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Tentacruel or Muk. Both are wicked awesome, but I think I'd have to go with Tentacruel. Nothing beats that freakish, glowing, hook-billed tentacled sea monster for BA-factor. EDIT: Abra is also one of my absolute favorites. Just great looks and backstory. One day I'm going to bring a lvl 100...

What kind of depression are you suffering from? Is it criteria-based depression, i.e. "I would be happy if I could have X but I don't," where X is job, money, friends, status, opportunities, love? Or is it existential depression, i.e. "What is happy? I don't imagine that this being I find...

I'm going to pick something more colorful. I think I'm a good audience. I go out of my way to sit down and experience something the way the creators meant it to be experienced. I don't skim through books, autopilot games, or go low alpha wave during movies. I'm always trying to find whatever...

I could take him.

I've never played a harder game than StarCraft II, except maybe StarCraft I. Most multiplayer games are hard, but that was BRUTAL. Absolutely BRUTAL. It activates your fight-or-flight response, because that game always demands way more than you can give. It is by far the most anxiety-laden...

I think I'm in the minority then, because I have never, EVER experienced any type of elitism from a store clerk, ever. I remember one time, when I was little, I wanted to buy the Warhammer 40k starter kit at my hobby store, but my father wouldn't let me. I was so sad I was almost on the verge...

I'm not sure that guy was trying to be a d**k. To be plainly honest, if I worked at a comics store and a girl wanted to know about X-Men comics my first reaction would be a mixture of "awesome" and "I'm not sure she knows what X-Men is." Like, I would be a bit ashamed to start going all-out nerd...

I catch myself being an elitist gamer a lot. Not overtly, but I find myself subtly despising people who take my favorite game and play it super-casual like they're waiting for their limo to pick them up in a few minutes. A lot of "let's play" videos are in this category. Could be the most...

I have to like, stop and puke every five minutes while playing Slender: The Eight Pages. Play a Civ 5 NQ game and you have to lapse into a coma to rejuvenate. Other than that, the ending of Red Dead Redemption, most definitely. I had something akin to postpartum depression after finishing...

I've found that a lot of my attitudes towards various things are influenced, subtly, by the threat of nuclear war. Yes, I know even my avatar is a reference to it. Anyway, even though we are over the Cold War, I think humanity is greatly influenced in a subtle but pervasive way by the presence...

People are going on and on about how "people are stupid" in this thread. In one sense, yes, but I find individual people tend to be smart, but a group of them tend to be stupid, because you are applying the same problem with ONE RIGHT ANSWER to people with MANY unique intelligences, as someone...

I'm not advocating for super-hard puzzles. I wouldn't mind a few as optional sidequests, but what I'm pointing out is these puzzles (like the Skyrim puzzle) are just sad, sad excuses for a puzzle that honestly make me wonder why they even put them in the game. It's like they're not even trying...

Oh my god, the World of Tanks forums... Hell does exist. To be fair, a lot of the people there (even the most obnoxious) are very intelligent, just completely insane. Why a game about tanks has to generate so much elitism, loathing, hatred and vile obscenities is beyond me. I had to quit...

Although I mostly agree with this quote, we get into shaky territory when we start piling on the rhetoric. If we do use violence, it should be for the most practical, utilitarian reasons possible, such as stopping someone going on a shooting spree, or organizations that desire to accumulate...

This. If I've learned anything from my exploration of human history it's how bad violence is at solving problems, and how we never learn from our experiences with it. Under the umbrella of competent mediation is where humans thrive. Obviously hard to do, which is where the competence part...