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    Context, Challenge and Gratification

    These 3 categories are an excellent framework for understanding why Max Payne was one of the greatest games ever made.
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    50 Americanisms That Brits Apparently Hate

    Oh for fuck's sake, I put in for "Have a nice day", how the hell does that not make the top 50? It's fucking nauseating. In English, if you're rude enough to say it, then you at least have the decency not to abbreviate it; you'd just hit them with the full "I don't give a fuck whether you have a...
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    Developing a pen&paper game. Need Help.

    Intimidation seems like it's got a lot of legs in it. It could be a choice in negotiation/interrogation, it could affect enemy morale during battle, make them quicker to rout, it could improve allied morale. Dexterity and Toughness are a bit of a weird one. What the hell is your Dexterity +...
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    Things you wish movies would stop doing

    Oh, oh, and another one. 3 finales syndrome. What the hell? Pick one. Pick which storyline we're supposed to care about. Return of the King? The whole cinema was halfway out of their seats about 5 times. Revenge of the Sith. It's the end of a trilogy, not the end of the cocking world. I know...
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    Things you wish movies would stop doing

    3 hours long? Are you serious? That's what really pisses me off. Spielberg's a repeat offender, but EVERYONE'S doing it now. One that really pissed me off was The Departed. A decent (not that great) film's finished after 2 hours, but no, we've got to sit there and watch everyone pointlessly kill...
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    Name 4 things in the room with you right now you would bring with you for any kind of apocalypse.

    I love how many people have trench coats and swords in their room. Those jocks that bullied you at school had better watch out when the apocalypse comes!