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  1. What’s the makeup of the team as far as experience? Am I going to be a mentor, or will I... : RyDogg1
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    Those few last ones are either very pushy or none of your business. Then again I am not in charge of hiri... : lacker
    • See I've used a few of those to very good response. Remember you are interviewing the company just as mu... : RyDogg1
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      Perhaps, but I gotta say, saying "I want this job" is VERY IMPORTANT. You'd be surprised how many people ... : halophoenix
      • Exactly these sort of things work for hiring managers cause they want to know you are enthusiastic about ... : RyDogg1
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    I find your lack of word wrapping... disturbing. 01. What’s the makeup of the team as far... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      Gracias mi amigo. I had these in a Word file. : RyDogg1
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        De nada. That's a pretty good list, btw... I like numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15 the most, even th... : Ride-My-Rocket
        • Oh yeah these are just baseline stuff you can certainly add your own flair to them. : RyDogg1
    • tagged job interview questions tips : inarius
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      Tagged, interview questions. : senseimoron
      • tagged interview indeed : cam3lt0sis
    • tag tagged !! : Mr.SEX
    • TAGGED JOB STUFF! : freakynipples69
    • future tag : TPSReport
    • interesting : ]pm[chem
    • Revised http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=25099438#itemanchor_25099438 : action roommate
  • very good list. I can't stress enough how important it is to ask competent questions when you're being i... : digitalburro
  • tagged. interview tips : chuck577
  • Tagged for when that time comes: College, unemployment, employment, interview. : thief
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    Tagged interview questions : Code RedBeard
    • tagged for interesting interview questions that I hopefully will never ever use. But, still interesting. : ImageOmega
  • tagged for interview questions : Kiriakos
  • tagged for interview questions : Supine
  • TAGGED FOR BUSINESS great interview tips thanks! : slickdoody
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    FAGGED. I AM A FAGGOT : boring gegtik
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      Posting from the future to confirm this is still true. : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Yup, still true. : whistler
      • glad that shit is banned : feek
  • Great questions for an interview : Dechter
  • tagged. : tometome
  • interview questions ahoy : happynoodle
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  MEMORABLY BAD QUESTIONS 1. Can I switch jobs with the hiring manager? 2. Does the company provide s... : RyDogg1
  • LOL at #4 hahaah : El Tigre
  • funny stuff :0) : grimjoe
  • wtf! I ask #12 at every interview!!! : gonk (#1925) « : ThomW
  • 17. Do you do drug testing/screening? (and then start muttering to yourself "please say no, please say no : El Tigre
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  More interview info for kicks: http://bhuvans.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/50-common-interview-qa/ : helvetica
  • ^^^thread bookmarked, thanks folks I need to get me a jerb : askedrelic
• Bookmarked for awesome. : Faluzure
• Tagged. Interview questions. : senseimoron
• Tagged Interview : kgargonmagrix79
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  Protip Ask about turnover rate in the company/group you'll be working in. This is kind of obvious, bu... : manero
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    Yeah I always ask what happened to the person in this posistion previously. I know of a company here in ... : RyDogg1
    • Just curious, but if you've had 8 different IT jobs as of 2001-2006, whats the scoop on that? All contrac... : MoreVespeneGas
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  Tagged. Here's my question though-how do you tactfully ask an employer if the block the shack BEFORE you ... : halophoenix
  • ask them if they love the cock : zakazi
• lovely job tips : boomstickah
• totally tfb : Flynn
• Interview Question - Tagged : melkore

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• Transormers XXXXTreme!!! gah, zero desire to see it now : digitalburro
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  That actually looks pretty bad-ass and scary. I like it. : nomaad
  • Same. : NFXFSX
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  what does he transform into, a hanging ivy plant? : flagg209
  • doh, alien jet - nm : flagg209
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    an EVIL hanging ivy plant : halophoenix
    • An evil Hanging Ivy plant with alien space lazers? : Mistaya
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  Why do they change this shit? Like someone doesn't want to see the original transformers and they need t... : JINKY
  • further evidence that hollywood is run by fat coked up out of touch idiots. But thankfully for them most ... : disembodied potato
  • Because it's a line of toys too. What better way to sell stuff to people who already have a whole set of ... : edgewise
• CliffyB just had a heart attack. : MatthewPhillips
