Sort of don't like that the end result of this post, before shrugging it all off and amounting it all to being "all in good fun," is to point the finger at people for doing wrong and breaking things, and not at the company that made what the people are doing possible in the first place.

Actually, Microsoft used to do meta-game promotions all the time. Every Halloween they had a cornfield maze thing that had a chance to win Microsoft Points for getting through the maze in a set amount of time (which was randomly determined). There were other promotions through the year that did different games to the…

He's played by the Ned, The Pie Man from Pushing Daisies! (and Legolas' father, Thranduil, for the Hobbit fans out there)

Being from a family that's always tried to live in their means, and have gotten bit HARD when they wandered too far out of those bounds, people like that piss me off so much. The dream used to be to work hard and live comfortably, now it's like the goal is to live comfortably and die leaving debt.

Problem is pretty clearly the fact that it's so convoluted at this point that even Kojima's had to make excuses for it (Recently having said the story is confusing to many because the story is told out of order.. As if people have never seen a story told in that style before...)

Seems redundant to have Cool Spot there when he pretty much was already a whacky cartoon character, having been a product mascot first.

Really don't mean any offense to Rob or what he's looked into, but this isn't anything new. These places have always clearly robbed their customers under the guise of being able to satiate their instant gratification (or emergency, which I'll get to) for a low weekly payment.

I'm personally not having them myself, for my own reasons (mostly health -I don't want to pass off any of my issues to a kid just because...), but I am helping my fiance raise her daughter and I can say that they really aren't that bad as long as you have some simple common sense. What is bad is that so few have any…

We live in a world consumed by instant gratification now, so people don't see the obvious "we're going to pay more in the long run" like they should and see "duh, I get this now!" instead of simply saving up for something, or, god forbid, look around for deals (Like I did, I got my PS4 day 1 after saving up for it…

And TN. I've also had Hardee's in Nebraska, and I've always found it weird to find It there when it probably should have been Carl's Jr.

You're not wrong, but the article is pointing out these fairly basic, as I put it "right of passage", things still don't make the experiences bad just because a person is sensitive.

Casual or easy dungeoning is irrelevant. Including those features, or abilities to do things a certain way, doesn't change player behavior or make the experiences I'm talking about any better. In fact, the more these games push being able to solo everything, the more they make people's feelings about other people and…

Well of course you can, go get some and just do it. Nothing stopping a person other then then the thought of getting sick. Which is why i had the same thought you did about the salmonella, but, without any details into what they did about that whether they did anything to make it safer, that's exactly what they did…

These aren't bad experiences, they're just experiences. Experiences every player goes through at one point or another while learning mmo culture.. That's it. The only thing that makes this different at all is that it happened at the extremely early beginnings of mmo games. Now it's practically a right of passage to…

Also, to add to the pile, snake eaten in one episode was actually eel. And they had to eat a lot of it,

You can bite, rip with your teeth and spit out raw chicken, however. Which is what happened and why the choice doesnt seem like much of a choice as much as an illusion of one for the sake of using materical that looks realistic.

Sounds harsh but they're showing how desperate they are. Ever since it released they've been skirting around a price drop by finding every which way in the world to give potential buyers a discount if they had bought something else, be it hardware or a game. I'm guessing that hasn't worked for them so well, and I bet…

Here's a problem I find with the advice to the first letter: when you're that worried your going to mess up or be rejected, it's impossible for you to sort out what you did wrong from the things you did right, to be able to fix them. An outside observer and even the person who rejected you may know exactly what it…

Notch's reaction was a little bit too much, but frankly I'm havig a hard time feeling like Palmer is any better shooting back with what amounts to "well.. uh.. it's not like there was a game for you to cancel any way, dummy". I don't know, it just seems even more childish than Notch came off to a lot of folks.

I've practically lived on the internet regularly since about 1998 and I've never heard of it either. That said though, it sucks when anyones favorite site comes to an end, and I'm sorry for those folks.