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• Samurai Champloo or Last Exile? Guess it depends on your girlfriend. : kenmis
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  Evangelion is too weird and complicated.. Something with good/cute animation, relationships and action. ... : Vantage
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    the last series i saw and liked was fullmetal alchemist. : pyide
    • does she prefer subtitles? or can she understand japanese? 'cause the english dubs for FMA are simply : pyide
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    FLCL :) oh wait, that would be wierd. : unlurker
    • wierd weird : unlurker
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      weirdly AWESOME. FLCL is so good. : eskimo spy
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        Oh, I agree. It is about relationships too. But, yeah, it's a bit out there. : unlurker
        • If you guys liked FLCL you might want to check out MindGame. : Kentor
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    Last Exile. : Vincent Grayson
    • your sky lacks freedom. : asdf
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  Azumanga Daioh : Enraged Pineapple
  • Winner, I always laugh while watching this : Rasnowl
  • I echo this as well. Very funny show. : deathofrats
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  Cowboy Bebop : Prozium
  • the fact that this wasnt the first thing mentioned makes me sad. : klearlyunseen
  • Best anime I've ever seen, and incredibly approachable. : sgtsanity
  • Definitely. Bebop is awesome. Trigun is pretty good too. : Arcanum
  • this man knows what's up : fugu124
• fruits basket is a fun anime. : reverend~heresy
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  do not watch anime with your girlfriend : mr.sleepy
  • ^^^ hates you for having a chinese girlfriend. : Experiment IV
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  La Blue Girl. EOT. : graceofdragons
  • yes : mr.sleepy
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  Anything from Studio Ghibli - Spirited Away, Nausicca (which I just watched and was AWESOME), etc .. only... : strider_
  • Studio Ghibli produces nothing but awesome. You forgot to recommend My Neighbor Totoro. And yes, only ... : Helter Skelter
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  Chinese and Japanese typically don't mix. : TimeServ
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    the days of imperialistic japanese is over :) the younger generation has gotten over it. atleast i have (... : reverend~heresy
    • Never get over it!! Nationalist pride forever! : soggybagel
• Slayers! : Zero|DPX
• Trigun!! : SirX
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  Urotsukidoji If it has to be commercially available, Genshiken, Fruits Basket, Azumanga Daioh, Ranma 1... : SiW73
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    What's Fruits Basket all aboot? : Vantage
    • A girl who discovers the secret of a family that turns into animals from the Chinese Zodiac. It's cute a... : SiW73
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      Fruits Basket is my favourite anime of all time. If you've seen and liked Tenchi Muyo, or Chobits, t... : kalyandra
      • ^^I'm just starting the 4th disc and highly recommend it. : Hello Kitty
  • Genshiken requires an inordinate amount of anime knowledge to be funny. : Kentor
• Immoral Sisters. : RatBastard
• why does it have to be anime? : RikiTiki2
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  Macross, classic : SolveChrist
  • this man speaks the truth... macross classic is the awesomes.... also if you can stand listening to th... : ssj4megaman
• I hate anime. I love Samurai Champloo. : NeoMoose
• I would suggest something humourous like: Azumanga Daioh Honey Clover School Rumble A more serious ... : Kentor
• I enjoyed both Samurai Champloo and Coyboy Bebop. You can too! : DM7
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  Bible Black : mourningstar
  • haha, enjoyment for everyone! : fart
• We've enjoyed Ruroni Kenshin, Fushigi Yugi (Mysterious Play), Crest of the Stars, Get Backers. Gokusen i... : Rhayne
• Grave Of The Fireflies. It is beautiful, amazing, and guaranteed to make you both cry like babies. : Serpico74
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  Anything w/tentacle penises is good : PlanetPerfecto
  • Agreed, can't have enough anal tenticle rape entertainment with the girlfriend : tunis5000
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  kareshi kanojo no mother fucking jijou :[ : My Documents
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    is that the one about the high school japanese girl? : Nullzero
    • It is a pretty good one, though. : Ebu
• Get way stoned and watch Akira! :O : dognose
• Excel Fucking Saga and Puni Puni Poemi : ghost in my shell
• Spawn - The Animated Series? : Judicator.Khas
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  "12 kingdoms" "12 kingdoms" "12 kingdoms" says my wife. she agrees on the Fruits Basket thing too. : hanfeitzu
  • It's surprising how many people have not seen 12 Kingdoms. : Kentor
• Serial Experiments: Lain : owly
• FULL METAL ALCHEMIST. One of my top 5 favorite shows of all time. Watch it subbed, please. The english... : Omning
• supernatural beast city : xocsida
• Gunslinger Girls : digitalburro
• Ranma 1/2 of course : flashmasta
• Escaflowne is one of my all time favorites, and you can't go wrong with any soundtrack composed by Yoko K... : WarhawK

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• I would watch this if my campus internet didn't suck argh : sgtsanity
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  Duh, right after I post I did a search on YouTube. Quality is crap but it's there also. http://youtube.co... : Serpico74
  • Awesome! Now I can watch the bouncing man-titties! : sgtsanity
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    Do you have any links to your other stuff laying around? I could probably do searches and stuff based ... : Ratsofatsorat
    • I've procrastinated on a portfolio website for over a year now. Launch.com and itunes are good places to ... : Serpico74
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  My firefox is just hanging when it tries to load :( : midgetherder