• More like Meh-gay-tron. : pigvomit
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  i'm really digging these designs. they're an awesome mix or organic and mechanical : Korban
  • Me too! I think they are awesome!!!! : mace
  • Yeah because that's what Transformers was all about..organic robots that transformed into organic cars!!!... : deathofrats
• I dont know why, but I kinda like that! : warcrow
• They're killing my childhood... :( : voodooraze
• Horrible. Just horrible. : genom
• this is fucking horrible. truly horrible. : Downforce
• Not to nerd out spastically but didn't all the Transformers characters look different than the establishe... : eskimo spy
• why the fuck are they changing everything? :( : virus
• Oh fuck, did someone just have an accident? : bitter ego
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  He's supposed to turn into a .357 Magnum gun, not this horsecrap. When I was a kid our toys weren't so in... : jrock
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    wtf Megatron was a Walther P38! : eskimo spy
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      ^^^ Yep. And his G2 form was a tank. : NFXFSX
      • Guns will ruin our kids!!? Stupid society. I grew up on Megatron being a gun/cannon/tank. Am I shooting u... : pobone
    • oh yeah dun. *shame* :[ : jrock
• He looks like something a goth would have a fascination with. : Morphius
• ... these are not transformers >:( : dodob
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  ARSEFACE!! : dodob
  • arseface: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Preacher62.png/180px-Preacher62.png me... : dodob
• Not busy enough. : LeapingFool
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  It's not quite as impressive when they change from a bunch of little bits stuck on a frame into a bunch o... : 60days
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    While I tend to agree, I'm guessing that the're going a slightly different direction here than the origin... : UtilityMaximizer
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      Megatron hasn't looked like Megatron since Beast Wars : mikecyb
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        That doesn't change the fact that G1 Megatron > * and all the others are ghey : Halen
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          I liked Beast Wars Megatron better because he was pure fucking evil. G1 Megatron was just 80's cartoon c... : mikecyb
          • ^^ This man knows whats up. BW megatron was awesomely evil. : CA Flynn
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            I hate this fucking movie. This is not Transformers. >:( : Optimus Prime
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              I meanth that as a reply to the main post. sorry. : Optimus Prime
              • hahaha, well, my point stands >:( : pigvomit
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              I agree, Beast Wars should be thought of as a spinoff, like the mega man X series. : pigvomit
              • Beast Wars (minus Beast Machines) kicked ass. Actually this movie reminds me of Beast Machines in a lot ... : Optimus Prime
              • well it's its own story... it was somewhat complicated, but in short the characters in Beast Wars are evo... : mikecyb
          • It was awesome everytime Megatron petted his own dinosaur head while saying "Yeeeesssssssss" : Edges
          • I agree. I enjoyed Beast Wars immensely. Voice acting was great, the characters were well-defined. Writin... : smoove
      • At least his head design was the same. Now he has a robotic-predator-mouth thing going. Totally unrecogni... : pobone
    • The only direction they're going for is be ANYTHING other then Transformers, and still use the names. : pobone
• Consider these screenshots my entrance into the line for Go-Bots: The Movie. : Deathlove
• :/ : sharkII
• haha michael gay strikes again! first no scarlet boobies, now this : bozer
• EVEN a PLANET eater like UNICRON had sense enough to retain SOME characteristics of Megatron, when he cre... : pobone
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  wtf, that looks nothing like a colossi from Shadow of the Colossus. Where did he get that idea from? : Patch-e
  • I would have been happier if they named a colossi as "Megatron" and put it in the movie. : pobone
• ITS NOT A FUCKING GUN MY CHILDHOOD :[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ : ghost in my shell
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  RIP http://www.transfan-asylum.org/art/pics/megatron.jpg : EvilDolemite
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    I remember how pissed I was that my Megatron toy looked nothing like the cartoon when it was transformed ... : pigvomit
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      lol at crotch trigger http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tfu.info/1984/Decepticon/Megatro... : pigvomit
      • I had this one: http://www.tfu.info/1993/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm It made sounds and fired pla... : NFXFSX
      • But he carries a big arm cannon, so no one made fun of him. : pobone
    • Oh what the fuck was up with the Ratchet and Ironhide toys? They were like a couple of Stephen Hawking lo... : Ajax
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  *hugs my complete G1 dvd collection* don't worry i won't let the scary men touch you : kbnerd
