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Alien races that by all rights should've died out long before they could reach the intergalactic political theatre. My best example, or at least the one stuck most prominently in my craw, comes from Mass Effect. But no, it's not the Krogan, it's the Asari. Because the whole reason the Asari bone...

Not a videogame, but Heroclix. My first time playing it, the old hand who was graciously letting me borrow his pieces for the game had to give me what amounted to a small lecture before I could even read the abilities on the various character's cards. I mean, I thought going with the likes of...

...Question: I was under the impression that the word "oriental" was at least frowned upon when used in reference to Asian folk, but referring to the general region from which they hail as "The Orient" was fine. Is this wrong?

What XBone will not do: Allow you to play the games you own in the way you want to play them. What XBone will do: Take your money.

Setting aside the initial knee-jerk reaction post I was gonna make until I read the edit, (i.e. "why would I, there is nothing to cure") I would oppose this just on the grounds that it's a step towards making everyone the same, and homogeneity is boring.

Man oh man, I could just tear this apart and pick at each individual piece. I think I shall! Are you familiar with the word "hearsay"? Or, in the sage and timeless words of the Internet, "pics or it didn't happen". Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnot necessarily. Certainly a female troll claiming to...

This question got answered already, but since I'm having trouble finding it, lemma take a shot at this. OP's question is not about "who do you like because they're gay", but rather "who do you like that happens to be gay". As a fer'instance, you'll notice if you go back and read the rest of...

I'm just going to pop into this discussion long enough to say that I can't really contribute anything to it one way or another because while I can understand how some female gamers can be offput by the bountiful bevy of bosoms that seem to crop up around the veritable cornucopia of culture that...

I've heard that the word "geek" was originally a slang term in the armed forces for "specialist", i.e. communications geek, weapons geek, mechanics geek. This "specialist" recognition eventually got handed down, like many other terms, from military to civilian use, most relevantly the...

Okay, my list: Dolly Parton vs. Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira), hotdog eating contest (my money's on Dolly here) Superboy Prime vs. Scrappy Doo, filing their own income taxes Velma vs. Daria, hopscotch Finn (Adventure Time) vs. Gandhi (Clone High), yo mamma jokes (reboot) Lara...

No, what you do is you keep eye drops on hand to both instill a level of control over them, to ensure that they see exactly what you're doing, add that extra "stuff hitting my eye" layer to it, and to give the fucker hope that they'll be able to see after you're done with 'em. I mean, they...

I can't help but think up torture methods in my free time. It's kind of like a mental exercise, figuring out how to do the most with the least, and then how to improve upon the last iteration. What makes this fucked up is that I really don't like hurting anyone. Shit, I get upset when people...

I occasionally go on /b/ to start infodump/lifehax threads, looking for knowledge I don't already possess. I'm like Brainiac, but sad. When I'm not doing that, I post a picture of George Carlin, along with the George Carlin cheer (with a video link handy in case noobs think I'm "ripping off"...

An army of WALL-Es. Let's run down the list, shall we; Cute? Check. Antics? Check. Finding all of The Awesome Things? Check. Crushing all the world's trash into adorable little Minecraftian cubes? Check. One potential downside: Without an army of EVEs, they might get lonely.

I played Dragon Age as well, and lost interest for much the same reason. I recommend, if only because it's what I'm doing right now, finding some nice freeware games for PC. I'm trying out Tales Of Maj'Eyal, right now, which is pretty fun, but I've also tried Dungeon Crawl (Stone Soup version)...