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You've forgotten the extremely violent* swordfight with the maitre d' assassin.

* if poking a stick figure in the butt is violent

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“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.”

Boy, does that bring back memories. I wonder if I can get it for OS-X.

EDIT: Yes!

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"GLaDOS (the main computer, for all you noobs out there) actually is a psychopath, but she is The Enemy. Think HAL 9000 crossed with Lisa Lampanelli."

In other words, a cold racist homophobic digital bitch who gets lobotomized by Donald Trump.

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I see you have been playing <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L.A._Noire" target="_blank">L.A. Noire</a>.

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And Looney Toons wouldn't've gotten a foothold if it wasn't for jazz and jitterbugging!

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The sun makes the screen difficult to see.

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Waltzing! Their bodies are too close!

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That game looks like what would happen if "Mad Men" had a holodeck.

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I mostly discover them through stumbleupon. Kongregate, Armor Games, AddictingGames... I don't generally search them out, but they pop up when I am stumbling.

Don't really have the time or inclination for anything but casual games anymore, though I will admit to throwing a couple weeks of my life down the Skyrim hole.

We should make a wonkette game. One thing Flash is still useful for, and nobody can make Flash dance like I can...

Get it? Flash dance? <a href="http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085549\/" target="_blank">Flashdance</a>? Meh, before your time, Kid. :P

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In defense of the upgrade, Minecraft may look like a simple throwback, but it chews up the GPU. You actually need a pretty decent machine to run it well.

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I'm sure he cleaned out her pipes quite throgoughly.

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I pretty much stopped with the gaming after I finished Zork. Am I to understand that they have pictures now?

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A virtually armed society is a polite society.

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Chaotic Neutral News. I always wondered what CNN stood for. This explains a lot.

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So true! Instead of playing violent video games that teach them to kill, and desensitize them to gory violence, kids and their parents should be out doing fun, <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=6yCtMUI3tRE" target="_blank">wholesome stuff </a>together.

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