I also had this problem. I tried DarkBasic, XNA and a few others and had a hard enough time getting a object to render let alone implement game logic.

I found Unity via Kotaku and messed around with it for a day and fell in love with it. I was amazed by how easy it was to do the some simple things that I could not figure out with XNA. Something as simple as making one object follow another was as simple as creating 2 primitives and assigning a a 5 line script to the follower.

I have become distracted by the new WoW expansion but over the next week I'm going to try and build a simple tower defense game to learn the scripting better.

You can also check into the UDK but I found Unity alot simpler to start with.

You can already do that if you have Zaeed.

Expensive? I thought it was standard cable. I guess it would be expensive if you dont use any other cable TV channel.

If I had to I could change my car's oil my self. The proublem is I have no idea where/how to dispose of or recycle the oil, whereas Jiffy Lube does. Also, it takes Jiffy Lube 10 min to change the oil whereas I could end up spending a hour or more.

I wish I had mod points because this is the same question I have. I can understand why 16:9 is the standard for TV but I always thought 16:10 was the best for computer use.

Thanks for the info. I have been looking for a decent 16:10 monitor for a while now.