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• drink a gallon of water and wash it down with some theraflu. you'll miss the first half of the week, but... : fatbeaner

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• From how it looks, I'd say it's more firm than hard. All I know is, I just wanna rub it or lick it and ... : Poor Yurik

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• halle-fuckin-lujah! : Stormrider
• Hi-Ho : drucifer

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• Like 6 with better file handling and two new brushes. : drucifer

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• SHACKTAGGED : petey2001

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• DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!! : setaanbomb
• Huey Lewis - I Want a New Drug : the archvile
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  UT2003 will soon be eating up more cpu cycles than you wanted with and sucking the life out of your gefo... : urbansling
  • Yeah UT will suck more than your geforce 4 =P : kingdepork
  • I can only hope. I miss the days that adding a new cpu or vid card actually improved the look of your ga... : freqq28
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    So this will be the game that forces upgrades huh? I can't help but hate this and look forward to it, ha... : awoihjaweohr
    • min specs dont mean shit man. You need >1GHZ >=GF3 >=256 MB ram to run this thing.. it would probably ru... : urbansling
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  Fear not! Morrowind comes out in a few weeks. : Vantage
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    Didn't we like one of the Elder Scrolls games? : freqq28
    • Uh.. I don't know. Did we? : Vantage
• http://www.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/MissileComDemo.html : halfwaybastard
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  graphics do not a good game make. : assin9
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    No, but they don't hurt. Not a bit. : freqq28
    • In a way they do. The resources and time spent doing all the purty graphics could probably be better ... : assin9
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  I can see a trend developing here, seriously. A lot of people are used to good gameplay from a relative : Raziel
  • I'm not sure that 'improving' game play is necessary. No one talks about improving the game play of foot... : freqq28
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  i'm using this lull to 1) save up money for a big upgrade when the next generation of stuff comes ou... : pupismyname
  • admit it, you'll blow it all on Adidas' latest line of athletic wear! ;) : -Panther-

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• it makes holes big enough to fuck : halfwaybastard
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  It has the be the shear power of the gun. It reloads relatively fast and packs enough punch to kill in ... : setaanbomb
  • Ah..oK..that makes sense...thanks! : xocsida
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    isn't that what I said? :) : halfwaybastard
    • Yea, only I said in a PG-13 rating. : setaanbomb
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    I still like the USP better because it fires faster. I almost never land the first shot, so I need a fa... : the archvile
    • USP kills in.. what, four shots? five? Usually it takes me six, so I can waste two players with a cli... : Raziel
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      which weapon is the USP? : Phearsome
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        default ct pistol. : pupismyname
        • ahh...I just started playing CT : Phearsome
• 3 shot kills, damn good accuracy (far, FAR too good for .50 Action Express let alone .45 or 9mm), awesom... : Raziel
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  It's a great finisher. but for pistol only i'd go with the 57 : assin9
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    wtf.. why? Deagle/USP are more accurate and do more damage, armor penetration be damned. : Raziel
    • "armor penetration be damned" seems to be a key phrase in CS; ever notice how you ALWAYS die with at lea... : the archvile
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      I would contest that more accurate claim. and the usp takes two many shots. the 57 is good for headgunni... : assin9
      • USP is way better. : Sexpansion Pack
  • yeah, i love the 5-7, but i'm never willing to spend the money on it. : pupismyname
• it is more powerful than any submachine gun and a few rifles. off the top of my head, the only guns... : pupismyname
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  if you shoot slowly it's insanely accurate - I mean it's just crazy - it's more accurate than the rifles... : Sexpansion Pack
  • That said, 4 round bursts from the USP can be frickin' deadly. : Toraz Chryx

