Do you play on your laptop? Or do you have a computer hooked up to a TV, so you can play in your living room? I've seen these massive TVs at Best Buy or Target and can just imagine playing an NES game on one of those babies.

F-Zero cars? Cool. F-Zero tracks? Amazing.

It really is... I've been wondering if we're thinking backwards compatible as we go forward. We used to be constrained by things like NTSC/PAL and so on, but now that everything digital with codecs and compressors... in 50 years time, will I be able to play an h264 mp4 file on my TV, since it's just a codec that can…

They are, and more power to them for it. They might even be using their consoles from childhood (I still have my N64), there could be an emotional connection to the hardware, which I would totally understand. Like having a leatherbound version of your favourite book.

I hear you, especially about the space. They do make USB controllers of SNES and so on, right? And you can hook up a computer to a giant big screen TV, right?

The real life hack isn't telling us this bit of advice (or finding a 40 hour a week job that pays a living wage!), but tips on how to manage that time, not be burned out or wired up when you need to go to sleep, and not feel like you're working ALL the time. That was my big issue: I was always working my job, then…

Why do I get so nostalgic when it comes to old computer interfaces?

Tailspin could be cool now, you could make it a swashbuckling adventure: you have missions (deliveries), a wide array of interesting adversaries... you make Cape Suzette an open world like GTA, and you're dropped into an Indiana Jones-style universe by way of Disney!

Sort of like a 3D version of Mushroom Kingdom fusion, your player gets zapped into an immersive, retro-tastic Nintendo world?

Galaxy High would be an interesting way to pay with all the overused, stupid high school tropes that have no place anymore... you start the game as the lead character in a cliched 80s teen movie, and then EVERYTHING you expect to happen goes wrong and you have to react and adjust.

Actually, I had the Comcast guy come today and he was here within half an hour. Did a lovely job.

I think the trick will also be having to try and find a project or material I can practice the program on.

How many of you who use Scrivener consider yourselves lateral thinkers? I keep mys tuff organized but I like to keep it separate so I can see the pieces. The way I hear this software works, everything's glommed together. Do you find it easy to see the parts?

But I don't fear the blank page: I never open it unless I know what I'm going to put down. I can definitely see the benefit of having all that data in front of you, I just picture myself getting bogged down very easily by having the wealth of information there all the time.

A friend of mine wrote her books on Scrivener, she loves it, but me... I've made an effort to be more organized with my ideas, and I can certainly see the benefit of this program, I just can't bring myself to try it... I feel like it would allow me to stall more than I already do.

Oh my god, that's an awesome visual.

I fear that's the result if I tried to play any of these current video games. I did love the fact that they all pointed out that the whole city being controlled by one system is a terrible idea, which I think was the point of the game.

My regular day to day life is pretty boring... if something happens, I'll write about it to a friend, but I really only keep a diary when I go on trips or on special occassions... and then I'll fill it up, pages and pages until my wrist hurts.

I think I wrote it in one, I don't remember. It was enthusiastic and anglo at least.

Especially if your last name actually is Unicorn. Arya Unicorn. You just gotta make sure that middle name doesn't sound like a question: "Arya Lissenin Taylor?" "Arya Sleep Walken?" etc