It's indie rock with ska influence. Yes. Bomb.

You'd like it. It's their best work.

This is totally random, but:
I just got X3: Terran Conflict on Steam. I download, register, and update the game. When I try to play, I get na intro screen, and the game crashes. The X3 forums has no advice on this, neither does the Steam one. Anybody else get this problem?

Also, I have seven pieces of coal now. Should I make a gift, or save them for the draw?

Make a gift. Chances of winning the draw are astronomical.

X3 Terran Conflict or Albion Prelude?

Its been a long time since I played the former, and I have not yet played the latter. Anyhow, I've never heard of that happening. Usually the game likes to not crash at all, just work perfectly fine. It gets you when you forget to save before you enter a Xenon system and get blown to space dust with their first shot. I think the game is too easy - I went to Argon with a fleet of battle cruisers and cleared the entire god damned system.

Blasted rebel's/traitor's should have just surrendered.

Terran Conflict. I was too cheap to get both.

Try restarting Steam. Sometimes it decides to be snitty and not autoupdate the game launch files. Happened to me with several of the holiday titles.

Oh also, is this X3 game enjoyable? I've been thinking of buying it, but I'm not totally convinced.

I'm currently trying a re-install, to see if that works.
And it looks like fun. As far as I can tell, there's less managing of resources/empires, and more flying spaceships.
I may be mistaken.

All the X games so far have been about managing trade lanes for the most part, or strange things that don't seem to work properly in my case. Such as all possible missions vanishing.

The upcoming X game Rebirth, however, seems to have abandoned its Excel spreadsheet origins.

I wasn't in the forum for three or four days and you only advance two pages?

Because there wasn't an argument about ponies, obviously.

Also, X3 works. I just had to re-install it.

because Santa

Just drank like literally 17 Rockstar energy drinks over the course of today, thinking it would help me with Modern Warfare three awareness.

Jeez dude.
You still owe me that picture. I HAVE A SOUL TRAP NOW.

Oh yeah, let me get the camera, before I take an arrow to the knee.
Que laughter.

So.
I try playing X3.
This is me while playing:

I have died THREE ♥♥♥♥ TIMES ALREADY
On the first missions.
Holy ♥♥♥♥ I am not cut out for this.