Now what sort of getup should I wear to make me irresistable to fangirls since I really could use one? I didn't have one declare their love of me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago so I am curious as to this?
Imperial Mog

ANDREW Well, girls seem to adore Kaji from that Evangelion television animated program I've heard so much about, so maybe you should give that a try. It does come with a minor downside, however: you'll also get tons of fanboys discussing who killed you after you get shot to death in an elevator. Still, you have to take the good with the bad in relationships, or so I hear. RUDYXX Dress up as that Master Chef Guy from Halo because everyone knows that underneith all that armor, he's one really sexy guy. And not only that but girls love guys that can cook. And man can the Master Chef cook one mean pot of gumbo.

Halloween is tomorrow...which is today in terms of Q&A. Tomorrow (err...today) will be a day of sitting home and playing video games. Maybe not... Probably have some people over and watch horr.......oh wait, I already told you LAST week. My least favorite Halloween candy would be the dreaded...*insert dun-dun-duns!!*...those disguisting Brachs-type candy wrapped in plain black or orange wrappers. I really can't think of the name. They're supposed to taste like maple or honey I believe, but they taste like crap in a hexagonal-ish shape of nastiness. The Leafs are playing the Sabres tonight...I put my money on the Leafs.

Happy Halloween Castomel,

O' Shrouded One

ANDREW Hmm, bad decision on the betting, my friend. The defense came down with a bad case of suck, possibly brought on by those candies you mention. I think the Canadian counterpart comes in similar wrappings, except with some yellow thrown in and a lame attempt at art in the bargain, and they do indeed get my vote as the most pestilential force to ever darken Halloween by its very presence, save possibly for those assheads who hand out fistfuls of cheesies from their own personal hands or those health-conscious jerks with their raisins. My mother can get me raisins, thank you very much. Halloween is about rotting my teeth, wrecking my costume, and getting a giant pillowcase full of SUGARY GOODNESS. Not raisins, enough candy energy to drive a schoolbus into the sun. This has been a public service announcement from RPGamer. RUDYXX OH MAN THAT CANDY IS THE BEST CANDY EVER! IT REMOVES YOUR TEETH FROM YOUR GUMS AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL 2 DAYS LATER WHEN YOU ARE DONE CHEWING IT.

I spend on older games, I tend to favor them better. Whatever.

Kaiju Munky

ANDREW Thanks for sharing, Kaiju. For what it's worth, I agree entirely, although I'm currently not playing any old games due to my SNES being out of commission at the moment and my NES having finally, mercifully, exploded five or six years ago in a final, glorious hail of scan lines and shrapnel. RUDYXX Yeah I agree wholeheartedly. I try at least once a year to play entirely through Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VI, Mario RPG, and Lunar Silver Star. And I have ever since I got those games. I don't think I could ever get tired of them. :)

Oh yeah, I didn't even know you played D2. If you don't mind my asking, what chars do you got?

And on another subject, what kind of music do you like?

- Rebbie
(and I for one found the "1337" speak thing to be funny. Nice job.)

RUDYXX My brother plays Diablo 2 a lot. He also looks at a lot of porn and gets caught often doing such. So in turn, I would vote against going down that path and maybe turning your life around and getting a job in a flower or candle shop....then again, my brother also does that. And I enjoy listening to the wondrous music found in games like Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. Also most older disney movies have enjoyable songs to sing along with. But they don't so much as do that any more and that's why kids these days have no respect for their elders. ANDREW I have the world's most devious assassin, currently killing it up around level 57 or something. I don't play too often so I never have managed to knock out a good Hardcore character. Anyhow, my various mules, easily identifiable by the appearance of the root "mul" somewhere in their names, range from barbarians to paladins to necros, the other three classes I use. Amazons and Druids and Sorcs and I just don't get along. My music of choice varies depending on what kind of mood I'm in; usually I like listening to electronic stuff - all-sorts trance(psy-tech-cheese-progressive-hard), techno, hard house, deep house, and the occasional bout of hardcore just to remind me how much it sucks (well, unless you're under the influence of very naughty narcotics, but having never combined the two, my opinion remains solidly "suck"). I also like various styles of rock and can humour classical music sometimes. And, in unsurprising news given my employment hereabouts, I also like the odd video game track, especially if it's Mitsuda or Uematsu, but never if it's Rhapsody, which is why I must regretfully send my assassin to do rudy in. Ah, Del Monte... So I guess you could go with the most dreadful of terms, "eclectic taste". Never fear, I do have a favorite group that doesn't change with the month - Underworld rocks my socks, and I also have an abiding hatred for all things rap and new country, regardless of how entertaining pimpin' mah hoes might be as I mourn the loss of my Chevy Truck to Jack Daniels whiskey. Anyhow, enjoy your peaches, old man--- they will be your last!

So, since this is theoretically a Q&A column, I have a question. Can you pay for FF11's monthly fee over the phone, rather than over the internet? I have a friend whose parents are very distrustful of internet privacy. They refuse to have sense talked into them. The PlayOnline website says "The information on the payment methods for the retail version is not available at this point. There are no charges during the beta period." Which doesn't help much.

RUDYXX > No you can't pay for the game any other way than doing it through payonline and with a valid visa or master card. And you also arn't allowed to play the game if you come from Canada....or so I hear. ANDREW Rudy, Why you gotta make me hurt you?

It seems like the older you get, the less you care about this holiday tradition. However, I suppose I never quite cared for it, even as a child. The only thing that I thought was fun, I suppose you can call it, was going door-to-door, observing what other people would give me, in regard to the treats. What I found to be the best candy are the M&Ms, of course. I've always loved them and still do, to this day.

As for Diablo 2, never played it, but I wouldn't mind starting it now. Rarely, does a PC game interest me to the point of laying down cash for it. Diablo is one of those games that addict the masses, interested in the PC or not.

Casper

ANDREW Pssh.. M&Ms.. The more sugar-filled or sugar-coated or sugar-drenched or all three at once something is, the higher it rates on the Halloween scale of goodness. Thus it is that the best item I ever received was a sock in a bag of sugar, which had fallen into a deepfrier earlier that evening. Mm, mm, socks! RUDYXX Even as a young child I was denied the adventure that is Halloween. I was always taught that it has become an EVIL holiday and we can't have none of that now so I don't participate in any of the activies. Of which don't include the turning out of all the lights in your house and hiding in the basement so that maybe the neighborhood kids will run away in fear. And if it makes you feel any worse, I don't get a christmas tree for christmas either because those things have become idols to the world or something. ANDREW Holy fundamentalist parents, batman! BATMAN Yes, that's what they think... To the Batmobile! ANDREW All right! I TOTALLY bet he lets me drive! BATMAN No dice. ANDREW This ain't ovah!