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• ! : mikage
• If you are the real Orson Scott Card, answer this question... : carnivore
• I was ten at that time and my only memories of a 6502 based machine were of the Apple II, of which my fat... : Hiro
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  This is really cool or it's like dognose, genjuro, mr.sleepy, or askedrelic (but there was no gay joke). : orgcaptainnemo
  • For the latter, you should have made one out of principe. : Caboose
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  I loved my atari 800 because it had star raiders and the koala pad. I played the hell out of that thing : sigpro
  • I have the Koala Pad for my Commie 64. Cool little device from way back in the day. : FormerHPB
• Thanks for the comment! Yes, I was definitely pointing out irony more than anything else. I myself have... : Chris Remo
• Posting in this historic Orson Scott Card posted on the Shack! thread. : omnova
• Posting in this historic Orson Scott Card thread. : hobosapien
• famous shacker++; : alexthegreat2
• Oh snap, if this is real, you rule! : FPSDavid
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  I loved you in Citizen Kane. : Phil
  • !"#$!"#"$%"#$%"#$%#"$%"#$% BRAVO PHIL : r3dn3ck
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  It's the future now. : mittense
  • It sure is.... : IATEDUST
• I liked POKE and PEEK too. : hirez
• I wonder if this really was Mr. Card himself, or just some dude posing. I guess we'll never know.... : thetangent
• I am a traveler through time and space : lasercat

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• Yes, there's a large difference in quality between Pro Logic (analog) and Dolby Digital. FWIU, Pro Logic... : genom
• I'm so glad you made this post and I'll be bumping it for you tommorow. I've been meaning to ask exact... : abrasion
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  Hahaha. The difference between DD and analog optical is un-frickin-believable. Its hot, my man. Hot. : silent prophet
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    yah ac3 compression is very good... have you ever heard compression artifacts on DVDs before?? Nope cau... : Shadowdane
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      While AC3 is a good format, I wouldn't call 192kbit a very high bitrate. : bargeld
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        is that what the soundcard uses?? most DVDs are 384 to 448kbps : Shadowdane
        • Doh, you're right. : bargeld
        • 384 kpbs for 6 channels is roughly the same as 128 for 2 though... : Code RedBeard

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  just dont do what i did, when i bought the Treo 700w, and assume that my local area had EVDO broadband ac... : g0nk
  • Yeap, loaded with edge. : rosewood
• I want one. Unfortnately Canada is still in the dark ages as far as cells are concerned, especially my ca... : BaBOon
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  I so love my MDA. Got IRC, FTP, Shell, Shoutcast radio, EVERYTHING on there. : Maarten Goldstein
  • but does it cook you dinner? : g0nk
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    Aye, I have the Cingular variant (branded the Cingular 8125). It's good stuff. : Dechter
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      did you just walk into a store and pick it up or what? I'd read that it was only available to Cingular "... : digitalburro
      • I know for Tmobile you can ... if they have them. I parked outside at 8:55, walked to the door and wen... : rosewood
      • Yeah, bought it on Saturday. $450 out the door. $350 with a 1 year contract, $300 (or $250, can't remem... : Dechter
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    do they have UMTS/GPRS flatrates in the Netherlands now ? : rookieone
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      Yeah I pay e9.95 a month for unlimited data. : Maarten Goldstein
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        That'd cost you $60.00 in the US. : Hiro
        • Lol, try $30US I actually pay $3 US :) : rosewood
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  I'm still waiting for this to turn up here http://www.scancom.co.uk/product.php/1380/575//ccf255f9d714c... : chazums
  • After using the SDA for a bit, I dont think I want a phone designed to be a music player (especially usin... : rosewood
• There was an application for the PPC called "torch". It's just a white screen so the device acts like a l... : jake
• Didn't see this thread.. I just ordered mine. $350 with mail in rebate and 2 year contract, plus full war... : bozer
• i have the Verizon 6700 ... very similar and very awesome! : CRaY SV1
• So did you get it? Mini review please mr. rosewood sir : bozer

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• Talk to timaste. lol : ThomW
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11049100 That was the one... Hmm, sure sounded like they were wor... : paulatreus
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  I plead the 5th. Still working at 3am. That's dedication. : timaste
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    You should know that your fucking Marble Shit game caused me to stay up basically from Friday night until... : Chris Remo
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      lol, like you ever sleep. : drucifer
      • for a daywalker he is up awfully late at night most nights. : kbnerd
    • Haha fucking a Chris, I will give you exclusive at GDC if your there to pay u back? Shiit. :( : timaste

