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    Looking for a new anime, but the is problem I hate most animes.

    This is the anime for you, kid. [http://www.anime-alberta.org/main/2009/10/retro-anime-review-butt-attack-punisher-girl-gautaman/] Enjoy. Awesome fight scenes, a limited, run, no tentacles. Just what you're looking for!
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    LoadingReadyRun: Desert Bus Trailers

    I'd comment in excitement over the first appearance of Gibb in an Escapist video, but I'm too busy watching Desert Bus [http://www.desertbus.org]!
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    267: Azeroth Is Burning

    Quinns is the bestest writer. It's about time RPS is giving him a proper byline! (Or maybe they aren't? He'll just keep insinuating himself into the annals of web-journalism until we all take it for granted? Clever! Dream high! You'll get yourself a byline in The Guardian yet!) Actual...
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    The Needles: Lose the Dude

    Maybe I'm being a humorless bastard for seeing your article this way Mr. Chalk, but your column comes across as a mean-spirited expression of male privilege. This bit right here in particular stings a particularly hard read satirically: Believe it or not, there are a lot of male gamers out...
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    266: We Are Not Mainstream

    I think this article puts a well-developed case, and to me, it jives pretty well with Nintendo's recent statement about wishing videogames were more socially acceptable. However, once gaming does become a mainstream activity, we'll expect more of the "casual gamers don't buy games" behavior...
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    Syndicate Reboot Rumors Refueled by New Registrations

    Given the shameful treatment X-COM seems to have received, my knee-jerk reaction to the prospect of a Syndicate reboot is not optimistic. I would love nothing more than to see another game like Syndicate (and for that matter a reasonable Wing Commander-alike) surface, but I don't really expect...
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    E3 2010: ENN: E3 News Bytes - 6/15/2010

    So, on impetus of the credits discussion of this installment I elected to look for pictures of these so called "Kinectimals," and I wish I had not. My god, those are terrifying pictures! While the X-Com remake may be some of the more disappointing news to come from the expo, truly these...
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    Well, one thing this thread has given me is a renewed belief in the value of liberal arts eduction. People seem to be bogglingly unaware of the essential language of gender studies, and mire the conversation down to arguing over semantics; I'll proceed to bunker in my ivory tower for a moment...
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    "Cisgendered" is a term that essentially means "not transgendered." It may be a slightly unfair term to use, as only people who are already informed on these issues are likely to use it. For further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender Welcome to The Escapist! As is common to...
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    My condolences, but this is the manner in which I write. Had I been taught to to be less verbose my text might prove less offensive to you, but that is aside from the point. Egregiously, I continue to type multisyllabic words and complex-compound sentences. I'm sure that you'll continue to...
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    Melodrama? Yes, that was the way I stated it. That's the point. The only way to even begin to explain this situation is with such intensity, but attempting to dehumanize the transperson is exactly what you're doing. Since I'm a presumptuous asshole, I'll presume that you missed my point...
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    Escape to the Movies: Splice

    Judging from your comments in both this review and in your interview this week, it seems that "Splice" has been dealt a disservice by its advertising campaign. I enjoy more cerebral science fiction, but the promotional materials distributed for the film had lead me to the conclusion that this...
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    Apologies, your quote has been replaced with another. It is not my goal to be defaming anyone!
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    So you discover that your girlfriend is transgendered.

    Between this thread and the discussion surrounding "Hey Baby" I can honestly say that I'm pretty disgusted with the Escapist community's discourse of gender right now. While I refrained from commenting on the video game, I have to say that some of the infantile "It's a trap" and "I would puke"...
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    Stolen Pixels #193: Max Blame, Part 4

    "Max! You're in a GTA Clone!" "Suddenly, it all made sense, the crumbling cityscape's gray desaturated daylight burning my eyes like muzzle flash, the balding, stubbled gorilla-faced man staring at me in the mirror as the open streets begged for new atrocities, flitting on devil's wings...