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  bluesnews? jiggawut. : ashke
  • If you have Flashblock and Adblock it's a good page for news. : Wyvern
  • Yeah, I was wondering that myself. : Fred Garvin
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    Blue is still one of the best newsies around, hands down. If I didn't shack so much he'd get my vote. Jus... : node
    • Having said that, I just cast the vote that nudged us into the lead. :( : node
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      I go there once in a while and the news is no different than here. : Fred Garvin
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        because we just cut 'n paste from Blues, amirite? : Caboose
        • too easy : ashke
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  blues news is winning =-/ : kbnerd
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    Not for long (I voted from 2 IPs) : loboca
    • so did I :) : Shadowdane
    • PERMABAN'D : AndyBurnes
• voted : ZeroSignal
• voted! :) : Shadowdane
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  Chaka Khan! : Degenerate
  • Chico Debarge : digitalburro
  • Chaka KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! : cockoftehwalk
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  So is IGN going to buy the winner or what? : Ajax
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    shacknews.ign.com :( : Shadowdane
    • McShacknews.ign.com : Wyvern
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      more like shacknews.ve3d.ign.gamespy.com amirite? : aaarrrgh
      • EA.shackews.ve3d.ign.gamespy.mcdonalds.nba.nfl.com : TheNiXXeD
  • lets all vote for Blue's! : kevp
• We just gained 100 votes while blues gained 7, Keep it up! : loboca
• lol, shack had like 80 votes when I voted, now it's almost winning : AllYourBase
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  voted current: Blue's News - 182 Shacknews - 170 : Popedispencer
  • Blues - 182 Shack - 188 : zuga
• ahah shacknews is winning : jcutner
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  For the Shack!!!!!! : omnova
  • LOKTAR !!!! : Popedispencer
• I wanted to vote for Gaming Groove but it's not an option :( : Phreakin
• √ vote placed : Postal
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  ah, brings back memories of spikeTV thing. : nyranger66
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    Yeah, and we still fucking lost! What's with that? : node
    • Leftover rigged voting machines from the election : omnova
• yes we are winning : mr.sleepy
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  Done. Shack 285 - Blues 193. : Phil
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    Done. Shack 285 - Blues 194. : personaljesus
    • fag : AllYourBase
    • Prepare to burn! : omnova
  • The Shackers sure mobilized quickly! Impressive!! : Ajax
• * V O T E ' D * : virus
• Voted. :D : cajuncook
• voted : dumbacid
• voted : chrisxtreme
• ANAL! voted : askedrelic
• Teh shack is crushing all other competition with 379 votes : xphil
• Voted : dmason
• I cant believe some ofthose are even listed. Teamxbox? blah : Degenerate
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  What the hell is this? Their shopping list? : systatic
  • ahahaha, nice. : nyranger66
  • shack.ign.com omg : fsck
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  "C&VG - 1 " ALRIGHT, WHO DID IT : megarust32
  • their admin : rookieone
• buttse'd-] voted : biskits
• @432 now. C'mon, vote! : Merconium
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  IGN can't win their own poll? WTF? : TheArtMan
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    I'm sure at the end, we'll hear about how IGN won anyways : AllYourBase
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      It was an honor just being nominated. : Ajax
      • Much as you love to believe it, IGN doesn't dictate how the site is run. : AndyBurnes
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  didn't ign steal their whole file transfer interface from fileshack? : sludge vohaul
  • What the hell are you talking about? http://ajax.shackspace.com/ign_screencap.jpg : Ajax
• Overwhelming majority to the shack - werd! : SpaecKow
• Shacknews, fuck yeah! : PenicillinX57
• no gaminggroove? :( : deviantpaul
• haha - people voting for bluesnews, that's gold. : seven
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  this proves that shackers have more PCs per user than other websites. Until the /. guys find out : Degenerate
  • second vote at work hehe : xphil
• done and done. : fsck
• http://ve3d.ign.com/poll/88/Best-Gaming-site-2005-Besides-VE : onji

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• Can I invest in Dwarven Steel International Co.? : Bantis
• One word: Elfron. : Dante
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  Sadly, I have yet to run into the "I have too much cash" problem. As soon as I reach that state, I will s... : Wyvern
  • sign me up plzkthx : action roommate
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    It would be damn cool to be able to create quests like that for other players. Set something up so if ... : spl
