Do scientist have nothing better to do nowadays. Fear is an emotiona that could be the result of hundreds of different causes. Fear from stress, fear of losing money, fear of an individual, fear of going to an intervew etc, etc. How do these scientist aim to differentiate fear of criminal activity from other causes. Waste of time.

I am not opposed to paid DLC, though I usually have played the game to a point where some minor expansion packs can't rekindle that interest when they come out.

The most ridiculous PAID DLC was for Tales of Vesperia. You could actually buy 5 levels for your character. In a non-MMORPG. So you don't have to level up in a single player RPG.

That's a little like buying an autopilot for a Truck driving simulator.

The unethical part is that they want to add the arrogant, slow, chatty and (after purchase) unfriendly Apple store employees to their minions. Just my personal experience, may have been my bad luck.

Im so sick of the "guilty of stupidity" argument so common here on slashdot.
For most people, computers are still a small, convenient part of life, so they don't educate themselves about it's threats.

But even if they are actually stupid, as in low IQ or poor planning abilities, that does NOT make them guilty in any sense if they're victims of some sad, controlling stalker.

Reminds me a little of some people who say that people who get caught smoking pot 3 times deserve the 25 years in prison they get in some stone-age places i heard of because they were "so stupid".

Stupid people suffer, too, and are mostly not at fault for their stupidity.

Strange. I have one in my bathroom, no enclosure (straight in the socket) on the wall. Lights up completely in about 2 seconds, cost 1.95 Euro (discounter brand, "Aldi") and hangs there now for 4 years. Its a small bathroom, too, so it gets pretty humid every morning when i shower.
Anecdotal evidence, i know, but of all of the energy saving bulbs (6) i installed when i moved in 4 years ago, a total of 2 have died so far.
It pays to buy good quality bulbs, which don't have to be necessarily expensive.

Whatever happened to just taking hike to closest Mt. Doom and throwing disk to molten lava hole?

I switched from exclusively PC gaming to exclusively console gaming about 5 years ago and never looked back. I could probably buy a house if i had saved the money i wasted in a hardware pissing contest i had with my friends ("doom looks so much smoother with my dx4/100. Oh, are these real instruments in the background? Have to buy a 200 Euro wavebank soundcard.") when i was younger.
Though i know high end PC hardware is cheaper now, i still enjoy not worrying if a game will work, if i really get the best/intended experience with my rig or if i rather should have waited a month to buy gfx card xy instead of xy+.
I have the same PC since about 5 years now, and will probably buy a new one when they become so small that you could accidentally inhale them.

I heard they just inject it once when they get in a fat loss phase to reach a state of ketosis practically overnight.
A bad idea nonetheless, but there are few professional sports that dont ruin your body in the long run.

Wow, that was the easiest way to get rid of these pesky modpoints ever. Go back to the old article and retroactively mod everyone up who vaguely mentioned something spaceshuttly.

17. Carefully wash your hands after enclosing your former home in a cement/concrete sarcophagus

True, but short and good games certainly have their place, too. A different approach would be to add some value (nicer, bigger cases instead of the standard DVD-cases, infocom-like trinkets etc.).

The road game companies currently take with DLC (yes, downloadable is one word, we all know that) severely devealues games in my opinion. I usually buy a game, play the shit out of it and shelve it and cant really be bothered to play it again unless its a big, shivering isles-like expansion at the least. I also know that i don't have the complete version in my precious collection and am more likely to sell it and maybe get a preferably used copy when a gold/goty/whatever edition comes out.

But i love and collect games, so my opinion on this subject may differ from people who trade in 3 perfectly good games at gamespot for a meager discount on a new one.

If we only make games with great replay value, we'll only have roguelikes, sportsgames, randomly generated strategy games, motion-controlled solitaire collections and maybe a few other genres i can't think of right now (multiplayer games are a different beast obviously).

We wouldn't have a Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Persona, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Baldur's Gate etc.

Some of these provided me with 80-100 hours of fun, though i wouldn't think of playing them again. For me, games like this are like a good book - i will probably never read it again, but i still leave it on my shelf.

Replay value really isn't and shouldn't be that much of a point when it comes to games.

Hand in your geek card, youngster. I was flying this.

Replay value is a very, very small portion of what makes a good game. After 60 hours of mass effect or 100 hours of final fantasy or 20 hours of mario/hl2/whatever i don't really feel the need to replay them (I keep them, nonetheless, like a good book).

This is the golden age of gaming, i can barely keep up with the titles i know i absolutely MUST play.

Hopefully this little rant someone at penny-arcade posted will make the ending suck a little less for you - it did for me.

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