Evening Reading

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• It has begun... : Portax
• MOM?!?! : Clay
• man that is wild. I can't imagine running into something like that in the wilderness. : xocsida
• I thought we were killing all the giant apes...this is gonna put us behind :( : enigmatic
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  wait I thought we were the apes capable of killing lions : Clay
  • This is ANOTHER ape that is capable of killing lions. I just hope we are capable of killing those other ... : xocsida
  • hurrr cuz we evolved from apes @___@ : jrock
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  Hybrids? What is this, Crichton's book "Congo"? : jrock
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    Aaaamy. Amy wants maaaaanse. : PUPSTAHS
    • Aaaamy love coock. Amy love cock. : walker270
    • hhahaha yes : jigstah
• During her visit to DR Congo two years ago, she says she captured them on video and located their nests. ... : Katarn3279
• That. Is. So. Cool. BIGFOOT'D : Megara9
• got any friendly gorillas that know sign language? : peon73
• omg Kong! : chazums
• the apes have begun their takeover : Postal
• the local villagers say they are capable of killing lions. so it's not exactly a fact.. that sounds ki... : industro
• Very, very neat. Thanks for link! : Athlon7
• Get your hands off me, you filthy... : TheArtMan
• I'll say it again: Stop EATING my sesAME cake : jigstah
• I for one welcome our new Monkey overlords. : fusionrx
• C O N G O * D : cockoftehwalk
• capable of killing lions but when they saw a person they legged it back into the jungle? : Unleashed

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  accutane works wonders. : grindking
  • I don't want accutane. I don't think my acne is bad enough for that. The acne I have now isn't alot but i... : Blackdawgg
• I think I be happy either way. : freqq28

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• I make the random suggestion that you realocate that TV time to the Venture Bros. on Cartoon Network. : ahk-med

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  Is Desperate Housewives funny (in a grim way I suppose)? How funny? I find it difficult to make myself wa... : bargeld
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    Hot women getting naked isn't enough for you? : godwit
    • Nope. See, I enjoy european television. :> : bargeld
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    Yeah there were some pretty funny moments. <spoiler alert> in the first episode, one of the wives ... : Clay
    • I told you :( : redfive
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  Second episode of Lost is good too...new episode this Wed. at 8pm EST : fishbone
  • "What were you? Air Force, Army?" "Republican Guard" OH SNAP : Clay
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    there's some interesting characters & situations that should be interesting. the drug dude, the iraqi dud... : Clay
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      Also the camera and music seemed to hint at something wrong with the guy in the end of 1x03. And they bet... : bargeld
      • i haven't gotten that far :( : Clay
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        Locke, the Orange man. He kicks ass. : CSParsons
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          He didn't appear in any airplane flashbacks yet either, did he? What about the doctor? : bargeld
          • Speculation Locke was already on the island before the plane crash From the preview of the next episod : redfive
          • Don't know about Locke, but Jack (the doctor) was definitely in the plane flashbacks. : Caboose
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        there is a LOT of "not as they seem" things in this show : Clay
        • lol "You're having a bad month" : Clay
      • oh shi, didn't realize episode 3 already aired. : fishbone
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  What is this exactly, porn? If not, link to info about it please. : jrock
  • Desperate Housewives: http://abc.go.com/primetime/desperate/index.html Lost: http://abc.go.com/primeti... : Clay