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  How much is it to buy it outright-- that is, no contract. The Cingular 8125 is $450, so I'd presume the ... : Dechter
  • Not sure. I just paid $400 with a 2 year contract. They gave me a $50 mail in rebate though, and I got 3 ... : bozer

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  I laughed so hard at this last night. : conandan
  • oh my god i did also. when i saw "lonely dark thats going and pulling" and " luleelurah" i couldnt breat... : broly1718
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  Like this? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3668741233914866176 : devi| dog
  • There is one more on his site as well if you missed it for an AFI song in WMV http://mathas.manburger.net... : devi| dog
  • Lou BEGA!! HA : conandan
  • Wow, I havn't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks :) : crummynz
  • I need to tell you something ............................ I like boys OMG I nearly had a heart attack ... : Ojalo1982
  • hahaha I like how both videos start out with the head-bob : tomservo
  • bwahahaha nice. : Normality
  • haahahahahahah! : Silent Wolf
• Drop A Whore !!!! !!!!! : PlanetPerfecto
• I was just thinking I needed to repost this.. it had been awhile ;D : TotalFusionOne
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  Yes, this. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8400730120188776481&q=gold+digger+parody : glio1337
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    Oh come on, this one is pretty damn good. : glio1337
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      you are mistaken. : g0nk
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        ^^ This last post is correct. : kek
        • =( I think its very well done. Plus we all know Jamie Foxx sounds like a white teenager when he sings. ki : glio1337
• oh man those are awesome. : deathofrats
• I hate fallout boy so much. They are just utter shit. : spdon

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  * * * 4 0 Y E A R O L D V I R G I N ' D * * * : FormerHPB
  • Hahahahaha : cookblaze
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  shooting star mihgt work www.foodogsoftware.com. My friend used it when he would do multiple aucitons at ... : sigpro
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    :( Downloads for Shooting Star are temporarily unavailable. We are in the process of modifying SS to u : g0nk
    • http://www.download.com/Shooting-Star/3000-6905_4-6955777.html?tag=pdp_prod : sigpro
• I hate dealing with the stupid people that ONE auction finds me with. I can't begin to comprehend the ter... : sharkII
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  star wars memorabilia? : -meeks-
  • nope, a bunch of Marvel Super hero and xmen figures a buddy of mine dropped in my lap.. they're taking up... : g0nk
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  star wars memorabilia? : -meeks-
  • god damn page. i hit the prl like 4 hours ago and forgot i had already posted : -meeks-

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  two words "AWE SOME"!!! : cjcharv
  • really? : Moonraker7
• good stuff : ochuxgoon
• Yep sounds good : Ziz

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• thats really fucked up sucks to be that guy : usnpandaat
• this reminds me of the "Save our pets" sticker on houses for some reason. Yea, I know you love fluffy ... : kanix
• "no policy for on-the-spot-billing" So my car and garage is ruined because of a policy loophole. Thanks! : kek
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  Maybe I'm dumb, but membership fees for what? Does the neighborhood charge a "membership fee" to those t... : jahulio2
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    The Fire Department charges a membership fee in lieu of existing via tax money is my interpretation. : kek
    • I think that's right.. Privatized fire department! : romulan
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  Sounds like it's a small, volunteer firefighting company that isn't supported by taxes and instead bills ... : Dechter
  • Don't think it's a question of it being legal. It's more of a question of it being moral? How do you thin... : Ziz
• Wasn't the first specialised fire brigade a Roman one? iirc the guy who ran it would actually haggle with... : 60days
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  What total fucking assholes! : Ziz
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    can i say that? is that ok? : Ziz
    • I would have said what total cocks but thats me. I think fucking assholes is on par. : rosewood
• Haha. Maybe that guy will pay his bills next time and not expect a handout. : [fry]

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• join by a key in the department table : mikecyb
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  You always want to join on a unique key, something that will never have a reason to change. If that means... : bording
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    based on this advice I would consider a numerical departmentid field. would that be correct? : Draugluin
    • yes, also is it possible that you system might need to be able to handle people belonging to multiple dep... : Str8Dog
    • Yeah, a departmentid that just assigned a number to each department could be used as a key, and then you ... : bording
  • you want something like Department(id, Name) User(id, name, whatever) WorksIn(Department.id, User.id : Geordish
  • Thanks to all of you, that confirms what I thought. I'm not looking to link peope to departments, but tes... : Dante

