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  2. Path of Exile - Wikipedia

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    Path of Exile (full release) 23 October 2013 In October 2013, Path of Exile officially launched leaving what had been Open Beta, the launch was an expansion that changed the shape of the game. Originally Open Beta version 0.10.0 in January 2013 marked the point where Path of Exile was opened to the public as a free-to-play game.

  3. Critical hit - Wikipedia

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    In many role-playing games and video games, a critical hit (or crit) is a chance that a successful attack will deal more damage than a normal blow.. The concept of critical hits originates from wargames and role-playing games, as a way to simulate luck, and crossed over into video games in the 1986 JRPG Dragon Quest, [1] set at a fixed rate of 1/64 (~1.56%). [2]

  4. Hitscan - Wikipedia

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    Hitscan in video game design, most commonly in first-person shooters, is a type of hit registration system that determines whether an object has been hit or not simply by scanning if the item used was aimed directly at its target and then applies the effects of the item (usually damage) instantly. A weapon, for example, does not launch a ...

  5. ABC dry chemical - Wikipedia

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    Chimney bombs are zip-lock bags or other small bags filled with ABC dry chemical powder. Chimney bombs are used by fire service personnel to help extinguish chimney fires. Creosote, which is the by-product of the incomplete burning of wood (typically due to chronic combustion-air insufficiency), is extinguished by the chain reaction caused by ...

  6. Universe of The Legend of Zelda - Wikipedia

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    The Legend of Zelda series is set in a fantasy world that first appeared in the original The Legend of Zelda, which was developed and published by Nintendo.The game introduced Hyrule as the series' primary setting and series protagonist Link, a Hylian boy or young man who is the player character. [1]

  7. Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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    "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), [1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", [2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found [3] was used internally by Microsoft [4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage ...

  8. List of genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.

  9. Eternal flame - Wikipedia

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    Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin eternal flame memorializing losses during World War II .. An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns for an indefinite time. Most eternal flames are ignited and tended intentionally, but some are natural phenomena caused by natural gas leaks, peat fires and coal seam fires, all of which can be initially ignited by lightning, piezoelectricity or human activity ...