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FraterPerdurabo: the disks were rendered unplayable fairly quickly (lent them out to a friend and when I got them back there was jam?!? on them?)
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Aliasalpha: Jam?? What, did he think the discs were shiny toast?
No, he simply had kids...
Yeah I've decided to never loan things to people with kids
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Aliasalpha: Yeah I've decided to never loan things to people with kids
Sometimes you don't even have to loan things out. IMMEDIATELY after I left for boot camp, my youngest brother got into my old room and dismantled anything he could get his hands on. I knew that my dad was going to turn my old room into a new office or something, but I hadn't counted on my siblings (I'm the oldest of six kids) declaring open season on my personal belongings. I managed to get most of my stuff back, but anything that had a battery cover, like a Game Boy or R/C toy, was minus that cover. What is it with little kids and losing battery covers?
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Aliasalpha: Yeah I've decided to never loan things to people with kids
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predcon: Sometimes you don't even have to loan things out. IMMEDIATELY after I left for boot camp, my youngest brother got into my old room and dismantled anything he could get his hands on. I knew that my dad was going to turn my old room into a new office or something, but I hadn't counted on my siblings (I'm the oldest of six kids) declaring open season on my personal belongings. I managed to get most of my stuff back, but anything that had a battery cover, like a Game Boy or R/C toy, was minus that cover. What is it with little kids and losing battery covers?
-Oooh a flap! There MUST be something very interesting behind it...
*Pull
*Push
*Pull
*pull
*Bang
*Bang
*BANG
-...
-Only batteries. But there's surely something fun behind THAT flap!
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predcon: Sometimes you don't even have to loan things out. IMMEDIATELY after I left for boot camp, my youngest brother got into my old room and dismantled anything he could get his hands on. I knew that my dad was going to turn my old room into a new office or something, but I hadn't counted on my siblings (I'm the oldest of six kids) declaring open season on my personal belongings. I managed to get most of my stuff back, but anything that had a battery cover, like a Game Boy or R/C toy, was minus that cover. What is it with little kids and losing battery covers?
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Tarm: -Oooh a flap! There MUST be something very interesting behind it...
*Pull
*Push
*Pull
*pull
*Bang
*Bang
*BANG
-...
-Only batteries. But there's surely something fun behind THAT flap!
I don't think it's a fascination with the cover. In fact, if you ask me, I think it's quite the opposite. Kids seem to have a propensity to lose small parts to things, probably because they're so small as to be beneath the child's attention. And the more important the part, the less likely you are to ever see it again.
I would have paid more for Colonization, Alpha Centauri, Monkey Island, Day of Tentacle, Gothic 1, ... if only they would have been offered here. :)
I would LOVE for GOG to expand their pricing scheme, not just higher but lower as well. There are a ton of classics we could get DRM free with a $20 limit we can't get now and there are a ton of smaller titles and old console ROMs that we could get with lower prices, like the Sega stuff Steam and Gamersgate have gotten recently.

It's kind of a bummer if you ask me that people resist that.