I honestly felt the LOTR book adaptations added wayyyy too much detail. For example, Tom Bombadil: not in the movies at all. Why did this dude Token or whatever his name is feel the need to invent characters not in the original script?

The question I'd have for such parents is just: Ok, no violence, no sex/nudity/whatever else you wouldn't want your kids to see, no reality whatsoever. Just a company firing episode after episode of their cutesy cartoon characters at your kids, interrupted by commercials telling them that they can have those cutesy cartoon characters at home and that they have to buy every piece of plastic crap Disney poops out?

There's a time and a place for everything. I expect my son to know about sex, nudity, violence, and war...aka "reality" someday, but that doesn't mean he has to be educated about those topics at an age where such knowledge might negatively impact his psychological development.

What the hell planet are you from? Street dates get broken all the time. XBL accounts are never banned over it, either. If you are playing a legitimate copy of an early-released game you have nothing to worry about (this Kinect issue excepting).

I'm sorry, which publisher provides free replacements for damaged or destroyed game discs?

Wireless connection? I'm betting so. I have no problem fast-forwarding movies when I'm hard-wired in.

It doesn't have to be an "either-or". Netlix is taking the easy way out by just hogging the full pipe. It would be far better if they had allows for several, hard-coded speed tiers and, additionally, had a variable option that operates the same way it does now.

No, thanks, I already get enough "in-game coaching" every time I pick up a DOTA clone...

"WTF U FUKIN NOOB!!"

"OMG NOOB"

"WTFWTFWTF?????"

I assume you mean that we'd be better off on PC's. Yesterday I loaned a buddy my copy of Resistance 2 so he could play something on his PS3 during an upcoming vacation day. Now tell me how I might have been able to (legitimately) do that if I had purchased it on a PC with its one-use CD keys.

I see it as the opposite of the way the summary described it: When I had a 2600 I *knew* the games weren't going to look like they did on the box art. It just wasn't possible. These days, gamers are treated to bullshots, hi-resolution scripted renders, and other kinds of doctored media designed to make gamers think the game looks better than it really does. This is especially common, I've noticed, on the console side of gaming where the graphical fidelity achievable on modern computers isn't attainable anymore (this gen).

World of Warcraft

Works Better on Comcast! (TM)

Kindle is your baby. Do with it as you see fit. But the day I see an ad in a book I paid for is the day I abandon your platform irrevocably.

Listen, I watched every episode of LOST and there's no way he said anything like this even when he was evil.

I can't predict the future, but I'm quite sure Steve's Job's brain, submerged in a nutrient-rich emulsion, will be wheeled out at the 2200 WWDC to announce the new iPad.

LOL. Wish I could mod you up, friend.

Duh, just throw dollar bills in her direction.