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    12/04/09

    In reply to This Week's Gaming Stories, Dating Sim Gone Wrong Edition
    I know there are a few dating sims that get to the erotic scenes, and (due to Japanese conventions), the scene was censored. The way they chose to censor it, however, involved complete removal of penises in the entire game. It was horrifying.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    "Get me something to drink, yeah?"

    The hell? Douche got what he deserved.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Just a note to remind my fellow commenters that not ALL men or ALL women are any particular thing. There are good and bad in both sexes equally. Just remember if you have a relationship, you have relationship issues. A lot of joy and a lot of heartache. Thats the way it is. Thats the way its always been. Thats the way it will always be.
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    Image of Twanzio Twanzio
    12/04/09

    @Curves: Do you need a hug? That sounded like it came from a personal place.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/04/09

    @Twanzio: I was just trying to stop the ALL women bashing, we arent ALL anything. This is not a new phenom to our generation either. Since Adam and Eve, men and women have had their differences, and personally, I wouldnt change it. Viva La Difference. :D

    ps-I have never bashed anyones anything.
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    Image of Mischif Mischif
    12/04/09

    @Curves: You can bash my anything...wait, that sounds like domaination. We should have sex.
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    09:53 AM

    @Mischif: Um....thinking it over....... No.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    I think it's more that after you put enough hours into these games, your save data is like an extension of yourself - if you evaluated it in terms of what you make per hour working, then even at minimum wage, this would be a tremendous loss, even not counting the emotional investment in it.

    So the girl sees it as a toy the guy spends too much time on her and smashes it. The guy sees it as a direct personal attack, like if she had poisoned or stabbed him.

    Personally, I don't think it's worth the risk of getting close to someone that unhinged. If a guy plays games and ignores his girlfriend she's well within her rights to leave. If she'd make a big deal about staging the destruction of one of your main hobbies... she's crazy. Get out of the house. Run for it. You don't want to be around someone that irrational.

    The console is not a penis. Even Freud (is attributed to have?) said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." The world is not made up of penis analogs.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    I'd be pissed too if my unemployed BF spent all his time on video games instead of me or finding a job.
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Assuming this is true (und dot is a big iff), what does it imply about the materialism it takes to subconsciously place consoles and genitalia on the same level of importance?
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    12/04/09

    @Killjoy: You should ask the guy who'd rather play with his console than with his girlfriend's genitalia.
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Jeez, there but for the grace of God go I....

    ahem, I mean, that sucks for him. Still, if bill-paying is the problem, wouldn't she be better of hocking the PS3?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Oh Freud, why does *everything* have to be about the wiener?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/04/09

    @EBone: Well, you know what they say....you write what you know.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    it's funny how discriminating and obsessive women are in choosing a good mate.... and how insane they are to hang onto a shitty one.

    seriously. i talk to girls about prospective dudes all the time and their reasons for not going for them are almost always Seinfeldian in nature. oh ho ho but once they are with some guy, he can devolve into King Douchebag Of The World and they won't leave, they'll just complain and snipe and generally lower themselves to his level - and beyond.
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    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: Sounds like someone's been burned.......I've been there, too, man. I know how it is.

    I'd give you a friendly, but totally not gay consoling pat on the back, except I assume that anyone I talk to on the internet is perpetually locked in the image of their profile picture and...well, you don't look to open to consolation right now.
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    Image of Munch the BanNail Munch the BanNail
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: It's also funny how us guys can be the polar opposite. All it takes is enough alcohol for almost any woman to be the perfect woman (for that night anyway).

    ... and I think Tiger Woods has illustrated how we can tend towards wandering from the good ones (I don't know how she is as a person, but she's good on the eyes). Not to say that most guys are like my example or that most women are like yours, but there are certainly enough illustrations of both - especially on the hot end of the female spectrum and the rich/powerful end of the male spectrum.
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    Image of Michai Michai
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: Amen, never understood fully the 'asshole on arm' complex that plagues woman like a venereal disease in a Lesbian sauna.
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    12/04/09

    @Munch the BanNail:

    i know guys who get away with cheating on a regular basis. and by get away, i mean they aren't even sly about it, and get found out fairly quickly. and yet the woman stays.

    i had to walk out on a long term relationship with a woman who i was contemplating marrying when i found out about some.... indiscretions. it was a horrible event, and a shitty time thereafter, but one thing was clear - despite everything, all the time and effort, the commitment, the love, there was no question that that was it, over and done with. i dont think men tolerate betrayal of trust as well as women do.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: I think it's simple. Woman know they fall in love easy, they make sure they find the right one. Man knows woman is looking for love, but knows nobody will have him as he is. Man pretends to get woman, woman falls in love, man removes George Clooney mask. Woman gets mad and destroys gaming console.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/04/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: (the following doesn't SOUND comedic, but it is. i'm exaggerating here)

