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I just got my product code. Super excited - loved what little time I spent with it last time.

I'm also a fan of Instacast. Biggest feature I love is the ability to create playlists. Long drives are more tolerable when I can set up 8 hours of podcasts ahead of time.

Very. I'm never played it, so I'm super excited to fire it up tonight. Expectations are tempered a little - lots of games from the 90s don't hold up that well in various ways. I'm prepared for that.

@TheStandardToaster: How in the hell did you get ahold of my in-progress erotic fanficti...oh.

Carry on then.

Downloading now. Happy to play against any other Bombers that are interested.

After growing up pretty much without video games until the Playstation era, I finally got my first SNES and hooked it up to my TV and verified it's working. I've got Super Mario World, Shadowrun, Dr Mario and Tetris, and a collection of fighting games (Mortal Kombat 1-3, Killer Instinct, Street Fighter II).

Apart from Earthbound (not shelling out $100+ on the secondary market), Chrono Trigger, and Link to the Past (played those via DS) - what do I HAVE to play?

I know this doesn't count, but I just got my first SNES last week and hooked it up to my TV last night. I'm really excited to finally play Super Mario World in a setting other than the WalMart electronics department! Also excited to play Shadowrun for the first time!

63. You should definitely leave your lone rescued friend with the crazy, Timothy Leary-esque doctor who calls her by the wrong name. There's no way this will end up with him wearing her skin as a coat.

Subject to change as I learn even more, of course.

@Dylabaloo: I agree almost completely that the high points of that game are being overlooked. The Thane story resolution hit me right in the gut, almost as much as the Mordin one. Seriously, Mordin's tale in ME3 might be my favorite/most bitersweet moment of 2012.

And I know I'll lose all my internet cred for this, but...I didn't mind the ending. At all. Not even a little bit. I played it before the extended stuff came out, and thought it was fine.

Now, Assassin's Creed 3? Huge disappointment. I couldn't even play past sequence 3, I was so put off by the game to that point. No story or ending is going to make up for the fact that I didn't enjoy a second I had spent playing it. And I LOVED 2 and Brotherhood. I keep thinking I'll give it another try, and have on a few occasions, but I just can't do it.

I made the mistake of reading Allow Natural Death at work one morning after seeing Justin McElroy rave about it. Thankfully I was in early enough there was no one else around and I could compose myself.

"We all have to say goodbye, even if we don’t really mean it" may be one of the more beautiful, accurate, and cutting sentiments I've read about loss. Nice phrase, Patrick.