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    Taiwanese Gamer dies in Internet Cafe - No-one Notices

    Unless you're looking for something out of the ordinary, what would make someone staring at a computer in an Internet cafe noticeable? The fact that he was there for 9 hours? Most people in there are going to be glued to their games, and the only time they'll notice this person is on their way...
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    Ghetto Hikes

    Oh man, almost all of those made me laugh out loud. It looks like he just started that site this year?
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    German pensioner eats 64-year-old US lard

    heh - clever. I thought lard was more of an ingredient than a staple.
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    Helplife2.net: Help me be a real physicist!

    Man, I've been out of college for apparently a long time - the closest thing we had to computers in that class were early varieties of programmable calculators (the TI-81 specifically). Calculus was required knowledge, but no coding. Is the coding a module of the class or used to work with data...
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    Did you see it?

    I'm with Shem - early (or naked?) Advisor. I'm not sure if that's Valve's work? I don't recognize the design on the bottom right.
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    Snowfallll of 2012!

    lol, at a glance I though the subject was 'Snowfail 2012' which is about right. We had one dusting several months ago, and until last night (all kinds of rain right now!), not a single bit of precipitation, not even frost on cold mornings.
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    '1999 Mode' announced for Bioshock Infinite

    I'm always hopeful for new games that come out that they'll live up to some of the developer's hype. I haven't played a first person shooter that I can remember in which I had to really shift game play tactics due to unscripted game events (arsenal resets are a cheap example of this). Keeping...
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    Dear Esther: First Trailer

    I'm in. Related - do you think Valve is spending this time re-writing their engine, or will they use it to this extent for HL3?
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    Best Home Remedy for Gas

    When I or my wife drops a particularly loud greaseball in bed, it's usually followed by laughter and maybe an attempt to make a dutch oven or checking the dog's reaction for a rating. Why so serious?
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    Is Democratic Socialism Feasible?

    Sure - any socio-political system is feasible if the entire population believes in it and supports it. That's just unusually hard to do.
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    Dude strapped bazookas on a 700lb airplane and blew up tanks in WWII

    Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: Stop that pigeon!
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    Basic 'hl2.exe has crashed' errors

    Thanks, Helplife2.net - here is the solution that worked for me as found in a list of possible fixes from Steam Support: Re-extract the Game Files for Valve games. Apparently the game cache files include the actual game files (for Valve games only). Deleting the game files and letting Steam...
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    Games: Rate and Discuss

    ...don't suppose there's any chance that Resistance will come out for PC? Hard Reset - 9/10 The action is paced well, entertaining in some areas and dare I say hard in others? Not frustratingly hard like some games are because of some gameplay, AI, or weapon unbalance, but "OMG there are two...
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    What did you get for Christmas?

    I received a number of presents, one of which was a Steam gift of Borderlands. The game crashes to desktop with no error message, and the Internet is full of reports of this and that sort of error with this game (and the usual "fixes"... 'upgrade your drivers', 'run MEMTEST', 'reinstall Windows...
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    prometheus (2012, ridley scott)

    Media blackout sounds like a good idea - I'm sooo excited to see a movie in the theater that doesn't suck. ...see ya on the other side.
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    What a shitty thing to do

    Intriguing athlete biohazard?
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    Team Fortress 2 'Australian Christmas' Event 2011 Begins

    Oh man... I'm dealing with hl2.exe failures in TF2 right now, and probably won't have that figured out until this is over. I'll be on the lookout for the Pomson 6000 - losing medigun charge not ok. Also, is 'no random critical hits' really a nerf?
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    Words that make you feel funny, elicit vivid imagery, etc

    Vag (short/crude for vagina; pronounced much the same, should probably be spelled vaj). I don't know why it's so funny to me - I can still remember the emphasis on the -j at the end of the word the first time I heard it spoken (from a woman, in case that's important).
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    Valve is attending 2012 CES; Showing Steam features?

    I've been playing PC on my "TV" (an LCD mounted on the wall) with wireless keyboard and mouse (as remotes, if you will) for like ten years. Between keyboard shortcuts (for OS navigation) and Opera (which zooms the cleanest in my opinion, and has easy keyboard navigation), I only use the mouse...
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