[quote name='StarKnightX']I know the feeling. I had to work 7am to 4pm today and from about 9am till about 3pm it was a madhouse , with people everywhere buying up everything. It was insanity.[/QUOTE]
So, my wife wanted to get grocieries today... I told her to go once the game started because then no one would be out. Boy was I was wrong - she said it was the most packed she'd ever seen it. This was at around 4-5 pm (I'm Pacific so the game was well underway then). WTF? Oh well, at least it wasn't me.
I was just laughing at all the high-school bashing posts a few pages back. It is especially funny to me to see the complaints about computer equipment. I think my HS had one computer with one of those green CRT screens and an 8" floppy drive. Yeah... I was also one of the first kids to turn in papers that were written on a computer. The teachers were highly suspicious of that back then and everyone thought it was cheating, somehow, not to write your essays by hand. Note that I printed these off the original model Mac on a dot-matrix printer - so yeah, I'm old

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I have to say, though, I can't imagine what school must be like nowadays with the cell phones and texting and iPods and such. Kids were unruly enough when I went to HS (at a small private high school no less) that it must be a nightmare in big public schools. Well, my daughter is only 3 years away from that so I guess I'll find out.
In gaming news, I finally knocked out those two really hard PoP trophies the other day (the two I consider the hardest are stupid bronzes - the 14-hit combo one and the combo master one). Now I'm just cruising through a second play to get the speed and < 100 deaths trophies, then I'll have my platinum. I just wanted to see if it was possible for me to get one of those - it is such a pain on most games, though (and as a result takes away from the pure enjoyment of the game), that I probably won't go for too many more.
Been playing The Maw on the side as an easy-paced, light-hearted distraction (plus my son, who played it all the way through wanted to tell me how to do each level).
I'm considering what to start next. I might go with Fable II, but I've seen some serious bashing of that game by various CAGs (one just a few pages back in this thread in fact). But the reviews are stellar of course. So, for those of you who have problems with it, what are they (without spoilers of course)? Keep in mind I never played the original, so I have absolutely no expectations going into it.