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    Poll: From what continent are you?

    I'm also from Europe. And the 2nd Belgian in the thread.
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    Nintendo hires Bowser as VP of Sales. Yes really.

    At least he's true to his name and already made sure Mario and Luigi are not going to get in his way. http://i.imgur.com/aMFVq9h.jpg
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    Multitasking while playing games

    I also have a podcast running, or a movie or something while gaming. I play music while reading have a podcast running while coocking, have a podcast running during work (It admin), and I'm usually working on multiple problems at once. However I realise that nobody (human at least) can...
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    Poll: Do you still pre-order games?

    I continue to pre-order, but I haven't been burned yet. Only preordered 4 things up till now, I ussually wait for post release reviews before picking up a game. I don't have a problem with preordering, but I'll never preorder something from an indie developer unless there is a decent proof of...
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    DELETED

    Sadly enough almost all professional sports have some doping misuse, so using hacks doesn't make them less of professional competitors in my mind, just unfair ones who should get banned, just like you exclude doping athletes from competitions, they're still called athletes. Unless you meant...
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    MMOs and you

    I tried a couple different ones trough the years, but none of them could keep my interest for more than a few days. I guess its the grinding to look forward to, the unimportance of your actions and the payment models all act as a huge turnoff for me. So I just quit after a couple hours...
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    Poll: What browser do you use?

    On mobile devices dolphin. On my work laptop firefox. On the home laptop firefox. On the home pc (wich gets shared a lot) firefox for me, chrome for my kid and ie for the wife who rather uses her own laptop to do anything online, where she uses firefox. On the linux machine firefox. Lets...
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    Do you/would you sleep in the nude?

    I sleep in the nude since I'm 8 or something like that. The only time i wear shorts to bed is when I'm not sleeping in my own bed. Never ever in underwear, don't you girls and guys know it's just healthier to let all your parts get some fresh(er) air now and then. I live where the summers...
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    Escapist Podcast - Science and Tech: 026: Halloween Spooktacular: Scary Science

    Great podcast as always. One tiny remark, the reason why its warmer in the summertime is not because there are more hours of light to absorb heat from (as explained around 1:09:25). While it is a slight contributing factor, its mostly because the axis of the earth during summer is tilted so...
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    Spending $300 on an Internet Spaceship

    300$ just for exploring... Wouldn't you be better of with elite:dangerous? It has an offline mode if you don't want pvp. Its a lot closer to completion then sc, theres 400 bilj. star systems to explor, and for 60£ your can start flying in the beta now. I'll probably give star citizen a spin...
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    Poll: What do you call your parents?

    I'm dutch so ma en pa for me, the dutch version of mom and dad.
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    What game made you fall in love with gaming?

    More or less the same for me, the first game I really remember playing until the tape wore out was elite on a c64, but whe had an atiri console before that. My kid has been nuts about minecraft since he was 2, I'll make him write it down for future reference as soon as he can write, but I think...
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    Your Favorite Podcasts?

    I listen to a bunch of podcasts, the history of rome has stopped, but is still so worth listening to it still deserves to be mentioned, the others are still active. Sorted by category: gaming: the escapist podcasts, history: the history of rome, revolutions, dan carlins hardcore history (very...
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    The Escapist and Exercise

    I never exercise, drive almost anywhere by car and don't watch my diet. However I have always weighed around my ideal weight and am in pretty good shape compared to my agegroup (35). I thank my genes, years of swimming as a kid and years of going to raveparties as a young adult to build...
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    Is my funding scheme even possible?

    yeah it was a pretty early version, but i remembered paying for the fwd button, and getting the extra scenarios more tnan a year later or something, without it being mentioned when I bought it. Even if they dropped the free version, they did start free version. I can imagine them changing it...