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  christ, thats a shitload of money : Maarten Goldstein
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    It's for my 3mbps cable internet connection and an HD-Digital Cable box with every movie channel, on-dema... : acidnynex
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      Given that I cannot get more then a handful of HD channels as of today since the "HD era" just reached Sw... : SilverSnake
      • for cable/digital cable? not all that much, maybe a bit high. : lakren
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        sweden has HD? i hate you guys :( : Maarten Goldstein
        • Not a whole lot yet. It's one provider that got like one movie channel that only shows movies half the da... : SilverSnake
      • Granted though, I'd probably end up with fewer channels total. stupid PRL! : SilverSnake
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    fuck I should switch. I am paying $80 for my land line i never use + DSL and no cable :{ : GloriousCow
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      $80? Dear god why? : datoo
      • $30 for the local phone line and $40 for 3 MB dsl. + fees + tax : GloriousCow
  • I was paying around that and finally realized it's just to fucking expensive and not worth it. : Halen
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    Thirteen Millionth Post! : sgtsanity
    • Grats from the future!!! : Phreakin
• Most service-type companies make the assumption that consumers will not complain when a change is made wi... : Masem
• Comcast, OTOH, just combines charges and "discounts" in ways that ensure you'll aways pay a crapton. : jrock
• Sheesh... We had to do this with Yahoo... My wife just said "Fine, we'll go somewhere else" and they offe... : zakazi

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  Yeah, since its been a year plus I was like, is this really in wow, or just cgi... oh damn, its in wow. : loboca
  • was first time i've ever seen somebody wearing a helmet! hehe : Ziz

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• Yeah, it had a great combo of good storytelling and great action. definitely recommended. : loboca
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  fuck yeah! This felt like a hong-kong/korean/japanese story with american actors. Gives me hope for the... : Prozium
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    oh, and Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg stole every scene they were in. : Prozium
    • Agreed. : wild falcon
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    that's cause it's based on 'infernal affairs' : but why
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      o rly : dodob
      • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/ : but why
    • yeah, which is why I have some hope for the other US remakes of eastern films. : Prozium
• IF THIS GUY GETS A WHIFF OF MY ASS - HE'LL CRAWL IN! : Mondo
• loved it. very nice. : afrochops
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  It did indeed rule. : lplasmatron
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    I agree definitely a great movie. LOL what was the line Jack said when he is throwing coke everywhere wi : ant_hillbilly
    • Don't move until you go numb. : afrochops
    • hahah yea... every scene with Jack was pure quality amazingness! and regarding the quote: somethin : dedgecko
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  It was amazing. Scorsese rocks my fucking face off. I couldn't believe he managed to pull this off afte... : Chris Remo
  • Man you saw it already. Dammit. : jake2000
• I thought it was great, but I knew it would be at least ok going in. What I didn't expect was for it to b... : Sexpansion Pack
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  I wonder what Leo put in the envelope he gave to the psychatrist : cookblaze
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    proof to give to wahlberg : jaga
    • Ah...that's what I hoped. : cookblaze
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  anyone else just keep thinking headshot over and over again. And at the end someone in my theatre scream : ant_hillbilly
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    Precisely why I'll never go to the movies again. Watching DVDs ftw. : one beach bum
    • Come on, don't be like that : Mondo
  • some guy got up and screamed OHHH SHITTTTTTT at the first thing you said : Mondo
• why didn't he just make a hundred copies of the cd and give to everyone in the department? : ChickenBreath
• and the recorded calls really came out of the blue and seemed gimmicky. and how does he record all those : ChickenBreath
• yea such an awesome movie. I totally loved it. I am gay for Leo and Matt! : SAS_Ale

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• signed and cosigned : SAS_Ale

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  anyone? i don't know shit about laptop prices : vassili_zaitsev
  • thats plenty of computer for what she's looking for : drucifer
• Seems fine, but I call bullshit on the battery life, my ML-50 gets maybe 3 hours tops. Keep that in mind,... : yoonix
• This doesn't run the operating system you should want ;) : Neech
• im selling mine, its a turion ml-34, 80gb, 2gb ram, 15inch wxga widescreen. 4 hours off the A/C. : mr.sleepy
• so is this a god price? : vassili_zaitsev
• If that's all she's going to be doing why not buy an even cheaper laptop? : spire81
• Toshiba Satellite 1.6GHz Core Duo 14" Laptop $500 after $150MIR commentComments (319) | emailTell a Frie... : soulr

