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• dude, that fucking sucks.. :((((( : g0nk
• That totally sucks. :( : ThomW
• Can't say I blame how you feel. It's your (and others) livelihood. : Wolfanoz
• I feel your pain....good write up. : zipper76
• That is the reason why even though I don't finish the games I buy I continue to buy them because I have t... : lacker
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  I thought stuff on Steam was heavily encrypted and couldnt be stolen? So much for the new era :[ : bradsh
  • It's heavily encrypted until you buy it. That's what bought us the window of three hours after release. ... : Ritual-MikeR
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    Nope. HL2 was pirated pretty fast. It took a few tries to get the release "just right", but a week or t... : tacocat
    • Wow, suck. I thought Steam games couldn't be pirated. : rudds
    • you seem to know a lot about this.... : Dimmona
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  Can't you screen the bug reports by asking for their Steam ID or CD key (for retail copies, like mine)? ... : tacocat
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    Yeah his complaint is fairly invalid since it would be so easy to screen out 90% of those pirates. : alexthegreat2
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      No, I have no access to the database of who has registered our game or not. That said, I can usually d... : Ritual-MikeR
      • But shouldn't you be connected to that database? Wouldn't that (ideally) remedy the problem? : tacocat
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        I'm not saying you personally in your specific situation, but it would be very easy for the company to se... : alexthegreat2
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          Not really... "What's your Steam ID?" "<gives a valid Steam ID that belongs to someone else>" Ther... : Ritual-MikeR
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            Well it would probably cut back drastically on the number of complaints. At any rate, people who a... : alexthegreat2
            • Dude, are you trying to sound like an asshole? : dewdman
• Godamnit, that is just awful. : -efx-
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  That sucks. Though I am kinda blown away that people who pirate games actually call customer support. Dud... : smoove
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    kinda begs the question: why not require Steam authentication before giving support? Also, why not shi... : the archvile
    • it would be pretty easy to crack something like that, and there is the risk of bugs causing it to affect ... : alexthegreat2
    • People would bitch about having to be online. Some people do take advantage of Steam's offline mode. Prop... : Sarcastro
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    The release groups are usually made up of fairly smart (if ethically challenged) individuals; the unwashe... : rasputinreborn
    • I disagree entirely, unless your defenition of smart differs from mine. They are just walking data proces : TomEdwards
• I cannot believe a pirate would have the gall to actually contact support... ... but if you think abou : Lunatic Angelic
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  Sucks. I used to pirate because I was a poor student but now I buy. I feel a lot better about it. : rand04
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    I don't understand a friend who makes good money yet still wont buy games. : lacker
    • God, yes. I have this situation now. Since I switched and started even buying up old retro games that I l... : rand04
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  Blows my mind. I'll be honest with you, I don't really care too much when I hear about devs whining : rosewood
  • Thank you for saying what I didn't have the talent or tack to express properly. : Stoned Gargoyle
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  What the FUCK, I hate to say I haven't purchased your game but it's fucking $20, not $60 or $30 or $50. ... : RyDogg1
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    It could cost $2 and it would still be pirated. : alias
    • If all you had to do was send them an email it would still get pirated. : timmie
• That's fucking LAME man, but then, that's pretty good isn't it? I mean one fifth of your users are legiti... : SpaecKow
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  I'm not saying that doesn't suck, but there are several errors in your post. : Kerath
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    Examples would be nice. : Ritual-MikeR
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      I think he's requesting fixes. : tacocat
      • OMG! He pirated the post! : ChibiJosh
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      "Retail copies of Windows are more expensive partly because Microsoft has to factor support costs into th... : Kerath
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        At Microsoft, free support calls get billed back to the department that created the product. The average : Ritual-MikeR
        • Besides that, i'm guessing you don't get as much "credit" from a review perspective for doing support as ... : mallrice
      • Ignoring any support being given after hours, this statement is true: "I can still say that you're st : ThomW
      • gbt/. : rasputinreborn
• That's an eye-opening write up. :/ : omnova
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  Well now I'm depressed. : helvetica
  • That's about all I have to say as well. : brickmatt
