I never got to play Oregon Trail much. I played the Yukon Trail. By all accounts, a worse game.

So:
I'm still on the last generation of consoles (Wii excepted, but does that really count?). I have Virtua Fighter 4 and Guilty Gear X. Which fighting games should I own?

I dunno. Playing Pirates just for the trade is wicked boring, I say. It's fun to misunderstand economics completely and declare glorious 100% profit after raiding a fleet of ships that nearly killed you (requiring lots of money to repair).

Parade? That's awesome.

Tarkovsky, God bless you. You're hilarious.

Nuts to you, space monkey, some of those are some good-lookin' women.

Wow. I hate to trumpet my old SA lurking, but Jesus Christ does Helldump have to go lay the smack down on those people.

English class really needs to teach more grammar, vocabulary, and clarity of expression. Literature's great, but there's a pervasive attitude that an English class is a wonderful Devil's Pool shielding you from the Victoria Falls of the "harder" courses. Writing clearly is hard, and you can't always do it in five…

I care, SLS, I care.

Yeah, probably.

TV Tropes isn't a time waster, it's a black hole.

So hold up: who just got trolled?

It's fun to read about different Spanish dialects. Every word you thought you learned reading Mario Vargas Llosa in fact means something totally different reading Juan Rulfo. And then you actually go try to speak and listen to the language and you're so totally boned they'll dig you up and carbon date you in a…

The tragedy of Watch & Weight: too much watching, too much weight.

Reason #43 for a free China:

I'm just wondering how such a simple story is going to turn out in the hands of the guy who did the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Just joshin'. If I cared that much I'd kill myself over a misplaced apostrophe.

I know! Who would've thought that rising stars rose that fast?

I was hypnotized at the midnight party my high school held for outgoing seniors. I was fully conscious of what I was doing, but nothing I was asked to do seemed like a bad idea. I will say that I've never felt more relaxed than I was after I came out of the "trance."

Inclined to agree with Gravy Robber, particularly since my father consistently avoids the topic of my rather older stepmother's age.