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      That wouldn't affect inflation though, as the money would just move around. There needs to be a way to ma... : Dante
      • Heh, I wasn't trying to solve for inflation, I just thought it would be cool.. ;p : spl
• How would that combat inflation? You'd just increase it. : trove
• somebody needs to buy UMax a copy of WoW to fix the economy! : Degenerate
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  how does inflation work in an mmorpg? : jayares
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    Money does not leave the system while more and more comes in, causing more people to have more money and ... : c0bra
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      It's funny, Galaxies (I know, I know :/) has been said to have a negative economy. There is so much spent... : loboca
      • I left galaxies with about 6 million credits ... thats after paying off my houses and merchants for over ... : johnny skidmarks
    • I expect this to be less of a problem in WoW. The fact that many items are soulbound mandates that they ... : Arcanum
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  I think the proper way would be to charge people for holding their shit at the bank. Like if you have 30... : handofthrawn
  • an arm and a leg! -Pablo Francisco : jrock
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    I'm making money hand over fist AND I'm a warlock that has to train myself and 3 pets. I tried out a bunc : edgewise
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      How do you sell green items in the auction house? I try and they almost never sell so I just vendor them... : tedv
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        actually, I should qualify that somewhat... not all green items get put up there. It's tempting to drop i... : edgewise
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          i just reread that and it sounds like I'm waffling. like 90% of green stuff goes up there, but the less d... : edgewise
          • Thanks for the tips. : tedv
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            wtf send me the green items for disenchanting! come on man don't break the cycle! :D : Downforce
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              When does enchantment get useful? The lower levels don't produce anything useful (oooh, +5 health, yay..... : Arcanum
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                Well it's really a question of cost effectiveness. The components come from expensive enough items that ... : tedv
                • That's about right. TIME and effort mostly. You will end up enchanting your own shit over and over to lev... : Downforce
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        IMHO, 8 hour duration with a buyout is the best "main" formula. Now for the details, you gotta see wha... : Downforce
        • Also, I'll bank stuff to sell until I've paid my level up costs. If I'm near an even level, I'll just wa... : Downforce
        • 8 might work if you're on at the appropriate time and the 8 hour period catches the server's peak hours, ... : edgewise
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      Don't forget we get a free mount too :) : kevp
      • heh, yeah. Not only free, but a stallion with flaming hooves! : edgewise
    • I'm also making a complete rediculous amount of money. For mostly the same reason. I was rushed through R... : TheNiXXeD
  • I'm lvl 57 and my money has been going up and up after I got my mount (at 42). I've been spending some mo... : sanchez
• That doesn't combat inflation at all. In fact, it contributes to it because it's another source of money... : tedv
• "Inflation" in WoW would not be helped from a central bank. If you are thinking about some Federal-type i... : Downforce
• http://www.wowrankings.com/rankings_manager.htm?orderby=money I wonder what it takes to get nearly 2000 ... : Buster Hymen
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  The problem resides in the fact that NPC create money when they buy stuff. They should have a steady inco... : melt_core
  • They could probably control it a bit if they took a chunk of money when you died... but I always hated th... : TheNiXXeD
• Im at level 35 and so far money is certainly no where near being a problem. Perhaps once the majority of... : johnny rotten
• The problem with WoW is there is nothing to friggen buy. Unlike other MMORPGs theres no way to flaunt you... : Blackdawgg
• Central banking is the cause of inflation : slackor

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  With digital, the signal either gets there or it doesn't, there is no real degradation in sound quality f... : Thresher
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    I was thinking about going to frys instead of BestBuy but thanks for the advice. I thought the expensive... : ease_one
    • Check the regular cable aisle in Best Buy, where they have all the generic TV cables and stuff. Else c... : Carnivac
