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    Gold Farmer Sells Virtual Gold to Buy Real Gold, Has it Stolen

    But it's still against World of Warcraft's Terms of Service, and ultimately makes the game worse for almost everyone. All the lawsuits and her selling her house are dreadful (and happening to a nurse no less), but I have no qualms with the karma of having her gold stolen.
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    Jimquisition: Go Fish

    Jim, I've paused the video a few minutes in because I need to say this: Love your stuff, you're a fantastic voice in the gaming community. You're entertaining and provide very good arguments on important issues for the industry. Thank God for Jim Sterling.
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    It's a Nice Day for A Red Wedding

    This was known amongst fans of the books to be an absolutely mortifying event, such that it was a common event for anyone reading the book to throw it across the room in anger. So, with a whole lot of people knowing exactly what was coming, you get videos like the following (Potential spoilers...
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    Jimquisition: I Hate Videogames (Because I Love Them)

    Thank God for you, Jim. That was a fantastic episode. I enjoy watching your show every week (have been for a few months now), but that one was undoubtedly the best I've seen yet.
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    A slightly different "you died" thread.

    Team Fortress 2, most likely a Spy with (interestingly enough) Your Eternal Reward. I could probably knock off a few thousand years just watching myself bring out that knife, let alone get stabbing. Then I realised something. I had to open Minecraft at 2am last night, didn't I?
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    Stolen Pixels #203: While You Were Sleeping

    In Unreal you wake up in a recently-crashed prison shipped, with almost no survivors.
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    The Political Compass

    I've done this test a few times, and I'm slowly becoming more left wing and more authoritarian. 6 Months or so ago: -5.12 -4.72 Now: -6.00 -4.05
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    Funniest Game Enemy

    There you are. Is anyone there? Could you come over here? I don't blame you. Are you still there? Hey, it's me! Don't shoot! Could only be the turrets in Portal. Sure, GLaDOS has many funnier lines, but these things are so cute!
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    The most useless weapon in a game?

    The grenades were the second most useful weapon, only to the bazooka! In my honest, probably newbish, opinion anyway. If you're looking for a useless weapon, walk into a tool store in GTA: Vice City.
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    Why do we love the physicist?

    You forgot one Zefar 6: He uses a crowbar.
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    1 = -1?!

    GARRR - was just thinking that, or something along those lines.
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    1 = -1?!

    Being a maths person I'm taking up this challenge, but what does the very first line mean? I'm not too good with maths jargon symbols. EDIT: Does it mean X = 2n * pi, such that n is a natural number?
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    The Game of Gifting

    Steam, Valve's big money maker. There's been many reasons why it has been so successful, but this latest weekend deal has made me realise the importance of one of them - gifting games. Its not just any gifting either, but mainly their famous 5-in-1 package The Orange Box. One of my friends...
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    What song is stuck in your head right now?

    The music from this ad: http://ballhype.com/video/2009_official_afl_ad_www_aflonline_com_au/ They only play it 5 times at every match (including the ad itself 2 or 3 times). I've been to 3 matches in the past 6 rounds. The ad's also on the TV every now and then. Not a bad song, but you get...
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    REDvsBLUE

    Time for a RvB nerd to join the thread *cracks knuckles*. Over the northern hemisphere summer they'll be doing another major series. That was RvB: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, there's been two mini-series and a major series since then. Reconstruction wasn't a mini-series, it was a...