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As someone about to marry a wonderful woman with a beautiful face and an average body, I can totally verify that the answer is that the face is more important.  You date the girls with the nice body, but long term, go for a woman with a nice face above anything else physically.  Your children will be gifted with their good looks, and a body can almost always be improved through exercise and diet.

Aaaaand never mind.  Apparently, I missed a game, but I have it now.  I am very dumb.

Can someone PLEASE help me with The Final Composer?  I need #2, the first great work.  I have his name, and the second work, and have gone through every single thing on his page, and have been unable to find it.

I've gone through every game the guy's ever done, but I still don't have #2.  His name, I got, and the second game, I got, but the first?  Nothing.  If anyone can give me a hint, I'd be much obliged.

A friend of mine is addicted to achievements. 
 
I know that such a thing is common to say around and about gamers, but I don't use the word "addicted" as an analog for "he likes them a whole bunch."  When I call him an addict, I mean that he uses them to validate who he is, and is willing to do nearly anything to get as many as possible in every game he encounters.  If he doesn't achieve all 1000 achievement points in the game, he becomes visibly frustrated and bothered by it, and it takes a great deal of distraction toward something else to make sure he doesn't get actively depressed by it. 
 
For example, he recently rented Facebreaker, Where the Wild Things Are, and Mini-Ninjas.  He's 27 years old.  He rented these not because he was supremely interested in these titles, but because he wanted new achievements to get, and lamented to me that there were 10 achievements that he couldn't get in Facebreaker because they involved playing online, and the servers for the game had been shut off. 
 
To which I replied, "But that's not a good game.  No one plays it.  Why not just play something else?"  He couldn't give me a good answer. 
 
To get four player achievements in music games, he will play four instruments at once, with a guitar under each arm, kicking a pedal on the drum and putting the microphone next to a fan so that some sound is going into it.  He constantly wants to play Rock Band 1, not the vastly superior 2, because he needs a friend to unlock the city achievements with him. 
 
Still, the best example of this problem is when he had a few of his friends, including myself, trying to attain an achievement in Guitar Hero Van Halen (SEE WHAT HE HAS US PLAYING?!  DO YOU SEE?!) which required that four people hit 100% of the notes in a song.  He put the microphone on beginner, and put a fan in front of it.  A friend of ours played drums on beginner when he would normally do so on hard or expert, while I took easy guitar (I had no desire to play beginner, and refused), and he took beginner bass.  After a few attempts, as someone would occasionally miss a note, we finished the song...and only I got the achievement, playing under someone else's name.  He was depressed, actively depressed, that he didn't have this achievement, and that none of us would play it anymore because a) Guitar Hero Van Halen is awful, and b) we wanted to play something for our own enjoyment, and not just to improve the sizes of our digital members. 
 
He's had us do things like this for hours, and we've gotten to the point that we simply won't support it.  Like dealing with any addict, one has to deny them the drug so as to allow them to detox.  I enjoy achievements as much as the next guy, but sometimes, it just seems as if they're sullying games more than supporting them.

So, I'm getting married next month. 
 
Thank you. 
 
She's a lovely woman, and I'm lucky indeed.  However, I want to take this opportunity to inquire about married and engaged gamers out there, or even those in a serious relationship where marriage is a possibility for sometime in the future.   While this may be the wrong audience for such a question, I don't believe in jumping to such conclusions, so I won't. 
 
Alas, here's what I'm looking for: 
 
1) Gaming related marriage proposals 
2) How gaming brought you and your SO together 
3) How you got your SO into gaming 
4) How you almost lost your SP over gaming 
5) How you DID lose your SO over gaming 
6)Anything of that ilk. 
 
I look forward to reading some interesting responses.

So I have a level 50 character, and I'm around halfway through the second playthrough.  I've heard that the General Knox DLC on the second playthrough is exceptionally tough, and so I'm curious: how did people go about making their character strong and formidable as the game went on despite not leveling up?  I assume it involved building up proficiencies with weapons and getting new guns throughout the game, but despite being higher levels than everyone, I still can't just walk into any area and annihilate everything (The Crimson Lance in Old Haven, for instance). 
 
So, what did you do?

Admittedly, I'm writing this in order to achieve the "quest points" for Giantbomb, thus giving me something else to obsess over.  It's not that I don't have anything to say, but I often wonder if anyone has any interest in reading my thoughts on video games in particular.  I already have ONE blog that I ignore, so why do I need two?  It's not as if I need reminding of my own lack of community here; I currently have 0 followers on this site. 
 
Still, I've been meaning to say something in particular about achievements (for the Xbox 360 in particular, but I suppose those same thoughts could apply to Trophy Support as well), but it's nearly 2 AM here, and so perhaps I'll save that for a second blog post which, hopefully, I will complete sometime before the Tricentennial.