  • I got some optical cables at radio shack since it was close to home and the clown there was really trying... : FormerHPB
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  http://www.askluke.com/images/newyears/DSC01119.JPG HD Madden...Mmmm sex : darklox
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    haha, who's the dork in the school photo : AllYourBase
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      that would be me 15 years ago....dick : darklox
      • lol, <3 u : AllYourBase
  • Zenith! Woah, I haven't seen anything Zenith for like 20 yrs, neato : tunis5000
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  Needs more samsung DLP. Awesome setup though :) : d0gbert
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    i saw my dads 61" sammy DLP over winter break he got it for 3500.00 so awesome. : mankeroo
    • They are truely awesome, and when you have something like Farcry or HL2 on it they're breathtaking. : d0gbert
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    I was thinking when Xbox2 comes out I will get a nicer TV because I think 720p is going to be used a lot ... : ease_one
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      All tube based tv's upconvert 720p to 1080i. : flip-flop
      • exactly, which sucks ass : ease_one
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      Same here, although there is those apparently nice Sanyo HDTVs at Walmart, 600 or whatever for 32" widesc... : Carnivac
      • That is exactly what I was thinking. I think 480p looks like crap, not enough games running in higher re... : ease_one
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    No way, needs more BenQ PE8700. : jrock
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      $4k for an MSRP $8,000 DLP proj that has native 720p and 5x colorwheel. UNF. http://www.projectorcentral.... : jrock
      • pricegrabber = $3200. however, you dont get the warranty on the non-MSRP models, because, in general, the... : mallrice
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  Your center channel is too low. Put it on top of the cable box. Also, try corner-loading your sub (putt... : EvilDolemite
  • I hate to agree with Davecrazy... : Degenerate
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    I think the cable box is about to fall off the TV already but I will see what I can come up with. : ease_one
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      https://www.sanus.com/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?page=products/foundations/tvshelves.html&cart_id= : kevp
      • I use Velcro. Just went to the hardware store and asked for an arm's length. : TheArtMan
    • http://mydocuments.orangemile.com/mypictures/ninjamagic.jpg :[ : My Documents
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  I got the same one in black. nice choice! I'm happy with mine so far. But damn, that box it came in wa... : FormerHPB
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    yeah the box was HUGE. I had it shipped to work and I picked it up yesterday (they didnt tell me it came... : ease_one
    • I had mine delivered home, but it was left in my garage, which is under the house, so I had to get it ups... : FormerHPB
• check out the radio shack gold series cables, they arent nearly as expensive as the monster stuff and see... : spector
• WTF, yo couch! For nostalgia : digitaljihad
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  Here's my work in progress, while we are on the home theatre subject: http://otterskog.mine.nu/Pict0011.j... : idmud
  • It appears that you live in the records room of a dentist's office. : br3akn3ck1
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  Sanford and son called - they want their chair back. : Porkasaurus
  • Something there wasn't purchased at IKEA...can't figure out what, though. : owly
• im not keen on the xbox on the carpet, you need a dvd rack and put the xbox in one of those slots the dvd... : bosst0ne
• Needs less 'home' and more 'theatre' : freqq28
• you should move that center channel to the top of the tv so its pointed more at you, thats where a lot of... : mohmar
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  What kind of speakers are those? : allowat76
  • anybody? : allowat76
  • onkyo 770s. I forget what speakers comes with that package but you could look it up. I think its the 52... : ease_one

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• ^^^ Not a troll post ^^^ : dognose
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  People said it was good but the pictures didn't excite me and the setting didn't either so I never bother... : Hello Kitty
  • But, like, omg : dognose
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    Words and pictures do this game no justice. It's definitely one of my sleeper hits of 2004 and up there ... : laidback
    • http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4576 : dognose
• You're in for a surprise... Not only can you go pick up Painkiller for probably $20, but there is a wh... : DKo5
