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    The Big Picture: Not Okay

    I know I'm going to regret getting involved in a discussion that's been going for days, but I felt a powerful urge to respond to this comment and inform you that real life is not a porno. Seriously, what the fuck. If someone says "no", female or male, then always, ALWAYS assume that they mean...
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    How much effort do you put into being "normal"?

    I put absolutely no effort into behaving normally. I treat others with apathy bordering on disdain unless I want something from them, not even attempting to fake simple courtesy, have frequent conversations with myself that border on rants (though I often render them silent when near other...
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    Race in games, or lack there of

    Humans are lazy. Honestly, that answer is applicable to almost everything, but if you're asking why people don't add more factions/species/whatever into a work when a few, well established species is adequate for the task, then sloth is by far the most probable answer. Sturgeon's Law wouldn't...
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    Favourite lines?

    Theses types of threads pop up every few weeks. In the interest of not cluttering the forums with repetition, please use the search bar in future to check this hasn't been done already hundreds of times.
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    Do you believe in aliens?

    As Douglas Adams so eloquently put it, space is big. The probability that this is the only planet in the universe where sapient life emerged, let alone life in general, is so astronomically (hah) small that it isn't even worth considering. The universe is vast and ancient, and who knows what...
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    Fox News is at it again, this time for "Green Games"

    I think humans would spontaneously implode if we didn't have at least one group of evil foreigners coming to destroy our way of life and at least one wicked activity corrupting our youth. Just like before terrorists it was communists, facists, the Chinese or whoever else we could blame for our...
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    tragedy in media

    Your question is inherently flawed, because "the protagonist loses" is not the only definition of tragedy. There are many other elements of tragedy, and many more methods for its implementation, and you should examine whether a work uses these instead of such a narrow classification. Generally...
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    What are you reading right now?

    Fanfiction. Lots and lots of fanfiction. Shinji and Warhammer 40K (still ongoing after four years and still as awesome as ever), Imperfect Metamorphosis, The Shape of the Nightmare to Come, Interstitium, The Punishment, among many others (thank you, non-existent attention span), all of them...
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    Poll: How do you think the world will end?

    While you probably should have make it more obvious that it was a joke/justification, I do apologise for insulting you for it, as it was unnecessary and unjustified. The idea behind what you typed is still horribly flawed, but thank you for noting the intention of it.
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    Poll: How do you think the world will end?

    There was one fascinating and highly detailed documentary I saw about the History of the Earth that posited the molten "engine" of the Earth will eventually cool, halting the "recycling" of the crust and rendering the surface uninhabitable. I haven't examined any of the research about this so I...
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    When has game A.I showed real intelligence?

    If there's anything I've learned (and I haven't), it's that TV Tropes has an answer for everything. For some specific examples, the AI in Galactic Civilisations II can easily be smarter than the player at times, at higher difficulties the enemies in Thief behave scarily similar to humans...
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    Trailers: Star Wars: The Old Republic - Jedi Consular Trailer

    Using Two Steps From Hell music? The Old Republic just got 20% cooler. That still leaves 80% more until I would actually purchase it, though.
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    Nostailgia, you *****.

    Age of Empires II. I literally grew up on that game, quite possibly spent collective months playing it, and it is an inseparable part of my childhood consciousness as Star Wars and the various Nicktoons. But after having not played it for years and exposed to things like Homeworld, Total War...
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    Why the hate for young people?

    I doubt there has been a single time in human history where the the current adults weren't complaining about how the youth of today don't respect their elders, don't work hard, don't plan for the future, or whatever meaningless platitude we favour at the moment. Humans are deeply, deeply stupid...
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    Best game music.

    Touhou. Touhou Touhou Touhou. Also Touhou. Seriously, if there is a situation for which ZUN hasn't made an appropriate piece of music, then I haven't found it yet. And that's only some samples, and isn't even considering the legions of people that make a near endless supply of arranges...