After reading through some of a 'must play before you die' list on 1up.com i decided to go ahead with my own list. While i wouldn't play a crap game, some of the games listed are based on historical and/or game play significance over wow factor. I'm sure I enjoyed a lot more games from each generation, but these are the ones that I felt were worth mentioning.




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The following is the original Discussion section I wrote for my master's thesis. My advisor today informed me that it sound too grandiose for my measly finding. So I figured that posting it on idio would cancel that out for me.

The Evolution of Organized Religion

Charles Darwin (Descent of Man, 1874)
[i][On the other hand a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in man's reason, and from a still greater advance in his
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50 years after birth control pills were first available for public use and women are still fighting with conservative politicians and religious associations that are trying to reverse these earlier decisions. They are trying to take the right of women to have access to birth control. I will never understand how conservative Republicans want run on the platform of small government yet still want the government to control things like education and women's rights.

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"DON'T EVER TOUCH THAT!", my step-father yelled with a rage a tad more noticeable than my typical wrong-doings would incite. And just like that, my indoctrination was complete.

Hardly my fault if you ask me. Police issue revolvers are shiny attractive objects in general and I was a just a 5 year old boy. Like a fish to a lure, I just had to pick it up. St
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It's amazing to think about all the technology present in modern society and how this technology has profoundly impacted the manner in which we live. Computers, for example, came out of a need to store massive amounts of “collective knowledge” into small bits of information that could then be manipulated and put towards solving a particular problem. The computer can be thought of as a tool that allows humans the ability to better control the abundant amount of information encountered on a daily basis a
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Since the birth of this great nation there has always been some type of National Day of Prayer (NDP) at one time or another. Starting when the Continental Congress in 1775 set aside a day of prayer to mark the birth of a new nation. Following along these sentiments George Washington (1779) also proclaimed a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. After that, however, NDP was not adopted as a national holiday and believed by some at the time to be down right unconstitutional.

"[i]They seem to imply
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This is a review of Yeasayer's somewhat recently released album Odd Blood.

I will start by saying I've been a fan of Yeasayer for a bit (~a year or so). Their first album (All Hour Cymbals), I thought, was marvelously experimental. You could hear how they were searching to create 'their' sound. Odd Blood is the answer to their first debut album. It seems they fo
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I will be moving onto a farm in August and I have already begun to collect animals. I found a store in town that will allow me to sell the angora (rabbit) fiber through them.
Here they are:
My dog, Dagny, which many of you have probably seen before. She is 1/2 Pharoah Hound, 1/2 Australian Sheppard. She loves to run and also to herd animals. She watches the chickens in the mornings.


Next up we h
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I am smarter than Neil deGrasse Tyson...but just this once. Still, I can't help but take to the internet and brag about it. The guy knows pretty much everything about everything and any chance to one up him is a chance I have to take. So let me tell you about it in open letter format.

Dear Mr. Tyson,

I would like to quote yo
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"My computer does too much!" I try and imagine the look on the face of the sales representative of any technology store as I repeat, "My computer does too much!" How delightful for him though. Any opportunity to sell something else to someone who thinks they need something else is graciously welcomed. But the statement itself is preposterous. Would he be inclined to ask me "What don't you want it to do?" ...Read More

Imagine you are 6-years old and you taking part in a psychology experiment. You are taken into a room and a marshmallow is placed down on the table in front of you. Just as you go to grab for it the researcher tells you that she must leave the room and while she is gone you can either eat the marshmallow now or you can wait until she
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Dear Blog,
I got a new tattoo. It is so cool and so painful that I want to scream.






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After reading up I decided I will get another one tomorrow so she won't be so lonely. She is the CUTEST.

Her name is Glenda.
Glenda Peck.
Glenn Peck for short.


ps. I cant fucking make these links show because i am decidedly retarded so just copy and paste them.
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The other half of my friends argument taken from Behe's book regarding the immense complexities of the human eye.

Section taken from Michael J. Behe's book Darwin Black Box:
[i]But let's touch on the subject of Darwin's theory of how complex eyes evolved:In the 19th century, the anatomy of the eye was known in detail. The pupil of the eye, scientists knew, acts as a shutter
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In response to my opening statements my friend referenced some very popular arguments from a book entitled Darwin Black Box by Michael J. Behe.

My friend:
[i] You should sit down and talk to my brother one of these days though. He's reading a book called Darwin's Black Box. I don't know if you've read it but you should give it a gander. One of the things my brother expla
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Recently a friend on facebook posted some religious propaganda. I am normally not one to care if someone wants to openly express his or her belief about a particular God or religion. That would be very hypocritical of me considering I study why people believe in religion. I do, however, have a breaking point.

Case in point this is the post my friend made that prompted me to
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I am trying to get a big similar piece together so I can try to show it at my school in one of the little gallery rooms before I graduate. I am working hard. Here is what I have so far. Well, pictures of. I have a lot more stuff.



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Below is a true story about a group of simple tribal people who, like any society, had their own beliefs and practices. More to the point, however, this story demonstrates the interesting and unexpected impact that modern societies and technology can have on traditional hunter-gather groups.


The people living on the island of Tana in the Pacific were a primitive bunch. In the late nineteenth century Christain mis
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The amount of misinformation contained within the confines of the world wide web far outnumbers the websites actually centered around factual information. Case in point if one searches on google for missing link within the first page of results you can find a fantastical story by Dr. John D Morris, Ph.D. on his e
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I know I am late to the scene, but I feel this album, The XX by the XX deserves yet another positive review.

Take Chris Isaak and Interpol, smash them together in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, for the non nerds) and sprinkle some of The Cure for flavor, and you more or less have created The XX. Their sound is very intimate and brooding. Lightly playful while remaining reflective,
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