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I plan to talk about something that happens in Mass Effect 3 about two thirds in, so please do not read the following article unless you are comfortable with knowing how at least one of the most interesting moments of the game turns out.
One of the more exotic and affecting elements of the Mass Effect universe is th... |
24 March 2012
06:08 GMT |
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For the longest of times, Facebook would bundle all of your contacts as "friends" and be done with it. Granted, it still does that now, but it is taking steps to better separate the different types of contacts in your friends list.
A few months ago, it introduced the Acquaintances list. The name is self-explanatory ... |
22 March 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Crytek, best known for creating the Crysis first-person shooter franchise, has announced a number of new details on the GFACE multiplayer online gaming service that it plans to launch in the coming months.
The main feature of GFACE is the friends list but with a number of extra features, like th... |
3 February 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Television series “Friends” ended in 2004 but, to this day, it's still considered one of the best sitcoms ever made. Fans have never stopped hoping – and praying – for a reunion movie and, as it turns out, neither did Matt LeBlanc. TMZ paparazzi caught up with the actor the other night ... |
18 January 2012
11:24 GMT |
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A new research paper that was published by a team at the University of Tampa has shown that those who cheat in video games have a tendency to pass this habit to their friends and then lose many of the fellow players who do not share the habit.Researchers worked with Valve to get access to the playing habits of its 12... |
3 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The counterintuitive conclusions of a recent investigation show that our friends may in fact know us better than we know ourselves. According to researchers, believing that we know ourselves better than others do is a fundamentally flawed preconception. They however admit that it's natural to think so. On the ot... |
9 May 2011
10:12 GMT |
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A new study suggests that social gamers might be significantly more social than non-gamers, with company MocoSpace quoting a study of its own users to reach the conclusion.The company says that it has obtained data from more than 10,000 anonymous users on its official smartphone-based social-networking platform durin... |
19 April 2011
09:37 GMT |
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It's already been named the most watched television show of the decade, so it's no wonder audiences still consider the cast of “Friends” as the best ever. A new poll in TV Guide confirms that. The publication conducted a survey to determine which have been the casts to leave the biggest impressi... |
12 January 2011
11:21 GMT |
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A new study from Concordia University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Vermont, concluded that having friends can be a form of protection against sadness, in children.Kids with no friends tend to become social outcasts, and by their teenage years, they can fall into depression, according to the res... |
17 December 2010
04:56 GMT |
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There is a long-known relationship between religion and life satisfaction, but that 'secret ingredient' that makes religious people happy, has just been revealed in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.The findings of the study can be applied to the three main Christian traditions in the U... |
7 December 2010
10:09 GMT |
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You are probably familiar with the butterfly effect theory, or you might have seen the movie, but you should know that there is also a social butterfly effect.The butterfly effect is a theory that basically says that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system can cause large variations in the lo... |
2 December 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Our brain chooses people we like over shared interests, found a new study led by graduate student Fenna Krienen and senior author Randy Buckner, PhD, of Harvard University, focusing on the brain region that processes social information.Friends trigger more response in people's brains than strangers do, and this ... |
13 October 2010
09:17 GMT |
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People who are made to think about time end up planning to spend more of it with their friends and family, while those who think about money will be inclined to spend more time working, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania found out.In our modern society, time is money but if you were to choose between the... |
8 October 2010
08:24 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Brigham Young University in Utah has recently determined that making friends is a very important factor in predicting the life span of individuals. The researchers say that, while things such as exercising and not smoking do have a large influence on the length of one's life span... |
28 July 2010
05:47 GMT |
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People would rather make friends than enemies, because of their natural inclination to socialize and interact in a positive way. The 80 year old psychological theory called the Structural Balance Theory is right and scientists finally proved it thanks to an online open-ended game.The Structural Balance Theory says th... |
20 July 2010
03:32 GMT |
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Late last year, James Michael Tyler, who played Gunter on the immensely successful “Friends” series, was saying that he knew for a fact a feature film was in the making. Since then, Lisa Kudrow has denied the reports and nothing more was heard of the so-called project. Until now, when the National Enquire... |
