Maybe a breathe mint? O__o

I'm sucking on a menthol throat lozenge. Does that count?

Works for me. ;)
Like a famous man once said: "It ain't easy being green."
or do I have that wrong? ;)

The majority agrees, but sadly, the father-in-law sees things differently and he is the deciding voice. *sigh* I only hope that his opinion doesn't end up changing through traumatic circumstances.

Hah! Yes, I think my grandparents, who raised me, were worried for a while when, in high school, I discovered that coming home and killing Nazis or demons in Wolf3D or Doom (respectively) was an immense stress relief.

Also, thank you for the laugh at that explanation. It's perfect. (As is your description of the roommate, but I'm trying to let that irritation die down again now.)

Hm. I don't have RoTT or Bulletstorm, although RoTT looks like it could be fun and walls of spikes sound amazing. I'll have to take a look.

I ended up blasting the Megadeth Pandora station (which nicely includes Motorhead, Sabbath, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, and many other bands I approve of while in this sort of mood) and playing Borderlands, since that was an FPS I already had installed.

Unfortunately not. My father-in-law likes her (and, we suspect but aren't sure of, likes her), mainly because she's all sweet and helpful as long as he's looking, or at least enough like it that we all just look like assholes if we don't take it that way. She was also here when he broke his hip last summer and really helped him out at that point, which I appreciate - but not enough to appreciate the current crap she's pulling. I honesty would not be surprised to find drugs involved (and I'm not talking the inoffensive stuff like pot), but it's not something we can prove or indeed even point at much beyond behavior - which, again, he doesn't really see in the same way. He's lonely, and he's not used to having genuinely loving and helpful family around, so... *sigh*

On a somewhat different note, the first Borderlands game is actually proving harder for me to get used to after playing (some of) Borderlands 2; the controls/play aren't very different, but it's different enough that I have to take it in small bits. As much as I love the art and the humor, there are only so many "look at the swarm of 15 skags that are killing you when they weren't there two seconds ago!" moments that I can handle before getting frustrated. B2 has some of that, too, but it definitely improved the "enemies appearing out of nowhere behind you immediately after you turn around from looking for them" stuff.

Ah, yes... Willem Dafoe in "Platoon"
;-)
Borderlands was actually going to be my third suggestion. Great choice to relieve stress and frustration.

I am the exact opposite with Borderlands 1 and 2. The controls are pretty much the same, there is just... something slightly different that I can't explain. I always found B2 to be a bit harder.

I knew it was some famous person. :)

I'm not sure how to describe it, either. I played B2 first, if only for a little bit, so I'm sure that's part of it. The controls feel a little... stiffer, maybe? in B1. Also, I miss the minimap. I'm really good at doing mental maps of areas/dungeons/whatever, but first person POV + only a compass just makes it far more difficult for me to do, for some reason.

Good evening! I hope everything is ok with everyone.

Finally it is raining here. It helps to quell the heat.

Yes, what Endre said (and thank you for covering for my narcolepsy, Endre =) ).
That's good to hear. Thanks for the info, I now have an alternative if my console ends up being broken.
Have it for the 360, but the frigging thing keeps overheating.

And I greatly appreciate it. *hugs* Thank you for listening; sometimes that helps more than anything else. :)

You're right, the controls are more stiff for Borderlands 1. Borderlands 2 flows better with the shooting.
The mini-map indicators for Borderlands 1 were full of shit at times, to put it bluntly. Remembering all the "find the 4 parts for weapon whatever" missions where the mini-map would say that pieces were in places that they weren't. Ended up using it as nothing more than a general marker.

Also, you're quite welcome. Can't do much, but if I can make someone laugh even when they kinda want to strangle someone, I'll take it. =)

I'm not sure if this info is entirely correct but I remember reading something somewhere months ago saying that Microsoft decided to maintain GFWL service. They closed only the GFWL store as far as I know.

EDIT: This seems correct. Only the store part was closed. I found a old news (is this a thing? :-P) about it.

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I'm off to bed now since I have to work in the morning. That should be a hoot. ;) Night all.

You've definitely got me beaten in terms of brokenness. Whatever they're changing, they need to fix it fast.
Everything else is bad enough, but no game access at all? Definitely the worst.