• Wow, what a bunch of assholes. Some people have the balls to pirate the game, and still act like YOU own... : hadokennn
• The fuck kind of asshole scum is gonna ask for support for a pirated game? The same kind of asshole scum... : dognose
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  It sucks but what can you do besides lowering the price even more and hoping people will not be cheapasse... : Mondo
  • Lower than $20? I mean I know it's an "episode" but I think that pretty much proves that people are goin... : ThomW
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  I don't want to be more antagonistic than I can help (withdraw is a bitch and after this post i'm going t... : ellipticalgrey
  • I think most people would agree that if one has a limited amount of time in which to help a group of peop... : PlanetPerfecto
  • Every minute spent trying to help a pirate is a minute NOT spent helping a paying customer or doing somet... : Zero|DPX
  • I have a finite headcount for my department. I have a finite amount of time in a week. I have many dutie... : Ritual-MikeR
  • Do you have no concept of how business works? He didn't mean that he personally got paid more or less de... : DinK
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    Question}Is there any way to include a bit of code within a game that will lock a game on a daily basis a... : skitzo
    • damn.. shacktagged and mis-replied(meant for original post) : skitzo
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      That would punish people who use Steam's offline mode, so I wouldn't recommend it. : Ritual-MikeR
      • Oh.. just trying to think of ways to reduce piracy. : skitzo
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  <3 http://draco.shackspace.com/ritual.jpg yeah, I'm bored ;) : Draco
  • haha, inf this : PlanetPerfecto
  • And some of us just for supporting your asses (Haven't play much of it at all yet). : intothefray
  • Haha, very nice : Chris Remo
  • I bought mine over Steam, so MikeR should be even happier to see this since Ritual should have gotten mor... : ThomW
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  For comparison, I would like to see the numbers of support calls related to Starforce, Securerom, and oth... : NoCopy
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    To be honest I'd like to see that as well. I can tell you one of the reasons I didn't consider SiN is th... : RyDogg1
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      But the NO DEMO gives me no excuse to pirate btw. : RyDogg1
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        aye. I wasn't suggesting that either; simply a matter of point. Does releasing a demo considerably cu... : NoCopy
        • There is only one proven way to combat piracy I'm afraid - addictive multiplayer with keys that updates r... : Mondo
  • Well, on the last product that I worked on that used SafeDisc, on sales of 220,000 units, we had 18 compl... : Ritual-MikeR
• People are scumbags and the web just makes them dirtier. : kingdepork
• What is the ratio for non-fixed by Steam bugs (if any)? Still close to 5 to 1? That might be a more us... : alias
• You should be bitter. I kinda hoped steam would be more secure than disk based games. :( : pigvomit
• Fucking Pirates -Xian : kenmis
• sadness :[ : RikiTiki2
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  I can wrap my mind around pirating software, but it takes HUGE swinging gonads to ask for support on a pr... : Thresher
  • my exact thoughts. what assholes. : cap n KRUNCH
  • no shit. 20.00 bucks. and then steal it and ask for support?! fuck me :( : rintumscrinctum
  • Well, they either have gonads as big as their brain, or the other way around... : Arcanum
• I'm just glad to have given Ritual my $20.00, even better, I had a clean - bugfree experience. Fuck all ... : Athlon7
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  Out of curiosity, when you realize you're dealing with a pirate, how exactly do you then reply to the e-m... : joesnizzle
  • If I'm 100% sure that it's a pirate, and I'm able to tell which ISP they are using, I notify their ISP's ... : Ritual-MikeR
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  Even though I didn't feel like I got my $20 worth (the infamous stuttering issue), I at least know I'm su... : Matt Burris
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    By the way, have you tried the latest Steam update? It's helped a few of the remaining people who have... : Ritual-MikeR
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      I probably already got it downloaded, been playing The Ship lately. I'll hop on and post an update on he... : Matt Burris
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        Okay. Just make sure you restart Steam itself. This one was an update to Steam. : Ritual-MikeR
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          weird question - how does an update to the Steam client have an effect on Source engine games? : Schnapple
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            There are literally dozens of things that can cause the stutter. Steam using up an excessive amount of C... : Ritual-MikeR
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              If one were to set steam.exe to use a lower task priority, would that help alleviate the excessive CPU cy... : Matt Burris
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                Actually, this update fixes the problem that was causing the excessive CPU utilization, which is one reas... : Ritual-MikeR
                • Ah, that makes sense. As a person who did tech support for years (people assumed that because I ran a si... : Matt Burris
