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I found this picture of an otter and I found it quite cute. However, I Googled otter to find more pictures and all of the otters on the search have much broader faces than his. What kind of otter is this?

Picture of the otter: http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ot...

Please, just hear me through before answering. I have this group of friends and we all play video games together. We were playing a game and I decided to play a practical joke on one of my friends. He freaked out because of the joke (it was in the game not anything outside of it) and we tried to get him to calm down. He absolutely flipped, like I mean he was calling us names and then we started calling him names back. We preceded to yell back and forth and we beat each other up in the game and then he calmed down. He then said, "You make me feel worthless." And got off the game. Our group of friends poke fun at each other all the time, even at me, but I feel like we took it to far with him. I try to be a good person and I can't get over the factor that I made someone depressed. What are your opinions on this? Should I not worry and maybe it was just in the heat of the moment? Please, I can't get it off my shoulders.

At my school, we had this kid in our class who was all obsessed with space. He was serious about everything he did and always wanted to go to space. The day before he left our school, he brought in a pact that said that when we grew up we would all pay to launch our cremated ashes in to space. As silly as this sounds, he's not a joking person. I was silly and signed the pact and he left. It now hangs from the top of the clock in our Science room, and recently everyone has been getting serious about this happening. First off, is this a real legal document? Also, if it is, do I have to follow through with it? Finally, if I do have to, can I white my name out and pretend like it never happened? I know this sounds REALLY silly, but it worries me. It would be nice to get this off my shoulders silly or not. Please don't judge.

My friend and I live in different states, so my other friends and I talk to him over voice chat. He is homeschooled, and we all go to public schools. A few days ago we were talking about school work and we got onto the topic of essays. My friends and I had to do an essay for our first week of school, and my Iowan friend bragged how he skipped essay questions on his homeschooling program. I asked him why and he stated that he didn't want to do them. I then said that I thought they were important and that they could really help you in the future, since some job and university applications require a short essay in order to fulfill the requirements. He suddenly got hot tempered, and asked me if I was calling him "stupid". I was shocked and said that I wasn't saying he was stupid at all and that I was just, as a friend, suggesting that he try at least one of the essay questions given to him. He then preceded to blabber on about how he thought public schools are silly, because he can get what we get done in 8 hours within 2 hours. I replied saying that he also skipped essays AND book reads (forgot to add that). He then was quiet for a while. Later on, when it was just me and him, I was playing a computer game over the microphone. Him and I like to play video games sometimes, but in this case I was playing alone. I got frustrated (not yelling frustrated, more like upset), because I had died in the game and had lost all of my items. He then remarked that I needed to calm down and that they were just "a bunch of pixels". Now he also gets hot tempered at video games and I replied that he always got frustrated and, if we were playing together, he'd make me restart the game to regain all his items and lose some of our progress. He then preceded to pout and left the chat. He didn't speak to me for three days. Finally, him, my other friends, and I began chatting again. He was completely silent and when I asked why he wasn't talking, he replied that I had "greatly insulted him". He also claimed that he didn't feel like talking to me personally for a long period of time. We haven't spoken for days, but he was probably my closest friend out of the small bunch I have. I have no clue what to do. I'd apologize, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. I gave him advice as a friend to do some essay questions and he became greatly convulsed. Any suggestions?

Hello, I'm going to make this short. My friends and I have been close for years, but recently they've been hanging out with this... other person. He swears every sentence even if it doesn't call for it and bad mouths everything. He also is just rude and likes to make screeching noises into the microphone when me and my friends voice chat. They all like him for some reason and I do not, and they treat me like the odd one out now because of that. I have no clue what to do.

So, my friend and I had the idea that we'd make a map in a video game using a development kit I found. Then we decided to make a whole game out of it. I am absolutely crappy with the development kit and I can't build crap, let alone that map. He's already planned so much stuff out that I can't tear him down by saying I can't do it. What should I do?

I met a guy my freshman year of high-school and we used to hang out all the time. We both liked video games, but I always had the feeling he was a bit unaware of a little thing called "personal-bubbles". He needs to be next to me and talking to me 24/7 and I can't even talk to girls I like or other friends without him standing over my shoulder. It hit rock bottom last week when I was in a conversation with this girl I really like and he walked up and attempted to talk about a video game had bought last Sunday and how it was so cool. So, the girl left and I haven't talked to her since and I am ticked off at him and he doesn't seem to even understand I don't need to hang out with him 24/7. He calls me on Skype the instant I turn on my PC and no matter how many times I decline his calls he keeps calling. I go offline to solve the problem, but if I even dare to get on any social media site I am bombarded with messages like, "0mg i just bought MW3! u need to come play it now with me cuz my mom only lets me stay up til like 8!!!!"

