No thanks. I use my drive regularly. Anything that doesn't need to sit on my hard drives or external drive gets burnt to DVD or Blu-ray. I trust them more than a hard drive that can - and one day will - crash and die.

Even forgetting about the airbags, 9-3 is still better for avoidance steering since your hands are directly across from each other, which gives you a better range of turn than having them at 10-2 or 8-4.

I'm in Canada, so I don't get to see the commercials you guys get, which is a pity because they are often much more entertaining than the boring crap we get here.

Endive is yummy just as a salad with oil and vinegar dressing.

Yeah, that is what they taught you in the 90s. Now it's nine and three as it gives you better control of steering in emergency situations, and it ensures that no part of your limbs are in front of the airbag, should it go off.

Put those files through my home theater setup, and you WILL hear a difference. Shitty desktop speakers or headphones are shitty to begin with.

Since you are supposed to drive with your hands at the 9-and3 position, I am not sure doing this would actually help.

Wash it, dry it in a salad spinner, stick it in a ziplock bag with a piece paper towel, and it will last a lot longer. The paper towel should be flat against one side of the bag. I can regularly keep green/red leaf lettuce for three weeks using this method when it would otherwise start going limp and slimy after a…

That chart is incomplete. No Boston lettuce? No Swiss Chard?

I figured it was a typo.

Because the levels are different in all the games. Use your friggin' head.

You're stupid. It has lots of games.

Hahaha! Citing an article written by Luke Plunkett is like referring people to a random raccoon and telling them he can vouch for your good character.

"Ever since he typed the words "Games are not art", Roger Ebert has been vilified by the video game community."

Why? So people could then complain about that instead? And complain that Nintendo is stifling creativity?

Well, that is a different argument altogether :)

There is a reason it shouldn't be built in. If it were built in, the second pad would no longer be optional when developing games, and so you would have a huge segment of the user base unable to purchase and play those games. This way the circle pad is ALWAYS optional in a game, and you don't fragment your user base.…

The XL is what the 3DS should have been. It's always been too small. I am ecstatic about the XL.

They didn't include it as part of the console because this way the second circle pad is always optional in games, which ensures that every 3DS owner will be able to play every game that comes out for it. Splintering your user base is never a good idea.

This way the second circle pad is always optional in games, which ensures that every 3DS owner will be able to play every game that comes out for it.