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    Games where you play as a villain.

    Jade Empire is my favorite example, if you adhere to "The Way of the Closed Fist." Good times.
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    Poll: Do You Regularly Buy Games On/during the First Few Weeks of Launch Day?

    The latest game I bought during the first month of its release was Bioshock Infinite, and that was just for fear of spoilers. Because it just takes one guy to not give a shit and it's irreversibly spoiled, and I wanted to play it through on my own terms. Before that, the latest game I bought...
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    Poll: Glasses-wearing escapists! How do you adjust them when they start slipping?

    I have various ways to do it; there's the single finger push on the bridge, gripping around the rim of one lens and adjusting, making faces to get them to move up and sometimes using both hands on the sides. I think that which technique I use mostly depends on where my hands are and what they're...
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    Fallout New Vegas: Which expansions should I go to first?

    As others have said, Honest Hearts is the best one for low-level characters. All the other ones have a bunch off skill-checks that require quite high levels, so do that one first. The game gives you recommendations for when you should do the DLCs when you're about to start them, or rather...
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    So, what did you get for christmas?

    Coffee machine, kitchen mixer, a book of Don Rosa-comics and other assorted goods. Good stuff.
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    Repost your first Escapist post!

    From a thread asking which was your favorite: the flood, the borg or the replicators? Mind you, when I joined in, it had become a "Who would win in a fight?" kind of discussion. Used this post as a starting point for a paper in English class once when I couldn't be arsed to come up with a...
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    Buy used? Can't complain.

    So buying used games gives THE GAMES INDUSTRY! a legitimate reason to throw a temper tantrum and ignore any complaints about their games' faults? Ok, I can see how one might have that opinion. Good for you. And you're right that if you find the condition of your game lacking (scratched disk or...
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    The New Shiny Escapist

    This has probably already been said, but I'll just throw my three main complaints up here for the heck of it (giving suggestions for solutions as well, since I'm apparently smart enough to "fix" this): First, all the white is hurting my eyes. A more grey or blue tone (for example) would make...
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    What should you guys be doing right now?

    Pay attention in English class. Haha no. Too much internet I haven't seen.
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    recommend me a "let's play"

    As others have mentioned, Spoony's Let's Plays/riffs are really funny. I'd suggest watching them.
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    What's this song called?

    42. It's a given.
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    Games You Didn't Expect to Be Good

    True, but while the publisher Sega probably doesn't want anything to do with it, I recall reading somewhere that someone of the higher-ups at Obsidian claimed that they were excited to do a sequel, if the oppurtunity would arise. Found the links, now that I actually searched for them: Sega...
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    Games You Didn't Expect to Be Good

    I didn't really expect Alpha Protocol to be any good, having heard that it was bugged beyond repair and generally unplayable. I played through it three times before moving on to another game, and that was only so that I wouldn't get sick of it right away. Damn good fun, hope that Obsidian gets...
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    Poll: I Just Started Smoking :D

    Watch Mad Men, learn how to do it in style. This is all amazingly silly, so I'll just leave it at that. I especially like the "I'm not addicted, I could stop at any time"-bit. While it might be true, it sounds like the kind of denial one would hear in a cheesy anti-smoking PSA.
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    Video game genre you grew out of .

    Grew out of racing games years ago, Need for Speed: Carbon was probably the last one I got. I can't see any real appeal to them besides maybe multiplayer, and even then I imagine that one needs to be at least somewhat of a racing enthusiast. Come to think of it, a similar thing happened with...