You're just a different type of gamer than those of us who thrived during the early eras of gaming. My brother and I used to do speed runs through Full Throttle just for fun because we enjoyed adventure titles so much. It's like watching your favorite movie over and over again, except that you get to interact with the characters.

Especially Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, most of the modern Tex Murphy adventures, and the Monkey Islands. Mostly Lucas Arts and Sierra, but companies like Access also provided hours and hours of the tedious adventure game shlock we enjoy. Hell, there were days where an entire 24 hours was spent playing text adventures, some of those hours spent replaying a game we had played through 100 times or more.

And this is why I truly hate mainstream media now... especially the 'mass market' shit.

We have a free 'newspaper' here in Melbourne called the MX, which is basically just a bunch of things also printed in the shlock newspaper The Herald Sun along with even more trite and ridiculous 'stories'.

What stopped me reading it mostly though was that every page has AT LEAST one 'study' that makes some bold new claim about how something we've been doing for years is bad for us/good for us/used to be thought of as bad, but is now good/will make us more attractive to opposite sex

And so on and so on.

Except they are such small and condensed snippets you can't get a hold on whether the science behind the study is good or whether the finding is correctly reported... AND even more often the case, you find that it's a 'study' paid for by some company with a vested interest 'Study says that more people are finding meaningful relationships online' (says study funded by online dating site. 'Study says that using mouthwash with ethanol not a danger as previously thought' (says study funded by Listerine) and so on and so on.

It's infuriating and makes people distrust science more and more.

Sad

I liked Skillary Clitless, m'self-
Ad hom for celebs is aok with celebs...with comedians, with all the fans of Jon Stewart and Bill Mhaharar, why is is suddenly off limits? If I say Richard is a dick, and if richard puts his ugly ass on TV?, he's fair game, dick or not he be.

All in the delivery and delivered to. Hillary deserves it. George Bush deserves it, and QM, after all the kind and not so kind words dished by you and on your behalf, you deserve it. At least you came back this time to retort, after yer drive-by.

god knows Rush Lameboy deserves it...that guy's time in the sun is waaay over, even with concervative and republican types...What sells in radio today? Up-Beat, wannabe clever personalities, making up a topic and letting all the Cletus Slack-Jhaws, call in to give 2 cents....that and crappy syndicated mealworms with microphones, dima a dozen shlock jock crap.

(maybe you should watch the viddy, choggie, now that yer fingers are numb)