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I would love to toss back a few Fosters' with the Sniper. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNuriXG3BQ The man's well-spoken, calm under stress, and patient. Who doesn't like hanging out with an Aussie?

This. What's considered "mainstream" nowadays is simply music that is easily spoonfed to people who have no passion for music. It's not evil or anything. Just lazy music for lazy listeners. TV and radio have basically degraded into this. But, my friends, the internet is an amazing tool...

Whoa whoa, hold the gosh-darn phone just a second. Little Red Riding Hood's. Zombie. Barbecue. My mind is all sorts of blown. I must look this up now.

Whoa, let me try to shed some light on dragons for you. Beowulf was written (read: scribed) by a medieval monk. At the time of his writing, the mythos of dragons was well-established. A crucial aspect of dragons (One that's actually been lost in some more contemporary media. "Reign of...

I may be way out of line with this point, but... It seems to me that anyone that can afford a computer decent enough to run a brand-spanking new game can afford internet. Hell, my computer is like 6 years old, and will in no way be able to run D3, but I still pay for my own internet. This is...

The only correct answer is Scribblenauts. You can actually make a literal sandbox. And then put the Kraken in it. That's real freedom.

If I had to? What do you mean, IF? The Zombie Apocalypse is coming, and my friends and I have a PLAN.

I'd have to say D&D, because really, it's about as geeky as you get. But I offset my shame by overemphasizing how much I love it. I have embraced my D&D geekdom. For instance, this past week I brought up the Axes of Alignment as a serious academic point in my Postmodern Literary Theory class...

IWTBTG: Ok, you know how everyone's favorite part of playing video games is dying? ...That doesn't count, here's a real one: Scribblenauts: Well, there are puzzles where you give Santa cookies and get kittens out of trees and stuff, but... REALLY it's just an excuse to see who would win...

This. Science Fiction is, in essence, "Wouldn't it be cool if science could do this?" There's very pure scary-plausible SciFi such as the works of Michael Chrichton, and then there's Lucas, and everything in between. OT: I'm going to give my vote to StarCraft, indeed because of its Science...