19 June 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Self-control is in a number of situations an ability that not many people can show. Somehow, we seem to have a natural tendency towards harming ourselves, but a new study suggests that not all may be lost. According to the investigation, people are more likely to exert self-restraint, and practice moderation and self... |
16 January 2010
03:31 GMT |
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NBC’s “Friends,” telling the story of six friends, three boys and three girls, is officially the most watched television show of the decade, The Hollywood Reporter says, recently revealing the list with the other series that have also made the cut. The show’s finale, “The Last One”... |
5 December 2009
05:22 GMT |
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A new study, made possible by means of a grant from the National Institute on Aging, comes to show that loneliness, just like a common cold or other infection, can be contagious. This means that people who suffer from it tend to spread it to others who, in turn, are pushed to the periphery of the social network where... |
1 December 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Following years of intense speculation and entreaties from fans around the world, in September this year, the first seemingly more accurate report regarding a “Friends” feature film emerged. It seemed to come on good authority, as it was James Michael Tyler, Gunther on the television show, who backed it u... |
18 November 2009
11:36 GMT |
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Ever since “Friends” ended its ten-year run on television in 2004, rumors of a comeback for a long feature-film version of the show have never ceased to make the rounds. At times, even the original stars were certain of a remake happening – but it never did. That will change in 2011, when all six pr... |
28 September 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Online services are some of the most important pieces of software for any console in this generation of platforms. From Xbox Live to the PlayStation Network or WiiWare, every such service is vital for gamers to stay in touch with their friends and family and entertain themselves. But even though Xbox Live is the mos... |
11 August 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Understanding how trends spread through society has been one of the main goals of social researchers for a long time, because the mechanisms involved in this are apparently extremely complex. Unfortunately, it's not like they can put a GPS tag on a trend and see what happens. So, they turned to the next best thi... |
3 July 2009
03:01 GMT |
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It's always nice to know that the range of video games for kids keeps growing and the big companies care. For profit, indeed, but it makes us forget them a little bit when it comes to kids. And, since the Disney Characters were the ones who brought joy to our (at least, my) world when we were younger, I think it... |
6 March 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Machines connecting to wireless networks and costing their owners tons of money aren't breaking news, as a matter of fact they're old history. Except for the fact that it is a continuous nuisance, the fact could go unnoticed by anybody else, except for those paying the bills. But, when the bottom figure sho... |
4 March 2008
09:14 GMT |
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I'm sure many mobile users love Friends, the TV sitcom originally broadcast between 1994 and 2004, but I'm not really sure how many Friends fans would pay $21,000 for some episodes of the show. I guess not even one. However, Daily Telegraph, the famous British newspaper, reports that a woman from UK used he... |
3 March 2008
10:56 GMT |
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New Facebook users might want to think twice about who they add as a friend in the first day since they activate their accounts. Some of the people that automatically add others to their Friend List might prove to be the reason for some major drama and serious scandal. The application called "Break Up" goes over the ... |
16 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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One of the best features of Xbox LIVE is finding friends for an online game. After all, playing with your friends, whether they're across the street or on the other side of the planet, is one of the main reasons you want online gaming. But it's not much fun unless you know they're online.FRIENDS WITH ... |
9 January 2008
13:36 GMT |
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December 14th brought a change in the traditional Google Reader routine that I had entered a couple of months ago, that of opening it and, automatically, in a robotic-fashion starting clicking on the feeds I had received. That day brought sharing as a part of that experience, the option to show my friends the things ... |
27 December 2007
15:41 GMT |
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Logging in my Google Reader this morning, the first thing that popped up in front of my sleepy eyes was a window like I hadn't seen another before, that made me question what had happened, for my sleepy eyes weren't all that thrilled to find new things and my sleepy mind was all but open to grasping new con... |
17 December 2007
03:16 GMT |
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Forget Mona Lisa's smile - the world has a much more mundane and yet very cryptic and challenging mystery to solve - and it's way better than classical art riddles or the disappearance of the dinosaurs. The only difference is that there's nothing classy or graceful about this mystery-woman. In fact, sh... |
23 October 2007
08:38 GMT |
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Finally! I confess I have been looking forward to this piece of news ever since I heard Amy Wino was actually married to that drugged-out weasel she calls her husband. And it looks like despite what we previously thought about her, our favorite druggie still has some brains unaltered by her frequent substance abuse. ... |
1 October 2007
05:11 GMT |
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