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    Jimquisition: I'm Going To Murder Your Children

    Being criticized and attack is the expectation of any artist of any medium, which is why even the creator of the most lousy piece of junk offers the world something of more worth and meaning than any troll throwing insults. The courage it takes to overcome this reality as well as any good...
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    Jimquisition: Objectification And... Men?

    Society imposes certain expectations for men and women, which we feel we are judge for so we judge ourselves by these qualities. These are completely different things between men and women, but that doesn't mean everyone is not equally molded apart from the opposite gender. It's also important...
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    The Big Picture: The Big Spoiler: Iron Man 3

    I kind of saw the possibility of the Mandarin being just a spokesperson to the real villain from how the movie was advertise, and in some ways its good that they push this idea to its logical extreme -even if it kind trashes the current attempts to improve this villain in the comics from its...
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    Poll: Horror games are scarier in first person

    I don't think first person is scarier because all of the classic great horror games I can think of were not first person. I could start with every Silent Hill minus Shatter Memories and all the Resident Evil games before the series became an action game, continuing in that manner until I reach...
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    Optional bosses

    Bosses are challenges that test everything the game has taught you, as well as provide an opportunity to give the game a different feel with the unique characteristic of the boss battle. Optional boss battles provide a game with challenges that can go beyond the average difficulty, or work...
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    Jimquisition: Bullshit in Sheep's Clothing

    Those viewer comments at the beginning of the show sound like a fairly accurate summary of the response the show had, but my favorite comment I saw for your magnum opus, that sums up the entire show, is: "There's something horribly right about you." You've given a hundred shows that have...
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    Jimquisition: Innovation - Gaming's Snake Oil

    Innovation is often a trade off for depth, since if a game requires a player to do something so brand new then teaching the player this replaces challenging the player with further exploring an old concept. So while doing something different can be a good thing, the further away from concepts...
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    Top 5 Friday: Top 5 Final Fantasy Games

    Well what do you know, the list was all the games that came out of PS in 1997-1999. Some how I get the feeling these were the only FF games you've played, especially with that reasonless ranking of FFVIII, and this list only shows what years you were playing a lot of games. Still, its...
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    Jimquisition: Previewed, Preordered, Prescrewed

    Imagine a world where the majority of a game's sales occurred a week after its release or later. Why it is almost as if people could buy things based on word of mouth feedback then. I guess it is only natural to hate any force trying to prevent this kind of world. From pushy pre-order...
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    Videogame characters that you disliked initially, but warmed up to later

    I never thought much of Serph, until Digital Devil Saga 2, right after the battle with Vritra. Ironically, it was right about the time I was given a reason to despise him. Serph finally became a fully realized character, and suddenly I cared. And then I could empathize with what he is through...
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    Jimquisition: Accepting the Isms

    It would be extremely limiting for any art form to be denied engaging in topics people would find offensive. No matter how much it might make me cringe sometimes, I hesitate to condemn any art for offending me. Instead I ask why I find something offensive. Art is a reflection of...
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    Jimquisition: Only The Lonely

    Of course I thank God for Jimquisition, I thank God each day for pretty much anything that gives me joy. And anyone that doesn't give God credit for unlikely chain of events, the thermodynamic miracle, that lead to this show being made and placed us in the time and place necessary to witness...
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    Your skill level compared to your friends

    Back in the day, before Internet, or my own income, games were are thing shared among my neighborhood. It has always been the case that no one player was the best at every game, and back then it was clear that whoever was the keeper of the game and had the most time to play it was usually the...
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    So I'm a jack of all trades. So?

    Breath of knowledge improves ones ability to think creatively and more flexibly, which often improves problem solving in all disciplines. Vital in any team, even if your execution in any task is second tier. "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog...
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    Jimquisition: Scare Tactics

    That example of Pyramid Head appearing wasn't a jump scare, because nothing pop up at you. There was a quiet door sound, some footsteps and when you turned around you saw you were cornered by Pyramid Head. A jump scare isn't that gradual, it hits you so fast you don't has time to process what...