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• why, did something happen to them? : darweidu
• yea, and you don't even live in new york :( : mr brown
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  i loved that part in the Simpsons where Homer tries to look for a bathroom at the world trade center bld... : fatbeaner
  • And found out he was in the wrong tower and had to climb all the way down one tower and all the way up t... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    I wonder if they yanked those from syndication, and if not if they are holding off on playing them again... : elementZen
    • OMG i hope not. that was really funny. : fatbeaner
    • I heard they did. I hope they put it on the DVD for that season, though. It's one of my favorite episode... : Portax
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      Yeah, they did. You're not going to see that episode for a long time, if ever again. : --Viscid--
      • thats fuckin weak ass gah /me crys : Theos
      • same thing with the pilot episode of "The Lone Gunmen"... the bad guy in that episode put some kinda com... : Lynn Minmei
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      they yanked the seinfeld episode with susan dying from the poisoned envelopes after the anthrax scare. s... : Furious George
      • That is just ridiculous. : kn32
    • It's still being shown in Canada. : Lone Swordsman
  • fuck i was talkin to my friend about today.... and the krovkilosh and crab juice guy or whatever that sh : Theos
• You're not the only one :( When I went back to NYC for winter break, I didn't even look in the direct... : Portax
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  i would miss the people if i knew them, but come on people, they were just lumps of metal. death is sad,... : El Guapo
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    It was my favorite landmark in NYC. I grew up staring at the them from afar just wondering how people co... : Portax
    • here's the thing though. you miss the memories, and the feeling of looking at them. yeah, that makes sen... : El Guapo
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      too expensive? They charge you to go to the top? : Lynn Minmei
      • Yeah, I think it was 16 bucks or something and I only had about 5. : Portax
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  The planes didnt : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
  • POOR TASTE AWARD : MuaaSan
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    Appropriately numbered post :) : Vis Inack
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      Damn, Thats freaky : ---D1cKy-Mo3---
      • I'll be seeing you soon, bitch!!! : The Devil
  • HAhahahahahahaha You're probably going to get banned for that, but it was worth it! : klerck
  • +1 witty : haiku
  • So wrong, but so funny. : Lone Swordsman
  • winner : vodor
  • \/ : Vis Inack
  • lol : freshyk

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• wtf is a rabbot aqua teen? : MacGyver

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  2048, I think. : cacktrot
  • My math sucks, and I mixed up kb and b. : cacktrot
• 2 * 1024 * 1024. ok ? : firemaster
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  2097152 bytes : klerck
  • NO FAIR : vodor
• 2megabytes : rookieone
• 2000000 according to your hard disk manufacturer : scharfschuetze
• 2097152? : vodor
• Depends on the standard you use. If you use the technical measurement, it's 1024x1024x2. Some ... : Thresher

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• That is freaking hilarious. : Thresher

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  You could hire your mother 3 times. : overtoke
  • i wish : vodor
• Can you give me change for a quarter? You can make ten cents off of it... : Thresher

