This is not a sarcastic post.  That wasn't sarcasm either.  Recently, I have been seeing an abundance of Sid Meier's Pirates games on shelves, in ads, and other things like that.  I am truly happy about this, as Pirates was an excellent game when it came out on the PC.  Unfortunately, I was left woefully uninformed until it was too late.  I thirsted for over a year for this magnificent game, seeing as the nearest known place to get it was in the United States (I'm from Canada), so that was out.  Then suddenly in our local city, they open up another mall, which includes and EB Games and a Staples.  I stride triumphantly to EB Games.  I walk in the door, to find several copies of... everything but Sid Meier's Pirates.  So I go into Staples to find a nice corner to cry, and then I spot it!  Marked down 50% from $9.99.  I continue to weep, now with joy.  My tears short circuit one of those conveyer belt thingys at the cash register.  I pop it in the desktop computer.  Unable to play.  I start polishing the head-cleaving sword.  Unfortunately I have gotten soft, and scream "traitor" at it instead.  Then I see my laptop.  So I pop it in the portable bugger(which never plays anything except the violin, badly.) and it works.  I sit there, my jaw getting rug burn from the carpet, and the happy pirate music blaring at the loading screen.  So instead of two decapitated, cussed up computers, I have one that is badly insulted, and the other put in a shrine.  This version has been abridged slightly as I have left out how I faced a large amount of rabid wolverines, as well as my part in destroying the One Ring.  And I have taken some creative liberties.  (I didn't cry, and the conveyer belt is fine.)