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  There are only three Alien movies. Alien is the best of them all. Keep in mind it is 1979 when it was ... : tomservo
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    What about Alien Resurrection? : dltrem
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      There are only three Alien movies. : tomservo
      • *clap* : Gauss
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        But I..I remember I saw it in the theatre. I...I think have the DVD right over here. Yeah, Alien: Ressure... : ayesel
        • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9924140 : tomservo
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          My mom took me to see Aliens in the theatre when I was 9. God bless her. : riptyde
          • my dad made me watch aliens with him while i was home sick one day from school when i was 6. that movi... : ^-SeaWolf-^
      • AVP lol. : abrasion
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  Alien reveals the monster in a much better manner, while Aliens throws them at you in violence. I love b... : dopeman
  • 2 is great because it's totally different. While I prefer 1, 2 is great fun in a lot of ways. I think it ... : tomservo
• Alien's is the best chick flick ever. Woman in a powerful position, that everyone does and should root f... : tsuba
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  Alien was a much better sci-fi movie than Aliens, which was a better ass kicking movie. They are virtu : Lunatic Angelic
  • Also, might I add for when you are done: http://www.angryalien.com/0704/alienbunnies.html :D : Lunatic Angelic
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  Two different types of movie. People like to debate about which is better, but I think Alien (horror/sus... : riptyde
  • ^^Sums it up well. I personally prefer Aliens, since it does both action and a little horror/suspense, b... : Arcanum
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  Weaver sweating in a tank top with a fucking flame thrower. :) : ghost hacker
  • A young Weaver sweating in a tanktop. That's key. More on topic, I like Alien because I like horror m : Enkidu
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  Alien is definitely my favorite. The other three feel more like action flicks whereas Alien is most defin... : ayesel
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    Apparently I don't like old sci-fi then. Dude is being lowered down on the rope and Im about to fall asl : rosewood
    • Dude, watch. Yes it takes forever for something to happen but it is so good. : Serpico74
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      It definitely moves slow. I remember it being so quiet. : megarust32
      • I love the pace of the film. Right from the beginning it lulls me into a trance. : Serpico74
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      For christs sakes Rosewood, would you show a movie some goddamned respect. IF you're going to enjoy a ... : abrasion
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        Because I can multi task. Sorry if you can't. : rosewood
        • Put down the computer and watch the goddamn movie, jesus. : Serpico74
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          It's got NOTHING to do with multi-tasking, do movie reviewers write notes, call their friends on their mo... : abrasion
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            Im not reviewing the god damned movie. Im just ... watching it. 5 monitors here, trust me ... I've le... : rosewood
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              No, you're NOT watching it, you're watching the fucking shack. Fuck this you're going to make me angry... : abrasion
              • Good god. : rosewood
            • Uh, yeah, but when you're shacking, you're not getting into the atmosphere of the movie. : Arcanum
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              then you're missing the movie's innuendo. movies aren't about guts and glory, with filler. A good movie... : vaniah
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                lol : rosewood
                • avoid Kubrick, stick to National Lampoon's : vaniah
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              You're losing the entire atmosphere of the movie if you're not diverting all of your attention to it. ... : Anti_dentite
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                Seriously. The mood and pacing of the film are so important and you're ruining it. : Serpico74
                • How do you know if I am ruining the pacing and the mood if I am enjoying it? I just jumped that the chea... : rosewood
              • ^^^ Only way to watch Alien right here folks : TastyWheat
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                720p rip, 80" screen, DD sound and a handy laptop. Im getting the atmosphere. Ooh ... dark ... scary. : rosewood
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                  Oh wait, something happened on one of my five computer monitors. Hmm nothing's happened in this movie fo... : forgottenzero
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                    Did I say that? No. You people are a bunch of Luddites OMG HE IS DOING MORE THEN ONE THING THEN WAT... : rosewood
                    • Besides, spaceballs ruined any suspense that scene would have for me : rosewood
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                      I hope your wife starts knitting during sex, after all it's just multi-tasking. : abrasion
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                        Sex doesn't last this long, isn't as dark and isn't nearly as quiet. Next thing you are going to tell me... : rosewood
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                          Alien is ok I guess but it's necessary so you can enjoy Aliens. : dognose
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                            I like beer. : yosemiteclimber
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                              AND pie. : yosemiteclimber
                              • MMMmmm, beerpie. : dognose
                          • But now I know why Ripley didn't like Bishop : rosewood
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                          Congratulations on your troll, you're 1/5'th of the way to sleepy status and 1/10'th of the way to klerck... : abrasion
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                            Lol, you trolled yourself. All I am doing is watching a movie. : rosewood
                            • COUNTER-TROLLED. : brickmatt
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                      Do you talk on your cell phone, eat, and drive at the same time too? Because apparantly your brain is so... : forgottenzero
                      • Yes I do. I've only killed 3 children and rear ended 5 small euro trash cars too. : rosewood
            • I've watched movies on my monitor while surfing the net, and I've watched them on my (not much larger TV)... : aethyr
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              It's like you willfully kick me in the balls every 4 months or so. : tomservo
              • Just enough time for the scar tissue to form : rosewood
            • On one of my friends 21st birthday, I gave him a bottle of grey goose vodka. When we weren't looking, hi... : Karnov
          • No, because I'd hunt them down and kill them : TastyWheat
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  Alien = horror; Aliens = Action; Alien3 = thriller. : cerealSAM2
  • Alien4 = French : TastyWheat
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  The reason I like Alien better than Aliens is because Alien is one of the best horror movies I've seen, w... : Zero|DPX
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    I dunno, I've always felt like Aliens was far superior to T2 in virtually every way. Pretty much every... : Vincent Grayson
    • Well, either way, James Cameron needs to get off his pile of money and make some more fucking action film... : riptyde
• That deleted scene, where Ripley finds Dallas all coccooned up still creeps me out...when she first climb : freezejeans
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  Aliens has better quotes, it wins. : tree8
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    Game over, man! Game over! : weaselmeister