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• 7 billion yen? so he dropped a dime, and didn't bother to pick it up? : thekidd
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  just under 60 million dollars : usnpandaat
  • 59,108,000 : usnpandaat
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  http://cache.kotaku.com/gaming/DSPrintsMoney.jpg 7 billion yen is nothing : genjuro
  • hahahah I love that : askedrelic
  • I think my ds is defective :( : mikecyb
  • That reminds me of this pic: http://www.benheck.com/Articles/Eleventh%20Gamecube%20Sold.jpg : guido anchovy
  • Hahah... shouldn't it be printing Yen though? haha : Nullzero

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  Nintendo does have a weakness for doing things half-assed. : bargeld
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    I'd still be playing the wifi if it wasn't for this bullshit. As it stands, I pop it in every few weeks, ... : BaBOon
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      If you play with friends it's not a problem. : Pneum0
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        Don't even get me started on the friend's list matchmaking :'( : BaBOon
        • and yes, it does suck, but it works. : FormerHPB
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        exactly. I've only played with Shackers and it's been great. : FormerHPB
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          I'm thinking an MKDS Shackbattle might be the thing to do tonight... : essdub
          • I'd be up for this. Nothing is on TV until the Shield at 10! \m/ : FormerHPB
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            I'm down... If anyone disconnects I'm hunting them down though :/ : BaBOon
            • sometimes I get disconnected for no reason :( I've never quit on a race because I'm losing though : mikecyb
  • what : walker270
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  the greater your record ( like, having a record over .500) the harder it is to get people to play with yo... : thekidd
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    That actually wouldn't piss me off as much as playing an entire series, having one guy disconnect every r : BaBOon
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      WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR RECORD : gegtik
      • I enjoy having some quantitative feedback for my Mariokart asskickery, thank you very much. : BaBOon
      • it's the only way he can get off :( : Mr.SEX

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• heck you can even listen online http://www.kusc.org/streams.shtml : smacknca
• * C O R N O N T H E K A B O B ' D * : crummynz
• Had something similar happen last week when the local public radio station starting blasting the Raiders ... : sinistarfith

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  use .png's if you have to have text in an image : kevp
  • This is pre-save -- the canvas in Photoshop -- so the text would have the same result whether I saved it ... : Cognoscenti
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  It might be the beers I’ve had tonight but those look fine to me, and I’ve seen... : Big Luke
  • I'm on 1600x1200 so everything looks awesome, but everyone else around here typically uses 1024x768, if n... : Cognoscenti
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  Whcih font smoothing method are you using in PS? I use crisp, but you may want to mess around with them t... : glio1337
  • I've been trying all of them (save for "none", of course), each has a different set of results, clearing ... : Cognoscenti
• Try with GIMP? : Kenshin_

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• they are large and fast. wear a helmet and all that stuff. also buy me one : Mr.SEX
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  please tell me this isn't your first sportbike : digitalburro
  • Owed a couple of Magna's, including a 1984 v65. That is a very heavy and powerful bike. As a matter of fa... : mace

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  http://entity.shackspace.com/wait.swf : Entity
  • thank you! you are truly a gentleman. as a reward, here are some images you can add to your profile: h... : sikander

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• War Time. : g0nk
• Yeah I'd go with g0nk - I don't know of any prefix for current-tense. : blackhawk
• mid-war? sounds right to me... : MisterPhoton
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  war : carazy
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    What is it good for? : zuga
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      absolutly nothing : mikecyb
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        say it again : sevogajre
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          un huuuh : guido anchovy
          • war : punchdog
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  uh its just 'war' isnt it? prewar, war, postwar. you might say 'wartime' too. : grimiv
  • Yea, I'm going with wartime because 'war' doesn't work with what I'm writing. : zuga
• i think the lack of a prefix implies "during" : kill9
• it would be just war, because a prefix is meant to signify a time other than the understood here and now : usnpandaat
• inter? : bamb
• GWAR : Entity

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  I guess its not a good idea : LucyLuBot
  • everyone too busy implementing idea to comment on it : lacker
  • Good ideas never come this early in the morning. : askedrelic
  • I don't think you can pull it off. : bargeld
  • Yea it's a great idea. I don't know if it's enough to be a full-time job but it'd be something to do par... : TwiLyght
• That's not a bad idea at all. The two times I looked for apartments there was only info on the complexes... : slickdoody
• The problem is that there are a million sites out there like this. It is not a new idea, it's one that h... : Hiro
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  what are you talking about? there are hundreds of huge websites that do this already the only differen... : kevp
  • Where I am from in NH the only way people find apartments outside a complex is from 3 lines in a newspape... : LucyLuBot

