Vikingod

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What's up, equinox? Time for the annual semipagan celebration of rebirth. Spring is here, and with it comes the usual mess of fertility symbols, miscellaneous woodland critters screwing and laying chocolate-filled eggs, Jungian crap we're not entirely keen on sorting out, and some Christian complications sure to earn me a bumper crop of e-mail.

But what better showcase of the triumph of life over death than videogames? Nobody really seems to stay down in them. If you have enough of those things we named our website after, death is just an annoyance. At least when it isn't a gateway to someplace blue and glowy where you can walk through barred doors.

But of all gaming's death-defying characters, there's a handful that stand out for their complete and utter disregard for mortality. They spit in the very face of the reaper. Maybe even pee on him a little. Not in fear, but because they just felt like peeing on something and he was there. It seems like a good time to recognize that kind of chutzpah.

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