"Everybody's doing it wrong! My way is better!"

@John_Norad: Stress doesn't have a straight linear relationship to enjoyment. Stress is related to enjoyment through (among other things) performance, and performance increases with stress to a point, at which it starts to decrease with further increases in stress. There's an optimal level of stress at which…

@John_Norad: The game should want you to have an ideal amount of stress. It's part of making sure you get a maximized level of enjoyment.

This is actually really neat. I'm writing my thesis on stress and gaming, and I devote not an insignificant part to taking a look at biofeedback tools used to manipulate the game based on user response. I may have to look into this thing here a little more.

Now can anyone explain why Han Solo never became a doctor?

@trithleon: I think you need to redefine your context of failure. I could only dream of one day "failing" as completely as Jagex has with their game:

@kelz: I think that more important than the scale of the challenges, it is important for there to be some volume to the challenges. There need to be a lot of minions or smaller challenges for the heroes, so that we can see them doing what we want to see them doing - winning fights.

@FrankN.Stein: I saw this in the store the other day for five dollars. I still sort've regret not buying it. ID4 was a super-fun movie.

For me it was the SWCCG. I never got very good, but I remember Scrye, the Pog shops, and Sliders.

@P.F. Bruns: I know; and it also wasn't a werewolf. It's tidied up pretty well at the end of the story, but the parallels (especially to the more traditional "hellhound") are notable.

Hound of the Baskervilles explained.

SeaQuest DSV and Voyager clumped together were the first things I noticed; those two along with "Seven Days" were my sci-fi standbys of the 90s.

@thedarkerside.to: He's pretty clearly referenced as "alive" and in some bodily form - this is tangential to your original assertion, anyway, which was you having said "...no reference to Jesus rising from the grave."

@madammina: I really like Grape Nuts (really!) and any sort of granola cereal, but peanut-butter and cocoa puffs (Reese's Puffs and the like) are my favorite guilty pleasure cereal.

@thedarkerside.to: I didn't read that fully, but a quick look at its version of Matthew (which continues after the resurrection) and Acts (in which the whole early part of the book hangs on the resurrection) gives the lie to "no reference to Jesus rising from the grave."

@gigawings: The comment was a joke in the article - the teacher and class is in the UK, making 0400 GMT very much 4 a.m.

@thedarkerside.to: My assumption would be that an incomplete text is simply that - incomplete. How many physical manuscripts do you know that have been preserved for thousands of years in their entirety?

@sgraff87: Agreed - four a.m. at 10 is crazy talk. I don't think I even saw the far side of ten or eleven p.m. very often until college.

@thedarkerside.to: I've always thought that NCIS has had much more enjoyable characters than CSI. It's definitely a lighter - and much less grounded - show, but it's a lot easier to just watch. It's the TV equivalent of fluffy popcorn fare.