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• n00bcannon :) : d fluke
• best spray and pray gun in the game. : pupismyname
• lol at guy shooting 2 at once : byorn
• lol at dual wielding in that. : spdon
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  I'm sold, where do I buy one? How much would one cost BTW? We aren't even allowed cap guns in Aust. : red2lucas
  • You can buy a P90C (or whatever the Civilian version is destined to be called) in the USA within the year... : Enkidu
• thats pretty cool : Eat 347

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  dual core intel 15" powerbook sounds damn cool to me. : stuka
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    The rumor is just a 13.3" intel iBook. I hope they put a PCMCIA slot in this time. : yoonix
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      I think that would be a pretty sweet sized notebook. I just dont understand these people who want to lug ... : Degenerate
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        I have the 17" inch for music stuff, I can take it to the studio and record stuff and then work on it fur... : moshman
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          but its not for everyday lugging around right? Thats what I'm talking about. : Degenerate
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            There just isn't that much of a difference between the newer 17" laptops (powerbooks included) and the 15... : rosewood
            • my Thinkpad is a 14" model and sometimes I wish it was smaller. Those new Thinkpad tablets look super sex... : Degenerate
          • nah, but it's not too heavy either. I do carry it around a lot though. I also get your point :=) : moshman
      • I definitely want a smallish notebook. My 15" annoys the hell out of me. : yoonix
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        I just bought an awesome 17" laptop with an HD screen and an integrated GF7800GTX. It fucking rules, and ... : stuka
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          aren't all monitors and screens in the last 5 years HD? :) that terms is fucking everyone up : moshman
          • thats what i thought :) : disembodied potato
          • Not necessarily, no. I am writing on a screen that is definitely not HD: SXGA+ (1400x1050). My Dell LCD a... : stuka
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  i'm hoping for a new intel powerbook i know its not too likley but i'm desperate for a new apple laptop a... : disembodied potato
  • I agree w/ teh potatoe : epit
• new ipod shuffle or something probably at least it wouldnt surprise me : creep

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  LOL : cpt_gloval
  • *ahem* this time of year really limits your option, as like 75% of the fun stuff to do is outside sort of... : cpt_gloval

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  Doesn't look bad. Mazda isn't the same brand as it was 15 years ago so I'm not sure you should be that ex... : baron calamity
  • i went across the road to the local mazda dealer and had a look, its really nice inside and out, and a fr... : CoRDS
• not bad, but be sure they put the steering wheel on the correct side of the car before you buy it. : FormerHPB
• I love my mazda 3 sport. : kingdepork
• i wish I had the money to turbo my 3 : sigpro
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  They put the steering wheel on the wrong side...0_o.. : asylumn
  • .australia. : spdon
• I love mine. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mrwolf710/detail?.dir=6aaa&.dnm=f800re2.jpg Red am purty. : mrwolf710
• i liked the look of the p5 more than the 3 wagon. : cpt_gloval

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  you need to get laid : red2lucas
  • Well, i wouldn't be against that idea. : pimpium
• It took all of .00001 seconds to see that yes, this is wrong. : Sylvanus
• No : rabididiotchild
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  Whoa, when did google video add the download link and google video player? Tres cool. : askedrelic
  • today : ventro
• Its like being in prison on visitor day : Dread Pirate Roberts
• HEY MAN! THIS GET'S ME KINDA HOT! that's so fucking sad. but I'm not complaining. : Frosty3D
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  nws? : fsck
  • definitely .. i recommend you quit your job : strider_
  • No nudity but has an asian girl kissing and licking a piece of glass. : pimpium
• No. No it is not. : gireal
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  Depends on how old you are. the girl in that vid is what.. maybe 16? I watched 30% it and started to fe... : action roommate
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    you never can ages with them asians : sirkne
    • exactly. she could be 70 for all we know. : [fry]
• i guess she could always take up a career cleaning windows, but it'd take all day.. and it looks like you... : skitfish

