I really loved the trial and the way all your actions up to then at the fair were used for or against you. I thought it was great and really clever, and was the first thing I'd seen of actions having unexpected consequences in what was up til then a largely linear genre... console JRPGs that is. I also loved the way…

There's definitely a frustrating tendency for media and pop culture to romanticize pursuits, and a DISTURBING tendency for a lot of people to defend them in the case of men pursuing women as "Well, you HAVE to, because women play hard to get," as if any time a woman says "no" she either doesn't really know what she…

I'm interested, but I'm interested in the same way I was BluRay and HD TVs... it's not going to be worth it for a long, long time until there's enough content for the format. Not that I think VR is necessarily going to replace standard gaming the way BluRay and HD have arguably done to their predecessors, but I think…

I didn't miss your comment's remarks. You said my husband's grandfather was being disrespectful by continuing to talk, and I said that we were aware of that. Your comment and its focus on complaining about my husband's grandfather's behaviour carries the implication that he somehow deserved to be mocked because of…

I don't think you got the point of my comment, especially since I pointed out that we were aware of it and would distract him so the employee/server/whatever could move on. It wasn't that the employee should "have to stand around waiting while he talked". It was that he handled the situation extremely poorly and…

... I, uh. Don't think I ever called it a trauma or made it out to be as such. In fact, one might argue that by me pointing out that as being the worst behaviour I had ever had anyone deal with in my immediate family I was, in fact, illustrating how few and far between actual employee horrorshows are. Unlike…

Of course everyone slips up. And as far as I'm concerned, the guy I'm talking about had a relatively good "close call". He didn't actually get in trouble, but he realized he could have and will hopefully know to be more careful and aware in the future. I've worked retail too, and my sympathy only goes so far when…

Well, yes, but that was my whole point. He WASN'T polite. I know Grandpa was often annoying, as I'm sure we all have been no matter how hard we try. I wasn't denying that. My point was he should have kept his aggravation off the floor. No matter how hard a customer sucks or is a pain in the ass, it absolutely is not…

Yep, absolutely. I don't doubt Grandpa was annoying, and I'm sure I have been too despite my best efforts. But when I worked retail, you kept it to yourself unless you were being attacked or disrespected... then you just extricated yourself and passed it off to management. I don't care how often you roll your eyes in…

I have indeed had to work retail and dealt with customers like him. Are you saying you SHOULDN'T need to be polite and respectable in a customer service position and know how to gracefully extricate yourself as well as keep any opinions to yourself in a professional sense as I was suggesting?

There's a bar my husband and I go to out in Orlando where we have been going for about eight years, so we know the staff very well. One of the bartenders is this big, built guy we'll call Jim... he's got a very friendly, goofy demeanor, and gets flirted with a lot. One day we're leaning on the bar talking to him while…

The first episode was absolutely brilliant... perfect humour, pacing, and exciting scenes. Maybe a little predictable in places and had some awkward choices (or rather, the text for a few choices was vague), but otherwise fantastic. Loved the framing device of Rhys and Fiona taking turns telling the story, which…

I have never been a sweets person, and when I do want some, it's usually on the simple side, like straight-up chocolate or a slice of blueberry pie. My husband likes to tease me about liking "tasteless" cereal, and it's weirdly true that I do prefer Cornflakes or Rice Krispies or Honey Nut Cheerios over just about any…

It's surprising how easy it is to repair a PS2 in a lot of cases. My husband picked one up for me used for Christmas several years ago, and after a year or so it started scratching the CDs. I called GameStop, where he had bought it, and was informed that just to LOOK at it they wanted $50, which was the cost of the…

My grandmother used to love to watch scary movies. In the sense that we'd have them on and she'd cackle like a schoolgirl, throwing up her hands in delight while we (my little sister and I) sat with pillows in front of our faces during movies. I think she got more enjoyment out of our reaction than the actual movies.…

...Um, okay? I personally would call a fear of something I'm never actually going to encounter, such as giant squid, sharks, and seamonsters who dwell in big bodies of water I don't live near or would ever go into but yet still remain anxious and unsettled by enough that I can't actually watch movies or play games…

The only time I have ever personally played co-op was when I tried Resident Evil 5 for the first time and was driven to murderous rage by how the companion character kept running in my way. It was bad enough I briefly enlisted my husband, more decidedly a Civ/Baldur's Gate speed of gamer, to "play" with me when he…

Nnnnnnnnnope. I have a weird phobia about big bodies of water and big underwater predators I can actually trace back to an old episode of The Outer Limits I saw when I was little shortly after I nearly drowned. I STILL have nightmares about being chased by the Midgar Zolom for crying out loud.

I still love Mystic Quest's soundtrack. The boss battle theme and a lot of the dungeon music was bombastic and energetic in a way a lot of the rest of the series' music just isn't. It's the same reason I loved Baten Kaitos' music... there was something incredibly fun about the standard melodic fantasy tunes that…

Breast physics will usually make me laugh, largely because I have NEVER seen any sort of realistic breast bounce in any game in recent memory (or even not-so-recent), but what I get weirdly freaked about is nipple placement. Like they have these ENORMOUS breasts, BARELY covered by a tiny strip of fabric, and often in…