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Obsidian Entertainments Dungeon Siege 3 is a polished and highly addictive button-mashing action-RPG that succeeds in creating a story-oriented co-op fantasy dungeon crawler for mainstream console audiences in the tradition of Secret of Mana or Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance. Though the Dungeon Siege...

Obsidian Entertainments Dungeon Siege 3 is a polished and highly addictive button-mashing action-RPG that succeeds in creating a story-oriented co-op fantasy dungeon crawler for mainstream console audiences in the tradition of Secret of Mana or Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance. Though the Dungeon Siege franchise was originally developed by Gas Powered Games, Obsidian is known for taking on sequel projects from other developers, most notably the...
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Obsidian Entertainments Dungeon Siege 3 is a polished and highly addictive button-mashing action-RPG that succeeds in creating a story-oriented co-op fantasy dungeon crawler for mainstream console audiences in the tradition of Secret of Mana or Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance. Though the Dungeon Siege franchise was originally developed by Gas Powered Games, Obsidian is known for taking on sequel projects from other developers, most notably the...
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There's nothing pretty about coal mining at the best of times, but mountaintop removal mining is downright obscene. The process is ugly in every sense of the word, but is less labor intensive, and therefore cheaper and more desirable for the big energy corps who do it. However the hidden expense in terms...

There's nothing pretty about coal mining at the best of times, but mountaintop removal mining is downright obscene. The process is ugly in every sense of the word, but is less labor intensive, and therefore cheaper and more desirable for the big energy corporations who do it. However the hidden expense in terms of the environment, public health, employment, and subsidies mean that it's something...
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On the surface, The Last Mountain is a documentary about the dirty business of coal, the highly destructive and toxic practice of mountaintop removal mining, and one community's fight to preserve their homes, their livelihoods, their health, and the last great mountain in the region. However, the story of Coal River Mountain in West Virginia is allegorical of much that is wrong with America, which...
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I first heard of Rebecca Watson in her role as the lone female host on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, on which she appears as one of a quartet of co-hosts led by Dr. Steven Novella, but she first gained notice within the skeptic community because of her work with the collaborative blog she founded, Skepchick.org. Skepchick advocates for the interrelationship...
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Trina Robbins is a legend among people who read and study comics. Shes a cartoonist who was active in the San Francisco underground in the '70s and '80s where she contributed to many publications including the East Village Other, It Aint Me Babe and Wimmens Comix. In recent decades shes worked more as a writer on books including Go, Girl! and Chicagoland Detective Agency, in...
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Paul Bettany is a BAFTA-nominated actor who has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He's a hard man to pin down, given the wide variety of roles he's had in a wide variety of movies. He's played: a young Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale; a killer albino monk assassin in The Da Vinci Code; Russell Crowe's "best friend" Charles in A Beautiful...
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