I'm very happy to see that the folks at Avenger Controller reacted quickly and hopefully this will bring them good publicity in the end.

I guess you need to be this obvious if you want to get caught over-billing the government

I also thought about it the same way you did, like the fact that higher intelligence often leads to mental illness. I'm pretty sure any kind of frequent use of entertainment "products" that stimulates the brain enough to cause addiction only affects those with a predisposition to it.

In related news, this week on public radio airwaves, Father Raymond Gravel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Gravel of the Canadian Roman Catholic Church compared the out of court settlement of 18 millions CAD (for 85 victims between 1950 and 1990) to being akin to turning the victims into prostitutes, because they would then be getting money in return of the sexual acts they performed. I almost crashed my car into a local church out of anger.

I was a gamer before I was a programmer, learning to program did not change my taste in games. that being said I'd rather play action-rpg games