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What you were saying made me think of how deaf people react to a cochlear implant put in their ear. Obviously it's probably a much more alien experience than playing your first video game, though.

The Wire is a show that I REALLY need to watch.

you really need to also get Funeral.

Oh, shit. There's a new Arcade Fire album out. biQkxCf0tT0

yeah, i used my real first name...I suppose it's not the worst thing I could have done. Anyways...as a person who has spent the last 2 weeks furiously trying to bea the first StarCraft for the first time, only to kinda make it through the Terran campaign, I love the changes this game makes with the medic units and how units can actually walk PAST other units now. I also really likes how the manual caught me up on the story.

When I was young, I never really sought out ways to play games. Being 18 right now, I grew up in the 90s. I dont really remember what kind of computer we had when I was little, but there is this one game we had on our PC that was some dumb game that I can't remember the name of, where I had to nail shingles onto a roof, and if I got the timing off, the character would accidentally hit his thumb and he would get hurt. This was when I was around 2 years old. I think. After that, there were many years where I didn't really own any games. I remember going to my friend's house a lot and playing his SNES (which I only knew of as the thing with the fun Ninja Turtles game. I can't really remember which came first, but at around 9 years old, we got a Nintendo 64, and I also got a Gameboy Color. I used to play Pokemon Blue for hours on end, and I must have beat it more times than I can remember. On the N64, the one game that really stands out as taking most of my system playtime was Ocarina of Time. When I first played it, I guess I was still young enough to not get how to proceed past the starting area, so I used to just run around and find rupees. At some point, I finally understood how to play it, and my friend and I would spend countless hours trying to figure out how to get through the various temples (FUCK the Water Temple!). As I was growing up, we never really had a computer that was good enough to play new games. Well, actually I was able to play Need For Speed Underground when it first came out, but after that, new games quickly outgrew our bad PC. I played a fair amount of Age of Empires 2, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3. So yeah, up until about 6 years ago when I got my DS when it first came out, I had been a kind of behind-the-times gamer. My family got a gamecube right around when the Xbox 360 was coming out, and I got a 360 a couple of years ago. Around that time was when I first started to really keep track of the gaming industry and know about new games that were coming out. Until about a month ago when I got my Macbook Pro, PC gaming has always been this sort of forbidden fruit for me. Now that I can actually run current PC games, I'm so happy because I can finally access all of these games that I heard about through podcasts and such over the years but never really got to play. I just put Windows 7 on bootcamp on my Macbook, so I can play all of those awesome games I bought during that most recent Steam sale (Hell yeah, THQ pack!). Not that Steam for Mac isn't out now, but I find that games still run better on Windows.

Is it purely coincidental that both are Kubrick movies?

I just bought Killing Floor for $5. Do any of you still play it?

And anyways, Shane is totally on the newest one!

Dudes. Futurama. Netflix Instant. What else do I need to say?

I'm pretty sure he meant that Torchlight was a better game than Titan Quest. I think... Also, how system intensive is Metro 2033? I got the THQ pack, and just wondering what my Macbook Pro can handle.

I'm almost positive that they have said it will be a full on-its-own release (in the U.S., it will probably cost $60 on consoles, etc.)

haha, so is the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on the same level of being known as the Grand Canyon by people living outside of the United States?

I'm happy that at least a game like this is being made that isn't just some gimmicky Wii Sports ripoff

If you like the production of A Life Well Wasted, you should check out This American Life (unless you only care about video game-related topics). Anybody who likes movies should listen to Behind The Screened Door, a podcast from Screened.com, which is the newest Whiskey Media site (Giant Bomb).