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• Somebody dropped some bloody transparencies :[ : electroly
• apparently they bleed onto paper towels!! someone's gotta clean up the blood >:( : Xhost
• nVidia, now with bloody napkin rendering. : drucifer
• I am the broken alpha and the omega texture. : AcesnEights
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  nVidia, now with 'Michael Jackson Lite Up Sidewalks' : drucifer
  • ... this isn't helping. : NeoMoose
  • Billy Jean is not ma luva...she's juss a girl who thinks that I am the one... WHOOO! : drucifer
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  oh you bastard, now i want to play ut!!! : infiltrator`
  • yeah, maybe that was the real purpose of the post : delataur
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  I went back to the 77.77 drivers for my 6600GT just because I've always come across some issue thats anno... : johnny skidmarks
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    Is it really that bad? I love my 7600 GT but this is ridiculous. : NeoMoose
    • The issues I have usually arent fatal, but are annoying. An odd one concerns any of the 80+ series driver... : johnny skidmarks
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  nVidia drivers have steadily gone down in quality. At this point I'd say ATi drivers aer superior to anyt... : 5150Joker
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    As a developer, I disagree. I run an X1800XT and a 7900 GTX in my work box, and I find far more annoying... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • I'd have to agree. : Nihilist
    • As an end user I have more problems with my nVidia drivers using my 7900 GTX than I do ATi drivers for my... : 5150Joker
  • As an end user, I agree. : johnny skidmarks
• Instant CSI : TastyWheat
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  The squares are decals. Wherever blood splats you will see these squares, although you're not supposed to... : trelain
  • I know this. I have this issue in several games though. UT, The Sims 2, Quake 4, etc. : NeoMoose

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• On the file properties, I find the dialog really useful, select one file or some and hit command (apple k... : ErneX
• i really should try out a macbook one of these days : jono181
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  This is a good finder alternative. Not free though http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1... : bolus
  • ^^^ This is what I use : ariakaz
  • This is qualitay : cdbeckman
• I've promised myself that I'm not upgrading my PC again and will be saving that money for a macbook pro. ... : Omning
• finder -> preferences, you can change the size of icons. : j0nchan
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  Yeah Finder really can't compare to regular old Explorer in terms of speed and customization. Also file ... : spazzium
  • The worst part is that OS9's Finder wiped the floor with Explorer, and they pretty much fucked everything... : electroly
• I like to read posts like this. I mean there are pros and cons to every system. People like hating just c... : boomstickah
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  If you think the screen res isnt enough, imagine that us on only laptops got even less :(. Thats always ... : smacknca
  • only=older damn im having issues tonight : smacknca
• Oh, one other thing, Apple Remote Desktop 3 is like a gift from god for IT Departments. : mojoald
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  I find it very interesting that the iLife apps are no more stable than a Windows system. Every mac zealot... : basketofkittens
  • I use all Macs and I'll be the first to tell you iDVD is the crashiest bitch I've ever used. I wanted to... : electroly
  • iPhoto and iTunes are fine, and those are what I use the most : Postal
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    Safari crashes very often. : adev
    • Should be using Camino anyway. ;-) : coldfusioncs
  • They are a basing it off the old stereotypes from the Windows 95/98 days. I can't recall the last time X... : riptyde
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  There seems to be some appreciablely supported conjecture that x86 macs haven't quite gotten to the stabi... : Toraz Chryx
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    I've definitely experienced a number of issues firsthand. I've managed to fuck up Rosetta on my machine ... : electroly
    • Well, certainly rosetta issues are going to be x86 specific :p : Toraz Chryx

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  You need to buy backgrounds. It's in some weird colored mushroom house. That's where you spend every st... : Ecks
  • Thanks Ecks.... Frustratingly enough, I did get all of the backgrounds and even have an "All spent" icon ... : drcomp

