@Vanderblade: To be honest, you know how Kotick is, coming by with flowers and chocolate, telling you you're beautiful and you can take on the world together, and then you get married and BAM! He makes you develop a generic Bond game and demands a divorce.

My cat generally ignores games, either sitting on my lap or a nearby chair, but I played something that had bird noises in it and she freaked out, and ran around the house making her strange "holy crap there's a bird!" noises searching for it.

It seems to be about the illusion of security rather than actual security. Groping makes it seem thorough, but it's not going to actually find anything more than pre-groping procedures, and the scanners are shiny and advanced but really how many extra places are you going to hide something?

@acjwatt: Do you want your money to go to Yoko Ono? Do you?

@Turbineguy - now with Firefox!: Rock music - it can even get someone who looks like Gene Simmons laid.

"Sir, she was hiding something suspicious in her person, and I had to do a search the only way I knew how."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Looks like a potato.

@IFTNFS: But it still seems to be on the pretending I'm a woodsman part of the spectrum, rather than the preppy part.

What about the Jeep Wrangler?

This is like if you go to a hotel that has a nice brochure and some pretty views, but when you get there, it's under construction for 24 hours of the day, including in your room. They might be giving you discounts, but the hotel is still under construction. I don't want to stay in a hotel that's under construction, I…

@Hombre3000: Exactly. From my experience, the type of person who owns a Grand Wagoneer is the type of person who is willing to - and enjoys - doing things like pouring gas into a carb. A preppy wouldn't even put gas into the tank by themselves.

Grand Wagoneer? Seriously? I know many who drive one, they are possibly the least preppy people you will ever meet.

@DaeSu: Actually, streaming would have inspired the exact same comments, though possibly from different commenters.

@Rocking a turbodiesel with stick: I've seen more than a few driving around where I live. Pretty much 100% are in the hands of small business, but that's who they're marketed towards.

@DaeSu: I think the issue is that people figured that, with a day you'll "never forget" you'd get something more impressive than one band's music. It might contain the song Revolution, but this is hardly a revolutionary announcement, leading to the mass expression of disappointed indifference.

Well, where do you get your hazardous materials from, Mr. Hoity Toity?

@jamaicanmecrazy: Eh, buttons aren't going anywhere. Kinect is neato - though I only tried it briefly because it was in public and it's not the thing to do in public - but sometimes you don't want to get up and move around.

@ITCC: Good lord this thread is acorn-y one.

@Pissed Off PC Gamer: But do you know where to find some sailors?