I assume Facebook started out with good intentions to be solely a social network with no designs on commercializing the concept. However, the dollar has skewed that. In this case, money talks.

Hmm. Whenever I have received mod points, I made sure to use them and not blow it off. And have been pretty consistent in how I used them. Not sure who the mod point gods are but hopefully you didn't do anything in the past to piss them off.

Maginot was built to fight WWI technology and tactics. In the interim, mechanized infantry and tanks had advanced so that the blitzkrieg could actually be accomplished. In the history of warfare, haven't alot of changes in tactics been decided on the advances in technology that the loser did not forecast or plan for?

Your answer makes me think a good analogy is junk mail. I don't request any junk mail, but it shows up in my snail mail box regularly. Junk mailers have the same modus operandi... send it out in volumes and bank that a tiny percentage will respond. I don't think that junk mail or unsolicited ad mailers will ever go away.. its part of the "system".

Obvious flamebait. Get real dude.

Just finished playing Fallout and Fallout 2, after playing Fallout 3 (twice). I think there is continuity in the story line and the "world" of Fallout is maintained in Fallout 3. The biggest difference is playing from a different perspective since FO3 is first person. The biggest improvement IMO is that travel in FO3 is better. I had a few random encounters in FO and FO2 where I got wiped out, whereas in FO3 you can better manage when to run away. Just started FO Tactics with much improved graphics, but not much of a storyline. If only they would go back and upgrade the graphics to the first two....

Here, here. Totally agree. Relatively open public forums will have their share of trolls, critics and the kind. The challenge is sorting the wheat from the chaff and to whose standard?

If you want to go back to the earliest PC games, you have to go back to the text based games played on a monochrome monitor, 5.25 floppies (no hard drives) with NO graphics, aka Infocom's Zork series, and others (Suspended, Planetfall) and of course, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy... Another notable of course is the King's Quest series....

Actually I would prefer the Dick Tracy concept of a combination wrist watch and communicator

Just as long its not a red shirt, which means you won't be around too long.