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  You are a Shack legend, you review freak. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I want to be him! : SpaecKow
• So when are you going to pursue a paying job doing this? : Serpico74
• dude i dig your reviews , but damn your leggs must be like shriveled up. :) I bought tomb raider off you... : karlk79
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  Did you like it? Inquiring minds... : GeorgeB3DR
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    He did. http://www.shacknews.com/reviews/review.x?r=1&gid=3005&id=3060 : Chris Remo
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      He should write for Gamespot. : GeorgeB3DR
      • Is than an insult? : xjdrake32
      • So Gamespot is Daily Planet type good? :) : Optimus Prime
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        looking at Gamespot's review it was a bit more critical than maseem's. I really have no idea how to inter... : p4ck3tloss
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          Masem's review was better and higher quality. : GeorgeB3DR
          • higher quality than gamespot isnt hard to achieve :o : xjdrake32
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      He should write for shacknews full time, seriously. Would go a long way in keeping shack content constant... : mikage
      • Very true. : ColoradoCNC
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      One nit I've mentioned may be the easiness of the game (and there's no additional difficulty levels you c... : Smellsy
      • Would have been better italicised : Smellsy
      • Aha, apparently there is - with absolutely no mention of it in the manual or as a result of completing si... : Masem
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    Geese George, it is almost like you have a personal involvement in the game... : Cottc Cid
    • What has a goose ever done to george?? : moshman
    • I want a golden goose that lays gold eggs for Easter. : Ride-My-Rocket
• I call this prey screenshot patchwork: the guy that wouldn't die http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2238... : AbortedFetusChristi

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• I could swear that thursday section was not there like 5 mins ago *slaps IE* right, ill move this to FP. : scottythejock

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  i think energon is the sequel to armada and was done before cybertron : RikiTiki2
  • ah ok thanks, yeah started watchin cybertron, not too bad, just not knowing what's going on etc, was glad... : Ziz

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  YES. you better show up this time! I also have Settlers of Catan which is a pretty awesome board game... ... : wtf242
  • Well shit, I have a small case if someone has an LCD. I am ready! And i'll be there, because if not y... : EvilDolemite
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  I'm debating... I do have a 360 I could bring though. : sharkII
  • Debating huh...well I know you live out in the sticks :) But it might be worth the drive. I'll promis... : EvilDolemite
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    that is a pretty far drive for you! : wtf242
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      But really, it's not that bad. What, like 30 minutes with no traffic? 60 with I would like to see him... : EvilDolemite
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        well, I work at Lamar & Airport (or on BeeCaves depending on the day) so the drive could be neglible. ... : sharkII
        • Awesome. I hope to see you. : EvilDolemite
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          Bee Caves is so close to my work. we should do lunch someday. I always goto that indian place on beecaves... : wtf242
          • Freebirds rules. The first week I was here I got a Large or Super or whatever burrito from there thinkin... : EvilDolemite
          • Next time I'm at the Bee Caves office I'll let you know :) : sharkII
• "meat" : spazzium

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  just watched the stand? : lacker
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    or maximum overdrive : dodob
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      or Dreamcatcher : DOOManiac
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        of all the things wrong with Dreamcatcher I think special effects would be the fucking last : qwpeoriu
        • i like how it compressed like 10 steven king movies into one pile of crap : ColoradoCNC
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          the effects on it were pretty good until the end why do stephen king movies end with shitty cgi monsters : dodob
          • I think he is saying that the movie comes nowhere close to the book. : skitzo
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    Whatever is on TNT right now. A man and woman in a barren city then a portal opens and animals and people... : Hello Kitty
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      Nightmares and Dreamscapes, a television series of sort. They're all a bunch of Steven King short stories... : xjdrake32
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        Battleground was pretty cool. : NFXFSX
        • Yes it was! I'd been dying for that to be made into a movie for a long time. : trOmblyj
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  Stephen King stories are ridiculously hard to portray on any other medium other than paper. And maybe aud... : draconic
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    Hearing the audiobook of one of the stories from Everything's Eventual scared me badly on the way home fr : carrioN luggagE
    • Yeah, that story was pretty fucking creepy. His short stories are always the best. Generally I like the... : timmie
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    Stand by Me. : unlurker
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      The Shawshank Redemption interestingly enough, both of those are from the same book, "Different Season : timmie
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        along with Apt Pupil. : sludge vohaul
        • Yeah, "Different Seasons" is a fantastic book, definitely one of my favourites. : timmie
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    I saw Dreamcatcher, holy shit was that movie fucked up and it started so normally! :( It's the anal sn : abrasion
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      lol shitweasels : carrioN luggagE
      • i just lol'd and everyone at work wondered wtf for. : abrasion
  • They may be, but there are a ridiculous number of films based on his works. By ridiculous, I really mean ... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • I think he just has terrible taste when it comes to the screen. It seems like the less he is involved in ... : Ben Barker
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  If you've seen The Langoliers you know bad special effects. : soggybagel
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    Ahahhaaa...that was a strange movie. : Morphius
    • I really liked it, the while premise of being stuck out of time where things are being cleaned up is cool : Smellsy
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  The one thing I thought transitioned well was The Shining. Oddly enough it was the only movie stephen ki... : skitzo
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    IT was really good also. : skitzo
    • They shoulda also do Insomnia, Shouldn't be to hard to transition. : skitzo
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      Oh fuck no. I have never gone to the circus ever, after seeing that movie, and I never will. : Bean
      • Shower drains freaked me out for a while after seeing it. so I stopped taking showers : xjdrake32
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    Didn't Kubrick change the film a bunch from what the story was? : dopeman
    • Yes, but such is the case for many great adaptations. : Chris Remo
• Yeah, you need a big budget to produce a good King movie... which sadly has never happened. : greh kleh

