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I hate all indie devs because they think they make good games
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Kewpuh posted:last night i had a vivid dream that i was unboxing the world of warcraft expansion and installing it 
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Jan 1, 2015 18:00
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Ahundredbux posted:I hate all indie devs because   Indie racing games are Good.
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Jan 1, 2015 19:06
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Great Joe posted:
really wanna play this one. what is it?
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Jan 1, 2015 19:28
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Great Joe posted:
those look more like games developed by game developers to me
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Jan 1, 2015 19:42
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Ahundredbux posted:those look more like games developed by game developers to me That doesn't make them not indie though
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Jan 1, 2015 20:09
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Whatever happened to that kickstarter game with the spaceships? Did it ever come out?
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Jan 1, 2015 20:38
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Irish Joe posted:Whatever happened to that kickstarter game with the spaceships? Did it ever come out? FTL came out and it was good.
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Jan 1, 2015 20:39
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2014 good games: Shovel Knight - Basically the best and most accessible NES game ever made METAL GEAR RISING - REVENGENCE - This wasn't a great year for games and it got a PC release in 2014 so I'm gonna count this again 2014 bad games: Wasteland 2 - It's a really ugly, poorly paced game with a really bad skill system and tons of busywork skillchecks. Hopefully Torment will be a little more refined and well thought through Wolfenstein - I really wanted to like this one but the shooting as still really bland and cover heavy despite its best efforts not to be. Why even bother letting me overcharge my health if it's going to drop back down in like ten seconds before I can even get in the next fight? And the retro dream levels really underscored how weak and gimpy your dude's abilities were compared to the same guy from like 1990 or whenever. Best effort/most improvement: Dragon Age 3 - If the loading times were cut in half, you could move around the world at an actual decent speed and they cut out some of the busywork bullshit this would be a really good game
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Jan 1, 2015 20:55
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I liked all the new games that came out this year that I played.
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Jan 1, 2015 20:57
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exquisite tea posted:I liked all the new games that came out this year that I played. Same. Wii U had a great year of amazing games.
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Jan 1, 2015 21:00
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Same. Wii U had a great year of amazing games. Yeah this really goes without saying. Smash Bros and Mario Kart are fantastic, working through Bayonetta 1 before I move onto 2 but that's been really good too even though it's completely handing me my arse on normal
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Jan 1, 2015 21:08
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Great Joe posted:
And what is this one? It looks super familiar, I may have heard about it a few years ago, unless I'm thinking of a different game. This one is free, right?
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Jan 1, 2015 21:25
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fyrelore posted:And what is this one? It looks super familiar, I may have heard about it a few years ago, unless I'm thinking of a different game. This one is free, right? I'm pretty sure it's Distance which is a remake of a free game called Nitronic Rush. I think the group made Nitronic Rush while students and now they're graduated and making Distance as a full game. VideoGames posted:really wanna play this one. what is it? And this is Drift Stage!
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Jan 1, 2015 21:38
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I wish totalbiscuit shut up forever
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Jan 1, 2015 21:44
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Bob A Feet posted:If you don't hate Phil fish already watch this doc. It's pretty good overall minus ole Phil. If they ever make a sequel I really hope the Castle Doctrine guy is in it: rich trust fund scum who acts self-made, bragged about living off of $14k a year to show those dumb poors that it could be done only to later have it come out that he was lying and not counting the money he spent on health insurance and other things, and beat dogs with a stick and then gave away the stick as a prize in a contest.
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Jan 1, 2015 21:52
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Sleeveless posted:If they ever make a sequel I really hope the Castle Doctrine guy is in it: rich trust fund scum who acts self-made, bragged about living off of $14k a year to show those dumb poors that it could be done only to later have it come out that he was lying and not counting the money he spent on health insurance and other things, and beat dogs with a stick and then gave away the stick as a prize in a contest. Holy poo poo! What's this guy's name? I know who you're talking about and I thought he was totally insufferable even without knowing about any of that
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Jan 1, 2015 22:00
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Problem Sleuth posted:That doesn't make them not indie though Yeah it was more a dumb joke about the idiot indie dev clique that involves people like phil fish & co.
