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• yes, all the WoW hype today was incredible! wtf? : Degenerate
• well you got the PHD so now you gotta kick back and relax : Mr.SEX
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  drink more. install less. : edgewise
  • I had 3 beers, a nice dinner, and then a nice 3 hour nap. More drinking will commence once the weekend c... : hbalce1
• i'm so close to it...but i've got too much going for me : graceofdragons
• it seems like I see this post once a week. : the archvile
• but we love you Raknar!! : grendel
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  Man, the install takes forever. Im on disc 3 and I havent even started patching yet :( : hbalce1
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    GCR? : krym3
    • And all do respect, to the doctor. : krym3
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    You know what the easiest thing to do is? If you have a second computer with WoW installed, just copy the... : laidback
    • Theres also a retail to 1.8 patch that you can get : krym3
• I did 3 weeks ago... Yea... : Iscariot47
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  Stormreaver + Alliance ftw, just fyi... : Iscariot47
  • You can't imagine how pissed off I was when I created an Alliance character on Mal'Ganis. I couldn't f... : te[R]ror
• I've given it up for the time being. I'm to casual to be a casual wow player I guess :( I'll probably tak... : strider_
• eeeheheheheeheheh : Downforce
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  I'm installing FEAR. I am nonplussed towards you all. I will most likely love you all in an hour (since... : timmie
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    don't forget the patch! : Downforce
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      The reminder they thoughtfully placed in the box has already refreshed my memory on this matter! : timmie
      • hahaha yeah that little card was a great laugh : Downforce
      • Yay Raknar! We are still getting married right? (Eupahnia) : lightcrystal
• Hahahaha! You can't escape. This Halloween shit is f'n sweet! : Ojalo1982
• quest is red 2 me lol : SockMonkeh
• I'm playing Eve Online and loving it!! : MikkleThePickle
• Sounds like you hate yourself. : Experiment IV
• Welcome back :) : Clay
• glad to have you back. CULT OF RAKNAR! : handofthrawn
• Welcome back! The WoWerball is still going on. ;) : DM7
• Sucker! : Hizzow

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• Very. No. : Bean
• Oh well, at least I gave it a try. : drbriefs
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  If you wanted to parrot what other sites wrote, probably not too hard. If you wanted to actually get sco... : umcpwintermute
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    rofl i got to maryland too : SockMonkeh
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      What year are you / where do you live? : umcpwintermute
      • Who, me? 21 years old, from El Paso, TX : drbriefs
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  It's easy to start but hard to maintain. When I opened and ran frag.com it was back when the net was real : armybob
  • Ah excellent, thanks for that great response. I actually have lots of time to spare and love working with... : drbriefs
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    I remember frag.com :( : thekidd
    • I miss those days a lot. about 4 months ago I tried to contact the guy who stole the domain and see if he... : armybob
• Yeah, I'd guess so. But I would think the parrot part would be done in order to get to the scoops and stu... : drbriefs
• A gaming site would need personality, lots of daily unique content, and a strong dedication (get up early... : Matt Burris
• Here's the one I ran before Shack hired me (which is why it's no longer maintained): www.livejournal.c... : David Craddock
• callit dRbrief's QUAKE4HOLIO : sexninja!!!!
• what type of site do you want to start up? reivews? news? : idigporn.com
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  just what the internet needs! : wtf242
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    Yeah, that's another thing - "Just what the internet needs!" I think the same thing, but at the same time... : drbriefs
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      Well in that case, why don't you just start out with a blog that focuses on the things you just mentioned... : strider_
      • Exactly. Go for comprehensive treatments of the subject, because you aren't going to compete with them in... : sgtsanity
    • i ran a huge gaming site back in the day before i sold out... It's a ton of work. People aren't going to ... : wtf242
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      why don't you just apply to be a writer at an already established site? : DonkeyPopsicle
      • You need to be able to write "television. Had quite a bit of work experience..." on your resume. Well, no... : sgtsanity
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  I'd recommend starting out with something like this: : crummynz
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    http://www.roushimsx.com/wp/ : crummynz
    • :( :( :( : omnova
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      Okay, it's decided. I'll start out a blog and see how it goes. Oh and I've tried to apply to a couple of ... : drbriefs
      • You'll get better "respect" if you go out and create your own site with a real domain... Domains are c... : idigporn.com
• I ran a starcraft site called The Oddessy back in the day. Got fairly popular, I guess. Took up a lot o... : Anti_dentite

