No, it's not every Eclipse can I've ever eaten my way through. There are still a few more that I threw away initially, before I got too lazy to begin disposing of them.
Still, if you just take this lot... It works out to about $52 at the current price.
Gosh.
Of course, there were those periods when these mints were only about $2.50 per can. Even so, this lot would be the equivalent of at least $40 out of my pocket.
...
And no, I'm not going to stop buying these things. They're infinitely better than other mints, and the cans make great souvenirs.
On a different note, I'm really not happy with LucasArts making The Force Unleashed for every console other than PC. Hell, they even have a DS version.
It's making me consider buying a PSP just so that I can play The Force Unleashed. But that's exactly what they're trying to make me do. Buy a console so that I can play awesome Star Wars games.
I don't see why they would not make a PC version. PCs are still the best gaming machines out there. There are already so many modifications for the PC, that you can even play games on it using the Xbox controllers. So "You can't use a gamepad" is a completely stupid argument against PC gaming.
And whatever people say, there are so many things you can do on a PC that you can't do on an Xbox 360 or a PS3. For example, type with a keyboard and do stuff with a mouse. They may have invented some gamepad-keyboard hybrid that basically adds a tumour with a keyboard on it to your controller. In the end, you're still typing with your thumbs, making it no different, nor less frustrating, than those tiny keyboards on PDAs.
Plus, the PC has a plus in the privacy and multitasking side. Can you alt+tab out of a game on a PS3 or Xbox? Can you Windows+D to minimise everything? Can you run a music player to listen to something else instead of the same music that you hear every single time you play a game?
Until the Xbox becomes a PC with a different name, it just isn't going to be better than a PC.
Of course, the game developers are trying to change that. You know, by forcing people to play their games on anything but PCs. I personally don't see any advantage for that, that PC doesn't have an answer for.
What's wrong with the old WASD-Spacebar control system for FPS? Why replace it with a D-pad that only lets you use your thumbs? On a keyboard, it's much less frustrating to pull off a quick combo, or to say, run diagonally. Another upside of using your fingers to do stuff instead of just your thumbs, is that in the rare occasion that you break your thumbs, it would only become more difficult to jump.
I had a nightmare a few nights ago. It started out okay. In fact, it was pretty cool. I was playing Diablo 3 in that dream.
And then after a while I realised that I was not at my computer, and that there was a controller in my hands.
This sequence of events was eventually concluded with some very dramatic fist-shaking, accompanied by a Luke Skywalker-esque "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
There are those times that I wished my dreams were prophetic. Right now, I am really hoping that they are not.
-Joe