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  You almost would be... There are keygens but then you'd prolly have to sit there for a month trying to g... : Bimmer
  • Thats just it, the ones that 'work' either brute force it and you need extreme luck to get a working one... : seemlar
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  True working key gens? Nope. : seemlar
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    thought so. trying to explain this fact to morons who think they should be allowed to pirate NWN and... : Torias
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      Oh, they'll get around that pretty easily. CD keys only authenticate for online games. You can play ... : seemlar
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        ah ok, I thought half-life tried to authenticate cd keys for lan games anyways. : Torias
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          Nope, but it can depend on the game. Q3 and Half-Life don't authenticate on LANs. But Westwood in th... : seemlar
          • id actually doesn't mind LAN games. Who's going to buy a game just to play it for one weekend? If it cd ... : goatsecxy
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  Goodbye....... : V0lk
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    where am I going? : Torias
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      To the 432th circle of hell : Bimmer
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        why? : Torias
        • not a clue : Bimmer
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      Warez, where to get warez, talking about how you just got warez, or asking where to get warez will b... : xocsida
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        probably doesn't include "such things don't exist; help me win this argument", though. : karl hungus
        • Maybe...but they are pretty tight on the warez talk around here. :( : xocsida
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        excuse me? What the fuck are you talking about? if doom3 was being warezed wholesale, we could tal... : Torias
        • (remember that to raise levels in "Reading Comprehension", you should focus on your character's INT attr... : karl hungus
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          Damn Dude...you don't have to get rude, I was just explaining why people were suggesting that you wo... : xocsida
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            not an attack, but still rediculous. the guidelines do not ban talking about software piracy. it... : Torias
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              It would be moderator's discretion. My point was it's borderline, and that's why people were tellin... : xocsida
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                How is it even borderline? It clearly does not apply to any of the warez guidelines conditions: Provi... : Ulkesh
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                  I think it's borderline because it could lead to the discussion of a "working" keygen for one of tho... : xocsida
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                    talking about something is different from facilitating it. if someone said there was a working cd ke... : Torias
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                      Again, your opinion, my opinion. :) : xocsida
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                        my opinion is the same as that of the owners of the site, so my opinion wins : Torias
                        • I fully agree with you man. If this thread lead into a discussion on how to beat the cdkey stuff/wher... : firemaster
                        • So...to try and boost the use of a new shackphrase, Torias is: SHACK ON TARGET! :) : xocsida
              • no, not the moderators disgresion. they don't get any :) the guidelines are extensive, but they a... : Torias
  • You sir, are slightly less than intelligent. : seemlar
• There are hacks which people run that steal keys and send them back to the hacker. There's also fake ema... : Topaz

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  how much does that come to in u.s dollars? : mad-d00d
  • Multiply by 0.53 : [Zoesch^2]

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• HELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FP IS UP : rookieone

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  How much for that mofo : Bimmer
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    http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdriveDL.cfm : Toraz Chryx
    • ouch $400 : Bimmer
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  SDRAM ??? Pu-lease : rookieone
  • no point putting anything faster on it, as it's bandwidth limited by the bus anyway. : Toraz Chryx
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  I wounder if i installed jedi knight onto that it would load any faster : Bimmer
  • probably :) : Toraz Chryx
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    if you could install the whole game into the RAM !!! : rookieone
    • put 4 of these on it http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT128M72S4R75 : Toraz Chryx
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    yes, it would, one of my LAN friends as 2gigs of ram in his Linux machine and uses 1.5gigs of it as a ra... : goatsecxy
    • what a run-on sentence! : goatsecxy
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      Hehe until he has to reboot : Bimmer
      • why would he need to reboot? It's Linux, I don't think that machine has been down since last July except... : goatsecxy
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  I installed one of these in my nose, because you know how when sometimes you sneeze, you get that raptur : [andromeda]
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    That was the stupiest thing i've ever heard : Bimmer
    • +D : Bimmer
    • okay so maybe there aren't too many train bridges going over lava pits. : [andromeda]

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  you bought it ?? It is likeold and stuff. The revies were kinda mixed too IIRC : rookieone
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    Old but still good. It was on the Topware Gold Strategy Games DVD I bought for 5 Euros yesterday. It als... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • uh, yeah, 5€ for that isn't a bad deal i guess : rookieone
    • cool, JA2 is an awesome game :) : Torias
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      Septerra Core was a good game, but what killed it was the battles took forever : ZeBFFd00d
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        hehe Septerra Core was the first game to go the install-start-crash-uninstall way during my play testing... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          I played and loved both, and lemme tell yoyu something, people who ragged at Odium (Gorky 17) in the sta... : [Zoesch^2]
          • they called it CRAM? HOW DARE THEY! Let's go kick their ASB! : Lynn Minmei
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            know of any place to get it? I like graphics, but i much prefer gameplay :) : Torias
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              Not really, hunt around used and thrift stores : [Zoesch^2]
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                ah ok :/ i tried www.gamesmarket.com.au but they don't have any reference to it : Torias
                • Errr... here you go http://www.gamesmarket.com.au/details.cfm?ProdID=1666& : [Zoesch^2]
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  game platform, gameplay genre? : Torias
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    PC, and the mix of Resident Evil meets Jagged Alliance hits it quite well : rookieone
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      turn based strategy combat? : Torias
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        yupp, similar to Incubation, X-COM or Fallout Tactics but more adventure-y. Very fun weapons to toy arou... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          I almost spontaneously orgasmed reading your post. do you have any links about the game? I must h... : Torias
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            Gorky 17 is nowhere near as complex as X-COM, though, so don't get too excited... it is more similar to ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
            • ahhh ok :/ downloading the demo now : Torias
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        yep, lemme look if i can find the Gamestar where they tested it so i can tell you more Don't have it an... : rookieone
        • cool, thanks :) I loved X-Com 2 and 3 (terror from the deep and apocalypse), as well as Jagged Allian... : Torias
• Gorki 17 also known as Odium stateside : [Zoesch^2]
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  There are also a couple of aspects to combat that some players may find disconcerting. One is that weapo : Torias
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    yes, that's dumb but I got used to it. It's fucking linear and not realistic at all but that doesn't mak... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • hmmm, suddenly less enthused about the game... HOMM IV and replaying JA2 should do it for me. : Torias

