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    Age of Empires

    I grew up playing these games avidly and like them all. As the people above mentioned, Age of Kings with the expansion pack is the best. (Got me into medieval stuff and set me on the course to getting a BA in history, but I digress..) Three is also fun. The biggest difference with 3 is that...
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    Coolest thing you own

    Does a full suit of armor and longsword count? All 16gauge steel except the center breastplate piece which is 14gauge. Made it myself and took me 3 years. :-( But when I put it on I feel like I can bust through walls like the kool-aid man. ^_^
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    Politics and Religion...in Iran.

    This has been really scary for me because a friend of mine is Iranian and she went over a there 2 weeks ago to visit her grandmother. I can't get in touch with her to see if she's ok b/c they've shut down facebook in Iran. The really weird thing is that 70% of Iran's population is under the...
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    favorite comedian of all time

    John Pinette is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1uFHtcwkA
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    Do american accents sound weird to non americans?

    Have you guys seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k 21 accents in 2.5 minutes.
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    Atheist Bible

    Yeah, it's sort of like anarchists getting together. The only thing that binds us really is our disbelief in fairytales.
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    Poll: Your Favorite National Cuisine

    There is a really cool TED talk about Chinese food, and how every nation puts its own spin on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MhV5Rn63M
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    Martial Arts Advice

    If you're into swordsmanship at all, look up ARMA ( http://www.thearma.org/ ) They do medieval swordsmanship stuff, it's really quite good. Another group is AEMMA, Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts, also quite good. ( http://www.aemma.org/ )
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    The European View on all things American

    I apologize if someone already said this (9 pages is a bit much to check) but I like how Europe seems to have a tendency for "more sex, less violence" where as here in America it's the opposite. It's ok for kids to see people get shot up in pg-13 movies, but it's not ok if they see tits....wtf...
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    First online game?

    Age of Empires 2 ^_^ Had loads of fun playing that with friends online....till I put all my pop in a few ships and tried to land on the one spot of beach with a million cannon towers.... <.<
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    Atheists want God stricken from inaugural oath

    Oh my zeus, there is so much ignorance about America's history here it hurts. No, nowhere in the constitution does it mention the state as having to be secular, but ALSO nowhere in the constitution is "god" mentioned. In an age where religious phrases were everywhere, this can't have been...
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    If body language is an important part of communication can online friends count as fully social?

    I think they would count, but yeah, it's a gray area. I know a girl who was friends with a Kiwi for years online, and one day he came and visited her in person and everything was really awkward... so I dunno. Plus, don't forget things like Skype and Ventrilo. At least on there you still get to...
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    The Customer Is Always Wrong

    I worked at a really hellish family restaurant for two years (I still have nightmares about the place) and I had to deal with a bunch of asshats. The odd thing was, sometimes it wasn't the customers who were the worst, it was my boss. He was a really big bald neo nazi kind of guy who would...
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    Martial Law.

    But there is no massive civil unrest across the nation, maybe if the zompocalypse came, but usually you declare martial law in a specific city, like for desegregating schools and what not. Plus, I can't see the army turning their guns on the American people, we're their family members! And...
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    Martial Law.

    Where did you hear this? I highly doubt that Obama would do this, plus, most of our army and national guard are spread across the world, you can't really put the entire United States under martial law. I think there is something in there with federalism, not sure if the pres can do it, might be...