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• Easier than I thought. 1. Stop and disable the Windows Update service 2. Rename or delete c:\Windows\... : SinistarX
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  Way to overreact to the patches! So, here's how you control it: Right-click My Computer, choose Pro... : Scrimbo Obeer
  • Here's a screenshot: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4003/clipboard01bu2.jpg : Scrimbo Obeer
  • Read my original post again. That's how I had my machine set up originally, but the latest patches overr... : SinistarX

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  i'm not seeing any indications that hardware 3d works now. dxdiag still says direct3d isn't supported. : electroly
  • :( Then I shall now continue weeping. >:( : Toraz Chryx
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  I have a copy on my MBP, so I'll give it a whirl today. : Dechter
  • you have a ManBearPig? :-P : the archvile

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• *undertand better -> gain insight. Whatever. : dodob
• I don't agree that imitate means the same as copy. : Mantle
• they also have no plural, and they don't use time the way we do, which is why you find them constantly ad... : Gauss
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  Sometimes, you can understand a culture better by studying its language. That's about the only way y... : Morphius
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    Es por eso que todas las mujeres quieren besarme. : lacker
    • lol, I'm sure that's the case. : Bean
    • >:) You the Spanish playboy in your off time? : Morphius
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  The chinese characters for 'contradict' are shield and sword. : deathofrats
  • Actually it's spear and sword, but I'm just being picky. : slacko
• the ideogram for "trouble" is two women under one roof (I was told once) : jcupitt
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  what is the chinese word for general tsao? : sexninja!!!!
  • its something like "thisisatestpost" : CoRDS
  • 曹将军, literally. : slacko
• Those guys sure learn a lot of video games. : Endymion_
• Here's my take (and please take note that I am part Chinese). When I was in high school I did okay. My ov... : Fred Garvin

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• tagged for interesting mod : NFXFSX
• It keeps on crashing when I launch it, here's to hoping I can get it working, thanks for setting this up! : Athlon7
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  What'd you set the build time at? What's the default? Btw for anyone who just has HL2DM like me, you n... : jrock
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    All the settings are default; so I think the build time is 600 seconds. : bawbeh
    • wow that should be plenty long. cool. server shows it's playing Zombiemod now though. I'll pop on later b... : jrock
• oh this sounds very interesting! see you in 12 damn hours after work :(( : IcomeINpeace
• been playing this for the past few days, it's a blast when no one is griefing : egg5hen
• ill be playing it tonight after my dead rising fix : klearlyunseen

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• Hrm. Well, some Mario games I like. But some I dont like. Okay, there was just one I didnt like, Mario... : kikilupo
• I love Mario, he's so dreamy. : mikage
• I think they're fun. I like how Nintendo has used Mario as a venue for such a wide variety of games. Mari... : tfboc
• I like burritos and piggies. : systatic
• I like Mario more than I do his games : red2lucas
• Mario is coo.... : K1Bond007
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  how could anyone not like new super mario bros or SMW : pyide
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    Probably because I grew up playing non-nintendo games. And now i'm bitter and jaded towards anything Mari... : DrZettl
    • It sounds like you're missing a ton of good games just because you're bitter. Sucks to be you :(. : Ecks
    • I grew up Nintendo-frei for the most part and I am having a blast in my old age of twenty-something playi... : MC Kingsley
• mario good : grendel
• All the Mario games are polished and fun. Have you ever had a Mario kart tournament? I think not! A... : Freon