        • I've restarted it, rebooted, fired up SiN Episodes. The stuttering problem doesn't seem as intense as I ... : Matt Burris
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  what i find infinitely more surprising is that people that stupid can even pirate a game, lolz : giroml
  • oh yeah and i'm legit steam so don't "turn me in" LOL, i bought your shit giroml@surewest.net : giroml
• Fuck pirates for stealing money from the pockets of hardworking devs >:( : Krypt_
• Very sorry to read this. : NastyJack
• Dude WTF. It's $20. Buy it, you filthy savages. : Rich McNinch
• proud to have bought Emergence on launch, right here ---> : Postal
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  Would it be possible (and I know that Valve would have to do a lot of this) to make it such that the Stea : Schnapple
  • To be honest, they probably could do that work, but if you had two equal products, and on one side, you h... : Ritual-MikeR
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  This is pretty sad and I'll try to buy your game ASAP if I can ever get Steam to accept my freaking CC nu... : MrLobo
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    Copy protection is only worthwhile if it doesn't put inexcusable restrictions on customers. Starforce ... : Ritual-MikeR
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      Heh I agree. But the fact that it actually stopped the warez version from coming out for a few months aft... : MrLobo
      • Most copy protection is meant to stop the casual copier only. Fighting the warez groups is a losing ba... : Ritual-MikeR
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  wtf who seriously steals a game and then has the nerve to bitch about it not running properly to the devs... : smacknca
  • no shit, this blows my mind more than anything. : Magus
• I'd say Just start taking extreme measures. : mr.sleepy
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  http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b307/ra1yan/Flash%20Animations/1151543979.swf#)Animations/1151543979.sw... : Gauss
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    That Flash is probably the best use of a Lazytown soundclip yet. : Ritual-MikeR
    • it cracks me up every time, I need to get that dancing pirate as an avatar : Gauss
• 1.] i guess the argument that 50$ is too much is out the door 2.] it takes some balls to contact the dev... : deviantpaul
• go RIAA-style on their asses. :D : Magus

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• ^ ^ ^ bean's lurker chick : crummynz
• Oh god this is priceless. I remember him always saying he locks his computer for this very reason too. : Ecks
• Lurker Chick FTW!!!! : kbnerd
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  ALL ABOARD THE COCKBOAT \ 8===D / : Krypt_
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    set sail for dick : Prozium
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      I'm pumping the bilge, sir! : midgetherder
      • Main mast raised! : Krypt_
  • All hands aboard! 8=mw=D : cerealSAM2
  • All Semen on deck!! : Ratalon
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  dammit girl, pony up and make a posting account of your own. Leave his alone... this is getting old :P : Galadriel07
  • But funny never gets old : L0opet
• This comes as little surprise given some of your past posts! : Chris Remo
• hahahaha gold! : o0JediBeavis0o
• This woman is a keeper. : zakk
• Hahaha. YOU WIN. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  So they are gay ninjas! I knew it! : rosewood
  • ^^^ the only gay eskimo ^^^ : kbnerd
• haha, women are cruel : FPSDavid
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  The circle is complete. The apprentice has become the master. : brickmatt
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    we all know that lurker chick has always been the master. : Prozium
    • Anyone with breasts knows this! : Ratalon
  • father->son son->father. umm Superman... wtf? : sKetchflow
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  OH GOD DAMMIT! I left the apartment for one fucking minute to check my mail and she does this? Thank God : Bean
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    This girl doesn't exist, does she? : Ratsofatsorat
    • Not after I'm done wrecking shit. : Bean
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    That's big talk for a man wearing a shirt that says "24 hr sperm bank deposits"! : Chris Remo
    • I like your style Remo. : Ecks
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  lol. I see that +inf are being given away like candy now! : chuck577
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    Some things truly are informative. : rosewood
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      This is so true. : brickmatt
      • You have the power to fix it : rosewood
• hahahahah, excellent : yAak
• Words cannot describe how truly beautiful this is. : Daggoth
• Your lurker chick is AWESOME! Keep her! : dognose
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  This is one of the better "I love the cock" posts :D : nomaad
  • Q-Con may not have many this year : kbnerd
• Bean totally had sex shortly after this was posted. : aggressor
• This post + the fact that I found shacknews in my new girls history the other day = scared TFO :\ : TotalFusionOne
• ROTFL : suicidemachine
• LURKER GIRL FINALLY POSTS, OH THE IRONING : TastyWheat
• Well played, old chapette. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• Yeah it was called Ultima Online....may it rest in peace....cause the shit they call UO now ain't it.... : zipper76
• I think Gothic was the last game that did that to me. : speon
