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• last thread: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10676672 : Degenerate
• it's all yers, Stud : drucifer
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  In before it gets too big too post. Can we please get a front page article to make things a little easier... : Phreakin
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  I totally owned drucifer : Degenerate
  • I no : drucifer
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  Geraldo is flipping out on FNC : mr brown
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    let me know if his moustache catches on fire : Degenerate
    • I'd pay a lot of money to see that. : drucifer
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      he was holding up a black baby to the camera, asking America why this baby is still starving 6 days later... : mr brown
      • Sally Struthers ate Geraldos soul : Degenerate
      • well there is answer to that, but that wouldn't make great TV now would it : sleepyvt
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    he makes for great TV : jono181
    • I'm still fucking mad at him for that Al Capone thing. HE MADE ME BELIEVE : Degenerate
  • Seeing him cry is um pretty unexpected. I mean he never cries or shuts up and he just did both on live T... : Chod
  • Geraldo could win a fucking nobel prize, and to me he'll still be the guy who got his nose busted by a wh... : riptyde
  • You can see the video here http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#a4763 I think seeing Shepard... : baron calamity
• I still don't have cable or internet at home. THIS IS A FAILURE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS. I'm a fancy man and : Rauol Duke
• http://neworleans.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  In the light of this: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685 I wanted to ask: why is : SpiderMonkey
  • Becuase Chaney is officialy suposed to have absolutly no biase towards Halliburton and no relations with ... : spdon
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  I dont understand why snipers are shooting at people. Just cuz they can? : Nighteyes
  • because theyre assholes : Degenerate
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    I pray that the National Guard shoots back. : stump
    • =[ It makes me sick to think that the National Guard may be fired upon by the countrymen they put their l... : yAak
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    You know how sometimes in games like Halo 2 or Battlefield, you run up to grab a plane or a tank or some ... : Rauol Duke
    • fuckin faggot 12 yr olds >:( : Nighteyes
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    Because they are animals. I really hope they get mowed down by Nation Guard return fire. : pap26
    • you're an animal too : kn1fe
  • griefers : riptyde
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  BEST LINKS}b repost Donate/Help!: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10668039 Best official news sou : silent prophet
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    Thanks! The Mayor kicks ass btw. Fuck. I'll go down there and manage things too. Bureacratic incompete... : Athlon7
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      I don't understand why the mayor's not taking at blame himself. He knows his city is an empty bowl waiti... : ThomW
      • at blame : ThomW
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        There are many people who have indeed claimed that the mayor fucked up big time. I really don't know muc... : riptyde
        • Yea, the superdome was a bad idea, but i dont think they had enough public transportation / organization ... : broly1718
  • Thanks for taking up the charge!!! I'm glad these links deserved to be carried to yet another hurricane t... : celerity
• The Harry S. Truman is supposed to be in position and pumping out fresh water on Sunday to add to the res... : felicia
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  I saw on TV that a swat team had to help these firemen and their familes get out of the building they wer... : mmt681
  • So they got out ok? I really hope so. : D45hiz
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  Just got word that my house has power and running water because the national guard and police are going t... : clain
  • some cop's on your machine right now, finding all those naughty pictures : -Panther-
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  Okay well, while the SA forums are still down, there's a pretty nice rant up on http://forums.somethingaw... : slax0r
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    Too bad SA is running at 56k. : mallrice
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      Hmm, it loaded right up for me. But to save bandwidth, here it is: Most of you probably haven't notic : slax0r
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        Those guys can write, and that's pretty much dead on. :( A+++ WILL READ AGAIN : ThomW
        • Agreed. This is powerful stuff. : midgetherder
• http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050902/pl_afp/usweatherdeaths : r1cola
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  Well, CNN took this down pretty quick, but not before my wife got a screen cap: http://pb.truegamers.i... : Fred Garvin
  • Vaccines are "modern day genocide" for the crazies. : trove
  • ugh, whoever made that call...I just don't know what to say. I guess I can't say anything because I can't... : Halen
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  lol, Larry King just cut off Jesse Jackson because he wouldn't STFU. : riptyde