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• FX-60 isn't fast enough for you? I get your point, but by the time I'm ready to upgrade again there wi... : Nixx2004
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  They will still have socket 939 motherboards. and besides, I am sure there will be another socket sometim... : moshman
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    motherboards processors : moshman
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      Sorry about PGR3, we had a spontaneous Halo 2 LAN-Party yesterday. I hope the others kicked your ass in m... : bargeld
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        haha no chance. You wanna play tonight? hijack : chazums
        • Sure, it's on! : bargeld
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          I did kick your ass, several hundred times ahahahahahahaha! : moshman
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            ^ban plz, he has speedhax : nomaad
            • you have suckhax!!!!!1 : moshman
      • hehe, no worries. But I did say I would insult you if you didn't join. Hence the message hrhrhr. I will ... : moshman
• If you wait long enough, something will always get replaced with something else. : carnivore
• Inevitable. I've got a D955XBK and it looks almost certain it won't support the desktop Pentium M goodnes... : node
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  Here's another news : AMD will release ANOTHER socket type after Socket-AM2, so you shouldn't get that ei : mnok
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    I know that. I just would hope a socket would last more that 18 months. : baron calamity
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      Well so do I actually, I *just* bought a socket939 mobo and CPU. But basically I stopped worrying about t... : mnok
      • When I build a system, I generally plan it so I can do one massive upgrade at around the 18 to 24 month t... : baron calamity
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        I knew about the new socket when I ordered socket 939 parts for my new build last week, but I did it anyw... : wasylm
        • Alright maybe not 1-2 years, but at least 6 months if not more. : wasylm

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• ^^^ consumer whore extraordinaire : bargeld
• ^^^ consumer whore extraordinaire : chazums
• ^^^ an extraordinairy consumer whore : felicia
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  aww you guys :) My old mp3 player died, that's why :( : moshman
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    I've got this Cucusoft Ipod Converter, which works well for what I've been using it for (tv eps). It cam... : jasonepowell
    • 320x240 btw. It's supposed to be able to support up to 640x480, but I probably wouldn't recommend it. : jasonepowell
    • thanks! : moshman
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  Why, the donkeylicking shiteater encoder! :) : Maddog_Delphi97
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    I always suspected some software was powered by poop. : bargeld
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      the shack certainly is : moshman
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        This town needs an enema! : Experiment IV
        • well sTeve doesn't post much anymore so I 'spose that could count lolololo : moshman
• ^^^ an extraordinairy whore which consumes : ShadowRam
• imTOO for the convert : beastrabban

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• Well i got the silver package and it did come with half-life source. I'm not sure what the platinum pack... : Fish_Bulb

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• are they actually going to redo all the resources this time or will it be like hl1:s :/ : mikecyb
• I think it's only supposed to add the shiny DLR lighting thing or whatever. No new models. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  With Team Fortress ever, ever, ever get some source lovin? : baron calamity
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    that would be nice... I really don't like playing it in the HL1 engine :/ : mikecyb
    • I actually don't care but just because of a source release, it would bring in more servers and players fo... : baron calamity
    • that did kind of weird me out when i tried it a few days ago. : pupismyname
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      i prefer setting the team focus on new games like hl3, aftermath and this tf2 developed in dreamy wonderl... : lonestar3
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        But I want to play some TF now, not in 2011 or when the fuck ever Valve get around to it. : baron calamity
        • well, keep an eye on team fortress forever. : lonestar3

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• that's just fucking wrong, if you got laid off, you can grab some un-employment while you're looking. : Matto357
• is your previous place of employment trying to save some money? : kbnerd
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  Why did they fire you? : losimagic
  • My boss decided to piss off our biggest client and blow $50,000 annually out of his buisness. : hodapp1234
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  Did you get fired or laid off? There's a big difference when it comes to collecting unemployment. : ezanga
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    I was Laid off. How long do you have to work at a place to collect Unemployment? : hodapp1234
    • It varies by state (as unemployment programs are state run). You should immediatly go to your states une... : ezanga
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  So ask yourself - What were the events between the raise and getting fired? COLOMBO ON THE CASE! : mystifier
  • Night putting . . . putting at night . . . . with the Dean's daughter. : ezanga