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  We shall decide for you by random drawing. Oh, and I'm adding Total Overdose into the mix, so you just m... : dognose
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    I forgot about total overdose. :( : skitzo
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      There's a whole lot more to it than in the demo. For one thing, it lasts longer. : dognose
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        SPICY MOVE : Gauss
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          Today I had a moment where I wish I had captured it on divx, I need to find out how to do that. Buncha b... : dognose
          • your fiance dosnt have thumbs? : d0pamine
• Q4 and Fear are duds, unless you've somehow missed every other good FPS for the last few years. Wait to s... : Gauss
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  X3: Reunion FTW! : MrSmither
  • I want this to be good. Really badly. But I don't have a lot of faith in them. They love their economics : Gauss
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  Which CoC is that and "WTF RELEASED"? : MrLonghair
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    Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, supposedly out for X-Box on the 25th and the PC on the first,... : BlackCat9
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      According to a guy I know who did testing for the Xbox version, the PC version doesn't even exist anymore... : Vincent Grayson
      • god knows how much it cost to make after SIX YEARS. : abrasion
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        I just spent a few minutes browsing the Bethesda forums. It seems that the PC version was being finished ... : BlackCat9
        • Why would you release a lesser known 'FPS' only weeks after Q4 and FEAR? Unless you want to be Wheel of T... : derelict515

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  They always overdue these specs everytime. I wouldn't take them serious. Microsoft is fucking stupid if... : glimpse8
  • Yep totally true and total and utter lol - this happens with most releases of windows - a fake article co... : abrasion
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  2GB is the ideal configuration for 64-bit Vista, we're told. Vista 32-bit will work ideally at 1GB, and m : Toraz Chryx
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    I rate this post Strong Science, MA 15+ : rosewood
    • a new shackphrase is born : CoRDS
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    excuse my ignorance, but aren't also the data size variable ? I mean an int for example, can be any size ... : BigT
    • could be, but a 24bit image is still 8bits per channel, no matter the native integer size of the compute ... : Toraz Chryx
• Thx ... I'm starting to look at this because I'm contemplating a new laptop. Those specs are pretty shoc... : ngsmack
• Also, I think those specs are with all the eyecandy maxed out. If you turn off the whizzy new interface i... : jcupitt
• well the only one that is going to hurt is the graphics card. I should think you'll be able to get away ... : chazums
• this is so much shit. the article is wrong on every count. Graphics: the whole idea of PCI-express is ... : Gaurav Sharma

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• More like Weird Science, amirite? : SockMonkeh
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  The creationists are demanding a label be placed on the box. : dognose
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    i didnt demand that : CoRDS
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      I wasn't talking about you! It's like when I talk about "The Republicans", I'm not talking about rosewoo... : dognose
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        im offended that you didnt mean me : CoRDS
        • I refuse to make fun of you, save for your accent : dognose
      • You don't mean me when you talk about hippies? I'm hurt :( : ColoradoCNC
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      are you a creationist? : abrasion
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        yes, i believe that god created everything, i just think that 6days thing was the dumbed down version for... : CoRDS
        • colour me surprised. : abrasion
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          * I N T E L L I G E N T D E S I G N ' D * : dmaw
          • no not that shit, i just think that when the bible was written people wouldnt have been able to understan... : CoRDS
      • Well he's a comma creationist http://www.oflc.gov.au/content.html?n=44&p=34&sTitle=quake+4&record=207576 : Tirancul
  • More like cretonists, amirite? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Where did you get the Strong Science thing? I have the box right here and the ESRB label says Blood & Go... : Krypt_
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    MA 15+ is an aussie thing IIRC. : mojoald
    • Also CoRDS is an aussie. And he said wtfmate : mojoald
• ahhh the Australian office of Film and Literature at it again! : shavenewok
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  Mate it's Strong Science Fictional Violence. Apparently that's different to normal violence. : TastyWheat
  • It is, because there could be laser beams and rail guns, those make different wounds and so require a dif... : Totenjaeger
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    Alien guts vs human guts? : xenoeye
    • Maybe it is like killing Nazis. Nobody cares. : Totenjaeger
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  Can you provide a photo? Gotta see that. : bargeld
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    http://cords.shackspace.com/wtfrating.jpg : CoRDS
    • Thats ... amazing. : rosewood
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  typo, they meant "Strogg Science" : Farbauti
  • {{{ HUG }}} : dognose
• Huh? : rosewood
• lexsdysic? : ShadowRam
• typo - they meant "Strogg Science" : greendonuts

