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  So I'm moving out of my current apartment when half of my roommates leave town in May, and at the moment ... : Paranoid Android
  • You'll be happier and healthier. Go for living alone. : brickmatt
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    move to Batavia and commute. : drucifer
    • batavia. batavia, ny? I hated living 15 miles from school, I don't think 40+ is going to go over bet... : Paranoid Android
  • Nope. I prefer living alone as well, and will gladly pay the added cost for my own place. : walker270
  • IMHO all the money in the world ain't worth shit if you don't feel safe. that and living on your own is ... : goatboy
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    When I got my own place, I payed $635 a month for a 1 BR apartment, and I could have had roommates VERY e... : tomservo
    • Oh also... 3 words for you. PLAYING. DEUS EX. NAKED. : tomservo
    • I <3 your response. Not that i don't appreciate everyone elses'! But yeah the freedom sounds...beautiful.... : Paranoid Android
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      That is the best Saturday ever. Seriously. I love doing that. : MuaaSan
      • I really miss it. But I just barely moved out of my Dad's house again (more like was "removed from the h... : tomservo
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    Honnestly, a gun and better car insurance is cheaper then the single bedroom. : mojoald
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      I'm not sure how that relates to much, I have good car insurance and I do own a gun (I swear to Steve Gib : Paranoid Android
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        If you don't feel save, don't move. 90% of being at home is feeling safe. : mojoald
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          I agree. Earlier I wasn't so concerned with the place, however, of late the area gets worse and worse. li... : Paranoid Android
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            It's only going to get worse when it gets warmer, keep in mind. I know exactly what yr dealing with, was ... : eskimo spy
            • there are some islands of calm where you wouldnt expect, as well. I lived over by the Village Gate, almos... : eskimo spy
  • I've lived alone for three years in May. It was great the first year or so, but now, since I don't have a... : WaterSign
  • Live alone but please watch out that you don't become so fussy about having things your "special" way tha... : sHugamom
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  Paranoid Android: "HAY GUYZ, What's going on in this neighborhood?" Scary Lookin' Guys: "Rapes" Paranoi... : anthonybean
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    yeah. I don't want to have to snap on someone and have to deal with those consequences and repurcussions.... : Paranoid Android
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      Like you did with the fools jumping on beds in the NOT GAY ROOM in Qcon 2003? Man that was so dreamy. : tomservo
      • imagine that if they were doing something actually very bad :) : Paranoid Android

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  I don't see WoW on that list. : yoonix
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    still too early to tell if it's hype, or a good game : thekidd
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      Too early? The game has been out for months and Shackers are still playing it. It's good. : Alec Matias
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        Ya, but you're seeing alot more "I got to level X and it's boring" posts : Phreakin
        • True, but this is an MMORPG genre gripe more so than a particular game. : onyx
• City of Heroes is fun though. I've been playing since it started. : Bull
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  lol The revolution will not be televised Don't believe the hype Pimpin' aint easy This has all been... : gakera
  • but it sure is fun :( : thekidd
• i fell for splinter cell 2, coh, and a few others i played for like 30 mins. wow is rocking though. : xxiv
• I fell for Splinter Cell: Pandora's Box PC and Doom 3. : jrock
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  What about Doom 3? Hell, I still play CoH and started thanks to Shack Hype! I kind of expect CoH to g... : NotACommunist
  • DOOM 3 was an awesome game. : Haku-Jin
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  Vietnam is still awesome to play :\ : redfive
  • i liked (and still do) bf1942 better. vietnam just isnt as balance, and it feels like a so-so mod... it h... : barichnikov
• I gotta step in and defend Black and White, which has a soft spot in my heart. : WaterSign
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  SW: Battlefront : skynet
  • I really like SW: Battlefront :/ Loved it on Live. : maddy

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• Unfortunately also one of the most boring :( : d fluke
• How about Hero? Ho-hum plot but beautiful cinematography and colors. : Experiment IV
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  Holy shit, yes.. visually splendid, but very boring. : Novad
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    I don't think it was boring, it just made no sense and left you thinking more about WTF is going on as op... : Alec Matias
    • Made with a 6 millions $US budget too. Too bad the movie was incredibly typical of most japanese science-... : scener
• boring my ass, i loved it :D : moe6
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  Yes it is yay : {Venger}
  • Har du knark? : Experiment IV
• I hearby ask that you send me a copy so I can watc it :( : Vincent Grayson
• Did you know that the Japanese declared it the worst movie of 2004? : ZeroStreak