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  are you serious? bigger than? smaller than? : moshman
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    Some programming languages use <> for "not equal to" : action roommate
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      Yeah, VB uses that doesn't it? He just meant them used individually though : moshman
      • and delphi : lonestar3
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      Also >> means "a lot bigger than." : helvetica
      • no that's the binary shift right operator >:( : mikecyb
  • my Thing > moshmans Thing : 69shots
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    lol no I know what they mean, I just thought it meant something special when you put the two together lik... : SpaecKow
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      ah sorry, put together they mean "not equal to" in some programming languages, like Visual Basic. In C a... : moshman
      • Ahhh, ok that's the answer I was looking for. Fank yew vary much. : SpaecKow
    • This is why you NEVER make a bad programming joke. You deserve all the backlash! : bargeld
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      I always wrote 'not equal to' as != dont rememebr what lanugage that is.. might be turing... : ShadowRam
      • that java, C and C++ (probably lots of others too) : moshman
• dude, you're 18! didn't they go over that in school down there in Aussie land? It's the greater than an... : FormerHPB
• Dogs > Cats = Dogs greater than cats : Degenerate
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  Do you specifically mean what does "<>" mean? : rosewood
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    can't be because there is no "<>" in the actual context he is talking about. So he means greater than or ... : 69shots
    • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11427893 : rosewood
• Whichever "thing" is on the side of the opening, is better than the "thing" on the side of the point. : PowerofA
• this is better than that > that is better than this < Hope that makes sense to ya : xpogox
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  My schooling > yours : kgargonmagrix79
  • hahaha : FormerHPB
• wow you guys are fast : xpogox
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  <> would mean "less than or greater than" : jrock
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    I've never heard that before :) : moshman
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      I'm talking out of my butt, maybe that's why. :D : jrock
      • you farted in our general direction? :( : moshman
  • I think more often <> means "not equal to". VB, VB Script, SQL Script and Delphi (object Pascal) accept ... : ezanga
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  * > this thread : jcutner
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    I'm sorry it doesn't meet with your high quality standards :( : SpaecKow
    • haha, no it's okay, i just wanted to say it. CRAZY DELICIOUS : jcutner

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• frame them : OrkO
• Well I have a signed Destroy All Humans poster!!!!!!!! .............Wanna trade? : Drewus
• nice, i totally want that NFSMW one :) : jrock
• The NSF one is cool, but the burnout one is really too much of an ad, wouldn't make a good poster. : barichnikov

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  Why? : freshyk
  • why not? : dopefish
  • I guess growing up he was always kind of a hero. I loved his stature and the composure in which he held h... : Silent Wolf
• I liked him in Gray Lady Down : pimpium
• so do i :( http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3887/bollox9xk.jpg : Prototype
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  Can wheelchair bound people have one night stands? : mr.sleepy
  • One night? They can't stand period! : megarust32
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  Son of Jor-El! Wneel before Zod! : nacatamale
  • This one episode of Project Runway had a guy that looked incredibly like General Zod, with the outfit and... : sgtsanity
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    I am Jor-El, Master of Scheduling! : Ride-My-Rocket
    • three big bags of trash! : stamps
• Yeah I miss him just kinda sitting there. : kingdepork
• what u throw? : chazums

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  flashback/another world are my favourite games ever. : stamps
  • definetly in my top 5 :) : disembodied potato

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  I'd suggest memtest or something. You can have a flaky memory stick and have it only act up rarely. If yo... : Simulacrum
  • and this was after replacing the PSU, CPU, and Video Card. So dang frustrating. : Simulacrum
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  http://www.memtest86.com/ in my experience, randomness like that might very well be ram, run this prog... : strider_
  • also, you'll want to make sure your pc is set up to show blue screens instead of just rebooting automatic... : strider_
• memtest. if that doesnt turn anything up i would probably look at your power supply. : pimpium
• It's probably bluescreening and you're not seeing it. You've got to turn the reboot on BSOD option off so... : Ajax
• go to the System Properties (Start+Break keyboard shortcut) -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery Settings ... : haccess
• is auto reboot off? : crazywigga
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  i just got a reboot blue screen. it said the usual crap and then at the bottom, the error code was: S... : FrayLo
  • Its not Firefox. You have a problem elsewhere in your system. Run memtest. Let it do an extensive test an... : pimpium
  • a lot of times the bluescreen will also show an offending file, like nv_disp.dll or something .. keep an ... : strider_
  • Read These http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=137539 : Chod
• Make sure all of your fans are working properly as well. Just incase your power supply is freaking out, ... : tsuba
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  memtest ran for almost 3 hours and there were no faults. should i let it run all night? :( : FrayLo
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    what you need to do is to try your parts in another system. Its could be a suspect video card, motherboar... : boomstickah
    • not that i know of. i have a new video card sitting here that i haven't installed yet. i'll put it in s... : FrayLo
• probably your PSU flaking out : johnny skidmarks
• Is it an Athlon 64? Possibly an X2? If so, I know what wrong. : mojoald
• memory or motherboard. Had leaky capacitators on old Abit BH6 that caused random reboots. Same with a bad... : madclown
• install anything new in the last month? New sound card or video card? Could be something as simple as a d... : BenMurphy
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  try a better powersupply. i had similar problems and a quality PS fixed it. : feek
  • i have a quality power supply, it's an antec. : FrayLo
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  Bookmarked. Memtest test memory and RAM . : Ride-My-Rocket
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11427082 : FrayLo
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  Power Supply is screwed.. this JUST happened to my old man's machine.. replaced it last night.. works fi... : ShadowRam
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    Also sounds like because the PS has been hard-booting your machine your installation has been corrupted..... : ShadowRam
    • and this would cause random reboots? how can you be so sure? : FrayLo
• what type of system is it? Are the capacitors on the mobo still good? : sigpro
• try changing drivers to different versions. audio etc.. : SlamDunk
• I've been having similar problems - hard freezes instead of reboots, though. The system will be rock... : stamps

