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I completed Myst (with help in one of the hardest parts), but never completed Riven, lol. Beautiful game, but very very hard.

This is one of several games that makes me wish I had space in my home for multiple consoles. I'm so excited for this one, yet I know I will be waiting ... If there's any chance of PS5 being backwards compatible, getting a PS4 just makes no sense at this point of time for me.

I'm on PS3, the system where mods are not possible.

That joke is both more and less funny than you think :/ You have no idea how badly I wanted to be James Bond, lol. I seriously considered CIA as a career when I was young. I did get to visit their HQ once, which was super cool!

I have my own version of this silliness though. Sometimes I will get extremely angry at a puzzle or a boss fight, and will refuse to get up and leave until i beat it, even if I hate every minute.

I was really alarmed when Amazon suddenly stopped offering the ability to purchase TV shows that I was in the process of buying the other month. Thankfully, the seasons I bought before the change are still available to me in my account, but I’ve had to look for other ways to purchase the remaining seasons. One just doesn’t know what is going to happen with digital purchases.

I'm far from faultless myself. I did a lot of underhanded things in the MUD I played back in the day. I was a spy, so through my underhandedness, I got to see everyone else's dirt way more clearly than I wanted to. In the end, I got so jaded I quit. It was the only way to undo my percentage of the damage.

I will try to be an optimist then ...

Funny we both went with things involving fruits at the grocery store.

Not with my aftermarket controller, ugh. RDR is so sensitive that I ride in a zig-zag, lol. The main difference seems to be that when you turn the horse in Skyrim, it moves forward and goes in a sort of circle. In RDR, when you turn the horse sharply, you need to do it in place and then go on your way. I think the second movement is probably more lifelike/realistic.

To those who live in small homes/apartments... I live in just one room. It’s a tiny space which has my entire life in it—living room, kitchen, bedroom. I keep my PS3 under the desk which has my TV on it. To those of you who likewise live in tiny spaces, how many consoles do you own? Where do you keep them? Any advice for conserving space with multiple consoles?

What is the absolute worst behaviour you have witnessed in an MMO? In one game alone, I witnessed: Admins cheating players in events An admin banning a player for protecting another from sexual harassment Destruction of real-life relationships to achieve in-game aims Pretty lousy stuff. Anyone have stories to tell?

Yeah, exactly. It isn’t as bad if they have a LAN and single player mode that keep functioning, but it still sucks. The other thing that scares me on a related note is purchasing games online. Technically, you don’t “own” anything—you have a kind of “indefinite rental.” If the company goes under, the contract evaporates, and you can lose everything. This applies with movies/TV as well. I feel like it’s becoming harder and harder to actually own any sort of watchable or playable content.

What's funny is ... now I've gone back to play some Skyrim, and now I can't turn the horse in there, hahah. My muscle memory has now ingrained the RDR turning movements.

It's been ages since I've been to an arcade, but I loved them when I was younger! I can't remember the last time I've seen one, but I'm in a rural area. I used to like playing at the ones where you could win vouchers back and claim a prize.

I’ve played DDR, and I am beyond terrible at it. I have no physical coordination. There’s too much executive function involved.

@skyfire I just found out about this game the other day, and the art style alone makes it look pretty fascinating.

I always go double-handed on Warrior classes with light armor. I prefer the faster movement with the blades and the armor. It’s interesting to me you pair up double-handed with heavy armor for that reason.

After enduring one too many glitches, my friend rage-quit Skyrim a few months ago and hasn't touched it since.

Okay, I've actually got one now in answer to my own question. I finished Bioshock 1 the other day, and the section where I had to escort Little Sisters while they harvested was SUCH a pain. I could save Little Sisters before ... but with my 25% damage resistance, I just could not keep them alive in the Big Daddy suit. Oh, the irony.

I've never actually been one to try for trophies or achievements, but your story made me laugh =D

@skyfire @The Blackangel I feel kind of the same way about industrial and noise music (especially the more old-school variety, i.e. Boyd Rice, Skinny Puppy, Coil, etc.) as @The Blackangel does about metal. My third year college roommate and I would sometimes leave our favorite albums on loop all day, especially the more "abstract" sounding ones, and use them in place of ambient noise. They produced what I can only call a sense of "comfortable unease" for us. Some of the background sounds in video games, especially like Bioshock Infinite for example, or The Pitt in Fallout 3, put me in sort of a related headspace, and I love it.

Let's hope so, ugh.

That’s a good point. I can say the same for my MUDding days, albeit not the same types of issues. It was more just that people would act on their worst impulses to lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, betray, and so forth. They’d shrug and say “It’s only a game,” but with the massive hours people clocked in that game, that wasn’t really a valid excuse. It functioned more as a meta-verse, and its social ills were very real.

Aww, likewise! You're fabulous!