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• I am getting it because squad gameplay is all kinds of fun. It may not be too early to call it the best m... : Lightzout
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  Won't be buying. 1) EA 2) It would drive me to spend money on upgrading my PC... which I can't afford... : DKo5
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    Now what was the deal with the hacking? I thought lots of people or servers got banned for unlocking the... : slickdoody
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      If you modified some .py (Python) files on your server to unlock the upgraded kits or remove the time lim... : DKo5
      • It seems that the larger any company gets, the more that they feel that they deserve to make craptons of ... : slickdoody
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        NO offense dude, I respect your opinion, but if you boycotted every company who didn’t give ... : senior spielbergo
        • This actually made me happy, I wish every video game company had hard rules against hacking. No matter h... : Pneum0
      • I'll wait a week at least, but I plan on picking it up. : jonin
• I'm really interested in this game also but the EA thing is a good point I can't stand them so much ..... : abrasion
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  I'm picking it up for sure. I loved BF1942, even though I never played it with Shackers, or in any Shack... : CA Flynn
  • Dude you are MISSING OUT! You dont have to be a l33t d00d to play or I would never get in. Get it where y... : Lightzout
• Nope. Machine doesn't run it aside from at low detail, which just don't fly. : Entity
• I'm buying it, despite of EA, since it's online multiplayer. and can't be stolen easily : lapskaus
• not getting it because 1) on dial up right now 2) poor 3) ea sucks 4) games are starting to suck for me : cigam
• I on a trip right now so I'll pick it up when I get back in a week. By then I will know if shackhype stri... : ghost in my shell
• I'm not. It moves at around 30 fps at lowest possible settings in singleplayer, multiplayer is a little b... : MrLonghair
• i'll be getting it, because it's fun? : RikiTiki2
• Not buying because: 1) I'm too busy to be playing games right now. 2) There are problems with the game : SpiderMonkey
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  not sure yet.. depends on money, and my attention span.. prolly wont.. need to get back to WoW... : g0nk
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    Gonk, have you given up Guild Wars? : ezanga
    • Oops. Should be "g0nk". Appologies. the post rate limiter is a bit in the ass : ezanga
    • yeah, i'd say, pretty much for now anyways.. : g0nk
• Yes. If your machine runs it, BF2 is a "no brainer", IMO. Why? Because running people over in a little... : ezanga
• Nope...Geforce 4 :( : Sacred Sperm
• I hate EA but I ordered it after playing the demo for 2 days straight... : alexthegreat2
• I've preordered it. I never really liked games like this before. But I've played the hell out of the de... : jjlaw
• I'm buying it. It runs fine on my system and I've fallen in love with it playing on the demo shackbattles... : mancide
• I really hate the EA thing.... But I'm still getting it. My poor clan has been looking for the ... : hawke
• I am. Though not for a few weeks. Got the roskilde festival coming up next week, so I won't even have tim... : aaarrrgh
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  I won't be picking it up immediately, but probably in a few weeks, or once I know there aren't any huge b... : Vincent Grayson
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    I'm starting to think like this but it's so tempting I might not be able to resist for long. : scanline
    • Well, it's also that I know damn well I shouldn't spend the money on it. So, waiting for a patch is a goo... : Vincent Grayson
• I will get it first thing in the morning. Sadly I'll have to wait for friday when it's released in europe... : JohnnyDanger
• Buying it. So far everything about it from the Squads, to helicopters to planes, everything feels 'r... : Scotty22
• its fucking fun, i am fucking sold. I could go on with the fucks, just to show you how much I fucking lik... : moe6
• I have a dozen games I need to play/finish. Maybe I should wait until I am done with those. :/ : bargeld
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  I'm getting it. It's fun. Yeah, EA sucks, their little community update was dumb, etc etc etc, but I'm no... : Clay
  • yes. it's ridiculous when people's only argument is that EA is an evil company who don't give their devs : lonestar3
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  I wont be. Gameplay Sucks. : ShadowRam
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    What sucks about it? : Scotty22
    • He wasn't talking about BF2, he was just talking about games in general ... "Gameplay sucks". It's all ab... : SpiderMonkey
  • well there you have it folks, do not purchase. : lakren
• Not getting it. I loved the demo, but it doesn't run that well on my machine. I also don't have 50 bucks.... : Magus
• I'm owned by UT2K4 Onslaught. : Sylvanus
• I probably will. Not this week unless Bestbuy has its cool weekend of release sale. I wanna see how my ba... : mc-fine
• I can't wait for the full game - will buy ASAP - and show EA who's boss! : g.lee
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  Fry's software manager said they'd have it for $39 either after 4pm today or 12 noon tomorrow. So yeah : Lunatic Angelic
  • at $40 i might just do that... : mc-fine
  • Today or tommorow? I thoght it was not supposed to be on the shelves until Wednesday. I have allready p... : themelon
• I am buying it. I am a Battlefield addict, so what can I say? : silent prophet
• FOR ALLAH BITCHES! : Kaiser
• I won't be. I don't have a lot of time to devote to an online game right now. I'm unwilling to play an on... : pr_stealth
• pre-ordered it, but got 3-day shipping. I'll start playing next week, I wouldn't have time to play it thi... : qwpeoriu
• Pre-ordered it yesterday after playing the demo non-stop since it came out. I knew I was gonna get it but... : SatansFist
• I will not be purchasing until they patch it. It's a great game, but if the demo is any indication it won... : BaBOon
• Pre-ordered. Picking it up after 12 tomorrow. Stoked. : PoopStewart
• I will be purchasing it because I want to join in on these BF2 specific shackbattles! : Maddog_Delphi97
• i'm in - best combat game in _years_ : heff
• i'm buying. if we can all play constantly for a week on only one map, i can only imagine what it is gonn... : eeeealmo
• Preordered DVD They better have that cheap ass headset they promised me or I’ll be bitch sla... : senior spielbergo
• Bestbuy says they won't have it till Thursday and i preordered it there :( stupid me : snowwolf
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  I will buy it for sure, but I'm hoping for much better server-side (or cvars or client side enabling func : Downforce
  • Yea, so far that's my biggest gripe. We'll have 30+ people on a team, and only 12 or so in squads. Squads... : mancide
• I'm not sure, I might wait for the first patch. : Turd Ferguson
• I'm all about this game, must buy. Anyone found a copy yet ? I'm going to BB later on today, will keep ... : BongSlayerB
