@Ari Kagura: Her GunBlade, By Fate: The "Mortal Monday" ad from 1992. I remember seeing it on Nickelodeon and wondering what the hell it was all about as a kid.

@nrXic: My justification was Doom...and that's the only game I ever purchased for it.

@Sublethalend: Sad fact of life: I'm more excited about the mention of Express shirts than I am Bulletstorm.

@Duuuuuuude: Maybe it was one of those circumstances of people having to break the tension by laughing.

@Faren22: I always felt kind of sorry for Nick Carraway, but that's probably because he had to be represented by Sam Waterston in the film version. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Jack McCoy and his "Old Glory Robot Insurance" ad from SNL is one of my favorite fake commercials of all time, but yeah. I mean, shit,…

I guess in retrospect I probably should've stated it better. For example, a lot of the starred commenters and some of the established-but-unstarred ones know better, but I do have to wonder at the number of "OMG U GUYS SUK FIX THIS NAO" comments that get received but never make it through (since I'm not privy to that…

@madammina: There's no character in all of British literature I despise more than David Copperfield.

If there's anyone in this whole mess (that is, the "redesign" fiasco) that's been on the shit end of the stick, it's been the Kotaku editors.

@ScorpiuS41: Xenogears. Keep you busy for at least a month.

My takeaway from the still photo is that a Half-Life adventure game in the SCUMM variety would be pretty wicked.

It's not that she doesn't play games. On the contrary, out of the two of us she's the one consistently getting use from her WoW account and she loves Little Big Planet (when she can wrestle the controller from my hands and get me to stop playing Mass Effect 2—which I still haven't finished!).

There's an agreement between my girlfriend and me that video games are generally unsuitable gifts because I tend to blow through single player experiences in a matter of days and then tend to shelve them for long periods of time, so I can't necessarily say I received any wicked awesome games from the woman I love on…

I don't think #TAY is going to work with this format; it's pretty much impossible to easily talk amongst ourselves with the new method of promotion—which I kind of relied on to be heard sometimes—and threading.

@madammina: Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." It doesn't count as a standalone book, but it was the primary story in a James collection I had to read for a survey of 20th Century British literature.

@hagren: Well, cash is in short supply in the Fresh household, and it was extra discount at work this weekend. Totally needed that new khaki suit and accompanying set of dress shirts.

@The MSJ: Holy shit. I seriously had never read/heard/seen that before today.

I bought "Demon's Souls" during the recent Christmas season, tried playing it twice, and just could not progress.

@surft: From what I've read elsewhere, the studio forced Anderson to cut a lot of footage from the film, and since it was in the early days of DVD, nobody cared about saving anything, so a lot of it was junked.

I was more weirded out at the knowledge that "Friday" is 15 years old. Jesus.

In my experience, I've found that people who refer to themselves as "grown-ass men" tend not to act like adults.