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  I've done this before and I just copied the files over. I.e. find the folder with your old iTunes librar... : Johnny Law
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    is there a way to redownload from iTunes without paying again? : johngloid
    • You can redownload all your purchased music ONCE and only ONCE by sending a nicely worded support request... : BlackCat9
• your purchased songs will still play on the laptop, it'll ask you for your store login and pswd. you can ... : drucifer
• I'm going to get your desktop on the rebound. : felicia
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  As long as you copy the .aac files over with the rest of your music, you should be able to re-authorize t : BlackCat9
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    I got a new laptop and had to transfer files from old laptop to new. I thought I could just download a ne... : justsayno
    • Hmm. I'm not sure about this. Are you sure the files didn't get locked when you copied them onto the flas... : BlackCat9
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      Nope, you're quite wrong. I've done this many times. BlackCat is right, you just gotta move the m4p files... : Bantis
      • Well it didn't work out quite that way for me. I did exactly that more than once. The files I purchased t... : justsayno
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  thanks! :D : jessipoo
  • ipodlounge.com/forums : zagzig32
• FUCK ITUNES. I bought all season 2.5 BSG episodes on there. When i reformatted my computer, saved the f... : romulan

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• Wrap bacon around the edges, held together by a toothpick. Then sprinkle them fairly heavily with McCormi... : Deviaant
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  Iron Skillet those suckers! (then again that might over power some of the wonderful subtleties of the mea... : zakazi
  • Wait, you said grill... nm : zakazi
• Marinade in a bit of yoghurt, red chili powder and salt OR just freshly ground black pepper and lime : d fluke
• canola oil, good salt, pepper : veras
• Just marinate in olive oil a bit, then when you throw em on the grill sprinkle some montreal steak spice ... : retardhumper
• go for rare,medium rare at the worst. Otherwise you'll fuck up the texture and flavor of the meat. : Fyunch Click
• I'll add my voice to the "Don't Overcook Them" Crowd. Rare is best. Medium Rare at the most, but thats pu... : RookieCAF
• Use a dry rub, it is the best way to cook steak. Corse salt, peorika, oinion powder, garlic salt, cya... : topkatz
• this whole thread has my mouth watering : oHnOES
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  Olive oil, kosher salt, fresh ground/cracked pepper. When you grill them, FLIP ONLY ONE TIME!!! Be patien... : senseimoron
  • Also if you want to get all fancy: Maytag Blue Cheese Get a pat of some of this and throw it on top of th... : senseimoron
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    This is the best answer so far. : afty04
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      Except don't use olive oil : red2lucas
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        I like to brush on olive oil. It helps give the steak a nice char and enhances the color. : afty04
        • Use oil, just not olive oil. Has a very low smoke point. : red2lucas
  • agreed on the single flip. Most grilling (and ccooking of meats in any genre) is ruined by mutiple flips.... : Fyunch Click
• Grill on high, 1.5 minutes per side. Slap 'em on, flip, flip and turn 90 degrees to get the criss-cross a... : PowerofA
• If they are good quality and fresh just a little salt and pepper and don't cook them long. That way you g... : Fred Garvin
• Assuming you bought good good meat, don't dry season them much at all. My recommendation would simply be : InfoBiter
• Dudes... Filet mignon is a thick ass quality cut, and grilling technique is crucial to get the middle of... : romulan

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• truth : ashkie
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  I went and watched my friend play it. After watching the SEVENTEEN MINUTE intro that you can't skip, and ... : red2lucas
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    Its not 17 minutes and most games intros are like.. important to the story. Why would you skip it? You c... : ashkie
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      How about when you sit through it once, then try to save your game and it says your card is corrupt so yo... : red2lucas
      • i never had that problem since i dont have bunk stuff : ashkie
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    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/07 : SilverSnake
    • omg the end is near...i laughed at a pa comic :( : papaskot
  • My initital impressions were just as bad. The intro was too long and the voice style is really annoying. ... : NastyJack
  • OK good I thought I was the only one. When I saw that my played time was 00:17:38 by the time I got to th... : rgoer
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    what's the point of playing a game if you're not going to pay attention to it? skipping cut-scenes is li... : eeeealmo
    • 17 minutes of story with no game play is a bad design decision. You can get across the same amount of sto... : red2lucas
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    Dude, come the fuck on, you can't base a games rating on the intro and the voiceover - I found the voiceo... : abrasion
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      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13006787 : red2lucas
      • I really enjoyed it, it's good to sit down to a nice long intro for a change. : abrasion
• Read that it didn't do well in Japan. Maybe it was a japanese shacker. : lightsam
• I would agree but it got really old really fast after about 15 hours of playtime. : raija

