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    Rosetta's Comet Baffles Astronomers By Venting Oxygen Into Space

    The source link is broken, there's a rogue tag tacked on the end there. And, yeah, this surprised me as well. The only reason there's oxygen in abundance on Earth is because of plant life. I'd have thought that if there was any free oxygen in space it would have reacted with hydrogen from...
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    Turning to Turn-Based for Stealth and Other Types of Gameplay

    It is a travesty that Yahtzee does not know about turn-based Ancient Roman chariot-racing game Qvadriga [http://store.steampowered.com/app/297760/]. A travesty, I say!
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    Hello Kitty is a Cat, Right? Wrong, Says Her Creator

    Thanks, that's exactly what I thought when I read this. Nowhere does it say 'human', that's only Steven Bogos's overinterpretation. Come on, get your pedantics straight. It's a depiction of a girl who happens to look like a cat.
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    Ice Cream That Changes Color as You Lick It? Yes, Please

    "Chemical additives", oh hey chemphobia, fancy seeing you in Spain. I'm pretty sure there's some fancy chemistry behind that color change, but since advertising has conditioned people to think that anything 'chemical' is automatically bad (even though so-called natural ingredients have no...
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    Steam Controller Redesign Includes Analog Thumbstick

    Oh for fuck's sake, this isn't even a confirmed change! PC Gamer and Ars Technica are the only ones I've seen that are acknowledging that nobody at Valve has actually said this change is going to go through. Literally the only source for this is a picture in the Steam beta files, that could mean...
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    Kickstarter Cans ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Devs' Campaign: Politics to Blame?

    Given the coverage this project has had, Betteridge's law of headlines [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines] is fully applicable:
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    Jimquisition: The Poison of Pre-Order Culture

    Yeah, the metric fuckton of pre-order bonuses and loyalty discounts is a great incentive. If you pre-order something, the seller needs to give you an incentive to mitigate the risk of the game being, well, shit. And let's be honest, that risk is always substantial, even for the Witcher 3. An...
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    Citizens of Earth: Earthbound-Inspired, Atlus-Approved

    "Downloadable title"... what does this even mean nowadays?
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    Collector's Editions: A Test of Consumer Loyalty

    I'd actually say that in many cases, paying more leads to more satisfaction. Someone paying $120 for a game and a bunch of tat is all the more likely to already have made their mind up about the game and will not look at the game as critically as someone who did not have so much faith in it to...
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    BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Adds Thief-Inspired "1998 Mode"

    1999 mode was a total cop-out. Checkpoints should never have been in there and specialization is a joke. I doubt it will be better this time around.
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    Diamonds Fall Like Rain on Jupiter and Saturn

    No, it's because their price was artificially inflated as a marketing scheme in 1938 (source [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_(gemstone)#cite_note-DeBeersMarketing-35]). I thought everybody knew that.
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    Square Enix: Disc Based Sales Are Killing Us

    "It's simple. Kill the discman."
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    Activision Hires Lobbyists in Response to Videogames Research Bill

    What is it they hope to achieve by putting lobbyists on a bill that plans to conduct scientific research? Convince them not to do it? Why? Is Activision afraid they're not going to like what the research finds? If so, that really reflects badly on them. The best case scenario is that this...
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    Saints Row IV Adds Obama Avatar in Pre-Order Bonus

    Aren't these just, you know, masks? Like the Gat, Genki and TF2 heads.