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• That is awesome. : Bean
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  disgustingly tall. but i'll give it to him, he's got mad hops. : dopeman
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    He's not that tall. I saw this guy on TV once, I think he's 6 foot 3 or six four. : steelsamurai
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      Just looking at him in relation to the basket proves that, he can't be more that 6'5 or 6'6 . . . : InfoBiter
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        That basket looks a bit lower than an nba basket though. Still very impressive. : -efx-
        • he's 6'5" and reportedly has a 40" vertical : Mansmells
• Not that into basketball. Loved this clip. : dengar65
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  Well... I'm impressed. : tension
  • "thats what your mutha said last night, trebeck. hah hah hah" : mindmann
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  It was good but you promisted disgust and didn't deliver. : Boxelder
  • Jumped off two feet sideways from the free-throw line?! When I saw that I had to double take. If that fre... : mc-fine
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  This, is why basketball is boring as shit. : Delusional
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    ok : NastyJack
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      To elaborate, there's nothing impressive to me in that video, no abnormal display of skill. If I was a fr... : Delusional
      • Except he's not 7 ft. tall and amazingly most atheletes train constantly for those "genetic" abilities. I... : Delithio
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        haha just because you are 7ft tall and you can dunk doesnt give you ANY SKILLS AT ALL, maybe playing agai... : mastarp
        • what? i think you just agreed with him and in this video the guy isn't playing basketball, he's just s... : Mansmells
      • That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard. : forgottenzero
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        I'm glad you have identified the mysterious basketball gene. Pass the info on to all the scientists plz ... : invalidat10n
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          basketball gene? he has an inherent ability to jump high .. people are born with different strengths : Mansmells
          • For example, I excel at stealing TVs. : jrock
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    damn, you're so rite. i didn't realize till this EXACT moment how crappy a sport it is! : cygnus
    • quick! burn your basketballs! : ermac
• any mirrors per chance? : DinK
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  Request Cannot Be Serviced I don't wanna be serviced, I wanna see the link! : Phreakin
  • You don't want to be serviced? what are you, gay? : Backspace
• ....holy crap! That's just freaky. : Ojalo1982

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  What colour is this post? : Kenshin_
  • this post already has a color, so no brain free-games there.... :( : barichnikov
• Wahahahaha The woman, referred to as E.S., experiences a scale of tastes depending on the tone interval o : jrock
• I've experienced this. It is very intense. : GloriousCow
• I used to be a counselor at an outdoor educational kids camp and one of my kids had this. It was kind of ... : asdf

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• Fun games, I need so much more practice. :( : node

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• k : pres589
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  my returns come back in like 2 weeks. Too f-ing bad I gotta use them to return the 4500 I just borrowed f... : darklox
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    Does it ever suck...working during school to pay off the semester you're in right now kinda makes it hard... : Judicus
    • tldr = it kinda sucks, but its not that bad full= It doesnt make it hard really, but it kind of tak... : darklox
• we're gettin $5k back. I gotta tell them that I'm not single and childless anymore. : BulletPro
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  I owe this year. Thanks fo rthe tax breaks for the middle class, George! You ficking whore to the rich. : RatBastard
  • Yep, -$800 for me this year. Suck. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Sucks :( I'm getting almost 2k back due to me paying my tuition o_O And the fiancee is getting shit... : synaptic revolt
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    WTF? I'm getting more back this year than ever before and I'm completely the definition of middle class. : Scrimbo Obeer
    • Same here. Then again I have an accurate tax percentage taken out; my returns are simply from charitable ... : jrock

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• looks like she's in for one helluva night, or she just got done with one. her pupils are huge : esmokah
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  while its totally possible her pupils are dialated from LSD, it also looks pretty dark everywhere compare... : Turd Ferguson
  • Hey, don't spoil the funny =( While your version probably is the correct one, I stand by mine. : Tissen
  • she could be using liquid eye dialators for recreational use. : mindmann
• now here is a set of fucked up eyes http://img224.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img224&image=rollpic5ys.jpg : esmokah
• Välkommen til helvetet! Har du lite knark? : Experiment IV
• Is she calling the other Hobbits to find out where the fellowship ended up? : jrock

