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    Zero Punctuation: Papers, Please and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

    A few observations from the token old dude: 1) Even if you find them racist, homophobic, speciest, misogynistic, ignorant, rude, tasteless, or just simply uncouth, jokes are in fact included under 'free speech.' 2) If you don't want to risk being offended by what you read or see on the...
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    Changing my name (Yes I'm serious)

    I'm guessing that you're still rather young. If you're dead-set on changing your name, now is certainly the time to do it. The truth is that although some have said "it's like a tattoo (which you can have removed); just change it back later if you find out that it's causing you problems..."...
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    Thief Preview: Will it Steal Our Hearts?

    Honestly, when I found out that Eidos:Montreal was the studio making it, I felt better about the game-- would it be better if Irrational made it? I think so, if only for the Looking Glass alums they have available to them. But E:M did a good job with Deus Ex:HR-- it was stellar in its own...
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    Escape to the Movies: Resident Evil Retribution

    lOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPERlOOPER Looper looks insanely good and is mostly getting rave reviews. I guess I'll wait until next week to go to the movies. I had been kinda interested in RE just because of game love and the commercials finally made it...
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    Zero Punctuation: Lollipop Chainsaw

    Vitriol levels seemed low... Nice bike, tho. As to the game, sounds like a renter-- which I had figured it would be. Let's face it, everyone would've been super-surprised if it had been substantial and deep game, given the title.
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    EA Aims to "Broaden" Dead Space Audience

    Huh. Do the math here: say EA makes half the box price on each unit sold (and that's being conservative)... 5 mill x $30... that's $150 million dollars... to keep a franchise viable?!? You want to stay in business EA (much less keep Dead Space going), I suggest you summarily execute some of...
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    Escape to the Movies: Rock of Ages

    Wait, whut? You can't drink at movies? Nobody told ME that! I figured they cast the lead role by playing Rock Band with the stars and seeing who could actually sing the songs... now that I know I'm wrong, I will avoid this like the plague.
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    Escape to the Movies: Snow White and the Huntsman

    Damn you lucky foreigners! (shakes fist impotently) I guess it could be worse: I traded seeing this with the wifey (she's a huge Charlize Theron fan) for her seeing Prometheus with me next week. Nice to hear Ms. Theron does not disappoint at least.
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    Zero Punctuation: Diablo 3

    "Groin-focused carpet-bombing" It's been a looong time since I did a spittake. I nearly drowned this time. That'll learn me to not drink while watching ZP.
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    Escape to the Movies: Battleship

    Nice that you answered the one question I had (whether or not the 'zinger' was used), Bob. And MIB3 might not be complete garbage... at least when compared to this offering (offaling?). You can always do the "WILL... SMITH!" from the 'Shaft Wedding' episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Aire every...
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    Jimquisition: Don't Charge Retail Prices For Digital Games

    A) No, bandwidth is not free and despite what you may think, it's not a trivial price either. I work in Telcom. Go research 'Optical Carriers', and remember that digital distribution requires 100% availability until you can chart usage patterns. (People do not take kindly to not being able to...
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    Escape to the Movies: Dark Shadows

    This is the first Burton movie since Nightmare Before Christmas that has even vaguely interested me. Maybe he finally has recovered from his "I'm going to be weird for the sake of being weird and not for any compelling reason" stage. Glad to hear that it's at least tolerable. Seeing "The...
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    Escape to the Movies: Cabin In The Woods

    My understanding is that this is getting a lot of Whedon-fanboy love. (See above for an example or two.) Honestly, while I absolutely love, love, l-o-v-e Firefly, I can't stand a single other Whedon product: not Angel nor Buffy, and Dollhouse was nigh-unwatchable... and I sure as Hell haven't...
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    Escape to the Movies: Wrath of the Titans

    I'll go see 'The Raid' just for the sheer novelty of seeing a man dribble another man's head down a wall like a basketball!
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    Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

    Unless they have a way to corrupt the DNS tables of every ISP simultaneously, it's doubtful that anyone will even notice. How do I know this is true (aside from being a CCIP)? It's simple: to save server load and network traffic, the root name servers only are queried when no other name server...