Else, how could Chore Wars exist?

Gamification is what your dad said when you complained about picking up sticks in the backyard, and he replied "Let's make a game of it. See how many you can get done in a minute, and then try to beat your record for the next minute."

Gamification is what makes people practice instruments on Rock Band that would bore them in real life.

That someone who studies games could call it bullshit kinda puzzles me. It may be a silly word, and it may be misapplied to things like FourSquare badges no one cares about, but it's hardly bullshit.

who was bombed on Bailey's at the time

you can do that?

Now, if you wipe your drive clean you will have to get service pack 1 for XP to get JVM. I ran into this a few days ago, but luckily I had gone to the admin downloads a few months ago and downloaded ALL of the pre SP1 updates EXEPT for the famous Media Player backdoor. I did this back when MS announced that soon, Windows Update would begin uniquely ID'ing your machine. So if you believe the little drama that was acted out in front of you to make divert your attention to the illusion that they are getting tough with MS you might want to read the story or Brayer Rabbit from the Disney movie Song of the South, which you can get in NTSH format from ebay pirates. God Bless Us All.