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  what happened to her? : red2lucas
  • http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=78213 : suicidemachine
• Yeah allegedly walked past a security guard and refused to stop after his repeated request. She of all p... : festivalman
• That's the only way liberals get votes. They play the race card and try to blame others for being racist... : kruel
• Jon Stewart tore into her last night, which was pretty funny. : deathofrats

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• Curious. What techniques did you apply to get those looking like that? : rand04
• #8 is freaking me out : electroly
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  About 2 minutes in photoshop a piece filter : timaste
  • Specifically cutting stuff up, layering stuff, hand coloring. Not sure how to really explain it. Was just... : timaste
• I like the coloring, very cool. I could do wo/ the distress effects. Except in 7, where it adds to the pi... : jake
• Cool, but all we want to know is HOW WAS THE GUM?!?!?! : VegasX

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• PGR3, come race me bitch : TastyWheat

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• Sell yourself to men in chinatown. : cerealSAM2
• you're in for quite a challenge.... :( : proclone1
• You want to learn Cantonese? Good luck. : Experiment IV
• the Pimsleur tapes and Rosetta Stone are a good place to start. Individually they are only so-so but if ... : PUPSTAHS
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  If you believe in reincarnation you could try killing yourself. There's a billion of those fuckers having... : gnoleb
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    fucking ouch, slightly racist comment here? : skitfish
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      There are over a billion of them and they do have kids, so where is the racism? : Totenjaeger
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        well i guess if the whole "there's a lot of 'em" thing is factual, then the "slight racism" is just in th... : skitfish
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          I'm an Irish Catholic... man we populated half the world, we're SUCH FUCKERS. omg racist. The PC brigade ... : rand04
          • sorry, it doesn't sound nearly as offensive if you're talking about yourself. You could say that you're i... : skitfish
        • I think it was used as a general term to mean people. As in those fuckers as opposed to these fuckers or : Totenjaeger
    • fucking ouch, your knee jerk hit my face >:[ : rand04
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  Not a lot of time and learning mandarin doesn't go together. It's hard as fuck. You need to invest yourse... : bargeld
  • i wouldn't say it's "hard as fuck"... if you want to become proficient in the spoken language it's defini... : PUPSTAHS
  • A friend of my gf's (very good at languages) did the Modern Chinese diploma course at SOAS in London. It'... : jcupitt
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  My wife tried Cantonese and man I didn't envy her. It's so different from how English is spoken. Highly i... : Fred Garvin
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    Why would anyone want to learn Cantonese...? It's harder to speak, harsher sounding, and spoken only by ... : PUPSTAHS
    • my girlfriend is malaysian and both her parents speak cantonese (she understands it but doesn't really sp... : erotic sock
• Sucky, sucky, ten dollah! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  i have a friend who would watch chinese movies w/ english subtitles OVER AND OVER AND OVER and she swears... : sexninja!!!!
  • Mandarin and Cantonese are no where near similar to each other, so knowing one doesn't really help with t... : Ecks

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  i can picture you having this arguement and getting all worked up about it. also, i agree with you. you p : kbnerd
  • Actually, I think I was trolled. 35 times Cobb stole home! Thats insane. 3035 games played 4191... : rosewood
• Jesus. His curveball was out of this world. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  They would both be dominated by the players of today. : mastarp
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    Absolutely wrong : HuggyBear
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      hahahaha no. : virus
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        If the great players from the early days of baseball were playing today they would have access to all the... : HuggyBear
        • Except....we dont own a time machine, so sadly, this will never happen. Wishful thinking tho! : mastarp
  • Sadly true. Overall the players today are significantly stronger and faster. Plus they're used to the l... : Zero|DPX
  • Never underestimate the power of steroids. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Babe Ruth would bang a prostitute in the clubhouse, smoke a black cuban cigar, come out and throw 3 Ks, g... : Experiment IV
• What is baseball? : TastyWheat
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  Babe Ruth? Come on... : ejectorpod
  • Make a case for anyone else and watch how silly it will look. : rosewood
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  Barry Bonds! Barry Bonds! Barry Bonds! : aavenr
  • ^^ obviously a sarcastic reply^^ : kbnerd
• babe ruth easy. look at what he did in his career and how long and in how many at bats it took him to do... : swoopx

