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  You can get a performance chip and unlock it already :\ : wykd
  • But doing it yourself is cool. : geedeck
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  90mph? Meh, that's a low governor. : boughton supreme
  • at least it's more reasonable than the others. the 155mph speed limiter just shows the hipocracy and mone... : davatar
• No. This is to read diagnostic codes (code 298432 = bad flux capacitor type stuff). You have to buy a r... : batkiwi
• me not understand : urbansling

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• they stole drucifer's name! ;-) : carnivore
• goddamnit! >:( : drucifer

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  so I assume that once again a fucking game company has allowed GSPY an exclusive? : Old_Fart
  • Yep, I'm pretty sure. It's integrated into the whole beta signup thing. : Ben Barker
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  Steve and co. need to get more fileshack exclusives etc.. im sure they (he) is working on it... but u kno... : OverBurN
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    I don't want fileshack exclusives, I want NO exclusives. : Old_Fart
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      but im sure a fileshack exclusive would be better then a crapplanet exclusive :D : OverBurN
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        no, the wait would be just as long as fileplanet then. : Old_Fart
        • TRUE : OverBurN
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    They've said that they aren't going to be doing fileshack exclusives, mostly because they don't feel like... : gregorybrown
    • ahhh i c i c...good point... we need more shackers with fat pipes to mirror files then :D : OverBurN
  • Exclusives suck no matter who has them. No one has enough bandwidth to support a sought after game's excl : rauol_duke
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  You do realize that this is an exclusive to FilePlanet subscribers, right? You only get an account in the... : jschuur
  • Ah crap. I'm an idiot, aparently it's now available to non-subscriber too ;) : jschuur
• It's not that good anyway. Once the oohs and ahhs pass, it gets pretty boring real fast. : verbatim

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  how do you give items to things? : vodor
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    Drag them from your inventory to whoever you want to give to. : xocsida
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      i tried that :( i made a fat character, and i need to give some item to a statue for the training quest. : vodor
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        Are you giving it to the right statue? You have to go find the correct one, it's not the one that gives ... : xocsida
        • oh. that must be why. :) : vodor
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  What server are you on? Red is down for about 4 hours now, and there are no others available as i see it.... : Flinz
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    I'm on Green...but I don't have any options for other servers either. : xocsida
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      You have to change datacenters. But Red/blue have different builds than green so you can't get on them n... : wykd
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        The Redmond Datacenter was the only choice I got. Did you get others? : xocsida
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          When you first install it's like that. When you update you can change datacenters at login with the drop... : wykd
          • ok i had the same problem, but yea, now i see there's a 2nd datacenter. but it says the red server is una... : fluke
• Uggg...just had a hard lock. It is still a Beta I guess. : xocsida
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  too bad it lags like shit on a 128 ram system : Ajay-dk
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    dude, wtf do you expect with $20 worth of ram? :) : Toraz Chryx
    • Aye...works like a champ on a 512 of 2100 DDR. :) : xocsida
    • Was worth more when I bought it more than a year ago ;) : Ajay-dk
• I havn't found anything at my level yet :( They start us at 20 and say go find something to kill. : Crimsonbeak
• and I thought you were cool. Boy was I wrong. : Degenerate
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  my chat window doesn't work. neither does my radar. >:( : vodor
  • it doesnt work? or it's just not there shift+1 brings up the chat window dunno about the radar though : fluke
  • shift+1 didnt work for me, however shift+2 did... weird my radar didn't work. : moshi
• says T&L required...anyone with a tnt2 playing this? : IcomeINpeace
• ANyone getting "an internal error occured while executing the login command"? Im guessing the beta is ... : Thud

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  Has this item been contaminated by or in the vicinity of semen? : MeenMunky
  • Nope.... I only take nudie pictures of the ladies. : burrito
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  maybe i'll register for an ebay account finally for this. :) i'll check again tomorrow to see where the p... : king_darius
  • yeah, i was.... I think that account still exists on shack. I forgot the password and changed email addre... : burrito
• BUY MY CAMERA..... : burrito
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  Cameras are the only product on ebay that rarely ever have a photo of the actual item in the listing. : {Venger}
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    Yeah no kidding.... Actually I could add a photo of the actual item using a mirror, but I am lazy. YO... : burrito
    • I already have a better camera, so I'll have to say no for now. If you are selling any long range artille... : {Venger}
• punk i would've given you 150 straight up for that :( : mr.sleepy