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    like, cut his broadcast feed? that's pretty awesome if so : -Panther-
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      Yep. The other guy (Secretary of something) was a total toolshed, but at least he knew when to shut up a... : riptyde
      • I can't imagine Larry King being anything but a doormat. : -Panther-
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  This was engaging on Fox News about a half hour ago... http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#... : ghostnote
  • GOD I love Geraldo. : tomservo
  • Even tho I criticized Geraldo in this very thread up above, I really have to give him props this time. N... : riptyde
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  :( : rosewood
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    Are you okay? : dognose
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      This whole thing has me emotionally drained. So today I spend all day driving and all day I listen t... : rosewood
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        You've been living in the US for how long now? : -Panther-
        • And I'm sorry to be so glib when you're obviously upset, but the fact of the matter is that everybody has... : -Panther-
      • Ug. Thanks for that, ugly as it was. I hope that at least all your family and friends are okay, and tha... : dognose
      • How was the KC traffic? not to demean the rest of your post... : sgtsanity
• CNN grows a pair! http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html : sgtsanity
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  Jesus fucking Christ. I hope that Bush gets impeached over this, or at least EVERYONE who is involved wit... : mojoald
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    I guess I just don't get it. With the kind of situation it is down there, I'm actually surprised that the... : Halen
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      no, he's right, it's the worst natural disaster in US history. Bush must pay for this. : -Panther-
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        I don't even see how you could even remotely make a claim like that. There's no way you can lay all the b... : Halen
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          I was being facetious. : -Panther-
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            lol, it is WAY too late for this shit. :P : Halen
            • sorry! :) : -Panther-
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        I agree with you there, but how were we not dropping food to these people on Tuesday or Wednesday? I can ... : mojoald
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          In case this is irony, ignore. This is America, we are the shining light to the world. Heh. No, not : GreatGooglyMoogly
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            his statement (the one you italicized) epitomizes americans' sense of self-importance. it's even more pro... : biskits
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              I doubt we are alone. Most countries probably consider themselves to be the shining beacon of light to t... : riptyde
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                I think it has to do with that American manifest destiny. What's up with that? I know a lot of Canadia... : Rice-Rocketeer
                • heh, if it wasn't for high school history, most American's would probably never even hear the term "manif... : riptyde
              • If "you're" not alone, "you're" amongst the very select few, according to my observations. Just saying. : GreatGooglyMoogly
        • I'd imagine at this point a lot of the survivors are thinking "do I even bother to come back here and reb : riptyde
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      the thing you have to get is that everything has been botched by the government, probably city up to coun... : Luminair
      • Yes : ghostnote
    • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9178501/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9181408/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9... : pupismyname
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      What are you talking about? They had plans in place, they just didn't follow them: http://www.cnn.com/... : Fred Garvin
      • He was doing this yesterday - arguing his point by just plain making-stuff-up. http://www.shacknews.com/j... : SpiderMonkey
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    IMPEACH EVERYONE. Seriously. EVERYONE!!!!! : midgetherder
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      I dont want to be impeached :( : Degenerate
      • lol... me neither : ghostnote
    • Honestly the best reporters are expression frustration but aren't casting blame and admitting that at thi... : Halen
    • LINE CHANGE : pupismyname
  • Many of those reporters on the scene down there seem to be abandoning any political agendas they might ha... : ghostnote
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    Kill people at FEMA? Can this stupidity in a post even exist? : D45hiz
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      I read kill=fired : Halen
      • I read fucking killed, because you know its hard to look into things that are written. : D45hiz
    • it's not stupidity, it's misguided outrage. alright, yeah, it's pretty stupid too. : -Panther-
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    be pissed, and feel free to post about it, but don't go suggesting that we execute people for not being a... : biskits
    • I realize that and I meant to use the "killed" factiously, to show that maybe they really should be facin... : mojoald