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      Right, right. Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up! : Mondo
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        How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit? : weaselmeister
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          "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" "No, have you?" : Arcanum
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            They mostly come out at night. Mostly. : weaselmeister
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              stop yer grinnin and drop yer linen : riptyde
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                "Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." My personal favorite. :D : Arcanum
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                  A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm.... : TastyWheat
                  • Shackers in the Raleigh, NC area. From the 20th to the 23rd (next week) i will be forced to visting my : SirX
• Because Alien captures the claustrophobia of outer space in the midst of the entire conflict with the ali... : wunderbred
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  Can you play CS:S and watch this? I want to play some CS:S. : brickmatt
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    In about 2 minutes im going to start playing some yuri's revenge with my cousin as I finish up the movie. : rosewood
    • :( : wunderbred
    • so you're going to give him an STD instead of playing CS:S? Wow, yoou've sunk to a whole new low :( : yosemiteclimber
    • Needs more CS:S, yo. Although much respect for the C&C oldschoolness. : brickmatt

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  I liked when people played with weapons-stay. Forced you to play a little defense if you wanted to keep ... : riptyde
  • But with weapons non-stay, you could run "the pattern" and shut everyone else out by catching the top not... : lont
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  Duke Nukem 3D, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, & Descent II : nacatamale
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    ST 25'th anniv was actually a good ST game iirc right? : abrasion
    • Yes it was! An enjoyable adventure game. It had the original cast and had appearance from characters li... : spazzium
  • Those are exactly the same games I was playing too.... : zipper76
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  It's cliche to say I played on that server, but given the size of the community, I think everyone here fr... : Gauss
  • Apparently, Team Fortress was originally a Quake 1 mod!?!?! : stuka
  • Thunderwalker was OK. I didn't like some of the sniper modifications. : spazzium
• NetQuake TF on my high school's LAN. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  I'm not exactly sure, but probably the Quake demo. Either that, or I was still suffering with the 286 my... : Arcanum
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    Actually, the game had just been released less than a month ago, so my family was still using their 286. ... : Arcanum
    • I was in the same boat, our ibm ps/1 was pretty terrible, it had trouble with wolfenstein 3d, and couldn'... : belal
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  10 Years ago? As in pre-quake? Probably lots and lots of adventure games. Star Trek 25th, Space Quest,... : spazzium
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    HELP!! I can't remember the name of a game. It involved a Taxi that you could arm with weapons. Your fa... : spazzium
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      Quarantine One of my favorites. : Cyntax
      • THANK YOU. GOD I LOVED THAT GAME. Man... spent so many hours pasting fares I didn't like. Jesus that ... : spazzium
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  Reaperbot. Constantly. I don't think I slept at all during 1996. : TastyWheat
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    the reaper guy is the one who did the ai for unreal, am I right? : deceiver
    • Yes, the Skaarj kicked ass back in the day. : SpaecKow
• Descent II and Ascendancy, which was sort of the Galactic Civilizations of its time. : freezejeans
• QWTF on Gorebag's. Best fucking times ever. : stygian_whisper
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  quake.exe on dialup or lan via BNC and t pieces/terminators. those were the days. good ol deathmatch 2... : vomitgod
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    Wow, you guys all hits LANs way before me. I played over a 14.4 modem for a long time before we upgraded... : spazzium
    • yeh we used to lan doom heaps. then when qtest came out we switched to that. : vomitgod
  • Remember the Quake skins people had back then? Since they were just small pcx bitmaps, they were easy to... : Barbarian
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  Duke3D on TEN & Quake if I remember correctly.. don't think I had my Voodoo1 yet though. : Shadowdane
  • was TEN that server browser/network that was required for the big quake tornament in early 2007? : deceiver
• CTF on my isp's server on a 14.4 modem. IIRC, it would've been pre-new models, so the flags were keys,... : Vincent Grayson
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  Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, The Dig, Freddy Pharkas, King's Quest VII... For the PC, I pretty ... : aethyr
  • oh yea, Doom II as well. : aethyr
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  QWTF, duh. Only the most popular mod (and first) : vaniah
  • Pre-Quake World, dude. Ten years ago Quake hadn't even been out a month. : Arcanum
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  10 years ago i hadn't even touched a computer. : sikander
  • Like me, and women. : Omaha
• multiplayer Hexen. Doom2 and ROTT. Also, I'm old. : ChowYunCat
• 10 years ago we just got a p2 266 with a 3d card and i was so happy cause now i could play duke3d with ev... : ^-SeaWolf-^
• 10 years ago = Space Quest collection : RikiTiki2
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  DEATH RALLY : basketofkittens
  • that was the one with the prerenderd backgrounds and stuff, eh? good shit. : deceiver
• Goldeneye 64 : bozer
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  Before my freshman year in highschool? Descent, Duke 3d, quake and red alert (I think) : rosewood
  • dear lord the memories : ra1n
• nothing but Quake : wtf242
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  Ten years ago, Team Fortress hadn't been released yet, so I wasn't playing it. :) I would have been FF... : Johnny Law
  • I wish I could remember a couple of the other servers I played at (mostly west-coast). Not that it's rea... : Johnny Law
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  I actually had a cable modem on my 486 DX 100MHz. Playing Quake, kicking ass, because it was so laggy be... : Judecca
  • DM3 FTW : Judecca
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    We didn't get cable modem action in Wichita until 1998. That was hot shit. : rosewood
    • We still don't have cable modems down here because our Government until recently believed all broadband w... : TastyWheat
    • For some reason they came out really early in Canada : Judecca
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  Holy shit! I remember Bodycount. Didn't it also have teamplay 1 set? I remember crazy rocket-jumping k... : MKCluney
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    That was it, you are correct sir! I was trying to remember what was different about it, and due to being... : Barbarian
    • Yep. If the door to the ring room was open, I had a habit of dropping two or three grenades in as I ran ... : MKCluney
• NQCTF for hours on end. On an irish server when I didn't know what ping was. : paravis
• PC: War2 & Duke3D on Kali Consoles: (PS1) Twisted Metal, Tekken, RIIIIIIIIDGE RAAACER : scatti
• I was playing Quake 1 single player with occasional LAN games. I was dialing into local BBs and dwango to... : Gonzo
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  Rise of the Triad single player, on a junked middle school 386. To play ROTT on a 386, you had to shrink : Enkidu
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    Drunken Missiles FTW! : spazzium
    • LUDICROUS GIBBS ! ! ! ! ! : PlanetPerfecto
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  I had forgotten what a pain it was to play over dialup before QuakeSpy came out. (Stomped server list, et... : MKCluney
