Hmmmm. Over a month huh? Damn. Can we like change the guidelines of this thread?

Thank you.... unfortunately I could not sample the comforter one... but I got what you mean. We have been putting her in the litterbox, but she jumps right out. I am checking when I get home to see if there is anything in there. My older cat didn't use it yesterday either....so I suppose it is possible she did it as she was mad there is another cat... but I doubt it. The older cat is lazy.... so she usually pees at night when she drags herself from the basement (she can't stand the heat) and eats and drinks.

It has nothing to do with trying to make them good. It is for the fun and excitement they bring with them. We just forget they also bring pain and heartbreak with them.

NEWS

Spore Will Be Done in Roughly a Week

Producer Thomas Vu says the game is almost ready for manufacturing.
By Kris Pigna, 07/30/2008


Here are words you may have long since lost hope in ever reading: EA Maxis' Spore is almost done. No, really -- the massively ambitious game of player-guided evolution (first announced in 2005) is about a week away from going gold and heading for mass production, said producer Thomas Vu to CNET (via Shacknews). That would put it on schedule for the previously announced September 7 release date.

And if Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has his way, Spore's release will only be the beginning of a new franchise on par with the prolific success of The Sims. "We've got a clear, obvious, and very compelling post-launch monetization opportunity," said Riccitiello (with almost ominous language) during a conference call. Part of the plan could include enough expansion packs to warrant a specific Spore label, the same way The Sims series has its own publishing label.

"This is a game where basically, the parts are what make the sum of the product work," Riccitiello said. "Job one is to make the launch successful and making sure we have the right to ask that question [about expansions and more content] down the road."

As far as having enough Spore releases to warrant its own label, EA is already off to a good start -- this is one of the few games to ever have a retail release before the game itself was completed, with the launch of the Spore Creature Creator last month. "The content people are making has astounded us," said Vu of the creatures that players have made in the game so far. "They've challenged us in a way we hadn't conceived...We'll spend two hours on a piece of content we'll ship with the game, and we'll see players spend 20 hours on a piece of content."

With what we've seen made with the Creature Creator so far, hell, we're pretty astounded, too.