If Portal 2 gets cheap enough for you to buy it on the PC, you should. The player-created levels are kind of awesome.

If it helps, high school is the worst time of your life. Outside of paying for bills, life is awesome once you can get away from jerks in HS.

All we need are some $60 digital jeans for this to be awesome.

I want to watch some shitty parent bring their stupid shitty kid to this festival. That kid will go, "Mom you dumb bitch! I want CALL OF DUTY!" And she'll be like, "Stewart! What did I say?!" And he'd go, "Just pay the FUCKING money already!"

Damn Japanese. Always with the latest technologies!

Just watched that Yogbox mod video! That looks really fun! I'll wait for the new update, and then decide.

The free version purported to be exactly like the full game, only with a 90 minute demo. It let me craft things, explore the island, mine, and fight zombies at night.

Do you work in the creative field? I'm curious.

I was bouncing between Terraria or Minecraft. I just downloaded the most Minecraft Demo, and yep, still same game. I might try Terraria if a demo pops up, or if I get really bored and just buy it.

I had to break through a lot of security to 'mod' my device. It's still hacking.

Well I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm just a guy who likes to hack my phone to make cool things happen with it.

I'm not of the buildy-type. I played the demo on the website and got bored quickly. I like adventuring, exploring, and feeling a sense of accomplishment from finding treasure. When will Minecraft be for me?

It was on his laptop when he was traveling. It's manga, it's not like he was trying to smuggle it. Do you completely erase your laptop when you travel? (Honestly I think it's a good idea now, since of all the BS border patrols) But this is Canada! It's a tollbooth away!

Spiral Knights! For a free game, it's REALLY good! And I love the energy system in that game. It pretty much forces you to not play anymore for another 22 hours. Sure, if you MUST play more, then you can buy more energy. But playing every day for a hour or two at a time is perfect for me.

Oregon Trail was a different game. Amazon trail, you take photos of bugs and animal life. It might not hold up, but I recommend you take a look if you're into are edutainment software type.

I really like the part where little kids knew Azeroth better than they knew their own world. I sort of want to design a game where geography is a central theme. A Mario is Missing/Carmen Sandiego exploration game, without shoe-horning the education in.

I sort of don't understand it either. Which is strange, since I LOVE Half-Life. I THINK I love Half-Life 2, I'm not sure. But there's nothing distinct about the HL series that I can point out why it's good, it just is. Everything feels right. It's sort of why I love Mario games. It just feels right.

Both are free, so you can't lose trying them both out. I just tried Champions Online. It was... okay. I'm used to the pedigree and epicness of WoW though. But I think I've been spoiled.

All that stuff you are saying requires commitment in a field you may not be interested in. Replace car repair with bike repair, computer repair, roofing, home repairs, phone repairs...

Spend some of that birthday money on TF2 itself! It'll be the best birthday gift you ever got. (Excluding the really awesome gifts you will/have received already.)