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    YouTube is better for FF. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LNLJfb6jQVk : Serpico74
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      Haha. That's hilarious. The setup in the beginning really pays off when you figure out what's going on.... : midgetherder
      • It was fun. A lot of work to do in two days, but it was fun. I really don't get to shoot something with t... : Serpico74
• Tremendously weird. The album's fucking great. Don't listen to it before going to bed though. Gave me ins... : Albemuth
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  It looks really good, you do great work :) : jessipoo
  • Thanks! :) : Serpico74
• Awesome!! Such a great, great video! : Athlon7
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  Nice, how'd you land that gig? : deathofrats
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    The same way everyone else lands their gigs in LA. : ayesel
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      Yup. Blowjobs. : Serpico74
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        This thread just got hot. : ayesel
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          ...and SPICY. : Rice-Rocketeer
          • not to mention SALTY... : deathofrats
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  Haha, that's awesome man. Must have been fun on set. : Ratsofatsorat
  • It fun and tiring. :) There was a lot to do in two days. : Serpico74
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  Nice. Saw this a few days ago when the Lips posted it on their MySpace. Interesting video concept, haha... : zuga
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    We played the look very dark and serious because the actual things happening in it are so ridiculous. It ... : Serpico74
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      Now that I think about it, shooting the scene with Wayne getting the meat stapled to him was extremely di... : Serpico74
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        Hahaha, I can imagine that'd be quite an experience. It definately doesn't come off as intense. It does... : zuga
        • It smelled like a slaughterhouse when they were putting the meat on him. Plus we shot them putting the wh... : Serpico74
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      Yeah, there sure were a lot of zooms :) It looks really good though. I like the visual juxtoposition go... : Wheatloaf
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        I had a second operator (almost everything was shot with 2 cameras) who is very athletic and could run a ... : Serpico74
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          I figured you'd have a couple of cameras... with a cutting pace that intense you'd have to shoot a retard... : Wheatloaf
          • It was shot in 16mm so we could leave the cameras rolling a long time, plus we were on zooms so we could ... : Serpico74
• Wayne Coyne is like freaking awesome... : mrfunky3000
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  This is very cool. Props, dude! I always wondered how the Flaming Lips guys were IRL... : Bean
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    They're very cool. I was a little bit worried beforehand that it might be weird because Wayne generally d... : Serpico74
    • Haha, that is awesome. I'm officially very jealous of you. : Bean
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  Awesome stuff dude. I really want to make shorts and music videos some day. : Fred Garvin
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    Thanks! You should mess around with the Panasonic 24 frame miniDV camera and an inexpensive NLE package (... : Serpico74
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      We should have a Shackfilm project. I can only imagine the award-winning material that would result, ... : Ratsofatsorat
      • The video was inspired by one of those "revolting" video links I first saw on the Shack! Wayne saw the Mo... : Serpico74
• I really liked the video.. that album sure is great. Cant wait to see them again live, been to long since... : gummijoh
• http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/stuff/bb-college-music.avi : zakk

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  Wouldn't it be pretty strange if they didn't release it for xbox 360? Anyway, this is first time I've ... : roggor
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    With EA publishing, I think it would be next to impossible not to release it on a console, in all likelih... : Chris Remo
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      This makes me very sad. Hopefully the next generation of consoles has mouse and keyboard-like-device s... : lord cecil
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        PS3 will supprt those, 360 won't. : Chris Remo
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          Bah. I dont want 'support' for a mouse, I want games to not be retardified which means it has to be built... : lord cecil
          • Well obviously that's not going to happen on a console, that's part of what makes it a console. : Chris Remo
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            So untrue. Many FPS' on consoles rock and aren't dumbed down, as people like to say. It's just a ridicu... : GeorgeB3DR
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              Right, a very real trend though, is that ports and PC/Console releases seem to have been frequently desig... : rasputinreborn
              • Neither do I. Chunkyass hud graphics, awkward player physics, weapons with fire rates that just don't fee... : SpaecKow
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                You can make an interface that works well on both platforms. Be glad games like Oblivion are pc and 360 s... : GeorgeB3DR
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                  Be glad games like Oblivion are pc and 360 simultaneous. It could always be 360 first and pc in 3-4 month : rasputinreborn
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                    Just telling you the realities of it :) Consoles are the #1 focus of all publishers. Very few will do p... : GeorgeB3DR