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  My advice: Don't royally fuck this up like you have every other job in your entire life. : Bean
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    Also: what be the second job? Is this the nude modelling for that gay bear website? : Bean
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      wtf I have not fucked up every other job in my life. And no, it's waiting tables at another upscale re... : TotalFusionOne
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        LOL. Well good luck! At least you'll be bringing down the cash monies between the two. Is the CVS positio... : Bean
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          This is very true! And I wish I had thought about this ages ago when I didn't have insurance. But right n... : TotalFusionOne
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            If you're working full-time at CVS, they should have an insurance plan you can sign up on, especially sin... : Bean
            • Oh I know, and I will sign up for it when I stop riding out my parents plan... But I pay my parents $3... : TotalFusionOne
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  Why did you stop being a waiter? I know you were fired for a bullshit reason at one point. I thought you ... : enyakk
  • I don't want to work at that place. Too much drama between the two owners, and if they're going to fire m... : TotalFusionOne
• get copys of the nekkid chicky photos from the photo dept wen people get em developed : supermonkeyballz
• I can't wait for the made up stories. : brickmatt
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  What's CVS? :-( : blackhawk
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    Cock-in-Vagina-Sex : Bean
    • I like this answer, though I'm more of a CAS man myself. : blackhawk
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    Smallish drug store. : TotalFusionOne
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      Are they just concentrated in the midwest? Because I see them every where in Indiana. : Morphius
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        No, they're spreading to all of US. You see them in Indiana because CVS bought out Osco Drugs in the late... : TotalFusionOne
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          Where are you located? My home of residence is Bloomington, but I lived for some time north of Evansville... : Morphius
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            Right now I'm in FL, but I lived in Indiana quite a bit. I lived off of Jefferson in Bloomington for a... : TotalFusionOne
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              Wow, when were you there? Did you attend IU or some such? Just the way you talk we may have been in the s... : Morphius
              • Feb '02 til Nov '02 I maintained an apartment there, but I was NEVER there.. Seriously. My roomates were ... : TotalFusionOne
    • They are actually a pretty big chain here in the North East. My gf works there while she goes to Pharmac... : liqker
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      Smallish? Last i read they were either ther #1 chain or right behind walgreens. : pimpium
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        In size. : TotalFusionOne
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          Oh, that makes more since! I don't suppose the one you are at is open 24hrs? : pimpium
          • Yes ma'mm it is... I got overnights :D : TotalFusionOne
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    Concurrent Versions System : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • *tagged* : skryte
  • Drugstore/Pharmacy : zakazi

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• It's all about the Verisign name for customers, and number of hits. 99% of the time if that lock icon sh... : festivalman
• We recently made a similar decision. While names like Verisign and Thawte are recognizable by a lot of pe... : gatts

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• ok : strandgeck
• I thought it was pretty tech mellow this yeah. : red2lucas
• almost nothing technical this year, mostly rambling about the industry and programming in general. Still ... : BigT

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• :( : soulr

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  Xircon! Although I don't know that the official site is still running, and by a quick Google check it loo... : ieGod
  • Awesome! Why? : TotalFusionOne
• vIRC - http://www.visualirc.net/ Its a little old they haven't updated it in 2yrs, but its a nice IRC cl... : Shadowdane

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  Marathon? I have no real idea, just a guess..... : breal0
  • my guess as well.. : g0nk
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    ahaha, I fucking knew it. Any Mac game has to be Marathon if you ask a PC gamer. : enyakk
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      wut? : g0nk
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        Marathon is famous enough that mistaking it for a modern day shooter in office buildings is like mistakin... : Poor Yurik
        • i never played it, so wtf do i know? : g0nk
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  I know exactly which game you;re talking about. and I can't remember the name. the title was in red, I th... : Supine
  • Same. : sheivachman
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    When you said that what popped into my head was "Total Overdrive" and "Total Overload" but neither pull u... : Poor Yurik
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      sensory overload! : Supine
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        Oh shitttttt! You got it! Hahah, awesome. Gonna google it. : Poor Yurik
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          Woah, they were the same guys that made Havok. Remember that shit? Really weird game. 3d, all vehicula... : Poor Yurik
          • http://www.macledge.com/features/?id=404 : Poor Yurik
• We need a 3D Oregon Trail! :( : Wolfanoz

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• me want : conandan
• I wonder if it was any good. : abrasion

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  dont forget to brush your edgewise!! : g0nk
  • or jerk off your klearlyunseen : klearlyunseen