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  Thief did that for me. : Kiriakos
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    Same. I played TDP demo and was blown away. : rand04
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      I don't even know what came over me to play the demo either, but whatever it was I'm glad I did play it. : Kiriakos
      • It was on a PCGAMER cd for me. Just tried it. Still my favourite game ever. : rand04
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. A friend bought it, leant it to me and I played it all weekend long. : Sarcastro
• X-Wing was one... I'd never even seen any of the Star Wars movies at the time, didn't know anything about... : Chris Remo
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  No One Lives Forever : rosewood
  • Ditto this. Came out of nowhere to rock my face. : ChibiJosh
  • yea this one was great too : bagelcc
• Tribes! : g.lee
• x-com back in the good old days. harvest moon several years ago, too : JINKY
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  Fallout 2 quite likely... Soon as that video rolled I was hooked. : zakazi
  • oh shit yeah fallout 2 : JINKY
  • A friend at school let me borrow it, I played and loved it.. until the part where I had to get a battery ... : Ratalon
• Doctor, and Tune in Tokyo : drucifer
• Total Overdose for me : goosetickler
• Diablo. It was one of those games I saw screenshots of and knew I would love it. : walker270
• Duck Hunt, that was sweet! : barrymaccockiner
• Hacker, Privateer, Total Annihilation. Being the geek that I am though, it is hard for a game to come out... : Stoned Gargoyle
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  BF9142 really came out of nowhere for me. But then after about a month I totally gave up on pubs and play... : not work safe
  • BF1942 for me also. When the demo came out and some coworkers were playing it on the office LAN I though... : Krypt_
• Doom II. played it at a friend's house and knew nothing about PC gaming at all beyond math blasters and o... : RikiTiki2
• quake. hopefully the crysis engine revives my lust for gaming :( : qwertymkonji
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  Giants : Mister Groin
  • Me too...LOVE that game. : Don Vito Corleone
  • I wanted to play it MP so bad but all my friends didnt have the hardware to be able to play it, or the de... : Ratalon
• Chu Chu Rocket. Holy awesome. : five_percent
• I thought Chrono Trigger was going to suck... ended up being one of my all-time favorites. That was pret... : yAak
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  X-Com UFO Defense and StarControl 2, two of my favourite games of all times. I got both of them without a... : SenorSpine
  • I kept the X-COM demo around for years and used it as a Instant Action option. The game was awsome but fo... : NoCopy
  • Same here with XCOM : metralgia
• Space Quest I The Sarien Encounter : bagelcc
• Space Invaders. 1978. : Wolfanoz
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  Duke3D. Seriously. It was 1997, I had just got a PC and had a few games but was disappointed, Tomb Raid... : dognose
  • Actually, I'd have to concur. I had never heard of the game, but I played the shit out of that game. Cust... : zipper76
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    My introduction to Duke Nukem was the shareware at a friend's house. He called me up and told me I had t... : wunderbred
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      Awesome story. Not much later, I was in an Electronics Boutique (what EB was called then as you know) ... : dognose
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        My aunt and uncle gave me Shadow Warrior for my birthday, but they bought it at Wal-Mart, so it came with... : wunderbred
        • My brother and I played the living shit out of the SW shareware. That game was crazy. : wild falcon
  • I remember after completing Duke Nukem II it brought up a message saying "look out for Duke3D!" and I'm a : Daggoth
• Easy. SAM & MAX. What goes this dog and rabbit thing? Awesome. Also...Cobra Mission. Love playing that g... : pobone
• I knew nothing about HL until my friend lent me his copy. : aeg1x
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  Syndicate, Quake, Nox multiplayer, Ultima 6+7, Duke 3d, One must fall 2097, Sacrifice, Out of the World,... : hadokennn
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    Oh yea Fallout : hadokennn
    • what a slut. : thekidd
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  Super Mario Bros: first game I ever saw on a console, I was as excited as the Nintendo 64 kid. Doom: H... : someWayne
  • postal 2 lets you piss on whatever you want : strandgeck
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  Psychonauts ;) : Draco
  • second this : Spoetzl
• Beyond Good & Evil : Bull
• System Shock 2. The box looked nice and I liked the description on the back. All I knew about it was that... : freshyk
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  Syndicate Wars. It blew me away. : Fredrik S
  • Seconded! CATACLYSM....And there goes an entire high-rise building... : Derringer
• Vagina : mojoald
• Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. Was looking to buy a game for my new PC, walked in a store, and my da... : Matt Burris
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  Beyond Good and Evil. all i knew was "it's $10 at CC, buy it" so i did and yeah it's a shortish game, but... : cpt_gloval
  • I completely agree with this post. The ads told me nothing, and I was fairly broke when it came out, but... : Ritual-MikeR
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  Doom, back in the day :) : dodob
