Recent content by Al_

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    Meet The Yugoslavian PC Mag Cover Girls of the 80s and 90s

    UK general Tech mags T3 and Stuff (among others) were still doing this sort of thing into the 2010s
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    Dream the Impossible Dream

    Really the first thing on The Escapist tagged "Goat Porn"? Blimey
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    Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

    I wasn't expecting Rolf Harris to be teamed up with Hitler. Had to rewind to check that's what I saw
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    8 Awesome Things New Gamers Will Never Get to Experience

    Demos used to be great. Lazy ones were typically the first level or two, much like "shareware" games (Doom being an example of the latter), but great ones were lovingly crafted standalones. Perhaps the best was the Cannon Fodder demo that came with Amiga Power. Entitled "Cannon Soccer", Sensible...
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    #011: Tap Y To Ask Questions

    Bums. I was enjoying that, and loved the art
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    Palcohol - Powdered Alcohol - Approved For Sale in The US

    Can't find any US patent applications in his name or assigned to Lipsmark.
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    Jimquisition: Early Access

    Does having a paid subscription to The Escapist count as paying for Jimquistion?
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    Movies Passing the Bechdel Test for Sexism Earned More in 2013

    Whilst the Bechdel test is I reckon well meaning, it is worth noting that the Dead or Alive movie passes it, despite basically being a wank fantasy for teenage boys.
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    Feed Dump: Natural Born Reindeer Games

    So, thanks to the joys of rutting, by Christmas male reindeer generally don't have antlers, as they've been knocked off during the fighting to see who gets to impregnate the ladies of the herd. Some may have a single antler. The females don't fight so much. Reindeer are unusual in that the...
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    Escapist Expo: The British Expatriate Panel

    There's a law been passed in the UK, it seems, whereby almost every panel show is obliged to star David Mitchell.
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    The Bender

    To be fair, all chiros are terrible. People, don't use spine wizards. Even those that mean well are some of the worst humans alive. There's no such thing as subluxations. And in the "what's the worst that could happen?" stakes, unlike utterly hopeless shit like homeopathy, chiro can cause...
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    Grand Theft Auto V Soundtrack Includes 240 Songs, Original Score

    an original score is a first? Eh? What about the first two games? As for a custom station, that's been a feature of the PC version since GTA 3. Hell, even the first game, on the PC, you could swap the game CD for a music CD.
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    LoadingReadyRun: The New Timezones

    Once TG repeats are farmed out to Dave in the UK, they lose about 10 minutes for adverts and trailers. On another note, we have a channel called Dave. Because society is fucked. It exists for Top Gear repeats. They have a +1 channel, which is (actually) wittly called "Dave ja vu"
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    Tutorial Torture

    I do remember one of the big changes from Half Life to Half Life 2 being ditching the stand-alone tutorials- good, in a "game flow" kind of way, but the three assault course levels were fun in their own way- especially the Opposing Force one with the drill sergeant- and the moment where you were...
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    Unskippable: Sleeping Dogs

    man I'd hate to have been watching that on Standard Defintion. Maybe we need more videos (not just Unskippable) with crucial detail that's only properly legible to those of us that pay?