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    Poll: What browser do you use?

    Konqueror. I use it because it has working native session management and because it hasn't yet crashed on me as bad as Firefox or Chromium/Chrome have (Opera couldn't even take an 80 tab session). Edit: for watching YouTube videos and flash video, I use Chromium. And on Windows, I use...
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    How a Family Almost Got Shot and Gassed: a Swatting Story

    I think that may be part of it. In most other countries, police forces aren't allowed that heavy armament. It may also be that most of the idiots calling the police haven't been caught.
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    Welcome to The Escapist Channels

    While this seems to be a bit obtuse for me to navigate, it still works and doesn't use flash player primarily so I guess I'm okay with it. However, it looks like ass on 1280x1024 monitors. the top menu items are on different rows and the color bars above them don't match up anymore.
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    Watch Dogs PC Requirements Recommend 8 Core CPU

    Having actually tried running new games on my old Celeron Dual Core LGA775 system, I can tell you the minimal specs look close to what they probably will be if you want a smooth experience. If you can do with a bad framerate and the game audio certainly turning into dubstep at some point, you...
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    One Platform to Rule Them All

    If we start considering these factors, we'll get nowhere, as we'll just find more and more of them. For example, what about the significant overlap between X360 and XBOne users? Or the not-so-insignificant overlap between PS4 and X360 users? Not even speaking of the overlap between that and PC...
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    The Bad Ideas Guy

    The smart pistol is not as bad as you'd think it is. It's great for clearing out grunts and spectres, but it's pretty hard to actually do anything against players with. And I certainly found the Carbine easier to use... hell, I even scored more kills when I was using the designated marksman...
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    Titanfall is the Most Fun FPS I've Played Since Team Fortress 2

    Well... privacy issues, I think. Also the fact that it just plain refuses to work sometimes, which is hella annoying. I played a good amount (9 or so hours) of the beta, and I must say that Titanfall is very much a game focused on removing all the frustrating parts from playing a competitive...
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    Electronic Arts: Greed Is Not the Problem

    NO NO NO. If a game comes out that isn't polished and is incredibly buggy AND it has no brand inertia going for it, then it's just fucked. So rather give developers more time to finish a game and polish it to a mirror shine (see: Titanfall, Team Fortress 2, Guild Wars 2, L4D/2, Half-Life 1).
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    Kim Dotcom Search Warrant Ruled Legal By Appeals Court

    What do you think the NSA built those giant data centers for? Now, I actually want to see that warrant. I have a feeling it's handwritten on packaging paper, and was scribbled together by the FBI team en route.
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    What's the best game you ever got for free?

    The Battle for Wesnoth In my opinion the best turn-based strategy game. It's simpler to grasp than most other strategy games out there, and since it's built on SDL, it runs on literally anything. The game also has an impressive amount of polish and it's easy to create campaigns for, thanks to...
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    The Elder Scrolls Online Goes All-Out With Eight-Minute "Arrival" Trailer

    I can somehow see them getting this right. I just have my doubts that they will get it right. On one hand, it's possible to combine a Skyrim-like sense of freedom with the MMO genre, but it would throw the whole "MMORPG gameplay" idea together with balancing out of a nearby 2nd storey window...
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    Thief PC Requirements Revealed

    IF they managed to 8-thread their engine (which I doubt, as it presents some significant challenges), then an i7 will present a 10% to 15% edge over an i5, while an AMD FX-8350 should destroy the i5 in benchmarks. I'm willing to bet, however, that that is not the case and that the game is just...
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    DICE Prepares to Push Battlefield 4 Patch on "Multiple Platforms" This Month

    I'm having less issues with the netcode and lag compensation since I was usually having a ping of about 120ms to begin with when playing Bad Company 2 (now I have 50ms to most servers I play on), but : 1. Some statistics that actually mean something would be nice (not just random bars). 2. A...
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    Zero Punctuation: Ryse: Son of Rome

    I guess it is very noticeable that this game originated as a Kinect exclusive on the XBox 360. I was actually looking forward to this game, hoping it would be more of a open level and unit commanding approach... I was even prepared to play it on Kinect, god damn it. I really wish we could get...
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    Rumor: Bethesda Teases Next Fallout With New Website - UPDATED

    Having looked at the HTML source, the date on which the timer ends is 06.12.2013, which is coincidentally also what the <a href=http://thesurvivor2299.com/radio/bridgeport-5284ec0d1b93c.mp3>morse code mp3 seems to say. The logo is indeed a vault tech logo, as the name already states: <a...