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Gervais wasn't as mean this year, but everyone looked like a sourpuss anyway. Why did Viola Davis looked p***** off during The Help joke? It wasn't even a mean one. Nice to see Jodie Foster has a sense of humor at least.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Dr._Seuss

This also reminds me that a Dr. Seuss game in the vein of Kingdom Hearts could be amazing. Imagine boss battles against Yertle the Turtle, the Grinch, the Once-ler, etc. Some sort of gigantic Butter Battle machine.

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Obama

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I'm pretty sure using "The Imperial March" in this context implies that he knows nothing about Star Wars at all.

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I also find it hard to believe that anyone would be able to tolerate MWC's presence for more than the 82 seconds it almost assuredly takes to engage in sexual congress with him.

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lol jk, he uses "The Imperial March" instead.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/ron-paul-is-using-darth-vaders-theme-song-now,67543/#disqus_thread

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Some_Character posted...
Post. Don't really have a concrete reason, but I'm sure it's justified.

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Are people seriously against those as well?

Their radiation emission rate is very low, but considering how many people pass through them would be enough to give people cancer. And there are alternate scanning systems that don't do this.

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The Osama Bin Laden has been pronounced nine times thing appears to have originated here:

http://www.corbettreport.com/osama-bin-laden-pronounced-dead-for-the-ninth-time/

There are a total of 10 "death pronouncements" listed including Obama's. Five of those are just people saying "I think, based on evidence and logic" that Osama Bin Laden is dead, one is Harry Reid saying someone told him Osama might have died in an earthquake, and one is Obama, leaving only three other "death pronouncements."

One is Fox News reporting on a report in a Pakistani newspaper, one is a leaked French document about an uncorroborated Saudi report, and the other is Benazir Bhutto making an offhand comment in an interview with David Frost (who randomly does not follow up on her claims. Or the videos all cut off before that point.) Some of these reports contradict each other, and none appear to have been researched or corroborated in any serious way. If you want to be doubtful of the government's line that's good, but there's no reason to give any of these other sources credence either.

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The Benzair Bhutto quote is also presumably a misstatement as she discusses Osama Bin Laden being alive in this interview conducted after the Frost one:

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/03/cnr.06.html

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Bump

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The first post of my new blog. It's not all going to be film reviews, but the first one is!

http://rfurse.blogspot.com/2012/01/of-swedish-stories-and-american-remakes.html

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Joking aside, of course they do. When Nintendo creates a game like Ocarina of Time, they are creating value out of thin air. When you write a book, you are creating value out of thin air.

You don't make the money by making the game though, you make the money by selling it.

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Mitt Romney

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Exile was Terry over Bruce
Cooks was Yul or Ozzy winning I think.
China was James over Frosti
Micronesia was Penner over Eliza

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Taxes aren't stealing. If you made money in a country you should be obligated to give something back to it. No one just creates money out of thin air.

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Pre-Classical Era (Mario/Servbot to Jill//Link): This was the early days of the contests when they were a GameFAQS only thing, and we had no idea what would happen or what to expect from them.

Classical Era (Sonic/Samus to Final Fantasy VII/Suikoden II): The contests were not just a GameFAQS thing, and votals expanded. We knew what to expect more, but we were not dominated by stats and patterns. This was the prime time for GameFAQS contests, in my opinion.

The Dark Ages (Pokemon G/S/C/Xenogears to Link vs. Sephiroth): The poll was moved down and votals dropped, interest died off at times during this period only to be revived during 2005.

Modern Era (Legend of Zelda/Civilization to 2007 Contest (no real specific match)): Votals exploded and people were really interested in the contests during this time. Lots of stuff was happening in the gaming world and there was the potential for changes in the contests.

Postmodern Era (2007 Contest to Sora and Riku/BJ and Hitler): The very concept of contests was subverted in this period with stuff like 4 ways and joke characters/4chan rallies, 12 hour matches, etc. etc. While we worked on perfecting certain aspects of contest analysis during this period, we also came to understand much more about how variable results can really be. I don't really have a starting point for this era. Either the first match of 2007, Mudkip/Bidoof's R2, or L-Block's R2/R3 would be good picks I guess.

Neoclassical Era (Mario and Bowser/Ike and the Black Knight): BJ and Hitler failed to bring in joke rallies, and a lot of conventional parts of contests seem to have returned, albeit in a much more boring manner.

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I finished reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay last June and I still have this feeling.


*KIND OF SPOILERS*
What happens to Sammy afterwards? I still wonder this periodically. I know that Chabon has written a couple short stories afterwards, but nothing that seems to be about much interesting.

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If this was the type of guy who went around punching people in the head, I doubt any of his "friends" actually cared about him anyway.

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Well, in the case of self-defense, I would disagree.

Self-defense when someone's attempting to murder you, sure.

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The bully was.

So? Two wrongs don't make a right.

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I agree that the bully was stupid if he knew the guy had a knife, but being stupid doesn't mean you "deserve" to die.What kind of backwards thinking Social Darwinists are you people! No one "deserves" to die. Period. We're not Neanderthals.

I mean, this sounds excessive from the article, but I'd have to know in context what happened. Was it something like the kid got punched and then stabbed the guy with the intent of killing him, or was the guy still punching him while being stabbed?

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There was a massive voter fraud, by the way. Pretty much everyone on the ground is saying Paul won the state.

This. This is what I meant when I called you paranoid earlier.

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Still the number 1 result in Google!

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Even if Iowa is only 3% black, a threefold increase to nine percent would put the number of blacks on welfare nationwide nowhere near a majority, let alone 75%.

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http://www.texasmonthly.com/2012-01-01/feature2.php

Of course the actions of the media/layperson that accused her without knowing anything, like always, makes me the most angry.