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• holy shit : Mr.Fusion
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  Nice pics, I had a shoebox of spiders I collected when I was like 9-10 years old, but no pics :( http:... : Chunks
  • i just looked up his scarier more terrifying vampire spider pic: http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image... : seanisdabomb
• FUCK YOU GOD why Did I click! : graceofdragons
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  Awesome! I hear the shack loves spiders : Serpico74
  • especially kidd. someone link him here. : draconic
• Some dude I know shot a tiny assed spider with an airsoft gun, and the spider EXPLODED : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Fucking awesome pic http://people.ucsc.edu/~seanf/OMGspiders/spidersilhouette.JPG And here's one I too... : ColoradoCNC
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    thanks all, and wow, that spider is particularly wide, heh : seanisdabomb
    • I wish I had had a little higher resolution camera, because the big detail I wanted to capture didn't com... : ColoradoCNC
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    Did it speak like Jabba The Hutt? : Serpico74
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      HO HO HO would sound awesome coming out of a spider : Serpico74
      • for hypothetical simulation purposes: http://hutt.ytmnd.com/ : seanisdabomb
• 8 legs of horror...I love it. : lowayne
• I love the pics man.. you gotta take more and update.. need some really scary ones and stuff : speedycerviche
• That first black spider is a scary muthafocka. : DingoStoleMyBaby
• Is the 7th one down a Recloose? : graincloud
• Wicked, sent to my buddy who's afraid of spiders... I'm such a bastard :) : ShadowRam
• Looks like you need a macro lens. : greendonuts

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  try deepburner : gegtik
  • unfortunatly its only pro that does cd to cd : eyegeegeewhy
• http://www.burnatonce.com : Draco

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  "Midnight-Madness Post-Traumatic Stress -- A new dilemma in retail." Today on Geraldo. : Farbauti
  • Console Shock! Can it happen to you? : Totenjaeger
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  i remember the ps2 launch at walmart. i went up just out of morbid curiosity. i had enough money to bu... : deathmuppeter
  • You probably got some because you didn't look like a threat. Being cool pays off. : Totenjaeger

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• hell yes to everything you said, man! :) Batman Begins >est movie released in 2005, and in quite a whil... : David Craddock
• saw it at the store. didn't have any dough on me. gotta get it tomorrow! : flarpo
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  watching it right now, this is exactly what I needed to see my cat just died :( : ttyRazor
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    go beat up some villans/wear tight clothes : byorn
    • you don't know how badly I want to do this :( sitting on my couch, watching a dvd and eating goldfish... : ttyRazor
• agreed...best I have seen this year : byorn
• i loved it but im still waiting to mine to ship :( : grimjoe
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  It was awesome, but I think I liked Serenity more. Batman is probably a "better" movie though, in term... : Vincent Grayson
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    I think The Fog of War beats them both. : sgtsanity
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      wasnt that last year? : byorn
      • I just figured... while we were comparing vaguely-related movies... I'm sorry. :( : sgtsanity
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    I loved Serenity, but I think I love the color blue more. : sharpie
    • blue sucks, sharp is better. : slickdoody
  • serenity would definently be my number two pick. what a neat movie. : Silent Wolf
• I think Batman Begins just edges out Sin City for my favorite film of the year. I still haven't picked up... : shredder133
• When I watched it again, I still dug it. But ... that microwave thing still just rubs me the wrong way. ... : rosewood
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  Easily best movie of 2005. Should arrive by Friday from Amazon. : jrock
  • Make sure you check tracking, you might get it sooner. : Totenjaeger