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  Proof that the human race (homo sapiens sapiens) continues to evolve into a species of supreme beings. : Mesmerist
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    Hey man, at least my nasal passages are clear now. (I think I blew brain out into the kleenex). o_O : MuaaSan
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      We can tell, you may not have noticed it, but you spelled every single word in that post wrong :( hehe : hawkeye
      • no u. : MuaaSan

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  I think that the costs to the RIAA of combatting progressing technology will simply become too high. Unl... : UtilityMaximizer
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    it is... they could just price piracy out of the market... but for some odd reason they can't seem to und... : Q-ball
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      i would probably buy a lot more CDs if they got that cheap... like $10... : carnivore
      • yea, my home town has them for that price and they have taken census' that Vancouver, Canada was the chea... : Q-ball
  • heh, I just "got" your name. How nerdy :) : Intaglio5
• Read this: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/5490 Jefferson wanted to put a ''restriction against m : -TKF-
• We should all just switch to OGG and really confuse them. : PantherX
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  What I don't understand is the artists point of view on this. They actually make most of their money tour... : Dreagon
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    The only reason they don't make money on CD's is because the Record Companies fucks them over : -TKF-
    • And the only reason they continue to get fucked is that the labels have a lock on the marketing and distr... : MoNsTeR

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  If the moon was made of ribs, would you eat it? : Degenerate
  • HEY!! HOW ABOUT THIS MAD COW DISEASE!? : uberp00
  • It's a simple question, doctor!! : king_darius
• No it isn't. Harry was a good, kind man. Sure, those last few years were pretty random, but Christ, the C... : Deathlove
• needs more cowbell : OverBurN
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  There's a comedian named Greg Camponera who does a better one. I suggest trying to find it either in vid... : Wolfanoz
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    excuse me... John Camponera : Wolfanoz
    • Here... check out the Harry sample near the bottom... its even funnier to see him do it because he looks ... : Wolfanoz
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  if you were a hot dog...would you eat yourself? : ctlaltl33t
  • Funnest sketch evar. Anyone know where I can get a clip of it? : Modulus
• His impression reminds me of Mike Nelson's impression of Jack Perkins (on Mystery Science Theater 3000): ... : UtilityMaximizer
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  i was surprised that they didn't put the 'wake up and smile' skit into his best-of show. it was truly one... : El Guapo
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    the morning show with cheri oteri? they had a short clip of it in there. : king_darius
    • that was a different one. wake up and smile had nancy walls : El Guapo

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  I can't believe you haven't been assaulted with offers on campus and in the bookstores. Credit card compa... : rauol_duke
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    I live off campus, and the way their little scam works is they get your parents to co-sign, you go nuts w... : boughton supreme
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      Try Sears or Walmart & get liek a DVD player or an Xbox. Something that yo ucan pay off within about 6 mo... : rauol_duke
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        Or buy me a new keyboard and hands so the typos will settle down some. : rauol_duke
        • Heh. Thanks man I forgot about those store cards. : boughton supreme
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  I got $1000 worth of Discover credit without even giving them my SSN. : MoNsTeR
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    You serious? No co-sign or anything? : boughton supreme
    • Totally. So long as you're over 18 you should be able to get a whole stack of low-cap credit cards. Or ... : MoNsTeR
• there should be people hanging around campus at the beginning of the year begging to sign you up for a ca... : El Guapo

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  That's like asking what the best color or food is. I got and still get the most milage out of Half-Life. ... : rauol_duke
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    Blue, and pizza : Old_Fart
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      Red. crab fried rice. : roushimsx
      • No. : rauol_duke
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      Close... The correct answers were blue and chicken parmesian. : rauol_duke
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        no, pizza is the best, you can have a chicken parmigian pizza if you want, or a crab fried rice pizza, or... : Old_Fart
        • We'll settle this outside the Wal-Mart tonight at 9 motherfucker!!!! : rauol_duke
    • close blue and chinese food! : MrShmoo
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    I really meant out of the newer games. : koder
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      Well then Battlefield 1942 is floating the fuck out of my boat, but I still play a good bit of Day of Def... : rauol_duke
      • that minority includes me : Old_Fart
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  Tribes 2, no doubt. : Havain
  • You're crazy. It's Tribes : kn32
• everquest : vodor
• T F C : ctlaltl33t
• Red Faction CTF is the best. Best weapon balance of 'em all and you can dig tunnels which emerge from the... : Mesmerist
• 1942 if you have the rig to run it : Pneum0