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• starcraft time! : radula
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  Comedy gold. : Nixx2004
  • is farming for comedy gold a popular thing? : CoRDS
• use this time to heal your social life, like stop your gf from leaving or your wife from filing a divorce : sanchez
• Do you never shack on Tuesdays? That's all you hear about. I don't have WoW and I know this! : FormerHPB
• I'll be sad if they put those damn pandas in the game. : Experiment IV

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  a nice, I can pick up another Halo2 since my collectors edition refuses to be read by my 360 :( : moshman
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    really? I've had no trouble with mine. : chazums
    • yeah, it loads the game but when I try to start a level it tells me the disc is damaged :( fuckcunt :( : moshman

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• Interview question #1: How do you pronounce Linux? How do you pronounce *nix? What part of the coun : fusionrx
• Actually the only real question you need to ask is if they are a shacker or not. : Matto357
• If you are an Austin shacker looking for Unix administration work, PM me your resume, and I'll see what I... : CrustaR

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  Not to crap on your deal, but if you can handle spam, they have 2year magazine subscriptions every now an... : dopeman
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    Careful w/ the free subscriptions, b/c my room is piling up with free FHM/egm/gamepro/etc mags... pain in... : DooBall
    • I wish they did deals like this in the UK, I guess we're just not a large enough market :( : losimagic
    • heh yeah i have like 15 free subscriptions now i barely poop enough to read them all. :P : [fry]

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• great music player. I have a 30 GB here; really thin, great screen, video looks good (though I've only t... : Postal
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  I love my 60gb iPod video. battery life sucks.. but hey, it's an iPod. : beastrabban
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    I just ordered one today. When you say battery life sucks, how bad does it suck? : freshyk
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      video you are going to get 2-3 hours on a 30gb and 4-5 on a 60gb. for audio its the normal 24ish hours. : Qapf
      • what he said. however, decrease the time if you decide to fast forward or rewind through your video clip... : beastrabban
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        is there a power brick or anything you can get for it like the PSP? Of course 5 hours will probably hold... : rhythm
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          http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=M9837LL/A : beastrabban
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            ah sweet, already got one with my first generation, before this crazy "dock connector" mumbo jumbo. : rhythm
            • cool. it should work without a problem. I got the dock and the power connector with my 3rd gen iPod 20g... : beastrabban
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  Quite honestly, my Treo 650 kicks iPod video's ass in terms of video playing and management, unless you w... : stuka
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    can you hook the Treo up to a TV and playback the video? how's the quality? (not being a wise-ass.. I'm... : beastrabban
    • Nope, can't do that. Not that I would want to... I have a media center for that. : stuka
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    Well, I have both, and you would have to try really hard to be more wrong. : sharpie
    • Really. Just tell me if you're an iTunes / IMS whore and I'll inmediately understand. Otherwise, please e... : stuka
• A dude at work has one and I was blown away by how good the screen actually looked with video playing. ma... : timaste
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  If you just want it for video then a USB cable and a 1gig memory card is a lot cheaper than a video iPod : nudel
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    well i need it for both, my current iPod is fucked. how does the PSP fare as your main mp3 player? : rhythm
    • I used it when my mp3 player died. It works well aside from being too big. Good sound. They are releasin... : moshman
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    ^^^ LISTEN TO THIS MAN! SRSLY, for video, the PSP is tough to beat with that amazing screen. : FormerHPB
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      it's also huge : empathe
      • but if I wanted a portable video player, PSP > iPod video. it's like 3 ipod video screens together, with... : FormerHPB
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  Love mine. This is the only video you'll ever need to have on it, though: http://robpongi.com/pages/co... : My Documents
  • I'm going to have nightmares now, thanks. : Boxelder
  • words can't describe what i'm feeling right now : Enraged Pineapple
  • That's awesome. She is awesome. : mr.sleepy
  • I imagine they drilled that girl like bootcamp to get her to do all that. Plus, North Korea sucks tot : SpaecKow
• my freaking Ipods harddrive died there goes 753 tracks of enjoyment, as well as whatever money I'm gon... : usnpandaat
• PSP Widescreen > iPod Squarescreen. : jcutner