  • QW is what really made dial-up play really fun and usable. That netcode was just incredible. : spazzium
• Probably was futzing around on quake 1, and then soon (maybe same time) I discovered Kali and began playi... : Jackass1233
• 96 eh? Still Doom 2 on BBS's and Duke 3D on BBS's - possibly QTest and of course your standard round of s... : abrasion
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  Was playing a lot of C&C and online quake CTF w/ runes : cncpun
  • oh and Doom/Duke 3d over 2 pc lan, and Kali/Kahn : cncpun
  • need to have a retro shackbattle with q1 or q2 ctf match : deceiver
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  quake on my 386 with math coprocessor and 96mb ram, hooked to a dedicated full t1 of course. remember th... : deceiver
  • I had to upgrade from a 486 to a 133 in order to play quake1. jesus. 10 years ago I had a 486. : thekidd
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    gamespy? try MPlayer...haha oh god, mPlayer, I make myself nostalgic : graceofdragons
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      MPLAYER BLEW HARD. Wow I never had a laggless game from that broken network. : spazzium
      • Lagless games didn't exist over internet until DSL/Cable but yeah, I know what ya mean... : graceofdragons
• A lot of this game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Ants : pwnage1232
• 1996? That's a tough one. That was Duke 3d era was it not? I used to play on some site.. I forget w... : dopeman
• quake @ catlairs.dal.net : strandgeck
• I would have been obsessively playing Final Fantasy II for SNES. I hearted that game. : Orange Pylon
• '96 for me was all about the Quake and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. : riptyde
• in 96 I was playing Privateer AND LOVING IT. I used to cheat like a motherfucker in that game.. one ti... : fatman
• A shitload of Duke3D, although I played q1test for a while. : skruff
• Duke Nukem 3D shareware, when I could. Aside from that I was playing and making levels for Doom 2. : wunderbred
• Quake, doom I & II, C&C, C&CRA, the three dukes (I, II & 3d) + a few more I can't recall off the top of m... : saundz
• Mechwarrior 2 : yAak
• quake1 at a cybercafe, paying $5 an hour. : thekidd
• C&C, Duke 3D, Quake, and Doom. : NFXFSX
• Descent 1+2, Duke 3D, Quake, Diablo, C&C series of games, X-wing and Tie Fighter. Later on it was Unreal... : SolrFlare
• Running a NetQuake DM Listen Server on my Cable Modem everyday after school. Those were the days... : sexydingo
• Daggerfall, and Quake w/ Reaperbots (my Internet connection was garbage at the time). Also, maybe some Du... : hellspit
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  Ten years ago I was playing NetQuake Threewave CTF on the official Mindlink server, 204.174.17.22. Well,... : SLUDGE^
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    ^^^ This is what I was doing to... So much fun that CTF. : zakazi
    • errr, too : zakazi
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  Hell, I don't remember what I did yesterday. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Wait, I was playing TIE Fighter back then and the expansion packs. I also was a Privateer nut. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • me, too. :( well.. i played a lot of sports games (nhl live '96, nba live '96), racing games (anybody ... : lonestar3
• Duke3D or Sam and Max Hit The Road (I think that was 96...i don't really remember) : ColoradoCNC
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  DN3D Modem - Quake Future Vs Fantasy mod : timaste
  • whoa, I haven't heard FvF mentioned in a long time : zakazi
  • Spectacular mod : sexydingo
• In 1996 I still had a 386. So that means Lucasarts adventures etc. A wonderful thing to have in your chil... : SpaecKow
• i had a Tandy Color Computer III! so i was playing Rogue and WWII Submarine simulator. : kbnerd
• Ten years ago I jumped onto a server running E1M7 with some internet acquaintances for the first time an... : woddemandred
• CnC, Quake, Doom, DN3D, Streetfighter 2 (blah blah blah eddition), Tiefighter + Xwing (got into the game ... : spdon
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  Your Cyrix overheat and lock up a bunch like mine? :) I used to play Quake like crazy on it and it would ... : jambalaya king
  • I had the low-power Cyrix--it didn't seem to get hot, just generally sucked in games. : Barbarian
• Duke3d and C&C nonstop. : Daggoth
• duke 3d, duke 3d, and duke 3d. : Maarten Goldstein
• Quake, Red Alert, Terminal Velocity, WO2097, Transport Tycoon : d fluke
• Nice to see the Shack still has so many old school fps gamers. Like back when sCary was in r3volution :... : sexydingo
• Christ, 10 years ago? Quake 1 w/ a shit ton of mods and Reaper bots (saw someone mention Future Vs. Fa : sevogajre
• q1 and nothing but. anyone else set up a tcp/ip stack in dos to play online? anyone else submit a demo ... : dael

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  Let me introduce you to an awesome free app named SlickRun. It's been around for a while, however until j : MikkleThePickle
  • Sounds interesting. I'll give it a try. : NFXFSX
  • Tagged. Will definitely be trying this. : basketofkittens
  • when I was a kiddie and I first learned about Unix I totally wanted to write a program exactly like this ... : sKetchflow
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    looks like a suckier version of LaunchBar or QuickSilver. does it automatically detect when you're typin... : electroly
    • it's a pretty lightweight app... it does not automatically detect documents, but I think that would be ha... : MikkleThePickle
  • tagged : headbone
  • whoop ness : Break
  • tagged for tomorrow : rgoer
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    And I assume it's lean, clean, and not memory hogging? : airrob
    • 4MB memory and no CPU when idle, about 1% CPU when activated : MikkleThePickle
  • I used Talk2Desktop for awhile, which did some of the same things, without even typing. It's been dead s... : R.Cade
  • You just made my short hero list.. Damn nice! : -TKF-
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    have you tried strokeit? it does the same thing but with mouse gestures http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ : mista mista
    • HAHAHAHA. NWS tagged. : spazzium
    • I cannot function on a computer without strokeit installed : Gauss
  • tagged : hax3d
  • Quicksilver owns it. But sounds cool. : spazzium
  • I removed anything that was specific to my setup. What, like midget porn? : bigimp
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    The fact that they're hardcoded to IE is the lose. : airrob
    • But that green thing you can dragon drop onto FF to grab it's EXE location makes changing it sweet. : airrob
    • yeah that's my bad, I forgot to change some of them. Just move the contents of the "Parameters" settin... : MikkleThePickle
    • Umm Firefox has QUICKSEARCHING BUILT IN I've posted this oh like.... 5 times here for an informative a... : abrasion
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    http://www.mlin.net/MCL.shtml Another similar app I used in the past. : dirtboxer
    • Oh yeah. I use Clipomatic on my work machine. Does a fine, tho I suspect it truncates big copies at tim... : smegmar
  • tttaged for slickrun : deviantpaul
  • Damn, that's the tool I always wanted to program at some point. : bargeld
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    anyone know if theres an OSX alternative to this? would be mighty handy : Sabaki
    • isn't QuickSilver the same thing of OSX? : kbnerd
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      Quicksilver is the king of this sort of app. : maddy
      • Totally, Quicksilver is basically king of all... I'd nearly buy a mac for it. It's like this minus the se... : zakazi
    • Quicksilver is the first app I install on any mac I use. : Hiro
  • Specialised for keyboard fiends? - downloaded! : abrasion
  • tagged bestiality incest tomato ketchup : mr.sleepy
  • tagged for niceness. : Flinz
  • thanks a lot ! tagged : melancoholicz
  • That's why the linux shell is awesome. I guess that lets you have something similar on Windows, too. : Kenshin_
  • tagged for my tablet pc (as using the pen gives me wicked cramps after an hour) : ravvy
  • I've been looking for an app that does EXACTLY what this does for a good week; thanks a ton. : jan0r pants
  • I still prefer something like Opus where I can make exactly the same types of commands but have them run ... : nudel
