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In Oblivion, You Can Kill A God With A Stick

The Elder Scrolls series take place in a world filled with mythical creatures, magic, and gods. As anyone familiar with fantasy tropes might assume, many of those gods are evil -- or at best, kind of dicks. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you square off against one named Mehrunes Dagon. He is kind of a dick. Kind of a giant, red, four-armed demon dick.

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How the hell are you supposed to take out an enormous elder god who opens portals to Hell at will? The answer is, you aren't. He gets defeated in a cutscene, where Sean Bean morphs into a dragon and rips his throat out, heroically sacrificing himself. Wait, we already said it was Sean Bean; the sacrifice is implied.

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The Deadliest Weapon In The Last Of Us Is The Water Pistol

The Last Of Us: Left Behind is a DLC adventure that finally gives fans of the grizzled, zombie-bashing tragedy exactly what they wanted: cute tween bonding. A big chunk of the game is just two teenage girls messing around in an abandoned mall doing BFF stuff: asking a Magic 8-ball questions about puberty, raiding an arcade, and posing in a photo booth. They even have an adorable water gun fight.

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That water gun fight is controllable, by the way: you can use the gun, and stealth mechanics, to soak your friend. It's a fun little diversion before zombies come and ruin it all. Caught off guard, Ellie and company are largely helpless. If only they had a shotgun, a flamethrower, a baseball bat -- something!

Oh right, the water gun! No seriously, one player hacked the game and discovered that the zombies shared a secret weakness with the aliens from Signs: poor scripting.

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If that splash of weirdly rendered water hits any enemy, they fall over dead almost instantly. Add to that the fact that the water pistol has an area of effect, like a shotgun, plus infinite ammo -- and the best weapon in The Last Of Us is a goddamn brightly colored plastic squirt gun.

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Destroy Minecraft's Most Powerful Boss With Sleepytime

Minecraft is an open-ended game world with no real objective or ending. It's about creativity, rather than fighting some overwrought boss and "winning." Except gamers just don't feel right if they're not killing something dramatic, so they added an end boss called the Ender Dragon. As one would expect, the dragon lives in a sort of Hell dimension that exists outside of time, so if you want to kill the bastard, you first have to build a portal to his realm, stock up on potions, strengthen your armor, forge some master weapons, and steel yourself for the fight of a lifetime.

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Or you could just build a bed.

In normal gameplay, beds are used to rest, which resets the game clock to morning. In The End, however, resetting to morning is impossible because neither morning nor night exist. You'd think that trying to rest in this realm would do nothing -- you wake up and it's still just "unnight" or whatever. Instead, the immovable timelessness of The End collides with the unstoppable force that is bedrest, resulting in a huge explosion that destroys everything nearby, including the Ender Dragon. It's one of the fastest ways to beat the toughest enemy in the game, and all you have to do is to craft a bed, wait for him to get close, then take a well-deserved nap.

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Everyone In GTA V Is Terrified Of Your Slider

Grand Theft Auto is more than the name implies: Every game includes tons of extra features that are neither grand, nor theft auto. You can hire prostitutes, go bowling, play fetch with your dog, or hold up corner stores for quick cash.

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Robbing stores seems a bit pointless, though: You walk in, wave your rocket launcher in the face of a terrified clerk who thinks that's just a bit of overkill, he gives you a small amount of cash, and then you've got a wanted level. Evade the cops, and it's back to planning your multimillion-dollar heist while wondering why on earth you bothered lifting $347 from a Circle K when you jacked a brand new Ferrari just to escape.

Here's the thing: You can hold up stores with every weapon in the game -- from pistols to switchblades to ... baseballs?

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Now, maybe the shopkeeper assumes that where there's a ball there's a bat, or maybe your character can throw super hard -- but more likely, the game just wasn't programmed to differentiate between "harmless ball" and "lethal hand grenade" when an item is equipped to the throw slot. It doesn't matter. The end result is the same: you walk around town with an elbow cocked and the entire city is fucking terrified of your devastating fastball.

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Ed would like to thank his sister for her help with The Last Of Us, and for her patience whilst he prattled on about game plots.

For ways the developers are messing with us, read 5 Video Game Easter Eggs That Were Absurdly Hard To Find and 6 Video Game Easter Eggs Developers Didn't Want You To Find.

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