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  oh and i underclocked my cpu to 1/2 speed and it workd for about 15 mins i was logging into the shack wh... : nurall
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    rip out extra shit that you dont need (modem nic sound, extra ram,extra hdd's) clock the processor BACK ... : locobastard
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      did that...no effect : nurall
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        IDE cables properly connected? : BigDough
        • disconnected and reconnected everything : nurall
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        any way of putting the processor into another motherboard? tried differnt ram pieces? : locobastard
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          cpu is in the computer im using rite now...working fine. ill try the ram bit when i get home : nurall
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            just curious what motherboard? (might just be a dead/gay mobo) : locobastard
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              ABIT BF6 : nurall
              • *crys* its such a good motherboard... (dont tell toraz chryx) : locobastard
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  3085 anyone else have any bright ideas? : nurall
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    Sounds like either a power issue or a heat issue. Those are two things that would prevent you from gett... : setaanbomb
    • temp = normal in bios already tried booting with only cpu ram harddrive and video card...no effect : nurall
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  When it dies, what does it do specifically? Does it just go to black screen or does spew something and t... : awoihjaweohr
  • it just goes black the only time it spewed something was when i underclocked it. : nurall
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  Have you ever replaced the power supply? In my years of PC Technician experience, PSUs can make any erro... : geedeck
  • i replaced it last week : nurall

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• Probably not as this type of harsh season should be over when the olympics start in 2008. The dust storm... : haiku

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  Why should they bother? It's a dead system. I imagine that game sales dropped quite a bit once they stuc... : geedeck
  • DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL! : assin9

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• you're hurting the shack's advertising!!!!! : Zillax0rz
• heh, one of my friend works for compaq, he would like lots of money and be asked to leave please :) : moshman

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  Pretty much began as another E/N site... it used to be run off a cable connection orginally. (so did goa... : seemlar
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    And now its just lame with no original content and just a shit load of adds and popups. : ashkie
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      Yeah, it's gotten progressively worse over the last year. It used to be great back in 2000. Now he upd... : arizona bay
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        Yea its pointless to go there now. Its all porn ads, no original storys and most of the shit he posts is... : ashkie
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          The only reason for his useful continued existance, is camwhores. : seemlar
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            Which he is also trying to make money off of now. : ashkie
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              I don't see a problem with that though. While Stileproject is just an infestation of ads and junk, camwh... : seemlar
              • After awhile, all camwhores look the same. Its the same old shit: boobs, boobs, bras, boobs, bras all on... : ashkie
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      the sheer amount of ads and popups there make me wonder in disgust at the site creator.. I mean, I go : Raziel
      • haha! "Show me the internal organs!" : teh snail
      • * B I T C H P L E A S E ' D * : the archvile

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  first entertaining PA ever http://www.pennyarcade.com/ : halfwaybastard
  • lies : Torias
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    you fucker. : Raziel
    • 8O) : halfwaybastard
• Developers, you will find that our Gabriel is not a patient man. He takes your poor control scheme and : the archvile

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  there is a wireless shack, but I don't know if it's an avant go channel. I have reuters, CNN, and the O... : Phearsome
  • http://www.shacknews.com/extras/extras.x I only see wapshack and something else... maarten will add it f... : OverBurN
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  Hmm, no bluesnews channel? bah. : Vantage
  • you have to pay to get listed on AvantGo : Maarten Goldstein
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  I made alot of IGN channels (of course when IGN was cooler), pdashack, magicbox (a console site), I'd pr... : geedeck
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    How do you "make" a channel? : Vantage
    • never mind, found it. :) : Vantage

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• http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?error=%3CFONT%20COLOR='yellow'%3EOWNED%20BY%20OLDSCHOOL!!%3C/FONT%3E : the archvile
• its on purpose, nostalgia and all that. It better stay that way too! : moshman

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• I think its actually out over here. : moshman

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  42 for the deagle? It's 35 in 1.3 : the archvile
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    I know it's some multiple of 7. I thought it was 42. : Raziel
    • no, you're right it IS 35. My bad. : Raziel

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• AMEN! : moshman

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• I don't remember anything about Training Day at all. Trailers, interviews, news, nothing. I therefore mu... : snuff

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  Yeah, what's up with that? : kueay
  • Steve can't function in the morning til he's had his homosex coffee : halfwaybastard
• WERD ON BLONDES : setaanbomb

