Many of us were involved with the Kashless>Recyclebank>EAStore.com shenanigans that went on a few weeks ago. I, myself, subscribed using some alternate email addresses of my own to get enough points to get a $15 off code. Others, though, were blatantly posting crap on the proper Kashless site and leaving it there just to get a few points. Between the, arguably, less-malicious email invitations and the exploitative/assholific postings, we've contributed to the following email I received today:

Quote: Dear Ron, Since you have earned RecycleBank Points through Kashless in the past, we want to let you know that as of Friday, April 16, 2010, Kashless is no longer offering its rewards program. That means you will no longer be able to earn RecycleBank Points for your green actions and activity on Kashless.org. If you earned points prior to April 16, 2010 from Kashless.org, you will see them in your RecycleBank Account within 24 hours of earning

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Due to a lot of the deals, recently, the gaming backlog at my house has jumped by about 22 games. Realistically, I won't be needing to buy any games for a very long time (which is nice, b/c my wife won't let me anyway ). But my (12yo) son was talking about how he's not sure what game to play next and it occured to me: his childhood gaming experience is going to be so drastically different from mine.

When I was a kid, with my NES and then, eventually, my SNES, I was lucky if I got three games in a year. Normally, I'd get one on my birthday, maybe, and one for Christmas. Luckily, I had friends I could borrow from (something else that doesn't seem to happen quite as much these days as when I was a kid) and they, in turn, could borrow from me. There wasn't this need to get the same game that my friend had. It was quite the opposite: if my friend had a game, I didn't NEED to get it; I could just borrow his.

My kids, however, have (to my knowledge) never...