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    Wal-Mart Customers Trick Stores to Match a Fake $90 Price for PS4 - Update

    Wal-Mart's Online price matching is down to the individual store manager's discretion, the only "We have to" price matching comes from actual, physical fliers from a direct competitor. (My local store, for example, will not match Sear's unless it's a Black Friday ad). All the Wal-Mart...
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    The Violence against Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2013

    You misinterpret. Helping the woman first creates a numerical advantage on my side.
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    The Violence against Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2013

    Yes. I am that cold. I, however, assumed for the cases of the thought experiment presented that all variables were roughly equivalent. You modify the apparent variables, you modify the outcome of the decision. You make the variable invisible to an impartial observer, however, and I can't...
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    The Violence against Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2013

    You are severly misinterpretting the reason I'd run to the woman first, though. Its one guy. One. There is no numerical advantage, and my simple presence might cause the attacker to beat feet. It's the fight I have the better chance of winning, full stop. After that dust-up is handled, I can...
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    Give yourself RPG stats

    Spoiled (Hopefully, Escapist's Spoiler coding seems to hate me) below are my stats 3.5 D&D-ified as I see them after I turn off the parts of my brain that self-loathe.
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    I have a problem with Dark Souls

    Hellkite Bridge is a bad place to farm souls. Pretty much the best place for farming souls (That I've seen) is from the second Anor Londo bonfire to the Anor Londo Boss Fight, especially if you're confident enough to drop some white soapstone in front of the fog gate. Plus, this way, you get...
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    would you humiliate your children?

    Intentionally, AND as a Punishment? No. Intentionally? Only if my kid has trouble coping with being humiliated. You're going to screw up, things are going to get pear-shaped, and if you're too busy crying about how Jenny The Popular Girl thinks you're a Total Loser now to fix it, you're missing...
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    Poll: What is your favorite Protagonist from the Entire Library of "Assassin's Creed" Games?

    Connor has, in my opinion, the strongest and the clearest-cut sense of honour and drive to do the right thing. He's, by far, the most paladin-ey and idealistic of the Assassins, which makes for some great contrast in the muddy, polluted and confused waters of the world as it exists in...
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    XBox One and Done?

    I believe you missed the second half of that sentence, which is "Compared to its rival the PS4", which current market anaylsis will show is undoubtedly true. I work a dead-end retail job, and even I can tell the PS4 is far outperforming the Xbone. Anecdotal: My store has three Xbones on the...
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    Marriage

    I'm forced to deduce from your tone that something -- probably a lack of money and/or a friend's wedding -- has brought this up much more recently. To tackle the "hundreds, if not thousands of dollars" thing: Nobody amongst my friends and family spent a penny on my wife and I's wedding that...
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    Poll: another ethics question: would you rather kill an innocent man or let a mass murderer loose?

    What, no trial? No investigation? No clapping him in irons while I run down leads? Just Sunup -> Murders -> New Guy -> Hangin' ? This solves nothing. Regarding the title: I'd rather kill the innocent. Assuming the given situation: this isn't a binary choice. Making it binary is stupid.
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    Poll: Are relationships a 99/1 kind of thing?

    Why did we not end the thread here? Keeping track of "concessions" you have made to your partner is a BAD IDEA. Always. You will always think you've made more sacrifices, just like you always think you're the hardest-working guy at your job. It's a relationship, not a budget sheet, spending...
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    Poll: For four grand, would you flash a non-sexy body part?

    For at least half up front, definitely. Though I'd try to get 75% up front, first. I'm not a very trusting person.
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    Poll: Final Fantasy VIII: Party Composition

    Personally, I always had 100 zombies junctioned to every weapon, and spammed Cure spells/Revive/Holy Damage. It was glorious.
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    Poll: Final Fantasy VIII: Party Composition

    You forgot to mention that Quistis gets Black Hole -- I think it's called Black Hole, anyway. It's a one-shot kill any enemy-even-some-bosses spell that you can get with a little luck right after you're done controlling Laguna for the first time.