  • I still need to get S3 and S4. Also, there is the 20th Anni DVD for the original movie in November. : NFXFSX
• What, Starbuck's a GIRL? : Carnivac
• They killed it. Thanks Michael Bay. : Edges
• terrible..at least i still got my childhood memories :\ : grimjoe
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  I think it looks great. : Visceral Monkey
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    ditto, while transformers were cool as a kid. I now find a lot of their designs very simplistic and child... : byorn
    • I agree. And hopefully the transforming sequences will be badass. : ventro
    • I agree with this as well. I loved Transformers as a kid, but today the original cartoons seem about as d... : ChibiJosh
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      They don't need to be blocky guys perse, but they should look like the source material, yes? : SpaecKow
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        no because a 40 foot tall robot can't fucking turn into a pistol. It works in the cartoon byut in a movie... : sigpro
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          He doesn't have to be a pistol. A tank would be fine. : Tincan
          • Already was a tank. : sigpro
    • I agree with what you're saying although I still think Megatron looks shit. They said they want all the c... : red2lucas
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  i just want to see Rodimus Prime cause he really is the true leader of the Autobots. : ultramega
  • bah! weep grawn ah weep ninny-bon! omg so unexpected :D : jrock
• I bet he's so mad cause of how much of a bitch it is to wash and wax himself. : ellipticalgrey
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  it's the Shrike! : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Haha YES! That's actually really close to how I imagined it :D : nomaad
• Fuck that movie. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Update: Childhood memories officially raped. I'm really crying here. I tried to 'like' these new designs... : Optimus Prime
  • Wondered when you'd weigh in... : ChibiJosh
  • It was raped a long time ago when they started releasing this Energon, Armada, etc CRAP. : Edges
• The sad part is the teaser image here http://www.transformersmovie.com/ looks really awesome. If only meg... : Tincan
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  What the fuck? Bumblebee looked okay. Prime I could handle. But what the shit is this? : DOOManiac
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    Same here. Ruining Megatron is where I draw the line. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      I think any evil, non autobot transformer is gonna look like this, to give them an "edge". God forbid tha... : SpaecKow
      • Also who are they going to "decept" with their alien look? "Oooo it looks like an alien jet so I bet t... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I'm 21, am I too young to know what the old Transformers looked like? I have no idea what the original o... : rossimo
  • GET OFF MY LAWN!! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Oh yeah, and just to be clear, because no one ever says this and they should for the benefit of any ILM l... : SpaecKow
• LOOK LIKE AN ANGRY CUTLERY SET : mr.sleepy
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  Whos dane cook doing the voice for? I heard optimus prime and got really pissed. But IMDB doenst say who ... : greatwhite87
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    Peter Cullen is voicing Optimus Prime. Dane Cook has a "cameo". My guess, is that he's not a voice. : CA Flynn
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      When did that happen. Last I heard Cullen was out of the running. Some good news at least. : Tincan
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        It was announced at the San Diego ComicCon this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOOM31XBJZM : Ajax
        • Well am I out of the loop or what. Thanks for the link. : Tincan
• Magatron looks like the fucking guyver : Prozium
• No wonder Megatron is evil, he sure as shit isn't able to jerk off with THOSE hands. : PlanetPerfecto
• Holy lameness. It looks like someone was getting paid by the angle to design that fucker. He looks like a... : NastyJack
• Goddamn it! I want a live-action version of this: http://www.decepticon-matrix.com/dw_holofoilcover.j... : Scrimbo Obeer
• This is why it's not a good idea to just remake everything from the 80s. : algernoN8
• Ok fuck that. The movie is ruined. Megatron needs to be some kind of firearm, cannon, tank, something mec... : unknown_fiend
• well this movie just went from MUST SEE ON OPENING NIGHT to wait for HBO. : Str8Dog
• This isn't Megatron. It's just a generic robot that you find in many other movies. So fucking retarded. : slacko
• T4: Rise of the Robot Tentacle Penii? : laidback
• Those look really good. : hadokennn

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  Limbaugh already has it figgered out http://mediamatters.org/items/200608240003 : kokopelli
  • meh, two reasons not to click, Limbaugh and Mediamatters.org. An attention whore and attention whores th... : pigvomit
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    it never ceases to amaze me how completely retarded that fat turd is ..god how does anyone at his level o... : cptstern
