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    Why do developers miss the point of their own games?

    Video game producers. Very simple answer. Unless the creative director and/or game creator and/or lead developer are also the producers of the game, recovering the money spent in development is going to take precedence to maintaining series/franchise hallmarks. Shifting units is always...
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    Your favorite WWII gun

    Browning M1919 machine gun and an M1941 Johnson rifle.
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    Question of the Day, November 30, 2010

    I'll wait til it drops below $29US.
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    Abstract, virtually unheard-of old games you once owned/played

    The Apogee alien-killing FPS. Built on the Wolfenstein 3d engine. Good game. IQ: Intelligent Qube was awesome. Jumpman Lives! and Jumpman Junior.
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    Disgruntled PS3 Owner Starts Black Ops Refund Petition

    The XBox 360's CPU isn't anything like a Pentium III, in any possible way, except that it is a microprocessor powering a computer-like system. The Xenon CPU in the Xbox 360 is a triple-core, 6-thread PowerPC based CPU clocked at 3.2GHz, originally on a 90nm process and now currently on a 45nm...
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    What's your class?

    ranged damage specialist. Preferably equipment-based rather than magic based, though magic will serve.
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    Question of the Day, November 1, 2010

    I don't usually read video-game related novels, but as I do read the Warhammer 40,000 novels, some of the EU Star Wars novels, and other such literary ties, I can understand the appeal, and approve. PLus, a Nathan Drake novel series would be pretty sweet.
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    ear worm theme songs

    I loved that show. Also: If you can't sing along, I don't want to know you.
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    Movies. No, good movies. That are also unknown

    I'm the only one out of my group of friends who has ever seen Schindler's List. Or The Longest Day.
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    Favorite Movie Monologues

    No contest. Based in part off a real speech; most of the cursing was edited out.
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    Game: Name that Quote!!!

    Old Spice Man. Andrew Ryan Quotefind NAO:
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    Lucky Book Finds

    A Roadside Picnic, the inspiration for STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. For free. http://www.cca.org/cm/
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    Easter eggs and interesting little secrets

    There's a very overt Akira reference in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Also, it's possible to find Indiana Jones crushed under a rockslide in a cavern in Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
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    Who are you?

    +42 points. I, myself, am a man, who does things.
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    George Carlin

    "Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me; I quit!'"