Seriously! All those meals sound delicious and I would eat them at any time of day when I couldn't possibly be sleeping instead.

Um, Bill Murray LIVES in Charleston. (South Carolina.)

My favorite in this one is "never make eye contact with a person of your preferred gender that you find attractive." Great advice!

"Old people knuckles" made me choke on my coffee!

Celes, this is beautiful. Thank you.

Excellent article, Jason! I am in the somewhere-in-between group. Video games are my favorite pastime, and I have a few friends and family members who are the same way, and we share that. At the same time, I have a high-pressure professional job in an arena where I wouldn't dare tell everyone at a meeting that I…

Yeah, DLC Quest was actually legitimately fun in addition to being a clever mockery of game cliches.

Seriously! I chose Playstation over N64 solely because of Squaresoft, and PS2 over Xbox for Square Enix. Now... *sigh*

Oh yeah, I think Secret of Evermore is really underrated. At least as good as Secret of Mana. Although since it was made in North America I don't think it exactly qualifies as a JRPG...

Same here! As a male, "playing video games" by itself did not translate into the kind of instant stigma or ostracizing that Simins is portraying. But "staying in the dorm to translation-patch Japanese RPG ROMs rather than going out with bros" certainly did!

Yup. I'd say it's damn near universal.

I hear you. Our biggest lesson — and it took more than one kid for it to really sink in — is You Just Gotta Let Some Shit Go.

About $1000 a month for a family of 6. I am really hoping to get that number down, but we already buy store brands almost exclusively, grow much of our own produce, etc... I guess we could always stop drinking wine, right? :P

I disagree that the second half of FF6 is a narrative mess. It's just... more of a short story collection than a novel. Some of the most dramatic, gorgeous, heartbreaking scenes in any FF game take place there. Cyan in Mt. Zozo and then the return to Doma, and Locke and Rachel's story both come to mind. I think…