While it's a lovely sentiment, Behavioral Economics would like a word.

@ellegos:

@ellegos:

I see the "tired perspective" as a wholly different issue. Two of them in fact.

@Tyler Canady: Disappointed isn't the right word. It's the XCOM problem. Maybe it's great, but it's a total shift in focus. I'm hopeful that it will be good, but even if it is, it's still different than a game I'm really looking for.

Ever since that damn Monk/Arab/Crusader who grabbed the first half of Aristotle's Poetics (covering tragedy), while consigning the other (covering comedy) to the great Library in the Sky, comedy's gotten short shrift.

@CustomFirmware: There's not going to be a One Good Answer. These things are (or should be) regional. You can get a good rate on the internet with things like e*trade bank & ING, but that takes out a lot of the ease of actually having somewhere to walk in and solve problems.

@B-Real206: Get a job, you hippie!

@TRT-X: Kotaku has a strong reactionary vein in its comments.

@leoblaze30: My cousin, who's like my sister, is a T1, and T2 is about 1/3rd of both sides of my family. I know the drill far too well.

1)I once wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure as a dating ad on Craig's List. I'm still upset that I was feeling bitter and didn't respond to the girl who wrote one back to me.

@gurfinki: Touche, Sir, touche.

@Nintendocrazed: Yes. Yes, you've been lucky.

@ryoshi: Ouch. Hope you make it there.

@SkyBlu: The advantage of prophecy is that, when you have something like "And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast," your range of interpretation is pretty wide. You can edit things to fit.

An 11AM stripper? That's got to be an odd time slot for it.

KineXXXt?

"What the hell?"

@ClaudioIphigenia: I'll post it over in the ed. board, which might get some mod response.

@CubemonkeyNYC: GoG posted a message with much hand-wringing that made it look like it was closing down and going away for good. Theories abounded as to why, the most popular of course being that content providers finally tolled the death knell for it. Three days later it's back, with additional content, and…