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• HI TOPAZ! : OverBurN
• Whoa.. looks like Steve's new sponsor could sue steve! :-) : -TKF-
• hahaha oh man that's some comedy right there. we've got a morning story! : Steve Gibson
• OMG SOMEBODY CHALLENGE THAT MOFO! : the archvile
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  LOL! Haven't they heard of the "prior art" clause when filing for patents? Fucking dumbshoes at nVid... : Odoyle
  • If you read the patent the headline at /. is .. VERY misleading :-) : -TKF-
  • They have. It's not a blanket patent for 'game servers'. Slashdot are sensationalizing again. : seemlar
• I don't remember but didn't nvidia start in something other than video cards? : snuff
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  they are actually trying to patent stat collecting and publishing of online games. such as ngstat ... : Torias
  • That and some sort of matching service, depending on your skill and game preferences. : Tissen
• Read the article - sounds like they are trying to patent something similar to Steam: a method of allowin... : Odoyle

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  don't forget that stupid bracket thing they did last year where J-Lo's ass won. : the archvile
  • ahaha, still seeing Gore ads. : Raziel
• UGO shoulda died long ago. Oh, and UGO, please take IGN with you when you die. Thanks! : ashkie
• GIRLS, GAMES, CARS, MONEY: WHAT ASSHOLES ADVERTISE! : setaanbomb

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  I don't doubt it, did you try daggerfall? Omg it was just incredibly huge, so many items, weapons, spell... : jidar
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    Daggerfall was eventually cleaned up, I believe. : klerck
    • yeah but it took mutliple patches and it wasnt' really stable until months after I gave up on it, unfort... : jidar
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    Yeah, I love(d) Daggerfall. After the final patch the game was very playable and I never had to taste th... : insta
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      I bought it the week of release... I guess thats what spoiled it for me. : jidar
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        I never totally escaped the bugs, the odd thing was that they tended to live in your save games. So my ... : Honky
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          err, it's going to PC first I believe. Definetly not an X-Box exclusive. : insta
          • ahh, sweet. Maybe I'll pick it up, once it's been out for a while. I've heard it's not going to have Q... : Honky
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  www.m0use.net/~uesp for everything related to Daggerfall (I have over 50 windows open, reading about it,... : wumpscut
  • Hey, cool site, thanks :) : Vantage
• I want this game soooo bad. My Voodoo5 cringes in fear though. : Dreagon
• <homer> mmmmm, mushrooms </homer> : e_smokah
• Sounds quite boring, thank you. : snuff

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  yea it would. but how the fuck would that work. your fingers would cover the keys. : RiNgMaStEr
  • beats me, I guess there are a couple of lasers scanning for the position of your fingers and then compar... : goofed
• holy fuck that's cool :) : Torias
• Weird, but neat. Cats might like it too! : CoBeL
• PAINFUL JPEG COMPRESSION! : Odoyle

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• http://www.bossmonster.com/games/antcity.html : Kniggit

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  some should ban you! : OverBurN
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    Use the X, Luke! : Tissen
    • I does nothing! : snuff
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  I'm going to miss you. :( : Steve Gibson
  • no you wont :) : Raziel
  • gonna have to give j00 an x for that! : RiNgMaStEr
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    i wont! thier ads sucked : OverBurN
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      speaking of which, are we going to have to deal with that very much longer? : Raziel
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        i got the deal closed yesterday and am just waiting on paperwork today. it's gonna be really strange to ... : Steve Gibson
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          does ugo consider this departure a great loss on their side? : fatbeaner
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            probably, considering that most of the bigger sites dropped them. : the archvile
            • is that question in bad taste for sTeve to answer? im bad with business ettiquette. : fatbeaner
          • i dunno probably. i'm sure they saw it coming a mile away though. : Steve Gibson
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          what about the ads on the side? which of those is UGO if any? I assumed the planet eruptor ad was their... : Raziel
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            side ads are a few different sources. if was annoying, it was ugo. : Steve Gibson
            • YAY NO MORE BALD PEOPLE ADS!? : OverBurN

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  http://www.npcc.net/~citycob/sermons/012702.htm : balaams_ass
  • alice cooper.... another one bites the dust. : RiNgMaStEr
• after all the shit he has put his body through hes lucky that he is still alive. : fatbeaner

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  She's at it again...I don't give a crap about your Wise training. FUCK! : xocsida
  • tell her. "Ms. Lesbian i don't care... go write me a TPS report." : RiNgMaStEr

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• sample is your friend : RiNgMaStEr
• Ghirardelli is better! : CoBeL

