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    Will The Xbox One Fail in Asia?

    Oh yeah, the XBOX is thoroughly screwed here in Korea. To start, no one in Korea actually pays to stream content. The notion of intellectual property and copyright law here are laughable at best. Second, it's wildly over priced. To give you an example, I just purchased a 250gb PS3 for...
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    The Last of Us - Why can't I...?

    And this is the dialectic that perturbs me. I can guarantee you that I'd enjoy the game a whole lot more if I could have carried more ammo and fought through it my way. But when the game takes that decision completely out of my hands, I lost interest. I'm not saying it's a good or bad...
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    The Last of Us - Why can't I...?

    Perhaps I worded that poorly. I was meaning to say that if you're going to walk me down this path, then don't dictate how I decide to solve it, i.e., don't tell me this is the only way that I can solve the problem. It's like working for a boss who always feels that their way is the best, and...
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    The Last of Us - Why can't I...?

    Thanks for the recommendations. I have less and less time to game with each passing month, so when I run into an issue with a game/game maker like this, I will tend to avoid them going forward.
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    The Last of Us - Why can't I...?

    Yeah, all absolutely fair points. My primary gripe has to do with what I feel is an absolutely broken mechanic when silently taking guys down. All points aside, perhaps I should just avoid the other Naughty Dog games in the future if the are all kinda like this?
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    The Last of Us - Why can't I...?

    I picked up, The Last of Us, and, well, I'm not amused. Friend after friend has raved about how great this game is, but I can't help but notice the things in it that drive me nuts. A bit of background: I'm not that good at the "sneaky-aroundy" games. That being said, I was told that, for the...
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    Everything is filmed here, nothing is set here...why

    I lived on 5th & Cedar and then Orange & Ocean, so I received filming notices almost every other week. It got so annoying after a while. Long story short, when they were filming Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift, they were filming at the Pike parking garage and had open casting calls for extras...
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    Everything is filmed here, nothing is set here...why

    They do the same with Long Beach, CA. Whenever I'm watching tv from back home, I can spot the LBC in 9/10 commercials I see. True story, one day I came home from work to yet another filming notice in my mailbox. Great, no parking in my neighborhood, etc, etc. When I looked at what they were...
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    "Dad Mythology" - or, what crazy stuff did your relatives tell you as a kid?

    I can't remember how old I was, but as a younger child, I was a picky eater. One year, my mother prepared Cornish Game Hens, and I was not the least bit interested. So, to trick me into eating them, my father told me they were blue jays that he caught outside. I ate them with great zeal, and...
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    Party members in RPG's: Do you try to use all of them, or just focus on a few?

    In the Fallout games, I always keep them until they perish. I think it makes the game more fun for me, when their lives are on the line, and if they die, I've gotta build a new one back up as gingerly as I did with the first.
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    Is the design in turn based strategy games getting worse?

    Well, the only strategy game I play is the Civ series, and I found Civ 5 to be rather poor. So much so that I've stuck with 4. To me, it just felt, well, I don't know how to describe it other than, I prefer Civ 4 to Civ 5. Sure, not really logical or reasoned, but dammit, I don't like Civ 5.
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    What is the creepiest and/or scariest thing you have seen/done/heard/read?

    Ugh, my students make me watch/read stuff like this all of the time, and I absolutely HATE the jump out at you nature of it. OT: I'm always creeped out by the creepypasta stuff, even though I know it's 100% BS. Not sure why, but it always gets me...
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    How do ya shave?

    I started shaving around 14/15 with a standard Mach 3, but I suffered pretty badly from razor burn. At the age of 20, I switched over to electric, and, while I enjoyed the convenience of it, I never really felt that my shave was any good. At 28, I switched back to the Mach 3 and my oh my, it's...
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    Samsung's New 110" UHDTV Bigger than a King-Size Bed

    Go home, Korea, you're drunk. More to the point, this is just grandstanding by Samsung, as their primary goal in life is to outshine Sony. They honestly, could not care less about what customers say, they just want to be better than Japan/Sony. Also, I saw the 85" tv the last time I was...
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    What series needs a revival?

    I'd love to see Freespace come back. I sank hours into those two games and loved everything about them!