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    Battlefield Fans Don't Like Freebies

    Wow DICE could have just hired an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist to tell them this several years ago. Or better yet pick up a $60 general psychology textbook and you can read about it. Still better yet go to Wikipedia and look up "The Effort-Justification Paradigm." In this case...
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    When a Woman Loves a Woman, It?s Really Not About Your Penis

    OT This is not as much about the posts from others as your tagline at the end of the article. As a middle school counselor I though I'd mention that it is not the 1980s anymore and we don't say "guidance counselor." Officially we are professional school counselors or just school counselor...
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    Japanese City Blatantly Rips Off Pikachu For Mascot

    I can't believe that no one mentioned or noticed that there were 14 complaints unrelated to the likeness. What else was there to complain about? "I was upset that the character was not more similar to Pikachu."
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    [UPDATE] Microsoft Devastates Autistic Child By Labeling Him a Cheater

    Microsoft really has nothing to win by refusing to give an autistic child his achievements back and taking away his cheater label. It's just bad PR and a insignificance of a gamerscore/loserscore to microsoft compared to this child is hardly worth the loss of face to the general public.
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    Ian McKellen Almost Ditched Playing Gandalf in The Hobbit Movie

    I love Ian McKellen and he's a brilliant actor but if he is stupid enough to believe that many people (and by that I mean at least myself for only my opinion matters) were very sad to see Michael Gambon replace Richard Harris. The changes he made to the character and the fact that he admitted...
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    Hardcore Will Adopt Kinect First, Says Microsoft

    Basically this guy is just doing what marketing guys do. Which is to tell you that "yeah sure we'll have lots of hardcore games, go out and buy it." Then you discover there are no hardcore games and you just bought 150 dollar sensor bar. You could have had a better time buying 150 dollars...
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    last exam?

    a lot of people still in spring term of classes. I am personally finishing up two six week courses that started two weeks after spring term was finished. Two 10 page case studies due this weekend. Graduate school is a real ***** like that. Enjoy your youth while you can!
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    Proud to be Irish

    I am very proud of my ancestors that came from all over Ireland including Cork and Donegal. Also I'd like to say that I sometimes feel sad in the United States because no one can pronounce our sirname. Collum often comes out Column as if I were going to hold up a building. Even when they...
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    Doesn't it make you sick?

    So I was just taking a little glance around some BBC news articles as I often do and saw this lovely article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/10391693.stm I suppose this is somewhat directed at those individuals on this site that currently or will someday have to pay quite a hefty tax in...
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    How to Actually Have Fun With the Tony Hawk Ride Controller

    Those kids were smarter than the cop. He was so confused and they answered so convincingly that it was just a video game and not a skateboard. It wasn't even real, none of it was real. That cop must have thought he was dreaming and he should wake up soon. Classic lying to cops. edit: wow...
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    Activision Concerned About Kinect and Move

    In the end I really see these products as being too expensive. If Microsoft now says that its not for core gamers and that they are gonna sell these things to families I just don't see it happening. Realistically not very many families have a Xbox360. These consoles are mainly owned by their...
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    Dance Dance Robo-Lution

    7:25 robots make in the rear of the group make an exaggerated humping motion. Did they let Morgan from LRR play with these robots programming?
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    Job interview

    If at all possible learn something about the person you are interviewing with such as where they went to college or shit like that before you interview with them. Then in the portion where they let you talk casually slip it in. It makes them feel comfortable and like you took the effort to be...
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    How many pages of a thread do you read?

    I'm sorry I got lost about half way through your post... :-P No in actuality, I am a scanner. That means depending on the length of the first post. I scan that. Then a look at a few on the first page. Then I flip through a few more pages. I like when people have multiple quotations from...
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    Unfortunate Names

    I knew a Dr. Portapotty (not spelled this way but written by me this way to emphasize pronunciation) once. He worked with my aunt at the hospital. Also in an atlernative category of unfortunate names my girlfriend's uncle just named his newest child (a girl) Tesla. While I am a HUGE fan...