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Nothing that hasn't already been said, but... well, it feels like the world I grew up in just isn't there any more.

I wasted two years of my life on EVE before I quit this past March. Even with the blissful scabs of forgetfulness covering my memories of that game, I feel confident in stating that this video is fully accurate.

Three-way tie: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. The Hobbit, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Clive Staples Lewis's complete works just barely miss making the number one spot, but a four-way tie just sounds silly.

Oh, yeah? I got: "Careless Whisper" by Wham! featuring George Michael. I need to invent some new cuss words.

Works fine for me on XP. Oh, and you might want to check out Killap's patch. It fixes a great many things that even the folks at Interplay never got around to fixing. He's also working on a nifty content pack. http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=360067#360067

I do reps with hand weights during overly long cutscenes.

EVE really is a niche game. It does things different enough from most mumorpugers that you have to re-learn some core elements of gameplay, the well-intentioned-but-not-always-helpful tutorials are in a near-constant state of flux, and it is entirely possible to lose large quantities of in-game...

E.V.O., the entire "Strike" series (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, and Urban Strike), and Zombies Ate My Neighbors don't seem to have aged well for me. I'm not sure why, exactly, but somehow they just aren't as fun as they were when I was twelve. Final Fight 3, on the other hand, remains...

Glee and happiness suffuse my being.

I have no skill at first-person shooters, fighting games, or strategy games - and they bring me nothing but frustration - but still continue to buy and play them anyway. In high school, I once paid a classmate five dollars to clone his Mew in Pokemon Red. I wept when my Pokemon Silver...