If I had mod points I'd give you +1 Obscure-as-all-hell for the probably unintentional Frankenhooker reference to SuperCrack.

Seriously guys, who in their right mind honestly believes that there is any correlation between Rock Band/Guitar Hero and learning to play a guitar. The two have absolutely nothing in common. People play guitar hero or rock band for a bit of fun, they have no interest in learning how to play a guitar.

Ummm... I enjoy these games on Easy, maybe Medium settings. When I thought about it for a while, I thought I could put effort into learning how to do them on Hard, Impossible, or Pigfuckingly Insane, then thought some more. I figured I'd keep enjoying them on Easy and put the effort into actually learning to play a guitar. So I bought one.

I'm still awful at it, but it's enjoyable nonetheless, and in a completely different way than the games.

Nope. Not at all. It just invokes Rule 34.

Or at least take a break to play Portal.

Of course not.

You put the portable hole at the bottom of the sea. To drain it.

And into the bag of holding you put a leftover troll part to regenerate and suffocate. Rinse and repeat until you've got one really pissed off dead-crazy troll. Then with the help of a flying wizard upend the bag over an enemy encampment. Troll bomb!

Fuck that bullshit. Seriously. This flat-out penalizes people who drive cars that get good mileage. Just add to the gas tax. That's incentive to either drive fewer miles or get better mpg, both of which are good things.

Luddite.

You probably want your phone to just make and receive calls, and your personal music player to just play music.

No Doctor Nick?

Here.
And here.
Both from a viewer's perspective and a rightsholder-who-gets-paid-when-content-plays perspective.

You've got the Blizzard standard opinion down pat:
"could have teamed-up with them to complete the goal cooperatively, an essential part of what makes the game appealing."
"don't look at other players as the enemy, but allies to be made for now and for the future."

I, and more than a few others, don't really have any interest in grouping in WoW. My time to play is such that I can't really schedule it, and a dedicated Thursday-night raid just ain't gonna happen. Pick-up raids? No thank you. Way too messy with lots of folks who know even less about the dungeons than I do.

Blizzard very much angles the endgame, and even 60+, at groupers. The gear difference alone is staggering. I'm at 63 and my subscription's about to run out. I'll let it. Were the next patch to come with soloable versions of instances I might come back. Don't see that happening though.

I do enjoy the game, I think what Blizzard's built is pretty damn cool. But I just want to solo and I'm near the end of the curve of where that's enjoyable.

Even better are RIM's Blackberry mini-USB wall chargers, which will charge a BB just fine but won't do shit for a Motorola. (At least PEBLs anyways, and I think the RAZR's the same thing in a different housing)

Soldering's unnecessary. All the old-school Xboxes I've modded have been with solderless hardware modchips.

Totally reminds me of #4 in the Ask Neal Stephenson thread.

Gates had to be involved in that as well.

CoM's alright. Unless, that is, YOU'VE READ THE FUCKING BOOK!!! The pablum-ified dumbed-down over-actioned Hollywood bullshit of the movie was just sad compared to that.

I know. Different art form, different piece of work, all that stuff. The book's great and after reading it the movie was kinda meh.