  • hrmm and pretty much every game before that. almost zero pre-release info about games back then. : dodob
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  X-com: terror from the deep I loved that game :( : DM7
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    Good god no. Original X-com was so much better. TFTD went absolutely freaking nuts on the diffculty sca : Lunatic Angelic
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      I played the original after Terror From the deep and I didn't like it that much for some reason. Bewa... : DM7
      • How the fuck did you not wanan burn it after you fought the crabs?! : Ratalon
    • terror is still brilliant, but that 1 guy hiding in the toilet was always so annoying. : spdon
• the shack. : proclone1
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  Eternal Darkness. At the time I got it, it had just barely been reviewed, albeit positively, and i was st... : Dante
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    huh.. I got that. Played for a bit, but just couldn't get into it. Does it get better after the aztec stu... : Fredrik S
    • I don't remember the game much at all frankly, but when the insanity started adding up it was amazing. : Dante
    • It's one of those games that gets better and better the further you get into it. : timmie
• theif, bought it for cheap out of a bargin bin, no clue what it was...but awesome : drabid
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  final fantasy tactics : pupismyname
  • ^^^^^ : sgtsanity
• Impossible Creatures : tangles
• Riddick. I thought it would suck so bad... then I couldn't stop playing. : guido anchovy
• come to think of it, i knew almost nothing about half life except that it was some quake engine trickery,... : cpt_gloval
• Lightspeed. It was 1990, and it had polygons. : Rich McNinch
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  Jet Set Radio So much better than its cousin on the Xbox : boomstickah
  • Jet Set Radio was the xbox version. the one for the Dreamcast was Jet Grind Radio. : kbnerd
• diablo 2 and kotor : infiltrator`
• Hard question. I've always read reviews and opinions for games. I got Nintendo Power before I even had an... : Ratsofatsorat
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  Oh so many. Doom. Warcraft. Super Mario Bros. Final Fantasy. Castlevania. Metroid. Baldur's Gate. P... : Ebu
  • Oh, knew nothing about. Scratch Baldur's Gate. : Ebu
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  Omega Boost. I saw it in the flea market one day for $10. Played it and I loved it to end. I liked it so ... : Darkfox76
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    You know, I never played that game but it always sounded interesting. It's dirt cheap on amazon.com so I... : omnova
    • Dude, is fucking awesome. One of the best PS1 games dude. Get that thing. : Darkfox76
• Fighters Anthology : Blackdawgg
• The original Alone in the Dark : freak!
• Grand Theft Auto III. I didn't know a thing about the game, and sat down to try it out at a friend's hal... : o0JediBeavis0o
• Ikaruga : egg5hen
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  Anachronox. Never enough love for this game. : senseimoron
  • IAWTP! I love Tom Hall's work. :) : fechols
  • Fully agreed. : Magus
• Pirates!, Splinter Cell, Max Payne 2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Pirates! i got because it was si... : snowwolf
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  final fantasy 1 instant i played it i loved it same goes for dragon warrior but i remember knowing a... : oHnOES
  • Final Fantasy was the first game I paid for with my own money (was 7 or 8 at the time), and I knew nothin... : omnova
• That reminds me of how I used to buy games as a kid. I didn't read magazines and it was a bit too early f... : Tincan
• Actraiser! Knew nothing going in, blew me away. : Sexpansion Pack
• Heroes of Might and Magic : wtf242
• A-10 Tank Killer I loved that game. : timmie
• Starcraft : suqur
• 688 Attack Sub. : edgewise
• Don't ask how I knew nothing about it, but Deus Ex. : SockMonkeh
• Vigilante 8 lolz (I hated goldeneye the first time i played it - then it became my no. 1) : lowayne
• Starsiege : awoihjaweohr
• fallout. downloaded the demo and the second I saw that first screen of the entrance to the town i was hoo... : mista mista
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  Painkiller. It's got a perfect "feel" to it. : NastyJack
  • It's the sequel to Quake I always had a hardon for. : SpaecKow
• Duke Nukem Forever : iamgoat
• Maniac Mansion on the NES. I probably played through that game at least 20 times. : joesnizzle
• alpha centauri ^_^ : jessipoo
• The original Metroid. : brickmatt
• Strike Commander and US Navy Fighters : Waverider
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  -Sim City(@ age 5) -Sam n Max Hit the Road -Day of the Tentacle -X-Com After those, I went out of m... : algernoN8
  • Sim City is another good one for me. : Chris Remo
• Undying.. excellent game : sikander
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater! : lacker
• Intelligent Cube : ColoradoCNC
• My first time playing the LucasArts adventure games : MurrayTheSkull
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  UO and Worms : sKetchflow
  • Worms! also Inteligent Cube : lacker
• Half-Life (tis true) : johnsto
• Devil Dice Even my Dad got into this game. So good. : Zips
• Zork : godwit
• Doom and Quake. Didn't know about either before they came out, Quake came out of the blue for me, dad ... : deathofrats
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  BF1942...knew nothing about it. Demo came. I was hooked. : gyokuro
  • IAWT1942 : rosewood