• Definately. Dogfighting kicks ass and they broaght back detpack/C4 jumping, how could I not? : Helter Skelter
• Tried the demo this weekend, may end up buying this but probably not for a month or two. : edifus
• NOT I still need to get employeed first : Ratalon
• think I'll wait for a patch or two. if it's as good as 1942 it will be going strong for a couple years so... : thebigbeefsandwich
• i preordered it from outpost a while back for $35. figured it was worth a gamble at that price. now i'm g... : afrochops
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  Not : rosewood
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    ok what did i miss : lacker
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      His wedding this weekend, and subsequent honeymoon, apparently. : Bean
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        rosewood wouldnt let that stop him from dropping bombs. : lacker
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          His bathroom is a testament to that!! :P : Maddog_Delphi97
          • I love my new house but the bathroom is the suck : rosewood
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      Let me count the ways * Buggy on launch, im not buying on launch. A few days ago I wiped out a crew of ... : rosewood
      • is this game using Starforce copy protection? : Old_Fart
      • ^^Good list there, will be holding off purchase until I see improvement : YoYo
      • Great post, all true but I am still buying it cause its fun. : Lightzout
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  no, haven't tried it yet. : thejm4n
  • get off this site. now. : moe6
• SOLD This game is fun it's a no brainer. : Pneum0
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  Not going to buy it. I think I will be getting a copy free from a client who is one of the ranked hosting... : haiku
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    what are some of the bugs, I played a bunch and havnt noticed any I can verbalize. : Pneum0
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      Well there is that little one about your teamates SHOWING UP AS THE ENEMY. But that's just a minor detail... : haiku
      • I noticed that hitching thing after having BF2 on for a while and alt-tabbing back and forth to desktop a... : mc-fine
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    Do you think that the demo is how the full game is? The number of bugs in the free demo seemed pretty rea... : boomstickah
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      That's the thing though, there is no such thing as a reasonable number of bugs. That mentality has to go.... : haiku
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        yeah, I agree. If the demo had come out before the game went gold, I wouldn't be surprised to see bugs. B... : qwpeoriu
        • Agreed - what a load of sheeit. : abrasion
    • id wouldn't be suprised if the full game was exactly like the demo in terms of bugs and to see a patch re... : Nighteyes
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      I have 0 faith in EA getting this patched quickly. The demo should represent the final product, that's it... : derelict515
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        There was a disclaimer saying it's not a representation of the final product. I just think it's great th... : Pneum0
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          how can you say that when 1942 has bugs unpatched and had bugs at launch that went all the way to 1.6 to ... : rosewood
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            Well, I didnt have 90% of the bugs people complained about in 1942, so I guess the patching didnt really ... : Pneum0
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              Bull S - you still have the 6" falling death bug. The chat lag took forever and a day to fix. You still... : rosewood
              • yeah, the falling bug sucked.. but to me that's not a showstopper.. I didnt have problems binding my keys... : Pneum0
        • every demo has that disclaimer. It's so they can say those bugs won't be there in the final version and t... : derelict515
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          Didn't it go gold BEFORE they released the demo? I highly doubt the retail version will have update code.... : Sparhawk6
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            I highly doubt that's in the retail version. I think when they hacked out the demo, they screwed some st... : Kaiser
            • The IGN boys didn't even comment on the team color bug neither. And thats assurably something a reviewer... : Nighteyes
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        at least its not VUG. Fucking cocksuckers release MP games with not intention of support at all. EA will ... : mc-fine
        • R.I.P. T:V :( : Languid_Heap
  • IAWTP : grendel
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    eggsactly! (scrolls to bottom of page) hmmm... : g0nk
    • lmao : qwpeoriu
    • You're not paying for this though : haiku
  • giddyup. havent even played the demo as my current system can't run it, but i just ordered a 6600 gt and... : liquidlies
• No my machine runs it fine, and while the demo was fun i cant say there is enough difference to justify a... : PSYCHON
• I am holing off: 1. I am not an EA fan in general -- so yeah 2. I do not want to spend $50 and then it ... : Nation
• I'm getting it because it's pretty as shit on my new videocard and it's also fun as fuck. : Iscariot47
• Getting it. The pre-ordered free overnight DVD version (with headset) was too much to resist. I only go : hatelull
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  Not. I never got the demo to work (my "refreshrate lock" causes the game to crash) : Chunks
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    Why didn't you unlock your refreshrates then? : MrLonghair
    • I like playing my other games at a decent refreshrate more than I liked BF1942, or the 2 minutes I tried ... : Chunks
• I'm getting it, which I didn't think I would on the count that I hate EA, but it's such a good game that ... : Dan 101
• Not... I don't trust EA to patch any future problems that are discovered. : Nullzero
• the purchase is set in stone. : lonestar3
• Getting it. Wife told me I was getting it, I had no choice in the matter. : Zakko
• yup. for "free". last week I bought a dvd burner for a client for $90. I installed it and he reimburs... : epit
• Hell yeah. Already preordered and I'm slowly wittling away at my addiction to WoW so I have more time fo... : stump
• i'm getting it because the demo rocked my undies off. : cpt_gloval
• not getting it. Don't really like PC games. : bagelcc
• Not getting it. I hate video games and my computer can't even run BF2. : forgottenzero
• Getting it when they port FH over to the BF2 engine. : dkrulz
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  getting it even though i'm poor and it runs like ass, it's still great fun. maybe i love it so blindly... : pyide
  • I wonder how many of the bugs were caused by "hacked" servers. It doesnt seem like opening a locked weap... : Pneum0
• Not. I rarely play PC games, and I have little interest in "realistic" combat titles : SiW73