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• you should get the registerd version of the software DVD players The trial versions only run for 5 minut... : rookieone
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  Make sure your secondary IDE channel is set to UDMA in the Windows properties, Disable autorun with Tweak... : burrito
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    where would i change the udma settings? i don't see it in device manager. : king_darius
    • it's therem but moved! IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers | Primary (and Secondary) Channel | Advanced Settings : hawkeye
    • In device manager click on secondary IDE channel click properties make sure it says DMA if available. : burrito
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      One other thing? DO you have any devices connected on the same IDE channel as your DVD player? DVD player... : burrito
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        i've got my cdrw on the same channel, but it's not being used when i play the dvds. would that still caus... : king_darius
        • No, which one is primary and which is secondary? That might cause a problem.... : burrito
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  Get a DVD decoder card, like the Hollywood Real Magic. End of problem. Better visual quality than soft... : Mesmerist
  • depends on the player, but software decoding is just as good as hardware decoding (quality-wise) nowadays : hawkeye
  • This is the shooting fish in a barrel solution. Takes the mpeg decoding away from CPU cycles. : burrito

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  I wouldnt be saying that just yet. : Degenerate
  • Ah god dammit. gg europe : doc rock
• Ha... Ha.... Ha... : dr_drake

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  Cleaning heatsinks is simple.. If you can fully detach it just soak it in water and let fully dry : Blackdawgg
  • that's what I did :D : drucifer
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  What do you use to monitor CPU temp? : Degenerate
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    Asusprob : drucifer
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      hrmm, that helps me none what so ever. : Degenerate
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        usually, the cd that came with your mobo has a monitoring program on it, if not, go try MBM5, it works wi... : Old_Fart
        • Mine probably does but I cant read the CD :( : Degenerate
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  make it blow and suck depending on days of the week. more variety : dodob
  • Make it exhale, and then inhale, like a living being! : UtilityMaximizer
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  quick question... when you say suck... you mean that the HSF was basically blowing air away (towards the ... : Q-ball
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    yes : drucifer
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      hrm.. surprising then :( I switched my HSF around to suck air over it, because it wasn't cooling well en... : Q-ball
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        maybe your fan isn't the issue, maybe its your heatsink. : drucifer
        • its an older Volcano 5 or 6... I can't remember... but it was decent performance for the price when I bou... : Q-ball
• She's gone from suck to blow! : Mesmerist

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• There's got to be a catch--it's refurbished, and has a 3 month warranty or something. Or it's a typo. : UtilityMaximizer
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5540412 : davatar
• i got it for 1000 bucks :( : dodob
• yea that has to be a typo or something... : Q-ball
• They're marked -bstk which probably means "b-stock" which is not good. That means open box/scratch/dent/k... : Stasis

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• BNR2 (Newsgroups), or DC++ (P2P) : hawkeye
• Kazaalite : rookieone

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• Yeah, that was kick-ass. : verbatim
• Damn you. Ok I guess I'm gonna run over to Target real quick to see if they've got it. : [andromeda]
• I have to wait 1 week to get the game =( Fucking birthday : norulez
• the crowd was poorly modeled. looked like a bunch of quick "3DStudioMax" hacks with looped animations. ... : warren
• Agreed. Really cinematic looking. :) : Ocelot

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  watch some SNL, sucka! : ctlaltl33t
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    Oh you mean that skit with will farrell as the cowbell guy? I've only seen it like 50 times on Comedy Ce... : Q-ball
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      The skit is with Christopher Walken, and he's like the manager of some band. : mad-d00d
      • The Blue Oyster Cult, I think. : UtilityMaximizer
      • and Will Ferrell is playing the cowbell : Old_Fart
      • dude, he was THE bruce dickinson. : king_darius

