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You do know that outside America what you call soccer is referred to as football? I've always been a little confused as to why it is called American football when most of the time you carry the ball and don't use your feet on it.

Anyway in most countries 4-1 is a perfectly reasonable score in football :)

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I think the only thing that is proven is that violent video games can enable sensationalist politicians with no education in the subject to spout bull@&£@ propaganda on the matter.

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For some reason all I could think of with their screensaver in the background was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIZGfu0tq94

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I've really liked this series, but my problem with it has been the failure to implement your choices to have any real impact. I expected to run with different people based on my decisions after I had read what Telltale said about choices made throughout the episodes meaningfully impacting the story.

However it seems that by the time episode 2 had been released Telltale realised the amount of work required to follow that implied path was too much work for the team to keep around a monthly schedule which just wasn't profitable. a few minor SPOILERS ahead so don't read on if you haven't played the series (although you really should keep away from message boards if that's the case).

In Episode 2 you choice of who to save from episode 1 is skirted around by making them a minor character (although this is the most they do for any choice). Episode 3 basically reset all your meaningful choices and the choice at the end of episode 4 is quickly erased in episode 5 so you are left with a few minor changes here and there (the odd line of dialogue changes and one scene changes based on a decision in episode 4). This is stark contrast to the implication decisions in episode 1 will have meaningful consequences.

Episode 5 was a disappointment because no matter what you did the same sequence of events occur in almost the same way to the point that if you didn't take part in taking the car supplies in episode 2 the event in episode 5 that follows on from that still happens, but feels like really poor story telling.

Episode 5 was way too short and felt like it wanted to rush to the ending scene since that was where all the emotional power came from, the rest was just filler and generally poorly implemented filler at that with things not making a whole lot of sense. As a score for the episode I think 7.5 may be a little generous in some respects contrary to what a lot of people seem to be saying here. If you score the series as a whole though it may feel a little low in that context, although given my issues throughout this journey I'd be inclined not to go much higher than that with the hopes the second season at least gives our choices some meaning in the end.

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Those found running authorized or pirated software will have access to the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network services through the PS3 "terminated permanently," Sony said.

Wow, Sony are really wanting to shut down their PSN servers if they're banning people using authorised software ;)