  • good stuffs, tagged for later : TaXXuS
• I remember this. Doesn't Google Desktop search also do this? It even opens documents ;) : dodob
• I'll second StrokeIt and also include HoeKey: http://www.bcheck.net/apps/hoe.htm < basically it is a uti... : ThrillKill
• You just changed my life. : roggor
• I prefer Colibri personally (mostly due to it's auto setup), though I love the magic words of this one an... : zakazi

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  health insurance companies are a very special kind of evil. : electroly
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    p.s. good luc : electroly
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      I have a feeling that the best I can hope for is for them to just apply it to the next couple of months. ... : darktweed
      • they are legally required to refund you any unused premium. if you're paying every month, they must refun... : Supine
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  God Bless America, amirite? Our health system is a joke. It's one of areas where capitalism really hur... : Nullzero
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    No, you're wrong. The more government has gotten involved the more expensive medical coverage has gotten.... : Colleton
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      How is the government involved at all right now? My plan is through my work, with a private provider. And... : gnoleb
      • the governement is involved by giving money to medical firms and providers, equipment makers and pharmacu... : kbnerd
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      Perhpas expensive in the sense that treatments become more expensive for the government, not for the pati : Nullzero
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        well said. my only thing i would like to add is that this country is supposed to be the gold standard ... : PlanetPerfecto
        • "this country is supposed to be the gold standard around the world for quality of life" The 80's are o... : [7]kami
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          it's only supposed to be the gold standard around the world according to people who live here. you don't ... : kbnerd
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            I read somewhere that the money used on the healthcare system in the US is much higher than what is used ... : -TKF-
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              See i'm all in favor of a completely socialising stuff (like your current system) or completely capitaliz... : kbnerd
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                Isn’t the US already spending ludicrous amounts of money on various health related things li... : SpaecKow
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                  that's mainly the case and why i stated that the US health care isn't really capitalistic. there are so m... : kbnerd
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                    You should allow these reforms to take place at the state level, so that all the blue kid commies can mak... : SpaecKow
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                      the problem with that is the current money being wasted on heathcare is really all Federal money. and eve... : kbnerd
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                        Right yeah, that's why you go "STATES RIGHTS STATES RIGHTS!" and have that money funneled directly to sta... : SpaecKow
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                          You could do that except it won't work. It has been tried but when the Federal Government gives the state... : kbnerd
                          • That sucks, good luck to you guys with that I guess :( : SpaecKow
                • Look at Tennessee, the failed Tencare program, it was hailed as revolutionary and socially responsible. ... : gopjihad
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                Because the healthcare system is seen as "one" in Denmark, they can make it effective. There are certain ... : -TKF-
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                  i've wanted to go over to your neck of the woods and live for a year or two for some time. but i only spe... : kbnerd
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                    Everyone here understands and speaks english, that is everyone under 50 at least :-) Not everything is... : -TKF-
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                      well i currently work for a large university so that may be experience that could help out. i want to tea... : kbnerd
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                        You could teach English of course, but not american english :-) I would be surprised if your universit... : -TKF-
                        • i can add 'U's to words like colour and armour. they look better like that anyway. i'm sure that my Univ... : kbnerd
                    • i really am liking the looks of SDU. i'll have to research this further. : kbnerd
          • thanks for explaining something I already know about Scandinavian countries. And that still isn't good... : PlanetPerfecto
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        Got cancer? Need an operation or prosthetic, and the insurance company won't pay for it? Hah, good luck f : -TKF-
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          a lot of insurance companies won't insure you if you have a pre-existing illness. in fact, most require y... : kbnerd
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            But thats just wrong, if your sick your fucked? I don´t understand how "you" can accept such a... : -TKF-
            • most health insurance you get in the US you get through your employer and you receive a certain amount of... : kbnerd
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      I tell people here in Australia about people posting for medical advice on the shack/somethingawful/etc b... : batkiwi
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        I'm still bugged that it's hard to find a bulk bulling 0$ place in Melbourne now, it used to be free a f... : abrasion
        • So don't fucking vote Libs next year. Seriously, I know Labor are lame ducks, but at least with them ... : SpaecKow
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    As opposed to other countries which provide healthcare to the population without cost... and are now fac... : Omaha
    • ^^^ I'll trade ya, you guys can have our NHS and.. well, we'll make do with less cases of MRSA thx! : Toraz Chryx
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      lol... we should tell the Scandinavians they're living in failed states, I don't think they realize. : SpaecKow
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        It's pretty inevitable that their present situations won't be able to go on, unchanged indefinitely; demo... : rasputinreborn
        • nothing goes on unchanged inevitably but that doesn't mean 1) they as nations will fail 2) their health c... : kbnerd
        • Europe’s socialism is too strong in places for maximum performance, many of its public welfa... : SpaecKow
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        How many immigrants do the Scandinavian countries give free health care to? Apples and oranges....you ... : gopjihad
        • How many immigrants do the Scandinavian countries give free health care to? Everyone : -TKF-
• HOLY SHIT! that's a TONNE of money, fuck that! It's as low as 50$ for real basic shit here now and eve... : abrasion
• You due for a bone marrow transplant or something? JFC : phobium
• we pay $120 a month for the whole family . : CoRDS
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  My health insurance is paid for by my employer. : kbnerd
  • meaning YOU pay for it, you just never see the money for it enter your bank account. : Toraz Chryx

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• JULY} 21st]* EVERYONE HIT THIS. Hey thanks for this, checked it earlier today and he hadn't updated. : spazzium
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  Kevin Smith, Pre-"Jersey Girl": "I won't make anymore movies with the Clerks/Mallrats characters, it's ti : tomservo
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    You don't know what you're talking about. He made the movie for several reasons, not the least of which ... : spazzium