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                      Well I'll be damned if I'm gonna use a console controller for an FPS. They need to come up with a better... : rasputinreborn
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                        cheaper?! are you joking? for the amount of hardware you get in a 360, $400 is an absolute steal. you... : -Panther-
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                          I can buy a new box for less then 2000 australian dollars. It won't be cutting edge but it will play comp... : SpaecKow
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                            when I see people in the oblivion threads with AMD X2 4400, +2Gb of ram and Nvidia 7900GT's complain abou... : -Panther-
                            • Sigh, we'd really need to take in to account the comparative resolutions in use on either system at the l : rasputinreborn
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                            The point is, to equal the performance of a 360, you need a hell of a machine. You'd be spending at least... : Ratsofatsorat
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                              >>> The point is, to equal the performance of a 360, you need a hell of a machine. You'd be spending at l : SpaecKow
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                                Besides the fact that he's wrong on the cost. Way off. : rasputinreborn
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                                  You have absolutely nothing of substance behind that statement other than the instinctive reflex to justi... : Ratsofatsorat
                                  • Agreed, a comparable PC is definitely more expensive, especially at the beginning of a console's life. Th... : Bold
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                          What the hell? How on earth are you comparing the two? First off, you can't, since you can do a practic... : rasputinreborn
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                            We're not talking about other computing tasks. We're talking about playing games. And a $700 computer... : Ratsofatsorat
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                              You have absolutely nothing of substance behind that statement other than the instinctive reflex to justi... : rasputinreborn
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                                Yeah, not quite. My PC is more than capable of playing Oblivion. 3ghz, 6800GT, 2GB RAM. My friend ... : Ratsofatsorat
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                                  You were running at 1280 X 720 then huh. If not, than your anecdote is less than useful. : rasputinreborn
                                  • thanthen : rasputinreborn
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                                  That's wierd, my friend has a system inferior to yours, but it runs consistently. Lot of popup that is ve... : SpaecKow
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                                    Okay, if you want the game to look like crap, then yeah, it'll run fast. I'm playing at 1280x1024, about ... : Ratsofatsorat
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                                      Sure sure, I'm just saying there are tradeoffs. I already have a PC. It would play Oblivion quite well. : rasputinreborn
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                                        I totally understand your point of view. All I'm saying is, you can't really be surprised about that, bec... : Ratsofatsorat
                                        • Perhaps! Though Phantom's one good idea, the lapboard could be pretty damn cool. Ah well, who knows wha... : rasputinreborn
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                                        What are you trying to prove exactly here? I'm not saying that in a condescending or challenging way, tr : Chris Remo
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                                          they're not arguing anything. it became a pissing match after http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11901011 : -Panther-
                                          • Probably parting a system together that would run it better then the 360 for 700 bucks. if you shop at : ghost in my shell
                                          • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11901068 : rasputinreborn
                                        • Heh, well if you guys look at my post: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11900965 you would see I really... : rasputinreborn
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                                          This is the point: As consoles and PC's become more and more simular developers realise that they can... : SpaecKow
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                                            Addendum: I am hopeful that the release of Vista will make a positive impact on this situation. Micro... : SpaecKow
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                                              a new OS driving machine sales? are you sure you don't have that backwards? : -Panther-
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                                                No I don't. Under whose pressure and direction do you think the IBM/compat platform was made into a viabl... : SpaecKow
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                                                  oh, if you're talking tech then I don't disagree with you, I was under the impresssion that you meant tha... : -Panther-
                                                  • Well, a new OS in and of itself will not move units for Dell or whoever, but Microsoft are thinking of th... : SpaecKow
                                              • That's how it works man. It was always awesome for us retailers to have a new MS OS come out because the... : rasputinreborn