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• hahah oh boy another one : abrasion
• Can't you just do laser hair removal? :) : GeorgeB3DR
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  dont do it. i bought myself an "expensive" set (not as much as yours though) and never ever have the ener... : Hoax
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    Yeah, I've never understood the appeal of manual shaving over electric for most purposes. The speed and ... : Zero|DPX
    • I shave with an electric then use a normal razor - it comes out smoother I'm sure of it. : abrasion
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      electric rips my face to shreds with a manual razor i never ever cut my face. : kbnerd
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        had the same problem with the braun patentetd system, mainly because of the vibration. thats why i used a... : Hoax
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          Yeah, electrics take a while before your skin is used to them, but after that, they should work nicely. : Zero|DPX
          • Mine still chews me up occasionally, but it works well most of the time : ColoradoCNC
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            also they don't shave close enough. i'm always still furry afterwards and not smooth. : kbnerd
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              Ah. To remedy that I simply take a lot more time with the shaver and go over areas repeatedly. Eventual... : Zero|DPX
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                well it shouldn't take 30+ min to shave my face with one to get it smooth. : kbnerd
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                  ! No, it generally takes me like 3 or 4 minutes. : Zero|DPX
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                    it takes me at least 20+ and even then i'm still "furry". : kbnerd
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                      Your electric razors = suck :( : Zero|DPX
                      • it takes me ~2 minutes to shave with a normal razor. : kbnerd
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                      Buy a better electric razor :) Your hair ain't that tough boy! : GeorgeB3DR
                      • i think my facial hair is fortified with barbed wire =-( : kbnerd
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                        i grow brillo pads out of my face : sexninja!!!!
                        • Yeah I know >:( : dognose
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      /signed. 1 min with electric. miss spots. fuck it. leave. : GeorgeB3DR
      • That's so totally not metro. : [7]kami
• holy shit, your razor cost more than my car! : Enraged Pineapple
• Hmm... I love classicshaving.com since their service is excellent, but I don't know much about straight r... : angrytaxman
• I hope "DX Special" means it'll suck your dick because there's no way a razor is worth that much otherwis... : nudel
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  Prepare to lose a lot of blood. Feathers are meant to be very sharp. I've had a DE safety razor with M... : cipherbob
  • That said, I'm really glad I'm shaving 'properly' now. Tried using a Braun, got lots of irritation. I the... : cipherbob
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  Why do you need a badger shaving brush? Is it some kind of hobby? : spdon
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    Badger hair is really absorbent. This is a good thing in a shaving brush. As you want your face to be as ... : cipherbob
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      oh i read that as badger shaving as in shaving badgers. Ive just woke up :( My dad has a badger hair t... : spdon
      • haha it does sound like an awesome hobby though! : cipherbob

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  I was gonna post this, you beat me to it :( : Zero|DPX
  • i'm a "First Post is up" posting machine! : kbnerd

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  With only a $15 difference, I'd just get the MS adaptor. Plug it in and you know it will work. Oh, jus... : johnny skidmarks
  • Headasplode. =( Too bad that fucker got bricked. : brickmatt
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    but the bridge can be used with other devices. Plug it into a hub and you can get your tivo, xbox, ps2, ... : Prozium
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      but the bridge requires a power adapter and messy cable shit behind the TV : abrasion
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        That's what I'm thinking. : brickmatt
        • If it was 50$ then fuck MS - but 15$ difference? screw it get the MS one. : abrasion
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  I bought the adapter, but I'm taking it back tommorow. I moved my 360 next to my PC, so it's like 1.5 ft ... : jcutner
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    I need some sort of adapter. Either the official one or a bridge. : brickmatt
    • You might as well get the official one then. It snaps on to the back of the xbox, you'd never even know i... : jcutner
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  I say go for the official adapter. It's expensive but it plugs in and configures easily you won't need an... : bargeld
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    Plus I can call MS for tech support if it freaks. I'll get an official one. : brickmatt
    • Do it. Mine works great. The only thing that would be nice if it could also be used on the PC. But there ... : bargeld
    • I agree, get the official one : red2lucas
  • Just out of curiousity though, I heard rumours ANY wireless USB adapter would work on the X360? I guess t... : abrasion
• http://www.buy.com/prod/Linksys_WGA11B_Wireless_B_Game_Adapter/q/loc/101/10351885.html I'm using this, w... : seanisdabomb