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      Just a hunch. : tomservo
      • Fair enough. I liked Jersey girl. : spazzium
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    Jersey Girl was a victim of gigli and the whole affleck/jennifer lopez shit. He cut something like 30 mi... : Prozium
    • it was focus grouped to death as well : stgulik
  • I also think Smith has enough cash : moshman
  • Haha, yeah. We'll see what the reviews are, but I JSBSB was such "fan service" that I didn't like it. I... : brickmatt
• Only Kevin Smith should be allowed to blog. : joe.gonzalez
• He's right, but I do talk during movies to my friends sometimes. : orgcaptainnemo
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  Honestly, I've never seen Clerks, but I'm not much of a Kevin Smith fan. There are quotes from his movies... : K1Bond007
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    Clerks doesn't hold up that well for me :( : orgcaptainnemo
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      Clerks is probably my least favorite of his films that i've seen. : kbnerd
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        Just watched Clerks again last week, reminded me why I started watching Kevin Smith films. : spazzium
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          Chasing Amy is my favorite movie of his, followed by Dogma and then Jay and Silent Bob. : orgcaptainnemo
          • I'm reverse, Dogma followed by Chasing Amy. : spazzium
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            I'm guessing you guys have seen "The Flying Car" short. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC4TNkLuE28 : Prozium
            • EXCELLENT! : spazzium
            • The only good thing about Kevin Smith is that he makes it a point to include the N.J. DEVILS jersey in an... : yosemiteclimber
          • Clerks > Chasing Amy -> Mallrats -> Dogma -> Jay and Silent Bob I also really liked Jersey Girl. Clerk... : graceofdragons
  • until you've seen Mallrats I forbid you to comment further. : sKetchflow
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  Joel Siegel is an ass, but I have a feeling I'm not going to enjoy Clerks II at all. I saw 10 minutes of... : Chris Remo
  • And this movie got an 8 minutes of applause at the end at some film festival. Why? It looks craptacular ... : baron calamity
• I think I'm going to have a Kevin Smith-athon tonight in lieu of Clerks 2 not showing here until god-know... : dodob
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  Don't blame the guy (siegal), the previews look exceptionally retarded. Looks like one of those "Zomg we... : paravis
  • why can't i blame him? he acted in a really immature manner. : kbnerd
  • Anyone, regardless of the quality of the movie, who makes a big stink about walking out of said movie des... : -efx-
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    Yeah but he didn't have to yell and stomp on the way out. He's a published writer yet he had to make his... : spazzium
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      admittedly I didn't read it :P I just figured he quietly walked out of it. : paravis
      • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12514766 : Bean
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        Haven't seen Clerks. Didn't read post. Why are you posting? : GeorgeB3DR
        • haha, I love you George. : orgcaptainnemo
        • I hear he doesn't own Prey either, and he doesn't "get" Duke Nukem : graceofdragons
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          paravis walked out on Prey. : spazzium
          • so he does have taste after all! I kid, I kid, well kind of. : spdon
        • the previews/trailers don't count for anything? =( : paravis
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          I think I hit a nerve. : paravis
          • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12519240 : RikiTiki2
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            if by hit a nerve you mean "posted a completely uninformed opinion for no reason" then yes. : kbnerd
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              Okay, the trailers/previews are complete garbage imo. Happy? : paravis
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                see now this is a valid opinion. commenting on an article you haven't read is not. : kbnerd
                • You're right. : paravis
            • Anyhow, that's not it, and I always have a reason for expressing my opinion. Enough with the hostility. ... : paravis
            • You people keep talking about uninformed opinions. Since when did that stop anybody? You don't know shit ... : Frosty3D
      • say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel? : Prozium
  • Ummm you never leave a movie before rating it, especially a "pro" and especially a sequel to such a cult... : abrasion
  • Ummm you never leave a movie before rating it, especially a "pro" and especially a sequel to such a cult... : abrasion
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  If you guys haven't seen Clerks, then STFU. :) : GeorgeB3DR
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    are you going to see Clerks II, George? : kbnerd
    • You'll love it, go see it! : spazzium
• Well that critic is an _idiot_ and should be fired immidiately, you do NOT walk out on a movie without co : abrasion
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  I find Kevin Smith the man to be massively funnier and more clever than his movies. : rasputinreborn
  • some of his later movies are just awful. I like his early ones (mall rats and co.) but ive not seen th... : spdon

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  hahaha, umm yeah it can. 360 games already do both. : sigpro
  • And if you're doing it in an engine with no real time dynamic lighting like Source then that sort of shi... : SpaecKow
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    hahahah um, http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12515762 : abrasion
    • My (shitty) 3D simulator that I wrote for my job can do depth of field. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • Well, that's how DOF and motion blur are done for 3D engines. No big surprise there. : timmie
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      "Post-processing" has a specific meaning when referencing shaders and the Source engine does indeed suppo... : zakk
      • the tone shift from max payne 2's bullet time is post processing. the autumn color in NFSMW is also post ... : bradsh
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      Post-processing shaders in this context means applying a full-screen quad (or several layers) with partic... : SiW73
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        From the wording from Valve, it's difficult to tell if it's real time or not, I'm betting on not conside... : abrasion
        • Well, at least you'll be pleasantly surprised. : megarust32
        • I agree the wording is ambiguous, but I have no doubt at all that it is real-time. It's so easy to do fo... : SiW73
        • I'm pretty certain its not realtime - #1 I remember them discussing motion blur as being possible only wh... : 60days
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  So nobody will be able to run Crysis? : Hello Kitty
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    I guess you didn't hear they were using quad sli to demo it then? : abrasion
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      What's the big deal? I have an octuple sli setup on my gaming rig. : Hello Kitty
      • I have a dodecahedron made out of PCI-E cards suspended in midair powering my PC. : TastyWheat
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  Just watched it again, damn those post-effects look good. : abrasion
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    Really does look awesome, now I'm really excited for hl2 ep2 Portal's release. : sanchez
    • That whole A.S.H.P.D thing is cool too, Perhaps HL2EP3 will be from Sheppards perspective? : abrasion
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  I really want that game even though I'm still completely confused by the trailer : ColoradoCNC
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    I saw some comments arguing on evil avatar "this is further proof of mouse and k/b dominance, try this s... : abrasion
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      I don't really see why someone couldn't play this game on a gamepad. : rossimo
