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    Poll: Glasses-wearing escapists! How do you adjust them when they start slipping?

    I take mine to my opthamologist and have them re-adjusted. I'd just make them worse if I tried to fix them.
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    Gearbox Snags Homeworld Rights

    This thread makes me sad, why do I even click on stuff like this? Also, never even heard of homeworld c:
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    Brenda Romero Resigns IGDA Post Over GDC Party - UPDATED

    I view shit like this similarly to the issue of booth babes, which is that it's kind of awkward to be around. I've been to a few events in the game industry with similar use of hired dancing girls, and it really sends the message that you're an outsider in the event, and in the industry...
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    Them ladies mean business(?)

    I'm not 100% sure I understand exactly what you're asking, but I'll try to share some insight as a female game developer. I work at an FPS studio. The percentage of women working at studios that make these kinds of AAA games is somewhat lower than in some other genres, such as casual and...
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    Poll: For the men , manicure/pedicure , have you ever gotten one?

    I'm not a guy, but I've had just one pedicure and one manicure done before, both in the past year, and at the insistence of another person. I was mortified to have the pedicure, since my feet were heavily calloused and nasty from the army ten years ago. And I have to admit, my feet went...
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    Have you ever refused to play because of crappy controls?

    I couldn't play that Metroid Prime game on the Wii with that controller. I really hoped they had alternate Gamecube controls, but nope. Any Wii game that has you aiming the controller or doing a lot of motion is off limits for me because I have an unstable right wrist with torn ligaments and...
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    What do you LIKE about the current state of gaming?

    I like my large screen TV and the easy access to classic games. Other than that, of the small handful of games I've actually bought over the past few years, I've only actually finished two of them. If I had all the time in the world again like I did when I was a teenager, I'm sure I'd be at no...
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    Ladies, how about you?

    The kinds of games that let you build your own character don't really appeal to me, and I don't think I've ever actually played one. So I can't really say much about games like Mass Effect where you can choose to be male or female. I tend to like games that tell the story of a particular...
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    Gamer Subculture Study

    I'm 30, female. 1. I guess. 2. 4-8 hours 3. With friends 4. Almost all of them 5. Yes, about half of my game time is online multiplayer these days 6. Around 5 hours 7. FPS, classic games, adventure games 8. My uncle bought a NES for my cousins when I was 8 or 9. He...
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    Escapists! Post your rides!

    I got a 2013 Audi A3. I'm also super glad I got it when I did, since they've already stopped production of the hatchback cars for the US, and beginning next year the A3 is going to be a sedan. My previous car was a big Mitsubishi sedan and was like driving a boat, I love how much easier it...
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    Favorite Cartoon/Anime of the 90s-early 2000s?

    Yeah, I remember that show. The episode where some kind of witch ended up literally melting at the end disturbed the hell out of me. D: It was a pretty interesting show, though, I watched it on Cartoon Network along with all of the terrible Hanna Barbara sci-fi cartoons from the 60's and 70's...
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    Disney says they're not going to do any more 2d animation.

    Even though I'm a 3d artist now, this makes me sad. When I was a kid it was my dream for years to go be an animator and work for Disney, and Disney was one of the major things that drove me to learn drawing when I was little. That said, Paperman was pretty great looking and had a traditional...
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    Poll: Does the magnitude of a spoiler matter?

    Same thing happened to me with Gears of War 3, after something was spoiled for me I pretty much lost all my drive to finish the game, and the story isn't even that great to begin with.
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    Ignorance and Misconception

    My dad thinks that all video games are "Mario tapes" and that the reason why he can't "get on to check his fantasy football" is because his computer is full of them. Other than that, I'd say most people in my life are pretty familiar with video games on one level or another.
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    Poll: Do you judge peoples comments based on their total number of posts?

    Of course not. I do see post count as somewhat of a gauge of how much free time a person has, though. Ironically, I'm posting on an old account that I registered a year before I joined "for real", and didn't even realize it existed until the other day. So much for post counts.