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It's time again for the ES Member of the Month! Winners will receive a place on our list of all-time MotM's as well as a free month of Premium Membership. Send me a PM with your vote containing the name of the member you're voting for in the title. Example - "MotM: Traaginen" (but don't vote for me as I'm ineligible; see below. Rules Failing to follow either of these... Rather simple... rules will result in your vote being voided. [*]You may not vote for yourself. [*]Each member is eligible to win once per year. After having won, they're not eligible until the voting starts over the next year in January. 2012 Member of the Month Winners Here are the previous months winners (who are currently ineligible). [*]Traaginen - January [*]Huygens - February [*]Jamie – March [*]Anarchy - April [*]Tcee - May [*]TRR Daniel - June [*]Deathirst - July [*]Labush - August [*]Squishyman - September [*]Blexun - October [*]Ericbloodaxe - November

It can't be revived with the same members, it must be rebuilt with new ones. Sadly you're playing on hard mode.

Yeah, they disappeared with literally no explanation. I mean, Cutter broke his leg so I guess that's at least kind of believable. There's no reason for Chloe to go anywhere, though, and even Cutter has an astounding lack of any communication or correspondence at all the second half of the game. It's weird as hell since the game treated him as a main character the first 10 chapters, and then off'd him without ever explaining who he even was or why he was around. U3 was clearly about the Sully/Nate relationship, and it was alright in that regard. The ending speech could have been way better (Sully could have actually directly said "OMG NATE U ARE MY SON HUGZ"). Makes me think he's being set up for a tragic death scene in U4.

Forgot all about this; it's finished at any rate. The deals have generated some income for the site even with my irregular posting of articles, hence the lack of me bumping the donation thread. Fortunately there wasn't a dire need last cycle or two.

It might solve a few things, but the majority of bugs people experience (i.e. most that are related to quests) won't be solved by doing this.

I've never played any CoD by Infinity Ward. I know that MW2 or whatever was supposed to be great, but since then IW has been pretty poor. Treyarch's Black Ops was a joke in a lot of ways. I vote for the meteor.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks the 2nd one is way better. I'll admit I don't really remember a lot of it, but U3 has more than its fair share of epic moments. I had to laugh at the absurdity of the scope of the predicaments several times.One place the game did fall way short, in my opinion, was the story. After several long and tough sequences I was always excited to take a break and move forward with the character development; I always ended up disappointed. Nothing is answered about any of the character's past, 2 of the main players literally just up and disappear with no explanation at all... And then you have the dozens of questions added - in addition to those that existed before - that are never answered. The ending was just very unsatisfying for me in that regard.

Notice how they're all mediocre sports games that EA pushes out with no changes every year. They're just doing this so people are forced to repurchase the same $60 game they already own despite absolutely 0 improvements.

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I've been bored the last few nights and did a quick mash-up of a site-wide skin like the one that is on the home page. There are A LOT of things I would change if this was ever actually adopted, but I think you can at least tell whether or not it's a decent or terrible idea by using it in its current form. There are a lot of positives and negatives to using it, and I won't bore you with most of them that you wouldn't notice. I think the main thing is that navigation would be consistent across the entire site, which honestly, is one of the most important things a website needs to have. Of course, the point is moot if it's so ugly people just instantly shut off their laptops when they see it. You can try it out by going to the bottom-right of the page, select "Change Theme," and then click "Developmental."

Someone actually bought something?! o.O

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I only have a few days left; we start classes again on the 9th. Pretty bummed about it since I've done nothing but sit in my house all day watching Netflix. When does everyone else head back to real life?