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• the info you need should be on the label of the drive, you lazy bugger ;P : JaredSyn

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• Why did I read that as c&c genitals? : Experiment IV
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  Yeah, I'm playing C&C: Renegade now and while it's not an RTS game, I really dig how immersive it is with... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Did you ever see the video clip of Renegade 2? http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetcnc/renegade/medi... : u sir name

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• I think the Terry Tate ads are my all-time favorite Superbowl ad campaign. : Bean
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  "You kill the joe you make some mo'!" will live on forever. : eskimo spy
  • "Timmy, timmy, timmy... You can't come up here, dressed like that, son! This ain't Club Med, baby!" "U : Omaha
• Fantastic site... all nicely compiled and even have a little description. Thanks!! : monohydrate
• hooray! it's pain time : RikiTiki2
• Awesomeness...thanks dude! : acidnynex
• +interesting-worthy : moonbreaker
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  I have never seen Sensitivity Training - thank you !! : lord cecil
  • I love when he dives across the desk and then pegs the guy in the chest with the phone. : Omaha
• Thanks man. : Kiriakos
• This owns!! I watched all of them again!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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  "i'll give you a taste of some very special pain cake, and you won't want seconds of that." : mindmann
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    "You know... it's the mind games!" *Guy throws can in trash instead of recycling* "The pain train's co... : Omaha
    • WHOOO!! : mindmann
    • Bwahahhahaa, pure awesomeness! : Maddog_Delphi97
• "What do you..." "Hey Terry." "Hi, Janice!... " *turns back to guy on ground* "...MOTHER FUC..." : Omaha
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  bwaahahaa that's so awesome : MikkleThePickle
  • btw these are all available on FileShack: http://www.fileshack.com/author_search.x?a=Reebok : MikkleThePickle

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  its got more variety than any ohter FPS to date : byorn
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    excluding Deus Ex : byorn
    • These two posts combined pretty much nail it. : node
    • Deus Ex pretty much ties with System Shock 2 in my book. Have yet to play HL2. : Tissen
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  you have to piece together what's going on from shit on the walls in Dr. Vance's office once you get ther : Toraz Chryx
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    They kinda explain it if you really scour everything you come in contact with. (people, notes, chalkboard... : weaselmeister
    • Actually you were. Did you forget the whole tram ending? : bargeld
• HL2 is the best FPS to date to convey the "stuck in a Soviet-oppressed Eastern European city" feeling, wh... : Scrimbo Obeer
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  the dunebuggy part should have been about 3 times bigger and the endrun is just plain retarded : JaredSyn
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    neg. airboat > buggy : RikiTiki2
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      more armed airboat antics would be cool : JaredSyn
      • actually, i preferred the non-armed segment, where it's just me racing against the helo. gives it a good ... : RikiTiki2
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    The endgame is the most fun endgame I can remember in a long time. Realizing I was "The One" and pro : Serpico74
    • motherfucking right, yo : Ebu
    • correctamandom : {Venger}
    • it was good, but ended about 3/4 along the way of where it felt like it should, tho. : eskimo spy
  • While I agree about the buggy part, I thought the final mission was fine for what it was. Didn't care tha : archon
• Yes it is absolutely gorgeous (in fact I'm just about to post some shots I took). No you do not get t... : SpaecKow

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• Best. Water. Evars. : spigot
• I always love seeing how a new engine handles water : Jonny Be Good
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  its pretty, wish it had surface perturbation :( : GloriousCow
  • that sounds dirty : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • That might be a bit too much for current computers. Looking at screens of the new 3DMark, even it doesn't... : SpaecKow
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  the water still looks pretty ugly : armaduck
  • your stupid shut up!!! >:( : SpaecKow
• HL2 water is sweet, I also really like the water in the ps2 Baldur's Gate, it reacts really well to stuff : d fluke
• Yeah, they didn't just slap on a lazy pixel shader like most devs do. It's great how that kind of love an... : node
• I agree on HL2 having the most realistic water but Far Cry also has a beautifull water...... : omontero

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• If you dont plan to overclock, yes, you should be ok : darklox
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  whatever you buy, buy it from ebay: http://tinyurl.com/6o58w (ebay search: notebook ram) : gakera
  • buying ram from ebay scares me. : BulletPro