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      the sad truth is that the countryside is literally peppered with idiots, and they all love to hear someon... : McLoseAgain
      • Bush got re-elected. What more do you need to see our country if full of sheeples. : baronzemo78
      • ^^ Taking this thread by the ballls! :D : warcrow
      • that actually made me feel better ..thanks :) : cptstern
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      That entire thing is a joke. He plays off of all the racial sterotypes. : DapperDan
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        Hell we came up with better stuff yesterday! http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12734176 : pigvomit
        • I agree,17 jokes about cock island is what makes the shack great. : DapperDan
        • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12734744 lol : 60days
      • Ann Coulter and Rush ride the line between humor and seriousness. That way, they can always claim that so... : sgtsanity
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      I don't think he was serious... : walker270
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        I think the caller got it right, he dances around it, acts like he's joking, but we all know what he's re... : Hiro
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          Can you cite an incident? Don't say Donovan Mcnabb because as was already figured out he was attacking li... : eldiablo01
          • Acxtually, one race isn't going to win this show. AFAIK they are mixing the races up in the later stages ... : -efx-
          • http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1065806644 This has Rush's comments in it. : Hiro
          • his "points" are pretty much meaningless. "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." http:... : Hiro
    • how can you not see that he's speaking with tounge in cheek? : the_doctor
  • Fats Limbaugh should be in jail with all the other drug addicts. : johnny skidmarks
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  my money is on the white tribe subjugating the other tribes! it'll be a microcosm of the history of the e... : Clay
  • "He (Rush Limbaugh) added that "the white tribe," "if it behaves as it historically has," will "bring alo : edgewise
• the tribe with more fast-twitch muscle will win! : digitalburro
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  the new york times has a pic - funnily enough only 1 of the black teammates looks remotely athletic : e v i l
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    why is that so funny, huh??? : Mansmells
    • because all black people are super human athletes, duh. : sigpro
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  The white tribe will try to gentrify the other side of the island. : EvilDolemite
  • Probably because hispanics are white. : SpaecKow
• I cannot tell the difference between the hispanics and the whites. Seriously. :P : warcrow
• The real question: Which tribes will form alliances? : pigvomit
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  I hope the asian tribe builds an enormous wall around their area and then refuses to speak to outsiders u... : Kentor
  • lol... also secretly build nukes. : Sixcos
• "What kind of controversy can we cause to actually get people to watch our show, we're old and busted and... : ellipticalgrey
• Race is a social construct. They're dicks. : brickmatt
• Part of me that's a advocate of race relations and breaking down walls hates this. The other part is f... : Modica Sol Solis
• hellloooooo ratings. : steelsamurai
• I wish more people would understand that most of the percieved racial issues are really just cultural iss... : Stoned Gargoyle
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  1) azns will win, because we eat rice all the time 2) who cares, it's still an individual competition in... : FrayLo
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    Eating white rice is like eating nothing. I love white rice but it's pretty worthless as far as nutritio... : Chris Remo
    • Remo: 1, 3 billion Chinese: 0 : steelsamurai
• I like that race is becoming less of a "thing" that they would have the balls to do something silly like ... : SpaecKow
• ever heard of the olympics? : lakren

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  It's just like BF2, the first load or any load where you change graphic settings take forever. Afterwords... : Noobler
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    what's your vid card, and what drivers do you have? : jcutner
    • It's a 7900GT, using the 84.25 drivers. Some people that've had chronic CTD's have said they fixed them b... : Noobler
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  no 1280x1024 resolution, for fucks sake...... : armybob
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    shit, forgot this: to get your res to work, right click on your 2142 shortcut, go to properties, and add ... : Noobler
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      it just bothers me that in 2005 and 2006 we still have to resort to these things to get resolutoin that h... : armybob
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        Yeah, no kidding. EA/Dice refuse to add widescreen support because they claim it grants an unfair advanta... : Noobler
        • It's not even 5:4 in general. Just 1280x1024 specifically is so important because it's the native resolu... : DinK