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• yeah c'mon... TYPE COOL SHIT! : Lynn Minmei
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  FP has been cancelled today. : [andromeda]
  • tell maarten yoo wanna do it. AND DO IT !!NOW!! : rookieone
  • YOU PEOPLE THINK I'M KIDDING DONCHA : [andromeda]
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    that's hot : Maarten Goldstein
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      oh shit : / : mad-d00d
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        He wishes! : [Zoesch^2]
        • well, it's almost 1 hour since he first posted hardware reviews.. so.. : mad-d00d

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  K-Mart. : [andromeda]
  • I buy my underwear there, that's about it. : Wolfanoz
• Logitech Dual Optical... Great price twice the accuracy and i also here if one of the sensors fail it'll... : Bimmer
• Call Microsoft and tell them what happend. They should send you a new one. : StuMan8424

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• \m/ HEAT \m/ : rookieone
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  If DeNiro's character in Heat was as smart as his character in Ronin, Heat would have been a way better ... : cacktrot
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    yeah but he was the bad guy. His character was totally blinded by greed and the need to escape. : Cygnus X-1
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      But at the beginning he should've killed the dumbass while they were in the ambulance. Mostly, I'm mad b... : cacktrot
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        That would have been to messy. They were pro's. : kueay
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          The body would've burned with the ambulance. It would've been prefect. : cacktrot
          • /me calls FBI : rookieone
          • No no. You can't make a split decision like that to kill one of your own. You need time to asses the sit... : kueay
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        I see the logic but then no plot =( Rob car, kill fuck up, escape. No movie then =( : Cygnus X-1
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          I just wish I saw Heat before Ronin. : cacktrot
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            Why? : lazarusb
            • http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3372362 : cacktrot
          • Ronin was shot in the village in the south of France i lived in (sadly before my move there) : rookieone
        • yeah, then the movie would've been a lousy ahortmovie. what a waste : rookieone
    • It didn't really seem like greed to me...he was the job...and his need to take care of Waingro was certa... : FlyingButtPliers
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  That was a cool movie, excpet for ashely judd : chrono_triggr
  • What?! I thought she was completely hot in that movie. : usurpah
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  Best bank robbery scene ever. Great movie. : lazarusb
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    best shooting evar too!!! : rookieone
    • agreed, people in the theater were cheering when that scene finished. : drazz
• There's a flipside to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in, and I gotta put you down. Cause no matt : kueay
• You need to take a cap of Leon from The Professional. He'd kick Dinos ass any day! : Topaz

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  Not as funneh as Type-R spitfire : Bimmer
  • Yeah.. that one was hilarious... :) : Hizzow

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  yeah, i have the little exclamation mark at the bottom too but it dissapears whn the page finishes loadi... : rookieone
  • yeah mine says "Done" but has that little yellow triangle with the ! in it... I'm picky :) : Lynn Minmei
• I'm getting that, and with DThreads on, it crashes my IE when I click on a thread :( : firemaster
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  error is comin from this thread http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3372605 : Theos
  • probably the apostraphe in the user name, i think odoyle (sp?) used to have one in his that broke the pa... : Torias
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    i guess it's the "/" in his name. IIRC steve had some people change names because of the special charac... : rookieone
    • you know somethin? You may be RIGHT... : Lynn Minmei
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    I think it was doin that before that message was posted... was doin it last night too... weird : Lynn Minmei
    • its the only thread where i have errors tho =] : Theos
  • Let's break his legs!! : firemaster
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    LOL, it si gone *NUKED* : rookieone
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      still gettin the error tho :/ : Lynn Minmei
      • it has to get outta the database. or we have to move on to werd : rookieone
• yeah it was that jerk-off Duke account : Maarten Goldstein