• Not getting it. Vehicular combat is unballanced and frustrating to me. : Boxelder
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  Not getting it. I will not pay full price for a mod, see also BFV : railchu
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    Am pretty sure this game was built on a new engine. : riptyde
    • You would be correct. : Helter Skelter
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      Thats what theyd like you to think New menus, weapons, maps, and higher quality models do not make it ... : railchu
      • No, the fact that they built the thing from the ground up makes it a new engine. : Helter Skelter
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    Did you even play the demo? lol @ mod. Of all the valid complaints you could come up with (the many bugs ... : SatansFist
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      Yes I have and yes I do Same unreadable font, same terrible interfacing, same crappy single player, sa... : railchu
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        Odd, I don't have problems reading the font. It doesn't even fuck up under AA anymore. Singleplayer has N... : Helter Skelter
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          The devs also stated they built an engine from the ground up, they can state whatever they want to I j... : railchu
          • There's nothing wrong with Bink. The Flash menus are a huge WTF and reportedly they're not too happy with... : Helter Skelter
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            BF2 is much improved over BF1942. At least for me it is. All the little (and big) added features do it fo : Reeves
            • This is pretty much exactly how I feel. Yeah, there are a couple of major bugs (the FF one pisses me off ... : SatansFist
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        The font is perfectly legible to me (and yes I know how the 1942 text looked) and the infantry combat/mov... : SatansFist
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          I meant mod more like Call of Duty being a mod of the Q3 engine, not a mod like Rocket Arena being a mod ... : railchu
          • Not really, sorry... : SatansFist
          • I see what your saying, but that's not the case. : Reeves
• {will not get it} money has to go towards building a new system that will hopefully be completed by augus... : creep
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  I'm getting it for $30 +ship+tax. The compusa preorder comes with a headset, and my coworker wanted that... : slickdoody
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    LOL the headset is worth like $5... You're raping your coworker ;) : SatansFist
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      that exact headset sells for $20 at staples, which is exactly what i bought that headset for a week ago. ... : slickdoody
      • heh fair enough... I'm still using my UT2k4 headset but it'll be nice to have a backup for when that one ... : SatansFist
• I'll get it eventually. You fools better not stop playing it after a month though. I would never play i... : omnova
• Not getting it. I don't play many games these days. Old I guess. : [fry]
• definitely getting it. gameplay is fun, and that's what matters. : Nighthavvk
• I'll probably pick it up right before Quakecon. I'm going to wait it out a bit. I'm going to wait for a ... : feek
• Not right now. I'll probably get it some time later when the price drops by a bunch and they have patche... : Zero|DPX
• I can't wait to play this @ quakecon. Where you can walk right up to your commander and smack him in the... : TheArtMan
• already preordered, looking forward to some great shackbattles... hopefully they iron out a few bugs thou... : slackor
• Definately getting it : fen boi
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  picking it up for sure. i just hope they add a button for choosing alternate fire rates. Sometimes i'll b... : pukerat
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    You just press the key to select the weapon to change fire rates. Unless you've changed something, that'l... : Helter Skelter
    • i'd rather have an addition ROF toggle as well. what he's saying happens to me too, if you use the mou... : pyide
• Not picking it up. Too many bugs. And what is up with the POS server browser? Its like its straight out o... : johnny skidmarks
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  If you can run the dedicated server without the DVD and install/play the game on a second machine, then t... : Ajax
  • They have standalone servers for w32 and linux, so that'll be no problem. : railchu
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  I just went out and preordered. The IFF bug isn't enough to stop me. I'm sure it will be fixed relati... : trove
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    Once you get the hang of just identifying people by uniform and not by name color, the IFF bug becomes a ... : riptyde
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      Well no the IFF bug is a very bad problem imo. Yes, I can tell by looking at uniforms now, but the probl... : trove
      • Oh and I miss my Engineer's rifle and the M-1. There aren't any equivilant weps in BF2 sadly. :( I've... : trove
• I already pre-ordered it. Im loving the demo so far and it runs great on my box. : Reeves
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  Wait until Friday, get it cheap at Fry's. I hope : DakkaUT
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    Fry's is gonna debut tomorrow and Wednesday it at $39, at most a weekend sale would drop it to $34-37. : Lunatic Angelic
    • Then I'll get it tomorrow. Thanks for the info. : DakkaUT
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    god, why the hell arent there any Frys on the East Coast? : mankeroo
    • They are a slow moving cash cow, they do things a lot of retail places don't do like buy the land they're : Lunatic Angelic
• not getting it, its fun for a while. The aircraft are way to overpowered though. All they need to do is... : PumpRock
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  Not getting it. It's one of the buggiest games I've seen in a LONG time. That, and I hate EA. Seriousl... : Ecks
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    That's too bad, I don't have any bugs other than the "red teammate" issue that I can find. What else s... : Downforce
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      Seriously? I have an AMD 64 3200+ with an x800 pro and it runs like shit on my system with medium settin... : Ecks
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        AMD 64 2800+, Geforce 6800GT, 1GB of XMS Memory (single-channel) I run the game at 1024x768. All sett... : Scotty22
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          How can you tell how many FPS you're running? : Ecks
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            renderer.drawFPS 1 or something like that, just use tab completion. : Turd Ferguson
            • I run at about 50-60 fps, but it's still choppy. Mostly the animations and movement, so I don't think it... : Ecks
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        Woah, something is wrong with your stuffs. : Reeves