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  Painkiller rocks. (I still haven't picked up the expansion though) : jason bergman
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    Expansion is good so far. More of the same gameplay (not bad) with purtified graphics. : PoopStewart
    • That's all I hope for. More levels, more stuff to kill. : jason bergman
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    Unfortunately the expansion pack isn't nearly as good as the full game... mainly because there is a huge ... : DKo5
    • and it doesn't run as smooth, atleast for me :( : maru mari
• We told you BUT YOU NEVER LISTEN! :( : bargeld
• For some reason, I thought you were talking about a mod on QuakeWorld.. I guess not, heh. : Maddog_Delphi97
• Seems like your type of game. : megarust32
• because you've been blinded by your love for all things duke :( : creep
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  I am about 1/2 way through, now using God mode to finish this game and get it off my system. It's fun, bu... : ghost hacker
  • Cheaty McCheater. : carrioN luggagE
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    Exact same thing happened to me. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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      I should make note that Painkiller was the first game in a LONG, LONG, LONG time (since Doom II) that cau... : Rice-Rocketeer
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        wimp. real men make it through without cheats. : jason bergman
        • First game in a long time. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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          Real developers do not include cheat codes. They play the levels over and over again to get the bugs out. : ghost hacker
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            wtf game doesn't have cheat codes? : Turd Ferguson
            • I call them 'features'!! Of course they have cheat codes. :) : ghost hacker
  • you sure are living up to your name olo : pinkeye
• Did you know that This had the Half-Life 2 uber-jump trick before Half-Life 2 even came out? I swear it's... : SwiftyPants
• Thank you sTeve for letting me download this free demo : dognose
• i bought the game on sale and haven't had a chance to play it yet. Hopefully i'll get to it this weekend. : Silent1
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  I had a lot of fun with the full game but I think I had more fun with the stake gun in the demo than the ... : Turd Ferguson
  • I'm enjoying firing up the whirly blade and mowing through swarms of zombies. I feel like the guy in Dea... : dognose
• It's good stuff. As far as I'm concerned it's one big homage to Quake - not clever, but big, explosive, a... : node
• I wish I felt the same way when I played the demo. Felt bland and ...I dunno. Mediocre. Doh. : Magus
• Did you get the crazy demon powerup? Omg I love that thing. Best powerup ever : boomstickah
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  someone just got paid off ;) : jayares
  • True enthusiasm works for free : dognose
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  boring demos : SlamDunk
  • You should play the demos that I played, Fileshack has them : dognose
• I beat the game a few weeks ago, and honestly I think I liked it better than Half Life 2 and Doom 3. It'... : dltrem
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  Which demo is the best?? I have to get this now. I loved Blood. : {Venger}
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    First one has multiple levels. Last one is a huge level with some of the new graphical upgrades I think.... : dltrem
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      Getting 1st. Thanks! : {Venger}
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        Be sure to tell us what you think when you're done. : dltrem
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          I played two levels, it was all interesting and felt original. Ran like a queen in 1600x1200. The thing i... : {Venger}
          • No, Sirrah: that's all there is. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  frmo when I played the demos, I just remember alot of brown, alot of stuff on fire, alot of corny looking... : eskimo spy
  • i agree, it got boring fast : lord_omega
• I made this site to show off videos of where to get all the secrets. There's also a few other vids there... : AtaR1
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  I replied to a post of yours a while back (lost in DB crash) and said essentially all of the above about : aa004
  • I remember you, silly! :D : dognose

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  I owned a 30GB Zen Nomad Xtra and it seemed sloppily designed. The face would always fall off and the in... : phobium
  • and sometimes it'd freeze up when booting up or down : phobium
• im pretty happy with my rio nitrus, but its only 1.5gb. still, thats a lot (i think ive got like 24 hours... : skold
• i like my dell dj however dell recently redesigned it so i dont know about the news (some ppl say theyre... : nurall
