This. I've been an authorized user on a parental card since I was in college (I don't actually use it, it's an "in case of emergency card"), and that card affects my mom's credit report, but does not show up on mine at all. I mainly use my debit card and cash, which means at present I have no real credit apart from my paid-off-ahead-of-time student loans.
Do you build good credit paying off your cards in full? I've never had a card, and am looking into getting one to start building credit, but some people have said that you can only do that if "carry a balance" on your card, which isn't something I'm comfortable doing. Having come this far using cash and debit cards, I only spend money I really have, and can pay back immediately, and I don't like the idea of maintaining debt.
Fans of LucasArts games, adventures games, or great games in general should know that this feature is a re-post of one from 2009, and is accompanied by re-post of similar in-depth explorations of every major LEC adventure, including behind the scenes interviews:
These are some of the best work mixnmojo has ever done.
It's a 3D fully-voiced game with FMV sequences. It would have taken a couple hundred floppies. It's a CD-ROM game, admittedly older one you need a special patch/emulator to run properly.
Einstein also made very little money. The schmuck!
Wait there are adults old enough to post on the internet who don't know how 9-year-olds work?...
Just jokin' around. Kids do tend to obsess about things, and around 9 is when kids tend to be more completionist/ambitious in their projects and interests. So you weren't THAT weird, but your personal choice of obsession was maybe a little unusual.
You know what? Even if that were the case, he doesn't seem the type to be bothered by it. He's got other things on his mind, and that's okay. If he's not self-conscious about not getting his driver's license at 16, I'm sure he won't worry about missing other milestones that normal folks attach importance to.
Well, the other sword glows blue, this one "blows glue."
In rural Russia, lots of people live in fairly abject poverty (3rd-world-level), and alcoholism is ubiquitous. When I was living there, they changed a labeling law, which resulted in vodka prices going up a few rubles. Consequently there was a rash of homeless folks in rural Russia turning up dead in snowdrifts after having drank toxic amounts of cheap industrial-grade alcohol (cleaning agents and so on).
In urban Russia the quality of life is higher, if you can afford it, but you have to deal with more crime, skinheads, and a corrupt, abusive police force. People you deal with in a professional capacity also tend to dour, dismissive, and unhelpful (incidentally, this is a contrast to the demeanor most Russians have when you know then personally, as they tend to be very warm, generous, and kind). It's a very hard, unforgiving place to live, especially for a place trying to pass itself of as a Western liberal democratic state.
Being a teenager is depressing. Living in Russia is depressing. Living in rural Russia can be extraordinarily depressing (which is why the life expectancy for Russian men is 52, and the causes of death are largely complications of alcoholism). Japanese anime is presently a global pop cultural phenomenon, and is not having this affect in any other culture. It seems pretty clear that other factors are in play.
I never did any of those wild things as a kid, but I get where you're coming from. Even relatively benign stuff, like just playing outside all day unsupervised during summer vacation (or, a little older, riding your bike into town to go to the Dairy Queen or the Blockbuster or whatever by yourself) seem to not be options for kids these days anymore.
He does acknowledge it as a turning point for the series. The main difference is that he cites it as the point the series pretty much turned to crap.
He's a member of the "fedora + beard" genus of computer nerd. Just be lucky he isn't wearing a black trenchcoat, too.
WE HAVE A WINNER.
Troy in his crazy pharaoh hat.
Britta and her "baggle."
Jeff Winger from the pool episode.
The greendale Human Being is appropriately horrifying.
If you follow the link, you can see the images from the old 2006 campaign. These are a new set. I find it strange that the campaign has actually become LESS ethnically diverse since the last one.
Something INSANE is going on in Juri's crotch/hip area.
