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January 13, 2009 6:00 PM

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Ok... I think I have managed to fight off the urge to buy one of those fancy 17" Macbook Pros. I had to do a dns block of apple.com and freeze my credit card in a block of ice, but I managed. I'll be ok. Damn it I think I'm gonna buy one. CRAP CRAP CRAP.

Crayon physics inspiration
CES and recession?
Crazy pilot faked death
Sleep and disease

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Macho Man hits Left 4 Dead!
Bruce Springsteen hitting Guitar Hero
Fallout 3 patch 1.1 released
Fallout 3 DLC coming January 27
Mirror's Edge DLC gets release date
Call of Juarez prequel announced
Star Ocean: Second Evolution screenshots
Castle Crashers DLC this week
Fable 2 DLC screenshots
LucasArts cans Indiana Jones game
Final Fantasy 13 footage
Please delete your Midnight Club DLC
Sony losing $1.1 Billion in 2008
Mirror's Edge patch 1.01
Rock Band 2 Wii DLC has arrived
PlayStation 2 breaks 50 million in sales
Phantom of the Opera composer shopping game idea
AionGuard revealed

Lastly, look at your hands! Are you gonna get rich!?

Steve Gibson

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January 13, 2009 6:01 PM

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- skitzo
  
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  January 13, 2009 6:05 PM
  
  Well, I have a position open for you! :D
  
  MAY REQUIRE HEAVY LIFTING >:(
  - RomSteady
    
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    January 13, 2009 6:06 PM
    
    You've mistaken milligrams for pounds again, haven't you?
- [deleted] 877988455
  
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  January 13, 2009 6:08 PM
  
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  - RomSteady
    
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    January 13, 2009 6:09 PM
    
    All quests are some variation of either "kill x y" or "bring x to y" or "talk to x" or "do x before y happens."
    
    It's how you wrap those that makes things interesting.
    - SockMonkeh
      
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      January 13, 2009 6:11 PM
      
      That's why mmos suck.
      - RomSteady
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:13 PM
        
        Can you think of a quest that isn't a variation and/or combination of the above?
        
        [deleted] 877988455
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:35 PM
        
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        SockMonkeh
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:38 PM
        
        Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.
        
        RomSteady
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:41 PM
        
        KILL all enemies, BRING corpses TO self, DO (listen to widows) BEFORE (post-pillage orgy) HAPPENS
        
        SockMonkeh
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:43 PM
        
        You're really reaching for it.
        
        RomSteady
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:46 PM
        
        Every game can be reduced to one or more of these binary conditions.
        
        Maze games and first-person shooters? DO (reach end) BEFORE (time/health runs out) with some BRING (key/object/vibrating blue squirrel) TO (door/NPC/John Romero's head on a stick)
        
        SockMonkeh
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:49 PM
        
        What about something like Mount&Blade? Ain't no point to the game.
        
        RomSteady
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:50 PM
        
        DO whatever BEFORE (boredom sets in)
        
        SockMonkeh
        
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        January 13, 2009 6:54 PM
        
        hahaha
    - spiderfill
      
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      January 13, 2009 6:31 PM
      
      http://bbrathwaite.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/the-lord-of-the-rings-is-a-fedex-mission/
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    January 13, 2009 6:09 PM
    
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      January 13, 2009 6:34 PM
      
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- timaste
  
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  January 13, 2009 6:10 PM
  
  good luck!