I got a job later that month, and stayed at it for ten years. So take that, mom and dad. Dragon Warrior VIII was also a great Level 5 game. I agree. They do good work.

No prob. But if you like good localization, I'll assure you that the translation is superb.

I spent a TON of time playing Dark Cloud 2. I had just finished university and I spent days at it. Eventually, my dad said “Your mother and I are concerned that you’ve decided to spend your days playing this very juvenile-looking game instead of looking for work.” Summer of 2004, man. Good times!

Ni no kuni was done in 2013. Try a demo. It is really fun.

Sex is Sooooo much more fun when you are a generous lover and take a trip downtown for your lady. This guy should really give it another chance.

You get a star for saying “heaven forfend”. I’ve been saying that ever since I read it in one of Fritz Leiber’s stories.

Oh, bro. Some of my best gaming experiences EVER have been on MUDs. Were you ever on MozartMud? SO FUN AND CHALLENGING! I went back just 3 years ago in order to experience the challenge and excitement again, and I wasn’t disappointed.

That's cool. Different strokes for different folks. I liked Mario RPG too.

So you played it in HS, not college?

I found that game in 1997 at the age of fifteen. I remember it so damned fondly. When did you meet it?

I might not have the patience for it these days, but as a teen in the mid-nineties, it was an awesome game. It came at the right time for me. If you found it earlier, and it got you away from thinking about highschool crap for a while, you might have loved it.

Buddy, there are a crap-ton of women in Iran who lead entire lives without dodging rocks and acid. There are messed-up groups of people in the states, too; but tourists don't need to live in fear of them.

That’s what I came to ask.

It is really weird. People have moved past imposing their religious standards on people, but think nothing of imposing their healthcare beliefs onto them. Has it become part of the social contract that you eat impeccably during your pregnancy?

The male outrage for this should be delicious, as they wring their hands over their world slipping away (or whatever it is that pisses them off about stuff like this.)

That’s a really, really good summary of everything he ever talked about. I thought it was pretty BS that his well of Murph/Cooze-outrageous-times-in-Vegas stories never seemed to go dry.

I can understand what she means. That's a good way of explaining the pervasiveness of that strange, strange trope.

This has been an education. Wow. I can't believe we aren't talking about a hundred years ago.

Wow. I'm amazed that something that so many women live in fear of could be have had such broad appeal. I wonder if they were getting off on the transgressiveness of it. Perhaps it's just a case of the world having done a number on women back then that they thought men being overcome with passion to the point of rape…

Don't most romance novels conform to the same formula, though? If the plagiarist kept the plot-points the same, what would be the thing that would give-up his game?