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    EA Launches Mass Effect 3 Discs into Space

    For a moment I thought this was going to be some kind of absurdly overly expensive publicity stunt, given that sending just 1 pound of matter into space costs about $1M; but no, it's just some balloons. If they had strapped those puppies to a rocket and launched them to Alpha Centauri, that...
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    "There is nothing wrong being racist"

    You are what you do. If what you do is put yourself on a pedestal and consider yourself to be superior to other people based on a minor fluctuation of your DNA, then you are a despicable human being. If you choose to be friends with such a person, that means that you consider this atrocious...
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    "There is nothing wrong being racist"

    People are judged by the company they keep. This friend of yours sounds to me like a stupid, selfish, credulous asshole. If you continue to call him your friend, you are the same.
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    Poll: Blacklisting Game Companies

    I try not to buy games published by Electronic Arts. I don't really have an issue with developers. It's the publishers who keep fucking things up. They have no respect for games or gamers. They'll do anything they can to squeeze a few dollars out of a game. Take Skyrim for example. It's a good...
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    The Big Picture: Junk Drawer: Game On

    I think it's pretty obvious why the Zelda franchise never delved too deeply into topics of sexuality before. See, what made Ocarina of Time so great is the fact that it basically mirrors the journey into Manhood that it's target audience has just begun, or is about to begin. That being the...
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    15-year old Stabs Bully 11 Times at Bus Stop, Gets Away With It

    People who have never been in an actual fight often fail to understand how serious it is. If you lose a fist fight, you are completely at the mercy of the one who defeated you. The fear of death is enough to motivate anyone to kill, and doing so is fully justified. A fistfight might not seem...
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    Lawyer Destroys Arguments for Game Piracy

    Theft is when you pay $60 for a game, only to find out that it won't run properly on your computer because the publisher shoved it out the door six months early. It's well and good for people to cry foul and say that gamers are stealing from publishers, but publishers steal from gamers all the...
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    Jimquisition: Sony, Nintendo, EA and SOPA

    As horrible as it is for consumers of entertainment, the simple fact is that SOPA isn't really aimed at them. SOPA is a desperate response to the Occupy Wall Street movement and others like it. The corporations that control everything are scared shitless, and they recognize the strong...
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    Jimquisition: Fighting The 'Problem' Of Used Games

    I have an idea about how to fight used game sales. Make really, really good games so that A) people won't want to trade them away, and B) people won't want to wait to play them. That's the right way to fight used game sales, and the only ethical way. If your game sucks balls so much that no...
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    The Big Picture: Gender Games

    Once again I leave edified, educated, and slightly aroused. Nice work Mr. Bob.
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    What's with Americans and getting married?

    That's a great question, and fortunately for you, I have the answer. You see, after world war II ended, the American people were scared shitless. They retreated into a reactive fantasy centered around family life, and shunned anything that drew them out of this fantasy. This turn of events is...
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    Jimquisition: Online Passes Are Bad For Everybody

    This is going to be a series, right? So next time, is Jim going to not completely miss the point, and talk about how denying access to a product that I've paid for is illegal, and how the online pass is anti-competitive and thus also illegal? Can we talk about that?
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    Escape to the Movies: Green Lantern

    So... I'm starting to think that he didn't like the movie.
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    Nine out of 10 will not finish the game they are playing

    I've been playing games for 18 years, and there a lot of games I've left unfinished. I'm actually a collector now, so I've got about ten games that are unfinished at the moment. I tend to switch back and forth between them. I will say this though, every game that I ever left unfinished has...
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    Poll: Learned Optimism

    Personally, I do not think of optimism as a good thing. People have always told me that I'm too negative, that I'm a pessimist, that I never have anything nice to say. I'm not a negative person, I'm not unhappy, and I don't always look for the worst. I see things as they are and report them...