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• the moderation system at /. sounds more complex to me than most of the posts I have read there :( : lurker^2
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  who cares, the place is shit and the comment system fucked. : abrasion
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    No it isn't i found shit on slashdot that you can't find anywhere else. : assin9
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      that majority of the closed minded readers, and confusing comment system make it shit the article... : abrasion
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        If you don't like, DON'T GO THERE. You bitch on and on about it here every time it's mentioned. We get t... : klerck
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          If you like it, GO THERE. You post on and on about it here every time you visit. We get the point: You l... : jackalope
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            yes, but I have people to talk to that actually care. abrasion is preaching to himself : klerck
            • oh so he's verbally fapping? : jackalope
            • PREACH ON BROTHER : abrasion
      • heh, closed minded. Awfully quick to judge aren't you? Whats so closed minded about it, that they like O... : jidar

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  Yeah I've been wanting to have that 'mail this to a friend' thing for a while.. I think after the shackm... : Steve Gibson
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    Just wondering, do you have another complete redesign in the works? Not that I don't like it as is - but... : moz
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      I'm waiting around for the ad market to settle a bit and some new standards to be accepted so I can work... : Steve Gibson
      • how is that anon posting? : MacGyver
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        Oh ok, cleaning up the back end of the page, rendering and user management is probably more important an... : moz
        • Yeah plugging in a new design the way we have things built now isnt horribly difficult and would only ta... : Steve Gibson
      • you meen the standard of a big fat flash ad in the middle of the page? : ease_one

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• No! I like shack the way it is! /me abandoned slashdot's comments a long time ago : Chuck Connors
• Just one checkbox to filter Klerck out ROFL!! : {Venger}

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  Hmm it doesn't seem slow here.. well the adds can be a pain but they aren't hosted on the ShackServer : kjeldsen
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    i didn't say it was slow. but if i remember correctly the reason steve and maarten are doing all the op... : boolean
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      swamped from new traffic the shack is generating : boolean
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        swamped from chatty bitches f5 constantly i bet... : Torias
        • oh yeah, cool! TWENTY-ONE SIXTY-ONE'D!! for those who don't see the reason for my celebration, 216 : Torias
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  If when UGO goes under and we have to move the current server it will be rejoined with the long lost bro... : Steve Gibson
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    .... Are you required by UGO to have your server in a specific location? : Cosmicfool
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      No I just hosted there as a favor to one of the guys I know there really. I've got a backup server up an : Steve Gibson
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        Sounds to me like you're ready to pull the plug on UGO. : Cosmicfool
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          I've been ready since January actually. : Steve Gibson
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            the early worm webmaster gets the worm less severly fucked over by ugo : Torias
            • doh!!! worm = bird I should go to bed : Torias
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    if ugo goes under... won't the shack be crushed by the bandwidth used? and do chatty bitches use up a l... : Torias
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      Chatty bitches tear up bandwidth. refreshing a 150k html file over and over is a lot of bandwidth. Ho... : Steve Gibson
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        will the forum sander is working on result in reduced bandwidth usage? : Torias
        • Not really no... : Steve Gibson
  • ..just as long as Steve gets to move back to Dallas where he belongs!!! </stalker> : LeftE

