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  Owch, this on mainstream media yet? I'll check my accounts, thanks for heads-up. : Farbauti
  • Yeah. if you can check your accounts online I'd do it... read the dslreports thread. There seem to be sev... : fusionrx
• Mods can you make this Informative?? : fusionrx
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  how exactly do they get your CC number? : GloriousCow
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    Remember the electronic break-in at one of the main CC processing companies a few months ago? : Arcanum
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      hell, I remember the offsite backup tapes that went missing back in April. : the archvile
      • Oh? I hadn't heard about that. Although, unless there's evidence they were stolen, I'd be inclined to c... : Arcanum
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      I think it was Lexis-Nexis. : jackrabbit
      • https://my.infotex.com/article.php?story=20050310101313633 : jackrabbit
  • The prevailing thought is that the scammers default try some software and phish for active accounts.. By ... : fusionrx
  • Could have been this break in (40 million people affected): http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/23/... : someone_else
• bump for interesting sake. : fusionrx
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  Wow that really sucks, period, and I totally agree they should go to hell :( . : Amnesty_intl2
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    Probably part of organized crime ring in cyprus is my thought... : fusionrx
    • Uh, Cyprus has crime rings? Every country outside the US has terrorists, rampant crime and communism, rig... : bigimp
• There is another company that you left out -- ESTOREONLINE from Rocklin, CA. The sentiment is that the c... : lordfili
• Went to a little business meeting/lecture thing last night and the stats on how many people still fall fo... : Fred Garvin
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  Wait ... im confused. How the hell would they charge me these things if they don't have my CC info or ba... : rosewood
  • They send letters out to every person affected when millions of CC numbers are stolen during these break-... : DinK
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    Not necessarily. Your bank might not tell you anything. With the break in (in the US) I mentioned earl... : someone_else
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• Bump again. : fusionrx

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• w00t! now you can give it to me!! : kbnerd
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  i never win anything : jono181
  • the secret is to cheat : johnsto
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  I've sent about 30 texts to Walkers and never win :( I sent 5 at 2:30am last night and still lost. : peanut-
  • I went in via the website, between 3 and 4am this morning, and entered 38 codes Lidl are doing 18 pack : Toraz Chryx
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  hoorj, i won a mystery box! a boat is just a boat, but a mystery box can be anything...IT COULD EVEN B... : davislovestacobell
  • OMG what's behind the yellow door??? : moshman
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  Congrads. Fatbeaner wants to know where you got the hook up? : keroppi
  • www.winwithwalkers.com <<< : Toraz Chryx
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  Wonder if they'll be using nanos now or if they're just sitting on a pile of minis. : xenoeye
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    Give us the link where to go and try and win too!!! : fusionrx
    • step 1) buy packets of walkers crisps step 2) put the codes off the back in on www.winwithwalkers.com s... : Toraz Chryx
• next step, WORLD DOMINATION : CoRDS
• just in: toraz: I'm going to rock out with my cock out : Gaurav Sharma

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• yeah I understand what you mean, my own domain name etc@companyname.com kept going to my inbox so what I ... : zacstone

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  this might be the first porn movie i'll ever buy : majorFracture
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    I just want to see some of the actual fight scenes... : cbslf
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      ^^^loves a good sword fight : sting7777
      • Pork swords : red2lucas
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  needs more Ice Pirates : Degenerate
  • more like ass pirates... : MurrayTheSkull
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    You have old balls. : geedeck
    • better than having space herpes : Degenerate
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  where can i buy this at? this would be a perfect gag gift for my friend. he collects all kinds of pirat... : davislovestacobell
  • Yeah *cough* gag gift..I get it... : cbslf
• I'm confused... is this like BMXXX? : ChibiJosh

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• also, the ball clicks, even down to 1 pixel scrolling. : Gaurav Sharma
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  the ball = good not being able to right click without lifting off the left finger = major design flaw ... : Toraz Chryx
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    It's not really, rightclick is almost redundant in Mac OS. Without this sort of design they wouldn't be ... : Gaurav Sharma
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      ... Pay close attention to who you're fashioning this argument with, and consider that you're being mo : Toraz Chryx
      • Use the Apple Key :P : Gaurav Sharma
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  how do you find the rest of it? there are some quirks with the other buttons, I find (can't have your fi... : Postal
  • It still pretty much works as a 1 button mouse. I'm getting into the habit of already of pressing down o... : Gaurav Sharma

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• anyone?? : fusionrx
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  it might have removed both to save on space because it thought you were going to burn copies? : land
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    How do I get it back? : fusionrx
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      re-rip the dvd in iso mode : thencrow
      • Iso read or write? : fusionrx
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  Once its in ISO mode, can I play it with PowerDVD? : fusionrx
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    Anyone know? : fusionrx
    • is the file an actual .iso file?? if so it would have to be mounted on a virtual drive using something l... : Shadowdane