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          Tell me about it =\. I'm going to do a format fairly soon, so I hope that will fix it. : Ecks
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            What mobo do you have? I updated (or at least checked) *everything* after the included non-WHQL Nvidia dr... : Downforce
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              That's partially what the format is for, I always update my drivers to the latest when I do that. Hopefu... : Ecks
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                Yeah let's hope so! Your rig should easily handle the game. Also, I'd be curious what your task manager ... : Downforce
                • http://ecks.shackspace.com/desktop.png : Ecks
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        About half of that stuff you listed is not bugs. But design of the game - that being the command radial m... : X Fuzion
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          The demo was released after the game already went gold. Yes, some of it isn't bug related, but I figured... : Ecks
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            The demo was written and compiled seperately from the gold copy according to a (now I cant find it :/ ) i... : X Fuzion
            • I will be shocked if the full version has any of the bugs fixed that are prevalent in the demo : derelict515
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        have you even tried to use the radial comm tool? i find it to be far more intuitive than the "f2 f2" meth... : cpt_gloval
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          Yes, I've used it. I don't mind it as much for small menu choices, but when there are 10 or whatever opt... : Ecks
          • i dunnno. i have the positions of the options memorized, and muscle memory has already picked up what i n... : cpt_gloval
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    Christ, the gameplay is fun, but that's about it. no, that's everything :) : -Panther-
    • I think I've become more hateful of bugs and stupid design since I've started making my own games. I jus... : Ecks
• So getting it. The only bug I ever encountered was one game where people said I was showing up as being o... : Zibro
• not getting it because it wont run on my computer : servweb2
• Not picking it up. I'm not interested in the game, my hate for EA aside. They won't see another penny o... : cajuncook
• Going to wait and see what the Shack says. I haven't even played the demo. I sucked *SOOOOO* bad at BF... : Rice-Rocketeer
• I was planning on picking it up on release day, but the Shack has expressed a surprisingly measured respo... : Languid_Heap
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  Getting it cause its awesome, not playing it till Sunday cause I'll be too busy with work :( : Serpico74
  • Not playing it till MONDAY now cause of work :/ : Serpico74
• Getting it! because its insanely fun. There are bugs to be fixed but they will be fixed. The fun i've bee... : theWhite
• not getting it. reason: its slow. i played quake, pk, tribes and couldn't stand bf1942 because of how ... : yakub7
• Getting it! because it's an excellent game. have to wait two weeks for it to ship over to this shitho : Dslyecxi
• GETTING IT New Athlon 64+Mobo+More Ram should come that day too!! Finally I will be able to play BF2 aga... : adev
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  Gamestop tracking says my order has shipped! Free overnight! : Reeves
  • mine too! hawt! it'll be here sometime tomorrow :D : pyide
  • holy crap, mine too! : Sparhawk6
• Dunno. The demo is fun and all, played it a few times, but then I went right back to WoW to grind some m... : johnny rotten
• It's pretty funny - when I'm kicking ass I LOVE the game and never want to stop. But when I'm getting rap... : Sparhawk6
• I can't even play the demo, nevermind spending money on the full deal. : ieGod
• I think I'll wait a week so I don't count in their first-day or first-week sales numbers. That's the bes... : Luminair
• Not getting it, my computer is poop. : sanchez
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  Not Buying -- to be honest, I dislike how the game is too dependent on teamwork. In BF1942, I always hav... : metralgia
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    yeh, hopefully they will make a 1942 non teamplay mod : seanisdabomb
    • what would absolutely fucking positively rock would be to incorporate the squad/commander/point system in... : metralgia
• not getting it, for now, anyway. just doesn't interest me the way 42 did. : draconic
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  Not getting it right now. Win 2K Support (the lack of) is the biggest reason, but also I want to give : jimmy-buffett
  • So true - EA fucked BF1942 - I mean what the mother shit? - that chat bug and unreadable text was in the... : abrasion
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    works perfectly fine on win2k for me : jaga
    • Yes it runs fine on 2K, but it won't be tested or supported by them on that platform. Meaning, if they p... : jimmy-buffett
  • good!!! stay out!!!! you air warfare people make it difficult on us grounded folks! hehehehe MAY YO... : Downforce
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  Not Buying -- requires subscription to a GSI-owned database, supports an evil corporation, and frankly th... : the archvile
  • Not getting it - geforce 4 here Also, and let me stress this is totally a personal thing, but I find t... : cucumber1972
• I might be getting it. I think the server browser sucks for the game and that for some reason (I blame it... : limpossible
• I'll get it in a month or two. After some patches and if its still popular. : NexusOne
• I'm on it like a haiku Apache missle blowing up MECs! : laidback
• negatory been in a single player game mode fix. and a ton of games sitting, waiting in line. : tomatoactivator
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  Changed my mind. Not getting it. On top of what rosewood pointed out with the horrible bugs and UI issues... : armybob
  • BF1942 and it's history of taking over 12 months to fix chat lag after selling over 1 million copies make : abrasion
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    blizzard?? you are kidding, right? the WoW servers were unstable as fuck for the first 6 months. an... : smax
    • WoW servers certainly had issues but if you look at blizzards history from Warcraft1 back in 1994 or when... : armybob
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      WoW is the first game that Blizzard has produced that was buggy. And that was mainly on the serverside e... : Ecks
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        And it was their last game too, so they are trending downwards :) : trove
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          One game does not a trend make. : Ecks
          • *MMORPG* Lets keep that in mind people. WoW has more content and material and interface and EVERYTHING in... : Jackass1233
    • but did blizzard take 12 months? http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10274172 : abrasion
• Nope. The very first match I was in it decided to just quit to desktop. Might pick it up later for like $... : moonbreaker