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I side with Rachel. The "We were on a break" thing is really a red herring. The fact that he lied to her amount the whole thing seemed to be the important part to me.

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Education shouldn't be considered a commodity.

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Set should count for this.

Jungle Speed as well if you don't mind being injured.

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Twilight Zone <3

Just got Season 1 for Christmas!

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Like a non-religious version that sees Jesus's teachings in the New Testament as good philosophical morals to live by, but not because he was the Son of God or anything. Kind of similar to Confucianism, in that it is a philosophical rather than religious system.* Is Unitarianism the closest thing to this?

*I know that Confucianism being/not being a religion is up for debate.

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Wasn't Mary around that age?

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I'm not sure having "Mars" in the title would alienate girls that much. Girls seem much more willing to see a "guy" movie than vice versa.

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Seasons 1 +2 is a good start for Survivor. The two winners pretty much show the two main ways to win the game, and the two play styles of Survivor. Pretty crucial seasons. Other seasons that I think are important watches, either for quality reasons or because they say something about the game itself:

Marquesas
Amazon (Maybe. I've seen it described as a parody of Survivor almost, so not sure how good it would be without seeing all that came before.)
Pearl Islands
All-Stars
Vanuatu or Guatemala
Palau
Exile Island
Cook Islands or Fiji (Bad seasons, but are reflective of the way the game has changed)
Micronesia
Samoa + Heroes Vs. Villans (Bad editing, but at least tell an interesting story about playing Survivor.

Season 2 for Big Brother. The first "proper" season, and still the best

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Originally, I was going to say that Link going back in time as an adult in OoT is a red herring since anything could create a scenario in which Link fails, but I think I might have come up with a better way to explain things instead.

A) There are two types of time to think about here. "Hyrule" time, and "Link" time. In a traditional time travel story, you generally deal with "Hyrule" time. This is the timeline for an entire universe. One timeline with various pasts/presents/futures to visit.

B) "Link" time is someone's *personal* timeline, and can exist in multiple "Hyrule" times if someone is traveling between them. At the end of OoT, Zelda sends Link back in time to when he was a child, but this is in terms of "Link" time. She simply rewinds his "personal" time if that makes any sense. The timeline which Ocarina (almost entirely) takes place in, remains intact. This rewinding does create a separate "Hyrule" timeline.

C) Now there's nothing in OoT to imply that Link going back as an adult is time travel in a universal or personal sense, but if it is in terms of "Link" time, it would explain how a new timeline is created. However, this does produce questions. If it is travel along "Link" time, then why isn't Link frozen in time when he returns to the moment he pulls the Master Sword? And is it even possible to move forward in "Link" time this way? Questions, but not unanswerable ones.

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Why does changing some things create a new future and changing other things doesn't?

Well, in theory there's a different timeline for every decision we make, but that's a non sequitur in regards to Link traveling back and forth to child/adult There's nothing in the game to imply he enters a new timeline, and it's not necessary to explaining why a separate one exists.

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The Left Timeline still doesn't make sense to me. Link doesn't go to a "new" future after the getting the Lens of Truth/does part of the Spirit Temple. He just goes back to the one he just left, which is the one that's supposed to make up the Left Timeline. The stuff he did the first time like getting Epona/beating the Forest/Fire Temples is still done. The timeline he travels on throughout the entire game is ostensibly the same one. The split happens at the very end when Zelda sends him back to the way things "should have" been.

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(who the hell is Jane Eyre?

what

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Thats a total exaggeration. The FF series does well in Europe but it's hardly a juggernaut. FFIX lost ground to Phoenix Wright and FFX to Viewtiful Joe for gods sake. >_>

I agree with this. I looked at results from this contest and in Cloud/Seph Vs. Kratos/Zeus the regional difference weren't that extreme, while Link did noticeably better in America in all of his matches. If anyone has extreme Geolocation results it's Link's American numbers.

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Woah, Cloud and Sephy came back. They deserve major credit for pulling this much off, even if they fall short in the end.

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No game designer should feel obligated to change their vision because of what the fans want. It's the designer's idea that's supposed to be being expressed.

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At least 3 people literally voted for Chase because they felt bad for him and didn't think he was going to get any votes.

Which says something about his social game.

Played a better game than Jud, IMO.

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I've been mostly avoiding this season (watched two eps with my parents and looking up what happens online), but I'm gonna probably watch it now just to see Coach get torn apart at FTC. :)

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CHANGE

Link vs. Ganondorf with 55.55%

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I think the proper options should be

1) Yes, keep the contests they way they are
2) No, bring back 4 ways
3) No, allow in characters that did not originate in video games
4) Link

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What RPGs boosted? All I really see are the older FF characters and the recent wRPGs.

There was a POTD asking what type of genre was people's favorite and RPGs surged from 30% to 40% or something like that in the past year.

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Man, I still don't get that 4chan rally. Who cares about a second-tier Duck Tales character? I was alive when the show was on and I barely remember who he was. How did anyone under 23 or so support it?

What Bacon should do is just set up a schedule of contests in a five year cycle that can be repeated. If he has time to have little side contests, fine but otherwise don't worry about switching things up.

Year 1: Characters
Year 2: Non-VG Characters
Year 3: Games
Year 4: Characters:
Year 5: Something different/GOTD when applicable

There, done. Would this be difficult to stick with?

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this isn't OoT vs FFVII guys

this is the entire Zelda series vs FFVII

OoT and the entire series are probably both roughly equal, tbqh.

Edit: I'm not sure where this matter of factness about FFVII freefalling comes from. RPGS boosted a lot in popularity in the past year, and FFVII's playrate has been falling off at a lower rate than OoT's. This match today is the only thing to really imply anything other than a minor drop.

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