Ruby or Python (or Scala)?

I've already dabbled into Python and bought books, but I found its sytax too abstract (too much like pseudocode) and too strict.
Should I learn Ruby and Rails instead, considering that:
- I also want to learn Perl
- I'll use the language for webdev and general projects like games
- I have alredy some little experience with Python ?

I've also heard about Scala and the Lift framework, is it good?

Ruby, Python and Perl are all substitutable for one and other, having basically the same features, bone headed design having plagiarized each other shamelessly over the years, and are all  SLOW AS FUCK, even if it doesn't seem that way due to the short start up time of their VMs. Learn just one and forget about the others.

Having said that, Python seems to have more demand than Ruby and is less fucking horrible than Perl.

On Scala I can't comment much. It seems to have been designed by educated people, but it haves roughly the same design goals as C++, only taking Java as a substrate. Due to this, I have stayed the fuck away from it. Still, it seems like decent choice, but remember that it's in a whole different category, by virtue of being statically typed (with type inference) and all in all attempting to meld Java and Haskell.