• Deus Ex. I didn't even complete the demo before I was looking for it in stores. : Judicus
• indiana jones - the last crusade and civilization. on my amiga. jagged alliance and tie fighter on pc. : arnonymouscoward
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  The original Katamari Damacy. God I loved that game : Ecks
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    I have still never played, or SEEN that game played. : Ratalon
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      You're missing out something fierce. It's the most original game in a LONG time. The gameplay itself wa... : Ecks
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        I know I must play it.. but I just haven't. : Ratalon
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          You seriously can't beat $20. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002Y2XXQ/sr=8-1/qid=1153902854/ref=pd... : Ecks
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            The product features seem to be a little off.. I think : Ratalon
            • That's pretty funny. Ya, they're off, but trust me, this game is worth at least $50. I promise you won'... : Ecks
            • LOL yeah they are waaay off. : kbnerd
        • i'd lend it to you but you live too far away =-( : kbnerd
• Cave Story : mallocated
• Grandia 2 : Ripley
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  X-com (So much awesome, so much NEED for an exact remake with better graphics and that is it) Rollercost... : Ratalon
  • I didn't have a PC at the time, so I played that game on the original playstation. It literally had 1 mi... : Ecks
• oh! oh! Women... hell Life : sKetchflow
• Ultima Underworld, Syndicate : systatic
• Quakeworld. No question. : b00tsauce
• Honestly, I've only done that once. With Final Fantasy II (snes). And it was pretty fucking good. : Orange Pylon
• Syndicate : Daggoth
• Doom 1 and Quake 1. : Poor Yurik
• total annihilation : hobosapien
• Sacrifice. Downloaded the demo and was blown away. : Pink0r
• kohan. pulled it off a shelf randomly, played it for a year straight : Gauss
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  Doom 1 shareware. : abrasion
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    My god I agree with you a lot recently. : blackhawk
    • Nothing can ever beat that first time you ever played it - specially how well coded it was and it ran hal... : abrasion
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  Deus Ex : MikkleThePickle
  • seconded. : wild falcon
• I fell in love with the Redneck Rampage puke demo when I was 10. : wild falcon

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  god I am so embaressed. : thekidd
  • so nuke it and repost : drucifer
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  I've got QW 2.21 & 3-Wave 4.10. I hate the idea of updating these, they have served me faithfully for ... : Colleton
  • http://www.quaketerminus.com/nqexes/idgamma.zip : Colleton
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  SERVER IS UP, we have 8 ppl playing on ctf2!!! : thekidd
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    is it ok to use the fuhquake gl client and connect? or is quakeworld better? when i try connecting with q... : Mr.Fusion
    • fuhquake (either) is fine. : thekidd
• dunno why the fuck it went all weird on me. the pings are all fine now, everyone is back below 200....... : thekidd
• i'd play but i'm fucking scanning/deleting spyware : cncpun
• That was fun...though the old graphics still make me a bit queasy. : zipper76
• you don't need quakeworld or idgamma for glquake if you use fuhquake since it replaces both of these : mallocated
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  Man, sad I can't remember those maps as well as I used to. Still, there's lots of fond memories in the ol... : project13
  • Oh yeah... some of those I don't remember at all, but man some where just sooo familiar instantly... so a... : zakazi
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  man wtf? Do I put all 3 of those CTF 3wave Files in it's own dir? Like Quake\ctf ? Then get it going ... : whippy
  • I just dropped the ctf folder into c:\quake\fuhquake and it worked. : cyb0rgninja
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  where to i put the levelpack files? : mallocated
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    Put all the pak files into Quake/ctf, then add "-game ctf" (minus the quotes) to the end of your command ... : Krypt_
    • yeah i was thinkign the pak0 and pak1 files would overwrite some originals, but i guess not. and if you'r... : mallocated
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  hay increase the player limit :( : mallocated
  • :( :( we need more than 8 ppl at a time : mallrice
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  sorry guys, I see like 4 of you trying to connect. we're maxed out at 8 players. turns out the most... : thekidd
  • Someone else put up some more servers! Tonight is a Shack Quakestravaganza! : Krypt_
  • As a heads up there are a few CTF servers in Gamespy right now (for those who can't get in): Exec-PC Q... : zakazi
  • I dropped out, so there's a spot open. : thekidd
  • Even after it dropped to 8, it was still lagging pretty bad :( Hope you find the problem. : paulatreus
  • I'd run my server, but there be torrents run throughout the house :( : Orange Pylon
• lol ok is this run off of a cable modem or what : mallocated
• looks like I fixed the ping spikes (for now), and we have a spot open.... : thekidd
• god this is awesome. so fun. need less packetloss though, heh. : fart
• Holy shit that's fun. Awesome games guys! : FushigiDenki
