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Amnesia: The Dark Descent Audiosurf Beyond Good and Evil The Binding of Isaac Bioshock 2 Borderlands BRINK Crysis Warhead Oblivion Fallout 3 GOTY Edition GTA: San Andreas Portal 2 Rome: Total War Civ IV Star Wars: Battlefront II That's my gaming sorted till I graduate.

Hmm... I'd say Homestuck and Gunnerkrigg Court. With GC I think it might just be the fans I know personally. The Homestuck fandom is one that I just find rather unsettling.

Normal, I guess? Neither Ice nor Rock really seem right. Ice's sense of superiority doesn't really work, and Rock's "unwavering faith" certainly doesn't apply to me. Ambiguity is kind of important to me. So yeah, Normal. I'm grand with that.

Fallen London. Well... At least it's quiet down here?

Only if it was the source of conflict that undermined whatever love the relationship was founded upon. If, say, you defined yourself by your intelligence and this woman had that whole bunch of master's degrees and was insufferably proud of it, obviously that'd be a no-go. If she was famous...

It's a setting that can be viewed as over-the-top parody or a grim parable of a dark future. It all depends on who's writing it. Variety's the spice of life, right?

Sleep. Lots of sleep. Too much study to do in the coming weeks. Party later.

I quite thoroughly second this. When one starts debating the value of emotion based on utility, I start worrying a little. It might be a little embarrassing, but it's there for a reason (Just not a totally utilitarian one).

The Usual Suspects, Hitman: Blood Money and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oh no. No. NOOOOOOO!

I've seen the likes of Sophocles, FDR and Rousseau lumped into Neutral Good, and I don't think I could liken myself to them with a straight face. Out of the options given to me, though, Neutral Good or Lawful Neutral are probably the ones closest to my own worldview. But sheeeit, I have...

Decided to play a bit of Hitman: Blood Money today, to whet my appetite for the upcoming Hitman: Absolution. For about twenty minutes, it was business as usual: Challenging (but challenged) AI, fun weapons, and plenty of opportunities for madcap fun. But, unbeknownst to me, something had...

Yeah, that first shot would have been grand under the pretense of self-defence. But Christ, five more shots on a prone, headshot teenager? As a rough rule of thumb, if one would cringe at the thought of doing the same thing in a video game, then one can be fairly sure that this was a bad...

Seconded. OT: Really? You're just going to lead yourself on a massive guilt-trip because you're white, and white people are shallow, stupid culture-destroyers? Well, jeez. It's not like I can stop you, but cop on to yourself. I mean... *sighs* Ah, forget it.

Ah yes, of course. So many of our swearwords are couched in discrimination. However, these laws are giving them the right to fine you for saying "shit". Now, shit isn't a nice word. In fact, it's a rather ugly word. But I don't think that they'd fine you because the fecal community was...

Yeah, the amount of carcinogens we take in on a regular basis is shocking. Remember when bromine used to be a handwash in labs, because it was a great non-polar solvent? That quickly ceased when we found out it caused melanoma. However, the food additives and hormones that can increase the...