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  Neither Doom nor Quake are big enough to warrant midnight sales. And honestly, I don't think it's don... : Vincent Grayson
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    Uh, a Dallas Best Buy had a midnight Doom 3 launch with a radio station and the id second string there fo... : Dynotaku
    • that's because the company is in the same area! I bet you'd wonder why other towns don't always have red... : Postal
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10791954 : Turd Ferguson
• I'm guessing that since it's not id doing it, it has less.... appeal maybe? : sharkII
• soon, soon : Maarten Goldstein
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  Anyone else more interested in Quake Wars or FEAR? Both look a little less DOOM3 dark and more fun. : jrock
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    I'm interested in all 3. QW is too far into the horizon to get excited about at this point. : Dynotaku
    • I thought the Quake2 world was dull so another game using Strogg and adding the muddy color scheme of Qua... : jrock

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• I can't believe this is actually becoming a movie. Cartman already did this. http://www.spscriptorium... : Draugluin
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  Southpark did it. : matrix
  • Matt Groening must feel bummed, now : Postal
• looks kinda funny.. but as others said Cartman did it already. :P : Shadowdane

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  If you think that's bad check out this scumbag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau : dmason
  • I've seen that turd before. Too bad no one has checked to see if he has a homeopathic cure for "bullet on... : WillingZombie
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    The worst part is that my girlfriend's mother is all about New Age junk and bought this guy's book. She a... : halophoenix
    • My Dad bought the book and I skimmed through it one morning and I told him some of the stuff in it and wh... : jambalaya king
  • So I can make a wikipedia entry about myself right? : carazy
• ask the BBB if they can look into it. I'm not sure what the goverment could do, though : Postal

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• Yay! Front page is back \o/ : SlamDunk

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  http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/ : Toraz Chryx
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    Final Cut Studio $1299 : Gauss
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      bargin!!!! : johnsto
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        iMac G5 1.8ghz $1,299.00! : Gauss
        • no http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10598368 : majorFracture
        • I got FCE for $99 when I bought my iMacG5. : BulletPro
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      Being a PC user all day every day, the times I've fiddled with FCP5 were tedious and annoying because I a... : jrock
      • 1) use a different mouse; problem solved. 2) keyboard shortcuts in Premiere take time to learn too, I'm : Toraz Chryx
    • Final Cut Express, $299 ($149 educational); also, the iMac should be at least the $1499 model, since b... : Postal
• you laughed a little bit there at the end so i think you're bluffing. : infiltrator`
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  Video capture's okay. Video *editing* is the dumb game. : cerealSAM2
  • For me the killer is screenshot capturing. Assuming I could get my video capture card to actually work in... : Gauss
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  windows movie maker is piss-easy : CoRDS
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    Except when it freezes and you have to kill the process and start over from your last save. What's the : jrock
    • wmm is fine for capturing, editing and other stuff, thats another story. for dvd authoring on windows... : CoRDS
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      I don't know if it's the BEST (probably not) but I had much success using Ulead's MediaStudio which I mov... : LexLuther
      • i love dvdlab , its the first logical dvd authoring app ive ever seen. things are in the right places and... : CoRDS
  • I like it too, but I always have problems with the preview window -- it always breaks and ends up stuck o... : ThomW

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• Same here. : NFXFSX
• yeah. it won't let me install *any* GM scripts... : dahanese
• no corporate weasels have an answer? so sad. : dahanese
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  I'll start with the obvious: Is your Greasemonkey icon in the status bar there, and if so is he in color?... : ThomW
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    yes, my monkey is happy. i just installed 1.0.7 last night, and have 0.5.3 GM. when i go to "manager user... : dahanese
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      Someone posted instructions on how to completely uninstall Greasemonkey on the GM Mailing List, but I cou... : ThomW
      • Those greasemonkey uninstall instructions never did work for me correctly. I ended up having to complete... : trove

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• looks like someone is getting coal for christmas : CoRDS
• I hope the new reindeer can be trained in time to deliver toys to all us! : losimagic

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• I want that music as my ringtone : jrock

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• Because a retarded blind kid could get a gold on any level of Traffic Attack his first time? : mojoald