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  Screw that unfair crap. Play Ninja Gaiden Black instead. : omnova
  • trying to one-up me. Well, I have EVERY powerup in the game now, except one...and it's worthless I think.... : rsustudent
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    Viewtiful Joe? Unfair? Compared to Ninja Gaiden Black? Haha. Hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... : sevogajre
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      I never thought about it, but yes, Viewtiful Joe is (imo) more unfair than Ninja Gaiden Black. Ninja Gaid... : Serpico74
      • I sold mine because I couldn't take it anymore. I would play a level and get stuck in one little spot an... : melkore
      • You OBVIOUSLY haven't played Ninja Gaiden Black on harder difficulties. It's cheapness puts Viewtiful ... : sevogajre
• That's what I did when, after dozens of failed tries, I passed the mirror version of Viewtiful Joe, advan... : drbriefs
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  All you need to know in that game is zoom+punch. If you're quick you can pretty much kill him before ... : zakk
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    zoom+slow+punch wins the game is actually easy once you learn the patterns and cheap tricks. : pyide
    • Oh right, I forgot slow. memory is fuzzy and I couldn't remember if zoom implied slow. It is also wort : zakk
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  finally killed the fucker. thank god. and now onto more stuff that'll take me 150 tries to beat :( : rsustudent
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    Just wait till you get to "The Magnificent Five" Spoiler: RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE : genjuro
    • I can't get past the third boss, so pisses me off. : stgdz

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  oh and i get my own office.. no more cubeland! : Str8Dog
  • Awesome! Congrats. die. : Caboose

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• *envy* : kbnerd
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  fx60 x1900xtx (although get an xt and save yourself some monies) : chazums
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    Any idea of the success rate of being able to clock these up to XTX levels? Anyone here done this? : blackhawk
    • I'd expect it's pretty good - there is only like 25MHz in it http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.as... : chazums
• more X's = more awesomeness : strandgeck
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  Dual cores are really nice, and games will be supporting them next generation. Although, if you're really... : wasylm
  • yeah exactly, you basically have no upgrade path with the fx-60. If you decide you want a new cpu later ... : pzilla

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• www.websudoku.com is my personal fave : kill9
• N has a very quick boss-mode that drops to a blank window, and you can alt+tab easily from there. www.ha... : Caboose

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• chicago in batman begins, lol : Valiant
• New York : sigpro
• A city of justice, a city of love A city of peace, for everyone of us We all need it, can't live withou : rosewood
• Metropolis = New York City during the day Gotham = New York City during the night : enigmatic
• metropolis is closer to jersey city while gotham is new york. goes back to the fact that new york city an... : creep
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  Gotham city is detroit. : Turd Ferguson
  • you will not insult gotham city like that >:( : creep
  • haha : genjuro
• they're both fictional cities, but they take bits from new york, chicago and boston I believe : mikecyb
• Both are on the east cost of the US, both are a major city in the Northeast, both are based on New York, ... : Dechter
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  boston is much cooler than baltimore and batman would be a sox fan so boston : usnpandaat
  • boston sucks : qwpeoriu
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28comics%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City : Omning

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  I just received Psychonauts in the mail today (from gogamer). I've got a ton of other games that have gon : Code RedBeard
  • i seriously feel like this game is worth far more then i paid for it. i'm thinking about picking up the S... : kbnerd
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  I'll buy it right after I finish Bloodlines and Colossus. : node
  • I sank at least 60 hours into Bloodlines. What a great game (even with the bugs.) : wild falcon
• Hahahahaha Shill to Shacker in the last sentence. : sevogajre
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  I've only played like 10 minutes of this game, I really need to play more. The voiceacting and artwor... : helvetica
  • what. good voice acting in a game? you get directly out of town for you are full of lies! : Mr.SEX
• I didn't really start to enjoy it as a game until Lungfishopolis that level plus the Milkman were pure aw... : mikecyb

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  wow! that sounds like a ton of work. : kbnerd
  • Woah, yeah, that's gonna be a crazy 24 hours. : node
• It sucks in the short term, cause I want to play...but hopefully the upgrades will help prevent the serve... : MisterPhoton
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  I just started playing yesterday and I'm in love. Are they any online guides for newbies that I should be... : PhoenixArisen
  • Not that I'm aware of. Best thing you can do it join a good corp, imo. : c0bra
  • There's some good info on the EVE forums. Threads about skill training, ships, mining, etc. : MisterPhoton
  • just read all the guide on the eve-online.com site, it's all really well written.. also has back stories ... : g0nk

