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    Jimquisition: Monetizing Whales For The Retention Of Virality

    Calling the big-spending players "whales" is actually appropriate for a far more damning reason: because if whalers keep over-hunting these prey the way their predecessors hunted their target demographic's namesake, the result is a VERY real danger that the "whales" will go extinct.
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    Jimquisition: The Adblock Episode

    My reason for using AdBlock is quite straightforward: I've had numerous encounters with malware embedded in ads even on the most reputable of websites in the past few years. When ads on the most reputable websites have malware embedded in them, SOMETHING has gone hideously wrong, and if Jim is...
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    "Medicine" in America

    Speaking as an autistic adult, I find your use of the term "non-mentally handicapped" insulting. Not just for how ableist it is, but because even IF that prejudice were reasonable (which it's not), even THEN it STILL is self-evident to anyone and everyone that it makes SENSE to treat healthcare...
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    Naming your gaming rigs

    I have to name all my stuff. Hostnames are a necessity to keep a LAN navigable. My current gaming tower is named Wardenclyffe after Nikola Tesla's never-completed wireless power-station from circa 1901. I intend to name future machines after nuclear plants. My ideal next build would be called...
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    Which game/sequel are you most disappointed never happened?

    I'm gonna go really old school and say Dinosaur Planet for the N64, since if it had been released we'd have had better StarFox games now. Speaking of which, another one I'm sad never got released because it really WAS completed is StarFox 2 for the SNES
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    Zero Punctuation: Holiday 2009

    Smarmy prick. Two words you need to learn the scourge of first-hand Yahtzee, and they're LAKE EFFECT. Try living in West Michigan one winter and you'll be too shaken to EVER be smarmy towards us northern hemisphere residents again.
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    On Sequels

    Exceptions to Yahtzee's rule: Descent 2 was a GOOD sequel to Descent 1, truth-be-told, It took what was good about its predecessor and expanded on it in logical directions, without undermining what made the first game so great. System Shock 1 was a decent game for its day but was a flop...
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    #1 Game Ending that pissed you off?

    I was pissed off by how Descent 2 ended, but not at the game writers. Pissed at a certain character which you're SUPPOSED to be pissed at. If you're talking about games where the ending got me pissed at the GAME, then it's got to be Duck Hunt. THAT. DAMN. DOG.
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    What old games can still stand against new titles?

    StarFox 64, and the original Sonic games from the Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis in the 'States). Also the original Infocom text-based adventure games, and the MYST series. the JourneyMan Project trilogy was good too. Descent 1&2 still kicks the ass of any other first-person shooter you can...
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    What's a dead franchise that completely deserved to die?

    Duke Nukem. Good riddance to it
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    Games you'd like to see re-made.

    the first two Descent games. Descent 3 was crap, but the first two should be re-made with modern tech. Technically that already has happened through D2X-XL, but it's just...not quite the same.
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    Biggest shock in a game

    QFT. What's worse is my mom ALWAYS uses the "would you kindly" phrase and gets irritated when I admonish her to stop using it because it makes my skin crawl. I need to find a quote that creeps my mom out just as much as "would you kindly" creeps me out so I can give her some inkling of how...
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    Poll: What Do You Think Nintendo's Big New Game Is?

    I just hope and pray it's a StarFox game for the Wii that starts over from the beginning, and returns the series to its roots.
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    Worst sound to hear in a game?

    QFT. To this day, that music causes my heart to not merely jump into my throat, but LEAP into my SINUSES. Also, the sound of a cloaked or otherwise stealthy Diamond Claw robot from Descent 2 slashing your Pyro-GX with its scythe-like fingers. Another from Descent 2 was the sound effect...
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    Any fellow Descent series fans on the forums?

    I also saw a good re-vamp of Descent 2. http://www.descent2.de/ which adds a LOT of new features while still keeping true to Descent's traditions which D3 had so carelessly abandoned.