The video camera could be HD and shoot at 720p.

The guy who thinks he's funny for saying "Linux sucks!" is going to get slapped down hard, but someone who takes the time to explain exactly how bad Linux is as a desktop operating system (for example) or how hard it is to use (as another example) will be modded very high.

You must be new here.

Actually, a Blizzard developer said in an old interview that they closely copied the 'constant rewards' system of casinos' slot machines when developing Diablo. They're not doing this at random.

I know it's on the Internet, but I've tried looking and couldn't find it. If someone could find that one or two paragraph quote, it would be great for discussion.

Free isn't good enough anymore.

Not when you can easily pirate Team Fortress 2 with cracked Steam and the latest Team Fortress 2 client content.gcf, anyway, which you can play in Setti's cracked servers.

Don't blame me, I'm just being Pirate Bay.

I'm contemptuous.

The only worthwhile discussions in Slashdot are technology-related. Every time Slashdot delves into another field (I'm thinking psychology, for example), the comments (sometimes all comments) are, like you've said, "not even wrong".

Slashdot is a tech community. Don't expect any more from it.

What exactly is your point? That games have no influence on you or that games influence you more than we think? Because, in your smugness, you forgot to make any clear point which can be discussed.

Just because things are related doesn't mean one thing caused the other. I type this in case you don't understand what the sentence "correlation is not causation" means, which is a neat resume of what you long-windedly, and unnecessarily, ranted to the choir.

And yet, American's happiness declined.

Your post does not prove anything. My post does not prove anything about video games taking away happiness. So why play the statistics game? It's meaningless to the discussion.