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8 Creepy Video Game Urban Legends (That Happen to Be True)
The urban legends of every era always seem to reflect whatever teenagers are doing at the time. That's why it only makes sense that today's are centered around video games. Except ... these are absolutely true.
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957 6 Hilarious Ways Game Designers Are Screwing With Pirates
Piracy accounts for 31% of all Internet traffic and, regardless of your personal opinion on the issue, it does really suck for a lot of game developers. But rather than just try to sue the pants off of everyone who ever logs into Bittorrent, some have started thinking outside the box a little.
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5 Bad Ideas Humanity Is Sticking With Out of Habit
Old habits die harder than Bruce Willis.
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- By Paul Jury
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Five Surefire Ways to Piss off a Smoker [CHART]
If you really want to take years off a smoker's life, ask them any of these questions.
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- By Stephen Cook
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6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe
It's a place where hitting a floating brick with your head and expecting money to come out is considered normal. These games are classics, so we don't even stop to think about the absurdity of what goes on in them. For something to be considered creepy within that context it would have to be pretty messed up. Like, for example ...
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Peter File
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7 Memes That Went Viral Before The Internet Existed
In the very likely case that you're on the Internet right now, you already know what a "meme" is. But you may not realize that the concept -- a meaningless phrase, image or joke getting repeated endlessly for no reason at all -- predates the Internet generation by a long shot.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane
The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Pieces of Heavy Machinery
If you never dreamed of driving a huge tank fitted with a giant chainsaw while growing up, then congratulations on having been a well-adjusted kid. As for the rest of us? Well, people like us grew up and built these machines for real.
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- By Brian Thompson
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The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games [COMIC]
The spectrums for success and failure for ten different aspects of gaming.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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The 6 Most Ingenious Misuses of Military Hardware
War is serious business. Life-and-death stuff. Brutal, bloody and unrelenting. But who says it can't also be fun?
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- By Karl Smallwood, Tony Pilgram
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6 New Anti-Pervert Technologies (We Really Shouldn't Need)
Technology is really only there to help people put their dongs into other people, or to prevent others from getting unwanted dongs put into them. This eternal technological sex conflict is called the Great Pervert War, and here are the latest weapons on both sides.
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- By Mark M., Paul K Pickett
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The 6 Stages of Smartphone Ownership [CHART]
From love to hate, and back to love again.
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- By Stephen Cook
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6 Bad Ideas in Video Game Mash-Ups We'll Probably See Next
or years, game companies have been combining games that make money in order to make even more money. Occiasionally this works out pretty well. But with 'Marvel vs. Capcom 3' hitting shelves and selling pretty briskly, game designers will be trying to cram even more blockbusters together into the same universe.
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6 Supervillain Devices You Can Make At Home
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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How to Compose a 'Tweet' [COMIC]
Brevity is the soul of sounding like an asshole.
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- By Scott Meyer
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