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    Gabe Newell Says Steam Hack Is Worse Than Expected

    Hashed and Salted. That is the most important difference.
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    Take a Dip With Two New Skyward Sword Videos

    How will he deal with that boss?
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    Earth's Mightiest Teaser

    Dangit, where's the upvote button on this forum? ... And I can't downvote the forum for not having one either! I've been spoiled by reddit.
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    Poll: Do you think this is sexist?

    Both forms should be fine. However, I do think you were in the wrong, at least socially, for correcting her. Landlord as a reference to a female is nothing wrong, if slightly indistinct. But clearly from the context you knew the person's gender, so the correction was rather pedantic. And from...
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    The Perfect Mashup: Mine of WorldCraft

    To be fair, a single Male elf in a population of 99 female elves generates 99 babies (and one seriously vitaman E deprived father). A single female elf in a population of 99 male elves generates a booming tissue and internet economy before eventual extinction.
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    Deus Ex - Boss Fights

    The second bossfight in the... surprisingly empty building (spoiler free description), I actually just used the stun gun. It stunned the target longer than it took to reload. 11 Stun guns (at medium difficulty) and the boss died. This was with full stealth getup. I actually liked the boss...
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    The Escapist Presents: MovieBob: Oscar Show

    A little thread necromancy here, but Bob recently did an entire video in his Boston accent, and I got linked here. So bazaar to see him ranting out of style about something I completely disagree with. Dark Knight was really not a great movie. If there wasn't a dead actor involved with it, I...
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    Free-To-Play Theory

    I think you are a bit tainted by a misconception. That being that games only become Free to Play when they start to fail, as some kind of service to the fan base. In reality, FTP models are now being found to be, get this, MORE fiscally viable than the alternative. There is a lot of reason...
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    Why does everyone love Bioshock?

    What, in your mind, is the difference between hitting reload, and being rezzed at one of the vita chambers?
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    Poll: Females: have you ever pretended to be male while online

    I'm genuinely curious: What does 'lay it on thick' mean in this context? That you'd be really really 'girly' at them? In the sense of cultural girl type things? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant here? Maybe just some other way strongly indicating you were a girl without outright saying...
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    PAX Prime 2011 Cosplay Gallery

    Clearly Greg Tito not a big LoL player :). Twisted Fate and Vayne looked great.
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    Trailers: Sword of the Stars 2 - Opening Cinematic

    I love sots, but they are so bad at making cinematics. This was too boring to watch. I couldn't get tot he end.
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    Trailers: TERA - Gamescom Trailer

    So.. is this battle chess? Okay okay, it obviously isn't. But from that I don't know if it's an MMO, a MOBA, an RPG, an action RPG... or anything. Could be fantasy tactics.
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    Trailers: Heroes of Might and Magic VI - Gamescom Trailer

    It's a cut scene. You can't derive anything about the game from it. Nothing. Why even comment on it? The only exciting thing here is the promise of the demo.
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    Dota 2's Gameplay Amazes Announcers

    I really can't see the sense here. Runes give miniscule bonus' that may often not even give a benefit. The way you 'grind' for runes is by... playing the game. Oh my heaven's no, don't make me do THAT! I would very strongly argue that the difference in balance between hero's (in any game of...