• I have a Creative Zen Nx 20Gb, and I like it. It's definently bigger than an iPod, but not ungodly large.... : adev
• damn you apple: http://music.msn.com/help/ipod : nivorous
• Have you considered the Creative Zen Touch? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00028DJTY/r... : tbreffni
• other than my b0rked pixel problem (which is getting fixed under the warranty) I love my Ipod 40gb. : hirez
• If 20gb is enough for you, the go for a Rio Karma. Do a shacksearch of it to find out why it kicks ass. : nomaad
• Zen Touch, or Iriver in that storage range. : freqq28
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  what do you guys think of the iriver h320? http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/H320.aspx I heard ... : nivorous
  • I LOVE my h340, and it does indeed allow video playback. Interface is perfectly cool with me.. and it's ... : pilgrimage
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  Please DO get this. I got a Zen Xtra 30GB for christmas, you wont have any problems with the faceplate co... : jcutner
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    I'm this close __ to getting it instead of an iPod. The only reason I want an ipod is because of the vast... : nivorous
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      if you want a wireless fm transmitter, you can get that for any player (but you only get FM quality sound... : adev
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        does the zen xtra support this whole aux in line thing? if i get this traight, you wire the zen xtra t... : nivorous
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          this is what I did.. http://members.cox.net/zoomzoom/auxinmod.html Then I just plug in a cable to th... : adev
          • what cable do you plugin to the headphone jack of the zen xtra? if i got an aftermarket cd unit that h... : nivorous
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          all audio players do. just get a cord that goes into the headphone port, and the other end to plug into ... : jcutner
          • what cord am i looking for at the store? : nivorous
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          yes, i do this with my Zen 20GB all the time, just get a male to male 2.5mm cable from radio shack and th... : g0nk
          • ah thankyou for clarifying... urge to buy now rising : nivorous
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      Please don't get that Xtra, please don't. : phobium
      • do you use notmad with yours? if so, whats your problem with the zen xtra? i love it : jcutner
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  i've had the 30gb ver of this for about 6 months. I have had no issue w/it whatsoever. replacable rechara... : mrspyral
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    I agree with this mens. Not sure what phobium's beef is. But the zen xtra with notmad is EXCELLENT : jcutner
    • Bleh, don't really care anymore, let him go ahead and get it. : phobium
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      is notmad free? : nivorous
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        or better yet why do i want notmad instead of what it comes with? : nivorous
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          its $25, but its well worth it. creatives software is essentially crap. notmad is excellent, how it creat... : jcutner
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            Nomad Explorer integrates Drag and Drop into Windows Explorer also :) : adev
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              wait was that a typo or are you talking about a totally different program than notmad? : nivorous
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                well creative has their own program which sort of does it, but it seems awkward : jcutner
                • and it's bloated to hell and back.. i jus never liked it.. NotMad is simple, and works perfectly.. the ... : g0nk
• get an iPod, be hip and with it (and still holding music when MSN Music goes under due to lack of interes... : Postal
• Do anything but convert from lossy to lossy. : cajuncook
• btw the 30gb one is $200 off buy.com - http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=90136224&loc=111&sp=1 : jcutner

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• i swear, they need to make a sitcom about shackers.. : g0nk
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  bats are cute, except for Batman. : eskimo spy
  • Nananananananananananana BATM... I mean LEADER! : Popedispencer
• i think i shat in my pants reading this : PapaBoo
• hahaha I love to hear this shit. : Degenerate
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  bats carry rabies. You'll have to get shots in your stomach now. : amankhan
  • Girl survives rabies without vaccination http://www.cbs58.com/cbsdata.cgi?_dhweb=form&_lt23r=home&kv=h... : Sylvanus
  • just thinking about the size of those needles makes me queasy :( I am so glad I never got rabies. : timmie