• Nope. Broke and P3-866 :-/ : Squirrely
• Buying, but to be honest the demo is slowly losing interest for me. Something about the infantry combat ... : atom519

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  How will we know it's you? Do you go \m/ BIG UPZ 2 MAH SHACK HOMEEZ \m/ or anything? : Lynn Minmei
  • He'll be the guy tossing people around. : Havoc1c4
  • He's the big scary muscle man! : TheMonkeyWench
  • you can't miss this guy. he looks like a hawaiian Duke Nuke : Draugluin
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    well, he's posted pics of himself before, plus the shackmeet photos to boot, he's not hard to recognize : RikiTiki2
    • oh HE'S the scary one : Clay
  • Check his profile? : Ebu
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  Watch Dookey beat the snot out of an old man! : Wyvern
  • living the american dream! : RikiTiki2
• OMFG * R O I D R A G E 'D * : Fred Garvin
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  shackdotted : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Needs more security guards and nurses thrown around in a steel cage. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Oh yay I thought I'd missed it! Hope to see some doctors get thrown out windows and stuff. ;) : omnova
• MIRROR for my boy DF! www.gamingnext.com/files/tlcspot.wmv : PoopStewart
• Ive got TiVo set up for it! : suicidemachine
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  Security !! We need Security!! Jerry! Get security!!! Seriously though, whats the plot behind it?? : fusionrx
  • who needs plots when medical personnel get thrown around? : infiltrator`
• Go Dookey! Kick some ass at the ER! : Fredrik S
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  dude... YES!!! IM GONNA RECORD THAT SHIT YO!!! :D :D :D : virus
  • haha.. you must be his biggest fan! : {Venger}
• Hahah so cool : j33uk
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  so like, is this for real? or is it a re-enactment you did? : gndagger
  • he IS the reenactment. : epit
• What is this show about? Set the DVR to record it, can't wait to see you chuck motherfuckers left and ... : roushimsx
• 30 Minute Warning!!!! for EST and CST : omnova
• LOL! awesome :D : pyide
• It's starting! GO GO GO. : genjuro
• DOOOOOOKEY SEGMENT NOW! : sgtsanity
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  HOLY SHIT I SEE DOOKIEFINGERS ON TV IN MAN PANTIES : spector
  • "shes no talking!... i mean, shes not talking" : spector
• ooh, a cliffhanger! : pyide
• Act One = done. He's gonna crack next segment! : sgtsanity
• my wife says "hey sexy, nice shorts!". :D : riptyde
• I can pin this guy! : omnova
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  are we going to get a video of this or is that against the guidelines? : MurrayTheSkull
  • lol did he just say "my balls are bigger than you?" : riptyde
  • I'm sure it is against the guidelines. : Crimsonbeak
• Punch the homeless lady Dookey!! : o0JediBeavis0o
• hahaha that was fucking sweet : spector
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  lol. Elbowdrop off the table. : genjuro
  • I for one hope there's some piledriver or suplex action coming soon. : o0JediBeavis0o
• haha, just awesome, your invincible! : esmokah
• IT'S A TUMAH! : sgtsanity
• Is this on the show titled "Nothing's Working"? : forgottenzero
• ahhh, i want to see a rematch : dist0rti0n
• I'm A FREAKING GOD!@! Dookey that ruled man! Yer awesome! : jhof
• omg its on on the west coast! tune in dookey lovers!!! : pukerat
• Right on dookey! KICK SOME ASS! I AM A GOD! : BongSlayerB
• Just watched the show off the PVR. You're a lot more personable in real life, Dookie :) : VenusK
• Dookey, you got taken out by the old guy! :( That was lots of fun though. TV is much cooler when I'v... : Zero|DPX
• Oh man I wanna see this. Dookey got pissed about the food again, didn't he? : TastyWheat
• Dookey, you were seriously the best actor on the show. My entire household* agrees. Well, the ones : SiW73

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  Well the most obvious possibility would be that he is a baseball pitcher and blew out his elbow. : riptyde
  • I realize the obvious, I guess I just haven't seen someone have this at such an early age : PapaBoo
• so that he can still play ball in college? : sigpro
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  Haha... you should see the injuries that teenagers show up with in my line of work. : Bean
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    You aint got shit on Normality :P : lapskaus
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      Oh I'm pretty sure I do. In fact, I'd put good money on it. Note, I'm not claiming *I* have been victi... : Bean
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        Considering I used to work in a morgue (For well over 2 years), I would love to know your line of work. : Normality
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          So supposidly he still says he had the worst job, yeah, I still disagree, the people you saw "die", i was... : Normality
          • ... : rosewood
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    ... and what is your line of work? : PapaBoo
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      Teaching people how to inflict injuries, hahaha. ;) : Vantage
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        ^^^This is correct. : Bean
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          WTF...elaborate plz. : jlavrenz
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            Read his profile. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              So essentially, he's Steven Segal in Under Siege? : sgtsanity
              • I resent the comparison to Steven Seagal! : Bean
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  One of the causes of the increasing numbers of sports injuries in teenagers is the over-specialization in... : Bold
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    but also much lower expected earnings :[ and that's what it's all about for most of these parents.. : alexthegreat2
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      I'm making my kids play golf. Noone ever gets injured playing golf. : riptyde
      • Not the way I play... : Bean
      • people yell "FORE" for a reason : PapaBoo
      • Are you kidding? The ligament and tendonitis in that sport is horrendous on young kids. : Lunatic Angelic
• I suffered a few injuries with my knee ligaments during my early teens, still gets painful 'til this day.... : moe6
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  I knew a girl in highschool who blew out both her MCL and ACL doing triple jump for a county meet.. : alexthegreat2
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    ouch! that sounds painful to even read : PapaBoo
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      yeah, she actually felt one of them pop in her first jump, but then she thought she was okay so she went ... : alexthegreat2
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        I had a friend in college who was on the flag team... randomly blew her knee out during a football game h... : riptyde
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          unless they are dressed skimpy, you are right : PapaBoo
