Late Night...er, Evening Reading

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  96 bucks a month? : snuff
  • Every 6 months. 1156 -- so 193 bucks/mth. : cwlc98
• German cars are better anyway : MoNsTeR
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  how old's the jetta? my friend had a 82 one, a 90 one now! : schroom
  • 1999.5 New Jetta. Don't know whether to buy the one I have or get a new one with the 1.8T. Zoom Zoo... : cwlc98
• Get the WRX. It is a much cooler car... Plus VW service is ass. I own a 2k golf TDI and I've never fou... : mrraist-
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  WRX is fast, and upgradeable, but VW have a certain feeling of quality, no matter what price range. Ger... : Scrimbo Obeer
  • Exactly...... Plus the 1.8T is a bad ass little engine. : cwlc98
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    It feels like quality, but getting it serviced by the dealer is a pain in the ass. I've only found 1 go... : mrraist-
    • heh you measure distance in that new-fangled metricy system. : Scrimbo Obeer
• Why is the wrx more? A vr6 jetta is probably faster, or at least really close. And the wrx has awd wh... : qrenton

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  What a rip off. a ps1 + 10 games for $100 of store credit? : jidar
  • You could buy gobs of these online for way less than $100. : overtoke
• Yea, I'm considering that. I have a ton of games I don't play. : Zillax0rz
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  I just called and asked about it; all games must have box and instructions and there are a ton of titles... : Zillax0rz
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    well that sucks. I actually dont have that many ps1 games as I either ebayed them or traded them. I aske... : ultramega
    • you could go buy some dc games at Best Buy they are only $2.50 or circuit city ps1 games for about 5.00 ... : ghost in my shell
  • Elmo fucking owns. : f0rsaken
• oh man ... this is bad. god I hope my roommate still has his ps1 cuz I totally want to do this. : uberp00

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• oops that's ps1 greatest hits that are $15 :\ : MrShmoo
• I wish I had moneys :( I so could use some new hardware. Im excited to go back to full time, only fo... : tomservo
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  Best Buy, Samsung 32x cdrw $39 after rebate. I bought a 24x 2 weeks ago for same price :( : Chicks Dig Me
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    I spent 299 on my 16x a year ago or so : land
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      Heh, I spent 279 on my first 2x :) : Chicks Dig Me
      • Yep, $499 for a 1x in 1995, $349 for a 2x in 1997, $299 for a 4x in 1999, then $150 for an 8x in 2000 (a... : Dechter
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  great ad, but for the love of God stay away from State Of Emergency like the plauge. : archon
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    Definitely rent it if you're curious how good it is. You'll be glad you didn't buy it after at least an ... : Portax
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      I was thinking of picking it up used. I saw it used for 12 bucks. I havent played it, but Ive watched my... : tomservo
      • It gets boring when there's nothing left to do but beat up more people. There was no real plot or anythi... : Portax
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  Dammit, what brand HDD is that? Too bad there is no CompUSA anywhere near here. : PantherX
  • um 100 GB 7200 PRM Western Digital Hard Drive - $129.99 @ CompUSA? : firehawk
• Good post! Mail in rebates suck! : Homard
• At staples.com you can get a 80 gb ATA 133 7200 RPM hard drive for $79. Ends today. (saw it on Techbarg... : fluffy64
• thought i would add this to your post http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3827691 i ordered one for... : ghost in my shell

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  the fact that it can play old GB games alone makes me want to buy it but it also has DOOM, DOOM2, Wolf3... : tomservo
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    It does though! :( You're thinking of gameboy color. : chuk
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      Huh? No, only the GBA has Doom 1/2, Wolf and Duke Advanced. While the GBC could play GB games, the GBA c... : geedeck
      • You know I've had this thing for a year and never knew! : chuk
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  Eh? There isn't a Zelda game out just yet. There have been like 4 Zelda games from GB/C, though one of t... : geedeck
  • I'm playing Ages right now. Fun game. : PantherX

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  y'all gonna make me lose my mind : radicus
  • up in here up in here : Lawgiver
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  hey the DVD should be out by now... : snuff
  • which one? : pyide

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• season = scene. I just woke up again. :p : chronic
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  Probably not THAT old, thanks to the censors. : c0bra
  • It was in the early 80's I think. : chronic
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  The Entity : Dreagon
  • Yes! That's it. Thank you kind sir. : chronic

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• ohhh yeah :D i have it on my laptop : blitzkreig
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  Is it Linux or something totally different? : Visceral Monkey
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    BSD is different than Linux yes. : ashkie
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      Faster on my 166 than linux, or so it feels. : Warlock
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        what do you use your NetBSD for? are you a coder? : fatbeaner
        • Yeah, working on C++/PHP/mySQL stuff, and a little fooling around with networking : Warlock
• Again: NetBSD's package system owns me. It builds the packages on the fly, no precompiled bullshit. :... : Warlock

