Intrepid Homoludens

Not that it means much, babe. Not that it means much.

You don't care, huh? I guess perhaps the next guy she discriminates against won't care, either. And the next guy after that. [shrugs]

So you're not gonna report her? Aren't there laws where you are?

Whenever I decide to buy a game at EB or Gamestop I always inspect the package to make sure it hasn't been tampered with. The staff usually replaces the display package with one from their stock (especially PC games), and I inspect that one too before I give them money, ESPECIALLY if the game looks like the last in stock. I do all this before I leave the store with my purchase. I haven't done it yet, but I know that if decide to purchase a used game I'll definitely inspect it (open the package and make sure everything is there that's supposed to be there) after I pay for it but BEFORE I leave the store. At big chains like BestBuy or CompUSA it's not so risky but I STILL make sure the package is intact. And I always keep my receipt.

Mid April, eh? That means May or June, then.

So um, Yufster......when are you actually gonna start saving all this splendid writing and put it all together and publish your book and make lots of money and be rich and fabulous and have your bitch boss hate you out of jealousy and receive your revenge for making you work on Christmas? You do know Kingz and I agree that you're a moron and that I've take this unto myself as a personal crusade to bring this up to your pasty untanned ass* to remind you whenever you write long winding posts like this, don't you? * Pasty and untanned because you can't afford to fly it to Aruba or Saint Tropez because you haven't published your book and made lots of money.

On a serious note......Half-Life 2 vs. Age of Empires III? What exactly is the criteria we're using to compare them to each other, if we are comparing them? One is a fast paced first person shooter, the other is strategy. The graphics as per individual playing field is different. AoEIII certainly looks jawdropping. I have a feeling it's gonna look as magnificent when you're actually playing it. Dunno why, exactly.

I dunno, toblix. I can't seem to find Waldo anywhere in that shot. Maybe you can give me a hint?

Girlfriend, you seriously need to get new eye implants. And take a History Of Photographic Art course. That lighting - um, what little of it there is - is atrocious. Also the composition and subject focus is askew: just who exactly is the photographer aiming at? Chris or those Barbie dolls?

Vertical louvres are the work of Satan.

Hmmm, that would make sense. Imagine a crapload of desperately wigged out impassioned Tim Schafer whores fans waiting in line to play the damned E3 demo, and personality-empty Gamespot reporters writing personality-empty coverage. ....and Chris being annoyingly frightening about it as usual.

I have no idea wot you're talking about.

Um, the last remaining part of the Berlin Wall? Am I right? I just hope you don't get any splinters during the act, darling. Ouch!

Americans are culturally and intellectually inept. Go figure.

And thumbs. Yes, thumbs. Lots of them.

Oh......OH CRAP!!! I was doing a search and accidentally typed in the wrong stuff. Oops. Erm......yeah. Carry on, people, nothing to see here.

Oh, I dunno, toblix. I mean, I was floored by the first screens and movies I saw of Half-Life 2, and now that I'm playing the game itself I'm not only floored, I've crashed through and am now finding myself downstairs in the living room. Same thing with Fable, except I value my life too much to lick the t.v. screen (and get a taste of my hot, manly hero stud) and risk being electrocuted.

Tim Schafer must be rolling his eyes by now, if he's seen this thread, to the point where his facial muscles are hurting.

Remind me to never invite you over. Man, where's your sense of romance? I love that dreamy looking shit. Makes that dragon man so......I dunno, heart melting?

I have Morrowind for Xbox (GOTY edition, bundled in with Tribunal and Bloodmoon exp. packs, found it cheap at CompUSA). I don't expect the graphics to be as spot on as the PC version, but I'm not so shallow as to be that demanding. I pretty much don't want to play it just yet, I'm still deep in Half-Life 2, and there's freaking Hitman 2 still nagging me (which I'll try finishing after HL2). I'm also wanting KoTOR II pretty badly now, and Bloodlines. Sheesh!! There's a Gamespy preview of Oblivion you should read to get some idea of the 'more than skindeep' aspect of it.

My eevil avatar wants to buy you a beer and take you home.

You're not impeccable to my Ayn shaped avatar?

We had a blizzard here the past two days. Snow days for my sister and her kids, as all the roads are not driveable, so they had to stay home from work and school. The sucky part is, weather like this affects our satellite internet service. Whenever this happens (and it happens often enough) I get pissed off at my brother-in-law, who has shit for brains, because he's the one who decided to install the service in the first place and didn't listen to my advice to stay with cable internet, thus my sister's work suffers (she works 2 days a week at home, needs internet for it). He's a moron. But the snow is absofuckinglutely beautiful all around. Right, Kingz?

I've seen worse from you, wormsie.