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• Well said! She seems like a very cool person from the little I know of her, and I am glad you have what... : cannelbrae
• Damn, and I seriously thought you were going to go for the smart approach and just ignore them... well, ... : Zoesch
• would you call these people "playa haters"? : fatbeaner
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  nothing personal... its a little mixture of my hatred of sluts, and jealousy. : jaypeeh
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    Well if I had the chance I'd bang Jenna J for sure... : abrasion
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      i dunno, but i'd sure as hell let her go down : filthysock
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        OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH yeah hot damn HFOERg'ldrabfb fuck she's got ... : abrasion
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          I second that! : Vis Inack
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            Hoover !!! : dra.
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              infact she reminds me of my ex g/f to an extent (only a bit more, and no, not that much more : abrasion
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                could she suck-start a leafblower ?? fuck i love that one : filthysock
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                  no but she could siffon a 10 gallon gas tank to the gut. : dra.
                  • I'm nto going ot get into all the health issues she had. : dra.
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                  it wasnt the strength it's all in the style! (trust me, atari could vouch for this) : abrasion
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                    did he get a bj from your exgirlfriend? : dra.
                    • No Atari has a "good active open" sex life (so he claims, and from his G/F, so I would assume) He... : abrasion
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  rock on man. I'm with you there, I wouldn't care what she did or what other people thought. If she was t : filthysock
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    You had me at hello. : dra.
    • Dra, you are easy! ;) Eh.. can't joke about that one too much.. my fiance playfully has said that to... : cannelbrae
• i have a question for you atari and i dont mean to disrespect. does miss fit do all the shit with you th... : fatbeaner

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  my prediction. LEAFS 3 - DEVILS 1 : redfive
  • Good prediction. : Cosmicfool

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  mirror : redfive
  • nope, CD :) : Zoesch
• Stand in the place where you live. (now face north) think about direction..... : Cosmicfool

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• no what the shit. i hit reply. : snuff

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  you know, our minimum wage is probably lower than $7 US an hour now... but that might be cause of the ex... : Torias
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    You got public health care in Australia? And doesn't this article describe modern slaves? : kjeldsen
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      yeah, we've got a public health care system, it needs fixing up a bit, but it's there... and yeah, they... : Torias
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        So lets say you get sick you can get treated without having to pay? What do you mean with the fixing pa... : kjeldsen
        • you can get treated without having to pay if the doctor you go to doesn't charge anymore than the medica... : Torias
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    Yeah sounds fine and all but there are a lot of jobs where there is no clear way to measure how much a p... : Steve Gibson
    • yeah... I guess the whole point is that there are no easy answers... but trying to make it better des... : Torias

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• nope! the batteries are dead :( : OverBurN

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• AVAST, YE SCURVY DOG : drucifer

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  never heard of it : MacGyver
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    The movie Seven? never heard of it? Shit, it's AWESOME. Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacy and Morgan Freeman. Suspe... : kenmis
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      Good movie, shame about the ending : kjeldsen
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        I don't want to spoil anything, but have you heard about the alternate ending? : kenmis
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          shackmsg it :-) : kjeldsen
          • Done! : kenmis
• never heard of it : MacGyver
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  Get off the shack and go hold her. : Barbarian
  • I did. i put her to bed and kissed her goodnight, after we watched "I love Lucy" to cheer her up. She's... : kenmis
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  get her to watch Requiem for a Dream. traumatic results are garunteed :D : fatbeaner
  • Since i can't rent that anywhere, i will be downloading it soon. :) : kenmis

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  bad link? or is it just me : raunchy
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    The link works. I remember watching something like this in HS, dunno what it was called though. : NotACommunist
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      hrm /me curses bellsouth : raunchy
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        hey there sexay! : moz
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          lets make love raunchy is tired, bedtime for me : raunchy
          • same here actually... join me! : moz
      • the ; character could be mangled in a proxy or something. : Barbarian

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• I have a version of Popeye the Sailor from Face to Face, it r0x0rz : Zoesch