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                                            Well said Sir Kow. And to Remo: I have nothing against console gaming; I have a GCN, and want to get a R... : rasputinreborn
                                            • er, basically duplicates a PC's functionality wrt games. SpaecKow's hope for Vista to revitalize the P... : rasputinreborn
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                                              No of course, I wasn't implying you do. And likewise, I certainly have nothing against PC gaming. Belie... : Chris Remo
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                                                There is a staleness, but that's not becuase people are having no ideas, that is because there is a noose... : SpaecKow
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                                                  I know, that's what I mean when I say that problem would disappear if more developers returned to the PC ... : Chris Remo
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                                                    Oh, right, well the idea I think is to make PC the "indie" gaming platform, you know, like arthouse and i... : SpaecKow
                                                    • Fine with me, as long as it's not just Bejeweled clones or whatever. : Chris Remo
                                              • Yes, agreed completely. Piracy is a big check in the problematic column that won't go away with Vista, b... : rasputinreborn
                    • on this note, I do not blame developers for working on consoles at all. Should I be fortunate enough to o... : lord cecil
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                      One of the very first things to come out for oblivion, one of the very first mods that I think they call ... : SpaecKow
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                        I have oblivion for the PC and I can tell you, it's a quibbling matter. Is it obvious that the interface ... : -Panther-
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                          It's a great game, I played it and thought it was sweet, same thing for condemned, whose demo I played th... : SpaecKow
                          • It's the nature of the beast, a console controller is necessarily a less precise device than a mouse. Ho... : -Panther-
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                      On the good side, the consoles are sooooo powerful now, that you don't have to sacrifice anything really, : Mr.Fusion
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                        Well the silly thing about that argument is that yeah, PCs pass up next-gen consoles after a year, but wh... : Ratsofatsorat
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                          >>> Most of the PC's AAA titles are games that are designed to run on fairly substandard PCs. This is ... : SpaecKow
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                            I doubt very much Vista is going to save PC gaming from whatever niche it may or may not be falling into.... : Ratsofatsorat
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                              Well, before you sentence the Vista release as an unmitigated disaster... let it actually happen :P : SpaecKow
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                                Hey, I'm just telling you what the people who are actually working on it are saying. It's been a seriousl... : Ratsofatsorat
                                • As was every OS release Microsoft ever produced. Don't draw too many conclusions from that website you s... : rasputinreborn
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                                PS - that's the whole point, Vista is supposed to have a whole range of features that standardizes game u... : SpaecKow
                                • Hey, I won't judge it until it comes out. But I've yet to use a Microsoft OS that isn't riddled with bugs... : Ratsofatsorat
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                          Well I'm talking about new technologies opening up more opportunities for new gameplay. More and more, PC... : Mr.Fusion
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                            Sure, you're still going to have the odd PC game pushing the hardware forward, but we're speaking in gene... : Ratsofatsorat
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                              Yeah you do realise that this talk happens every time the PC is at the end of its cycle and people haven'... : SpaecKow
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                                I think it's different this time. For a number of reasons, but mostly because of the size of the video ga... : Ratsofatsorat
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                                  PCs aren't and never will directly compete with consoles. That would just be stupid. No, PC's are about c... : SpaecKow
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                                    PCs definitely do compete with consoles. There's a reason PC shelf space has declined, and console shelf ... : Ratsofatsorat
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                                      When you talk about console gamers and PC gamers you are NOT talking about the same people. : SpaecKow
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                                        Are you kidding? I think a TON of people here would describe themselves as both. And unfortunately, with ... : Ratsofatsorat
                                        • That's because you're on motherfucking shacknews. Frat fuckers love GTA, they don't play faggot compu... : SpaecKow
            • Good sir, I'm calling you and declaring bullshit! Console FPS's are a different type of gameplay, they... : lord cecil
            • Then tell me why everytime I play a console FPS it makes me go "yuck... meh"? It's very difficult to "acc... : SlamDunk
• this thread needs some left sided love : diddlyd