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  Were are the Gundams when you need them... : Darkfox76
  • Screw that, Goku wouldn't let this happen >:( : Ebu
• If you think humans have evolved and can handle themselves, look at this fucking mess : ( What an awful d... : Athlon7
• Like my ancestors said, "It is a mistake to leave the oceans"... : Q-ball
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  Google Maps has post-Katrina disaster images now. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=new+orleans&t=e Not... : sgtsanity
  • That is most impressive : smacknca
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    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=new+orleans&ll=29.999850,-90.037787&spn=0.008465,0.016654&t=e&hl=en what... : ventro
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      Yes. I dont know why they didnt just get all of the school buses, and use those to get out the ones t... : suicidemachine
      • Never once in the entire time that I grew up in south louisiana have I ever seen a government bus out peo... : zakk
  • Say goodbye to your love... Steve Ballmer is going to FUCKING KILL GOOGLE! http://www.smh.com.au/news/... : protozone
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  Guys, go to: http://edition.cnn.com/ And listen to the link that says: Mayor "Get off your asses" W... : Fred Garvin
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    More videos here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/ : Fred Garvin
    • Thanks very much for those links... the Geraldo and Shepard videos were extremely disturbing. Earlier I ... : Q-ball
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  Speaking of Katrina, has anyone found any wacked out crazy "serious" websites that blame the storm on che... : pigvomit
  • Why is that, exactly? : midgetherder
  • I've heard a lot about global warming, and how that's making storms more severe in general. But I wouldn'... : Ratsofatsorat
  • There's one saying it was an act of god ahead of some gay festival in the city, but I'd feel dirty lookin... : SpiderMonkey
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  This is fucking awesome!!!!! http://foamy.libertech.net/kat.swf : Q-ball
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    Yeah that's great. Fucking reporters. Why don't they have their goddamn helicopters, and food supplies,... : midgetherder
    • Don't forget the important role that they serve in getting aid to LA as well, would they have even gotten... : adsquirrel
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  Didn't see this posted yet. Worth a click. http://rap.about.com/od/raphiphopnews/ss/katrinaracism.htm?rd=... : SpiderMonkey
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    Read the photographers response. It's very important: http://flickr.com/photos/triciawang/38922728/#comme... : celerity
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      Thanks for the link. I was hoping someone had more info, hence why I said very little about the link when... : SpiderMonkey
      • cool deal man, glad to help : celerity
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  What's sad about this whole thing is that FEMA and New Orleans has known for years how fragile their "pro... : xocsida
  • "never put of for tomorrow what you can do today" being in nyc, can even tell you that we have worse case... : creep
  • It was such a cool city. :( It'll be back and better than ever. There's a long precedent for cities bo... : -Panther-

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• It looks like there's a missing link or something. : Popedispencer
• That armor looks so uncomfortable. Thanks for the link, that's really neat. : tomservo
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  I have lots of comparisons at home on my computer. I'll post them when I get back. : notd665
  • post one that isn't so pixelated like these ones are : shacktool
• They also made the first two really pixellated for no reason. : FlatlineDixay
• Geez... thats almost disturbing to see the jump between 2 and 3. Of course, hasn't "Unreal 2" been throu... : yAak
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  more like intelligent design, am i rite : cygnus
  • Programming is just a theory : Popedispencer
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    some complex intelligence, we wont say God, made it : cap n KRUNCH
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      Doom1 never realy existed, it was just created to test our faith. : spdon
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        There is no Y axis. : Popedispencer
        • SO SAYETH THE CARMACK!! : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Where'd his sweet shades go? UE3 = downgrade : Krypt_
  • but i heard the black man finally gets a love interest, so UE3 = win : qwpeoriu
  • Feeling they can do proper eyes, instead of them being so bad they have to cover them with sunglasses = W... : SpiderMonkey
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  You mean the evolution of 3d accelerators :) : GeorgeB3DR
  • So what's DNF look like now? : Haku-Jin
  • that's a smug comment coming from the King of Engines who was once a customer of the Unreal Engine! : Luminair
• wheres 4? : filthysock
• don't you mean the intelligent design of unreal?! : mikecyb
• this isn't a fair comparison for many reasons. It's obvious that the two on the left are photoshopped out... : rsustudent
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  id rather see more environmental interactivity than better looking character models. why the fuck wa... : CoRDS
  • Because it breaks levels. Not only literally. : GreatGooglyMoogly
  • agreed 10000x over, its really lame : yAak