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  broke : MacGyver
  • Yeah, your computer must be. I can see it. : NotACommunist
  • I just tried it again--works fine. Try copying/pasting it directly into realplayer If you don't ha... : klerck
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  fuck me that shit is crazy : abrasion
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    I'm now a full believer in telekinesis. : klerck
    • that's funky, although .... if i saw it in real life i'd believe it more. i'd like to see this in... : abrasion
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      Pretty quick considering that stuff can be done with acting and cgi. I'm not a complete skeptic eithe... : Barbarian
      • You don't need cgi to pull what they pulled. You need a simplistic pyrotechnic effect. : Poor Yurik
• I watched it without sound, to avoid distractions. That's some nice acting and magic tricks there. : Barbarian
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  OMFG! i wanna learn how to do that! : sexninja!!!
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    WAIT A SECOND!! ART BELL AFFILIATE SAYS CHINESE GUY CAN SHOOT ELECTRICITY THROUGH HIS BODY? MUST BE TR : Poor Yurik
    • well, it isnt that much of a stretch, afterall our bodies do generate lots of electricity : sexninja!!!
    • HEY GUESS WHAT?!! I saw a Black Helicopter flying overhead the other day. It must be part of the ONE W... : Barbarian
    • YUO ARE JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE YUO CANT SHOOT ELECTRICTY FROM YOUR HAND LIKE ME !! >:( : sexninja!!!
• what is it? i try my best to keep realshit (tm) off my pc : raunchy
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  i have seen magic tricks that are performed more convincingly thn that camera cutting away and then b... : ease_one
  • All you need is a small amount of water on the floor and some sodium flakes in the newspaper to start th... : Barbarian

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  Really? What type of system are you running? QT5 owns QT4. I'd never touch that abomination again. : seemlar
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    win98SE 5 runs WAY fuckin slower than 4 by a long shot with 4 I could run the full screen JP3 trai... : jo-papa
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      Odd. I'm guessing a mid range computer, since my 1Ghz, 256mb ram computer purrs while running QT5. : seemlar
      • pIII 500@600 with 256 megs PC133 : jo-papa
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  5 and 4 = no diff for me.. www.apple.com/quicktime/download/support or is it www.apple.com/... : abrasion
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    Whoa, you didn't notice that QT5 somewhat fixed up QT4's horrible UI? : seemlar
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      they both suck : abrasion
      • I've got no real reason to say it sucks anymore. QT5 might not be that good, but QT4 = filth : seemlar
    • there's still no always on top :( I got tricked into installing QT last time I got drunk :P : klerck
    • they both licked ass, but I'll take better performance over better (read: still shitty) interface anyday : jo-papa
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  Hey! Mp7rox! : mp7rox
  • yeah mp7 is good........................... FOR ME TO POOP ON : raunchy

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• I can view the source and save the page w/ IE 5.5 : NotACommunist
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  Dunno what you be talking about sir. Those silly hacks removing right-click to protect source are just p... : Steve Gibson
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    What I mean is in IE5.5, File -> Save As is greyed out. So is view source. : Barbarian
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      hmm, it's fine now. ie5.5 = fux0red on my system. And WTF is up with Real player? After I played th... : Barbarian
      • REAL=THE ANTI-CHRIST : Cygnus X-1
    • not for me : MacGyver

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  I think we're going to see something big unfold today. Has it gotten any mainstream news coverage yet? I... : klerck
  • I haven't seen anything yet. If they do announce that we have been visited by intelligent life from ano... : NotACommunist
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  This is interesting: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/US_Armed_Forces/ The Bush administration is m : NotACommunist
  • Yep, Air Force has control still for space issues. For a while a "Space Command" idea was thrown around... : Barbarian

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  seems very very dead : -TKF-
  • steve, according to your logs, is that the ip i'm posting from? this is weird ass shit maybe th... : abrasion
  • Any indication I exist at all? : abrasion
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  cant ping it and tracert = Tracing route to co3006324-a.eburwd1.vic.optushome.com.au [203.164.69.137] ... : pyide
  • fuck can someone port scan me or some shit? i'm "invisible" to the world i miss my exchange ... : abrasion
• Maybe your house burnt down :(. : Barbarian

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• what's wrong now?! : moz

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  Not a lot, a little quiet it seems :< : moz
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    Msg'ed : kjeldsen
    • right back at ya! : moz
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  My Japanese final raped me in the ass harcore earlier. I'm trying to recover. : Ass Cobra
  • : MacGyver
  • Tenticles? : seemlar

