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    Feed Dump: Spaghetti Warehouse Warehouse

    Then there was Major Major Major Major from Catch 22 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major]...
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    OUYA Review - More Whimper Than Bang

    Pretty poor review as has been said repeatedly. Credit card registration no different from mobile markets, wireless performs well enough, in-game editors are down to the game, not the platform etc. (that last point was completely irrelevant). No, there aren't many games because its only just...
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    Jimquisition: Breaking the Bones of Business

    What is a fair price for a game? Developers have to pay the bills somehow. These tactics aren't only done by "the big nasty corportations" - indie and small developers have done this before, on mobile in particular. The reason being that when apps came out at 69p they were already slim...
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    Poll: Your programming experience

    Been working full time as a programmer for the past 6 years - see http://www.jamesbattersby.com/about for what languages. Working on Android at the moment - never known fragmentation like it....
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    Teen Arrested for Home-Made "Hot or Not" List on Facebook

    Its called libel.
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    Soo, why do console version of computer games cost more?

    First, remember time = money For each console: * you must become a licensed developer * therefore you must meet their QA standards * passing QA takes time, especially since neither console owner wants to be seen as supporting buggy software and probably takes quite a few attempts to get...
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    Why do Americans do the date differently?

    In one of my previous jobs I we had to work with American legislation alongside UK. In order to prevent confusion over this issue all dates had to be written as DD-MMM-YYYY e.g. 21-Jan-2011. 5 years later I still can't bring myself to using dd/mm/yy for that very reason!
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    Where do babies come from?

    I think there was a similar question in a philosophy paper, "Is this the question?". I think the only person that got a decent mark wrote "Only if this is the answer."
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    Your greatest NEVER AGAIN achievement?

    Finishing Assassin's Creed 1. What a chore....
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    A question for the Irish folk? and British as well, i suppose

    His son, no less, Charles II!
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    Skipping Class

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    Skipping Class

    Can't afford it on the course I'm doing now - definitely need to pay attention!
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    Escape to the Movies: Clash of the Titans

    Fair review - saw it in 2D. Wasn't bad but definitely not great. Felt bad though - the guy who had bought the tickets to see it worked for the company that made the scorpions!
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    The Best Game that has no Violence

    Almost every point and click adventure game or subsequent variation of except Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis i.e. Lucas Arts -> TellTale
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    Reapers are coming! We're boned.

    Bring it.