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    Jimquisition: EA & Ubisoft: A Cycle of Perpetration and Apology

    Neither genuine malevolence or incompetence. Painting EA, Ubisoft or any other company (gaming industry and otherwise) as 'malevolent' just starts to conjure Pentex-style boardrooms filled with insane vampires, morally dubious werewolves and tentacled monstrosities. I'm pretty sure (well, fairly...
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    The Big Picture: Leave Michael Bay Alone

    Indeed. If this video had had the message of "Guys, Michael Bay isn't the antichrist, he's just a not very good director of big, dumb action films that are predictably popular with mass audiences. Hate him for making bad movies if you want, but don't hate his movies just because they're made by...
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    Your biggest "Fuck you" to the audience

    Martin has already delivered a way bigger kick in the stones to his fanbase. Finish Storm of Swords on cliffhanger, make 'em wait five years for the next book, have it resolve none of the plotlines from the previous book. :colbert:
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    Games That Disapointed You

    1. Impire. Because of everything about it. Looks like Dungeon Keeper. Was marketed around being like Dungeon Keeper. And I don't care how many times Cyanide issue denials about not trying to be a new Dungeon Keeper, people from their studio stated to the gaming press in interviews (one on...
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    Fanfiction - Your thoughts

    My immediate, flippant reaction is: "Fanfiction? It's all poorly written, grammatically painful, badly formatted dross and 95% is about either the author's fave character and/or the author's Mary Sue self-insert having sex with with each other/the author's other favourite character." But...
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    Impire Review - Hellish in Every Way

    Keeper, your dungeon is buggy. Order your minions to release some patches.
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    Removed

    Well, this is just depressing, isn't it? Nevermind the videos, the comments sections are pretty short on sense, even by Youtube comments standards. You're not misremembering. La petite mort, or the little death is indeed a literary euphemism for orgasm. Generally, though, they're being...
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    CliffyB: Microtransaction is Not a Dirty Word, EA is Not The Bad Guy

    CliffyB: Is Wrong In Article On The Internet. Now sports.
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    $2.50 Reviews: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

    The worst thing about Temple of Doom is that it isn't 100% about its own tone. After the pretty straight up Raiders-esque opener with its Busby Berkely song and dance routine and its nudge-nudge, how 'bout dem Star Wars films sight gag and writer-director cameos, we find ourselves in Pankot...
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    Poll: Multiplayer without leveling up. Would it work?

    FTFY. ;) Yeah, yeah, I know CoD is Activision, but meh. Same shit, different name. Space Marine's multiplayer is a particularly good example of leveling in multiplayer being a bad idea, not helped by the games terrible matchmaking (if it even has one) system and chronic issues with host...
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    Music you enjoy in a language you don't understand...

    A friend of mine who was studying German, once asked me to listen to Soylent Green in the hope that I could catch some more of the lyrics / samples and explain to her the connections. This was based mainly on my being one of the few people at the time who owned a copy of Sehnsucht by Rammstein...
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    Did ME3 ruin Mass Effect for you?

    Oh yeah. After ME, ME2 just felt like I was playing a Gears of War clone with more dialogue. Go here, hide behind these walls, pop up and shoot some things, move to next room full of chest-high obstacles, repeat. Did have the Gilbert and Sullivan moment, though. I wasn't looking forward to...
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    Building a gaming PC....how hard is it?

    This. Saving money on your PSU will likely only lead to either a shorter lifespan for your machine as it glitches out and your PC slowly dies or it just flat out not working due to there being insufficient power for all the internal components. A quad-core CPU and a recent GPU pretty much...
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    EA is not evil.

    Don't worry, you're not the only person who just cannot get into KOTOR the way some folks seem to. I've tried, time and time again to play my way through both games and I...just...can't. They just don't grab me for some reason. I can't quite put my finger on it, but KOTOR just doesn't engage me...
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    So... Uh... What the hell, Australia?!?!

    I'm surprised that it took until the second page for someone to correct "there" to "they're." In other news, Fox News are a reliable information source as opposed to those horrible liberals at CNN. ... ... Insert picture of Heath Ledger as The Joker here.