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I've discovered that many emulators now have the ability to record AVI files.

So I now can provide video proof that the game starts by receiving a marriage proposal from a tree.

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The concept of having neighbors is a little upsetting to me.  I'm essentially sharing a building with at least seven strangers.

The last time I got to know a neighbor, he turned out to be a psycho.  I'll never know whether he was actually dangerous, but he scared the shit out of me.  At first I thought, "oh, I'm an uptight spoiled suburbanite, so I should just ignore my intuition and hang out with this guy."  To make a long story short, I was wrong, and he got evicted.

I have some other neighbors now, and some of them are similarly off-putting.  But I have no way of knowing whether I'm just oversensitive, or whether I really need to stay away.

I have this dumb idea: go to one of these page-builder sites and make a group site for my apartment building, and post the URL on everyone's doors, and see what everyone posts.

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I notice that a lot of commercials aren't really touting the quality of a product, but simply showing the product treated with disproportionate deference.

The silliest: faucets.  "Design a house around THIS!"

The most emotionally manipulative: faucets again.  The one with the dying Italian grandmother.  What is that thing she sees?  A bathtub?  A fountain?  A bidet?  It can't be a bathtub; it's full to the tippy-top, so if you got in it would spill!

The one I hate the most: that car where the guy is taking the girl home, sees the car, has a driving-around fantasy, and the woman says "never on the first date, but how about some "coffee"?" and they go inside and it's implied that she's more protective of the car than her own snatch.