I consider amazon as not even an option. If I think other prices are too steep, I just don’t buy things or save up. It helps not to compare the prices.

“(S)cience tends to progress through younger people, and old ideas tend to die with the originators of those ideas. through this cynical view, science progresses one coffin at a time.”

the Sting of the wild p142, J.O. Schmidt

same - why try to decipher someone else’s often flawed attempts at translation, when the original text is available?

wife acceptance factor :)

IDSPISPOPD … and I even remember what it abbreviates… why?

Playing Left4Dead2 versus with 8 friends, running my own custom ‘Random’ mod. That game was so great to play matches in with the right people - and very fun to code sourcemod plugins for as well.

monitors are generally made to be viewed up close - if video quality is no issue, then a commercial display /digital signage is also okay.

however, a good detailed list of tv aspects would help with even that choice.

not shooting any option down - just wondering about available resources/information.

Estradasphere and Ween pop to mind

Left 4 Dead 2 (multiplayer)

CloneHero/GuitarHero

Quake 3 Arena (or 2, or DooM for nostalgia points)

Honourable mentions: Disco Elysium, Nethack, Portal.

In Dutch: ‘graftak’ is a beautiful way to indicate an annoying/terrible person. Literally: ‘grave-branch’, which sounds nowhere near as satisfying.