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    Are today's gamers, on average, dumber?

    One thing that is fairly important to remember about video games is that the average age of gamers have gone up and with that age increase, less time can be devoted to mastering and learning the rules of video games. Not to mention the fact that there are so many other distractions that simply...
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    Why Is Pirating Games Bad But Pirating Anime and Manga Is Ok?

    The reason why a lot of people think piracy is bad in the first place is because they automatically assume that the creator doesn't like their work being pirated, which is something they've come to understand through the propaganda many publishers and creators have put out over the years in...
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    Extra Punctuation: Getting Innovation Wrong

    >And you know what? Blue Ray and HD-DVD were exactly the same thing- a technological gimmick that nobody even needed. Yes they did, as people got bigger and bigger TVs, the picture quality became a bigger of an issue. DVD is fine for a 15-30 inch TV, but as soon as you get into the 40-60 inch...
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    The Whole I Hate 'Jocks' Thing

    "Someone people were mean to me, so instead of taking my anger out on the people that actually were mean to me, I'm going to treat strangers on the internet like crap because they remind of the people that were mean to me."
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    So my friend thinks that internet piracy not only doesn't harm the music industry, but helps it

    Do you have any evidence to support the claim that piracy is hurting the industry? After all research have shown that pirates are overrepresented in the section of gamers who buy more media such as games, music and movies, than the average consumer. Source: http://tinyurl.com/lp7lwl ***The...
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    Rammstein's new video - exploitative porn or clever subversion?

    I thought the song was decent and the video was interesting considering that it's from mainstream band, a lot of underground band have had hardcore porn in their videos. I mean even if you don't like the video or the band, it's a pretty bold statement to make a video like this. The song...
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    Multiple Consoles, do we need them?

    Oh also, we should release movies on Betamax because just releasing on DVD is monopoly!
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    Multiple Consoles, do we need them?

    Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it the GAME developers, NOT the CONSOLE developers, that decides if games are to be released on several platforms. Right? So basically some of you might as well be saying that Universal should release both on DVD and Blu-ray as so give more competition. But...
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    Define Terrorism

    Shooting a soldier patrolling the streets or bombing a military base, that's warfare. Depending the tactics, it might become guerrilla warfare. Examples; Bombing the pentagon, warfare. Flying a plane into the pentagon, guerrilla warfare. Shooting a civilian simply for living in the country...
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    Can we agree on this? Biggest problem in the world today.

    Not that's it's the only problem. The world wouldn't just magically get better if the issues involving the US were to magically solve themselves. Let's keep this in the realm of realism.
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    Anime that should be brought back

    Berserk sure has hell ins't finished unless you call the cliffhanger of the decade a good ending.
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    PC Gaming and Piracy: Must Read Article

    If you think Piracy is the only reason why PC games are doing badly, you're probably not thinking that far. There are extremely few released for the PC, I mean there are some FPS and RTS games, that's about it. Those that do get released, you can't rent test. You have to spend 60 bucks and...
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    Most pointless warning label

    The warning label on claymore isn't a warning label. It's just an indicator of which side you're suppose to aim at the enemy.
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    Rare Games

    I have a big box with two original floppies of Doom. It says "Your free copy of Doom Shareware" on the box. I also have the same copy of FFVII that I bought when I was like 7 or something, but the manual is missing.
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    Your idea for an mmo

    I think Pokemon would make a great MMO.