• I'll take your beta key off your hands for you so you don't have to deal with EA! I solve problems. : pigvomit
• Your Subscription Cancellation has been processed. Cancellation Confirmation Founders' Club plus Insider... : jcutner
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  I'll be one of the first people to relentlessly mock BF2 for being shit, but seriously, it's a fucking be... : JINKY
  • Thank god they have a great track record of fixing bugs! Tee-hee : j33uk
• People continue to buy their games, though. They are fun but jesus, so so so buggy. Every one has been ... : EvilDolemite
• Oh I just got my beta key. Let's see how this turns out. Prediction: Long loading time, inexplicable s... : j33uk
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  I can't believe the nerve of Dice to release a beta with bugs in it; it's just totally ridiculous that th... : ayesel
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    it's not Dice's fault. It's obviously EA's insidious plan! : DonkeyPopsicle
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      EA dictates when the beta gets released, when the demo comes out, when the game gets released, all that. : EvilDolemite
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        so you're saying BF2 should have been delayed indefinetly since it still has it's fair share of bugs? I'... : DonkeyPopsicle
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          Well DICE has released other, non-buggy games. Even if they're different teams, I refuse to believe that... : EvilDolemite
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            42 was buggy as all get out too. I don't think Barbie Horse Adventures should count as a bug-free game t... : DonkeyPopsicle
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              RSC and RSC2, very very solid. : EvilDolemite
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                I never played those, but it just seems a bit odd to blame the publisher for bugginess when years on BF2 ... : DonkeyPopsicle
                • Not all the bugs. But EA shoulders some of the blame. : EvilDolemite
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    ever played BF2? did they listen to people then? : moshman
    • Yes, and for me BF2 is actually fairly bug free. A few interface problems and that wierd red nametag bug,... : ayesel
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    See, that's not really the thing. We're less than 2 months till release. Compare this to the Company of H... : j33uk
    • I love how they have the balls to call it the Tuning beta. : jcutner
    • Doesn't matter. It's not fair to judge or complain about the quality of a game until it has been released... : ayesel
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  what is your harddrive? how long to load bf2 maps ? i load bf2 maps in ~30s : synack
  • 120GB 7200RPM ATA BF2 maps probably take about a minute from what I remember : jcutner
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  Oh my fucking god. So I installed away and fired 'er up. Same fucking awful and slow menu system, that's... : j33uk
  • heh, I had that too. The wolfpack servers or something. : jcutner
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  I finally got into a game, on the 4th try. The loading has sped up a LOT, to under a minute. In game,... : jcutner
  • Yeah the loading got better for me as well. I need to work out why I'm limited to a rez of 1024x768 tho : j33uk
• Dude, its the optimizing shaders. takes 20-30 seconds after that. : Sgt_Boomstick
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  I want to mark this stupid but that violates the moderator guidelines so I will say this jcutner why are ... : genjuro
  • Genjuro is a king among kings. : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Since when do we have "guidelines"? I just make like haiku and nuke everything. : brickmatt
  • is that a fucking macro for you now? : jcutner
• Don't listen to this guy, the beta is awesome. I will be gladly purchasing 2142 in october and Quake wars... : Sgt_Boomstick
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  I've played for the last half hour or so. It really just feels like a Battlefield 2 mod. Think BF:Vietnam... : j33uk
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    It's like a more epic Halo PC Multi. I loved Halo PC Multi, so much fun to be had, but at least it wasn't... : jcutner
    • I love how the way the BF2 engine lags has that unique effect of making you feel remarkably nauseous as w... : j33uk
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  haha, you're the shittiest beta tester ever. : Modica Sol Solis
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    I'm really a nice guy :( You should get to know me. : jcutner
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      That doesn't change the fact that you're a SHITTY BETA TESTER! FO : ki11_viru5
      • EA BETA TESTERS ROCK!!!! : PlanetPerfecto
  • If they were really so concerned about beta testers they wouldn't have to pay to do so. : Tincan
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  It is a beta...what are you complaining about? : red2lucas
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    well, if he does not complain, it might not be fixed on release. I know that NEVER happens in the gamming... : ghost hacker
    • Well he's kinda complaining in the wrong place. Mind you I can't blame him, that would probably piss me o... : red2lucas