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  Too much hype over that film... I enjoyed it, but towards the end it gets a little .. weird. : VencieraX
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    my thoughts exactly, absolutely great movie until it decided to get wtf? id still say its a very good mov... : klearlyunseen
    • It wasn't bad at all. On a scale of 1 to Akira, I'd rate it about a 3 as far as weirdness goes. : sgtsanity
  • Nah it's very cool, the weirdness is just a cultural thing in my opinion. : yourname00
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  why were you listening to the crappy english dub? : CoRDS
  • Indeed, learn to read subs damn yous! : sasowa
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    Otaku rage! : woddemandred
    • GaijinSmash : CoRDS
  • it's not a crappy dub, it's actually pretty good : OrkO
  • Oh, I switched over pretty quickly after hoping the character would just go away. I'd love to listen to t... : sgtsanity
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    Who fucking cares? Not everyone wants to read while watching a movie. Nobody is impressed that you have... : RatBastard
    • he does, he was saying the billybob was annoying, hence the subtitles. pay attention :) : CoRDS
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      The alternative is to learn spoken Japanese. Really, a great many dubs are horrendously done that once yo... : Morphius
      • Indeed. Japanese seiyus ftw. : slacko
      • replace "some" with "any" : skryte
    • sub: "Let's keep driving. I'm not going to let you go home tonight." dub: "Want to get a milkshake? I kn... : woddemandred
    • A lot of people fucking cares, sometimes the charm of the accents, the accentuation of the words and deli... : abrasion
    • My solution, with Mononoke in particular, was to watch it once with subs (and it's interesting to see the... : Vincent Grayson
• Billy Bob thorton was involved with that? Really, I never knew. I've always watched that in Japanese. The... : Morphius

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• Awesome. Can't be easy putting 730hp to ONE rear wheel though, heh. : DinK

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  i use airtunes. works fine but that remote is hot. : lacker
  • It sure is! I'll have to wait for a price drop though since I'm planning to move in with my gf in the not... : ArtilleryMarker
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  cnet got to play with it some http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6625815.html?subj=blog&part=rss&tag=Lo... : smacknca
  • Sounds like logitech has a winner there. : ArtilleryMarker
• i've got airtunes which does the same thing i guess. Plus the remote for my macbook pro. Its good when my... : disembodied potato

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  Chess Shackbattle! I'll play you a game. Been playing on Yahoo tonight. Should we meet in the Social... : Nixx2004
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    Reply soon or I'm going to sleep. Maybe we can play some other time if not now. : Nixx2004
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      Oh shit I was reading.. still on? : TotalFusionOne
      • Sure, I'm still in the Snake Pit room, name is nixxmco. : Nixx2004
• chessmaniac.com is ok : cygnus

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  What good are you people? : rosewood
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    We only understand games and relationships. Which are the same thing it turns out. : dognose
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      I had a great story but I don't want to give you any nuke fun. What should I do with it? : rosewood
      • Give it some sprite? : ghost hacker
• Tell them it uses coding conventions developed in the 90's and has since been made obsolete, it isn't sea... : Matt Burris
• Tell em their website is only fit for lesbians and trench diggers : shavenewok
• how do their competitors websites look? If they're sites are much more polished/functional then that may... : Prozium
• Just give them what they want and take the money. : slacko
• It sounds like they actually like it the way it currently is, you might have to just accept that and do i... : scanline

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• what the fuck are you talking about : PlanetPerfecto
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  On Scifi there's a show called "Who Want's to be a Superhero?" Im guessing your rlly dont watch too much ... : KillSwitchEngaged002
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    Yea, but your post is a hodgepodge of random shit with grammar so horrible it'd make a myspace kiddy crin... : famine101
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      No offense, of course. Just relaying the fact that I had trouble reading your post. : famine101
      • Go go gadget stomach!! : KillSwitchEngaged002
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      Well, I'm quite a bit tired. So, there is the possibility that I could spell stuff wrong. Also, I did ha : KillSwitchEngaged002
      • You are fucking nutty. I guess that doesn't bother me. Carry on. : losder5000
      • I didn't know ranting excitedly like a teenage girl is a side-effect of tiredness. :D : Orange Pylon
• But...she's powered by donuts! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• someone needs to start keeping copies of these. seriously, this guy could have his blog website where he ... : rsustudent