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• Tonight's episode was one of the better ones of season 2. So good. : slax0r
• It is amazingly good. I love this show. I can't wait to see where they take it next. : Ecks
• Season 2 has only just started here. :( : Sacred Sperm
• Just saw the end... Sadly enough I knew this was going to happen LAST week when we saw the preview :\ It ... : TotalFusionOne
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  FACTOID: did you know that Hugh Laurie is a Brit? Educated at Cambridge, even. About the show, he just k... : MisterPhoton
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    He also did a voice for Family Guy, the episode "One if By Clam, Two if By Sea". : MisterPhoton
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      whoa. i did not know this! who was he in the ep? : protoman
      • I think he did the voice of the sniveling British dude, but I'm not 100% positive. (that was the episode ... : MisterPhoton
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    Of course you know this if you ever watched 'Jeeves' on PBS back in the day... : jrock
    • or blackadder... : verbatim
    • Or Stuart Little, the movie : MisterPhoton

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• Holy shit, what a nut job. : node
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  Check out those fonts on the next pages. That guy is romantic. : lacker
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    Atleast it's not comic sans L\:P : askedrelic
    • Get a job you hobo : rosewood
• Wow...He's prepared. : NFXFSX
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  reading that made me nauseous : industro
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    because you didn't think of it first? : mikecyb
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      no, because it's reminiscent of a serial killer's ramblings. that and he likes shaved bush.. i mean c'... : industro
      • :/ : mikecyb
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  I find this interesting, shit? : orgcaptainnemo
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    amended: SOMEONE SIGNED THIS?!?!?! : orgcaptainnemo
    • no she didnt : Maarten Goldstein
    • and does she have a sister?!?!?!?! : FormerHPB
• yeah um wtf are the pics of the wife plz : skinlab133
• So he wants a slave...and is obviously into BDSM. : glio1337
• That seems pretty reasonable. : KungFuKenobi

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• http://www.grsites.com/fonts/ : NFXFSX
• http://www.1001freefonts.com (use a popup blocker) : g0nk
• http://www.girlswhowearglasses.com/ drop down list on left : lacker
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  http://www.dafont.com : Big Luke
  • ^^^ My personal fav : essdub
• You get what you pay for. That said, I use dafont, and there are some good ones here: http://www.misprint... : helvetica
• www.acidfonts.com : glio1337

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• I live there, and have been there... /sigh : MisterPhoton
• T I T O R 'd : skitzo
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  Actually, I played pool there a couple weeks ago. And yeah, I'd say there's definitely drugs being sold o... : MisterPhoton
  • Irony, my GF is from there too but I turned her into a snobby FFX citizen over the last 4 years. no, n... : kanix
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    You work for the police, don't you?! ;) : carnivore
    • I'M WATCHING YOU : MisterPhoton
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    It was probably the cops inside men described in the article. : glio1337
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      Or, the crazy-ass people from MP think everyone's trying to get them, and won't look to themselves as the... : MisterPhoton
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        If they've been at fault, how is it that after all these investigations and stings and entrapments, they ... : Solar Jetman
        • Meh, I don't know. I just know that 99.9% of the people I've met that are products of the Park are fuckin... : MisterPhoton
• Damn, that is fucking scary. : smoking pets
• Ahh good ol' Manasas Park VA's Six Mile Road ;) : kanix
• I had a funny feeling this was all over a woman, sure enough...! : Athlon7
• I dont think ive ever heard a good thing about manassas... : rosewood
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  Wow, right in my back yard. You couldn't pay me to move to Manassas now. : Hiro
  • Manassas = alright, but not great Manassas Park = Fucking crazy : MisterPhoton
  • The difference in 15-20 miles is amazing with DC area. : kanix
• that's what happens when you live in a place called Manassas : mikecyb

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• I'm already there... Who else is in? : TotalFusionOne
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  We got three going on... Brickmatt seems to have pussied out : TotalFusionOne
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    My computer fucked up and then my daughter started crying :\ GG though guys! : TotalFusionOne
    • you left us undefended against brickmatt! ggs : lightly inclined
• :( I'm so tired, fellows. I need to play more...! : Rice-Rocketeer
• Good games guys! : brickmatt
• I was there earlier...anyone remember who I knifed? God that was awesome. : MisterPhoton