          • Your school's flag squad must have been filled with hotter chicks than my school's flag squad was. Skimpy... : Bean
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  offtopic: i went to high school with tommy john's son. he was a year or 2 ahead of me. and he was really ... : manero
  • imagine that! :) : PapaBoo
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  I've heard of kids getting it done before going to college/minors just to get it out of the way so they d... : Deathlove
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    I've heard of this too, and I think it's pretty sad that it's becoming more and more common... because, i... : Bean
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      interestingly enough, apparently you gain a couple mph after you recover from tommy john's surgery, so so... : Clay
      • Now that's just disturbing for a number of reasons. :( : Bean
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          *R O O K I E O F T H E Y E A R ' D * : PapaBoo
          • Funky butt loving (not gay) : rosewood
• internet porn. Lots of it. : scener
• 12 year olds are getting that done, far too many surgeons are all about the $$$ nowadays. : Lunatic Angelic
• there are 12 and 13 year olds that ar getting it now. it happens when their coaches teach them a pitch (c... : creep

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  ...back when Freshview was the biggest poster around. He was the very first person to break 4000 posts, a... : Vantage
  • Bunch.of.whores. : Kaiser
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    you crazy shackers. Is it even possible to keep track of this stuff anymore? With the DB crashes and such... : derelict515
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      Sadly, much was lost in the db crashes. Not only that, but the search function is neutered now, so even ... : Vantage
      • Can you enumerate all the server crashes / db lossage? There have only been 2 big ones, right? : darweidu
  • Heh, neat. I remember the werd posts, but I never actually commented back then. : mancide
  • ah good time. How times (and names) have changed :) I will have to find the post where we spawned the... : Dread Pirate Roberts
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    Anyone know when the whole Mike Tyson/Lime/Lamp/Richard Simmons comments stuff went down? I remember bein... : zyklonbee
    • that sounds about right to me : cpt_gloval
    • http://acura.websitewelcome.com/~sikander/lime/ :D : sikander
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    I remember lurking heavily back then. Actually I still do. : maru mari
    • I was a lurker back then as well. : themelon
  • hahaha boogieman btw who gives a shit : Intaglio5
  • DONKLEYS DONKLEYS DONKLYES DON HENLEYS : pupismyname
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    I had SO many alts back during that era haha. Good times. : Phil
    • I think I had one. I used to post anon from home and work once in a while as well. : Fred Garvin
  • Wow, I was just beginning to read the comments back then. I was all like "wtf freaks" : Halen
  • i was a major lurker back then.. didnt even hav an account i dont think.. just browsed.. : g0nk
  • we need more babehunts : ventro
  • I wish I still had my chat logs from #shugashack from back then. Thats where I chilled. : rosewood
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    Hey whatever happened to Bogieman? He used to work at the Sonic near where I lived I think. : smdever
    • er..boogieman : smdever
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      If I recall boogieman's posts he may have gone the way of the klerck :( - but who knows. Gareth and Da... : abrasion
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        I remember Gareth posting ridiculous conservative trolls while drunk - what an awesome dude. : darweidu
        • He was a funny guy but (IIRC) he seemed like a pretty nice guy too - I don't recall him throwing aruond ... : abrasion
  • Dude you have way too much time on your hands. But I love you anyway. : cajuncook
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    Christ. And current post counts don't even count what was lost in the database crashes. Serious questi : Serpico74
    • What about Danger Will Robinson? : EvilDolemite
  • My first post outside of the test thread in 1999 are during summer 2000 and yet somehow I managed to miss... : Dante
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    Back in the Ominous/Zooty pillaging of MSU's bandwidth :D : Squirrely
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      What happened to wazooty? Was he banned or did he quit the shack? : darweidu
      • Thanks.txt'd if I recall. : Squirrely
  • Wow, I was posting fairly regularly back then too. I recall at least 100+ posts a day, many of them coun... : dopeman
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  On a side note, this reminded me of when Kiwi_Man had the college radio show that he gave the call-in num... : paulatreus
  • Holy shit I remember that. Happy Days. : j33uk
  • haha i remember venger called from sweden! : sikander
  • The best part of that was the 30 seconds of dead air when he answered the phone and said "you talk for a ... : Dante
• *sniff* bring back the vantage ai : Clay

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• Total Annihilation. : electroly
• Buddy of mine and I dialing into each other's PCs to play Doom II DM. : PoopStewart
• 1994 Doom II over modem to modem and then over ethernet at college. FU PRL Hearing screams from dow : Lunatic Angelic
• My fondest memories are Descent modem to modem. : veras
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  Legend of the Red Dragon.. long ago : Draugluin
  • Hell yea, LORD! Also loved Barren Realms Elite! : NexusOne
• Quake II/Loki's Minions. Still the most fun I've had online. : uuneter
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  Man, where to start. I played Avara way back in the day, probably around '96? There was always Doom and D... : DKo5
  • Avara! also Net Trek... : stuka
• Hell I played Doom I on BBSs with dwango. : NexusOne
• I used to play Doom and Doom2 on Dwango, and then graduated to Quake World. Good times. : smdever
• I think Duke3D on TEN was my first online experience... before that, just Doom (often against my dad!) on... : delataur
• UT followed by a year and a half of D2. : phlavor
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  Terminal Velocity, 1995. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • (Modem-to-modem.) : Rice-Rocketeer
  • That game was so much fun! : NexusOne
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    Tell your mother you're not coming home. : Chod
    • I...I don't get it. Why? Did I do something bad? :( : Rice-Rocketeer
• I brought my Amiga 500 to my friend's house to play F/A18 Interceptor over serial cable. Does that count?... : stuka
• I think it must have been that game Gangsters. And or Populous 3, both were at about the same time. : feek
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  Doom, circa 1993 on a 386 over 28.8 modem. : spectr3
  • Count me in on this!! : reflex33
  • Ditto, except I couldn't afford a 28.8 then :( I eventually got a Zoom 24.4 : graah