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  any heart rate monitor can do this... they're pretty cheap too. Sports stores usually sell them. : aeg1x
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    I don't want the number on the device though, I specifically want it on a text file for example - or at l... : abrasion
    • Closest thing so far http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Pulse-PC-Heart-Rate-Monitor-Software-PC-Receiver_W0QQitemZ200... : abrasion
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  go for a run : lacker
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    I can't play War 3 while running? : abrasion
    • treadmill. : kbnerd
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  i'm getting a polar F4. it logs whatever you want, then you can send to the pc software, graph it, expor... : radula
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    I just read up on the polar models and they sounded like the couldn't work with normal .TXT or CSV? just ... : abrasion
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      maybe. why would you want .txt for anyway? writing your own graph program? : radula
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        Well no, I just want to put it into excel or even a visual animated graph - it'd be so fun to watch a rep... : abrasion
        • i saw the software running, my workmate is training for iron-man. and its pretty sweet. graphs and every... : radula
        • synch it up with an APM chart so you can see when combat occured and see your heart's response to it. Wou... : xjdrake32
  • I just bought the Polar F4 for my recent trip south. http://www.polarusa.com/products/fseries/f4.asp?cat=... : LexLuther

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  it sounds so wrong when you put it that way : electroly
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    lol what should i say? : GameBrink
    • Bitches, gimme ma porn. : drbriefs
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  i have a few. i had to take the hannah ones down, though. they used up 2tb in a month. : pupismyname
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    do you still have that mp3 one? : lacker
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      i'm not sure which one you're talking about. : pupismyname
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        some topless woman dancing with headphones : lacker
        • ah, that was a good one. i don't seem to have it anymore. : pupismyname

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• You can play stuff just fine in lower resolutions. It's not as ideal as a CRT in that respect, but it's ... : DinK

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  how do you hold them if you devil the white? and have you stopped to think that might be why you didn't... : CrimsonHandHiro
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    maybe if I served them like swedish meatballs... : drucifer
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      I was going to suggest serving with a ping pong paddle but I guess that will work too. : CrimsonHandHiro
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        ping pong paddles would make fine serving instruments as long as you don't use the sandpaper kind. : kbnerd
        • you guys are silly. : drucifer

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• they must be hemmoraging moneys : CoRDS
• Charge $1500 each and call it "the luxury gaming solution for a new generation". The best part is, some... : ColoradoCNC
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  The PS3 is big enough...just put a 360 in there, with a PS3 sticker. : GeorgeB3DR
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    i'm not sure that would help the 360s cooling issues though. : kbnerd
    • Toss in liquid cooling, $999. Ship it. : GeorgeB3DR
  • full hardware xbox360 and wii emulation. I'm calling it. : -Panther-
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  I'm well over 80% convinced now that Sony will come last if not go broke in the next console war - seriou... : abrasion
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    lies, its like the turtle with a supercharger it doesnt know how to use until the last minute. : radula
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      I never knew you're a Sony fanboy? :) Honestly, just read _all_ the Sony news for the past 24 months, ... : abrasion
      • i'm just impressed they made hardware no-one can code for. new uni courses pls! : radula
• holyshit, that interview is insane. : burning eye
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  20 - 40% is pretty typical for a new production line isn't it? You only get the 90% rates with an establi... : jcupitt
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    The Cell processor has been discussed, theorised and all that hoo-ha for SERIOUSLY 4 or 5 years, I would ... : abrasion
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      First cell silicon was 2004. But running a large production line is not the same as making a few dozen pr... : jcupitt
      • Still that's 2.5 years ago,...... : abrasion
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    Where the hell are you hearing 30% yields on AMD stuff? morelike 80%+ It seems to only be IBM that hav... : Toraz Chryx
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      I thought amd/ibm use (almost) the same SOI process. The 30% was for the start of a production line, of c... : jcupitt
      • No, at 90nm there are strong similarities, but they were largely developed separately... for 65nm th... : Toraz Chryx
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  Sony should bunk 3 PowerPC chips in there - ala 360 - release the PS3 saying "Cell is brilliant, we're br... : johnsto
  • It's funny because Cell is basically MASSIVE OVERSIMPLIFICATION WARNING one of the cores from the 360 wit... : Toraz Chryx
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  Does it really hurt Sony that much? Cell's low yield is IBM's problem, not Sony's. : suruwek
  • and IBM won't pass the cost on? : abrasion
  • Sony buy all the chips not just the ones that work. It's the only way the buisness can work, IBM won't ma... : fen boi

