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    How did you choose your username?

    It was a nickname my friends in high school gave me. We would be playing Halo in our Electronics or Engineering class, and my friends would go: "There goes the Russian!" When they killed me or I killed them they'd go: "The Russian got me!" So yea, pretty simple, and I have never bothered to...
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    New LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 Set Revealed

    Really frickin' cool. I love it when they release these large sets, but they're always pretty expensive. A set like this may go for 150 dollars easily.
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    Video game items that could be beneficial in the real world

    Hmm, I'd go with the magical defibrillators from the Battlefield series. Got a tank shell lodged in your head? Give 'em the fibs. Someone slashed your jugular? Give 'em the fibs. Run over by an APC after falling 100 stories? Give 'em the fibs.
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    Update: Gothic Roguelike Darkest Dungeon Meets Kickstarter Goal

    Here is an updated link, MarlaDesat: The game looks amazing, it's definitely one I'm going to be looking forward to, such as A Hat in Time and Hyper Light Drifter.
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    Favourite Roguelike Games?

    I cannot stress enough how awesome Pixel Dungeon is! I've put hundreds of hours into it and finally beat it after 450 games with a level 22 Assassin. It's brutally difficult and completely unfair at times, but it's rewarding and well worth your time. It's got excellent pixel art and animations...
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    What was the most satisfying weapon you've used in a game?

    I'm surprised no one has said this before, the Sticky Bomb Launcher from Team Fortress 2. There's nothing more satisfying to me than setting up a precise unseen trap and seeing a pack of enemies to walk near it and just have everyone splatter over the map. In desperate situations you can also...
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    Call of Duty: Ghosts Reveals "Squads"

    I hear ya. I bought Counter Strike: Global Offensive for the sole purpose of playing against high-level bots. All the challenge that comes with playing against people with none of the garbage. Call of Duty, you have my attention. Now don't mess this one up.
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    WayForward wants to make an MLP game

    But... but... Generation 4 is a gritty reboot! On the subject, I'm fairly interested, though I don't really know anything about this company. If anyone would like to discuss what they could bring to MLP in terms of gameplay beyond what seems like a fairly generic platformer I'd really...
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    Team Fortress Comics One of The Only Things Ever Worth Reading

    They also claim that their Meet the Sandvich video was supposed to make Citizen Kane look like something a complete idiot would make. Sir, are you familiar with a thing we have here on Earth called "comedy"? Oh wow, I didn't notice that at all, ha. Gotta love how Valve alters all of the names...
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    Grand Theft Auto V Gets Thumbs-Up For Australia

    Glad to know at least Australia has good taste in games. On a more serious note, of course I think all games should be allowed to be sold everywhere, but this situation is just too perfect not to rub it into SR fans' faces.
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    Trailers: IL-2 Shturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad - Trailer

    A sequel to the greatest combat flight simulator of all time, IL-2 Sturmovik, done with graphics that look better than papercraft? I can't see my screen anymore, there seems to be money everywhere.
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    Dying Animations, Your Thoughts.

    I like how TF2 handles it's animations, where only a small fraction of headshot/decapitation/backstab kills actually play the animation, and allow the physics engine to improvise the rest. It can lead to some pretty spectacular ragdoll physics, but generally behaves quite impressively. The...
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    Competitive Gamer Arrested For Hitting Ex-Girlfriend

    That's Andy Chalk's articles in a nutshell. On the subject, what's with the double standards surrounding physical violence? The guy who gets punched several times gets a fraction of a sentence but the cheating girlfriend that got punched once is entirely focused on. This doesn't help...
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    That one genre you will always HATE

    MOBAs, since they are entirely devoid of fun and liked by people with Stockholm Syndrome. Some others include MMOs, sports games, and JRPGs.
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    I'm so tired of the killing.

    ALL I'M HEARING IS: WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA. GROW THE F--- UP. Don't like killing? Don't play games with killing in them! Is that so difficult? There's thousands of good games with no killing in them. From Portal 1+2 to Katawa Shoujo, non-violent games are some of my favorites. For...