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  I remember screwing around with the uni lab computers for ages to make them play four player Doom... good... : five_percent
  • doom, duke nukem on direct connection. Playing Myth online was pure crack for me when I was in high scho... : pzilla
• Dial up via modem to my friend's house for Doom/Final Doom/Duke3d action. mplayer. Fucking mplayer. I ... : Yanks
• Doom, 1994, on the university's T1 line. : tedv
• i used to run multi-line CNet Amiga BBSs.. with shit like tradewars and stuffs.. : g0nk
• Doom2 I think, and Hexen. I remember dailing up my friends to play that shit. : mancide
• 1994 Doom/DoomII (modem-to-modem and dwango boston ma) I had so much playing time on the DWANGO server... : *metal*
• Quake 1. Team Fortress fool, hells yeah. : cam3lt0sis
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  I remember playing Doom II on Dwango(Dallas/Houston) long distance. I remember playing Warcraft over a 2... : wtf242
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    Warcraft II over KALI dialup! : *metal*
    • Kali was the shit in 1994. : D45hiz
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      I was TML on Kali. Played a lot of WarCraft 2 on it, although I wasn't very good. : Anti_dentite
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        NWL ftw! : D45hiz
        • Shhhhhhhhhh : Anti_dentite
• DOOM : playerhater
• Original Doom via a crossover cable between two computers. : Fredrik S
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  First? Heretic Shareware. Then Wolfenstein 3D shareware. Kind of a funny way of being introduced, but ... : wunderbred
  • Oh...online? Ultimate Doom co-op : wunderbred
• Doom II via modem occasionally, but it was really Duke 3d on TEN that I really got into it. Soon after t... : ezanga
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  Quake 1. i remember going to iroman's list of servers and writing down ip addresses then i learned how to... : creep
  • ^^^^ I did that, good times. : ezanga
• doom1 and rise of the triad started it for me. : broly1718
• QuakeWorld. Good times. : floated
• Quake TF! : cpnkegel
• I really miss Ten. Man, the community wasn't that big, but it seemed like everybody knew eachother. I c... : godhatingatheist
• Started with Doom over a local BBS I suppose... : SatansFist
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  Jedi Knight : Popedispencer
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    same for me. on zone.com - ah, the old times. : Flinz
    • Ditto. It was so laggy but so much fun. : hackest
• Doom II and Heretic using direct serial-to-serial at school. Ahhh...those were the days. : paulatreus
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  1992 SVGA Air Warrior by Kesmai, Played on GEnie for about 6 Bucks an hour. Melted my first Mastercard th... : RookieCAF
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    kali + descent was fun.. : dextius
    • Yeah I used to play that all the time. Kali was pretty good for it. : ovrlrd
• Probably Doom first. Then Descent, a little bit of Warcraft II. Oh and definitely once Quake came out I w... : ovrlrd
• Trade Wars, then mainly DOom/Quake. But Q2 was the highlight of my online days so far. : jhof
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  Does anyone remember 2-player Warcraft 1, with the super-powerful daemons that kill farms in like 2 hits? : spectr3
  • hah yeah, that game was a blast. so slow paced. : wtf242
  • DUKEMATCH!!! gosh i loved the shrink gun.... it was also when i switched from keyboard only to kb+mouse ... : recoilfx
• when my brother had doom 2 in his hands (i'm not 100% sure if it was 2 but pretty much), he got it from a... : lonestar3
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  Tradewars 2002 on a local BBS in 1995 or so. : orgcaptainnemo
  • Like many, my first game on a BBS was LORD. I Must have been, what, 10? I even remember the username and ... : Helter Skelter
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  I still play Quake2. At least I did until the main server for the Gloom mod went down :/ : MuteMode
  • I should really fix up Art of War some day and force people to play it.... : tedv
• I used to play on TEN all the time. I was once pretty good at Duke3d for awhile, although Mr. Bandwith a... : atom519
• my Kali registration was some of the best money ever spent in the history of finances. : Degenerate
• HA, i remember one night i had used a calling number from like san Jose or something cause i thought mayb... : Break
• I started playing online when I got to college, so 1997. Started with Quake. We used to have big Quake ... : afty
• Started playing CS online during Fall of 2001. <3 FKZ :/ : omnova
• i started on quake 2 when it first came out. so much fun : infiltrator`
• I was basically a console gamer till I started playing Warcraft III online. : jlavrenz
• Quake 1. Pre quakeworld days when it was all about attempting to play and hang with your friends. We'd ... : tsuba
• Quake II. I could have done Quake I but I never got into it, never heard of using a mouse and Duke 3D was... : edgewise
• Quakeworld! Met the husband through it too ;) I definitely have fond memories of the small online communi... : ChowYunCat
• Started Duke Nukem w friend over 14.4 modem, but kicked into high gear with quake 1 and my Monster3D card... : samekh
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  Nobody here played Q2 on TEN? Nobody? Not one? : godhatingatheist
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    Why the fuck would I do that when there were good dedicated servers? : Helter Skelter
    • Hey, I was new to the online scene. TEN and Dwango were all that I knew about. Matter of fact, I wasn't : godhatingatheist
  • I played Command and Conquer on TEN all the time. : zutroy
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    what about mplayer? : creep
    • Holy crap, I forgot about Mplayer! I went there shortly after Ten went down and right before I switched t... : godhatingatheist
• doom modem to modem and on majorbbs : yakub7
• war2/duke 3d on Kali and quakeworld : reverend~heresy
• My buddy and I liked to make our own Doom deathmatch maps, and then duke it out over the ol' telephone li... : strider_
• i've been playing quake for 40 years bitches, im cooler than you : ventro
• 99 on Starcraft... : Jayx77
• Duke3D/Stunts on a 9600 baud modem. Those were the days... : Dimmona
• Starcraft and Diablo.... : metralgia
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  Doom on a LAN at an NYU computer lab was the first time I played a PC game against human opponents. After : Serpico74
  • I should have mentioned Kali along with TEN and Dwango : Serpico74
• muds and later doom1 : tomatoactivator
• Descent at school lan is what owned my nuts for middle school years : rosewood
• duke3d using Kali... : SKI242
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  lord, usurper, bre... do they count? :) : jayares
  • Heck yeah! The only thing that dethroned those two was the day I was introduced to MUDs... haha.. : Sotaku
• All those wonderful BBS games like Tradewars, LORD, etc... I forget the rest because I'm so old. :( : stump
• X-Band + Mario Kart = yee haw : guido anchovy
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  DOOM. On the ol 486-33. It ran like shit on my 386-16 haha : jonin