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  nope :( But the DOOM 3 reference was hilarious : moshman
  • "Its too dark, I'm doomed" : Hoax
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    But did they have to build the entire game around the reference? :/ : bargeld
    • haha : dmason
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  i hope its in there. i love finding the dopefish : CoRDS
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    Did you know that George doesn't allow these things in games? They always have to sneak it in somehow. SO... : SpaecKow
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      wtf? ever played duke nukem 3d? : physio
      • Many, many times. : SpaecKow
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        Anyway, I just remember reading on the dopefish website that there was going to be an actual Dopefish in ... : SpaecKow
        • :argh: georgeb3dr! : liqker
        • ah, by these things I thought you meant easter eggs and references to other games/films etc, didn't reali... : physio

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• it's a great game... I finally beat it a few months ago after taking a 4 year break from it:) : MikkleThePickle
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  heh i did that last month was fun : CoRDS
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    wanna game? non TFT : abrasion
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      realm? : radula
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        west - username is hamlover : abrasion
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          FUCK. I just uninstalled it 5 minutes ago because no one wanted to play RoC. =[ : lightly inclined
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            TFT can lick my gonads, RoC was always better I'm in channel "shack" : abrasion
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              updating, be there in a tic. : radula
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                anyone else is welcome to join RoC WC3 on USWEST, channel shack - pref .AU people of course since the lat... : abrasion
                • Won a few, then total and utter rape :( : abrasion

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  could someone check if they have the option? plz : -TKF-
  • I can't find it anywhere. Their FAQ seems to suggest it's available. I think I saw a link to it via Picas... : SilverSnake

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• How so? : nomaad

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  i dunno if i should open this page just before i go to sleep... : jcutner
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    meh i dont mind it. i remember when i first found the link to that "news" article and i printed a fuckton... : jcutner
    • I put one up on a black board back at UMD as well, hehe. Also one of the bull mauling the midget matad... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Isn't that the music that goes along with being at a save point/safe area? Many times playing it I was th... : BrodieMan
• Is this from the first Resident Evil? I don't quite recognize it... But it's good. :) And that article... : SilverSnake

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• Psycolon >:( : dodob

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• sounds like some sort of peanut butter-based torture mechanism. definitely not ever used in the US. : electroly
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  neither of those are commonly used. : kbnerd
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    Could you guess what it means without looking it up? First association that pops up in your mind. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      nope. i had to look it up. there was no association what so ever. : kbnerd
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        So nothing like "Zeitgeist", "Gesundheit" or "über" or something like that? Ok, thanks. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          these words do not associate at all with the original ones you posted ( in my mind). : kbnerd
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            No, I meant those are more commonly used in America, I thought. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              gesundheit is pretty rare, and only geeks say über in the US. : electroly
              • gesundheit isn't rare. it is uncommon but everyone recognizes it. Uber is common parlance at this point ... : kbnerd
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              and nobody said zeitgeist until google used it : electroly
              • Nah, now that I don't believe at all. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I once saw a sopranos episode where someone used "fingerspitzengefühl". now that was strange : JohnnyDanger
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    That's quite interesting. In what sense? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • that someone has the fingerspitzengefühl to get the job done : JohnnyDanger
• Depends probably on the location. given the fact that there were many immigrants throughout the American ... : Hoax

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• And installing win 95 is much harder than I thought it would be :( http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/... : Optimus Prime
• I wish Microsoft would make Windows 3.1 freely available like Apple does with System 7.5. I get nostalgi... : electroly

