Leveling up my alien one gloriously earned kill at a time until I realized I was becoming quite the proficient killing machine.

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Croft, the relateable heroine, became less of a realistic person and more of a remorseless killing machine, the sort that populates most games in this genre.

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And the Iraqis would be sitting there, with the machine guns firing, firing, firing, killing a lot of these guys but there would be more coming, and these machine guns would just heat up and jam.

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The hours of killing time before riding over to the hall, the putrid vending-machine meals on the run, the way-too-early-in-the-morning vans to the airport -- the dreary parts all become more than worth it when, for an hour or so, the singers can once again personally deliver a bit of happiness to the audiences who still adore their music.

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The Davidka was grossly ineffective as a killing machine.

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Running in the background, too many third-party apps overuse system resources, memory, and network to the point where almost any machine with multitasking capability ends up running slowly and killing battery life.

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The thing is, the portal only opens once and then has to be rebuilt by killing all theKeywardens again except for the last one who drops the plans for the Infernal Machine which opens the portal.

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