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These are the first songs I remember hearing on the radio. That pretty much tells you how old I am. :)

The Dungeon Seige games had millions and millions of items with the same stats. This meant that you could get the same buffs or whatever, but have your characters look basically however you wanted. Is it prohibitively fiddly to do this for MMORPGs? I find that slightly hard to believe, given the...

They suck up a whole bucket o' hate because they're really mediocre, and the way in which they're mediocre is an embodiment of "what's wrong with the music biz today". There are worse bands for sure, but the important thing with Nickelback is the suck-to-fame ratio. See, worse bands than...

Ok, so I've just read The Black Iron Prison, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles]. What do you reckon?

*Everyone* is terrible at DF to start with, that's ind of the point. I loved the X-Com series, but I never got very far in any of them. I basically just got murdered by the aliens right out of the gate every time.

Delta Force - it was a shitty 3d shooter made to cash in on the increasing popularity of military FPS games. It combines all of the flaws the military FPS subgenre is usually accused of - dumb gameplay, racist plotting and enemies, a ridiculously jingoistic worldview - with shitty graphics...

Played through Jedi Academy using entirely imaginary "honour" rules for lightsaber fighting. If I recall they went: * If you ignite your saber by attacking, you must *hit* or you are dishonoured. * Every time you finish a fight, you *must* turn off your saber or be dishonoured. * You may not...

Play as the Malkavian. Seriously - their clan power is stupidly overpowered (and completely screwed, if you know the setting from tabletop) and there's a whole massive bunch of secret passages and hidden content that only they get.

As previously noted - Requiem for a Dream. Also: - The Rules of Attraction - my local video store files it under "comedy" but That fucked me up for 3 solid months. - Spanking The Monkey - again, classified as a comedy - and moreover a comedy about a guy getting frustrated because he...

This, but also projection. If you have a string of bad relationships because (for the sake of argument) you have anger issues, it might well be easier for you to rationalise that "women are overemotional and fragile" rather than admit that you have some character traits that need attention...

The end of Max Payne 2, on hardest difficulty.

It's basically hipsterism and anti-hipsterism from either side. You get the same thing in the tabletop roleplaying community - wars between "oldschool" D&D-lovers who want to kill things and take their stuff, and "Forge-ite" indie-gamers who only play systemless mutual storytelling games about...

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HPL did have some pretty unsavoury views. "The Street" as a story is a pretty good indication of where they lay, and the "degenerate half-breed" as a stock villainous minion recurs quite a lot in his work. That said, it was never enough to put me off his work, as it's almost never the main focus...

I've done it in the past. I used to have a bad habit of going with anyone who showed any interest in me, because I was unused to the concept of people finding me attractive. This led to some relationships I had to flee in ways I'm now not that proud of, and in one case a 2-year "settling" which...