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  use reverse psychology. piss all over your room. : Gaurav Sharma
  • Roaches like piss? Man I learn something new everyday! : Patch-e
• clearly god hates you. : deathmuppeter
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  Call bug terminators. Now. : [7]kami
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    Really, will they just not go away on their own? >:( : Patch-e
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      probably not. but if they're coming from neighbours or something then your exterminating them from your h... : gegtik
      • Yea no shit, I live on one side of a townhouse. The people on the otherside look like whitetrash, but I s... : Patch-e
    • No. My little bro decided to "wait a few weeks and see what happens" and got a whole lote more than he ba... : [7]kami

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  you might try www.supermediastore.com they have a ton of dvd cases, dont know if they have that type tho : QMS|superdave
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    ok, looks like that site doesn't have what I'm thinking, but they do have some crazy insane shit: http... : Schnapple
    • i was really pissed that bf2 put a single dvd in the huge spindle... like WTF ? can't you at least buy wh... : barichnikov

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• That was fun. Thanks. : Totenjaeger
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  what is the logic when you have to replace the key pad number ??? : barichnikov
  • they add to 15 across : Totenjaeger
  • All the rows must add up to 15. : BrodieMan
• sorry, I just got it right away. : Totenjaeger

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  no halloween costume for thetick. he is also out moneys. fuckholesters. guess I'll check with the nei... : TheTick
  • I once had UPS leave a package with a 1st floor "neighbor" who I didn't know. Both he and I were mystifie... : Crimson
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  UPS is full of shit, call them and bitch. And dont give up. I had an Ipod Mini "delivered" near x-mas la... : karlk79
  • Thanks! That is what I wanted to hear. : TheTick
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  I thought you(or someone) had to sign for packages? Unless that changed, I'm not sure, havent used any t... : skitzo
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    They've left stuff on my porch before but only once or twice. I've always got it too. Dunno why anyone... : TheTick
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      Well, call and raise hell. : skitzo
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        That's the plan stan. I want to see if they left it with my neighbors first though. : TheTick
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          they leave a slip saying they left it at the neighbors : sanchez
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            Yeah, I know. It's also 5:21AM. I'll wait till 8. Also: This is a halloween costume, so I hope I can g... : TheTick
            • I had typed this out at 5:20...didn't post it till now. Dunno why haha. : TheTick
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  So tell us what was in the package already >:( : dognose
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    see Se7en : drucifer
    • I want head from Gwyneth Paltrow... : ColoradoCNC

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• damn well better un awesome on that monster. Run great on Mobile Athalon 2400 @ 1.9ghz, 512ram, Geforc... : graceofdragons
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  2x 7800GTX's or just one? : aggressor
  • just one : empathe
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  that huge warning about texture memory always scares me off of ultra. I also never saw a big difference ... : smacknca
  • I can't even tell a difference between HQ and Ultra when looking at screenshots. I think it's a useless f... : aggressor
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    Ok so I thought I would try and see how Ultra compares to high. It proves to be very difficult as where ... : smacknca
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      I see no difference. Not even in screenshots. Same as Doom 3. : [7]kami
      • yeah, there basically is none. I think the textures are loaded uncompressed with ultra high, whereas with... : moshman
    • wow I dont feel bad anymore for playing on high. I see some differences, but they are really too minor to... : cap n KRUNCH
• upload screenshots! : kramweil

