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    Poll: Would you embrace a shift to purely digital distribution of games?

    If a game is not available for download, I wont buy it. The last physical game I got? Spore, in 2008.
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    Escapist Podcast: Bully Kid, Karaoke Violence & Top Games

    Interesting stuff, keep it up!
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    To those with experience programming...

    Minecraft is written in java. I wouldnt worry much about learning any object oriented language though, if you can use java well, neither c++ or c# should be much of a jump - Getting your head round OO is much harder than learning a new syntax for using it.
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    Poll: Left 4 Dead's Story

    If the story was a single player only thing, that would work. But if I was forced to watch the story for the 200'th time at points in a versus match, I would not have played as much as I did
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    Things that you are really getting sick of seeing in games?

    What am I sick of seeing in games? Multi-platform games where the PC version has a console interface - Crap UI, messed-up camera, few-to-zero keybinds, and limited graphics customisation (e.g. Fixed at widescreen rez). Desktops and consoles have different input devices, what works great on one...
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    Poll: Mac or PC

    WindowsXP guy here - Fast, stable, secure, and flexible. The token mac fanatic at work keeps showing me gimmicky stuff I dont care about, and gets offended when I dont react the right way. Some of the video editing software on OSX I would like to have a play with, but I have not seen anything...
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    The Commandments for Making Gamertags, Screennames, ect.

    I dub thee...Burt (Dont you open that TRAP DOOOOR...'cos theres something down there....)
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    The Commandments for Making Gamertags, Screennames, ect.

    Is it ok for me and Ashbax to hate eachother?
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    The Commandments for Making Gamertags, Screennames, ect.

    No, dont make rules, let people do what they want - it makes it so easy to separate the mature gamers from the rest at just a glance.
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    Poll: Piracy or Used Games - Which is worse?

    Wait...the people who pay all the money for the games development, who take all the financial risk, who take care of all the marketing, distribution, localisation, and often testing...these people deserve nothing?
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    Poll: Piracy or Used Games - Which is worse?

    Used game sales are worse - I buy a second-hand game, enjoy it, sell it to a friend, who sells it, and so on. The developer gets nothing. I pirate a game, decide to buy it because it rocks, and recommend it to 10 friends, and 3 of them buy it. The developer wins.
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    199: An Endemic Problem

    You mean we arnt on another plane of existence?? When I think of how far the interests and culture of my 'gamer' friends (both online and off) deviates from the 'normal' friends...I dont blame the advertisers for having a hard time breaking into the 'gamer psyche'.
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    199: An Endemic Problem

    I have done the best I can to entirely strip ads out of my life, and apart from the movie ads on bus shelters, its worked. Being advertised to just pisses me off.
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    Poll: Who played through the original System Shock?

    Played the original system shock quite a bit - It was very good, a lot less combat oriented than SS2 (which was in turn a lot less combat oriented than bioshock). SS2 I have completed a couple of times on single player, and completed / almost completed it about 4 times multiplayer. I wish...
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    Poll: What do you make of survival mode? (Left 4 Dead)

    Have just played a few rounds, and I love it! Very dependent on players covering each other and working as a unit. It makes it way harder if you are not on voice comms (which is a bonus in my book). For those interested, there are achievements for surviving long enough on all the maps - 4...