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  when you say "college financial aid has rolled in", what do you mean? my aid went directly to my school,... : FrayLo
  • my tution is only 700 per semester. i was awarded 2000 dollars just for this semester. on top of that, i ... : feek
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    You get a check for whatever is left-over after the college takes out your tuition. : qwpeoriu
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      wow. I wonder wh y they do this and not just pay for your classes? I can't complain I have financian aid ... : dilutedq
      • Because there are more expenses for going to college than just classes. There is books, rent, food, booze... : eXcess
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      this is also correct. now, anyone have suggestions? :\ : feek
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        Here are some suggestions: MSI NF3 mobo (you wanted NF3): http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.a... : qwpeoriu
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          that's funny that's almost exactly what i had preliminarily picked out. i guess what i'm mostly wondering... : feek
          • 1) I dunno. I have that MSI mobo with an a64 3000+ and it is fast. After the fact, I probably would have ... : qwpeoriu
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            Socket 939 is faster and has a better upgrade path, but it's too expensive for your budget so it's not ev... : godwit
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              i don't see a point to the socket 939 ungrade path .. since by the time you will want to upgrade you prob... : stiki figgaz
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                yeah, but you won't need a new CPU. : Prozium
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                  i guess so .. i always think in terms of buying a motherboard and upgrading the cpus , never really thoug... : stiki figgaz
                  • By the time it's time to upgrade, those same socket 939 cpu's will be $175 bucks. So there's really no... : qwpeoriu
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  the hd seems fine, might want to pick up dvd burner since there cheep now and the media is cheep too : stiki figgaz
  • okay word. i was thinking i should probably get another, faster hard drive and keep this one as just like... : feek
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    I've heard that the 8mb cache drives are a nice jump in performance over the 2mb cache ones. You can eas... : Prozium
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      yeah. i think now i'll pick one up and keep my old one as well. : feek
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        You want a new hard drive, an a64 system, a fucking 6800GT and the kitchen sink for < $1000 bucks ? You r... : qwpeoriu
        • Do you know how cheap a hard drive can he bad? Just this week there's a lot of deals for 160-250gb drive... : Prozium
• nForce4 chipset with PCI-Express for Athlon 64s should be out by the end of the year. That's what I'm wai... : parker.ny
• with my financial aid i will be buying a new set of hockey skates :P : virus
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  Why get a 6800 GT? Get a 6600 GT, nearly identical performance, for much less cost. : Zero|DPX
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    because it seems the most popular :( are the 6600s out? : feek
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      Nooooo ... 6600GT and 6800GT don't have anywhere near identical performance. The 6800GT is a much much mo... : qwpeoriu
      • thank you. i looked for 6600s and couldn't find one in 256mb flavor, anyway. i want something disgustingl... : feek

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• There should be a knob somewhere that lets you aim the headlights up or down a few degrees. : impulse25
• check your manual to see if they're auto-leveling first. If they're xenon, you might just be unused to t... : AssGoblin
• Are they those adaptive headlights that swing around corners that BMW has? : Blackdawgg

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• ahhahahahaa. Uses more pixels than ever before. : burningtrees
• hahaha... 50% more funny. * Uses more pixels than ever before. * Spins the DVD at over 10,000 R... : Jayx77
• And yet, it sells me on the game more than anything else has : geedeck

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• Holy shit I loved Daggorath. And I sucked at it. It played like Zork, only real time, and I was such a ... : Amadan

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  Fear my peasant magic : egg5hen
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    YES! A six demon bag! : kingdepork
    • Sensational! : themelon

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  Don't you dare and come back to Germany! : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • But americans are weird and drive funny :( : Blackdawgg
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  Did you cross that magical 21 or 14 day barrier? : riptyde
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    I'm booking for the Dec. 17 to Jan 10. The same as I put in yesterday. : Blackdawgg
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      Ahh, then it must be the $155 "lets fuck Blackdawgg in the ass" fee I've been reading about. : riptyde
      • Yeah, damn I hate those fees. Everywhere I go its the same thing! : Blackdawgg
    • Check BA, they had another cheap flight deal running. I think Denver - London was something like $248 - y... : bombay

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• I'm off today. \m/ Federal Holiday \m/ : xocsida
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  That's funny, because it's a holiday here in Canada. : n0v4
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    I wonder if it's a holiday in any of the countries he actually discovered. : riptyde
    • Who cares about them? : jrock
    • It's thanksgiving day here, not columbus day. :D : n0v4
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      I remember reading about large-scale protests of the day in Caribbean and Latin American nations. I thin... : Caboose
      • Speaking of revoking holidays, when I lived in Phoenix, then AZ-governer Edwin Mecham (iirc) got rid of M... : riptyde
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  I work today but get an extra day for thanksgiving break. Not a bad trade off, I'd rather have today off... : slickdoody
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    Shit, I get both! : Vincent Grayson
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      two days for thanksgiving AND Colubmus day? Where do you work and they hiring? ;) : slickdoody
      • Well, we're a small mortgage company...since we service loans for the State, we take their holidays, and ... : Vincent Grayson
• you don't have floating holidays? : kanix
• huh? I'm federal and i have off today. : kingdepork
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  Columbus Day is bullshit anyway. And I don't get Columbus day off. My place of business depends on mi... : EvilDolemite
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    I love holiday sales, they crack me up. "Come honor our forefathers in the way they intended, by savin... : riptyde
    • It's because people are off; well, some people are. I didn't get today off, and I don't get any of the m... : EvilDolemite
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  Columbus was insane and denied that he'd even found someplace new - it's a wonder you guys give him any k... : Postal
  • Hey, we like to think everything we do is good, so we either don't talk about certain things or twist the... : kingdepork
• i heard columbus never ever went on a fucking boat... that all his discoveries were just lsd trips, there... : Utopia

