Word: ripped
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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The sounds were noticeably altered from the original, and the game's closing sequence was a poor imitation as well. Declared a tester: "This thing is a total rip-off. The only reason to play these games is for the nostalgia value, and it doesn't even have that." Anthology, on the other hand, offers 85 games for just $20. Testers loved the games, even when they lost. "I'm as bad at this as I ever was," said...
...course, objections to the TSA policy need to address the opposing perspective, summed up nicely by a poster in response to the NYT story: “Cry me a river. I don’t want to have to be trying to rip a terrorists [sic] throat out at 35K feet because she didn’t want to be touched.” Hero complex aside, this view would seem to be logically correct; after all, isn’t being groped a small price to pay for the security of the American People? Except we?...
...problematic was Flashback's rendition of Adventure, in which you must find a golden chalice and take it to a castle. The sounds were noticeably altered from the original, and the game's closing sequence was a poor imitation as well. Noted a tester: "This thing is a total rip-off. The only reason to play these games is for the nostalgia value, and it doesn't even have that...
...lead guitar and David Lovering on drums) formed in Boston in 1986, put out five albums of genius pop/punk, influenced essentially every guitar-based band of the ’90s (Kurt Cobain once admitted that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is just a Pixies rip-off) and gave real meaning to the word “alternative,” then imploded acrimoniously in 1993. Deal rejoined her previous band, the Breeders, Black and Santiago continued to make music together and Lovering worked as a professional magician...
...John Wheeler coined the term to describe a region where matter is so dense and gravity so intense that even light can't escape. At the core of a black hole is a singularity, a spot where density and gravity appear to become infinitely great-- unleashing forces that could rip a hole in the very fabric of space-time and send a brand-new universe expanding in a direction undetectable and imperceptible to us. Since giant black holes lurk at the cores of many billions of galaxies and smaller holes are left behind by many billions of individual exploding stars...