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  Carmack deserves everything he gets. He works astoundingly hard for everything, and started a movement t... : Ecks
  • i agree. i hope he buys anything that will let him branch out and invent more awesomeness. : virus
  • yeah, I've had some conversations (e-mails, not in person) with him, he really is a great down to earth g : BigT
• haha, he got it as a birthday present from his wife : OrkO
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  So does anyone know how much one of those things costs? : red2lucas
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    here is the price list: http://www.haascnc.com/VMC_PRICE_40IN.asp#VMCTreePrice : kbnerd
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      TLDR: ~$59,000. : Zero|DPX
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        that's carmack peanuts : moshman
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          Sounds like his wife makes good money though : red2lucas
          • yeah, she does. She used to work for id too : moshman
• man look at the tailpipe on that thing :D : dodob
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  OK I'll play the dumb guy. What the hell is that thing? : dodob
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    A computer-controlled mill. You use it to create metal objects. : Zero|DPX
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      can I make a huge metal cock with it? : dodob
      • we'll have to wait a few days to find out, John just barely got his present. : MikkleThePickle
      • Can someone? Yes. Can YOU? No. : Zero|DPX
    • Vinnie uses it to create bling for motorcycles! : ashkie

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  If you used the Blade of Artemis at all earlier, the last boss was a joke. : omnova
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    Nope. :[ Didn't use it at all. Didn't upgrade it until all my others were maxed out. It just didn't se... : theamazingrand0
    • It totally dominates crowds of weaker enemies and those damn dogs. : omnova
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  "I broke down and hit gamefaqs.com." man your a fuck-up of collossal proportions, why would you even adm... : mr.sleepy
  • just kidding i woulnt have ever beaten RE4 without gamefaqs also tetris attack puzzle mode : mr.sleepy
  • I love you. : ArtilleryMarker
  • ouch, man...just...ouch Gamefaqs is the greatest thing ever! I don't have time anymore to spend hours ... : theamazingrand0
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  I don't understand, I'm shit at most games and I didn't find it hard at all. : abrasion
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    I played on whatever hard was my first time through, and the second to last fight and the last fight fuck... : Gauss
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      TM:B? : Ecks
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        twisted metal: black : Gauss
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          the end boss in this game made me so angry. : kbnerd
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            I played the original Twisted Metal an insane amount with my brother. We used to play it so much that we... : Ecks
            • i played a lot of twisted metal 2 and really like black but the end boss is just too annoying. the other ... : kbnerd
• Point #2 annoyed me so much. The designers made excellent decisions at every point and they bone it up ri... : Serpico74
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  Ugh, don't say that shit about jumping puzzles, I haven't gotten there yet myself. At least the jumping p... : qwpeoriu
  • I'm of the opinion that God of War has approximately FOUR sections which are annoying, one of which is th : abrasion
• I loved hades :( : sKetchflow
• Totally agreed on those last two bits. It's a testament to the overall greatness of the game that the fil... : node
• fwiw, the designers have indicated that they're well aware that hell sucked ass, and they promised no mor... : Gauss
• Good luck on God mode. I spent hours working through it and got permanently stuck on the room right befo... : shabadoosa

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  WS? :( : dognose
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    Definitely no. Only audio though, nothing visual. : Ecks
    • i just watched it again. wtf. : burning eye
    • Excuse me, nothing visual other than text. : Ecks
• Shackers As Children, Part II : TastyWheat
• I knew what that had to mean before the video even started. : Zero|DPX
• That film is quite funny & the youngest child is an absolute riot, especially one of the end scenes. It a... : Afterglow
• uh... wut? : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• tell me more! link?? : feek
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  Did it cost $2.50? : nudel
  • per month : losimagic
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  Pics: http://tastywheat.shackspace.com/oblivion : TastyWheat
  • ¨ Cool stuff : MrLonghair
  • We wants it precious! : node
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  Where do you buy such a thing? The Nine needs to know. : baron calamity
  • You can't. Back when I worked as a salesman, it was given to me by a rep. : TastyWheat