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• It depends on your insurance. : PantherX
• Depends on the car. My front glass is $1200 on my car. I pay a $100 deductable :) : MarksmanX
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  I think your bigger concern would be the combined weight of you and your girlfriend. A windshield here,... : Omaha
  • That's something I would say :) : MarksmanX
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    I think the skateboarders did it. Either them or the squirrels. : Portax
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      hahaha, did squirrels win the ASUW election again this year? What happened to the skatebaord beating man... : radicus
      • No idea :). I've always liked blaming squirrels and skateboarders are a good target now, too. : Portax
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    Its a given I could stand to lose some, be she is only 130 so I wouldnt want her too much smaller for he... : radicus
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      130?!?!? Jesus that's like 250 for a guy! She should barely be 100 pounds! ;) : MarksmanX
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        breasts weigh a lot : Thingol
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          lord knows mine do : tomservo
          • hahahahaha! : MarksmanX
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          Dude I know howmuch implants weight! They're not 15 pounds a piece! for normal women :) : MarksmanX
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            plus, you're probably spoiled with 4'9" women...some of us date normal-height females : Thingol
            • Dude Asians women weigh less than 100 pounds! : MarksmanX
      • hahaha : PantherX
      • this isnt j-pop! Shes 6 feet tall! : radicus
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  so you were "leaning" on the very strong glass and it "just happened" to break? *nudge* *nudge* go... : Thingol
  • hot engine, cold night...gotta watch out for the windshield wipers though!! They sneak up where youd lea... : radicus
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  I have now added windshied to my "Things to not have sex on" list 1. Glass table 2. Car windshield ... : Thingol
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    porcupines, hedgehogs : PantherX
    • very carefully. : tagomi
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    construx : c0bra
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      YOU BUILD CONSTRUX ACTION CONSTRUX : tomservo
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        Hahah. Man, I don't have them anymore but those things were the coolest. Remember the purple alien guy... : c0bra
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          I never had any :( I was mainly a GI-Joe guy. at one count I had 90 something GI Joe Figurines and 30 V... : tomservo
          • I had some GI-joes. But I had a TON of Legos and Micro Machines :D : c0bra
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            GI Joe ruled, they are releasing some of the old episodes on DVD soon..... : suicidemachine
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              what was it "and knowledge is half the battle" or "knowing is half the battle" : Thingol
              • I think it was "and that is half the battle". : suicidemachine
              • knowing is half the battle. The other half is pure, unadulterated violence. : c0bra
            • awesome, I'll get those for sure : tomservo
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    What about toxic waste? : MarksmanX
    • don't knock it 'til you've tried it : Thingol

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  i'd humbly ask for a rematch too. 20mil to get my ass kicked isn't a bad deal. : accused
  • IF Lewis will rematch just for the money, when Tyson just wants to get paid. I'd laugh if Lewis refus... : LEX LETHAL

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• lies. : geedeck

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  But that would be messing with the space-time continuum and Superman would have to come and fly around t... : Portax
  • Looks like the drugs are kicking in quite nicely. : Topaz

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• Polar Opposites : Jedi SeXpansion

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  sounds good :). Yeah, someone needs to WAKE UP steve : land
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    bah, give the guy a break, he just moved into his new place yesterday, and I think he'd have to do any u... : fluze
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      um, Steve isn't the only guy who can update news here you know : enigmatic
      • Maarten is getting some sweet lovin at the RedLight area! So he had a tough E3, he needs some love! : MarksmanX
• Too late for that. : PantherX

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• No, I'm the bargain bin master. : arizona bay
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  i got the same thing, except mine was 10% off since i worked there. so hah! : emocore
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    Oh you mother fuck. Now lets see, does this thing work in WinXP? : SatansFist
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      ^^^Bumpity... Anyone know? I installed it fine but it crashed on me as soon as I picked a site for my ba... : SatansFist
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        according to www.ntcompatible.com it works under win2k. not sure about xp though. : emocore
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          Yeah I know... I looked at Microprose's (or Infogrames, whatever) page and they said that it's not suppo... : SatansFist
          • there's a utility out there that slows down old games, but damn if I remember what it is.... : Jedi SeXpansion
• X-Com, best turn based game EVAR! : Fred Garvin
• $3... my lord : vodor
• I got ROTT for $3 once. : PantherX

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  I'll give you $5 if you tell him that to his face. : dafragsta
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    tell Lewis GG? And whats the deal with all this "say it to his face" bullshit? I, and almost everyon... : moshman
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      Because if you said it to his face, you wouldn't HAVE a face :) : mrraist-
      • haha! : dark sage
      • Yeth, he would definately put his fitht through yo' brain. : Omaha
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        I can run faster than that guy :) : moshman
        • but you'd only die tired :) : Unleashed

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• But what if I don't need any of that? Find me something I can use! : ashkie
• Damn. Can you still buy Dreamcasts? : kueay
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  Oh wait forgot something :-) Call EB and find which DC games they arent taking back for their trade i... : ghost in my shell
  • You have to bring the games to the store; they won't tell ya over the phone. : Zillax0rz

