@MrMrScott: I would say that Telltale and Machinarium are proof that the point and click is alive and well.

@Justin: Great stuff, Justin! Is there contact info on your site when it comes back up?

Yes. Yes it is.

@chandan1014: This is awesome in a way that only Jeff Bridges could accurately state: "Wow, man"

PC

Notch = Creative indie developer overwhelmed by his own success.

@Caturday Yet?: Specifically, homemade soap.

@Simon DelMonte: Asimov was a dirty old perv. He wrote dirty limericks on napkins and inside book covers that he gave my mother while he was flirting with her.

I had two lifetime accounts before LOTRO went F2P, and I've been playing since it was in beta. I was leery of the change, but having experienced the new content, changes to old content, and smooth implementation of the LOTRO store, I am impressed. I don't even NEED to buy points, but I went ahead and shelled out $50…

@Deepsplash: Step 1: Make an American friend.

Thank you, Bioware, for finally producing a game I *don't* want to purchase!

This has been going on for some time - Star Trek Online was horrible about it, but eventually, all things were made available to all people - which is how I prefer the store exclusives. I buy from the store that has the one I want the most, then wait a bit for the rest.

@HobbitGamer: ^^ This. I appreciate the diversifying, because it encourages market competitiveness. True, they could do it with price alone, but then Amazon would always win. I don't want the retailer that lowballs everything, because then quality goes to shit. With diversity in the market place, retailers are…

"I will never have children, and I wanted to be a father so badly. I think I would have made a good dad."

@tekdotnu: I lived with a girl who was cutting herself. She had been raped by her boyfriend, abused by her parents, and was on a severe downward spiral. My girlfriend and I worked with her for two years, but I'm happy to report that she is now living on her own, supporting herself, and hasn't cut in 18 months.

When did Portal change from a one-player accompanied by a talking robot head to a two-binome video game?

As many others have stated on here: Steam. I do buy boxed games when I want a perk or a collector's item, but out of the $900 I spent on games this (past) year, more than 75% went to Steam.

I use Eudora and have it set to send every few minutes instead of insta-send. MANY is the time I have prevented disaster by stopping an outbound before it went.

@Whitson Gordon: And THAT is why he needs Google voice to spell it ;)

@rubbabiscuit: No - they stick it to people who buy from them. I don't shop at WalMart. A lot of my friends give me weird looks because I boycott certain stores, but I believe that the only way that we, the consumer, can show our disappointment in corporate culture that destroys small-town america is to deny them…