      • Yeah, adapting sensitivity works wonders. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I don't really see why someone couldn't play this game on a gamepad. : rossimo
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    Play this: http://carrion_luggage.shackspace.com/narbacular_drop.exe It's a game made for class by the... : sanchez
    • needs new maps, now. : abrasion
• DOF isn't an expensive effect at all. Motion Blur can be, but a fast videocard that runs Ep1 at full qual... : bargeld
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  What the fuck, even the Voodoo 3 could render that in real-time back then. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Motion blur, that is. I'm pretty sure you can switch off DoF. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    It was the Voodoo 5 with its "T-Buffer" - cutting edge tech! http://www.graphicshardware.org/previous/... : hellspit
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      God the T buffer was fucking stupid : TastyWheat
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        I mean look at this http://www.hardoverclock.org/pics/reviews/3dfx_voodoo5_6000_agp/v5-6000_gfxboards_600... : TastyWheat
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          That card (the 6000) never came out. The regular Voodoo 5 cards were a bit smaller (first cards to need a... : hellspit
          • The 6000 is worth a mint as a collectors item though. : abrasion
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        fukin haters :) My V5 (2 chip) was very useful and I played many games on it. : Slowtreme
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          The v5 series was crud, i can't beleive anyone bought them - totally the p4 netburst, SUV of graphics car... : abrasion
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            Says the guy that owned a P4 : Toraz Chryx
            • when i got it the alternative was athlon xp's at a stage where they overclocked bad and pricing diff wasn... : abrasion
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  Screenshot from the video: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4315/snapshot20060719040724yc7.jpg It's ob... : Mr.Fusion
  • Oh and here is a shot from that HDR demo page that shows the similar discrete frame buffer contributions ... : Mr.Fusion

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• yah it just looks soo badass.. I want it now! : Shadowdane
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  i watched it four times which means i deserve it more than you : infiltrator`
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    5 for me : the rizzo
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      I will never stop watching it. : ki11_viru5
      • I fapped watching it. I deserve a signed copy. : someWayne
• I can't say I disagree, this looks much cooler than HL2 or Ep1. : abrasion
• Same here. The trailer was really well-done, and I love seeing new gameplay mechanics being used inventiv... : Code RedBeard
• It looks like it's gonna a ton of fun and very original. Even if portals aren't completely "original" usi... : NastyJack
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  Seriously, can somebody at valve get me a beta or something? :( : Degenerate
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    If Valve really wants to sell Steam ep2 preorders, they need to get this out there fast ready to be downl... : DarkWolf5
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      Hell yes, I would preorder EP2 right now if I could start playing Portal tomorrow. : yAak
      • (and I haven't even bought EP1 yet lol) : yAak
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    play the narbacular drop game, it made me feel better.. kind of like playing qtest before quake came out. : deceiver
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      hrmm, the dude abides. downloading. http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html : Degenerate
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        this shit is just as trippy as I had hoped! : Degenerate
        • if only it wasn't so short :( if only somebody would remake that game with more levels and modern graphic... : AbortedFetusChristi
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          oh no I didnt! http://degenerate.shackspace.com/Shack/drop.JPG : Degenerate
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            Haha I think everyone must try that at least once. Just played through it earlier, just makes me want ... : Carnivac
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              yeah I dont think its possible to play this without setting this up at least once. : Degenerate
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                I think the "two portals in the floor, you fall in one, out the other, fall back down into the one you ca... : lont
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                  What's with the boulder run part? I just played through and had to stop there. : brickmatt
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                    sometimes the boulders dont spawn, in which case you must die in the lava and start over. You need to dr... : lont
                    • yeah first time I got there the boulders werent there. I had to die and then they magically appeared. : Degenerate
              • Oh, the other neat thing to try is to navigate through the game using as little walking as possible. Jus... : lont
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        can anyone post this file? they've exceeded their bandwidth and they've closed the site. : Fyunch Click
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          its on Steam... : Shadowdane
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            ty. : Fyunch Click
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              sorry thought u where talking about the video.. :( : Shadowdane
              • no. Sadly. : Fyunch Click
• Talk about innovation. That was really amazing. : carnivore
• Bloody holy wow... that was great... : five_percent
• oh wow, that was crazy : slickdoody
• It looks pretty great. Only about 3 years to go too, going by valve's record : JINKY
• Holy crap that looks awesome, the style is just slick as anything : Rasnowl
• I miss puzzles in first person shooters. I want an HL2 game where you're Gordon and all you have is the g... : SpaecKow
• i wanna hump this game's leg. : deathmuppeter
• why does fileshack keep timing out on me in the middle of a transfer :( : mr brown
• damn I can only imagine how crazy MP would be : cap n KRUNCH
• I haven't been this psyched for a game since....well, Half-Life 2 I guess :) : PenicillinX57
• I think Prey had some of the best puzzles I've seen in a long time, at least since HL2. Those of you look... : bozer

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  I thought you were talking about the show for a second :( : TastyWheat
  • No way, own that and wore the dvds out. I'm talking about little flying bugs with glowing asses! :D : jessipoo
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  You guys don't have them? Wild. : ThomW
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    Nope. We don't have cicadas either. I met those little fellers last week when I was in Oklahoma! Noisy cr... : jessipoo
    • haha - You can have those. ;) : ThomW
  • apparently theyre very rare in the PNW as well. I couldnt believe it. I'll gladly give up fireflys for no... : Degenerate
• Now that's deprivation. You should sue your parents. : omnova
• dude, mayo jar with holes poked in the lid for air. used to fill them with fireflies alot during the summ... : eskimo spy
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    I am not. I am in thrilling Harrisburg/Camp Hill. :( : jessipoo
    • that sucks for you on multiple levels. have a safe trip home : mankeroo
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  What's cool is if you smash them, they smear glowy stuff. Just dont get it in your eyes, it can make you... : Faluzure
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    :( why would you smash such pretty things? : jessipoo
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      Hell, if ponies were the size of spiders I'd probably step on them too. : Hello Kitty
      • You guys suck. :( : Arcanum
      • i laughed ! : ghost hacker
      • Deaaath Pony! : TastyWheat
