4x 10-hour days per week, but weeks of 6x 28-hour days.

What then happened was a major overload of games, most of which were not worth buying, and consumers got feed up and simply stopped buying.

*cough*Wii*cough*

I got a Wii about two years ago, and haven't bothered to even browse the Wii section of games in stores in probably 1.5 years. It's basically just a convenient emulator as far as I'm concerned - it's simply not worth the bother of browsing through the gobs and gobs of utterly horrible movie-tie-in and mini-game shovelware to find the bare handful of games that are Wii exclusives and worth playing. I can understand trying to hit a broader / more casual market, but I don't think anybody can deny that the vast majority of Wii games are simply shit without crossing their fingers behind their back.

What the hell is so wrong with just putting a menu with difficulty options in, like every FPS since forever has done?

* Can I play, Daddy?
* Don't hurt me
* Bring 'em on
* I am Death Incarnate!

Ditto. Probably for what submitter wants, a 2XXX would be fine, although I've even got a little 1320n I bought for a couple dispatch terminals at the police dept that's seen moderate use pretty much 24/7 for a couple years now and just keeps happily running along.

So given that the 6000 miles figure is obviously going to be optimistic, You're basically paying 1$ per mile to look like an idiot and probably be even more vulnerable to getting in an accident than a bicyclist. No, I don't think I'll be getting one of these.

Net Neutrality is important and I hope it succeeds, but I what I would really like to see - that is, what would have the greatest impact on me personally - is requirements for reasonable QoS and limits on the 'up to X speed' marketing. That would be in keeping with the 'upgrade your hardware' statement. I'm tired of paying for a certain level of service, only to discover that between 3:30pm and midnight or so, my bandwidth / latency are utter shit because the ISP has more customers than it's hardware can handle during prime use times, but they get away with it because, on average (figuring in non-prime time hours), their service looks pretty good.

You indirectly bring up another point I was thinking of - as recently as 5 or 6 years ago, I would routinely 'juggle' games off of and onto my hard drive. These days, I generally install a game and leave it. Note that that isn't entirely a luxury provided by bigger drives - to some degree, it's become a necessity, due to some game publishers limiting the number of times a game may be reinstalled.

Other, but either 'Fire' or 'Pointy Objects' would have been at least partially accurate.

I'll keep my castle secure by way of dragons.

Although I've heard the tower referred to as 'the hard drive', more often I seem to get people calling it 'the CPU'. I've stopped trying to correct people, but it still makes me cringe or have a confused brain freeze-up when somebody's case fan is going bad and they say that their hard drive or their CPU is making a funny noise ("Are you sure it's the CPU? Because...I don't, um, think that's...er.... Nevermind. I'll just come take a look at it.")

This is to allow lifeless 13 year olds plenty of time to tune up and learn tricks so they can utterly pwn hardworking adults.