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  Link? : InfoBiter
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    Don't tell me you haven't heard of it? http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/wingmanmouse/ : paravis
    • NM. I already have an mx1000 =( : InfoBiter
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  try ebay. Some anachronistic quakeworld players might want it for cheap. otherwise i don't see a reason t... : Hoax
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    it is, without a doubt the best mouse shape ever released. I'd pay 300$ US for that mouse, with a good... : abrasion
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      nah the shape was good for quakeworld and quake2 but anything other than gaming was and is a pain if you ... : Hoax
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        I detest most mice made nowadays - they are fuckoff stupid big because big is "cool" - what the shit? suc... : abrasion
        • My favorite mouse of all time, logitech first mouse (I think) has its laser equalivant coming out in a c... : paravis

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• Linux does Ntfs these days. Reiserfs+Ntfs or Fat32 if you want for some reason. Worked out for me. : Hoax
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  Use http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm in windows and just use the linux partition. : strandgeck
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    actually, http://www.fs-driver.org/ sorry : strandgeck
    • wicked! it's that install-linux time of the year again! : dodob
• I don't use my linux install for anything more than sniffing wireless - so the NTFS D: (windows) is fine... : abrasion

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  I concur 100%. I loved it. : airrob
  • I can't say the same It appealed to the wrong audience I liked it, but it didn't live up to the first. : InfoBiter
• Havent seen it yet, but this is funny regardless . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBly9_mci90&search=pira... : skitzo
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  most of the comments i see love the movie so i'm not sure there's a shackhate buzz going : Maarten Goldstein
  • There definately is a bit of a small shackhate brigade for the movie, why I don't know considering it's p : abrasion
• I loved it, it was one of the best Summer blockbuster movies I've ever seen. I just got carried along wit... : peanut-

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• do you mean ask a ninja? : tacocat
• ask a gangsta. : paravis
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  http://indie.peekvid.com/s2172/ : strandgeck
  • It is actually pretty good. : Cottc Cid
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  I've never heard of Ask a Pirate. But hopefully it exists, that would kick arse. : thecray
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    you mean, kick arrrrrrrrrrrrse : jcutner
    • aye lad. that's exactly what I meant. : thecray
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  what a ripoff of ask a ninja : ki11_viru5
  • Yeah. Still hella funny, so who cares. : bundy
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  I found it: http://www.axapirate.com/, no thanks to you fuckers. Plus, I got laid minutes after finding : Normality
  • Very Very meh : larcho

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• Raise Ventrilo's CPU priority. : mathyou

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• Happy Birthday. Nice age to be. Is it going to be a mean river? : lacker
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  Congratulations on successfully not dying for another 365 consecutive days, and best wishes on not ending... : Bean
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    I'm not quite sure if thats nice or not . . . : InfoBiter
    • That's the reaction I was going for. : Bean
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  You fuckers were supposed to just wish me happy bday!!! Fuck you all, I thought I was regular enough here... : InfoBiter
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    Who the fuck are you? : Jumperus
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      Fuck you. You don't shack enough. I'm FP and ER material. : InfoBiter
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        Bah. I'm drunk, that's reason enough (thank god for the new FireFox spellcheck eh?). : InfoBiter
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          Get 1900 more posts and then talk to me about shacking enough, b-cuz POST COUNT == EPEEN SIZE AMIRITE?? ... : Jumperus
          • =) It equals we have given up our traditional life to the point that we know what is going on. : InfoBiter
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    Happy Birthday! Where are you going rafting? : mmt681
    • South Carolina. They have a few class 5's on the boat I'm on. : InfoBiter
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    calm down punchey. No reason to get pissy. : sigpro
    • I'm not pissy at all, I'm just drunk and I have to be functional in an hour. : InfoBiter
• happy birfday : ki11_viru5
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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12481805 happy birthday : ColoradoCNC
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    =( I know you : InfoBiter
    • \_(O_O)_/ i'm a smartass : ColoradoCNC
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  Happy pop-out-of-YOUR-MUM-day. : DingoStoleMyBaby
  • I don't remember that, and I'm glad for it (god damn I'm typing slow since this spell check in FireFox Be... : InfoBiter
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  Someone post something new in exactly in 16 minutes from now so I can get in the shower and get ready for : InfoBiter
  • The shack fails at getting me ready for shit. : InfoBiter