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Best shooter video game series.

I've compiled a list of various very popular shooter series, spanning across many platforms and garnering very large fan bases over the years.

Now its time to choose your ultimate shooter series, albeit because of its gripping story line, immersive gameplay, visceral graphics, theme, weapons, opponents, or any other reason you'd love a game! You can vote in the sidebar now.

If your game isn't here, then drop it in the comments and please still vote on your favourite from the list!

Half Life

Counter Strike

Battlefield

Call of duty

Quake

Unreal Tournament

F.E.A.R 

Metal Gear Solid

Resident Evil

Halo   

Let the voting begin!.. And probably a discussion-turned fanboy war.

Thank you, Trashcanman!

Epic Craigslist prank

I was just reading The Mental Masochists blog and stumbled across an amazing little prank he pulled... I've never put in this much effort to troll someone, but he did look as though he deserved it, so I'll give him that ;).

I hope you don't mind me linking you here Maso, if anything I'd probably say your glad.

Share any similar stories in the comments, links if you can! I've read some amazing stories like this where people have gone above and beyond extreme lengths to troll, so I'm sure you have some to share.

Pirate Bay appeal begins in Stockholm

"The appeal of the four men accused of masterminding The Pirate Bay file-sharing website has begun at a court in Stockholm.

The world's media was captivated in early 2010 by the trial of men -- Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom -- were accused of assisting the making available of copies of a selection of music, movie and videogame content via The Pirate Bay.

Following a large chunk of the charges getting dropped and a lot of legal to-and-fro-ing, the quartet were found guilty, and ordered to pay about £2.5 million to the entertainment giants pursuing them. They were also given a year each in prison. Almost immediately, however, questions were raised by the fact that two of the judges ruling on the case belonged to a pro-copyright organisation.

So the defendants vowed to appeal, and that appeal has now begun at a court in Stockholm. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom all appeared at court to demand they be acquitted with little or no damages. A rumour circulated that Neij responded with an IP when asked for his current address, but Sunde denied that on his Twitter feed.

Gottfrid Svartholm was unable to travel from his home in Cambodia to the trial due to medical reasons. His lawyer, who was present, argued that the case should continue without his presence, while the entertainment industry's lawyers said that his appeal should be voided and that the earlier ruling should be made permanent. The court decided that the appeal should continue, but that Svartholm would need to present a medical certificate from a doctor by 7 October.

The prosecutors then went over their version of history of the site, establishing how each defendant knew each other, and how the investigation into the site took place, including the raids in 2006 and how the evidence was collected.

The case continues, and is scheduled to be completed by 15 October." Wired.com