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• Always a yay for hookie! : Zillax0rz
• OF COURSE YES. Daggerfall == Best PC RPG EVAR : arizona bay
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  nay. dont pull that stunt until Morrowind comes out :) : fatbeaner
  • ^^ speaks truth : RiNgMaStEr
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    YOU ARE A SMART MAN. You've convinced me. : gegtik
    • im here to serve, good sir :) : fatbeaner
  • ^ Words of wisdom : Tissen
• Go for it. One of my favorite days last summer involved me, a sick day, a fat joint, and BG2. : x-eyd|mary
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  Why not? I started calling in sick to play with my potters wheel about 2 years ago, and now I'm a cerami... : Dreagon
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    Who knows, he could end up a professional paladin! : x-eyd|mary
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      imagine if I called in sick to masturbate all day! : gegtik
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        But you already DO call in sick to jerk off. : arizona bay
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          are you fucking mad? Do it at work! : gegtik
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            Back in my high school days, I jerked off several times in the bathroom in between classes. Does this m... : arizona bay
            • Back in my high school days, I jerked off several times in classes. : kramweil
      • ROFL!! A professional sperm donor? : Dreagon

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  I like that show as well. I actually think Ozzy's son isn't that bad, his daughter is a bitch. Oh yeah... : arizona bay
  • haha his wife is not only his manager, but it seems like she guides and directs him around like a lemmin... : fatbeaner
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  that show dumb imo. do you really think his kids dress like that? the family has been so gussied up fo... : RiNgMaStEr
  • yeah I know it has to have a bunch of prepping, but it's still funny. :) : xakmalice
• this is dated but read the 6th paragraph http://maroon.loyno.edu/FALL%202001/102601/musings/story3.html : balaams_ass

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• I thought they said they wouldn't have spyware? : TheTick
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  * SPYWARED * : assin9
  • Its worse...this thing redirects your browser. : drucifer
• -Xian : Turd Ferguson
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  how do I fucking lock down my IE browser so no shit can be installed in it? no fucking plug ins, no a... : Torias
  • fucking cunts, something must have fucked around with the security settings in IE... all the activeX bul... : Torias
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  The question is, does this happen all the time or just when running the Morpheus client? : scharfschuetze
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    all the time, it's a browser ass fucking plugin : Torias
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      So this is already in place? Like people currently using Morpheus Preview Edition get this shoved down ... : scharfschuetze
      • I believe so...so when people start bitch'n at Steve about popups...you'll know who is using Morpheus. : drucifer
      • I don't know :-/ : Torias
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  w00t, found where the browser assfucker helper objects are listed HKey_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microso... : Torias
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    that's in the registry btw : Torias
    • sweet! thanks. have to check that when I get home. : moshman
• Apparently you can disable the bugger in Extras, Internet Options, Advanced -> Uncheck 'Enable 3rd Party... : bitshifter

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  What a pretty game. I wonder if you can get drunk at the bar. It'd be a nice detail. : zerologik
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    I think you can, I've heard you can sell drugs so I imagine you can ... : wumpscut
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      Neat! It's nice when little extra stuff like that is paid attention to. : zerologik
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        This is pretty much the most epic RPG I've ever seen, been following it for a while but just lately they... : wumpscut
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          Ooohh.. What are the system requirements for this beast? : Tissen
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            They haven't gone official with them, but I imagine they are pretty high. :( www.elderscrolls.com has p... : wumpscut
            • quote from someone in the forum "...Your computer should run the game fine. The Devs have mentioned tha : Nighteyes
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          Impressive stats. I really hope those high poly counts don't make my video card choke. Playing it as a ... : zerologik
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            Hello!!!! :D : darweidu
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              Hello and a rich greeting to you! : zerologik
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                I enjoyed to play the counterstrike with you this evening : TheTick
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                  Same here, but I was having a rough game. Although maybe that's just because your CS skills are highly s... : zerologik
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                    i meant no offense when i asked if you didnt play it much you seemed to shoot well just not have the ... : TheTick
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                      I do like to run around with guns a'blazin. Which works quite well in UT. I don't mind too much getting... : zerologik
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                        Better yet, just have them send you their aimbots. :D : Dreagon
                        • hahahahaha : TheTick
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            No one is sure of the exact system specs but some people are saying devs play it on dual 600's, so I ima... : wumpscut
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              Hrm, Nighteyes' post ( http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3255295 ) says they want a decent video card. ... : zerologik
              • Well, GF3/4 I think is really just for the water effects *mainly*, I am thinking that most things will w... : wumpscut
            • dope...i use dual 950s =) : TheTick
        • someone INFORMATIVE this! : vodor
• This video is damn amazing, if it streamed a little better it would be more fun to watch though. I recom... : wumpscut
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  Will this game support any form of multiplayer? I know the singleplayer is gonna rock and I dont want... : Nighteyes
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    No multiplayer that will come with it, but there is a possibility of user made mods since the game is so... : wumpscut
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      Someone will HAVE to mod that its a must to experience this with some buddies I havent been following ... : Nighteyes
      • I don't think it will be disappointing at all, Bethesda has a lot of people working on this game and the... : wumpscut
• wow I'm very impressed. I'm not a fan of RPGs, but this certainly looks enterntaining and fun to play. T... : mofo
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  http://www.elderscrolls.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=277258&page=0&view=collapsed&... : Nighteyes
  • Can anyone rip this with ASFRecorder? Links are here... PC T1 http://perl.gamespot.com/perl/stream1.a... : wumpscut
• wow. i want! : kenmis
• that's a neat video, or it would be if it wasn't for Kasasvin the forehead yammering over the top all th... : ostrichboy

