Trai_Dep commented on Best Thing About The Financiapocalypse? Cheap Gas!

"@mcryder: Because it's their oil? Although, if someone ever created the Organization of Profoundly Ignorant Commentators (OPIC), you're in the running for being a charter member."

Trai_Dep commented on Stock markets finally rose

"So, if Paulson would have gone forward with The British Plan from the offset, instead of his cockamamy trust-me-with-$700B-to-buy-toxic-assets-with-no-review one, how many weeks wouldn't have been wasted?"

Trai_Dep commented on Blizzard "Can't" Refund My Money For Downloads That Didn't Work

"@junip: Blizzard uses the Bit Torrent protocol to distribute their online commerce."

Trai_Dep commented on New Ideas For Kids' Books About The Lean Times Ahead

"I'm quietly hoping that Diablo III will feature a new class of monsters called the Free Market Fundamentalists, who - in concert with the three demons of Hell, led by The Greenspan, 'natch - destroy Tristam whilst moaning, "Deregulate..."

Trai_Dep commented on Goodbye

"Carey - your posts always had so much joy, personality and craft infused in them."

Trai_Dep commented on Eleven Ways "Eleventh Hour" Smears the Reputation of Real Science

"Gepetto wouldn't be *quite* so evil, if only the US had single-payer health care? ...Works for me!"

Trai_Dep commented on Ticketmaster Is Evil And Must Die

"This is a stunningly well-written article."

Trai_Dep commented on Hands On With Diablo III: Everything Old Is New Again

"I recall that with DII, I'd socket stones/runes to objects then once I'd outgrown them, I'd happily toss the object once I found better quality stones at higher levels. I wonder how this works if I'm adding runes to myself."

Trai_Dep commented on Behold The New Diablo III Logo T-Shirt

"Dark gods of malevolence, please let there be a unicorn-and-rainbow-pony hidden bonus level for players beating the game at Hardcore level. ...But really pissed unicorns & rainbow ponies."

Trai_Dep commented on How Can We Save Our Debt-Swamped Government?

"Kill "Star Wars"."