Holy shit this one is tough for me.  Both of these rank in the top of the list for me in their respective genres.

I finally went with Shawshank.

Depends what church you're talking about.  The "Church" of $cientology has been known to take people for big bucks, and as mentioned, the sleazy televangelists are always trying to pry money out of the believers' hands.

I'm fascinated by what people choose to believe in and why.  Perhaps we could move this discussion to the Garden.

On topic, this stuff honestly doesn't interest me that much.  I read it and then think "whatever." 

But I will say, the letter didn't particularly strike me as being fake.  On one hand, yes it sounds like it was written by a fourth grader, but on the other hand, you can definitely feel some true desperation in there.  Who of us hasn't fucked up with a good friend or been dumped by someone and then wrote a rambling, crazy message like this trying to patch things up.  You write, overthink things, go into detail in weird places trying to explain yourself.

The funny thing is, a lot of times you end up doing more damage by making the person think you're insane.

I'm in!  Sounds like fun.  I could do a drum track first and let you guys record on top of that.

I saw them demoing OnLive at the Game Developer's Conference last year.  I gotta say I'm pretty skeptical about the whole thing.  There was definitely perceptible lag between the controller and the action onscreen.  Considering that they were set up specifically to demo their tech, I'd say that's a bad sign.

Maybe it's gotten better since then, but I just don't think we're yet to the point where we can have hundreds of thousands of players on a system like that.  The processing power has to come from somewhere.  I'm quite happy knowing that my Xbox's power is mine alone and I don't have to share it's processing power.  Hell, even with home consoles some games these days have pretty bad lag, screen tearing, and horrible load times.