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• This includes Simpsons, Futurama, 24, Millennium, and a few others! : Gary the Llama
• Holy shit! : BrodieMan
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  Oh snap, In Living Color DVD set!! : Caboose
  • with James Carrey!! : d fluke
• Fuck, I just bought Millennium for 50 bucks. : digweed014
• you are a gentleman and a scholar...thanks! : cap n KRUNCH
• Reposted in First Post for the morning crowd! : Gary the Llama

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  linky no worky : Megara9
  • sounds like he just wanted to badmouth someone. I label this article a 'waahticle' : Megara9
• ill take your word for it, lavar : ansuble
• remove period from link due to stupidity... http://covenantnews.com/deParrie040730.htm : Bantis
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  "If you are getting along so well now, why couldnÂ’t you do it before?" That guy's a lvl. 13 Troll : d fluke
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    Whats with the� : ansuble
    • no idea :( ' <-- ' ' <-- ' in italic?? : d fluke
  • My personal favorite... There was a reason God said he hates divorce. Divorce destroys people and cultur : Bantis
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  with a domain of covenantnews.com i was hoping for halo2 info :/ : esmokah
  • every time I see one of these trucks I think of halo http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/misc_ut... : Draugluin
  • Sorry, the author feels Halo 2 is blasphemy. Just like divorce, it too is tearing apart the fragile patch... : Bantis
  • Seriously. :( : bargeld
• Covenant as in ghey christianity... I'll pass on this article :-P : Athlon7

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• nope, still working for me : chazums
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  yeah that one is kinda weak. last few have been pretty funny though : Clay
  • on second review, the continuing *hic* makes it funn : Clay
• Yeah, it's usually a bit weak when they don't have any new games or movies to comment on. The highs more... : peanut-
• * B A U E R 'D * : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I liked it. I find it amusing all these home remedies for hiccups, and none of them work. This is just... : famine101
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  ever had the hiccups? Ever tried to get rid of it? : enigmatic
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    About a year ago I had one for 1+ week. Wouldn't go away. I felt a bit uneasy about the thing at the end. : bargeld
    • haha, I can imagine the "cures" people tried on you. "Drink this it'll work" /bargeld drinks "What wa... : enigmatic
  • A friend of mine at school had chronic hiccups. She basically never gets rid of them, although they come ... : Caboose
  • All you have to do to get rid of hiccups is swallow air. Works every time for me. : surround
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  Guess you haven't had a never-ending hiccup... I don't get them very often, and I tend to be good at g... : TheNiXXeD
  • hiccup...killme...hiccup...killme...hiccup...killme... : skinlab133
• Hahahahaha, I laughed. : tomservo
• I laughed, its sure as hell funnier than the line dancing tangent. : Turd Ferguson
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  The Katami Damacy comic from last week was the best I've seen in a long time. : optimistic
  • You mean Kalamari Demency? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • It was truly golden. =) : jrock
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  Just be glad they're not doing that Cardboard Tube Samari BS. When they say they're doing that, I tune ou... : Schnapple
  • i like those, its a nice change. Really nice art too : chazums

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  earthlink : epit
  • hmm they want $0.10/minute for their 1-800 #. are there any flat rate ones? : Clay

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• Im sure its happened before. : flip-flop
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  Walton had six children and lived in a converted garage used as the family home. WTF? If you're that ... : riptyde
  • to quote Bill Hicks: "figure out this food/air deal first" : Postal
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    If she's that poor, sex might be the only entertainment she can get. : Caboose
    • Or there's the entertainment of earning money. : kingdepork
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  Is there actual news on that page or is it just ads, I can't tell... : slickdoody
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    That's the new way to post news online, see: http://www.wftv.com/news/3799351/detail.html : jrock
    • lol @ "WTFtv.com" at least, that's how I read it : Caboose
• Texas. : NexusOne
• here's a little better link http://www.nbc5i.com/news/3799251/detail.html : haokah