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  cajuncooks installer and the guide it was based on is outdated now, I believe. I know for sure that there... : aggressor
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    I just found this, going to try it out now: http://equake.quakeworld.nu/ : aggressor
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      ^^^ this is all you need. you don't need quake1 to play. : mallrice
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        Really? I haven't tried it yet, but I thought you still needed the .pak files from the original : aggressor
        • i've been playing the past two days without them. : mallrice
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    Is there? I didn't think FuhQuake was updated any more. Incidentally, I bet you that setup of cajunco... : Zero|DPX
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      Well, once I saw the date of the post on Shacknews, I went to Fuhquakes site to see, and they all link to... : aggressor
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        The 100MB download contains a lot of the same things that cajuncook's installer does (more textures etc.)... : Zero|DPX
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          So everything else is up to date? Now I'm torn between your guide and eQuake :( : aggressor
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            No, no. cajuncook's pack is very out of date. But the FuhQuake installer is also very out of date, and ... : Zero|DPX
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              Pfft. If I know there is better out there, I'll never rest. : aggressor
              • Fuck it. eQuake wins :( : aggressor
• good games people! there's 6 or 7 still playing, so there's still a spot open if someone wants to join... : thekidd
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  Dammit people get off the server :( : Zero|DPX
  • Screw that, play all you want since it's on DM now instead of CTF. : Zero|DPX
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    are there "connection maps" in quake1 like unreal had? so one can jump from server to server. like an... : dodob
    • Um... no, there aren't : Zero|DPX
• fun and awesome times were had playing ctf again, thanks to thekidd! : pickerd
• 3 people still playing DM!!!!! last bump for the night. : thekidd
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  Q1DM. Just as great as i remember. Why play any other game online? pure awesome. : grifter
  • Fuck yeah. Fun never gets outdated. : Krypt_
• Why are cheats enabled on the server? : aggressor
• any west coast peeps still awake? : pickerd

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  you're missing the best state where degenerate and I are. : sigpro
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    I was originally planning on hitting Portland on the way back, because I want to move there someday. Now : TheMonkeyWench
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      trust me, you don't want to miss out on degenerate's hobo rapings. : MurrayTheSkull
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        Felicia just ok'd a Portland detour. Mwuahahaha. : TheMonkeyWench
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          Shit, might as well hit up Seattle then. It's only 3 hours north or so. : Ecks
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            you guys should just drive south instead. : kbnerd
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              f that. seattle is worth the trip. : mallrice
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                not when Portland is a stretch anyway it isn't. : kbnerd
                • Fly! Seriously :(. : Ecks
• Thanks for stopping in TX where there's like 50 shackers : EvilDolemite
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  So this means I get to do 2 chicks at the same time, right? : edlin
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    And you don't even have to be a millionaire! This is gonna be so awesome. : TheMonkeyWench
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      Sweet! I'm on vacation that week (8/28 - 9/3) so tell me where & when to meet you in Southern Cal. : edlin
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        My Guitar Hero skills will be great by then. : lacker
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          Did you go out and buy it? : edlin
          • two of them : lacker
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  \m/ Rape \m/ : CrimsonHandHiro
  • this whole thread is gold : ColoradoCNC
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  If you loopy bitches dont hit New Orleans I'm going to take you both off my christmas card mailing list. ... : Rauol Duke
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    How about I come down for Voodoofest or whatever the fuck that thing is, and kidnap Felicia on the way? T... : TheMonkeyWench
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      Don't do it. I had plans to do just that last year and look what happened. : lacker
      • It all worked out, we got plenty of brown power up in this bitch now because of that. : Rauol Duke
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      I can handle that. CAN YOU?! Also R U RDY 2 ROCK MA'AM? X + Rollins = my erect peener. : Rauol Duke
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        I've got a couple of crossdressing midgets all lined up. The afterparty is gonna be off da hook! : TheMonkeyWench
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          boing. : Rauol Duke
