Luckily, this morning I got my account back. Or more accurately, he gave it back to me and wrote a very apologetic Facebook note, which is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me on the internet, and I used to frequent LUE on GameFAQs. He said he also knew my Gmail account password, which was my most frequently used password. I spent my morning changing most of my account passwords, and now I am officially no longer using my first password anywhere on the internet. And I am actually pretty sad about this.

Rest in peace…







…hargon.

Project Ten Dollar works something like this: When someone buy a new game, they also get a code that gives them access to more content for free. If you don’t have this code, you have to pay $15 to get the same content. This is ridiculous. Last week, I bought an entire game for less than what EA plans on charging for part of one.

Kotaku reader doubtful puts it best:

I can’t wait for car companies to try this business model.

Buy it new, and you can use the radio and the air conditioner. But if you sell it to someone, they’ll have to spend extra to unlock those features.

It blows my mind because in no other industry would you have a legion of zombies actually supporting dick moves like this.

The advantage of buying used is obvious; it’s cheaper. Sure, you have to wait a while, but for games with no online multiplayer, that’s no big deal. I simply can’t spare the $60 for a new game, and there’s nothing to stop this price from rising. What’s an awesome way to get a few extra bucks toward a newer game? Sell your old ones, of course. I generally avoid selling to GameStop because they only offer something like $0.0352 per game, but the local game store in Boulder is very reasonably priced. Unless I win the lotto soon or my long-lost crazy aunt Harriet dies, I’m probably going to stick to used games for a while, and I sure won’t be paying more for extra content.

I’ve had fairly negative feelings for eBay for a very long time after a few bad transactions, but my newfound love for buying video games for very reasonable prices has turned my frown into still a frown because now I have no money.

I will say this: if there was a Wacom digitizer built in, I would be first in line to buy one.

They should have just kept Ted Kennedy propped up in his Senate seat after he died, like West Virginia has done with Robert Byrd.

Which is just too true. It also reminded me of this video:

“Right now, its still in development,” Reggie says. “But the key message that Mr. Miyamoto and Mr. Aonuma is telling us is that it really has to be perfect when it launches. That really is what the Zelda fan is expecting.”

Now there’s a guy who knows his audience. Or at least me.