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    Nintendo Wants Its Cut

    Ha, just wait 'til you get to Alan Wake (Season 8), which has FIVE people talking in it! New Vegas is probably my favourite season (although the Dead Money part of it was ill-advised and painful...), but really all the seasons are excellent. Walking Dead probably has the best analysis in it...
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    Feed Dump: Bigfeets

    Canada-clan, which ones have signed the hanar hat? Because some of those signatures may actually decrease its desirability...
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    No Right Answer: Most Depressing Series Ending

    I'm very glad someone said that; saved me the typing ;) I think Dan's thinking of the show through some mental filters. What made it so great was precisely how juuuust *not*-lighthearted it was. (Heck, it's not like depressing endings were even out-of-character for the show; see frex 'Family...
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    Hall of shame: games that have made you cry

    Persona 4 definitely. At least 3 times, IIRC. Anyone who recognizes "Alone" from the soundtrack knows the source of those first two waterspouts.
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    The China Syndrome

    I'd like to echo others above in saying that this was an excellent article. Hope to see more from you! (Thursdays, you say?)
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    How One App Hopes to Take Tabletop Gaming Digital

    Wow, thank you for those links! That project looks so much cooler!
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    Feed Dump: Free Speech Tattoos

    The Headliner sounds like a rather bold supervillain to me, the type that could function as a veritable font of nefarious plots.
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    Pop Lyrics w/ Taco- Want U Back

    Grrr, I feel your anger. Was trying to reason with my brother as to the psychological horror that is this song, but he wouldn't listen. WHY? WHYYY?!
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    Miracle of Sound: Calamity (Bastion)

    Overall, I feel like the lyrics do an excellent job of highlighting major points of Bastion's story without actually spoiling them. Especially And maybe it's just me, but I also feel like "Withstand/Knuckles of your own hand" is a clear reference to I don't usually watch these...
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    EA Still Confident in BioWare

    You have to realize that he's talking not as a man interested in games, but as a man interested in money. What he's effectively saying is "people have criticized our games into the ground but we still made tons of sales, so what's the problem?" EDIT: To clarify, 'the product' is what EA...
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    Cast Your Vote for the Greatest Game in Escapist History

    And yet you didn't include the *original* Mass Effect, which is definitely more different from its sequels than they are from each other? 2005 was the cutoff year, yes? (EDIT: Anyway, Persona 4's up there, so that'll get ALL MY VOTES. We can do that, right? :P Pity it'd be up against TF2...
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    Quick question about Super Powers

    D&D's blindsight is pretty similar: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#blindsightAndBlindsense (For comparison, the real-life phenomenon known as blindsight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindsight.html) Still, I'm tempted just to...
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    Manga Translator Appeals Child Pornography Charges

    Magritte [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte], creator of the painting used as the article image. The Treachery of Images [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images] is a simple reminder of the difference between object and image. Microscopists know this well. Wait...
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    If you could make your own spin off title in a game franchise

    Blasto: The Jellyfish Stings: The Game Pokémon: A Post-Apocalyptic Role-Playing Game (admittedly am already making a similar thing in tabletop form) Spoiler Warning [http://www.shamusyoung.com/spoilerwarning/]: The Game. It procedurally generates a sub-game and then layers hilarious...
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    Irn Bru!

    fix'd that for you My dad and I usually stock up on it whenever we head back to the "old country" (props for anyone getting that reference), but it's getting harder to travel (and more expensive to) every year. In other bad news: local Kroger's stopped carrying *true* Heinz baked beans...