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            seriously. midgets are easy to pick up. male or female. : lacker
            • oops I thought you said boring. : lacker
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      http://www.voodoomusicfest.com/2006/home.php Duran Duran motherfuckers. What? : Rauol Duke
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        Wut wut wut. *gets out voodoo doll and plastic shot glasses* : TheMonkeyWench
        • You just need the bottle here sweety, no glasses. : Rauol Duke
      • Flaming Lips, Wu Tang, Social Distortion, and RHCP. :( I wish I was free that weekend! :((((( : freshyk
• You guys are in town the last day I'll be around I think. SONOFA! : Ecks
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  this is *really* unlikely to happen, BUT if I am able to come, would any of you fine ladies or ghey menz ... : jcutner
  • If you come to LA I'll pick you up at LAX or BUR, I could even be persuaded to spring for Long Beach, but... : angrytaxman
• please come to tulsa... : rsustudent
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  Oh, sure, you'll drive halfway across the country to ass-rape gamers, yet you won't even ass-rape the peo... : Bold
  • If someone would organize a MN shackmeet, I would go! I'll bring the strapon too. : TheMonkeyWench
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  Not enough rage. : Experiment IV
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    It's rape, Not enough rape. : devi| dog
    • They don't have to be mutually exclusive! : Krypt_
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  This sounds fun. : iamgoat
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    yes it does : iamrape (#1747) « : MurrayTheSkull
    • Boy howdy. : MurraperOfTheSkull (#1783) « : iamgoat
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  Thelma and Louise move over! sounds like fun :) : ChowYunCat
  • Except I'll actually be sad when these two drive into the Grand Canyon. :( : CrimsonHandHiro
  • join them! : lacker
• queue Nirvana: RAPE ME!!! : khaosman
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  I'm going to need more lube. And more film. : Ajax
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    be gentle if I visit. : jcutner
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      Not a chance. And just for the record, the lube is for the midget fights, not the actual raping. : Ajax
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        because baby powder is best to use for raping : jane911
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          Only because it clumps up so good after you've worked up a sweat. : Ajax
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            it tastes even better with gravy : jane911
            • Oh that's fucking hot I'm going to go snort a line of Baby Powder right now. : Ajax
  • :D : TheMonkeyWench
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  Where in CA are you guys ending up at? : Krypt_
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    LA, but we will be driving around and seeing the sights, so we can go elsewhere in CA. : TheMonkeyWench
    • Cool, I'll try to clear up my schedule for RAPES! : Krypt_
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  I am not feeling the love. : omnova
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    that's because you live in the boonies. : kbnerd
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      Yeah and Denton is the shining beacon of civilization. : omnova
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        maybe so but i have an ace up my sleeve. : kbnerd
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          I'm dying to know what that is. : omnova
          • wait until Sunday. : kbnerd
        • You and your "cakes" and "pies". You god damned drug dealer. : Ecks
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          You mean your impeccable taste in games? Oh wait, that can't be it because your taste in good and bad gam : Ajax
          • i think that by and large my taste in games that i enjoy is inline with everyone elses it's just a few ga... : kbnerd
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  I'm going to be in MN August 3-10 I would love to meet you for lunch or something while I'm there. Maybe ... : angrytaxman
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    Raoul Duke will be up here on the 9th, we should get him in on it! I'll be free from the 6th on, we shoul... : TheMonkeyWench
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      Oh shit it's on now! I'll have to actually come up with some good ideas for either the 9th or the 10th a... : angrytaxman
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        The 9th Im seeing X and Rollins up there. NOTHING ELSE ALLOWED. you fuck on the 1st date? : Rauol Duke
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          Too late, I signed your ass up for a raping. : TheMonkeyWench
          • I am not missing Henry Rollins over some flair filled shitstand with wacky drinks in plastic mugs and dea : Rauol Duke
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  You guys planning on making a No. California stop? Or are edlin and Ajax heading down south? : paulatreus
  • oh, they'll be heading down south if you catch my meaning. : CrimsonHandHiro
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    We can make a NorCal stop on the way to Portland. I don't know if edlin and Ajax want to drive down to So... : TheMonkeyWench
    • There's tons of Bay Area shackers... : yosemiteclimber
• Come to Bakersfield so you can find out what it truly means to roast yourself alive 118 degrees today : Galadriel07