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  what is this? hardocp forums or something? : jambalaya king
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    haha i got the idea from them, pathetic http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?s=c7d944658c09a4b401... : teh snail
    • haha, i used to frequent that forums for a bit, but it got old quick : jambalaya king
• You need a huge photoshopped banner with pictures of your Everquest character and your computer with lens... : rauol_duke

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  I first read that as "popcorn." That was a fun image =) : freqq28
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    I did the same thing, and imagined a kitchen with popcorn flowing out of the cabinets. Then I reread it,... : UtilityMaximizer
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      Kitchen fire in a grain elevator? : freqq28
      • Or grain elevator explosion in a kitchen? : UtilityMaximizer
  • same! even after i realized it didn't actually say "popcorn", i assumed that's what he meant, but typoed. : vodor
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    Real genius'd : Lawgiver
    • can you hammer an 8-inch spike through a board with your penis? : Old_Fart
• Installed UT2K3 eh? : Wolfanoz

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• It Needs More Cowbell!! : gregorybrown
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  Hehe, I think the same thing. ;) : [andromeda]
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    digital samples have no feeling! : Paranoid Android
    • How would you know, you're an android. : koder
  • But doesn't that seem weird? I must get myself a box of classic synth samples! : UtilityMaximizer

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• This sucks. I can't watch it because here they are showing the Steelers game... : StuMan1337
• And I don't think it's enough. They're gonna cover, and with plenty of room to spare. And after week o... : Deathlove
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  If Houston happens to win today, there be some rich mofos. : Wolfanoz
  • or at least cover the spread. : Wolfanoz

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• i got mail yaaaayayyyyyy : ctlaltl33t
• Yeah, yeah, that's what they say but then when something very, very bad hits them they are flat on their ... : TERATOGEN

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  no it isnt. go away : ventro
  • Was it something I said? : UtilityMaximizer
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  Use the third foot, YoungOne! : teh snail
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    If you're saying what I think you're saying...wouldn't that hurt? : UtilityMaximizer
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      If the girth is enough you should be able to distribute the weight painlessly. to the mystery cave with y : rauol_duke
      • LOL. "To the mystery cave with you!" should be a new Shackism. : UtilityMaximizer

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  If you ever drop your keys into molten lava just let them go, cause man, they're gone. : blueharvest
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    I worked in food service/dining hall in college, and one of the supervisors was a bit crazy. One day she... : UtilityMaximizer
    • I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in thos... : Old_Fart

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  Shiner Bock. Never heard of it, I'll try anything once. : indeego
  • Bock beer is very good german shit, real thick/sweet. : Juno
• Coors Light, if it's in bottles. : snuff
• are you from texas? : Torm
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  Coors Lite = http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5632714 : drucifer
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    it's not that bad really.. : Kashmir
    • I can't drink it... it has a weird aftertaste. I would rather go without a beer than have to drink the st... : drucifer
  • Arguing over which beer tastes more like pee in a container is stupid. I'm a new beer drinker, they all t... : snuff
• both duh. : Kashmir
• neither, get rid of that gay lite shit and drink some real Canadian lager or pilsner. : BiGBuLL
• Coor light is watered down piss in a bottle. : dysfunctional
• Labatt's Blue is your friend. I'll bring a case with me when I come down. : Wolfanoz
• Corona con LIME : emcea
• Anything is better than any American lite beer. : [andromeda]
• Killian's : freqq28
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  Molsen Canadian..a real beer. : IcomeINpeace
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    rickards red, a better beer :) : OverBurN
    • correct sir : IcomeINpeace

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• It's more like, "I be dey stoopid bitch, but not Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha" : trove
• ajhhaahh so retarded... lock her up for being a moron : OverBurN
• She's with "The Travelers," a wierd band of roving, rip off artists that rip off old people with home rep... : freqq28
• the footage of that beating is just about the most disturbing thing i have ever seen. unbelievable. : vodor

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  countdown started for their playboy debut yet!? :) : OverBurN
  • http://olsentwins.syndk8.net/ : roushimsx

