Recent content by Arec Balrin

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    Electronic Arts Wants To Be Voted Best Company In America

    That EA will make mistakes and that it is inevitable is irrelevant and precisely the kind of thing that demonstrates that they are not going to change. Yes they will make mistakes- but people are angry at them for things that are not only completely avoidable, but seen by many people from...
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    Benicio Del Toro Signs On For Multiple Marvel Studios Films

    Yes. When the amulet was shown in Odin's treasure room, my first thought was Viggo Mortens..Mortenness...Aragorn would be perfect. Since then I've wavered. Now though today, Del Toro seems perfect. I wish to raise the point of order that despite being an infrequent poster- I was the first on...
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    Scientists Chill Atoms to Negative Temperatures

    No, it means that thermodynamics is breaking the law of thermodynamics.
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    Gold Bugged

    One thing cross my mind: Avengers was an undisputed triumph. Marvel gambled massively and it shouldn't have worked, it should have been an anti-climax after four years of building up to it. Then Joss Whedon happened. No Best Director, no Best Screenplay. The question I'm left with is "How much...
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    Twitter Fights "Occupy" Court Order

    For someone to see your tweets or re-tweets, you must either tweet them with a hashtag or someone must be subscribed to your feed. Either way it is not simply public: someone must opt-in and the tweeter wields a veto on who they can be. The fact that a message can be re-tweeted in the same way...
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    The Opportunist

    She's not actually hanging out the window. In the next comic it will go all A Beautiful Mind on us and it turns out the guy doesn't exist, he's another hallucination. He's Alex Mercer.
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    Used Game Sales "Killing" Single Player Titles

    Being able to re-sell a purchased title could in many cases be an incentive for an initial purchase in the first place. His argument is invalid.
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    Website Teases New Baldur's Gate ... Something - UPDATED

    The words being quoted, along with what is apparently a descriptive storyboard of a shadowy figure casting Raise Dead: "For years I clung to the memory of it; then the memory of the memory." *SPOILER* if you haven't played Baldur's Gate 2. These words are spoken in Baldur's Gate 2 by...
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    Syndicate Review

    It seems like a game set in a future where company men call the shots has had its potential severely curbed...by company men calling the shots. I would have expected better from Starbeeze and the early negative feedback should have rang alarm bells.
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    Watch The Muppets Skewer Fox News

    Sorry I was fixated on the voices. Miss Piggy was definitely Franky Oz, but since Jim Hensen died I haven't actually been able to tell the difference in Kermit until right now when he's speaking live. Wonder how I ever missed it before. Can we respawn Hensen?
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    Trailers: Star Wars: The Old Republic - Inquisitor Character Trailer

    If anyone who didn't try the beta wants to know: yes, that is as good as the game looks. In fact Knights of The Old Republic, that gem of a game BioWare gave us in *2003* looks way better.
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    Sony Online Delays PAYDAY: The Heist

    ACK! Double-post.
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    Sony Online Delays PAYDAY: The Heist

    Are you proud of yourself? Did you think before posting that or did you actually pre-plan it? No, I won't tell you which one earns you the more severe flannelling.
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    TV News & "Expert" Blame Violent Games For Teen Killer

    Has anyone noticed how these teen killers are always obsessed with crap games? They're never reported to own a copy of or play a Valve game and for all the DIY hidden blades on Youtube, people fixated on Assassin's Creed don't ever use them for murderising. Revelation: CRAP games cause...
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    The Darkness II Is Going To Be Late

    Why are you facepalming? It's my error. Facepalm.