• \M/ Echolocation : node
• It whants to suck your bluud! BLECH! : Popedispencer
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  It just wanted to have a special pupismyname Christmas adventure. You can sell the story and be in a clay... : Rauol Duke
  • Someone get Nick Park on the phone! : Balboa
• hehehe BONUS!! room. : jrock
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  Why did everyone flee? Bats avoid flying into people. : Dave Johnston
  • It was a motherfucking bat, man! screeeeeee! : Phil
  • because it's a motherfucking bat. : pupismyname
• Hahah gold. : Phil
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  G R E A T O U T D O O R S ' D : stonedonkey
  • now that's a good movie : PapaBoo
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    Every year my family rents a cabin at Bass Lake - the place where that movie was filmed. If you notice in... : DKo5
    • OLD 96ER'D : PapaBoo
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  Tennis Rackets work really well and the bat's sonar won't pick it up. Just for future reference : enigmatic
  • I've killed a bat playing tennis before. We were playing at night and I threw up a serve and THWAK hit t... : asylumn
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    how do you shoot the devil in the back hit a bat with a tennis racket? what if you miss? : pupismyname
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      i saw a chiauaua killed by a basketball once : PapaBoo
      • Yo quiero Taco Bell un médico !! : Caboose
    • you swing like you would at a tennis ball...and if you miss, you swing again. : enigmatic
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  Geeze, what's the big deal? It's a bat. It's not like they have poisoned stingers. And contrary to popul... : Dynotaku
  • nature is scary, man. : pupismyname
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  so this means you have bats in your attic, right? : sabadog
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    probably not. we leave that door open a lot, and this is the first thing we've seen. i'm guessing it's ... : pupismyname
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      i'd move right away : PapaBoo
      • fuck right. : pupismyname
      • To Atlanta, for sure. There's no nature here at all. : Dante
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  At least you don't have spiders and possibly spider eggs inside your coffee machine :( I'll never be ... : boughton supreme
  • Scary is the following story: Some people I knew had an oldass couch they owned for years. Finally when t... : zeratul851
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  I love it. Bad thing happens - random other thing happens. Its a recipe for laughter! : rosewood
  • We should call TBS to see if it's funny or not. : Caboose
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  a bonus room? did you win this room when you bought the house? : jayares
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    He unlocked it when he completed all of the other rooms. : haiku
    • if you are the lucky purchaser of said house, you get the sofas that are inside : PapaBoo
    • If he got Xbox Live with the house, I bet he'd get some free downloadable rooms a few months after releas... : Caboose
  • in an otherwise one-level house, it's what the room above the garage is called. it's usually unfinished,... : pupismyname
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  http://portax.shackspace.com/batmanismyname.jpg : Portax
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    what the fuck is that supposed to mean? : pupismyname
    • Mommy says when a boy does that it means he likes you. : dognose
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      It means you have to fight crime at night dressed up like Batman. : Portax
      • k : pupismyname
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    Which batman series is that from? : jayares
    • Harley Quinn's series. : Portax
• the part where you said birds are dumb is the funniest part of the post. : Busta J
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  would you prefer a spider with wings? yeah, i thought not... : abubu
  • during summer, i used to keep my window open all the time, and these giant fucking mosqito's kept coming ... : evil-cow
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    *shudder* spiders with little wings that fly around like hummingbirds would suck :( : timmie
    • And scorpion tails. : c0bra
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  my in-laws discovered there was a hole in the outside wall of their house. Not very big, maybe the size ... : Kaiser
  • +1 for bats, -10,000 for bat-bug infestation. : SatansLilHelper
• Kerosene + pressurized gardening tank + match = win : Downforce
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  I poked a small bat once and he was soft and warm. : helvetica
  • you shouldn't play with your food like that. :[ : Kaiser
• bump for adventure : pupismyname
• tell us more about the pizza pocket plz : TwiLyght