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Jan 1, 2015 22:22
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2014 things that were good and fun: DKC: Tropical Freeze status: rad as hell, best DKC game ever made arguably even if it is a little short, David Wise still a great composer. Shovel Knight Bayo 2 Shadowrun: Dragonfall Dark Souls 2 Oddworld: New n' Tasty Child of Light Transistor 2014 things that were disappointing: Almost every other high profile release this year I mean god drat it was dire Motherfuckers acting like they forgot that Tropical Freeze was GOTY 2015 games I look forward to: Pillars of Eternity, Witcher 3, Persona 5, Mighty No. 9, FF15 (because I am a huge idiot)
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Jan 1, 2015 23:02
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KoldPT posted:I wish totalbiscuit shut up forever I don't know why people hate him so much. He's just boring as gently caress and acts smug about being a big video game person. I mean, I can barely watch the guy because his voice puts me to sleep.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:13
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I never got the whole Youtube personality thing.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:17
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James Woods Fan posted:I never got the whole Youtube personality thing. Like, subscribe, buy a T-shirt with my catchphrase
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Jan 1, 2015 23:26
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James Woods Fan posted:I never got the whole Youtube personality thing. Children and NEETs can't afford videogames so they watch other people play them instead.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:33
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SunAndSpring posted:I don't know why people hate him so much. He's just boring as gently caress and acts smug about being a big video game person. I mean, I can barely watch the guy because his voice puts me to sleep. This is a repost from my rant forum on my site and since I'm interested only in it being read, rather than advertising or shilling it out for hits, I'm going to just repost it here. Before I do let me give you a quick introduction. I finally registered on the SA forums a week or so ago having been a loyal reader for a couple of years. I don't like the new design of the site, I want to kill it with fire, I liked my good-old Web1.0 scrolly site, give it back please. I'm posting this here because you lot are smart, and as such, I have no issues with you telling me that you think I'm wrong with this pseudo-rant. This may also be preaching to the choir a bit and for that I sincerely apologize. I hope at least you get some enjoyment out of this. If you're one of those fellows who likes to Digg, the article also has a Digg page, do with it as you see fit - http://digg.com/general_sciences/At...you_intelligent With that said and done, here goes. "It's novello time, and it's about religion, so unless you're ready to deal with some views you may not agree with, switch off now. In the words of Illidan "You are not prepared". Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirmed of my own free will, son of a priest (who are pretty notorious for rebelling against their father's religious beliefs just for the sake of it). I'm part of the Anglican Church of England, which is pretty much the result of Henry the 8th getting pissed off with the catholics not allowing him to divorce his wife(s). We're the state religion of the UK, if you could even say the UK has one, we're pretty liberal about most things, women priests, gay priests, homosexuals in general, sex before marriage, contraception, we take the modern, reasonable way of looking at all of them. At the end of the day, the Bible taught us about forgiveness and being excellent to one another. It had a bit of a round-about way of doing it but what do you expect for a 2000 year old book written entirely by clerical males? It's gonna be a bit out of date, you've gotta read it in context. I have no problems with anyone's beliefs. Be whatever you want, as long as you believe (or don't believe) for a good reason. But here's what I really don't like, trend-atheism/trend-theism (also referred to as e-atheism, since it seems to be most prevelant in the domain of anonymous blogspammers and Digg-users). In my late teens, I spent a long time thinking. Yeah, just sitting around and thinking, thinking about faith. Thinking about what it is that I believe in. Rationalizing the various conflicts and contradictions that faith presents us with, looking at the viewpoints of other faiths, or those with no faith at all, taking into account the new things we discover every day and factoring in the influence of science. Some people would claim that, if I had indeed done that, I'd have come to the conclusion, as an intellectual, rational thinker, that God does not exist. They would of course, be wrong. My beliefs center around several factors. Firstly, it is important for us as human-beings to realize our own limits, and the limits of our understanding. Centuries ago we believed the world was flat. "The Bible told us so!", would be the first cry. Wrong, it really didn't. In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. The Old Testament, you remember that one? The one with the fiery bushes, the pillar's of salt, the cool plagues and such? Even that managed to get it right. There's a few more references as well to the 'round' earth (and before you say anything, flat is not a shape, it could have been a flat octagon for all they knew) but I'm not going to go into that yet. We've had computers for less than a century, powered flight for just over a century and of course our amazing horseless carriages. Genetics, electricity, nuclear-bombs, toaster-strudel, the world is in the palm of our hands! And it didn't take us too long did it? Reality-check, we're still primitives. In the great scheme of things this technology is a mere blip on the historical radar. We've got an awful long way to go before we're able to dissect and understand the mysteries of the universe. We haven't even put a man on Mars yet, let alone left our solar system