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    50 Worst Videogame Voice Acting Moments

    I laughed hard , at those lot ...either there were some very jaded voice actors out there , or they just roped in the programmer/cleaner/someones mum to read out some of those still though ....where's this gem?(about 17 seconds in..)
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    American-British Q&A

    ..on a totally unrelated topic. Do Americans 'get' Irony?
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    American-British Q&A

    oh and preemptively before someone asks...yes everyone in Ireland drinks. All of us Oh Yes! We're all drunk right now ..every single damn one of us , from the Head of state , to the little old lady who just sideways staggered past me now ..oh we do love our drink .yes indeed. I'm drinking as...
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    American-British Q&A

    gnnnh.. For the last time kids,repeat after me. Ireland...is...not...part...of.. Britain. seriously Jesus wept! Northern Ireland is(and thats a whole other kettle of fish) but Ireland isnt. I like Britain , been there lots of times , generally lovely people and while we may have a lot in...
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    Star Wars: TOR Designer Explains BioWare's Death Stance

    Nice idea, but that'd never pass human rights conventions in most civilised countries....
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    Sega Timeline

    anything I've ever read about playstations origins indicate it was a Nintendo/Sony joint venture ...hell if you compare the Playstion 1 and SNES controllers you can see the shared heritage....
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    Sega Timeline

    US centric article is US Centric. The SMS outsold the NES in Europe and most Markets outside the US/Japan. It had a smaller "slim" style version released alongside the Megadrive 2. It had releases up until the mid nineties, and was regarded as being a better , cheaper and more reliable...
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    Nintendo: "Heyday of Piracy" Is Over

    yeah , they really wanted to make sure they screwed the last penny out of non US/jap gamers this time , and region locking is a great way to do that. (by the way have you seen the pricing difference the US price is about 250 right? , the UK price is £229..which is about 365 dollars...
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    Editor's Note: Sega Retrospective

    ..wow I keep forgetting that US video game history is VERY different from what I experienced back in the 80's/90's. In more polite parts of the world , Sega were pretty much neck and neck rivals with nintendo back in the 8 bit days. The Master System , while not having the huge library of...
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    Don't Knock TV: It's Going To Get Better

    .. ...or when it's all that's available, netflix, love film , hulu ,iplayer all them aren't available in my neck of the woods , and I doubt they will anytime soon...I'd quite happily pay (something reasonable)to view programs/movies online but there's nothing out there for my region.(bar E4...
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    Yahtzee vs. the JRPG

    Actually in retrospect Soma Bringer is basically Diablo dressed up to look like a JRPG , so yeah , JRPGS , I hates em all!
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    Yahtzee vs. the JRPG

    I used to like jRPGs. Then I bought a nintendo DS. With maybe three-four exceptions every RPG for the DS is an Jrpg. I have come to hate JRPGs. After a while they all sort of seem to blur together.Quirky name, spikey headed androgynous gobshite chosen one character,and the usual collection...
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    Poll: Would You Pirate Media You Already Own

    BAck in the early 00's I had my collection of PS1 games stolen.Just the discs (some scumbag took the cd wallet with them when we were having a house party), so I still had boxes etc. I bought back one or two second hand , for the rest I got the ps1 chipped , and rented what I could from a video...
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    Poll: Tell me if this is a bad idea.

    How about:"......had balls until they slipped and fell nuts first onto a handrail." ;)?
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    Annual UK Snow Forecast

    We're even worse for it in Ireland , basically if there's more than a powdering of snow everything shuts.People stockpile food , drivers cant drive in a straight line without skidding in to things ,chaos , fighting, cats and dogs living together , the works. The last heavy snow we had was the...