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    Return Of Kings celebrate 'making The Force Awakens lose $4.2 mil'

    oh boy Star Wars: The Force Awakens will shatter every box office record slightly slower good job
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    Giant Robots!!

    GW writers can't numbers. They can't numbers at all.
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    Which Books Should Be Required Reading in Schools?

    Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein The Forever War by Joe Haldeman A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick Neuromancer by William Gibson in that order
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    Lessons to teach men with absent fathers

    To those who don't have a father: You're not missing anything special. A father isn't some magical, mysterious titan with gifts of wisdom, cash and discipline who is here to make you socially acceptable. If he wasn't around to raise you, he's either been killed by this cruel world or is just...
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    Thinking about it, what is the stupidest fictional thing ever?

    Actually, faster than light communication is far more probable than faster than light travel. Look up quantum entanglement.
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    Thinking about it, what is the stupidest fictional thing ever?

    That an elevator through the center of the Earth is a practical means of intercontinental transport.
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    I'm worried games might be getting too inexpensive

    This might be a case of Calling the Titanic Unsinkable, but this is something I think we don't need to concern ourselves with in our mortal lifetime. Judging by stock prices and reputation, EA is more likely to tank than Valve. Steam pretty much allows them to print money at this point, and...
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    For All Future Authors..

    Let's distill that into lethal purity. Every story that ever was and ever will be is thus: something happens. There. That's it. That's the plot to everything ever until there are no longer things. This is the ultimate spoiler. Something happens. No need to buy a book, or watch a...
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    For All Future Authors..

    I see Joseph Campbell as the Albert Einstein of fiction: a well meaning guy who made a remarkable discovery that wound up making the world worse for everyone. Einstein, relativity, nuclear bomb. Cambell, Hero's Journey, 90% of genre fiction ever since. Just because your piece features a...
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    Characters you hate with an unbridled, illogical passion

    Eliphas the Inheritor from Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising/Retribution. I really liked his character in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. He was collected, methodical, surprisingly soft-spoken, and slightly detached. He acted and sounded the part of a ten thousand year old traitor-legion commander. I...
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    Worst disadvantage in online gaming?

    Rude children with microphones.
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