to find out what exactly is out there. How can it be that we have suddenly, so recently, become so arrogant as to believe we know more than we really do? The Laws of Science are written by man, based on our understanding of how things work. They are theories that, while prove true today, may be debunked by another amazing discovery tomorrow. Which leads onto my next point. Name this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Arthur C Clarke, physicist and author, smart fellow. It also hilights the point I'm making. Our understanding of the universe is peerless only amongst ourselves. We are not as smart as we think we are. Just as fire wowed the neanderthals, what would it take to wow us? What would make our jaws drop and our minds boggle? Well, any sufficiently advanced technology of course. And what is technology after-all? Man-made machines. The concept of technology is a human concept, a concept that may, in other parts of the universe, not even exist, replaced by something even more advanced than that, so advanced that we cannot comprehend it. Not surprising really as we mammals only use 10% of our brains. So where am I going with this? Simple really, take yourself off of your high-horse, you, and the human race, is not as smart as it thinks it is. Now, open your mind a little, and let's explore some possibilities. The definition of a God. Let us turn to the good book. Wikipedia. "God most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the various conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent" Hmm, a tall order one might think. Could such a being exist? Some argue that logically, he could not, however, there is very little logic in denying the possibility that a being or beings of such power and advancement exist that they could indeed, be considered 'God' within our definition. That's not to say that God is a small green alien with a flying saucer and a phaser though that would give some of the overzealous fundamentalists something to sweat over, much to our amusement. But what is this God? A creator? Sure, we create. We create technology, we're getting to the stage of being able to create life in one form or another, using the basic building blocks of nature. Could it not be surmised therefore that it is entirely within the realms of possibility that someone or something created those building blocks? Like a programmer creates a new program, someone must have also created the coding language in which he created it. We scramble for answers. We come up with theories. Some believe in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Some believe a man in the sky created it everything in 6 days and then mooched around on the 7th. Which is valid? Neither, and both. They attempt to apply meaning to something where meaning may, or may not exist. Creationism and the Big Bang are in that sense, as bad as each other. They are both merely attempts for us to explain the unexplainable. The Big Bang contradicts our laws of physics (something most catalyse an explosion, therefore something must have been there in the first place, where did that come from, at which point your brain melts). The Creation Story contradicts our laws of physics (Same reasons, who created God after all?). Everything we've so far managed to come up with, from the sublime to the ridiculous, the complex to the simplistic, it's an exercise in desperate straw-clutching. At the end of the day, we don't know jack. And that's ok. Someone once said that the journey matters more than the destination, it's not the winning, it's the taking part, at least ya tried sport. These explanations of where it all comes from, be they ancient or modern all boil down to the same need. To know. Who'd have thunk it, we've got brains for a reason, and they rather like being used. Those neurons like to be fired, the little grey matter likes a little exercise every once in a while. Just as the Creation Story was a way to explain an unexplainable concept, so is the Big Bang theory. If one were to compare the human mind to a computer, try feeding the Big Bang theory to the medieval man, and it's like trying to shove Bioshock into a Commodore Vic20. Good luck. And what will our children's children's children's grandchildren's children think of our Big Bang theory? My money's on exactly the same thing. So what am I trying to tell you, stop asking questions, stop looking for answers and just believe whatever the hell suits ya? Absolutely not. Believe whatever suits you, but question it, never stop thinking, never stop asking or learning. In this day and age it seems people are way too willing to believe, or not believe. Belief, or non-belief should be a life-long arduous process and it should end involuntarily, when you fall over dead. Someone (there's a lot of talkative someone's aren't there?) once said 'Never stop believing', I say, "Never stop asking yourself what you believe, and why". It's time to criticize, so let me load port and starboard cannon and fire a volley at both atheists and theists alike. Believing, or not believing, does not make you intelligent. Smart people do not come to a conclusion on the basis of insubstantial evidence. Smart people do not mindlessly attack other people's beliefs just because they don't conform to their own. Smart people do not assume that their own rigid, poorly formed definitions of logic and faith, reason and belief are mutually exclusive and that if one exists, the other cannot. Smart people think outside the box, not pick fights with those poor souls trapped in it. What makes you intelligent, is knowing why you believe what you believe. Knowing that you are but one mind, and knowing that at any time you could be proven wrong, only for that person to be proven wrong ad infinitum as we as a race advance. I suppose you're waiting for my personal beliefs, waiting for this to be some kind of sermon, preaching why my God is better than your God, or non-God. You'll be waiting a long time, because it's not coming. My personal beliefs are just that, personal, they're mine, they belong to me. You cannot take them away from me, only I can. What I can give you though, are my opinions. Right now shots are being fired. They're not physical shots, they're bullets and shells of ignorance and bigottry. And it's no one-sided battle let me tell you that much. Factionalized camps everywhere you can imagine. Atheists, Theists, Satanists, Christians, Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists, Communists, every group you can imagine, all shouting 'Your God/Non-God sucks, mine is better!'