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America gets shit from 99.9% of people on this planet, including our own unappreciative citizens. We fought the most powerful nation in the world with 49 musketeers, a drummer and a flag shanking Mel Gibson to gain our independence. And since then, we've done some pretty cool things for this world, so why shouldn't we be proud of America on our Independence day?

I usually buy new and sell them back (if I don't want to keep them) for $35. It takes me 2-3 weeks to beat an 8-12 hour game and renting for that amount of time would cost me $20-30 anyway. I don't care if they sell it for $50, they have to pay an electric bill after all.

I'm an adult with a real job, so money isn't so much the issue, I'm just impatient and refuse to go to Blockbuster every day waiting for a copy of Alice to be turned in. I tried Gamefly and its even worse because nobody HAS to bring them back. I waited 5 months to get Donkey Kong! I could've bought it for $15 by then.

@ninjalegend said:

Spoiler: The A's win the world series, and are heralded as the greatest team to grace the diamond. Unfortunately, they do not sell enough merchandise, so Bobby Kotick quickly disassembles the team and they vanish into obscurity.

The A's only made it to the playoffs under Bean. Maybe they won a series, but never made it to the World Series.

I can't wait to watch E Honda for 2 hours tonight

As an American, soccer interests me, but its hard to get really into. We all play it when we're 6 and we know the rules, but we stop when all of our friends start playing little league baseball. And once high school rolls around; football, baseball, basketball, and in some states, hockey are all people care about. If you're an athlete, would you rather play in front of 30 people or 3,000? And if you're a 16 year old boy, which one will get you the most girls?

Who's our best player, Josie Altidore? He's a sub on some middle-tier English team right? None of our best athletes play soccer, so our league and our national teams stink. We get into soccer every 4 years when the world cup rolls around, after we beat up on the Jamaica's of the world, and say "this is the year". But eventually, we get dominated by a real team and are sent home after a 20 min game against Ghana (we tore 46 ACLs, luckily the magic spray was there to fix everyone up after they rolled around for 10 min at a time). We respect the game and know it, we just stink at it and it pisses us off when we play a floppy nation.

Florida isn't on an active fault line, so the chances of a earthquake is almost non-existent.  I'm a Floridian that has lived through 2 to 3 hurricanes a year and those are what we have to worry about.  Fortunately we live in a rich nation that has building codes and houses that can withstand 120+ mph winds.   I've been evacuated a few times, for some cat 3s, 4s, and 5s, since I live a mile from the beach.  But most of the time, hurricanes are no worse than a typical, summer afternoon thunderstorm.
 
 Katrina and Andrew looked bad, but had the levees held they would've been fine, and Andrew did all of its damage in the trailer parks and shanty-towns of Miami.
 
We're just fortunate that our natural disasters can be predicted 3 weeks in advance, when earthquakes, tornadoes, flash floods and tsunami's can happen any time.

I blew out the acl and mcl in my left knee playing football in high school, but that didn't hurt nearly as much as shattering my right knee cap last winter, snowboarding.  The turn was very icy and bumpy, which caused the board to just slide out while toe-side and I whacked it pretty good.  I got up and went the rest of the way down the mountain, then rolled up my pants and my knee was the size of a basketball.

Why dock a game just because the story isn't very plausible though?  Assassin's Creed, GTA games, Call of Duty, Gears, and God of War all have batsh-t crazy stories!  I don't think Homefront is great, although the multiplayer is actually pretty good, but bashing the game for a nonsensical story isn't fair when you consider that most games are FICTION anyway.