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    Give an object a more appropriate name.

    Stun Gun would become Taser. Taser would become Stun Gun. Whoever decided that a hand held device with no ranged properties should be called a "Gun" was a fool.
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    Poll: Should video games be studied in schools as texts?

    If you've played The Oregon Trail in school, then video games have been used for study and education in your school. Using games in school is not a new thing and its already going on. Games as edutainment have been around for a long time and plenty of schools use them to inform and educate...
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    Buying my first handgun, looking for suggestions and input

    As a number of people have mentioned, if you're going for sheer accuracy in a range environment only, you can't beat a .22 pistol. You can get boxes of 500 rounds easily for less than $15 and the pistols themselves tend to be cheaper than larger caliber pistols. In terms of honing your skills...
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    Knight Errant

    I got excited when I saw the new comic title and started looking for a Shadowrun reference in the comic... I was disappointed. :P
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    Poll: So I'm still not convinced that Brave New World is a dystopia...

    You'll have to forgive me if I'm sketchy on some details, I haven't read Brave New World in over a decade, but I think the primary thing you have to remember is that the book was written in 1931. By the standards of the thirties, rampant drug usage and frivolous sex and orgies with dozens of...
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    Hold on there. No where in that entire article does it say ANYTHING about the data being stored on Apple servers. All the article says is, that "the data is stored on the phone but is automatically transferred to [your] computer when the iPhone is synched". In fact, on the Pete Warden website...
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    Watch Out: Your iPhone Knows Where You've Been

    My guess is its probably used for GPS tagging photos. The iPhone and many other smart phones these days will tag your pictures with a GPS location. So you can browse your album by photos taken at a location (say, all photos you took during a trip in Boston, or while you were at the club the...
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    Hands-on: Magicka Preview

    I picked up this game the other day after reading this hands on, very excited for the game. It is definately good, in single player. A lot of what everyone has mentioned above is true. However, the one thing it is NOT good at at all, is multiplayer. And not because its not fun. It is very...
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    Minecraft Sells Like Sexy Hotcakes

    I'm glad to hear he's reinvesting the money into the game and kicking it into a full production, start up company (he's got more money than most start-ups can borrow, so he's in a good place!) Adding a few more team members to the project should increase production speed and also allow him to do...
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    Is D&D and other tabletop-RPGs "unpopular" with girls?

    That really sounds like the opposite of being interested, to be quite frank. As far as bringing people into tabletop gaming, there's no real reason to pressure them into it. Either they are into it, in which case they'll jump at an offer, or they're not. Given enough badgering, they may choose...
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    Angry Birds Possibly Flapping From iPhone to Movie Theaters

    I haven't played it, but based on the art style, I would guess they're likely pitching it like a young kids film. Maybe an educational style young kids movie like Blue's Clues or something. Or maybe even something like the Chicken Little movie that came out awhile ago. Either way, I wouldn't...
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    Cataclysm Collector's Edition Includes Tiny Apocalypse Dragon

    As always seems to be the case, good luck finding one. In the time it took me to add the pre-order to my cart and then checkout, the Collectors Edition sold out on Amazon. I'm a sucker for any Blizzard art books, but the few numbers they print of these collectors editions is a pain. >_>...
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    Kingdom Hearts Randomness (SPOILERS)

    I always kind of thought Axel might be Riku's Nobody. It really reflected in his relationship with Roxas, the "older brother" type friendship that Sora and Riku share.
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    Rumor: Microsoft Killed PC/Xbox Cross Platform Play

    As has been pointed out multiple times on this topic and even for years in other discussions, yes, the PC players have an advantage in an unaltered cross platform game. Still, I'm sad they didn't explore this opportunity more. Certainly, there are platforms where PC and Console players could...
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    245: Gunners and Gamers

    Unless they got their hands on a standard issue, manufactured, and trademarked pipe bomb from somewhere, the pipe bombs would have been homebuilt out of various components which classifies them as IEDs. So yes, they did. Indeed, thanks for writing a good, well thought out article regarding...