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  probably because the d-pad on the PSP is horrible for fighting games. : ashkie
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    Yup, as much as I liked StreetFighter Alpha 3 Max (?), the controls remain horrible. It's hard to pull of... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • such a shame too. so many awesome 2d fighters that just cant have justice done to them, let alone any 3d ... : ashkie

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  Ok so we have six more episodes to go this season. Tomorrow night's episode is new, as is next week's. Th : hungry hero
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    oops some minor tag errors here and there :( : hungry hero
    • resisting temptations is so fun : Boxelder
  • jazzed about the last few episodes yeah, that's because it's got the two or three hours worth of PLOT tha... : rand04
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    All I can say is that they better answer some fucking questions. If they leave it all up in the air like ... : Fred Garvin
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      Well, they've confirmed that the following will be answered before the end of the season: What caused : hungry hero
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        so that's the main mystery from season 1 and the primary mystery of season 2 then? so 2 things, because r : rand04
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          there are coincidences, the connections happen because they are all destined to be on the island by fate. : hungry hero
          • there are NO coincidences rather. : hungry hero
          • and it's precisely that sort of bullshitty soap opera drama that got us all watching in the first place, : rand04
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      Fred. They answer questions and then present new ones. This is how LOST works. There will forever be ques... : ventro
      • That's not my point. You're just being obtuse on purpose. I'm talking about the big questions. : Fred Garvin
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    where did you get this stuff? : ventro
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      www.thefuselage.com/threaded found this link there http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Archive2006/... : hungry hero
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        can you link me to the thread? : ventro
        • http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=42613 would you like to see my cock too? : hungry hero
• nice, can't wait, as usual. : barichnikov
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  About the best show ever, really. : GeorgeB3DR
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    What about Battlestar Galactica, George?!?! : Rice-Rocketeer
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      That and 24, and Shield rock too, but LOST is special. So good. : GeorgeB3DR
      • yeah, and in five years people will be like: oh yeah THAT cocktease of a show a good analogy is the Ch... : rand04
    • that show rocked until i saw that guy/those guys in the background (http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=118 : skitfish

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• The average person has contempt for good entertainment, it veers too far from the comfortable formula the... : SpaecKow

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• What size? : ColoradoCNC
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  Wow that's way cool. I never had the balls to actually try it. So you plugged in the power and the data c... : angrytaxman
  • haha, same here, they may well be hot pluggable but I am not gonna try :) : moshman
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  pfft. I pulled out and plugged back in an ISA (not even PCI) network card into a PC several years ago wit... : Ariakus
  • i sent my last ISA cards out as part of my White Elephant =-) : kbnerd
  • Yeah, I fried the controller card of an Apple IIGS hard drive (this particular drive was a rare thing wit... : Zero|DPX
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  <insert joke here about hot plugging someone's mother> : nudel
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    I hot plugged your mum last night. She was already turned on when I stuck it in. : jcupitt
    • Oh man, why did I laugh at this? : Ecks

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  It would take a very long time to list all the bad parts of Jersey individually. Even listing the nice a... : Caboose
  • Are there any areas where an asian guy would get shot for looking at someone the wrong way? : ctlaltl33t
• Uhm...you can't really, realistically, itemize the good and bad parts of an entire state. You've gotta na... : maddy
• Stay away from Paterson and Camden. : yoonix

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  u all suck >:( : dognose
  • i don't have the pc version =-X : kbnerd
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  maxpayne's 8 hours of gameplay barely made a stamp in my memory... i've pretty much forgotten the entire ... : PUPSTAHS
  • I remember bullet-timing through a doorway (for the sake of it rather than because it was still fun or us... : nudel
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  I've never played either of the Max Paynes. Does that make me a bad person? : Ecks
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    It just makes you incomplete until you play 1 and then 2. But don't worry. Both should be in the barga... : PlanetPerfecto
    • You are very correct, and yeah Max 2 is $9.99 at Frys, and Max 1 is sold with Mafia in some discount comb... : dognose

