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    Poll: do you think smoking is attractive?

    A single whiff of cigarette smoke will inevitably give me a migraine, so... yeah, pretty insurmountable turnoff for me.
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    Favorite Mecha

    Three spring to mind, in order of size (since I like them all for very different reasons): Chou (Super) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Okay, by that point it's less mech than energy construct, but it's got mech parts. Because deep down we all want the biggest, most powerful robot, and they don't...
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    Americans, what's so great about the Imperial System?

    Nothing. I hate the Imperial System, despite being an American who has grown up with it, is used to it and can't eyeball anything in metric. But it's what everything here is in, so until I manage to get out of the country again, I'm more or less stuck with it.
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    Poll: When do you shower?

    At night. I have a hard time sleeping if I don't feel clean; I dislike feeling grimy in bed. I always had a bath before bed when I was a kid and just never saw a reason to change.
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    Why do so few Americans vote?

    Depression and hopelessness. Your typical American political candidate is a self-absorbed moron who couldn't debate his way out of a paper bag if a literal strawman were guarding the exit. The problem intensifies the higher up the ladder you go. I tried - I honestly tried - to listen to the...
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    Games you love but yet suck at.

    Guilty Gear. Awesome character design, rockin' soundtrack, but I just can't get my head around the combos and cancels and all that "pro" fighting game stuff.
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    Examples of non romantic male female

    Dust and Fidget from Dust: An Elysian Tail. Yeah, I know they're different species and different sizes, but when has that ever stopped a fairy companion from crushing on her partner? (coughMidnacough). They clearly come to care about each other a great deal, but I never get a romance vibe off of...
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    Poll: Donating blood

    I try to, but I take a lot of aspirin for migraines so I have relatively few eligible days. When I give, I almost always give platelets. It takes longer but they seem to really want people to do it.
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    Favourite fictional currency?

    To those saying the rupee isn't a fictional currency: The Hylian rupee is, the Indian rupee isn't. They're two separate monies that share a name, sort of like all the different countries that have money called 'dollars'. Try to use a Canadian dollar in America and you'll be laughed out of the...
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    The most useless superpower you can think of

    I think it was a Nickelodeon Magazine where I saw "The Manister": the man who could become a banister. This was useful sometimes, but not most of the time. "Wow, I almost fell down those stairs! Thanks, Manister!" Something my friends thought of was "re-food" the power to reconstitute a meal...
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    Most disturbing stalkers in games

    I really liked Walter Sullivan from Silent Hill 4, particularly when he wasn't actively chasing me. If you look through the peephole in your apartment door (the door is mega-locked and you can't open it) you sometimes see him passing by or doing something indefinite. Once, he just walked in...
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    Lucasarts Games that Deserve Another Shot

    If we can mention Grim Fandango (and I do want to finally play that,) then I think LOOM deserves a vote. I freaking adore LOOM. I wouldn't mind a remake with some modernized graphics and an updated musical interface. Sequels were planned and nobody wanted to do them... well, let's see if we...
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    Poll: Do you drink alcohol?

    Dislike the taste, doesn't mix well with my medicine, and knowing myself I'm probably an alcoholic waiting to happen, so I don't bother with it. Plus, I don't need any "social lubricant": my grasp on social situations is already so tenuous that any lube will send it flying right out of my hand...
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    Poll: Masturbation and you.

    1. Male 2. Generally between 5 and 7 times a week, rarely more than once a day. 3. (raucous laughter) 4. Hmm... let me get back to you on that when I have some experience there. 5. See above 6. Oh, definitely decrease. If I don't masturbate it's much harder for me to focus on doing other...
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    Most difficult boss you've faced.

    Jasper Batt Jr. from No More Heroes: Desperate Stuggle. First form is nothing, third form isn't too bad, but that second form. That stupid hulked-up second form with its shitty nearly-undodgeable tornado punch, the instant-kill out a window, the teleporting, the... graaaaaaaah.