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We download our casual games to play them on the computer, because we're on dialup internet and prefer not to tie up the phoneline if we can help it.

As for the question posed on the podcast (which I'm too lazy to answer in a separate location), I suggest we improve the economy by employing the barter method used in RPG's like Fallout, Oblivion, and the like. Let's trade random trinkets for new armor! Or clothes, more likely. And maybe make bottlecaps legal tender. (Including the plastic twist-off kind.) Though I suppose that would increase the cost of bottled soft drinks, whch are already too expensive, so… if all else fails, let's try Mario's Instant Wealth method, and hit random bricks with our heads until giant coins come flinging out.

As for your pod cast question.  I would say we should take steps from the games like bookworm adventures.  While raising the literacy movement and promoting grammer to all.  Every correct answer should be some coinage that will help you buy things you need and want.  If this does not work.  Have corporate america see who the bigger fish is and have them adjust there margins to meet with average americans budget and then lower it.  Just don't tell corporate america what the outcome they have to do first is. 

I generally download for two reasons:  Dial-up is too frustrating at home, and often the download version has more features than the online version.

I play online on my breaks at work, though.  If my boss catches me going over on the time, it's usually ok as long as I tell her what site the game is on, how to play, and what my high score currently is.  Once in a while, you'll find the room full of us all on our lunch breaks, trying to beat each other at Shape Shifter.