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YA Spittle Does NOT Play Special Teams: Goal Line Blitz The intersection of "sports nut" and "PC gamer" has been rather bleak lately. Since the rise of the console, most action-oriented sports games (Madden and its equivalents) have migrated to the living room, leaving those of us who prefer...

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Capable of thinking before they speak.

Stay-at-home mother of three.

I quit at 5th ed, too. When they broke pumping and made a lot of the cards in my burn deck restricted, I lost interest lickety splitz.

Syphilis and CCGs: Magic: The Gathering's Shadowmoor Expansion Joe revisits his misspent youth while sampling Magic: The Gathering's latest expansion, Shadowmoor. Read Full Article

Epic's Rainmakers Sweeney is Epic's founder and CEO, and in many ways he is the company's Willy Wonka. There are stories of brilliant people locking their doors for months on end and emerging with never-before-seen wonders. Sweeney is one of those people. Much of the Unreal Engine's technology...

Bourbon. Even the cheap stuff is better than Jack and it's got a smoothness most whiskeys would kill for.

I smoke cigars and pipes. They're still carcinogenic, but since you don't inhale when you smoke them, your chances for lung cancer aren't as high. However, it opens you up to a wonderful host of different cancers: throat, tongue and so on. I doubt the rates are quite as high, since your mouth...

This is the only answer. Otherwise, eh. I'd rather they just give my corpse to science and go get drunk at a bar.

Editor's Choice It is these orphan articles that cause us the most difficulty. You see, we're suckers for a great article, but we have designed, and love, our editorial calendar. It is the foundation upon which the whole of The Escapist is built. However, we have learned in our over two years...

I just wanna find a server with friendly fire :(

A few months back, there was a drunk guy playing a Heavy. He was hilarious. He kept running around shouting into the mic and trying to kill everyone by punching them to death.

You do realize by making fun of those hobbies, you're just as bad as people making fun of yours, right?

That's gotta be the most underrated/played Star Wars game ever. The IG-88 level still haunts my dreams. JK2, I'd say, just edges out KOTOR for the best Star Wars game I've played. (I'll admit, I was making the jump from console to PC a couple years after TIE Fighter.) You guys keep talking...