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    Earlier in the summer, I was making a 4.5 hour drive up from southern Ohio to Metro Detroit at dusk, on v... : Enkidu
    • "Why indeed, my firefly friend?" I laughed out loud :( : Omaha
• I saw my first one ever here in NYC about a month ago. Totally random. I was like, hey, thats a firefly. ... : loboca
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  Wait til you see your first redneck! : Vic Viper
  • Oh man, my grandpa is from Arkansas. I've seen my fair share of rednecks in just my immediate family. : jessipoo
• I want to see the Elkmont Firefly. The have synchronous flashes that a supposed the flow in waves throug... : stgulik
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  Where in PA? : dltrem
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    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12518045 : jessipoo
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      You're like 10 minutes from me and Patch-E. : ThomW
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        Actually, you're surrounded by us. He lives in Harrisburg and I'm in Mechanicsburg. :) : ThomW
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          oh noes, shackers all around! :P I don't know how you guys can live here - I miss the ocean! :D : jessipoo
          • I say that almost every day. I don't know why the hell I stay here. : ThomW
• my cat likes to escape outside and catch them.. but i never let him outside. : porp
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  I'm in the airport waiting to fly to Philly so I can work in Delaware the next 3 days... wanna, like, mak... : riptyde
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    make our time? : Degenerate
    • Damn, I've become so pathetic in my old age that I can't even proposition a woman on the internet for sex... : riptyde
  • You should look up El Tigre! He lives in Philly and his latest contract job has him working in Delaware ... : ThomW
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  I grew up in an outer-ring Detroit suburb, and we didn't have fireflies. The story goes that the polluti... : Enkidu
  • The irony here is that they're probably now strong enough and resiliant enough to destroy your city. : Omaha

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  Prey's tumultuous development probably turned developers off using portals extensively in gameplay. M... : SpaecKow
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    Goddamn Trespasser fucking sucked : TastyWheat
    • im the only person that loved it : CoRDS
    • I liked looking down and seeing big boobies. : freshyk
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      was that the game where you had to use your hands to grab stuff? if so maybe a wii controller would make... : deceiver
      • Yes, eventually the developers of Trespasser went on to make the Havok physics engine that is so popular ... : Matt Burris
• I dunno, but Portal looks REALLY HOT. : spazzium
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  Portal Technology has been around for AGES, but it's just now getting implemented into games. IIRC, so... : indiginator
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    How many games have had portals? Hell, even doom had portal...you just couldn't see the other side. (th... : judasen
    • Portals as a tech involves seeing the other side. : SpaecKow
    • Dude. Might and Magic 1 had Town Portal. That was, like, 1984. : ChibiJosh
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  ever play quake 3 arena? portals in it all over the place. : deceiver
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    They were just teleporters. : SpaecKow
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      I don't understand the difference. I remember one level in particular in Q3A that had a portal you could... : electroly
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        I've never seen them used as wide scale as they were in Prey... That said, the ones in Prey were pretty ... : spazzium
        • Yeah Prey ended up being more about gravity. But quake 3 was a multiplayer game, was my point, and thu... : SpaecKow
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        yeah, that's what I'm talking about.. not a teleporter, a portal. : deceiver
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          Same thing. Shorter name. They serve the same purpose. : judasen
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            Negative. A portal is a seamless transportation. Teleportation is not. A portal you simply walk through -... : TastyWheat
            • Q3 had teleporters (I.e Dm17) and portals (I.e Dm7). Not sure you could could shoot through either but : judasen
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        in Q3 u couldn't have a portal view itself like you can in Prey, it caused all kinds of weird bugs. :) : Shadowdane
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          it´s pretty easy to limit the number of portal recursions. It seems in prey the limit is 1, I thi... : moshman
          • actually in Q3 it caused a rendering bug.. it just flat out didn't work : Shadowdane
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        I really dont remember being able to shoot through a portal in Q3 : cap n KRUNCH
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          Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I seem to recall one portal looking into a lightning gun drop, and I'd k... : electroly
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            I just tried Q3DM7 and the shots just stop .. In fact I vaguely recall when making a teleporter in the ma... : cap n KRUNCH
            • Q3DM7 is the level I was thinking of. I probably watched for people through the portal, and then quickly... : electroly
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              no because you can see people running around and fighting through the portal : spector
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                But ever seen someone come out the other side? They just appear, there isn't a portal that opens up and s... : TastyWheat
                • In other words, Quake 3 had non interactive portals. : SpaecKow
                • uh yeah they worked both ways in Q3A. : eskimo spy
                • That's a borderline trivial detail. The development difficulty is in allowing the user to see and shoot ... : electroly
        • i'm pretty sure you couldn't, but you can in quake 4 however, in quake 4 you can't see through the tel... : Mansmells
        • you could in dukenukem3d : mista mista
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      There was a portal in Q3DM7. There were portals in two other maps that I can't remember offhand. I'm pret... : Serpico74
      • That was a teleporter that tried to act like a portal. It wasn't a true portal. : TastyWheat
• Unreal DM-Radikus has true portals. I like that map so much, I copied it into my UT maps folder (it play... : the archvile
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  I have a question that I may have missed. Is Portal a game in itself? A puzzle game on Source technolo... : draconic
  • A puzzle game on Source technology, and a game in itself. It's being released with HL2:EP2, as well as T... : megarust32
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  Portals are easy to implement within a BSP tree. Unreal 1 had working portals like you see in Prey today.... : bargeld
  • you don´t even need a BSP tree, they just make it easier to automatically generate portals from a... : moshman
• it´s been in games for aaaaages. It´s a very good way of doing HSR. The difference in pre... : moshman
• afaik, we're talking about two different things here. Portals were originally introduced as an alterna... : fookilla

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  I really should check out this show. I hate renting things though :< Maybe I'll try out Netflix. : tomservo
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    Dude, you are missing out. You will love it, i guarantee it. : megarust32
    • I'm fairly certain I will. I still need to get around to seeing Serenity (which I think I'll mostly dig) ... : tomservo
• Is this a real preview or that bit at the end of the last episode? : Tincan
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7_ccvhY5-I oh man, YES : megarust32
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    Ugh. Not a bad preview, but WTF is up with the music... why Nickelback? I don't hate them or anything lik... : K1Bond007