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• ooo yeah baby! ff is looking better and hotter each day. : SlamDunk
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  so this will be in 1.0.2? : DinK
  • nope, I very much doubt it. It will be in 1.1 for sure tho. : inchwide
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  Wow, that page is a jigsaw. I have no idea what to do.... Compile the attachment? Leave a cryptic hai... : gakera
  • Do the sensible thing: Pretend they're all reptiles and move on. : nomaad
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  holy shit i want that now. is there anyway to patch it in?? if we have to wait till 1.1 that could be mon... : feek
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    if you build firefox yourself I guess you could pull v1.01 and then also include that patch, but I don't ... : inchwide
    • ok awesome. thanks a ton for the info. i'll try that after i sleep! : feek

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  prolly fucking his hot wife in his custom Lamborghini : Bean
  • lucky bastard :( : needlez
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    since when does he have a hot woman? : doomed
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      Since Anna Kang became his woman :) : Phreakin
      • ONly pic I could find of her: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/images/features/annakang.jpg : Phreakin
    • He married Anna Kang like 5 years ago : DinK
• He's working on id's next engine. : GloriousCow
• Maarteeen should send away a bunch of user submitted questions to him, I always like reading what he's up... : shack_konto
• http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News : cokefiend
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  Seriously I gotta get ultra-pale and go hang out in Roppongi. : Experiment IV
  • I will be sure to shoot you. : beebeecee
• http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/misc/manned_flight.jpg : drucifer
• He just recently had a kid... probably changing diapers. : mr.sleepy
• http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates "Topics continue to chain together, Iâ... : gl2 drivers
• new id engine. can't wait for the first amazing pics. : lonestar3

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• Boiling water. PRL. Haiku fixing shackcode (OLOLOLOLZ). : Magus
• I've just finished doing the same, I agree, very exciting! : losimagic

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  I replied just becasue noone else would, at first i though it fuuny that no one replied then i felt bad s : oneshot
  • haha! It was 3:30 am at the time of the post, im not a late night guy so being at home around this time i... : Pacalon
• Another pity reply. If I was a hot chick I would totally make you my cuddle bitch because of feeling ... : SpaecKow
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  Pity reply #3. It's Saturday night. Please go out next time and get yourself some company. :( I would pr... : Delithio
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    http://www.stud.ntnu.no/%7Eshane/stasj/pics/humor/div/510.html : Nixx2004
    • I laughed. Then cried. Lastly passed out. : Delithio
    • http://www.stud.ntnu.no/%7Eshane/stasj/pics/humor/div/518.html See, she's alone too.. : doomed
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  There's a big group of people like that here, so you're not alone in theory, only in reality. : archon
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    our aloneness is what brings us together. : slax0r
    • you forgot about insomnia : esmokah
    • Remaining Men Together : archon
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  Man, I loved the Discworld game. One of the all time great point-and-clicks and I still think the funnies... : peanut-
  • Noir aparently doesn't have the main wizard guy in it, which after playing Discworld 1 makes me sad. Gonn... : Pacalon

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  Probably already saw this: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/24/news_6119195.html : Nixx2004
  • actually didnt see that. thnx. : Sgt_Boomstick
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  Well the paper concenrs anything to do witha policy problem. Can anyone think of a policy problem in : Sgt_Boomstick
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    Violence. And you can link in the current (doomed) bill to make game creators liable for kids being infl... : Rhayne
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      Oooh, you talking about the Washington one? Good one. Thats a gold mine. : Sgt_Boomstick
      • yep. that's the one. : Rhayne
• www.scholar.google.com ? If your searching from a university, you should be able to acess more of the re... : Rhayne
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  Duracell battery 7-UP bottlecap Dr Pepper bottlecap Chapstick all treasure items in Pikmin 2 : Jayx77
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    ^^^wanted to give you an example... : Jayx77
    • heheh gotcha. : Sgt_Boomstick
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  a legitimate excuse to pimp myself!! http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/17/commentary/game_over/column_gamin... : MorrisatCNN
  • You can pimp all you want as long as we each get mentioned in an article :) : Phreakin