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    Heh, I'm actually researching a new method for doing this right now. It's not something that is easily do... : WillingZombie
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      How about with physics? : Rice-Rocketeer
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        Not really my thing, but rigid body physics are essentially a fuction of collision detection, simply with... : WillingZombie
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          are you researching this at a school (for a thesis, senior project, etc), or on your own? I am working on... : Mr.Fusion
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            Neither. This will (hopefully) be for a commercial application. The basic idea isn't new, as the core dat... : WillingZombie
            • I don't understand a word you just said, but it sounds hot. :) Good luck with it and keep the shack in th... : node
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          So, given that this is basically a performance issue, isn't it conceivable to sacrafice on the collision ... : yAak
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            I personally think the idea of PPU is great, and hope it catches on. As for sacrificing collision acc... : WillingZombie
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              I should also state that reducing geometrical detail is not really that much of a help in solving this pr... : WillingZombie
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                So, you're saying the current limiting factor is in the hardware and in the current method of calculation... : yAak
                • Well, the Half-Life 1 tech is modified Quake 1, which is BSP based, so it's an apples and oranges thing g... : WillingZombie
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                  Also, I should really address the point about developers pushing visuals further while letting other fron... : WillingZombie
                  • Yeah I agree with you there : yAak
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            It's not just that, it textures too. When textures were simpler (Quake1 era), it would have been easy to... : capt tripps
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              Well, if you're talking deformable objects, that is definitely a problem. Artists can create more "atomic... : WillingZombie
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                Carmack talked about it during one of his speeches, and mentioned how it would have been nice to make an ... : capt tripps
                • There are so many issues that need to be addressed beyond that, so it's not surprising that no one has re... : WillingZombie
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      Dude, you are my hero. Make cool things happen, please! : yAak
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        but game devs dont listen to me (unless george actually puts my killer kitten idea into dnf) : CoRDS
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          That's bullshit. We listen all the time, but we also have to take reality into account when it comes to s... : Fred Garvin
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            Well, it's not just that the average gamers input would likely introduce a feature set that would bring t... : WillingZombie
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              A good example of that being: early physics emulations in games. They were pretty worthless and added al... : yAak
              • Eh, I lied. I think physics in HL2 deathmatch kick ass and add a lot to the gameplay. : yAak
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    I agree with your comments about environmental interactivity, but I'm really not sold on the future promi : SpiderMonkey
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      as an end user i dont care how damn hard it is to do. if i shoot a rocket at a brick wall the damn wall s... : CoRDS
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        And at the same time, you would support, say, Valve allowing you, when you get to BME, to slaughter every... : SpiderMonkey
        • actually the player ALWAYS calls the shots in every game, by not buying the ones they dont like this i... : CoRDS
• THe market share of the Quake engine progeny is mind boggling : Omaha
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  This may seem trivial but I hate how it went quake with the guns in FP view. I liked seeing hands in the... : uncle slappy
  • It was possibly a necessity given the huge variety of characters they put into the game? TimeSplitters 2 ... : SpiderMonkey
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  ER...do they have an evolution thing for LARA CROFT of Tomb Raider? That'd be much better. : pobone
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    the engine didn't really evolve that much over the 27 games : rookieone
    • It's not the engine, just the poly count changes in her boobs vs the rest of her model that's of amusemen... : SpiderMonkey
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Evolution_of_Lara_Croft_over_... : ZeroSignal
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  looks like they skipped quite a few steps, weres ut 2003, unreal 2, and ut 2004? still unreal 4 looks ama... : Yabrodan
  • those three shots are illustrative of the engine iterations, not the actual games : SideSalad
• They still look blocky. Just in higher resolution, more polys and some lights. : matthaeus

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  what's the IRC channel again? : fatman
  • #radio, on habber.net : pres589
