Recent content by Darksteel Mike

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    8 Album Covers Considered To Be Quite Legendary

    I swear, Escapist is becoming Buzzfeed junior more and more, these days.Throw some images and a paragraph of text together and call it a top 8 (because a regular top 10 is beyond my ability to give a shit), I can see the inaugural plagiarism shitstorm coming already.Linkbaiting 6 year olds with...
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    Can you beat him? Akinator Web game

    Beat him easily with a character from a A Song of Ice and Fire RPG game I'm playing in. Yeah, I cheated. He did guess ASoIaF,though.. Won again with Old Man Henderson, again probably cheating. (He did know of him,though) Lost with Cultist-Chan >_> Won with a main character from a...
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    Poll: Whats your drink Escapists?

    A nifty little bugger of a drink a friend and I accidentally concocted last weekend is my drink of choice from now on. Start with a base of two parts vodka of choice to one part Apple Sourz liquor. Add in some Gammel Dansk bitters (just a hint, it tends to overpower things). A little beer...
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    Poll: Does music add to the atmosphere?

    Absolutely, but lack of music also builds tremendous atmosphere at the right times (Condemned, as rightly pointed out). Also, replaying games with other music in the background can add it's share as well. I was replaying Arkham City to 100% it with a playlist on in the background and Miracle...
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    The SCIENCE thread

    <img src=http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2012/3/9/48159916-dd36-4a4a-a377-33f0ec877350.jpg> Bill Nye who?
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    Poll: Memes you find annoying

    Hypnotoad. Fuck Hypnotoad. And "Doubles". Lolcats started off good, with some actually clever ones, but has rapidly deteriorated and is now on life-support in the name of the occasional opportunistic buck. Isaiah Jackson (EDIT:Isaiah *Mustafa*. Why the hell did I write Jackson??) is...
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    Music you're ashamed to know the lyrics to.

    I'm in the same boat as Fernadette, I only know the lyrics to "Baby got back" because of Jonathan Coulton...
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    What's the worst deal you've ever gotten on a game?

    I bought Enter the Matrix. It was actually a little bit below fullprice , but it just turned out I had the wrong brand of graphics card to actually play the damn thing. And so it collected dust on my shelf til today when I threw it out.
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    Poll: happy vs sad (or optimistic vs pasimistic)

    Pessimism because it's ever so slightly closer to realism.
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    What game genre are YOU in?

    I'd get dropped in Rez and spend the rest of my life tripping balls.
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    Combine an animal and a food

    Shrimp/Cocktail,nom. If I don't win this one, don't bother looking for me; I'll be committing seppuku.
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    Good music ABOUT video games

    Oh hell yeah. I am ashamed to admit I had forgotten about him. Seriously, this is the man that improved, IMPROVED, the Duck Tales moon theme!
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    Good music ABOUT video games

    The Hatventures gang - Filth Bridge. Look it up, it's part of an episode (HaatFilms on youtube, episode Skylands 19 or 18, I think) Well, bugger me, it's been conveniently extracted:
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    How did "Cynic" come to basically equal "Killjoy"?

    Where does that slot into the original philosophy "live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. Reject conventional desires for money,power and fame and a big middle finger to posessions in general."? EDIT: So you're a killjoy beggar who could argue that killing isn't inherently right or...
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    What do you think the US will look like in 10 years?

    Have you seen "Idiocracy"? Yeah.... Okay, to be fair, they can't mess things up that badlyin just 10 years. They're alarmingly good at poor decisions, yes, but the rest of the world is no better.