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  <head> <title>Internet Explorer vs Firefox</title> </head> <body> <div id="ruta" style=" positi : ted1001
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    Tried to have the balls with position:absolute? : SpaecKow
    • Nope... but then its get incorrect if you resize the window. But there are ways around that. Ill check it... : ted1001
    • just tried this, seems to work correctly in both IE 6 and FF 1.07 : Draugluin
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  I encountered this a year ago. I gave up and just made a huge .gif map. What's loopia like, by the way... : MrLonghair
  • It renders correctly on my N-Gage btw : MrLonghair
• Your balls dropped... : Lynn Minmei
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  you need to get I.e. out of quirk mode, so put in the proper doctype to get it into strict mode and it'll... : land
  • here's a better explanation: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html : land
  • I tried that first and it didn't fix his problem. : Draugluin
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  Fixed, you can make the container DIV position:RELATIVE and then make the 3 balls inside of it position :... : MatthewPhillips
  • <head> <title>Internet Explorer vs Firefox</title> </head> <body> <div id="ruta" style=" positi : MatthewPhillips
  • tldr: Putting 'absolute' DIVs inside of other 'absolute' DIVs = bad at least in IE : MatthewPhillips

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• saw a review of it in the UK PC Gamer - they gave it 76% and said it wasn't all that hot (iirc) : losimagic
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  Wow, it almost makes me want to buy it. Almost : baron calamity
  • oh no i'm not saying i want to buy it, i was on ign for a bit looking up some stuff for the 360.. and i s... : kurumba
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    just remind yourself of the one level lifespan the first one had and you'll be over any urge you may have... : losimagic
    • I remember it took to level 3 to fall apart. : baron calamity

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  optical lines? : davislovestacobell
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    you know like waiting to pick up glasses at lenscrafters : kbnerd
    • lenscrafters is the new EB Games! : cerealSAM2
• how bout a video card to drive it?? my Nvidia 6800GT cant support that res : Shadowdane
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  invest in your children - there is gotta be more beyond this : majorFracture
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    No, there's not. Get cool shit while you can. : Phil
    • this man speaks the truth : CoRDS
  • ^^^ man with no kids. : marblehead
  • f that, make them pay for their own shit. most people i know that have rich mommies and daddies, are jus... : davislovestacobell
  • Well, yeah, there'll be new monitors coming out later with even more resolution, but that's the danger of... : sgtsanity
• would be good for showing digital photos, save that its a widescreen display : grimiv

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  Maybe if your email werent so GAY i could go in the fucking front entrance. : Silent Wolf
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    you must have forgotten to hit the send button. I'm sure someone in your office can show you : bagelcc
    • Get a room, you two! : yoonix
    • Your just not used to catching anything thats not aimed directly at your ASS. : Silent Wolf
  • so he likes it from behind you say? : FormerHPB
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  hahahahaha by the way he left me the oddest XLIVE VOICE MAIL. it's like 1 second long and its all . ... : jedi_27
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    really? I was just trying to send you a party invite :< : Silent Wolf
    • ohhhhhhh sorry dude :( This was friday i think. I had skull, dinger, and tosser over for some xlive... : jedi_27
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    you dont have educatedsilver on you list do you? Now THAT kid leaves some odd voicemails : bagelcc
    • seriously, i had 25 message from him yesterday. This is a message for all my friends, i'm eating break : Silent Wolf
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      HAHAHAHAHA HOLY CRAP, I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING. the guys up here in ST. LOUIS joke about that every... : jedi_27
      • it's so true. He tells you his life story in 10 second clips : bagelcc

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• Isn't this a UK thing? : sharkII
• done and done : moshman

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• Don't know about the others, but as far as #2 is concerened yeah, no server browser a la tunnel for halo ... : Farbauti
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  1) Is there a good tuning site for Forza somewhere? It seems like I don't stand a chance online if I do : Silent Wolf
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    Wow good info. So Bungie was basically doing some work for the Xlive team? : nomaad
    • yup, basically microsoft said take as long as you have to get this thing working, but we get the rights t... : Silent Wolf
  • fanboy! : jedi_27
• ^^ Thank you :-) : James T. Kirk

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• You might want to check out Storage Review: http://storagereview.com/ Comprehensive reviews on noth... : SixDemonBag

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• oh fuck, ive been wondering why i been getting 3x faster download. im connected to somebody elses network... : eggnoodles

