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    This is a true gamer test if you were playing video games since at least 1988.

    I'm not entirely sure on this one, but I think that's the one to skip levels in the PC version of the original Tomb Raider. Or possibly make Lara explode. I think they reversed the spin in the second Tomb Raider or something to keep you on your toes.
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    Borderlands, you made me itch.

    From what I can piece together from various other bits of the Internet, it seems that "+100% cooldown rate", for example, means "your ability bar refills twice as fast", not "100% of the time taken for the ability to cool down is removed".
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    Miracle of Sound: Khajiit Like To Sneak (Skyrim)

    I swear, you people are just posting these messages to get mentioned in the Encore now. :P
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    Describe a scene in one sentence out of context

    X-COM: Terror from the Deep?
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    Noob question regarding Steam

    Depends entirely on the bundle, I believe - though as I recall it should warn you before purchasing if the extra copy of a game will not be able to be transferred.
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    Games for terrible people.

    Oh, no problem, it's quite understandable - in many cases, you might well be right, but I fear the whole DOTA/LoL/HoN business has attracted more than its fair share of players who'll happily blame their teammates, the opponent cheating and the balance of the game to cover their own...
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    Games for terrible people.

    Having studied the ways of the LoL forums and played the game for a short while, it does, alas, seem that such players are rather common there. My best advice if you do decide to try it again is to just stoically get stuck in and make both of yourselves even moderately useful - it's entirely...
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    Thoughts on the PC gamer "master race"

    Well, seeing as I'm pretty sure the phrase originated as a joke in Yahtzee's review of The Witcher, the fact that said phrase might now being taken seriously by some people is downright frightening, to say the least. :)
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    Team Fortress 2 Vintage

    Depends - exactly how old is it? If any of them are old enough for the level numbers to be random, you'll probably get a lot more for them. That said, if you find the right people I'm sure they'll be willing to give you a little more than you'd get by crafting even if they're the normal levels.
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    But I do it anyway

    Warhammer. My tactical skills certainly leave something to be desired, indicated by my decision to declare every single troop I have in play a dead man before the battle has even begun. I'm told I'd make an amusingly fitting, if not good, Imperial Guard player in 40K.
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    Herobine: True or False?

    I suspect that one of these days Notch is going to add Herobrine in a patch without mentioning it just to really screw with us. :P
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    So How Do -You- Greet A New Escapist?

    I used the "Don't go into the basement" greeting once. Other people just got confused, which rather worried me. Mind you, this was during March Mayhem, so there's the possibility that they were also rather new.
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    How easy is it to become a PC gamer?

    Pardon me for interrupting the advanced PC build arguments, but you could go for older games using something like DosBox - Steam has a few such as the X-COM games, the early Elder Scrolls games have been released as freeware by Bethesda and there's also www.gog.com which has a selection of (as...
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    Death to the Mana Bar!

    Someone's probably brought it up already, but there's always the Magicka approach - infinite mana, but a variety of ways in which casting the wrong spell at the wrong time results in things going hilariously wrong. Mind you, perhaps an action RPG could equip the mages with spells which work...
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    If only he was on the other side.

    I do indeed remember it. I also seem to remember that the evil Zoombinis are the Fleens - them being the evil equivalents of your group of Zoombinis being the basis for the puzzle they show up in.