Do you really think Christians and us Wisconsinites are clever enough for portmanteaus?

Yeah, that’s fair. Where I live in Wisconsin, the last few years have been bitter cold, but almost entirely snowless. Everything just looks so dead and dirty. I feel you on the lights being a nice way to break up the bleakness.

I would be so pissed! Every one of those people pre-ordered almost five full months ago! In that whole time, GameStop never figured out they oversold? Not until after the release date!?

Ah, nice. I’m a bit jealous of the TV. Hopefully I can find a decent Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal. That or upgrade my GTX 760 to a 970.

Oh yeah, if I could get Fiber I’d switch in a heartbeat. The 10-100KB/s (usually averages around 20) I’ve got now is $60, but that’s my only option. I’m not even a quarter mile out of Charter’s current range, but they refuse to run a line any further. There’s a local independant ISP in the town nearby, and they’ve…

That’s downright speedy compared to what I get, but still damn frustrating. Really, I’d say it’s just about as ridiculous a situation for you as it is for me. In either case, the technology exists for ISPs to get each of us much more bandwidth. They could easily do it too, if they inversted profits into infrastructure…

Old games are saving me from insanity right now.

Ugh. I mean, I get where they’re coming from, with the nigh ubiquity and overhead savings of digital, but it’s still aggravating.

That sucks. Do you at least have a decent internet connection? Be warned that you’ll need to download almost 20 gigs of files, even with the physical copy.

For collector’s editions, yes. And people like me, who only have access to max download speeds of ~100KB/s.

This pisses me off so much. I preordered the Pip-Boy Edition, actually got it on time, but I still can’t play the game because my home internet connection is only slightly faster than dial-up.

My connection maxes out at ~100KB/s, when I’m very lucky, the weather’s clear, and nobody in the house is using data. I got the physical copy so I could actually play it within a week or two of the release date.

What bugs me as well is that I got a physical copy of the game on release day because my internet connection maxes out at ~100KB/s, only to find that the physical copy only has 5 GB out of the 24 necessary to install it. Now I’m stuck waiting for the rest of the game to download, since Bethesda didn’t feel like…

They are making fun of how obsessive people can be over Christmas.

Would you say the same thing if they were making light of cancer? AIDS? MS? OCD is a life-destroying illness. Nonchalance adds to a culture that trivializess and demonizes people who have no say in the matter.

That’s great for her. A lot of us have had our lives destroyed by the disorder and don’t think it’s acceptable to be treated as jokes.

I’m way late to the party, but that story was the one I was betting on. Never underestimate the ability of Randroids to hate on people who want fair compensation. Good find!

Do you really mean literally?

You there! Of the Blue Light! We are enemies now!

True. He’s consistent, at least.