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I like pink. My tablet and cellphone cases are pink. I'm wearing a pink shirt right now. This is awesome.

And, essentially, do it with part of that "non-alienation" factoring in what the microtransactions provide: Absolutely no competitive or play-affecting advantage.

OTOH, Steam also kills PIRACY and USED GAMES... Or mostly, which is no worse than EA's services are likely to do.

That's kind of the point being made. Here, in GW2, the grouping with random retards is still better than not grouping. Maybe they won't help much, but they're still helping, and there's not really any way that they can accidentally hurt, short of ... well, doing *nothing at all*. Or maybe...

Fun, innit? Loose, available, inexpensive or untraceable guns rapidly end up vanishing from the street, 'cause EVERY ONE OF THEM is worth more than one's likely to get robbing even ten people on the street, for a lot less risk. I suppose the biggest risk to the plan is running out of heroin...

To a large extent, I don't think revising the original Portal ending was necessary. GLADoS seems a little... ambiguous on the whole concept of individuality with regard to test subjects. They're all vat-grown. The insults and threats all seem selected to *statistically* get reactions but without...

Ironically, this comes RIGHT AFTER Microsoft announces shutting down ongoing development of MS Flight, the "freemium" flight sim game less than five months after release. I guess it didn't work out too well for them....

I recommend offering a no-questions-asked trade of firearms for about five grams of good quality heroin. It exchanges a durable product for a consumable one, and anyone that wants to hang onto a firearm starts being VERY CAREFUL of it.

Let's make this a little clearer: "*I* have an internet connection, and it is working. That requirement is not unfulfilled. It is *your fault* that your servers are not working and denying me access to what I paid for." That's a HUGE difference.

Unless you've got a whole lot of details to share with us about how exactly the PSN network has been changed and not changed, I'm going to have to consider the "it is still horrid" assertion to be in the "bullshit walks" category.

I note here that you're also not selling your game to GameStop for $2.50. The reason that GS sees all the games in crap shape is that GS will take games in crap shape, and won't pay more for ones that are complete and (nearly) pristine. Ain't none of them going to offer you $75 for your Metroid...

And it's gotten me to at least open a tab for that book as well. The Cunning Plan worked!

You may be surprised how many celebrities' "names" have little to nothing to do with the names on their credit cards. Would you invade the privacy of "Hedwig Kiesler Markey" or "Laurence Tureaud" off-hand?

It's okay, but it's kind of mechanical. I like "third-person looter", personally... And the clear distinction between this and "RPG" is that NOTHING that the player can do can alter the plot in any way. There's no farming, there's no merchanting, there's not even the possibility of selling...

See, a child soldier would actually behaving like the NPC actually does. It would make sense then, and players would be able to maon and bond over how much they hated being saddled with her, while screaming "Yes, yes!" in solitude whenever she pulled their potatoes out of the fire. That...