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• lol... I'm laughing, but that's only because I just got off of work and my senses are... uhm... what's t... : kryooyrk
• cute. can i B-17 in that style ? : jedi_27
• hehehe : Mad Brahmin Disease
• ahahahahah : mad-d00d

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• comedy based on the name not on anything he/she might be able to do. who cares aboot Esports anyway ??? : rookieone

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• roger that o.O : sparhawk

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  maybe i'm not the right person but what the hell : rookieone
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    Alrighty... dumb simple (opinion-based response) question: What's a good bitrate/frequency to encode ... : firemaster
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      You could probably get away with 64 or 56Kbps pretty easily. : klerck
      • bwahaha : karl hungus
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      32kbit, 22khz, mono : Vantage
      • 8-bit 22khz mono! : karl hungus
      • 32kbit is what I'd say too. 8-bit will make it sound too much like a telephone conversation. : TheOccifer
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      basically, the aliasing that occurs is mostly in the high-frequency range... so especially listen to the... : karl hungus
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        Ummm did you actually read the question? : firemaster
        • not much of it, actually. : karl hungus
        • Obviously not. : kueay
    • I have the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series at 64kbps 22khz, and it doesn't sound wretched. : cacktrot
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  Thanks peoples! :) : firemaster
  • no problem :-D : rookieone
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    Let me be the dissenting voice here: For voice encoding 64Kbps @ 22KHz is the perfect (i.e. best of e... : [Zoesch^2]
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      Thanks Mr Sound Engineer :) : firemaster
      • Actually, I know that from my telecom engineer side :D : [Zoesch^2]

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  niftiness. i just want my linux kit so that i can start a bunch _more_ coding projects i'll never finis... : karl hungus
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    I want the linux kit and then i will put a Webserver on it.. : -TKF-
    • i wanna port apache to this zaurus that's sitting on my desk... but not bad enough to actually do it. : karl hungus
• you DO read LNC, don't you ?? : rookieone
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  if they would drop their price to $200, I would have bought a ps2. Its overpriced as it is now. : ultramega
  • Weren't they like $199 when they came out? : Lynn Minmei

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  well, Werd/FP soon and no action : rookieone
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    shouldn't sTeve be back now from taking that jack bastard to the airport? : mad-d00d
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      or maybe.. he did that yesterday and i suck at reading? : mad-d00d
      • ROFL, i guess Maa'en is going to do it and bitch about how he doesn't know what to write aboot : rookieone

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• And Admins and Nuke Bots : Bimmer

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• their latest stuff sounds like .. pop poop to me higher quality pop, but still poop.. : mad-d00d
• their first two albums were awesome but I didn't care for their last one. : Do_Or_Die

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• isn't that the wierd pad-roller ball thing? : mad-d00d

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• http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1886281 : darweidu
• grabs gun... dance bitch!!! : crazyfool
• Listen to some Infected Mushroom, and you won't have a choice. ;) : Vantage
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  You can dance if you want to. : freqq28
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    you can leave your friends behind : karl hungus
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      Damn! Beat me to it. :) : xocsida
      • yeah, but i think you had the proper lyric: "we" vs. "you". ^_^ : karl hungus
      • I can always count on you guys. *\o/* : freqq28
  • we can leave your friends behind. : xocsida

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  Have you tried google? I usually type in lyrics in quotes there to work out what the song is. and if ... : firemaster
  • Sure did. Caome up with nothing. : x-eyd|mary

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• An update on this: http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/cursor/ talks about cursor: : firemaster