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  Am I the only one sort of freaked out by the uber resolution photos? : soggybagel
  • not really. as hot as these women are sometimes semi-hq pics are just as good. : xsii
• * B A C K G R O U N D ' D * : spiffymc
• Zhang Ziy is so purdy. :) Thanks, as always. : notd665
• Zhang Ziyi is awesome. i mean they are all uber hot, but Ziyi knows martial arts. Oh yea. : broly1718
• Dayum, I always forget how cute RLC is...mmmm : Halen
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  arrr too high resolution for my desktop : spector
  • just crop the tits then : rand04
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  and wilmer fucked JLH... lucky bastard!! : El Tigre
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    Who the fuck is Wilmer? : notd665
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      fez! : t0ad
      • Haha, that's awesome. I like Fez. : notd665
  • She looks like a "7" in those pics. lol : ThomW
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    Who hasn't that dude fucked? I mean.. Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff, now JLH... who else did that bastar... : laidback
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      I he's been with Kirsten Dunst too then he's my hero. : inarius
      • *If : inarius
• Wow, those pics of JLH make me want to feed her... Some SAUSAGE! : Stoned Gargoyle
• Wait, premiere? Didn't this movie come out forever ago? Also, I'd fuck Ziyi so hard she'd know how to spe... : TastyWheat
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  Rachel Leigh Cook is like an anti-aliased Natalie Portman. THERE I SAID IT. Wha 'chu gonna do when the... : laidback
  • You're insane. : PlanetPerfecto
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  Anyone seen memoirs of a geisha(sp?)? : BigCooter
  • Do you guys say Ghee-sha? Cause I heard some Americain do so the other day and... I always thought it was... : dodob
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  JLH = needs more naked : ColoradoCNC
  • JLH is so hot :( : dodob

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• /weep : TastyWheat
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  I'm in. Tomorrow, 8pm PST. : Ajax
  • Is that similar to that time? I'm lazy and on the other side of this planet : TastyWheat

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• Paten law is one majorly whacked out law. : graceofdragons
• Probably the same way that things like Amazon's "One click purchase" and Photoshop's toolbars are granted... : s2jason
• Really stupid that you can patent things like that. Poor blockbuster :( : headbone
• I'm patenting putting a penis inside a vagina. I'll make millions... : ColoradoCNC
• They gonna sue greencine too? Fuck netflix, we quit using them when they started "throttling" us back, a... : dognose

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  Virtual Server lets you run and control several instances on one box. Comes with some nifty management to... : jake
  • Thanks. I use Virtual PC to test my software on different Windows flavors prior to release.... Would Virt... : MikkleThePickle
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  Nice. I'm surprised to see them go this far, even with VMWare basically having forced their hand. : Holesinswiss
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    right... didn't VMWare announce their server product would be free at the end of the year? : MikkleThePickle
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      Yeah, their server product is currently in beta and will be free when it's released. I guess their workst... : Holesinswiss
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        Disclaimer: I work for VMware. Anyway, some elaboration on all this: VMware Server will indeed be f... : Johnny Law
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          well how else would they market it? I'm sure they didn't make Virtual Server 2005 free just out of goodwi... : MikkleThePickle
          • Heh. I didn't have any different expectations, and it's not something that gets under my skin really... ... : Johnny Law
• Can I use this to try out Fedora Core 5? : dodob

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  Damn, missed it by two seconds... : Serpico74
  • Apr 5th, 2006 03:02:01 : OrkO
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  weirdo americans and your funny date notations : moshman
  • Wierdo europeans with your funny hats and monarchies ;) : ColoradoCNC

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  so no one's usinig google desktop around here? : xphil
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    Maybe a repost for the daywalkers would get you the answer you need. I've kept the indexer away from all... : Caboose
    • well i'm running gmail notifier simultaneously so maybe i'll have to disable email indexing overall. thx. : xphil

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  Yes and yes : nacatamale
  • Thanks, and which ones? Star wars have one? : paravis

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• that would make one hell of a pop-locking dancing robot! : Prozium
• I would guess self-replicating, self-repairing robots would be a use : zakk
• Perfect soundtrack: http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-22134/nmm/tetrisb.mid : aeg1x
• Only one use: To pull apart and place the exact distance required, only to have it rebuild itself. : Ratalon