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    The Names We Choose For Our Characters

    Recently I've been trying to put logical names to my characters. Like in the rare case I play a fantasy game, I do a bit of recon into the race I want to play and the types of names they use. Then I try my best to fit the chosen name to the race. So it sounds like my character actually has(d) a...
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    I'm a vegan and I come in peace...

    I eat meat because, I like it. I like the texture, the flavor. It might just be that I am a moralless bastard, but I am firmly in the camp that doesn't believe that humans are in any shape or form above or separate of the animal kingdom. We are animals. Beasts who just lucked out enough with...
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    Poll: Bioware needs to grow up

    I have grown to think that character based stories like the ME games and the DA games. And anything else you can think of, will fall flat some way or another. Always there is something to nit-pick on. That's why I like games like STALKER, Brink, Earthrise and Fallen Earth. You are not...
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    Why do Americans do the date differently?

    be lucky you're not using the NATO system. Day, time, month, year. ex: for me, right now is 011905JAN11. 01(day)1905(clock time)JAN(month)11(year)
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    270: The 12-Year-Old English Kid Who Carried Us to Victory

    i've had such moments. And I have no desire to glorify anything, but I believe I have pulled more than a few Battlefield 2142 matches out of the gutter by taking the Commander seat and making liberal use of the voice com system. That and I was once complimented in NeoTokyo when someone said...
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    What does your avatar mean to you?

    I nabbed mine while playing Dead Space. I turned my camera around and noticed just how awesome the blood splatter was on the helmet. INSTANT SS! Yes, that is blood running down that eye. EDIT: FIXD! :3
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    id Gets Back to Business: A Preview of Rage

    I find their decision to go for post-apoc very solid. Sure, people go "But it's Fallout3! Only newer" Say what again? Yes, it's post apoc but there's a REASON for that! It's a setting that allows and to a point, demands, this vigilante, lawless air and feel to it that these games need. BB...
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    Zero Punctuation: Mass Effect 2

    Ah, our Gareth from Tabula Rasa...
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    248: Slave to the Overmind

    I have learned (or am trying to, depeninng how you look at it) step back and look at myself. Am I getting angry? What for? Is this worth it? I've found that if any of these three questions comes up as a negative, I.E. : 1) Yes./I'm just slightly irritated./WTF do you mean, "angry"...
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    Rebecca Mayes Muses: The Mirror

    A very beautiful song. But may I ask, from what game is the cut at 00:47 to 00:50?
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    Unskippable: Avatar

    Everyone winces inside out for Weaver. You see her ONCE during the opening cutscene and if you choose Na'vi, there won't even be a mention of Dr Augustine again. If you choose RDA you get a small "Hey, don't relax too much, this isn't over." speech via a radio. Never, between the start and the...
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    Unskippable: Avatar

    As someone who owns and plays the game (on a semi regular basis) I think this game entertains me more than the movie. And if it entertains, you have a game (movie= observational entertainment, game= interactive entertainment) The small size of the vid don't do the game justice. Sure it has...
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    237: The Tao of Leveling

    I'd like to think myself of a different system. One of professions and skills than character defining levels. Sure, there are stats involved and you could put levels on my individual skill trees (each level opening up more and more side branches that intertwine with other skill trees) But...
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    The Escapist Presents: The Escapist On: Storytelling

    I have cried. I admit. It was on Earth. Me and god knows how many others were holding the Wormhole, I can't dare to imagine how many there were total on the 7 shards of that map. We saw the last bane fall and the final bits of fireworks went off. Me and my squad lined up for a screenshot and...
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    234: Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

    I can stomach most anything in a game as far as my character goes. Different colored skin? Check. Different genders? Most certainly check. Different species? Check. Sexuality? Check. But those are all choices (that's key here). What I don't like, is when someone tries to force stuff on me. Be...