Recent content by Gunner 51

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    Poll: Snap Response - Gamer fuel

    If I am on a major gaming binge, I settle for nothing less than tea and biscuits. No nasty flavoured energy drink or coffee for me. I'm British and I'm proud of it, sir! :P
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    If you could do it all again

    The more I think of it, there are a few things in my life that I'd like to retry. 1.) Try to call Lisa on the day she committed suicide. I'm still sure to this day I could have saved her life if I had let her know what she meant to me, Phaedra and everyone else. 2.) Never start watching...
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    Bethesda Announces New Digital Platform Bethesda.net

    That's quite frightening when I think of it. I have to admit that PC gamers have it tough from the likes of Steam, U-Play and Origin. But in recent times, even the console gamers aren't safe from it either. Farcry 4 was rather rude about badgering me into signing up for U-play every time I...
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    Bethesda Announces New Digital Platform Bethesda.net

    Knowing Bethesda, their new launcher will be so full of bugs - it won't work. But I do wonder why so many publishers are so keen on launchers - no one likes them and they make it a pain in the bum to play the games.
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    Unpopular Opinions

    I think I have a few unpopular opinions. Firstly, I hope all this Gamergate stuff would just leave the internet never to rear it's head ever again. Secondly I always thought people who committed suicide are braver to kill themselves than people who soldier on through their own miseries...
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    Should people lose access to a game because of how they act?

    I applaud any anti-cheating or anti-douche policies. I acknowledge there is no perfect system - but ya gotta try. :) As many folks above me have already said that if you act like an idiot in a cinema for example, you're going to get thrown out. This should also be true of games, if you're...
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    Unconventionally attractive characters in video games

    I quite liked Avelene Vallen from Dragon Age 2. I know she was quite the masculine looking bird, but when it comes down to it - she's all woman and a total heroine and a one-woman army. I'll say one thing for the writers of Bioware, they sure know how to write characters. Besides, if I were...
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    So Who Is DRM For Anyway?

    I think the main reason why new games with bad DRM issues not selling very well is simply a case of the chickens coming home to roost. It all comes down to short sighted money grabbing. The only people who want DRM are the bean counters at the top who don't really understand that games are a...
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    [Social Criticism] Ugly Narcissism - Sonder in Short Supply

    What a fabulously thought provoking thread you created here, Pr0. Please allow me to wade in with my own two cents. :) Here in Britain, we have a similar competitive streak ingrained upon our national psyche to you in the U.S. Children in schools are taught to compete with one another, to...
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    Jobs you can't wait to quit.

    I work two jobs, one as a medical administrator in a rather large doctor's surgery which I rather like. (Even getting yelled at by angry patients who always want their prescriptions immediately. (But have always forget to ask for them before they run out...) However, it doesn't pull in the money...
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    Buyers regret.

    Here's one for the "What the hell were you thinking" pile... I actually paid full whack for The Order 1886. I thought maybe the nay-sayers were wrong, I read the reviews and seeing how I trust media about as much as I do a politician - I thought maybe it was well, wrong... I was certainly...
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    Vacation tips for England

    Sure thing, OP. Firstly, when it comes to London - it has good shopping, but it's prices are absolutely extortionate. Secondly, consider other towns and cities. The Welsh countryside is dirt cheap compared to the cities of England if you're into nature. Edinburgh is really nice. (In...
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    Cute kittens versus dirty homeless people.

    With what little information the OP has given me, I'd probably save the kittens first - then come back for the human. Plus I don't exactly know the particular circumstance or danger I'd be placing myself in when it comes to rescuing the kittens or the human. But I should point out that I hold...
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    What's the most boring game you've aver played?

    For me, my most yawnsome games are as follows. Half Life 2. I think I spent half of that game sighing to myself thinking "The graphics are nice and all, but the original was so much better." Nothing in that game really jumped out at me. There just wasn't enough to do there to keep me...
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    MovieBob leaving The Escapist

    Now that's kind of a shame. I know that I haven't always agreed with Bob, but he was always quite an eloquent and intelligent contributor to this website. To be fair to Bob, he always did have a high opinion of himself - but I always thought he had the intellect to back it up. But for all...