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    The Big Picture: The Fall of Kevin Smith, Part II

    This whole thing about Smith sounds more like personal vendetta than anything else. I loved most of his earlier stuff and both Clerks 2 and Zack and Miri were both good films, haven't seen the "bad ones" but I don't really get why this thing spends three episodes to justify bashing on a guy who...
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    BioWare Montreal Takes Over Mass Effect

    Loved all of them, probably will love this one too. God people are bitchy over here.
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    Eidos Employee Fired Over "Hate Speech" on Facebook

    As a all-out french quebecker, I do support the independence full heartedly. It's not a hateful move, not a rebellion. We don't want it to hurt anglophones, we want it for ourselves. It's a question of pride, culture and identity. To be perfectly honest, a vast majority of the hate speech...
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    Escape to the Movies: The Dark Knight Rises

    I'd written a whole thing on how dumb it was to compare it to Avengers, but then I got tired. Dark Night Rises is a really great movie, watch it with love. If you go in expecting to be disappointed, you probably are going to find things to disappoint you. Most of the time you get what you're...
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    Can You Confess Your Guilty Pleasures?

    Countless hours of Mike Juge shows: Beavis & Butthead, Daria, King of the Hill...
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    Fallout: Australia?

    It would probably not sell in the USA.
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    Poll: Legalize cannabis Yay or Nay

    If it was legal, I probably wouldn't be able to afford it. And let's be honest, it does make you dumb. Watching twelve episodes of Beavis & Butthead in a row? No one could do that with a sober mind.
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    283: Introducing The Escapist's Genre Wheel

    It's not exactly mindblowing to make a chart with two axis. I understand the intention, but the whole thing is so simple, so wide and unfocused that it doesn't really mean much of anything. Yes, some games are more focused on exploration, others on conflicts. I can accept that. But where does...
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    First Transformers 3 Trailer Reveals 40 Year Old Secret

    I actually didn't give a shit about Transformers until the Michael Bay movies. Of course, they sucked, I just wanted to see big robots beating each other for two hours, and I got Shia Leboeuf whining about his lawn instead. Even the second movie had this huge freaking robot ready to anihilate...
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    What would you like to see in Elder Scrolls 5?

    Yes! That is the main reason I spent over a hundred hours in Fallout3 and never finished (or even really started) Oblivion. And maybe forcing you to actually walk to places before letting you fast travel would make the game feel a bit more immersive, and actually give it some other sense...
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    Obsidian Mailbag

    True, the game is buggy and can be really frustrating, but I just don't get the whole vindictive tone. Why hate Obsidian? At least they're trying to make good, huge games. Even if NV crashed on me, I would still have gotten far more pleasure for much longer with it than with any other game...
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    Bobby Kotick More Influential Than Old Spice Guy

    Come on, everybody loves Trotsky.
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    Kojima Borrowing Western Techniques for Next Game

    He's actually pretty right, the lass playable JRPG I've seen was Persona 4, and even that had many outdated japanese design quirks. I have yet to see a non-capcom, non-nintendo japanese game where the background did not look like it was painted on like a mural. Don't point out FFXIII, it was...