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    Favorite fourth wall breaking moment in video games

    Earthbound asks you, the player, to pray for your characters to help defeat the evil foetus- boss-thing. It is surprisingly difficult not to comply.
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    A movie that messed you up

    Eraserhead. Oh god, just... Eraserhead. It starts off midly surreal and turns horrifying just when you've gotten acclimatised.
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    Dirty gaming secrets?

    I've never finished half-life 2 without recourse to the invisibility code...
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    Favorite metal song?

    Down With the Sickness by Disturbed. Because srsly. Eff that sickness.
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    If you were to Cosplay...

    Ulala from Space CHannel 5! Becuase dancing forever.
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    Things from video games that you do in real life

    I will almost instinctively try to throw up a forcefield if a scary monster/enemy soldier/annoying salesperson approaches. Oddly enough, it seems to work.
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    Pokemon Black and White: Who's your favorite Pokemon so far?

    Herdier's only three feet tall but he doesn't afraid of anything :) Also, look at that moustache. Dang that's manly. Don't mention Candlejack! Otherwise he turns up and
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    Videogame Conspiracy theories

    The G-man from Half-life is cousin to the Slenderman. You know it to be true.
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    Poll: Mental disorders and you: Would you get rid of it if you could?

    An interesting rebuttal to that Stephen Fry programme pointed out that, of all the people he asked, it was the middle-class or generally "well-off" sufferers of bipolar depression that said they treasured their illness too much to value losing it. It just presents an interesting possible...
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    Write A Letter To Your Future Self

    Dear future self; Do not spend so long zooming around on a jetpack that you neglect to polish, maintain, and otherwise care for your army of robots. Toodles, your past self
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    This one's for the girls.

    Let's be charitable and assume that they avoid you because they think you would have nothing to talk about.
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    15 Things I Learned While Playing Half-Life

    Though you spent the last seven years of your life reading up on quantum chronodynamics in a stuffy library, it will all come to naught, as your working life will be spent sailing through dark, unprotected corridors, gravely slaughtering hundreds.
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    Poll: Would you leave the Escapist if Zero Punctuation was discontinued ?

    The game news on here is really rather good. I don't think I would leave.
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    The most mundane/inane thing you were amazed in a game

    Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Oh hey, I can steal things from the shop. Neat. Whenever I go back, however... The shopkeeper zaps me with a laser and changes my name permanently to "THIEF"! It's that kind of little thing that convinces you the game devs love their job, and also provides...