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Hobbies & Games > Video Games (Other) Video games: To buy or to rent: 1 of 14

Renting costs money; but buying a bad game you will never play costs more. With all the technology used in the gaming industry you would be led to believe that making a bad game would be very difficult to do. Right? Wrong. Making games can be a corporate grudge match to hammer out a title and get people to buy it before any ...
Entertainment > Movie Genres Zombie movies: Which are more effective, fast zombies or slow zombies?: 15 of 39

Ever have that dream where you run as fast as you can from some unknown enemy only to never be fast enough? That dream where you wake in the middle of the night terrified of what could come next from the endless imagination of dreams? The idea of a fast zombie is a crippling thought people would never want to face in reality...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Reviews Video game previews: Red Dead Redemption: 1 of 2

Red Dead Redemption is best described as G.T.A. IV the old west version. However, that is a lazy comparison when you pit the two together. R.D.R. is the wild west with all the mayhem and debauchery we expect from seeing so many spaghetti western movies. Couple that with Rock Star's history of outperforming itself with over t...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Does playing video games lead to a lower IQ?: 9 of 14

There is no yes or no answer. Many factors go into the types of games out there and the effects they have on people. I say people and not children because even an adult can learn something new from a video game. The whole "I.Q" is nothing more than a statistical chart of one's fitting in with "smart" people. Truth is everybo...
Sciences > Earth Science (Other) Is human space travel to the planet Mars too dangerous?: 31 of 35

As the old saying goes, "Never leave all your eggs in one basket." The same could be said for humanity; as a people we have been expanding to new lands and territories since the dawn of man's time. Now we have run out of room. As a race created to expand and populate we have learned the harsh reality of being cramped too tig...
Food & Drink > Soft Drinks When should you drink Coke and when should you drink Pepsi?: 4 of 4

The timing of a particular brand isn't really about choice or taste but rather how it makes you feel. A vast majority of soda drinkers will just settle for the taste or it was convenient. The reality is there is a huge difference for the reasons people who pick Pepsi or Coke is not the taste but the effect. People have vario...