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  Big Ben? : setaanbomb
  • yepyep (forgot to mention that was the only thing planned atm), thanks. : logik?
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  yeah, the middle of the dancefloor in Fabrik underneath that HUGE bass tube. OMG. : moshman
  • oh yeah? Hehe wicked, i'll have to check that out during BC's set.. Specially if they play something wi... : logik?

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  pepsi max. it's got artificial sweeteners in it, that cause cancer in lab rats. it's horribly sw... : Torias
  • ugh. sounds nasty. : protoman
• Maybe that cam chick is trying to say she wants to have PepsiMaxse.cx : xakmalice
• It's like a diet pepsi from hell I think. Extra flavour or some thing. I avoid pepsi and coke like pl... : seemlar
• it's the Diet Coke of evil. Only 1 calorie. Not quite evil enough. Eh, it's Pepsi's idea of making a ... : ghale
• The taste is totally different from Pepsi. It tastes alright, IMO. Better than *shudder* diet Pepsi. : nomaad
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  its with artificial sweetener and its transpartent, looks like Sprite/7up. oh yeah, it tastes like monke... : moshman
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    uh... it's not transparent over here... : nomaad
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      * C O N S P I R A C Y ' D * : arizona bay
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        *trolled* more like it : Torias
        • ? Was I trolling? : nomaad
• oddly enough my folks like it MORE than Coke. : Raziel

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• wow. It could be. If it is those shadows better be realtime. : moshman
• yea man and check this one out http://www.well.com/~wolfy/Tacoma/Flying%20Saucer.jpg PROOF OF ALIE... : halfwaybastard
• Kind of looks like a render. : nomaad
• the shadows off the plane look really good, which makes me think it's probably not DNF, but who knows? : Sexpansion Pack
• Well, it does say EDF above the door. Somebody could have added that in but theres no way of knowing. : Degenerate
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  survey says..... NO! : Steve Gibson
  • k'mon, let them believe dnf will ever be released : halfwaybastard
  • Thank god. It'd be horrible if, after so many years of making fun of it, Duke Nukem Forever would actua... : arizona bay
  • Who was polled? ANSWERS DEMANDED What was the percentage error stats? : setaanbomb
• Well, the number of poly's on that plane in the foreground alone are enormous, which makes me suspect th... : Dreagon
• LOL u think thats real? it reeks of render. : RiNgMaStEr

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  Confirmed sir. : seemlar
  • No need for alarm, Sir. Security is tight. We're solid. : Raziel
• its up. : RiNgMaStEr
• He's still alive and well at the usual spot. goatse away : zakk
• Torpedo Bay 1 Ready! : CoBeL
• Thanks Folks. : booyaka

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  is deagling the new word for mansex0ring? : assin9
  • jah : Turd Ferguson
  • nope...the littleboysex0ring : TheTick
  • hmm - .50AE sliding through your body. I'd say yes! : Raziel
• hows the ol' O ring? : RiNgMaStEr