Exactly. I stopped playing over a year ago for good reasons, but the whole Cataclysm thing is still kind of tempting in ways I can't even explain properly. The closest parallel I can come up with is the sensation I get as an ex-smoker from time to time where I feel like I would really enjoy a cigarette, even though I know that it would probably just turn my stomach and leave a bad taste in my mouth were I actually to give in to that impulse.

The passenger has plenty of opportunity to make it worse for the TSA goon since the pat down happens in front of all of the other passengers unless a request is made to go to a private area. I can't wait to see the first news stories start rolling in about situations where the TSA agent blows their cool and attacks a passenger after being publicly humiliated and laughed at by a line full of travelers.

"Over already? Do you always finish first when you do this sort of thing at home too?"

Sometime soon in America..."I got gold. I got gold. Yeah, what kind of gold do you want? I got yellow gold. I got white gold. 18 carat? Yeah, that's all right...but this 24 carat stuff from Germany is real, real, real good stuff. You'll know where that extra money went when you need it. I got gold. Gold here. Get your gold."

The frame is made out of steel, not titanium.

It looks like they opted for non-scarce materials according to the official site:

No kidding. And where do you think all those bits go when the operator pulls out one of the tubes to shoot the lotto balls through? They go all over the floor, that's where. The room starts to fill up with 1s and 0s. They get all over the place, impossible to clean up. You'll be picking little 0s out of your beard for weeks and smell like web 1.0 sites for twice that long. Have you ever tried to get bits from a myspace page out of a sweater?

Either go without or infringe copyright by using an unauthorized copy. To the publishers, having their work pirated and seeing it sold second-hand are typically the same thing because they don't get paid in either of those two scenarios.

True...we're a first world country where you can have lobbyists bribe people for you to get your way instead.

Viggo Mortensen could probably pull off Roland. I always thought of Palance as more of the man in black type. Clint should get a part somewhere to pay respect to how much of an influence his early work had on the series, but I can't see him wanting to sign up to do all three movies plus a miniseries as a major character.

Stop developing for platforms that offer no guarantee that their product will ever be available to their target audience.

> Texting and talking at 90 mph is going to get people killed.

Texting at any speed is dangerous, if not necessarily for the driver then for nearby pedestrians, people on bicycles, etc.

This is pretty much consistent with every relationship I've ever been in.

You can buy a replenishment card with cash at a convenience store. The card has a code on it which can either be entered into your phone directly or associated with your account online to add minutes to your balance.

Yes, this is still the case. You can buy prepaid phones and replenishment cards with cash at a convenience store and then activate or add minutes online without having to provide proof of identity. Paranoid types will do this at an open wi-fi access point to avoid leaving an IP trail. I know TracFone operates this way, but the other carriers may have a similar policy.

> That's the whole point - to make the novel more dynamic and involved than a pile of printed pages.

I feel like this takes a lot out of the experience. My relationship with the novel is already a dynamic one because my understanding and appreciation of the work changes over time. Reading Orwell's 1984 as a junior high school student was an entirely different experience compared to reading it near middle age. Appreciating those differences was a big part of what made re-reading the book worthwhile.

Well written novels are already involving because they engage your curiosity and imagination. I can't see how an endless amount of commentary, illustration, or supplementary material can do anything other than distract from the core of the work.