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  A quick comments search reveals: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5572511 : bitshifter
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    thx.. i did a comments search but couldnt seem to find it. : Shadowdane
    • no probleme i just searched for the word 'german' in informative posts doesn't come up often :) : bitshifter
• http://www.msu.edu/~rahmanse/staplerfahrer_klaus.wmv : gregorybrown

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  Applied inspiration from this place will result in imminent failure. : dissectional
  • failure destruction. you have no chance to survive, make your time : electric_monk
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  The night was sultry. : skynet
  • hahah classic. No i'll throw YOUR momma from the train : electric_monk
• My pants were around my ankles and she was bleeding from her anus. What a way to wake up. : roushimsx
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  what do you have to write about? : vodor
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    'The individual in the computer age' I figured It'd take an hour at most. How wrong I was. My mind is ... : nomaad
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      what a crappy topic! : vodor
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        You should see the other ones: Family bonds Paydays Addiction (maybe I can write about my shack addi... : nomaad
        • Write a James Joyce style stream-of-consciousness text about being addicted to the shack - i.e. write dow... : dr_drake
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      Talk about the dicotomy of the increasing isolation vs the increased connection for the individual. It's ... : freqq28
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        Good idea. I'll incorporate it somehow into it. Thanks! : nomaad
        • de nada. A blank page and a deadline is a terrible thing to contemplate. : freqq28
• pen and paper : dodob
• 20% inspiration 80% work : Utopia

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• the mall's still open at this hour? : TPSReport
• I intend to get it. It is like UT, only better :) : Dreagon
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  3 gigabyte install. : Magitek
  • It is ? : Flinz
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    fuck that shit, homeslice! : vodor
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      homeslice? : ease_one
      • yeah : vodor
  • the beta was like 4gig : electric_monk
  • That's ridiculous. I'll pass. : Wolfanoz
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    wowza... it's like, 3 cds, right? what's taking up all that space... textures? nvidia ads? : paper chase guy
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      yea, and it's a multiplayer game...wtf.. : needlez
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        3GB for Doom3 would be understandable. 3GB for an Unreal game is unnacceptable. My goodness I don't e... : Wolfanoz
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          3GB for Doom3 would be understandable. 3GB for an Unreal game is unnacceptable. Based on what criteria... : Toraz Chryx
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            I love that we demand huge detailed textures, but bitch about the space they take up :D : drucifer
            • don't mind me, I'm just bitching because I'm at work on a Sunday and had to be here at 5AM. Love my job,... : Wolfanoz
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          Played the demo? Levels load up faster than the original UT for me. Of course the demo doesn't have the ... : [andromeda]
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            Do you have the full version yet? Do the ultra high res textures slow the game down at all? I have a Ge... : Wolfanoz
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              Nope, just the demo still. But I don't imagine load times being any more aggravating than say, Jedi Knig... : [andromeda]
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                yes but the lightsaber > *.* : Wolfanoz
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                  Yes, the lightsaber is the reason I bought the game. All I do is load up that ladder level and run aroun... : [andromeda]
                  • I usually just roll around and try to cut off my torso. Doesn't seem to work >:( : Wolfanoz
                  • ladder owns. : electric_monk
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          a lot of it is going to be because of high resolution textures, the fact that the editor ships with the g... : Dreagon
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            yea but an editor and a skinning tool cant take up that much space...what res are the textures anyway? I ... : needlez
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              ok, 2 cd but still...far from 3gig install i think... : needlez
              • my guess is that it isn't just higher res textures, but the fact that there is more textures involved tha... : Dreagon
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  no ASE support : BadRespawn
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    what? I mean AA has it, same engine... what a joke... : needlez
    • Same engine, different master server. : timmXXX
• If your cup of tea is "ah, I've got 15 minutes to kill, let's go frag someone", then by all means, go get... : timmXXX
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  This month we have GTA4, NOLF2, Burnout2 , Swat4. UT2K3 is the leaste of my worries. I'll buy it when i... : kingdepork
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    I disagree. There's a hell of a lot of difference between a good player and a bad player in this type of ... : timmXXX
    • True, but there isn't the degree of complexity that i want. With games like this, there's either many la... : kingdepork
• i'm gonna pick it up in a week or so. : x-eyd|mary

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• I'll reply to your random post if you'll reply to mine. : UtilityMaximizer