My family is also good friends with his and if I just stopped being friends with him there would be problems. My mom would probably get angry at me and since I see his mom everyday at my school I don't know how she'd react. Help!

I have found some very long books in Skyrim that are around 20 pages long, but what is the longest book in Skyrim?

Because of today's huge sale I decided to download N.O.V.A. 2 for $.99. I installed the app to my PC and then synced it to my iPod. When the sync was finished, I checked to see if it was there but it wasn't. So I decided to sync it again with troubling results... N.O.V.A. 2 takes up about 500 MB of space, but ever since I synced it again it takes up 1.1 GB!!! That's 1/8 of my iPod's memory! Anybody know how to fix this?!

My friends decided to take a break from Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Uncharted, Skyrim and Borderlands to switch over to a new game, Gears of War! I was so pumped to play this game, I'm fine at games and since the shooting seemed somewhat like Uncharted 3 I was excited to try it.

My friends, running through the map shotgunning apart player after player and whipping out their Retro Lancers and bayoneting people in the chest. Me? Roll forward and get shotgunned trying to keep up with my friends. I have been playing this game for days and my friends have been laughing out loud at my 1 Down 5 Deaths score almost every game. Sometimes its even worse than that. All my friends play now is Gears, Gears and Gears. Me? I play and boast a 0 Kill per game ratio! So good, right? Any tips or tricks on how to do better?

Hello, I am a Freshman in high-school who needs to read two books every marking-period. I used to be a frequent reader, but books now just bore me in general. The books I read need to be over 200 pages long each with somewhat small font.

I have already read:

Hunger Games Series

City of Ember Series

Alfred Kropp Series

Any suggestions?

I was planning to go, but I decided not to because I was tired and wanted to finish my TV show. My family left and I suddenly started feeling really bad, because it was his first and last band concert. Should I feel bad?

Okay, I wanted to make a picture for my Battlefield 3 Battlelog, but it required me to sign up for Gravatar. I put in a funny picture with a joke that I really don't want my family to see. It is appropriate for the site but my parents hate jokes of the type and wouldn't appreciate me having the joke as my profile picture. Gravatar says in its description that it uses the profile pictures I post for a variety of sites that use my email. I use the same email for Facebook and Twitter, and lots of family members wouldn't appreciate the joke. I was wondering, what popular sites does Gravatar apply to?

When I went to get my dog 6 years ago there were tons of dogs at the shelter. It also was a shelter that euthanized their dogs if they were there for too long. What is the percentage of dogs euthanized in shelters?

I have important stuff like emails and other secure things I check everyday. Does Facebook or Twitter track these searches and pages? I have both social networking sites up at all times.

I have been using it for months now but just recently hear a story about a kid getting supposedly hacked by it. I have heard people say "use bots on your own risk" but I'm still worried.

My first COD game was COD4. Loved it. Played COD2, noticed how it was almost exactly the same as COD4, but without Create-A-Class and sprinting. Still I liked it. Played World at War, it felt like an expansion pack but changed the feel of the series and I like it. MW2 was good... I guess, but it felt unbalanced and rushed. Black Ops was pure garbage IMO, graphics sucked, felt like MW2 with bad guns and boring killstreaks, and didn't change at all from MW2. MW3? A joke. NOTHING has changed. It's like they copy and pasted MW2 and added in some gimmicks to make people buy the game. I mean, does Treyarch or Infinity Ward put any time into these game anymore? How much time do they put in?

Also what times does Jagex check for bots?

I'm a teenager and I admit, I have serious problems. I think EVERYTHING is a threat. If somebody says they're going to hack me on Xbox, I literally start shaking and can't speak. If I see a horror movie, I think that it is real and I can't do anything without jumping at anything that moves. If I hear a story about how to world will end, I get scared and get all worried and cannot focus AT ALL. Should I go to a counselor or something? Help...

My friends are turning against each other, people on the web are waging troll-ific wars over the competition. I'm wondering why everybody thinks this rivalry is SOOOOO huge. I have been playing the COD series since the 4th game and love the series, BF3 looks amazing though. Why are these wars happening over two games that only share the similarity that they're FPS games???