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• I got caught in it as I was leaving work. I quickly returned to the office building to pull my car under ... : LeapingFool
• it wa a pretty big storm. it woke me up and fried ~10 computers at work. : kbnerd
• Back when I was in Jr. High, we had Grapefruit sized to Baseball sized hail... it was scary... the insura... : bloodysunday
• it was pretty bad in garland, still is. : klearlyunseen
• meh those arent too big... a few years ago we got hit wish baseball sized hail stones when we were at the... : godm0de
• OMG, that reminds me of this one, which I only just managed to escape from as I was outside playing footi : moshman
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  That storm scared the SHIT out of me. I was southbound on central in the middle of it and all of the traf : mr.sleepy
  • Be sure and try the food while you're there! :O : dognose
  • lol.. awesome. : Shadowdane
  • hahaha beautiful : Degenerate
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    Post of the month. : nomaad
    • easily - this is the best thing i've read in weeks. : re-verse
  • *bows down* ...my god your sexy. : Silent Wolf
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    i demand a mr. sleepy manga cartoon : Sabaki
    • Seconded! : genom
  • I'm just LOL'ing at the thought of sleepy trying to rip a shirt in half! : FormerHPB
  • This will be a tough post to beat today. "landing on useless foliage" - loved that line for some reaso... : jrock
  • Wow... Sleepy, I'm impressed for once. Very nice. : sharkII
  • Welcome back! : TastyWheat
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  FUCK ICE : strandgeck
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    y u dissin vanilla ice dawg : mr.sleepy
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      TO THE EXTREME!! : kbnerd
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        He's on the mic it's a scandal. : Frosty3D
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          like a scandal like a vandal : kbnerd
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            No, it's definately a scandal. : Frosty3D
            • I know the lyrics, I'm just saying he sucks. : Frosty3D
• Too plasticy looking, what a crappy graphics engine. : sharkII

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• taking a compiler class eh? god i hated doin that shit : mrspyral
• I am the king of procrastination. Sometimes I hate myself because of it. (grouphug) : Hiro

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• while it's not a bad adventure film, it's probably the most bland looking film I've ever seen. : red2lucas
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  but it was a really bad book =-( : kbnerd
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    dont you ever speak ill of the Dirk Pitt books :( : Degenerate
    • You hold him, I'll get a rope. : Fyunch Click
• Watched it a week or so ago, thought it was a lot of fun. Cussler even signed off on the main actors as D... : Fyunch Click
• It was crappy great, I enjoyed it. : bargeld

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  BF2 in game browser. : crummynz
  • rofl. : deeveee
  • i just poo'ed a little : klearlyunseen
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  ASE - liked it so much I registered it for a year. : IcomeINpeace
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    ^^ did the lifetime registration about 3yrs ago before Yahoo bought them : Shadowdane
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      Same here. Ten minutes of use and I was sold. : Serpico74
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        another vote for ASE, I did the lifetime registration 2 years ago. Even Yahoo! hasn't effed this up yet. : redfive
        • ASE here, lifetime user for about 5 years now. It was cheap at the price. : Fyunch Click
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  xbox live : vigilante
  • seconded. : coldfusioncs
• Battle.net and steam browser. I don't think I've played any other multiplayer game in a long while. : rotten element
• shacknews comments forum i only play on shack servers : not work safe
• xfire for Shack stuff because the bookmarking is faster but I just use in-game for everything else. : melkore
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  I just shove ramdom numbers into the IP address list and hope for the best. You don't know hell until yo... : RatBastard
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    You think that's bad, try playing Dead Man's Hand against an Apache server. : Fred Garvin
    • I once got into a game of freespace with a mysql server. shit, that was hard fucking core. : rosewood
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  I tried Gamespy a couple weeks ago for the first time since Quake2 and holy shit was it crappy. I spent ... : Krypt_
  • arcade or original gamespy? : flasher 907
• hlsw but get servers from ASE : infiltrator`
• ASE : Maddog_Delphi97
• xbox live? : Silent Wolf
• Qtracker FTW! : monofurioso
• firefox ;) : CoRDS

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  I'll give it a shot, could be useful : melkore
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    Give us a minireview when you're done will ya? I'm feeling too lazy :) : crummynz
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      Seems way cool so far, I just installed Dystropia after I had to delete my steam folder without having to... : melkore
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        What version of Dystopia did you get off there? Today we just released Update 2, which fixes a number of ... : Fuzzwah
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          still waiting for it to finish...accidently closed to program at 75% : melkore
          • version 1 it seems : melkore
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        Update: It does open up Steam as well as it's own program so I don't see a benefit of using it over re... : melkore
        • regular steam doesn't update user mods though : moonbreaker

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• not sure but you would probably at least need your reciept though I guess it might work with your login d... : moshman
• anyone else know? : uncle slappy

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• Very cool show. It's a bit ham handed at times, but it's still enlightening. I really like this guy from ... : Fred Garvin
• Finished this a little while ago. Excellent, and highly recommended. A bit misinformed at times I found..... : tomservo
• Check out The Yes Men, that was pretty good too : MikkleThePickle
• Now UMax will never talk to you again :( The Corporation is pretty shallow, all in all, I'd put it on... : SpaecKow
• The book it is based on is also very good. : SixDemonBag