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Not that surprising, I think it's the same in real life.

When my girlfriend sees her female friends they seem to just sit around and
gossip about their boyfriends all night.

When I see my guy friends we want to talk about pretty much anything _but_ our
girlfriends.

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laironald
yeah definitely! it's like academia... the ideas being tested are often very
obvious but when empirically tested and validated that's when you start
developing the capacity for deeper thought/theorems and business frameworks.
cool stuff austin_e! keep mining that data.

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sonyasonya
I think what's surprising here (to me) is that boyfriends aren't discussed
more. Guess girls have more to talk about than their boyfriends....





Compo4All: Making Arcade Games Social Again - ekianjo
http://www.pandoralive.info/?p=185

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ParadisoShlee
This simple little idea has been keeping my OpenPandora in my hands a lot
recently. Passive social gaming has always been one of the more interesting
and non-explored parts of multiplayer.

I remember playing a TRIALS HD on my 360 and my friends are shown as a passive
dot. I kept wanting to chase that dot and beat the high score of somebody who
wasn't even playing.

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ParadisoShlee
P.S. To everybody who saw the words "Open Pandora" and laughed... the project
was taken over over a year ago and is actually running pretty smoothly.

I really like my 1Ghz (2012) model Pandora :)

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yamara
I love this as an idea to bring older games into new light, and tying it into
MAME is a fantastic idea to get a broad spread of both games and users. Plus,
a large amount of coins popped into arcades was to beat that elusive high
score, and this just makes that more relevant.

For extremely popular games, I could see adding rankings based on region or
perhaps other breakdowns, if you kept a user profile.

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ekianjo
Author here. This piece of software only runs on the Open Pandora Linux
Handheld for now, but the developer says it's very portable and it is likely
to spread to other platforms in the very ne