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  my friend did it succesfully. Only problem is that recently he's been getting a lot of freezes due to he... : ZedAgent
  • right my boss put on a blue orb cooler on the card and he says its all good now. : fatbeaner
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  is it really worth it? Maybe for a hardcore overclocker I'd think so. : Beer
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    with these performance issues in Tribes 2, im startin to get desperate to increase those fps. and a new ... : fatbeaner
    • You're probably CPU limited in Tribes 2. : Barbarian
• If the main performance increase is from "increased core speed" according to the article, why not just u... : Barbarian
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  You got "good skills in soldering"? : SlimJim
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    my boss does. im thinkin if i could bribe him with some alchohol he could do this for me. but i better k... : fatbeaner
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      I tried it with my two geforce 3, they dont work anymore. : dra.
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        please dont say that, i almost cried when i read it. : fatbeaner
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          as did I hold me : jo-papa
          • /me holds jo-papa... : fatbeaner
        • its okay i have 3 others. : dra.
• Anyone know the rating on those resistors (i.e. ohm, Watt rating)? If I'm even going to try this, I'm g... : Barbarian

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  no but exhaling smoke into a paper towel tube stuffed with fabric softener will hide the smell. : pyide
  • I've heard of that before...maybe I'll try it. : NotACommunist

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  Did you get that 2nd link someone sent? Info is there. It's the same link ease sent me and i got it to... : dognose
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    You mean this? http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1221609 page doesn't exist (or the one that it lin... : Vantage
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      shit : dognose
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        I tried the instructions from this page... http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/UTFAQ/index.shtml#I've2 : Vantage
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          Copy and paste everything you have under the [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice] section here: : SlimJim
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            Hey, I think I found the problem.. For some reason, when I go into the game, the game deletes that whole... : Vantage
            • Did you set "NoOGLDelete" to "On"? : dognose
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              When you add it to the ini, make sure the existing lines aren't copies. : SlimJim
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                They aren't copies... When I open the ini file after playing the game, there is NO "OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRen... : Vantage
                • I know, but when you add those new lines, do you delete the original ones? Because some or all of them ... : SlimJim
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                  What video card and drivers do you have anyways? : SlimJim
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                    GeForce 2 GTS. One of the more recent detonator drivers. However, I FIXED IT!! I made the goddamn... : Vantage
                    • j00 go girl!!! :D : dognose
                    • That's strange that it was taking the lines out of it like that. I used to mess with that stuff a lot I... : SlimJim
        • You downloaded that OpenGLDrv.dll? One of the maps in SlimJim's links is DM - Face, and whether or ... : dognose
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  Only some textures on some maps really shine. http://freepages.ugo.com/files1/files/s3tc/Shot0001.jpg... : SlimJim
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    ok, which maps are those from? : Vantage
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      Load up the very first DM map. The tiny little start map on the space ship and look at the floor and cr... : SlimJim
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        Yeah. I tried that map. No go. :( The page you linked doesn't exist... : Vantage
        • Yeah, those other 2 pages are gone and only Epic's still has the file. : SlimJim
  • yeah i know looks great i was so mad when they said they were not going to ad support in for the GF a... : ease_one
  • How did you get them like that! : MacGyver
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  Way up near the top of the ini, does it say that your using the OpenGL render? : SlimJim
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    yep GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice : Vantage
    • So when you copied and pasted that new ini stuff, you made sure you don't have duplicate entries? : SlimJim
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  btw...those compressed textures aren't on EVERYTHING.......actually, only very few surfaces. A few crate... : V0lk
  • some maps have them all over, but thats like 2 maps : ease_one

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  2000 owns j00 : ease_one
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    WILL XP OWN US ALL?! : fatbeaner
    • it might with .net! and we will be >:( : ease_one
  • bullshit I just spent two months of misery with it for whatever reason, it didn't like my computer : jo-papa

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  you speak herecy! : dra.
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    "heresy" : jo-papa
    • do not speak to your lord and master in such tone. begone with ye! and stuff. : dra.
• shave those sideburns hippy! : The Sloth
• im werkin. : fatbeaner
• nope, do you? : Vis Inack
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  NO : klerck
  • I know you don't ;) : moz
  • Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's the Wurster kid, looking up in the tre... : pyide