Recent content by Cidward

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    Poll: Do you find strip clubs misogynistic?

    I'm a straight woman who's been to a few strip clubs (with women dancers, though I have caught a male dance show in Vegas). Some with my boyfriend, some with a mixed group of people I worked with (it had a lunch buffet), and again to the same place with the buffet with just a couple of women I...
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    Poll: Do you use an e-book reader?

    It's almost impossible to explain how much better it feels to read off an e-ink display than the eye-burn of staring at a computer screen. I did it once and it convinced me to be a reader.
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    Poll: Do you use an e-book reader?

    I've got a Kobo and really like it. I still buy paper books, but ebooks have largely replaced the cheap paperbacks I used to purchase (I'm still more than happy to shell out some for a hardcover I really want). It's also a great way to stock up on old public domain stuff (most of which is...
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    Poll: How much money do you spend on each game?

    I'm not sure I've ever payed $65 or more for a game. Like many others have commented, I don't buy titles on launch.
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    Poll: How do you personally feel about the term cisgender?

    It's dumb but whatever. It certainly doesn't offend me if people feel some need to call me that. It has no real meaning to me and seems more important to people who aren't than people who are, so whatevs.
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    3 Years Later: Mass Effect 3 Ending Revisited [spoilers!]

    I played the game a couple years late, after all the DLC and Extended stuff were out and a part of it. I suspect my reaction would be very different without all that. It strikes me as a game that was released before it was really done and filled in through ancillary content, and I have a hard...
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    Chrono Trigger - Cause and Mass Effect

    Favorite game ever (as the avatar should indicate). I've replayed it more times than I can count. I've got the Wii virtual console version and revisit it every year or so. It's less about trying to see all the endings (at this point, I have the one I think is 'right' and play toward it with...
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    Zero Punctuation: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number & Ori And the Blind Forest

    This is why I try to be thick-skinned about spoilers, because WOW would I have been unhappy if I'd gotten to the end of something like Ori to that.
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    Poll: The Great War

    Nintendo at home, but my best friend's brother had a Sega, so I got to infiltrate the enemy on weekends. No regrets about not owning one of them myself, but a lot of the games were fun.
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    Harry Potter fans help me out here

    Snape's appealing for the same reason a lot of anti-heroes and villains who do a heel-face are appealing. From the point in the first book when he's revealed as NOT the cardboard black hat of the series, but as more of a benign antagonist who can at times be helpful in unexpected ways, he's a...
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    Recommend me a good JRPG that ISN'T Final Fantasy

    Gotta co-sign the recommendations for Chrono Trigger. Not just my favorite JRPG of all time, in the running for my favorite video game period.
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    Poll: Who else is a little depressed about the content loss?

    I miss Movie Bob and Jim Sterling, but it's more that I'm depressed about what it bodes, as I'm not terribly interested in any of the new stuff that's been rolled out/promo'd. Maybe it'll be interesting, but off the top none of it appeals. I still come for ZP but that's it.
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    Poll: Would you back Yahtzee on Patreon?

    This was my answer, and it's far more driven by skepticism about Patreon (and whether or not it's sustainable or positive in the long-term for content-producers) than Yahtzee. I'd certainly follow him back to Youtube or to another site, much as I'm trying to keep up with some of Jim Sterling's...
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    TV shows that hooked you in from the first episode.

    "Lost," "Friday Night Lights" and "Battlestar Galactica" (the reimagined version) were all series I had the luck to watch when they actually premiered, and they had me from day one. I'd also argue the pilots for each are in the series top 10 overall, which you can't say about many shows...
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    Escape to the Movies: Jupiter Ascending - Tries But Fails

    I saw it last night, and I felt like a ton of its problems came from the editing room. There's a gorgeous, pared-down and dumber action movie and a smarter, longer space opera kind of fighting each other in what I ultimately watched. That said, I'm glad I saw it. It's the sort of movie that...