Aluminum/aluminium isn't as simple as "dumb Americans mangling English". Case in point: http://books.google.com/books?... (*British* chemist Humphry Davy, in 1812). It's an "acceptable variant", apparently :)

I'm at level 3 now, and the longest construction I've seen is 6 hours. It might take weeks at some point along the line (endgame etc.), but it's certainly not something you run into as soon as you start the game.

Clash of Clans does the exact same thing.

Yes, the nagging about payments is annoying. Yes, they've essentially desecrated the good name this franchise has. But at least criticize it for the right things, instead of skimming articles based on it.

That's for excavating tiles (not building rooms), and it's only one type of tile (the other two taking 4 hours and 3 seconds, respectively). It's still egregious, but it's not as extreme as you make it out to be.

There is no consensus on this. "Dead" is just as probable. E.g. "Dead" as in "dead ahead", or "pure". As in "calculation only" (no external landmarks).

So you're telling me that Helium prices are... inflated?

That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

Then again it's an excellent excuse to do some groping. "Sorry, my hand has a mind of its own! A monkey mind, to be exact."

Define low... XBox360 + HD-DVD -> $400 + $200 HD-DVD player (Toshiba uses Pentium 4 + Linux) -> $500 Through that arithmetic, the Xbox360 functionality itself is worth 100$, which in my view is pretty darn cheap.