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• So damn funny. Guadalamanga! : Hiro
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  is there a TLDR version of the whole thompson/penny arcade thing? : fsck
  • PA emailed him up and said $10k isn't a lot to donate see Childs Play Jack rang them up and shouted at t... : chazums
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    the other summary sucks. Jack says, "Hey, if someone makes this game in which game developers are kill... : floated
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      I'm guessing it takes a day or two to get everything set for a $10,000 donation. : ElectricOrange
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        Exactly. The cheque's been written, one of their friends were going to a ESAF dinner event thingy to hand... : evildanish
        • Personally, I would bet money that the PA guys are hoping to hell that they don't actually have to delive... : floated
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        Well, it's interesting, because Gabe's comments on how they "just donated $10k" are now removed from PA's... : floated
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          What are you talking about? The posts are still there : Gauss
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            Fuck. Goddamnit, I'm going to sleep. : floated
            • Do your research before you jump to stupid conclusions. They even have a picture of the cheque on the sit... : ElectricOrange
        • They probobly did donate the money. I'm sure they called up the Charity said we are going to donate 10k.... : Crimsonbeak
        • My bet is they wrote the check and considered it a done deal and were just waiting for that event that is... : rosewood

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• Not even sure its an IBM, just looked like it. : bundy
• Tandy/Radio Shack TRS80? Apple Lisa? :( : dognose
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  Figured it out, its an IBM Netvista All in one. Now I just have to figure out where the hell the dimm slo... : bundy
  • inside the computer.... you know, where the files are : slickdoody

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  hah, any reason beind this? : dmason
  • No clue, INQ doesn't know either. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27053 : Optimus Prime
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    'con' is a reserved device name. 'copy con somefilename' from a command prompt. : zakk
    • oh, before you get stuck: type a bunch of crap and then hit 'ctrl-z' to end it. note the contents of 'som... : zakk
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      Sheez, I feel sorry for people that want to login as 'con' on thier PC. :P : Optimus Prime
      • and Nigerians trying to get organized. : foo the feeble
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      con being short for console. On a related note, back in the day if you were super 'lite you talked to ... : s2jason
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        I used to dial that way sometimes - it was kind of like multi-tasking in the dos days - fire up the dial ... : abrasion
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          I remember Terminate v3 :( : johnsto
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            Terminate was the shit. Remember how it would make your keyboard caps/scroll/num lock lights flash in ... : s2jason
            • you can get a winamp plugin that flashes the numlock/capslock/scrollock leds in beat with the music : OrkO
• same thing back in the dos days copy con con BOOM doscrash : CoRDS

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  Thats odd, every other quake game was instantly loved by the hardcore crowds of the previous ones :) S... : scatti
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    well, while the trend you mentioned is true, i found out over the weekend when i played quake 1 and doom ... : kramweil
    • and i'm not a hardcore player either. : kramweil
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      Antec P-180 - Hands down slapped the shit out of the Lian-Li P-6070 in terms of cooling vs. quietness. Al... : LexLuther
      • motherfucker... : LexLuther
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    Seriously though, has there ever been a sequel where the hardcore people who played the original for *yea : tomservo
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      q3test rocked out in all those versions. so much fun when that new tourny level was released in the later... : kramweil
      • FFA's in that Tourney level were the SHIT. On nights where I was bored, I'd run around with nothing but m... : tomservo
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  Screenshots of New DM17 pls pls pls : tomservo
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    looks meh, and its hard to see people with the ugly ass star background : chrisxtreme
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      Ugh, a star background? Why did they do that? Screenshots pls pls pls : tomservo
      • Simmer down now. These have been posted already FYI. Like most of the other uncreative map names, this on... : chrisxtreme
• MP plays very much like Quake (3), I am not disappointed. I want larger maps however. I just checked them... : bargeld

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• Nope. : dmason
• Maybe with Office for Mac, probably not for the os only. : Optimus Prime
• Just download firefox and you'll be much happier. No, and it's terribly outdated and a piece of shit bes... : Hiro
• last version of IE for mac is 5.something updated years ago, you *really* dont want to use that browser :... : Sabaki

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  Is it bad that this picture really cracks me up? http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_ph... : Gauss
  • The guy on the right...looks like he is sucking on a used condom. : glimpse8

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  how does that pixel doubling thing work? : OrkO
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    I would think it would render 2 pixels where one should be - kind of effectively just being in a lower re... : abrasion
    • ...or 4 where one should be. (ie 320x240 doubled up to 640x480) : johnsto
• You know a game engine is having performance problems when they throw in scanline doubling. :P : bargeld

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• I want to see it pretty bad right now :( : nomaad