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  wtf is a "cult game"?? : dodob
  • game that a small group of people absolutely love and live their lives by while the general public ignor... : silly
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    a game that is shunned by most of the public for certain reasons, but gathers a minority crowd of fanati... : the archvile
    • heh with me and SoF it was like "shit this is no fun" : silly
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  some of them are commenting on the MP which a lot of shackers really like. I really think they should al... : ultramega
  • And to think they almost got lazy and scrapped mp. They must be thanking God for not fucking that up cau... : mc-fine
• that's because some people reviewed single play, and some reviewed multi...and some reviewed both. sing... : fragasm

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• http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?comments=20872 only one post there... lets make our own first post there... : OverBurN

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• I usually go to IGN just to see screenshots and get some sort of opinion on them. : Portax
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  Alot of gamespot's stuff is free anyway, I'd check and see if it's behind their pay program or not. Also... : fluze
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    no gamespot now sucks. IGN keeps their stuff locked for a few days and then opens it to everyone. GSp... : MrShmoo
    • Wow, didn't realize they did that. Oh well. : fluze

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• activation = activision. : [surrender]
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  Multiplayer is worth the price. : drucifer
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    not really : goatsecxy
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      what don't you like about it? : drucifer
      • grenade spam, especially incendiaries - the M4 reflex suicide(ie idiot comes around corner and kills bo... : goatsecxy
• God Awful is going a bit far. Average, yeah, but I'm still playing it.. : gingerninja
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  i feel sorry for dognose too. : pyide
  • what's the dognose-raven/sof2 relationship? : incubus
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  Oh come on, it's no Deus Ex but it's not that bad. I generally enjoyed it most of the way through until ... : jidar
  • I'm right at the end of the Winter level... I agree with you (despite the AI Flaws, and other small bitc... : tomservo
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  someone clue me in as to why the SP is "god aweful". I thought the SP demo was pretty damn well done and... : -Panther-
  • Its not god awful... it just has a few things that need to be polished. DEFINITLEY pick it up. Ive said... : tomservo
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    The bottom line: It's a higher difficulty game than most people are used to. The AI tends to know where ... : jidar
    • The things that bug me the worst about the AI are: it knows where you are, generally before you know ... : tomservo
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      well yeah, but isn't that part of the whole "realism" spiel? That you can't go bustin' into rooms ala ra... : -Panther-
      • The ship level was FUN I thought :), it was pure sneakyness, especially in the top areas where the bunks... : tomservo
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  i thought it sucked, but mainly due to the fact that i was playing on the soldier of fortune difficulty.... : emocore
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    I'm on consultant now, it gets frustrating after Columbia. Im half tempted to try it on the easiest jus... : tomservo
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      i switched to gun for hire (medium) around .. i forgot which level. : pyide
      • and i still get my ass owned unless i lean behind something everytime i see someone : pyide

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  he lost? damn, so much for being one of the greatest fighters ever. : spector
  • he still was I think. I remember seeing a fight where he knocked some guy out in 11 seconds or something... : tomservo
  • He already lost his chance at that title when he got beat by a nobody like Buster Douglas and then lost ... : Dreagon
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  Probably because he was the one raping others in prison, not receiving. : Midshift
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    I was just gonna say that. I'm pretty sure he was the Rape-ER... : tomservo
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      What do you think he was doing with this stuff? :( http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tysoncommis1.... : Midshift
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        Cooking? : tomservo
        • appears so :) : land

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• HE HAS A BONER : ventro

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• It does when you get the light saber and start fighting Dark Reborn jedi. Make sure to turn on dismember... : ashkie
• It does! I told you, get the lightsaber and you'll forget everything before that! : gakera
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  postal was tons of fun. : emocore
  • The one good thing about that game was the name of the company that did it. Running With Scissors... *gi... : Sebastian Sylvan

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• That would be a perfect HD to upgrade the Tivo. : malevolence
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  I'd think you'd want something faster if you run lotsa apps off the server.. 7200 rpm 8mb cache plz! kth... : land
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    what part of "If yer looking for storage space and not speed" do you not understand? : goatsecxy
    • rofl - nice ownage : Downforce
• When the density gets higher, it seems that the speed increase is nominal in most cases. Good price. : dafragsta

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• nice. there arent any bestbuys here ;( : sikander
• fuck fucko! I just bought a 50 pack LAST WEEK from Best Buy full price. :( Bastards! Lesson #24... : laidback
• what speed are they rated at? : goatsecxy
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  bah. Rebates. I'll take the normal deal my local best buy has -- 50 for $13, no rebates -- before I'll... : Solar Jetman
  • 10 of his deal is an instant rebate making it SURPRISE!!! $12.99 at the register : goatsecxy
• Cool. IE crashes, and Mozilla can't grok DThreads. : Solar Jetman

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  gaminggroove is actually coming back. : norulez
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    If I had a dollar.... They've actually had the "No no, we're ok, we'll be back" page up /more/ than ac... : SourSamo
    • haha good call : norulez
• Wilson curse? If he had not been thrown out of VE, it would still be going strong. : moshman
• My, what a train wreck they are. Looking at VE then is the first I have in a long time, and I notice ... : Midshift
• http://forums.ve3d.com/Forum35/HTML/000288.html : verbatim

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  FOOTBALL. IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL. : scion
  • in the US it's SOCCER! : Hizzow