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Comment Pinball because I play the rest in an emulator (Score 1) 283

I love most of the games on that list, but pinball is the win for me in an arcade setting because it's so damn hard to find a good one in working condition. Most of the places with large collections of pinball machines are too far for me to travel to.

While I know it doesn't make the aficionado's lists, the South Park pinball is a big favorite of mine.

Comment I'd love an "emergency backup" subscription plan (Score 1) 245

I have outages at least once or twice a year, where I lose my power, cell phone, land line, cable and of course Internet. Power I can get around with a generator, but the others not so much. I don't miss the cable TV, but no phone service of any kind is definitely a problem when it last more than a few hours.

I'd love a cheap plan that only let me subscribe when I needed it, no charges for a month I don't use the satellite, or at the very least a sub-$20 package that isn't fast or has a lot of data that I can at least use to get information off the Net with (send email, maybe Skype). If they really want to shake up the industry, they'd offer a super cheap package for folks like me.

Comment I've got a Rosetta Stone I use for programming... (Score 1) 215

This idea makes sense, (even if the site sounds like it's empty and poorly designed), but only if you are comparing similar languages. For web scripting, I learned PERL first, and recently made the switch over to PHP for most of my new website stuff. Due to the old stuff still needing periodic work, I'm constantly going back and forth between the languages, and a cheat sheet showing me the syntax diffrences and basic fundamentals is invaluable for me.

Even if this site was fully fleshed out, you would still never get past the initial learning curve of a new language with just a list of ways to do all the particular tasks. It would be useful while learning it, but you still have to learn the new language.

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