I think you missed the point. It's a goddamn xbox car.

Soon the workers will start wishing for a nuclear winter!

I agree. I have been playing new vegas since release, and didn't think it was particularly all that buggy (compared to other bethesda games upon release). Then I realised how much I have used the console, especially for small things such as toggle clipping so that I can get out of a badly designed area, that any less experienced person wouldn't know about and would have to revert to a save from possibly ages back. Many bugs could easily have been spotted and fixed by hiring unemployed nerds like myself with a decent understanding of the engine (from a player/modder perspective) for minimum wage and letting us run riot.

You played over 137 hours, and complain it was $60? That's less than 50c/hr, which is a far sight better than you'll get for a DVD or at the cinema.

personally, I have it set so that the cinematic kill stays as my view, so I can pull of 3-4 headshots in "seconds". Good bye fiends!

Don't get your panties in a knot, the virus he doesn't have disabled his spell-checker so he didn't know.

Never seen The Life of Brian? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSELOCMmw4A ;)

dammit, I can never get used to slashdot's lack of wysiwyg editing :/

The Aqueduct? And the Sanitation? And the Roads? Irrigation, Medicine, Education? And the Wine?! Public Baths! Ok, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? You're right!

exactly why said investigation is BS?

This is very relevant, for me anyway. I used to buy maybe 1 or 2 games a year at a brick & mortar because I'd save my pennies and pay overpriced australian prices for it, $80 for a game. Now I have access to a credit card, I've bought more games than I can count (and have had time to play) on Steam for roughly the same budget.

because it's very easy to upgrade those in a laptop, compared to a desktop.

AND they provide tactile input and a nice smell!

Because we can believe everything that Blizz say purely because they say it :)

Imagine the amount of scientific learning I could have done if I was studying exactly that, instead of writing essays on literature, analysing artworks, learning a different language, spending at least 3 hours a week sitting out of sport, learning how to read maps, and when some famous dude did something famous. Instead I wasted those hours filling my head with crap such as specifics on the feminist movement in Australia. Great.