• Its called "Beta" for a reason ... : MR 9000
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  Spend the last 30 minutes trying to play but I can't connect to any server. Some servers report that i'm ... : armybob
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    Your soppose to play on the "tuning" servers... : oneequalsfour
    • had connection problems on those also : armybob
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  Even if it's a beta, it's unacceptable to take FIVE minutes to load. No... it's a beta. : crummynz
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    pfft. crummy : jcutner
    • :'( : crummynz
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    Except it's a tuning beta. Not a "we're 6 months from launch so we've got lots of time to de-shit this" b... : j33uk
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      Perhaps they're tuning load times, then. The point is, flaws are to be expected in betas, even ones that ... : crummynz
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        I'll throw 5 bucks at you that it lives on like the glorious name tag bug : j33uk
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          Heh, yeah. You're probably right; I'm sure the load times will be reduced with the final build but it pro... : crummynz
          • The red bug is probably the most infamous bug of our time, I can't think of anything that's quite so... P... : j33uk
          • I highly doubt it'll change by release too. Normal load times are going to be around 30-60 seconds depend... : Noobler
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  hi jcutner how ur BETA TESTING going : virus
  • It's okay. How ur google? : jcutner
• jcutner, fuck these haters. : rosewood
• God : VegasX

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• In my experience it does increase efficiency, but it also drops moral. When I worked at EA they killed ou... : not work safe
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  no pr0n, i think that should be the only rule. : hirez
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    Maybe also questionable sites like online gambling. : EvilDolemite
    • yeah. true, true. : hirez
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  It's not about productivity, rather more of a legal thing. If some guy surfs porn all day and a female co... : Fyunch Click
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    some places (like Bank of America) block out HUGE amounts of stuff. Anything game related - Shack, IGN, e... : Clay
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      I've never worked somewhere with a filter greater than porn...but I used to work at Time Warner, and now ... : EvilDolemite
      • BofA probably had the same deal. : Clay
    • I am aware of that, I used to work for International Paper and dealt with that there. I'm not defending... : Fyunch Click
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      There's nothing "legal" about doing that. incorrect, their company, they pay the internet access bill,... : Nation
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        I think he means they're not blocking Yahoo Baseball because they're worried about legal issues, not that... : mikecyb
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          there are forums in Yahoo baseball leagues! They could be used to plan a jihad! : Degenerate
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            oh man baseball jihads are the worst kind of jihad! : mikecyb
            • the cubs win because we kill all the other teams. : Fyunch Click
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        did you not read Fyunch Click's post? you know, the one that set the context of my post? I'm not sayin... : Clay
        • ah, ok ... hmmmm : Nation
        • sure it is, gambling and the like is illegal in many places. They would be encouraging the decay of the m... : Fyunch Click
    • this is why they are banned: a lot of sites are blocked because you can have discussions (forums, whateve... : kill9
• we have full unrestricted net access but you have to use common sense. No porn obviously. We can also p... : redfive
• i work for a major bank and there is no internet access to anything : hobosapien
• Websense and I were mortal enemies. I like to think I won in the end. : Blucklesworth
• That irritates the crap out of me. Maybe it's because I've worked for public institutions up to this poin... : halophoenix
• I used to work at a hospital where everything went through an authenticated squid proxy and logs were kep... : bcyde
• what's the one with the big red ascii hand? I used to work at bluecross blueshield and they had that. P... : pzilla
• we have full access to everything here - its nice. at my last company they blocked the shack for a while... : virus
• I just added my DSs MAC address to the wireless router at work.. : DrZettl
• My job has me working in the cable company's headends Monday through Friday. No blocking and typically v... : raeven
• GET BACK TO WORK ON THOSE TPS REPORTS ANDREW!!! : Kaiser
• We get access to one site at work. That's it. And it's the website that you need to work. If you ac... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  I'd block everything too. except for me of course. My employees don't need to be checking their email on ... : edgewise
