Recent content by halfeclipse

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    Tetris World Speed Record Broken

    the blocks are colour coded, and their starting orientation is constant, and what block is produced is only partly random. After that certain blocks placed in certain positions produce certain shapes ideal for another block. There's a bunch of memorization going on followed by an awful lot of...
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    Jimquisition: Fee to Pay

    Star Trek Online. You can pay to win it if you really want, but it hits diminishing returns very fast. All the gear in the world will do nothing if you can't pilot, and you'll still need a full team do to end game content. Even then, no content is inaccessible to anyone geared with the...
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    It's a Nice Day for A Red Wedding

    Not read the books, don't click this. Seriously, DON'T CLICK THIS! YOU, HAVE, BEEN, WARNED! Watched the episode in question? STILL DON'T CLICK IT! Entertainingly, dying only served to make her MORE of an self-righteous, stuck-up, egotist!
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    Defining Misogynism

    Misogyny is the detestation or hatred of women. It's literally in the name, the roots are "I hate" and "Women." Regardless of the context, severity, or supposed justification those are all examples of either misogyny, or it's consequences.
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    Watch Seven Minutes of Saints Row IV Shenanigans

    Anyone else find how apathetic the guy doing the voiceover sounded hilarious? [Ben Stein]It has rockets and mini-guns and jump jets.[/Ben Stein]
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    what surgery's have you had?

    Wisdom teeth out, the odd cavity and a quick biopsy to check out a (benign) fibroma. Wisdom teeth sucked the most by far, but most of that was the local wearing off before the T3s had kicked in.
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    No DRM Results In No Change In E-Book Piracy

    Books =/= video games. For several reasons,(Being out 10 bucks for a bad book vs being out 80 for a bad game for example) but it largely boils down to piracy has little practical effect beyond that of any existing method by which readers may obtain books for free or at reduced cost (Libraries...
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    Poll: Cycling on the pavement / sidewalk

    Yea, city I live in has mostly non existent bike lanes and most of the east-west corridors are 60-75 Km/h. In the meantime most of those same streets have 4 foot wide sidewalk, another 3-4 for feet of grass/asphalt/etc where the streetlights go and low pedestrian traffic away from intersections...
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    No DRM Results In No Change In E-Book Piracy

    It's not like ebook DRM is hard to beat: My ebook library program has a drm stripping plug-in,(because certain providers like to not tell you if a specific book has drm and goddamn I just paid 20 dollars for this thing, I'm using it on my e-reader of choice regardless of how hard you want to...
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    A Different Kind of Teacher

    It's not quite so simple as "people don't like challange" Speaking from my own time in middle school: Band class for me was a tedious hell courtesy of going from a school with a strings program (Which was awesome.) to one without and getting handed a freaking clarinet. Ditto a friend who...
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    Poll: What do you know about Wales?

    Not much really. Sheep, most of you can carry a tune (Except the ones that reeeeally can't.) good cheese, sheep, nice beer, pretty girls+awesome accent, sheep, and a historic language clearly created by the welsh ladies. *shrug*
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    Curiosity Update Lets Players Pay to Add Cubes

    (13.7+4.7)/.5*10=$368 Whoo, enough money for most of a grocery run! Seriously at least do a bit of math first?
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    Optional bosses

    There was a jupiter djinni which had a 100% accuracy and applied seal. Luft maybe? Whatever, have Ivan spam it while Garrett and Isaac alternate Granite and Flash. Give those three agility gear and have Mia use her's to heal and summon. Provided you can move faster than him (Not that hard) and...
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    Optional bosses

    I recall deadbeard being stupidly easy to take down? Summon rushes roflstomp him or failing that he uses PP so seal ruins his day.
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    Your favourite current publisher.

    How do they get greedy with the DLC? 2 Bucks for an optional sprite pack and 20 bucks for an xpack is hardly egregious?