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Rethinking it, you're probably right, cons would be just as unsettling or discouraging to a first time gamer.

Ah, my bad, you are correct, @avclub-819c46cd9742d2ed5cd2a9a5e4060375:disqus .  If I had a ps3 (or a vita, supposedly) I could play it.  Stupid useless 360!

That was an amazing article Todd.  I think it was both integral to the piece and really brave of you to include so much personal childhood stuff.

Great glowing Atma weapon shit, you've touched a copy of VII in the last 10 years?!  I'm superjealous.
I loved the circuity essence out of those snes games, but lack of money and time kept me from getting a PS1, so I missed all those classic games.  I've been slowly backtracking and just got my copy of VIII, but I feel…

Word.

People hate Cyan?  His song from the soundtrack always makes me tear up a little…

Hey me too!

"Finding a group of 5 or so you can play with constantly, that's the hard bit."

Really @avclub-f079b53bcfcde2c125cc74ced47bfbcd:disqus , FFVI?  I never would have guessed you're a fan…

I've seen the movie!  The one that starred nobody and came out in the 90s, anyway.
I was a teenager when I saw it, so I was an unreliable judge of its crapitude, but the whole sexual obsession of the main character thing was MUCH stronger in the movie than I felt it was in the book.
I was echoing the article's…

They're interchangable, really.

Oh hai unanswered questions from The Room that aren't "What am I?"

Hear hear.  I read it recently too, and didn't think the ending was unclear at all.
Kid dies.  Ghosts sorta responsible.  The governess doesn't turn into a maniac sex fiend or anything so I don't think you can attribute it to her delusions.
I guess you could interpret the incident as a shared delusion between the kid…

Ooh, thanks I'll have to look that one up.

That was my gateway.  I had dismissed him as an overrated rock star (I'm looking at you, Glory Days), but after that album I checked out his other stuff.

A youtube search of live performances suggests the mutherfucking Boss has become some sort of wandering troubador given all his disposable income and free time when not touring.

Didn't he do a weird post-The Rising tour too, where it was just him solo and an organ he was still learning to play?
That's balls, right there.

Yeah, there you go.  Thanks for being more specific than my shamed ass.

Ugh, I hate myself for knowing this, and I swear it's my middle-aged parents' fault.