  • ManyMajorBBS MP games @ 1200 bps - Galactic Empire, War of Worlds, Legend of Kyrandia, InFinItY CoMplEx (... : ahk-med
  • Doh! I forgot Tradewars and Pimpwars.. ahh the BBS days... : jonin
  • It wasn't bad on a 386-40, and I had first played it on a NeXT with a 68040, and it was fine. I remember ... : bostrov
• Doom and Duke Nukem over our college LAN once we all figured out how to get fucking NIC cards in our win : Dante
• Duke Nukem over modem, Doom2 over modem. NetQuake, then Quakeworld. oh, those were the days. : Supine
• I was a Guide on TEN. GuideGator. : Thresher
• DWANGO for evah. Anyone know where to find the old DWANGO map packs? : tostador
• Doom2 modem-modem, and via Dwango. Then a lot of Duke3d modem-modem (TEN sucked ass, as did Mplayer). O... : monofurioso
• A game titled Modem Wars over my 2400 baud modem was my first "distance" multiplayer game. Followed up by... : Entity
• I started with UT and cunterstryek lol because that's when I got broadband. I tried playing Quake World a... : SpaecKow
• I was in 7th or 8th grade...so maybe circa 1994-95...Playing Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, and Jane's Fligh... : dysfunctional
• Doom on Dwango in 1994. Dialed into the Long Beach server and racked up 600-900 dollar phone bills a coup... : armybob
• Warcraft II and Descent II on Kali. : jake
• Doom Co-op over a 9600 baud modem with my friend on the other end. Late Saturday morning... both of : laidback
• Quake 1 and Battletech on AOL, circa 1995 : punchdog
• doom baby. : toneh
• I remember Doom II on Kali, Dwango and MajorBBS... Didn't get too into that simply because all servers (w... : Sotaku
• Jedi Knight 1, 1997 : losder5000
• Duek3D and War2 on Kali. Then quake. Such a great time to be online. : scatti
• War2 on Kali : Trimis

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  i cannot wait until i finish paying my damn car off. 1.5 more years to go (yay !) : qwpeoriu
  • i'm paying mine off 1.5 years early :D : cpt_gloval
• Congrats! It felt great when I paid my truck off, you'll enjoy yourself too! : PoopStewart
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  bought time you paid that crappy rx-7 off :P : digitalburro
  • :( the rx-7 was paid off the minute i towed it home. : cpt_gloval
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  Congrats! I got 8 payments left myself and can't wait. I'm driving this one into the ground. : uuneter
  • i'm selling the civic asap so i can get into something sturdier and faster. : cpt_gloval
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  Cool we are going 10 grand in the hole next month to buy the wife a Acura RSX. I am going to get her Civ... : smdever
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    I disagree. I say drive it until you get more problems. When the problems start coming trade er in. 200k ... : boomstickah
    • I think the tranny is about to go. It has eaten 2 chips that change gears in about a six month period and... : smdever
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    When we go to Denver I am going to sell the S2000 and take my wife's MP5, and get her a Honda CR-V so we ... : riptyde
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      When and where in Denver are you going? : edifus
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        Probably in the August-September timeframe. Am looking at either Thornton or Aurora. My wife and her fr... : riptyde
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          boo Aurora. There may be some nice places but so much of it is ghetto :( If you want pure yuppiedom,... : Paranoid Android
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            I had just found a lot of nice hizzous in that area, but I'll keep the ghetto factor in mind. We are loo... : riptyde
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              I really liked the littleton area, and it's right near the light rail if you want to use that to get int... : Paranoid Android
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                I'll be keeping my current job, so I won't have to drive in to work, but my wife might have to. But when... : riptyde
                • Paranoid Anroid is right, Aurora is kinda ghetto. Stick with Englewood/Centennial, Littleton, Parker or ... : edifus
    • The only reason I agreeed to her having the RSX is if I get a new bike some time soon ;p : smdever
    • you're doing everything wrong :( : AssGoblin
  • Please get a Type-S and not the base ;P : mancide
• I pay $450 on a $350 month payment. I might be having that paid off in the next 3.5 years. (BTW, it's on ... : mancide
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  Our payments are $505 & $487 per month. :( And we have 3 to 4 years left. : Phil
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    Ms. Phil works right? : digitalburro
    • Oh hell yes. : Phil
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    ouch. right now i'm just paying $266 on my wife's car. : Clay
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      + i've only got like 3 payments left on that then i'm going to go blow all my money on a shiney new ca... : Clay
      • holy crap, you just described my life. I've got almost a years worth of payments on my wife's car left (... : slickdoody
      • Acura TL motherbitch! : AssGoblin
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    God lord man are you driving around in 40k cars or just have high interest rapes rates : smdever
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      It's a new Suburban and I just got a Trailblazer. We financed them for like 48 months instead of the typ... : Phil
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        omg Phil's a soccer mom! : -Panther-
        • yes but is he a SMILF? : digitalburro
  • Ours are $471 and $432. Not horrible, but I don't want to pay much more next time around either.. : edgewise
• congradulations : Nation
• That's when it starts to break down. Yeahhh! : dante2010
• I just totaled my car, so I'm back to square one *YAAAAYY* : Da Username J00 Want
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  This thread has convinced me that I will save up enough money to buy the car I want and pay cash for it. ... : omnova
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    that is the wisest way to do it ... Phil is playing $238,881 for two cars (his was the quickest I could c... : Nation
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      I think you miscalculated that... : walker270
      • yeah, I did ....hmmmm, what did I do : Nation
    • 238 thousand ay? : spector
    • i think your math is wrong. 505 * 48 = 24240 487 * 48 = 23376 Total: $47616 Which isn't that bad ... : Clay
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      I have NO idea what kind of math you're doing, but 505x48 = $24,240; $487x48 = $23,376 and $24,240 + $... : Paranoid Android
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        it's New Math : Clay
        • Young mens post: I've heard the phrase "new math" a lot of times but never looked into it... it's usually... : darweidu
    • omg * haha = LOL : Mansmells
• Soon my wife's meager $180 car payment will be gone and all we'll have is a single $290 payment, which re... : EvilDolemite