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    271: Red Box Renaissance

    I realize this may be a shocking and difficult concept for you, but comparing gamers to "cocker spaniels with ADHD" is not actually a classy thing to do. The fact that it was rife with misspellings and bad punctuation was merely the icing.
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    271: Red Box Renaissance

    Wow, both insulting and illiterate! Quite the hat trick.
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    271: Red Box Renaissance

    I didn't realize The Escapist were taking their journalism cues from FOX News. Wading through a few hundred words of the usual autistic grognard chest-beating about "betrayed legacies" and "disassociated mechanics" before the first actual quote by the actual interview subject left a pretty bad...
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    Anyone else suddenly "Get" Roger Ebert's opinion?

    Except that "art" is not a word that means "I liked this." We have other words for that concept that you can use! Tons of them, in fact! When you call something art or not art you are - whether you realize it or not - making a logical assertion, and logical assertions require internal...
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    Anyone else suddenly "Get" Roger Ebert's opinion?

    The balls it isn't. Chess is a representation of war - one of the fundamental realities of life in almost any era - that is accurate enough that it's been taught in war colleges for centuries, while at the same time being abstract and fluid enough that it has yet to be made obsolete. Chess...