewalk, because I want the story to unfold and not get stuck in a spot with 5 bullets, a wrench, and a pack of wolves.

Dear Slashdot,

Please stop finding uses for these useless body parts. The day after my appendix was removed I see that they finally discovered a use for the human appendix, and yesterday I get my wisdom teeth pulled.

No more body parts removed for me.

Thanks.

I'm also a former football player. I enjoyed all the perks you mentioned as well.

One thing I didn't enjoy were multiple concussions while playing. I believe in 3 years of starting games I had 5 concussions. That's not even counting the 2 in middle school/youth league. After one particularly bad concussion I forgot what had happened the previous week. If that can happen in the short term to someone who just played 12 years, I can only imagine what happens in the long term to professional athletes.

Oh yes it can happen that easily. It happened at the University I was working at about a month ago. We were ghosting a batch of 30 new laptops and showing the new tech how to set up the computers to be imaged. He inadvertently created a loop-back, and caused the entire campus network to shut down.

Ummm Mercedes has already created this with their "Drive-Dynamic multicontour front seats with 4-stage massage function." Mercedes S600

I live in an area that contains both a coal and natural gas power plant. Everyday the coal fired plant burns away, but the natural gas plant is hardly ever producing electricity. Yes the natural gas is cheap, but that's the problem with it. Unless the price of natural gas is above a certain level the plant doesn't run. In recent memory the only time I know of it starting was to "jump-start" the coal plant, and then shut back down.