Ozzy Osbourne covering Brandi Carlisle' Raise Hell.

I was crazy and saved mine so that I never had to give it up.

You can just say things on the public Internet, Mike. That's never gone bad for anyone.

OMG This! Whenever I'm trying to introduce someone to games I ask for a theme. And then I find something with as few rules as possible so they can get familiar with *learning* in a way that isn't a barrier to play.

It's meat soakin' time.

I love D&D, but I started with TMNT and other strangeness, and it helped me fall in love with the hobby as a whole.

Yakuza is one of my favorite series, and I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Zero was made after 5, and they remade 1 & 2 with the 0 engine, and they're just as good.

With 7 & 8 they switched over to a JRPG format, and they're INCREDIBLE.

OMG YES!
YESSSSSSS!

Similarly, the original Matrix trilogy of movies don't make sense if you cann't also watch The Animatrix AND play Enter the Matrix.

Fair point! It's gotta eventually hit some accountant *somewhere* that datacenters cost real money.

My old boss was a hardcore AI guy, and I told him AI was going to eat its own profits to death by 2030.