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    A thread to complain about the small issues of the escapist forums.

    You forgot one. 6) Nintendo hasn't had a good idea or a good game since the N64 era and should be destroyed for it because Yahtzee said so. Also, there are the opinion rules that have nothing to do with games. It is for breaking many of those opinion rules outside gaming, coupled with the...
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    Best "Villains in Name Only"?

    These would be good answers, but I really don't consider either of them villains either. Jaime really wasn't a villain since Catelyn Stark released him from imprisonment in Riverrun, and to me after that surpassed Tyrion to become the true "good" character among the Lannisters. And I agree...
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    No Right Answer: Best Fast Food

    Leave it to these guys to debate which is the best of the entirety of the choices out there in fast food... and choose the three worst ones. Due to the different nature of the three most common fast foods out there, I would make three choices among the "best". Also, I can only choose from...
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    Your Badges on The Escapist

    Geek to the Core: Because that's exactly what I am! Lukewarm: Because I want people to know that I am a decent person. Link!: One of my all-time favorite video game characters. Bark at the Moon: Halloween is coming up, and I got this result in the classic horror movie monster quiz...
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    Poll: What character archetype are you?

    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! I'm sorry, what was the question? Too busy blowing things up with Fireball spells to be able to hear.
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    So linux

    I freaking hate whatever version of pulse audio they put into Ubuntu 12.04. It took me days to make my headset mic work. Literally days.
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    Do you look older or younger than you are?

    When I was in high school and college, I looked older, but now my seemingly rapid aging has stalled and I would say I look about the age I'm supposed to look now, perhaps even younger.
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    Feeling Safe in the United States

    I've lived in the rural US most of my life: small-town Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. Many people I know in this area, including family, own hunting rifles and go hunting regularly. I've been skeet shooting a couple times myself (though admittedly I suck at it). Never once has anyone...
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    TV Shows so bad yet you love them?

    Big Bang Theory, I guess... Or at least that's how it seems, considering too many of my friends take themselves too seriously and just can't seem to be able to laugh at themselves as personified as the main characters in the show like I can...
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    Different franchises in the same universe

    F-Zero threw in a few Starfox references with some of its pilots. Wouldn't be too surprised if they were in the same universe.
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    Tropes vs. Women Protagonists

    Sorry, I usually agree with Movie Bob, but I totally disagree with him here. While she may be more naturally proportionate than other female characters, even Bob admits she was designed to be primarily a sexual character for the enjoyment of male gamers, just in a different way than other...
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    Different franchises in the same universe

    Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden are canonically, in fact, in the same universe. Wrap that around your head.
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    Tropes vs. Women Protagonists

    Well, while not exactly androgynous, as Shamus pointed out, there are games like Fable where the main character (depending on how you play the game they may not be the protagonist, per se) can be male or female and it won't heavily impact the outcome of the game. And in the first Metroid, most...
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    Song You Like So Much You Can't Tell If It's Bad or Not

    DAMMIT! I was gonna pick that one (and so were hundreds of other potential posters!)
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    Poll: Fellow Oldscapists!

    Those were the exact reasons I left late last year and vowed never to come back. Also, rampant, rude anti-theism. Though I've been exploring in the past day and I'm finding some change in attitudes at least since yesterday. If this keeps up I may come back and be more prolific for a while.