I'll give you that "Phoenix" but re-read "Deathly Hallows" -- he uses it and he uses it to damn good effect.
Oh I don't know.
If you eat someone's brains you get a snack as well as a memory.
Except when he used Crucio.
Twice.
I don't ever remember my school having a science fair. (From the UK).
Not once. I've seen enough on TV shows to get the idea but......... yeah. We have a very different approach to education. No science fairs, and I am pretty sure no job fairs either? We occasionally had people come in to talk to us (Fire Brigade, two Soldiers, two nurses) but I think that was more about the teachers just wanting a morning off from teaching than thinking we should do a specific job. And no "bring your parent to school" day or "what does your parent do" day.
The UK is very different to the US I am guessing?
Atari 2600 ET?
Yeah. Not the best game ever made :)
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!!
Elite was the first "proper" video game I played on a computer. Before that it was all games in the arcade, and on the Atari 2600.
Also (from a certain point of view) the first RPG I played (excluding D&D obviously -- I'm not an animal!).
Civ 1. So many happy memories.
with a bonus mention for "The Empire Strikes Back" on Atari 2600.
So yeah -- all these games people played as "teenagers" are games I started playing last year, relatively speaking :)
You really aren't.
The first one on my list was a game in the arcade, then a game on the Atari 2600 :)
I had been through four consoles and five jobs before most of the games in the notes had come out.
My top five were virtually chiselled on stone tablets by comparison :)
If I am honest, I skip the episode every time.
It just seems like a snotty and kind of cheap commentary on current life that makes no real attempt to understand how current life works. It's like Seth and his writers looked at Twitter et al and thought "Oh, I've seen one or two bad incidents of something like this happening, so lets blow it up into something it isn't"
It kind of annoys me, and appeals to the idea that the internet is a "bad thing" (tm) that is going to be the end of society and destruction of civilisation.
Which, as I said, annoys me.
For a series that I really like (and I do really like it) it's the one episode I really can't stand.
Sounds funnier than the latter series of Friends :)