    ...which makes the playing field even less unfair for those guys among us who fall in love too easily. thankfully a string of untrustworthy women has burned that character trait right out of my soul. im now properly converted to being a "normal guy" - i no longer feel a desire for commitment, i'm completely cynical regarding, and untrusting of, women, and i find it difficult to make deep connections with females. i refrain from discussing my feelings by default, and i'm more than somewhat apathetic about the feelings of the other person.

    seems to me that if you're a nice, decent, respectful guy, don't worry - soon enough you'll be screwed over enough times that you'll change into what every girl complains about - a distant, detached, closed, untrusting cynic. which will actually get you laid more often.

    wanna know why there's no more nice guys out there, ladies? because your contemporaries ruined us.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: I think the same can be said about ladies too though. One too many burns and they lose trust.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    12/04/09

    @nutbastard: I feel like I've just revisited some personal conversations over the past few months. I wouldn't hesitate to agree that woman are more tolerant to cheating, or doing the seeing-each-other-and-getting-back-together routine. Sad that most guys don't reciprocate that same tolerance. Oh well.

    This was so awesome... poor nice, decent, respectful guys disowning their feelings to avoid feeling hurt. For the next few years or so you've probably got yourself a genuine a-hole that couldn't find his feelings if you handed them to him.

    Way to go, ladies... I'm building a fort under my desk in my office right now - NO GIRLS ALLOWED!
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    12/04/09

    @valkilmerisawful: @nutbastard: I'm thinking that a lot of the problem is that guys tend to focus on a girl's looks when falling in love with her (not saying you guys do, but most of my guy friends do). Sadly, most of the women who will cheat are the smoking hot ones. And they are hands-down the ones that my guy friends fall for and get burned on.

    Go after a cute nerdy girl. She's cute (so she's nice to look at) but she's not trying as hard to attract men as a "hot girl" that'll be hit on constantly and tempted to cheat. And a cute nerdy girl will play your video games with you.

    Much as there are nice guys out there, there are nice girls, too (who are sometimes overlooked because they aren't all tarted up).

    Worked for my husband, I guess. And the PS3 is my baby, so I'd never ever hurt it.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    01:57 AM

    @kimsama: I watch WAY to much Discovery, History channels and Animal Planet to be surprised by Naturalism :) Damn hott girls (and all guys) messing around... Damn cute nerdy girls making us work hard... :)
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    Image of TonyWonder TonyWonder
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    4 years at Juilliard and thats the best they could do?... FAKE and LAME..
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    If he's not getting a job and/or paying the bills, why the fuck is she still with him? Dump his scrub ass!
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    Image of slim934 slim934
    12/04/09

    @chauncy that billups: Seriously. It seems that she's just pissed that she's can't break herself away from this useless loser and also that she cannot actually change his poor character. She's lashing out in anger because she sees no way out of the situation. She's still nuts for not leaving and lashing out in anger.
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    12/04/09

    @slim934: Point is, you don't break somebody's shit publicly for not living up to your expectations. He's a shitty boyfriend. Dump him. See how much he likes his ps3 now that your body is no longer available.
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    12/04/09

    @chauncy that billups: Oh no question. The situation is entirely one of her own making. Being a nutcase does not give one license to destroy some one else's property. I was simply trying to create a point of psychological reference to make sense of her reaction.
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    12/04/09

    In reply to Castration Anxiety: Why Men Are Fixated With Pretty Girls Breaking Consoles
    Speak for yourself, I'm not fixated with pretty (stupid) girls breaking consoles.

    It's Friday Wilson, you're over-thinking this. Men aren't fixated on pretty girls breaking consoles. Men are fixated with pretty girls.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Decorate Your Xbox 360 With, What Else, a Bloody Handprint
    That's some piss poor paintwork.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Decorate Your Xbox 360 With, What Else, a Bloody Handprint
    Whereas I do like the concept, I think I would prefer to do it in real blood because they've got the color wrong. Dried blood is darker and more brown (due to oxidation).
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    12/03/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: dried blood also evaporates a bit, so it wouldn't be as effective as this is. This mod is meant to look like a bloody hand just brushed the front of your xbox, and the blood is so wet that it's dripping
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    12/03/09

    @RT100=tg14: i think i'd still prefer the look of actual-factual dried blood on a nice white XBox 360 faceplate
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/03/09

    In reply to O Canada: Bungie-centric Xbox 360 Bundle Heads Up North
    something something Bacon, The Arcade Fire something, eh?

    But seriously, if they're going to toss an exclusive 360 pack to Canada, I'm surprised it's not an NHL 10 combo, since I think Canada makes up about 94% of that market.
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    Image of Rob C Rob C
    12/03/09

    @Segador:
    Actually I believe we'd rather get out on the rink and play the game in real life rather than simulating it in a game...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/03/09

    @Segador: Arcade Fire is to music what Bacon is to food. Figure that one out!
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/03/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Speaking of Bacon, it's good to see your star back.
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