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[rob]

Puns and Schadenfreude are the basic building blocks of all humor. That's all there is.

you forgot the biggest building block... truth

[Mono]

Contemplating whether now is the time to buy myself a 3DS cuz I'm going away a few days for Christmas. Maybe I just pick up one game for now. So basically if you get only one game the what would it be? I'm thinking I get Mario 3D Land and download Crashmo as well... or maybe I get the new Layton game.

[Glyph]

Kid Icarus is my personal fave... but I couldn't say anything bad OoT 3D (if you haven't played it already).

[Tanner]

3D Land and Crashmo are my two favorite games on the 3DS, so those are good choices.

[SirNiko]

Kid Icarus and Pilotwings are the two I have.

Kid Icarus is fantastic, with lots of levels and a great weapon building mechanic. The only possible downside is a lot of the replay value comes from cranking up the difficulty and replaying levels to get better weapons, and from the multiplayer. If neither of those interest you you'll lose out on a big chunk of content.

Pilotwings is great if you absolutely loved Pilotwings 64. Same idea, new missions. The relatively small size of the island is the only potential downside. If you didn't care for the 64 game, the 3DS one won't thrill you either. It's not a killer ap, but it's a great game.

I also picked up Pushmo for download and loved it. It's a great puzzle game for reasonably cheap.

[s_l_m]

If you haven't played OOT or are down to play it again, then OOT.
Otherwise, I really recommend Mario

[ClayB]

these forums are really cool

[Capntastic]

Debatable

[Noogai03]

I can't seem to upload an avatar: I get an error every time...

[Friend]

I just realized I need to stop playing league of legends that much...

[Dr. Cooldude]

I can't seem to upload an avatar: I get an error every time...

You have to upload the avatar to something like imgur, and then use the link as the avatar source.

Dear God Derek really need to (at least) make a note on how to upload avatars...

[John Sandoval]

I just realized I need to stop playing league of legends that much...

league of legends is a game for self hating nerds who wish to inflict pain and suffering upon themselves and others

(ie me)

be a man and uninstall

(at least until they buff akali again)

[Blademasterbobo]

(at least until john can just face roll the keyboard and get 1600 elo again)

[keo]

thought this was a good read it's on breaking habits and forming better ones
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2012/03/20/breaking-the-habits-that-enslave-us-qa-with-charles-duhigg/

I think when most people think about changing their habits, they focus on the problematic behavior, on changing the habit itself. But there’s only so much willpower we can expend in a day. When someone says to themselves, “OK, I’ve got to get in shape,” that’s an almost insurmountable mountain. But if you focus on the cues and rewards, making a change is more manageable. We know from studies that almost all cues — the stimuli that elicit the habitual behavior — fall into one of five categories. It’s time of day, or a certain place, or a certain emotion, or the presence of certain people, or a preceding action that’s become habitual or ritualized. This gives us a way to create an exercise habit that doesn’t require saying “I’ve got to change my whole life” and beating up on yourself. Instead, what if you just say, “Every morning, or when I come home from work, I’m going to put on my running shoes.  I’m not even necessarily going for a run. I’m just putting on my running shoes. That’s going to be my new habit.” If you do that a couple of days a week, eventually you’re going to go running.

It’s little shifts. Once you start running, you’re going to get into a running habit, right? But it starts with this small win. If as soon as you get home from work, you put on your running shoes — even if you feel stupid about it! — you’re creating a cue. The benefits of that small win will start cascading through your life.

Then you focus on the rewards. The first couple of times you go running, you’re not going to enjoy it. No one enjoys it the first time they run. So you have to give yourself a piece of chocolate when you get back from the run. You have to have some immediate reward.  And we know from studies that within two weeks, the intrinsic reward of running — the endocannabinoids unleashed by exercising — are going to become enough of a reward to create that habit. But you have to trick your brain into it by giving yourself a piece of chocolate the first couple times. And it has to be a reward you really enjoy. You can’t say, “I’m going to start running, and my reward is going to be a salad and kale chips.” No one really enjoys that.

[unsilentwill]

The sentiment is right because you don't tackle a huge problem all at once, but it sounds like conditioning and gamification.

In my experience, the best way to change deep habits is to actually remove rewards and cues. Acknowledge the problem is hard, be honest with your flaws and limitations, and start from the bottom. Motivation should be desire for personal benefit such as caring about yourself and wanting to do more things with your life, rather than cookies. You give yourself a cookie after a run, then you don't have time to run but you wanted to so, half a cookie. The next days you realize you have a box of cookies that requires no running. But the satisfaction of doing good in the world is hard won and hopefully worth fighting for.