I recommend a slow steady gorging process, combined with Vassal horizontology.

I think of it like those ads for pet adoption: This girl was obviously housebroken, leash-trained, knew better than to climb on the people-furniture, didn't beg at the table, etc.

Final Farmville?

Amazing: They gameified ChemE 4620: Chemical Process Design. Bravo.

Dunno: That would seem to militate against the combined "never don't phone it in" and/or "light and get away" ethos of these organizations. To do less would be insufficiently bandit-like.

'cept isn't Catherine not particularly sexy? Like, it's a sort of puzzle game, plus a comedy platformer, with a few light shavings of mild cheesecakery sprinkled on top?

I want to make fun of Dance Praise and/or Christian games more broadly. But I can't. They're too perfectly crystallized as items of simplest, purest lameness to permit it. It's like viciously mocking the 75-IQ kid with the two lunches and the mittens pinned to his sleeves in 9th grade: A low blow by definition.…

Allow me to get a good run-up before cannon-balling into the swimming pool of pirahnas here but . . .

Doesn't that sort of mean that M *is* just a representation of 'excessive violence', though? I mean, it's hard to think of any example-cases of games that got M or worse on the basis of something *other* than violence. They might have had sex, too, but I'm guessing that, say, Dragon Age or Mass Effect would've been M…

I almost use ESRB as a reverse-guide to how much I'll *enjoy* a game, all things being equal. I mean, obviously there are exceptions to that rule (viz. Disney and Pixar movie adaptations, Barbie Horse Adventure, etc.), but here's a list of the games I have truly, deeply, madly loved in the past couple of years:

Gears would be 5,000% more playable—less like eyeball-sandpaper, if you will—with these ladies as avatars.

ARGH! Here I was thinking that you had translated the Japanese title and what the REAL story was that you could play Ni No Kuni (viz. "Another World") on iPad.

Would it be a dystopia or a utopia in which the U.S. dollar is abandoned in favor of the amazcredit and all businesses simply become local instantiation/franchises of Amazon?

I know, that's the *other* comparison to what I'm doing isn't it? I'm just like those guys collecting cans and bottles, except that I wear a no-iron polo shirt instead of a filthy parka.

No, but zero percent of those costs are borne by the publisher, which rather obviates their argument that they're just "bearing increasing costs". Because they aren't.

Maybe it should be an industry standard: Does your touchscreen AND browser work as well or better than Android/Windows phone/iOS Safari? No? Then get lost—it's not a real browser.

Verily. But what I'm specifically talking about is the "smurfing" aspect, whereas you seem to be working with more high-value stuff: That I'm now constantly 'on the hunt' for little bits of things that I can trade for $1 or $2. The fact that shipping is free and I can get used-but-still-usable old kraft envelopes at…

So Amazon's new Trade-In program has basically turned me into a low-level RPG character.

MLM?

And before some uninformed person chimes in with a "But how will 'free' journals pay their reporters!" allow me to shut you up by saying, "Scientific journals don't HAVE reporters. They publish papers by scientists, who are NOT paid the dimmest single cent for their contributions (yes, really) and edited by other…