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• I'm thinking Napoleon Dynamite. : Morphius
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  I can't think of a way in which they could do something like that without it coming across as cheesy. Bu... : ColoradoCNC
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    I am thinking a kind of larger victory celebration thing. Alternatively it could be a moment between a co... : enyakk
    • With Ewoks : Serpico74
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      In all honesty, it's things like that that I am looking forward to in games now. We've seen good graphic... : ColoradoCNC
      • The end of FF3/6j made me misty eyed. :( Tiny sprites and text boxes, but the characters were so awesome... : Barnahog
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        I completely agree with you on every level. What we really need in the gaming industry are good storytell... : lookitzpancakes
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          That's why I'm glad to see people like Spielberg and Peter Jackson getting into games. Even though their... : ColoradoCNC
          • They are among the absolute best at what they do as storytellers and manipulators of emotion (which by th : Serpico74
          • I'm just hoping that getting directors of that level involved with the gaming industry is going to draw i... : ColoradoCNC
      • You know, after the massive, absolutely hopeless battle that they're most likely about to face, I wouldn'... : Orange Pylon
• Vortigaunt Rave: Electric Boogaloo : rand04
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  It'd be as lame as the scene from Matrix Reloaded. : Orange Pylon
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    As if an obsessive Alyx wasn't bad enough. : Morphius
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      Oh man alyx is SOOOOO hungry for the Freemancock. You can see it in her eyes. : Orange Pylon
      • It's the super gravity gun man. : Morphius
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    Which one? All of them? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • That would just be cruel. : Orange Pylon
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  Alyx teaches Gordon to dance, ala Clerks 2 :) : jcutner
  • "Gordon, you don't dance much, do you?" : enyakk
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  I agree, preferably underground, at Zion with lots of hot black people, dancing like they don't have a ca... : abrasion
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    LOOK THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THE EQUIPMENT FOR A RAVE! It'll be a guy with a makeshift guitar with a few ... : enyakk
    • Dude, I'm taking the piss re: Matrix Reloaded since it sucked in that. : abrasion
• So thats why you don't work for valve. : not work safe
• "Dance for me, Combine scum!" *PEW PEW* : Mad Brahmin Disease
• break dance show down between Gordon and Breen! : ghost hacker
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  You're fired. Seriously, wtf. : brickmatt
  • All this Frankfurt smog going to his head... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    What if it involves Dog in a musical number? : enyakk
    • Then I'd hate dog and that'd suck. : brickmatt
• A DANCE-OFF!!! : johnsto
• As long as it doesn't turn into some big random rave in an underground cavern, sure, why not. : nephilem
• If Ep2 ships with glo-sticks as a weapon, I'm all for this. : peanut-
• Now, Dr. Freeman! Jazz hands! JAZZ. HANDS. OR IT'S ALL OVER. : genjuro

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• I hope they look more like http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/schoolforscoundrels/ : TotalFusionOne

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  wow the hype died fast. : jcutner
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    It's just no one wants to talk to you. : brickmatt
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      That and there are like 3 other posts about this...also, we hate you Jctuner. : soggybagel
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        you are a bad liar. : jcutner
        • Most of the regulars are in bed, and everyone gets the game tomorrow, so what do you want, a pie? Maybe ... : brickmatt
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  meh : enyakk
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    Says the guy who can't get it till sept or whenever. : brickmatt
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      And wants dance scenes in half-life. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        If Prey had native american dance rituals it would be twice the game! : enyakk
        • And there would be more people to kill! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Actually there won't be a german release. At all. : enyakk
      • Huh, no it will be released but ony sold under the counter. And there won't be any marketing. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• just got back from walmart.....again the lady wouldnt open the boxes for me and said to come back at 3 am... : supermonkeyballz