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    Post-21 Birthdays: So what?

    Hey, it's my birthday today too. And all I asked for was a low key, no stress, no mess day. Unfortunately this has turned the gushy wushy Hallmark-devotees in my family into frothing idiots who suddenly think I am depressed. Which no, I am not. I just am tired of tossing out pink teddy bears and...
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    Playstation.... Hacked!?

    It's not a network problem - one of the latest updates had a bad bug, so any game that has trophies cannot be played online OR offline, downloaded games included. The 8001050F error seems like it prevents you from connecting to the PSN... so, what, I'll have to download the update to a USB drive...
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    Amusing Euphemisms For Death

    It referred to death benefits families would get when soldiers died. In the first half of the 20th century, their families usually used it to buy their farms from the title-owner (a bank or private person if they were sharecropping). So when someone died, they essentially "bought the farm" for...
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    230: Developmental Stage Select

    I think I can sum up the right way to raise a kid with video games: Parents, BE INVOLVED and BE REASONABLE. I speak from experience. Games are a privilege in my house, which my five year old gets to play (with me involved) for an hour and a half if they get good conduct in school, eat their...
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    Worst theme/credits song in a game?

    Any song sung by Luna in Lunar. *shudders*
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    Weirdest Random Stranger Moment?

    While working campus security, some kids came up complaining about a very horrendously drunk guy (I tended to overlook it, I mean it's college, as long as they're smart about it - that's the point of college, to be smart *and* drunk, right?). After a few complaints I go to check it out, and on...
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    Mass Effect 2 Box Art Fails to Impress

    It's like a bad photo shop job... it's what you get when you give a design job to a guy who knows photoshop but doesn't understand basic concept design and color theory... *checks date, shakes head* Nope, not April Fools...
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    "Girl Gamers"

    Let me state for the record that, as a girl who games, the only experience I have ever had with other gamers (all guys) is that 1) I am cool (jokes on them), and 2) they think my husband is lucky to have a gamer wife, because I get all of his video game jokes and can make some of my own. It's...
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    Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

    Don't "humbly" suggest it. Cube is one of the best films to ever come out of Canada. ;) Great suggestion.
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    Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

    Oh god that movie... that movie wasn't just psychological horror, it was money in the bank for therapists everywhere...
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    Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

    AHHHHHHHH I can't even whole turkeys anymore!!!
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    Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

    Thanks Escapists! I'm surprised (pleasantly) that a lot of films I have seen and loved have been suggested here (Session 9, Se7en, Pet Sematary, Jacob's Ladder, Event Horizon, The Thing, etc.) - it makes me love you forum posters even more. That said, I think there were about fifteen films...
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    Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

    The original 1951 film called Thing from Another World is more suspenseful and less gory than the 1982 version - and it is very much a commentary on McCarthyism. It's worth a look if you want a decent horror flick from the golden age of films.
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    Funniest thing you have heard a teacher/boss say

    My Spanish teacher junior year was a recent immigrant and did not have a good idea of pop culture - no grasp at all. One day my friend who, for some reason, really liked Eve 6, worea "Tie Me to the Bed Post" shirt. My Spanish teacher, laughing to himself, pointed to her chest and said very...
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    THE sequel we never saw coming..

    Too much Taint to fit into one game I guess...