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      No kidding. Still, i'm pumped for season 3. : megarust32
      • Only 2 more months. :( : NFXFSX
    • The music was totally unfitting for BSG. They did the same thing with the season 2 preview. : Ely
    • I hate them. : Nihilist
    • Oh god they sound the same ALL the time, why oh why nickleback - ugh : abrasion
    • Yeah, I didn't even hear what they were saying thanks to that Nickelback song.. >:( This needs to be p... : knepus
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    Holy jesus this show is so good. I can't wait. When does season 2.5 come out? : NastyJack
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      September 19th. : NFXFSX
      • Wicked thanks. : NastyJack
  • BOOOOO!!!! I WANT IT NOW. ;) : Sylvanus
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  where was the preview?? : mr brown
  • I just checked scifi.com, apparently during Eureka. : Tincan
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  I can't wait for this! I think I'll get an LCD HDTV for this one! : pebui
  • but sci-fi doesn't broadcast in HD :( : Clay
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  Hmm, from the trailer, looks like: Theories and specuation: 1) Col. Tigh becomes the resistance leade : pebui
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    It'll be interesting to see if Zarek sticks with Gaius as the traitor-in-chief, or if he reverts to his n : Caboose
    • I think Zarek has lost some of his influence ever since landfall and I remember noticing the Astral Queen : pebui
  • Crapica, lols. : megarust32
  • From what I read in TV Guide, it is going to be awesome season. : NFXFSX
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  It's like the MGS4 Trailer. Col. Tigh or Commander Adama = Old Solid Snake Captain Apollo = Kickas : laidback
  • Apollo = tubby. He might become the new hotness, but we'll see. If won't be an overnight change, Apollo : brickmatt
• October :( :( :( : dodob
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  Im glad I woke up for that. Holy shit. : rosewood
  • Wasn't that awesome? The show was meh, the preview was pimp. : brickmatt
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  It's been such a long break I have to re-watch S2 now or something anyhow :( : abrasion
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    I want to watch the whole thing again. I'm getting S2 when it's out over here and I'll probably try and w... : nomaad
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      You can't it's like 22 hours or something >:( : abrasion
      • I will >:( : nomaad
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  Where was the trailer originally from? TV? : amrbean
  • came over the wireless : bargeld

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• chinatown w/jack nicholson : PlanetPerfecto
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan : orgcaptainnemo
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  The Hustler; I watched Poolhall Junkies last week and I ended it wishing that I had simply rewatched this... : Ely
  • the hustler + the color of money = pool film heaven : PlanetPerfecto
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  Crash was not a great movie! >:( : sKetchflow
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    It was good but nowhere Oscar great. BUT IT DEALS WITH RACISM, I'D LIKE TO THANK MY DOG AND MY MANAGER AN... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      this again? What shoulda won? Borefest Mountain? OMG IT DEAL WITH HOMOSEXUALS, I'D LIKE TO THANK GOD, WHO... : graceofdragons
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        Uh, no, ok, it was a slow year. Everything sucked. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          the aviator did not suck : PlanetPerfecto
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            Aviator, Sideways = 2004 : ventro
            • IMDB says Crash was 2004 too... wtf Oscars!?! : sKetchflow
          • That was the year before. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          are you fucking kidding me? Sideways!! Side fucking ways. : sKetchflow
          • kinda boring, I liked it though...Lots of good stuff last year. Sin fucking City for one. : graceofdragons
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            It had its moments but is no Oscar contender. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              moreso than Crash imo. Crash was tripe that was geared toward feeding the Oscar asshats what they want : sKetchflow
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                1. I didn't know they were blanks, niether, I'll wager, did the majority of the audience. 2. Her getti... : graceofdragons
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                  1. Not all movies have to be funny, but humor is a part of daily life and as such it should be a natural ... : sKetchflow
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                    Yes, I did leave the movie thinking "Wow, what kind of assumptions am I making about people?" It was a co... : graceofdragons
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                      my totally unsolicited opinion, but whatever, enjoy what ya enjoy. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=118... : stgulik
                      • fuck yes. : sKetchflow
                    • I hate the movie because it's a horrible plot. Yeah the cinematography was good. Yeah the acting was go... : sKetchflow
              • Well, yeah, I called the blank thing, too. It was still enjoyable, as was Sideways. But I didn't really l... : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • Wait, München was nominated? That would have deserved it. Or Walk The Line or even motherfuckin' K... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        If I rent Brokeback does that mean I'm gay? Is this movie any good? : chuck577
        • good, really fucking slow, not gay : graceofdragons
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  Dumb & Dumber : RikiTiki2
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    Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? : orgcaptainnemo
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      genjuro on teamspeak : kbnerd
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        close, but : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAyhLtiKEA&search=dumb%20and%20dumber : RikiTiki2
        • i'm familiar with the clip but i'm not sure it edges out genjuro : kbnerd
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  did you choose to watch "the notebook" or were you kinda forced? : Prozium
  • lol, this chick asked me to watch it, so I did. I'm not all into all that mushy stuff but I enjoyed it. : chuck577
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  butterfly effect : mista mista
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    I dunno why but the ending of that movie made me sadder than any other movie I've ever seen. : sKetchflow
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      original or directors cut ending? : mista mista
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        original. When he walked past her and paused for a second on the street at the end I swear I was just li... : sKetchflow
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          I took it as fate putting them back together : freakord
          • well yeah, but it still like he can't do shit about it. And he has the memories of all those times they ... : sKetchflow
        • the original ending sucks =/ : xjdrake32
  • I already watched this one and loved it! : chuck577
  • Primer, the grown up version of Butterfly Effect. : yourname00
• The past movies I've rented and thought were good: Oldboy (<--- biggest wtf movie ive ever seen) city... : strandgeck
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  Run Lola Run, The Virgin Suicides, Requiem for a Dream, and Boondock Saints are all pretty good : ColoradoCNC
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    boondock saints is one of the few movies I've bought sight-unseen, and I'm glad I did. Master and command... : strandgeck
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      AND THERE WAS A FIRE FIGHT : brickmatt
      • Willem Dafoe was awesome : freakord
• Motorcycle Diaries, not really the same genre as City of God at all but it's another great South American... : yourname00