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  So I have to be around my computer at 1 AM EST to listen to Sleepy? : pres589
  • or your xbox. or something that can get shoutcast streams! : darkling
• Hope you enjoyed the punk rock and my awful broken shacktag and shit. in true punk rock spirit i'm eit... : darkling
• lakren? : darkling
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  In the absense of lakren, I am going to play The Black Mages first album. Enjoy! : darkling
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    piece of crap, i had my brother try and start it while i was working but the password was changed since i... : lakren
    • er, and could i get the new password? :( : lakren
• Ritalin Radio is my show where you can call in. It's in the 3rd hour of brain beats... its usually pretty... : mr.sleepy
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  dear god someone send me the password so i can play some horribly depressing music. : lakren
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    you all need to die. : lakren
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      ok i'm off, someone send him the password : darkling
      • and no, i wasn't deliberately keeping you off the station. : darkling
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  okee, playing...an abbreviated version :P : lakren
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    i demand more people listen in. : lakren
    • the next song has whales in it! how can you not want to listen??! : lakren
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  Thank you Helter for banning me from #radio because of your broken script and not fixing it. : darkling
  • And thank you for bitching at me continually while I was trying to do other shit. You're free to come bac... : Helter Skelter
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  Please grace us with the new Opeth when "all things awsome" comes around! :) : suicidemachine
  • lol, i was planning on doing just that. half the set will be the new opeth. : broly1718
• That David cross set had me in stiches. I didn't even know he was a stand up comedian until like 2 days a... : Popedispencer
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  All Things Awesome - Mostly Metal edition playlist : 1. Anal Cunt - Van full of retards (0:24) 2. Ope... : broly1718
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    Dude I'm all for free speech and shit; but the band's name is Anal Cunt. : RyDogg1
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      Need me to change it to AC? Most of their songs are labeled like that. Just didnt think about it. : broly1718
      • Nope, like Katrina I'm preparing for the worse, but not doing anything about it. : RyDogg1
  • Starting Now. : broly1718
• Radio Free RyDogg!!! Friday night edition: hey it's fridays, three-day weekend, let's kick it off whe... : RyDogg1
• This family guy needs more video and less voice-only. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  brain beats is on now. nothing but underground electronica. : mr.sleepy
  • helping out Mr. Sleepy with a bump. You should all join up and listen to his views with wonderful back... : fatman
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  man sleepy is on crack... : nyranger66
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  • kata-what? : Maddog_Delphi97
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  BUMP FOR BRAIN BEATS!!! : Maddog_Delphi97
  • once more. slrsly, listen to sleepy people : mikecyb
• im about to call in to sleepys show in 20 minutes..tune in! : nyranger66
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  I don't think I've ever heard someone ramble like that before. : BrodieMan
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    hehe, have you even read any of his posts? : nyranger66
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      Well, I guess the benefit of reading is that I can just skip ahead. : BrodieMan
      • haha : nyranger66
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  RItalin Radio is on now. Chatting live with Nyranger66}y!! : mr.sleepy
  • OMG KEEP LISTENING PEOPLE STOP DROPPING : nyranger66
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  This is getting really, really choppy and I'm guessing it's just me. : BrodieMan
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    nope, it's choppy :/ kinda quiet too, but I don't think there's a way they can fix that : mikecyb
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      It's too choppy and I'm still listening. I'm trying to hang in there, but it's kind of like listening to ... : BrodieMan
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        Now it's rebuffering every other second. : BrodieMan
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          oh that happened to me too but I thought it was my connection... it's better now tho : mikecyb
          • Apparently both of us need better connections. : BrodieMan
• ugh I feel asleep when I got home from work :( : strandgeck
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  no feed back on Ritalin Radio? :( : nyranger66
  • im still trying to take it all in : strandgeck
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    I think you need to take over for what's-his-name and host it yourself. : BrodieMan
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• thanks for listening. tune in next friday for more brain beats... : mr.sleepy
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  what's happening late nite? first, i'm starting things off with Twisted Sessions, Vol 1. it's some go... : esmokah
  • You rock my balls off. : midgetherder
  • thanks to the few late night listeners. last song for the night, hundreds of sunsets by fools and tools : esmokah