. These days, the internet's become their battleground. So much for sharing knowledge, we're sharing ignorance. The bigottry and the condemnation has to stop. The sad thing is, I'm having to condemn the condemners. Isn't it lowsy how you generally have to be a hypocrite in order to make a point these days? Food for thought. We can look at the extremes and see the simplistic, secular vs sacred, trend-atheists vs fundamentalist evangelical christians, the most common stereotypes. But in reality, it's so much more complicated than that. It's this stereotyping and narrow-minded attitude that prevents us as a race from achieving the greatness we can. I could make as many decrees as I wanted till I was blue in the face, and I'm going to just to let off a little steam mind you, "Trend-atheist Digg users, shove your agendas where the sun don't shine, refusing the possibility of a supreme-being does not make you a genius or a radical thinker, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of anonymity" "Evangelical Fundamentalist morons, get your overly simplistic, judgmental, dogmatic Crayola God out of my face, you have about as much understanding of the universe as a wet lettuce. That does not make you holy, pure, or guaranteed a private booth at the big game in the sky, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of propaganda that you only believe because you're told to" Wow, that feels good, I can understand why you internet-bound condemners like it so much. Gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling doesn't it? What, I'm not allowed to indulge in such a guilty pleasure every once in a while? Play fair Wink Where's my conclusion? Hell if I know. Did you have the mistaken impression this was some carefully constructed plea for tolerance? Absolutely not, it's an angry slap in the face to my peers. Wake the hell up and use your brain, because my God/Non-god/Explosion/Man-in-the-sky/Vic20 gave you it for a reason. TB.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:36
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A Steampunk Gent posted:This is a repost from my rant forum on my site and since I'm interested only in it being read, rather than advertising or shilling it out for hits, I'm going to just repost it here. Before I do let me give you a quick introduction.
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Jan 1, 2015 23:37
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That guy was a huge fucktard IMO AP
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Jan 1, 2015 23:38
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i like totalbiscuit cause he immortalized me as a pro gamer
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Jan 2, 2015 00:00
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I appreciate how now all the Let's Players/YouTube personalities use the exact same thumbnail (the title in bubble lettering + the person making a wacky face in the corner) so I know exactly what videos not to click on when I look up a game on YouTube.
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Jan 2, 2015 00:08
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Davincie posted:i like totalbiscuit cause he immortalized me as a pro gamer so what is Dwarfs, then
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Jan 2, 2015 00:18
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Dwarfs was a kickass game
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Jan 2, 2015 00:20
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James Woods Fan posted:I never got the whole Youtube personality thing. My Drunk Kitchen is pretty fun
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Jan 2, 2015 00:51
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Ciaphas posted:so what is Dwarfs, then image dungeon keeper or dwarf fortress or whatever with 0% control of your guys and they are all suicidal idiots you have to save from water/lava/monsters. its okay for a bit but its not great or anything
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Jan 2, 2015 00:51
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totalbiscuit is an rear end cancer tard but i like him because LP people hate him with a passion lol http://i.imgur.com/nd6QBt9.jpg
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Jan 2, 2015 01:07
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:totalbiscuit is an rear end cancer tard but i like him because LP people hate him with a passion lol 
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Jan 2, 2015 01:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKhOvBNakM
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Jan 2, 2015 01:25
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kalstrams posted:Wow, how did I miss this. Considering how much of an idiot he is, it's really remarkable how often he gets into situations where he isn't the dumbest guy in the room
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Jan 2, 2015 01:31
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Totalbiscuit is bad but in terms of sheer punchability I don't think anybody tops that obnoxious fat british guy who always has his gross fat clammy hands stuffed in leather gloves and tries really hard to co-opt fascist imagery but doesn't have the actual energy to speak above a quiet mumble.
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Jan 2, 2015 01:49
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pride gnome jurn?
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Jan 2, 2015 01:54
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Problem Sleuth posted:I'm pretty sure it's Distance which is a remake of a free game called Nitronic Rush. I think the group made Nitronic Rush while students and now they're graduated and making Distance as a full game. 
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So is Far Cry 3 worth $7.50? I liked Far Cry 2
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