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  I liked the prequel the least : d fluke
  • That's what I was thinking would be the case... Oh well. : FormerHPB

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• What the shit, who would wear that shit. : flip-flop
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  drudge sucks, who cares. : eskimo spy
  • why do you say that? : hobosapien
• She's a potpurrie bag! : felicia

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• unplug and wait, replug? : karlk79
• any luck? you're making me nervous here : GloriousCow
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  Call Dell for a replacement. It's a known problem. They'll send out a new one and you can ship the borked... : Topaz
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    are you serious? the monitor is junk? : spector
    • Damn, thumbs DOWN : headless
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  Check to make sure your on the right input. : slickdoody
  • i havent changed a damn thing in 2 months and its definetely on the right input : spector
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  i'll have to try and find my analog cables it came with. if this works will i notice a big difference in ... : spector
  • It's not a HUGE difference, but it's noticeable. : slickdoody

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  We all got those monkies from woot. In other news Superman died. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I meant monkeys. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • http://img69.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img69&image=bananars.jpg : Rauol Duke
• Also there was a cowboy in front of the Krispy Kremes. http://img69.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img69&image=howdy.j... : Rauol Duke

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  stamps (the faggot) watches idol. I (the non faggassed faggot) watch John Saffran V. God - because he... : seven
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    hehe yeah I record it, JS that is. I totally agree. : red2lucas
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      John Safran is a fucking legend. : TastyWheat
      • He is awesome. Can't quite top that KKK episode, but this one was pretty great, watching him squirm durin... : SpaecKow
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  hahaha holy crap, the favourite just went. : Daggoth
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    wow that was totally unexpected :( : red2lucas
    • I hate you guys! : seven
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  I liked Ricki Lee. I can't believe Chanel and baldie are still in. : stamps
  • Baldie is just stupid. How could he possibly be a pop star? He should join an alternative rock act as a v... : SpaecKow
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  I want an American Idol where the contestants are musicians and play instruments, like a "Battle of the B... : EvilDolemite
  • They had that on VH1, it was called "bands on the run", and it was pretty entertaining. The band that won... : ShadeOGreen

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• no love/hate for 21,000 pounds of tomato sauce : CoRDS
• I felt a disturbance in the Force. It's as if millions of Italian voices suddenly cried out in terror, a : riptyde

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• They want you to switch to windows obviously. : flip-flop
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  because resume templates are a waste of time and you might as well not even apply for a job if you're usi... : srksrk
  • I'm not applying for a job. Its just an assignment for a class. : Blackdawgg
  • thats not true..i've used them several times when applying jobs and the employer doesnt care, just as lon... : hobosapien
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  Mine does. Are you sure you did a full install? : hube
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    Where do you go to find it? : Blackdawgg
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      MS Office/Templates/Home Essentials : hube
      • I got the Home Essentials and some categories in there, but no resumes. Ah well there's some on the MS Of... : Blackdawgg
• Because people who use macs are dirty, unemployable hippies. i kid, i kid : riptyde

