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I never realized how few mafia games I played, and I always saw GTA as a gang series, not a mafia series (to me the difference is mafias have some form of order, like a large business, where the gangs in GTA are more analagous to contract workers, if that makes sense), but you raise some good points.

Finance management sounds like an interesting component to have in such games, though I'd probably prefer it be optional.

Also, i just finished actually watching the rest of the video up top (paused it to type this blog) and here's the comment I left in my desperate but more than likely meaningless attempt to get "pelted in the face" with an XBOX 360.

"It makes me very nervous, because this makes it easier in the future for people to have guns who really shouldn't, almost regardless of law if someone knows someone with a 3D printer. That being said, I want the next XBOX to also be a gun."

Maybe in the future, I'll just be able to 3D print my own game system. The future, man.

Chris Farley, Adam Sandler generation SNL isn't really that far past my own time, honestly; I love that "live in a van down by the river" sketch Farley did, Sandler's silly Weekend Update songs (and the Chanukah ones) and at the very least most of my own generation seems to have grown up with Tommy Boy/Billy Madison etc. Will Ferrel was one of their best I thought. I usually think his movies are at least not horrible too, and I especially liked Taladega Nights and Anchorman. Point is, I wouldn't feel too old, most in my generation stopped watching a while ago, too.

That said, I am much more frightened by how god-awful Sandler's recent movies look than by an SNL I can flip away from ...

I'm glad we agree on pesto. lol

How was Iron Man 2 for you? I thought it was kind of meh, but I was glad I saw it.

Awesome, sounds like you're doing great with your goals!

Yeah, I always lifted weights and I guess I convinced myself I was buff, but then I looked at my stomach and ... let's just say this lean muscle thing is working much better for me. lol

That doesn't intrigue me very much, since I honestly thought Catching Fire was quite a bit of a letdown, but it seems to be a lot of people's favorite. I just got annoyed by being SOOOOO far ahead of Katniss the entire time, I saw just about everything in that third act a mile away. We'll see how I like Mockingjay.

And you and an army on Facebook are not Galifianakis fans, but I love his humor ... and thought the most recent JT one and Kristen Wiig as a comedian are both highly overrated. 

Well, a lot of my friends have found actual big person jobs, so as long as you didn't pick anything as fucking stupid and unmarketable as Radio and Television Production like I did, you might be alright.

That's kind of how I felt about Dark Knight Rises ... actually, I think that's exactly how I felt about Dark Knight Rises.

That was cool, you know where the video was taken?

I'm lucky in that we were fairly broke when I had my consoles and handhelds, and I'm not what you'd call a collector, so I don't have the issue of too many games.

That having been said, it also means there's not much I'd be willing to sell, since it all pretty much has some nostalgic or other value.

I'm sorry to hear about your situation though, that sounds really frustrating, and I don't have any solutions to offer, unfortunately. It'll all work out, though.