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    Oh c'mon, it's not that big of a deal. I say, open (save for hardcore shit) by default, and if they're n... : EvilDolemite
    • Seems to me if employees are surfing too much, they dont have enough to do. If you hire somebody that su... : goatjc
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      How very short sighted of you. Imaging for a minute you are a company. There are tons of reasons to... : fookilla
      • I'm not talking about open access. Obviously some sites should be blocked for security and bandwidth rea... : EvilDolemite
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        anyone use a ps2 controller to xbox adapter? is there latency issues? Ive heard non dual shock controll... : phatl
        • damnit um nuke : phatl
  • NO MYSPACE FOR YOU! TWO WEEKS! : action roommate
• Wireless broadband + laptop. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
• Websense sufferers unite! >:o : Goncyn
• A computer is just a box without the internet. : chuck577
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  i had hopped on the shack two or three times on lunch breaks with no problems, but never during working h... : deathmuppeter
  • those violent shackers you know... what. : zakazi
  • i blame filtersweep for always wanting people to stab or punch themselves. : sigpro
• I would get so much more work done if I didn't have access to non-work-related sites. : SiW73
• As an employer, it’s a liability to allow it. : mace
• At the Pharmacies where I work we initially had unfettered web access, but people took advantage of it go... : Sarcastro
• <3 my work. web access is unrestricted (save for streaming audio/video), and managers aren't too hands o... : FrayLo

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  The new demo rocks! Driving around in the F430 Spider with driving aids turned off is the bomb. I could... : PumpRock
  • Oooh, so the handling is different? Good, I didn't care for the one in the first demo. It's good to be... : Damodred
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    anyone tried this demo yet? How is the handeling? : byorn
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      blah : Maarten Goldstein
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        Look at Mister I dig the story integration over here pissing on the TDU demo. Why don't you go deep into ... : Ajax
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          ...wtf : Maarten Goldstein
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            Don't deny it, you won't even touch a racing game unless it features an epic and haunting tale of love, b... : Chris Remo
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              thats pretty much true : Maarten Goldstein
              • No further questions, Your Honor. Counsel, your witness. : Ajax
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            WTF indeed. Like you know anything about racing games! : Ajax
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              tell me what racing game does it better please :( : Maarten Goldstein
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                Story integration in racing games? Are you serious? : Ajax
                • Sounds like he needs to play some Need For Speed: Most Wanted! yes this is sarcasm. : aaarrrgh
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                  sure, when its not a sim and you're not racing online i dont see why it should be straight up driving wit... : Maarten Goldstein
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                    have you played Quarantine? lol I love that game : SpaecKow
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                      man that game was the bomb : Maarten Goldstein
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                        I'm not sure I ever made it past the first level, but I played it a ton! : brickmatt
                        • FatGuy#1: "I just ate a whole can of baked beans and some uncooked pork, can I ride in your cab?" so ... : SpaecKow
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                    Oh, so you need the game's narrative to give you an excuse to finish a race in first place? I guess that ... : Ajax
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                      it took you that long to write up that slam? so weak.. : Maarten Goldstein
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                        WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS FIGHTING :_( : jcutner
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                          he's a big drucifer fan : Maarten Goldstein
                          • But where Professor Puns failed, know that I will succeed. : Ajax
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                        Not as weak as your online game. That, and I was conflicted as to wherther or not I wanted to reply to th... : Ajax
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                          i forgot all about our frequent races.. : Maarten Goldstein
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                            The story integration can do that to you. : Ajax
                            • that must be it : Maarten Goldstein
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                              I say we settle this with some drunken burnout action. TONIGHT. : sigpro