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• Wow. That is fucking gay. : PlanetPerfecto
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  Looking at this will probably influence me to me punch myself in the face, so, I'm not going to click the... : mr.sleepy
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    I just looked at it. Gonna punch myself in the face now : mr.sleepy
    • why don't just punch the lifesize fatal1ty cardboard cutout you have in your room huh???? :) : moshman
• ... That influenced me to punch mr.sleepy in the face... : maddy
• I have the VF700 which is the non LED, non uber gay version of that one and it works great. I'm sure that... : angrytaxman
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  His fan might be rather ghey, but the man's Abit motherboard sure is good. : Drewus
  • My bad, it was the picture/slogan that was ghey, not the fan. : Drewus
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  what a fucking tool. : -meeks-
  • jealousy's a motherf&%k! : mystifier
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  lol fatality is such a cunt. A rich cunt, but a cunt nonetheless. : xocsida
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    Its pathetic that he gets a bad rap for this. Nobody gives it a second thought when sportsmen/sportswom... : ThrillKill
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      most sports ppls dont look like they have a cock halfway down their throats : CoRDS
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        *shrug* I disagree, they almost always do, but that's not the point - if there were more gamers with name... : ThrillKill
        • no really look at the pic, its like he has a huge cock in this throat : CoRDS
    • I think the difference is sportsmen/sportswomen don't do things most of us also do. I.e., NASCAR (few can... : Schnapple
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    Have you ever met him? He seemed like a nice guy to me *shrug* : blackhawk
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      I worked with him at Stomped. We sponsored him for awhile and he came to our LAN center launch in Minneso... : essdub
      • Wow, hadn't heard about that place in awhile. I went and played there a half-dozen times or so. : zyklonbee
• "Stay Cool" OMG YEARBOOKS! NEVAR CHANGE! : Slowtreme
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  I am laughing like a little girl at all the jealous haters in this thread. Jesus get a fucking life inst... : moshman
  • IAWTP. Homeboy might look goofy as hell, but he's getting paid for something he loves which most people ... : Poor Yurik
• Oh no. Zalman, say it ain't so. : Wiseblood79
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  props to him for getting paid and marketing himself well and all that, but come on! do we have to elevat... : mikecyb
  • wouldn't you have to be really bad at picking your nose to do that?? :) : moshman
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  I dont understand why everyone is giving him so much crap about this. If I was in his shoes I would endo... : c_man_tmt
  • Even he should be able to see that "Keep Cool" is a lame slogan. Fine endorse products but you've got to... : chazums
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  I have seen the top of the mountain...and it is gay. : Saman
  • A brokeback mountain? : -efx-

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• my grandfather after my grandmother died. : moshman
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  I'm bitter about bitter people. : felicia
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    that's okay you hand out smiles here on a regular basis so that makes up for it. also, when is the next i... : kbnerd
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      Late at night some time. Ha! I'll host music in the morning and isketch at night. : felicia
      • sounds like a party : kbnerd
• I've met young people like that. I've given up on friends who seem to exist only to suck the fun and life... : Chunks

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  DAMNIT I was hoping no one thought about that before I got my account :\ : TotalFusionOne
  • Well get to it, they are both still available. The "locke.newsvine.com" domain is taken by some guy name... : riptyde
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  I registered to tell people about computer games and penises. : SpaecKow
  • (not appropriate content for "locke" or "demosthenes", therefore I am excused) : SpaecKow
• betcha shadowknight or shadowdemon was taken : crust
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  What about "Wintermute," "Uatu," or "Otacon?" : algernoN8
  • Otacon would be awesome. : kbnerd
• I STILL haven't recieved a invite... maagic@gmail.com I'd make my email blink if I could : Lynn Minmei

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• http://www.dandeacon.com/music/music.html "Ohio" off of the cd "Twacky Cats". : Poor Yurik

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  Put your new 2gbs worth in 1 and 2, and if you really must, put the other memory in 3 and 4. : sasowa
  • IAWTP. I'd guess that the slots are pairs e.g. dual channel so 1&2 are 1 channel and 3&4 are the other... : chazums

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• YAY! : NFXFSX
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  Thirteen and a half hours for The Shield with Forrest Whitaker! : yoonix
  • God, The Shield pwns me and my fiancee. I needed to get a lot of work done last night, but all we could : Ride-My-Rocket