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  truly! it's a wonder they've made it this far. : klerck
  • indeed it is, they are an evolutinary dead end. : scharfschuetze
• but they're CUUUUTTTEEEEEEEE !!!! : rookieone
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  i wish i could sleep 22 hours a day : vodor
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    but then you'd only have two hours left for chewing eucalyptus (??) : rookieone
    • i wouldn't care, cause then i'd just go back to sleep : vodor
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  What about an animal that spends 4 hours a day here? Sleep is productive. : overtoke
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    any animal that sleeps 22 hours a day in a tree is dead as soon as a tree climbing predator emerges. : scharfschuetze
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      wtf? they can wake up.. and koala's can be vicious if they try and scratch you :/ : Torias
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        for about 30 seconds until they get tired I bet : scharfschuetze
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          clear 'em all out and replace them with monkeys, I say, monkeys are much more efficient : scharfschuetze
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            Koala's don't fling their shit at people. : kueay
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              that's because koala's aren't smart enough to realize that would make people go away and leave them alon... : scharfschuetze
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                I've seen the unfortunate result of a tourist getting to hold one. Unpleasant, yet very funny at the ... : seemlar
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                  Oh, do tell. : kueay
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                    Many, many years back at a nature park. They were doing this little talk thing about koalas, and a Japan... : seemlar
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                      I hope the animal was immediately exterminated! : klerck
                      • On the contrary - It should be held in high praise for its diplomatic achievements! : seemlar
• don't say that! My old doggy tries to sleep like that. : crazyfool
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  I sleep 18 hours a day. Should i be knocked off? : kueay
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    no, you should seek medical help : scharfschuetze
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      It's too painful - being awake, listening to you guys bitch and moan on here. : kueay
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        but there's so much stuff to do elsewhere : scharfschuetze
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          My doors locked from the outside. I can't open it. There is no window. : kueay
          • that's why it's called prison : vodor
• Ohh.. I didn't know that. That would probably explain why they are so damn slow at walking- especially w : Twids
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  Can you eat them? Seems like they'd be easy to catch. :) : xocsida
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    Yeah... but.. um.. why would you want to eat one? : Twids
    • HUNGER! : karl hungus
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    they'd prolly taste like halls cough drops given their diet. : karl hungus
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      Sinus Problems? Eat a Koala! : xocsida
      • throw it one on the barbie! : karl hungus

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  In the HotTub HI!!! Gonna git in the watuh! : xocsida
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    back when eddie murphy was amusing. : karl hungus
    • Agreed! : xocsida

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• she sounds fake ;) : %61non
• why does she have DIK taped on her shirt? : %61non

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• OMG RICE! : Bimmer
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  someone found the antialiased line and soften tool in photoshop : %61non
  • me? i found "stroke"! : karl hungus

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  4-Port-USB hub is your friend :-). No seriously. use a hub and then chose the correct device under the w... : rookieone
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    I do have them on a HUB. But that doesnt allow me to set what default controller i want. : Bimmer
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      can't you just deactivate one of them in windows ??? : rookieone
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        Not easily I cant remove it from the joystick control panel cause it tells me to goto the device manager... : Bimmer
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          then http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3372501 : rookieone
          • Bah i have the final laugh cause i didnt pay for that game : Bimmer
• On your knees, bitch : kueay

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  Is that Swordman's mom? : Vis Inack
  • Funny, just too funny >:) : [Zoesch^2]

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• then encode a really low bitrate mp3 track : scharfschuetze

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• Momentarily usually means about a year or so : Bimmer
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  voxels again? : Torias
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    Well, I was thinking that the only possible way this is a good sign, is if they were abandoning the poly... : Vantage
    • Based on the unfinished "Voxel Unit" technology they aquired with the Rampage and the rest of the 3DFX T... : Vantage
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      will it support resolution above 512 * 384 ? : Torias
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        No. : Vantage
        • you're no fun to troll : Torias
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  Looked shitty anyway. : kueay
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    Shouldn't you be off enjoying your new toy? http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0204/04_thief-sun.html : Vantage
    • WE have an Adults Only video place? I'm there! : kueay
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    link to screenshots of shitty looking outcast2? : Torias
    • DENIED : kueay

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  I think Criterion is working on that. : Vis Inack
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    this is news to me.. you have proof, sir? : pyide
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      http://www.criteriondvd.com/rumors.asp : Vis Inack
      • thanks.. i guess we can only hope.. the royal tenenbaums dvd also looks to be as bare as bottle rocke... : pyide
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        i found this :( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lawnwranglers/message/6793 : pyide
        • Fucking pwned. : kueay