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  Sounds like the cd is bad or not made correctly. If you did a slipstream w/ sp2, you may not have config... : capt tripps
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    yeah - i've installed with this cd at least 5 times, so it can't be that :( : virus
    • so try another disc and you'll really know : Draugluin
    • could be a fucked up master boot record. use a win98 boot disc or something and try "fdisk /mbr" : jaffacake
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  I guess I could be a little more specific... It boots from the xp cd, gets through the loading of all ... : virus
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    ok i just tried a windows 2000 cd and it said "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE" lol. >:\ im wondering i... : virus
    • also: it does not work if i put the hard drive and the cd drive on the same channel, seperate channels... : virus
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  have you tried: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q297185 i think i had the same p... : snowwolf
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    yeah that was no help either :( : virus
    • tried updating to a new bios? : snowwolf
• Get knoppix, use fdisk and create a giant vfat32 partition. Problem sovled (seriously) : surround
• late night bumpage ... please read thread :( : virus
• Motherboard jumpers? Check the manual. : Experiment IV
• is it a sata disk have you installed sata drivers : eyegeegeewhy

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  http://www.zombo.com/ : sparkly
  • whiskey tango foxtrot! : *metal*
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  I helped him move last Saturday, so he's probably getting situated at his new place and waiting for inter... : mofo
  • oh that makes sense then. good. : romulan
  • Man we had out place WIRED the day we got here!!!!! HAVE TO HAVE NET ACCESS. : Normality
  • so if we have something bad to say about him, now's the time. ......... I got nothing :( : thekidd
  • Is he still in SF? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Wait very patiently for Duke Nuke'em Forever to go gold... : Maddog_Delphi97

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• I watched and am gonna have to agree in your case. : [fry]
• I'm scared :( : d fluke

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  http://www.ckdhr.com/hrose/songs/go_insane.html : erotic sock
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    holy shit...did you guess this by the fact that you listen and know the song..or did you google it? : VegasX
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      never doubt the erotic sock : Mr.Fusion
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        Im just surprised that someone at the age of 21 even knows what song I'm referring to. Considering when I... : VegasX
        • I'm 27, fuck you and your age complex. : Experiment IV
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      i was thinking it was dangerous type for a minute : esmokah
      • it's a good song : VegasX
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      i googled the third line. sorry. haha. : erotic sock
      • damn it..my dreams are shattered : VegasX

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• I liked it from the beginning. What seems lame about it to you? The ship battles are pretty cool, imo... : slax0r
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  You also didn't like Tales of Symphonia (http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9641788) Something is wrong w... : Judicus
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    but tales of symphonia was slow as hell and pretty generic :( those dungeons ruled, though. Every game... : roushimsx
    • I liked the pace. Granted I didn't have any prior experience in the "Tales of" works to compare it to, ... : Judicus
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      Only at the beginning. ToS got pretty interesting and ungeneric after about 20 hours. : slax0r
      • Even in the beginning it felt as if they were only using the same old "tried and true" RPG elements to jo... : Judicus
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        I agree, but I don't feel that a game should take ~20 hours before it gets good :( the voices in the g : roushimsx
        • Yeah, that was weak. But comeon, who didn't see all of those plot twists coming? I liked the vari... : brickmatt
        • Either you're picky about voice acting, or am really lax on it, because I don't remember hearing anything... : slax0r
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  For the record I dislike - random invisible enemy encounters (even ToSymph got this right!), voice acting... : brickmatt
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    quick question: have you played earthbound for the snes? : monohydrate
    • Yup. It was fun. : brickmatt
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    The only thing I didn't like about the random encounters in Skies was that you'd have to go back to the c... : slax0r
    • That's a whole other issue I forgot about. Having to replay enemies that are so easy I spend more time "... : brickmatt
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  I seem to recall recommending The Bard's Tale to you. It certainly doesn't have the run-of-the-mill hero ... : Borzoi
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    is that a good game? i remember seeing it and was curious if it was a good RPG. i'd been thinking of pick... : mindmann
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      It gets points from me on attitude and hack 'n slash that's more fun than Dark Alliance. It's not a super... : Borzoi
      • I haven't been able to find it! : brickmatt
      • it's not coop, is it? That's really the selling point for DA with me. i love playing it with friends. ... : mindmann
• It gets better once you start getting into ship battles and your dinky assed airship starts fighting Godz : Kryn
• its the 2nd best console rpg ever chrono trigger would take top spot : jayares

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  Thanks, dig it. di.fm chillout on itunes radio is good for some psy-chillout most times. Shpongle, Hall... : midgetherder
  • wow, didn't know they played that. although i have most of their work. i've been digging on 1200 micr... : esmokah