i count the ways that i might say it

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the chaos." - Unknown

"But on the other hand, if we try to achieve serenity by only having rectangles around us, then this could be very boring." - Minoru Yamasaki

"I got a stomachache from all that rain last night." - M.M.

From my desk I can see slices of blue and a tangle of green. Sunshine does a body good ...

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So one of my kids returned the Roller Coaster Tycoon Expansion Pack she ordered because she didn't know it was an EP. While I was considering buying it from her, I looked at the packaging and noticed that it's rated E for Everyone, the only caveats being "comic mischief" and "mild violence." With the very first RCT, you were able to mis-engineer rides so that they would crash and burn - pretty creepy, actually. Like, you could "forget" to finish building, and the cars would coast right off the unfinished track. There would be an explosion, and your patron count would go down by however many people perished. You could also drown park visitors by using the claw (which picks them up and places them where you want them, say, near a newly-opened hotdog stand) to drop them in the middle of a body of water. I guess you could file that under comic mischief. It's not exactly GTA - you can't mug a grandma for her popcorn money - but graphic enough, I thought. Couldn't they just have the patron swim to the edge of the lake and then stalk angrily out of the park? To me, the drowning and fiery explosions seemed to be unnecessary details. Perversely fun, but in a game whose primary principle is free enterprise, does it belong? Then again I used to try to run over the flag girl every time I played Road Rash, just because she make the funniest squawking sound. Deranged behavior or comic mischief?