Wait -- I'm not supposed to read the review if I'm planning to play the game?
What if I'm not sure if I'll like the game - wouldn't reading the review be a natural way to figure out whether I should try it?
I guess if I'm undecided, I am not yet *planning* to play the game, so I should read the review. Shoot, what if I read the review and it sounds perfect for me? I will have at the same time ruined the game by exposing myself to all the spoilers.
For some reason, I have a very hard time keeping east and west straight. (I'm aces on north/south.) That's been the case for as long as I can remember, but I didn't realize how I'd come to try to accommodate that problem until I moved from the east coast (where I grew up and spent my first 25 years or so) to California.
Roughly a third of the time after the move, even when I was concentrating on going the right direction, I'd get on east-west highways going the wrong way. I was living in Davis at the time, so the usual mistake was getting on the freeway towards Sacramento when I was intending to go to San Francisco. After awhile, I realized I was thinking of east as toward the ocean and west away from it.
Since then, I've moved to central Florida, so that when I get east and west confused, I can only drive for an hour and a half or so before I run into a body of water.
This has been the most useless set of comments I've seen on Slashdot (and yes, I'm not excepting my own).
For some reason, censorship stories, Patriot Act stories, MS stories, OLPC stories, evil-video-game stories, Star Trek stories, dog vs. cat stories, Mountain Dew vs. Jolt stories, coffee/tea stories, religion stories, lawyer stories, public wifi stories, stories that refer to crackers as 'hackers', and a bunch of other story types, none of them prompts a set of comments as worthless as this sort of story.
We have lots of places to see people post their political views without reading anyone else's comments. Please don't make Slashdot another venue for that.
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