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                                i will never make it to a pacific time zone race : Maarten Goldstein
                                • what about your coke habit? Doesn't that allow you to stay up late? : sigpro
                                • This sub thread is losing it's momentum. Where is the SHIT TALKING?! : warcrow
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                                I'd be perfectly fine with that, but you know damn well that our time zone-challenged topkick will come t... : Ajax
                                • too late for that, he already did. I'm leaving work now and will check back later. : sigpro
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                  The first Toca: Race Driver had an ok story intigration thing into it even though I never fully finished ... : sigpro
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                    The first Pro Race Driver had a horrible story and you didn't miss a damned thing by not finishing that p : Ajax
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                      I never played 3, was it a better game than 2? I loved 2 and wished we could have had more online fun wi... : cltcprd
                      • I didn't bother hyping TRD3 around here very much because Codemasters chose to use Starforce copy protect : Ajax
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                      It was far better than the POS story in NFS overbloom city with horible mix of CG and real people Most Wa... : sigpro
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                        You would think that the cutscene crew over at EA would have made some forward progress when it comes to : Ajax
                        • Looks almost worse now. The bloom in the lastest cut scenes looked really really weird to me. : sigpro
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                          josie maran .... mmm .... that's all i gotsta say. She should have been in every cutscene in the ga... : qwpeoriu
                          • If I want to see Josie Maran, I can do a Google Image Search. Keep her and all those other cheesy B-movie... : Ajax
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  Fucking hated it. The cars handle like boats, and the physics are pretty much non-existant. More often th... : aaarrrgh
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    did you try the NEW demo today? : byorn
    • sounds like the new demo to me : Maarten Goldstein
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      Yup, downloaded it earlier. with 3 cars (cobra, ferrari, and a mustang) and a motorcycle. I do feel it... : aaarrrgh
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        out of curiosity, what makes "bad handling"? I am no professional, but is it that the handeling is not re... : byorn
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          PGR3 has great driving physics. It's got the right amount of sim and arcade. : sigpro
          • Bizzarre Creations has got the formula down. They do great work. : Ajax
          • he's right. Look to PGR3 for best "feel". Cars feel planted to the ROAD, not like they are floating ab... : PlanetPerfecto
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          It just feels floaty, I guess. I'm having a hard time decribing it (aside from "it drives like a boat"). ... : aaarrrgh
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            Im curious if you've driven a boat. : sixfoot6
            • Not outside of the GTA games. That's hardly the point though. :P : aaarrrgh
            • yeah, what is funny is that my boat handles better and turns sharper than just about any car out there. :... : cltcprd
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            I'd tell you to try the Ridge Racer demo just for the sake of variety, but that's almost like sending you : Ajax
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              needs more story integration : Maarten Goldstein
              • Someone's in a confrontational mood tonight... : aaarrrgh
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          They want MMO:PGR3, which they aren't going to get. : cam3lt0sis
          • wut? I think they want an online TD game. Nothing about this screams PGR. Totally different design. : byorn
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            No. : aaarrrgh
            • Similar retaliation: Yes. : cam3lt0sis
  • Go to options and change the steering sensitivity, for some reason it's set to the lowest. After you adju... : armaduck
  • Like boats? I think the handleing is perfect. Turn off the driving aids and crank up the steering sens ... : PumpRock
• I like it. I've only tried the bike and the roadster for a little while. The bike handles great and I lov... : BlackCat9
• The handling is fucking god awful. I'd gladly buy it otherwise. : jcutner
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  Anyone else run into a problem with it? I downloaded the thing but it didn't show up in my demos menu. ... : ThomW
  • no problems, one weird thing is that this demo and the first demo show up in the demos list as the same e... : PumpRock
  • enough room on the HD? : R.Cade
• some dude on the atari forums posted some gameplay videos on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g... : PumpRock