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• say what? : chazums
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  Not likely. VUG stands to make way too much money on HL2 just to let it go like that. : Helter Skelter
  • That's why I think they'll renegotiate the contract or something, because publishing HL2 is basically lik... : knytehawkk
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  Well, that's what steams for I guess! But wait... Sierra = GONE? : SpaecKow
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    Yeah. Gone. Dead. Demolished and destroyed. I couldn't believe it when he told me either. I mean, crap... : knytehawkk
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      Dude, LucasArts AND Sierra out of the league... who would've thunk it? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        It's a brave sorid new world of gaming... I still lament the slow painful gestation of LA (thank god ... : SpaecKow
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          Sierra, Origin, MicroProse - sad to see them all go. :( : bargeld
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            Those names bring back some real memories... You ever play Lightspeed by MicroProse? God, I totally loved... : SpaecKow
            • Sadly no. But I love the cover: http://www.mobygames.com/game/covers/gameCoverId,2170/gameId,1681/ : bargeld
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              My favorite Microprose game ever: http://www.mobygames.com/game/covers/gameCoverId,20152/gameId,1297/ ... : FormerHPB
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                holy shit, just before i clicked that link the theme music popped in my head!!!!! : krakhead420
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                  It was fun to sneak up behind hte enemy and knife them! So much fun. Also the template that went around... : FormerHPB
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                    hell yea, much love for those micropose overlays!! : krakhead420
                    • I hvae my c64 in my basement, just haven't hooked it up in a LONG time. I should try to fire this game u... : FormerHPB
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                Arggggh...Rangers don't wear their sleeves rolled up like that, that's a marine/navy thing. : xocsida
                • Well shit - they better recall all copies of this game! ;) : ThomW
                • and any real military man wouldn't be caught dead driving a Miata. ;) : FormerHPB
                • Also, that MiG (at least it looks like a MiG 21 to me) appears to have different country marker on the no... : riptyde
            • I played both Lightspeed and Hyperspeed... Great games! Funny thing is, I was into death metal when I w... : briareos99
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    um..hasn't sierra been gone for a while? : lakren
    • That's what I thought. : Kaiser
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      they got bought by VUG and trimmed down, but they were still an active player. (check out http://www.sier... : knytehawkk
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        Sites down, doesn't look good. : Tincan
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          remove the comma from the URL ;p : SpaecKow
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            Doh! : Tincan
            • gah, mistyped, sorry : knytehawkk
    • yeah i was pretty sure the shut up a month or two ago.... : Arsenal
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  /me requires proof. : Phearsome
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    call up Sierra's offices in Bellevue and ask "how ur job?" : knytehawkk
    • no u : Phearsome
• I'm a big fan of their "Print Artist Grande Suite" :( yes this is a joke, i just was searching for some c : slickdoody

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  Warning.. Spoilers.. The first half of trailer consists of ... a familiar voice over with Alec Guin : g0nk
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    must.. not.. click.. >.< : Megara9
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      Leia is Luke's sister! : BrodieMan
      • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! : Megara9
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        THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!! : mr3dmax
        • Search your feelings, you know it to be true. : BrodieMan
    • fear the power of the dark side : chazums
  • *ignites lightsaber* : d fluke
  • Please don't suck. Please don't suck. Please don't suck. : abubu
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    Reading that makes me think, "Hey, maybe this won't suck!"....but it will. : Vincent Grayson
    • It will be the best of the series simply because it has Vader in it. I sincerely doubt that after suc... : SpaecKow
    • (It's gonna suck) : headless
  • I'll watch it, but I won't own it. : EvilDolemite
  • Not really what I'd consider spoilers. Anakin, Vader, and space ships! Ooh! : Dechter
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  1. This sounds awesome. 2. It will suck. 3. I will still go see it in a cinema. : bargeld
  • Indeed. : dltrem
  • It is with great sadness that IAWTP. : Daggoth
  • So true.... : askedrelic
  • We are all George Lucas' bitches : losimagic
  • This is the most probable sequence of events. : nomaad
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  Where/when will the trailer be out. : nomaad
  • ^^^^^^ seconded : jrock
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    it's rumored as early as next month.. : g0nk
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      as to where.. I think it's going to be online only at first to "HyperSpace" members.. then mabey a month... : g0nk
      • I guarantee it takes 10 minutes after Hyperspeed people have it, for it to be uploaded to every AICN-esqu... : Vincent Grayson

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  enable it. Quit CS:S and open it again and it should work fine : chazums
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    you win! should i select trilinear or ansitropic filtering? (2x 4x 8x or 16x) : Morgin
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      iniso gives better image quality but it slower. Some people say that tri-linear gives then a small 'lag... : chazums
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        would aniso 2x be slower than tri? : Morgin
        • would probably be the same. I'd go with aniso if you still get the fps : chazums
    • ive found that 8x af really brings out the bumpmapping and such sweetnesses (i also use 2x aa) : krakhead420
• i tried but i couldnt reproduce it. i feel i am missing out. : ansuble
• I get that too, but it goes away if you restart CS:S : moshman
• did it for me too when I cranked up the quality on my 9600XT... I closed it, reopened and it never did i... : Jayx77
• The problem comes when you change certain settings and it doesn't reload everything correctly. It LOOKS ... : TheNiXXeD