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  anyone? : acidnynex
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    right click, customize? : drucifer
    • Wow, that was easy. :o) : acidnynex

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• Yeah by men. If that is what you are into then fine, but that's not my bag. : bRAINsick
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  who's the lucky guy? : wtf242
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    I'll give you a hint: he has two thumbs. : Dante
    • I'm ashamed that nobody got this. : Dante
  • Randall? : Phreakin
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  Nobody loves no one : drucifer
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    This love is only gonna break your heart. : Dante
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      Or your rectum. : bRAINsick
      • taint that the truth : spigot
• wait, it works with men too? do tell! : spigot
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  I love the song but the video is a cheesy ball of smeg lint. : theghostofsmdever
  • .... wtf, this is the world of music video, and you call a b/w romp in the sand with (Helena Chris : rasputinreborn
  • That video was awesome. You have no soul. : Dante
  • that video was the highlight of 1990. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmlJQN5Pm8 : FrayLo
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  ahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha : sKetchflow
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    Yes, well you are only 21 man, us oldtimers have to use different have different tools (other than the du... : rasputinreborn
    • have different : rasputinreborn
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      i'll be honest. I don't get laid a lot and given the fact that I rarely listen to this song it could ver... : sKetchflow
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        So that was a bitter, sef-pitying laugh, then? : rasputinreborn
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          it probably should be :( with maybe some mild weeping at the end : sKetchflow
          • Those are the best kinds of laughs. : Dante

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  What the hell is this? : dmason
  • You mean... you don't know?! : MC Kingsley
  • Logo. : Lone Swordsman
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  this is the worst looking website i have ever seen. : GBeer11
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    ^^^^seriously : askedrelic
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      http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/ : ki11_viru5
      • That is the worst-looking domain name I have ever seen : Goncyn
      • oo, they have bloomers! : drucifer
      • Wow. : MC Kingsley
      • http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/index.1.jpg wow..that ... : theghostofsmdever
      • Ooh, look, you can have them design a website for you! http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiao... : theamazingrand0
• what the fuck. : ki11_viru5
• hahahahhahaha : drucifer
• haha I remember this. man if you're going to steal some web site's design so blatantly, you should at le... : mikecyb
• That was the site I was looking for when I found this. : rosewood
• Hahahaha!! Awesome. : Fred Garvin
• So this never happens again, I'm going to need artillery at this location: 1 Wiltshire Avenue Toront... : project13

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  I don't think Supersize exists anymore does it? : fishbone
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    Oh yeah theysaid that at the end of the doco, McD's change the menu. I was amazed at the shit food p... : abrasion
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      Yes, supersize is now called large. : lightsam
      • Exactly. What used to be large is now medium, etc etc. Hell, back in the 50s, what was considered an ad... : riptyde
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        There is no supersize anymore, large existed while the supersize option was still on the menu, it's sligh... : acidnynex
        • from what i understood they didnt get rid of supersize, they just moved everything up small = gone me... : Maarten Goldstein
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          Proof: A supersized order of fries had 610 calories, the current serving of large fries has 570 calories(... : acidnynex
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            Didn't they change frying oil since then? Could that contribute to the difference? : walker270
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              They changed from beef lard to peanut oil, which attributes to the downgrade in the taste of the fries an... : lightsam
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                According to the new articles I'm looking at they changed the oil in 2002, the movie came out in 2004. : acidnynex
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                  When did they stop injecting the fries with beef lard? : lightsam
                  • See my post below, I prove that supersized portions are gone. I also have no idea why the fries are highe... : acidnynex
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          Yes, but after they got rid of the term, the amount you get with large went up. All they did was replace... : lightsam
          • I'm pretty sure supersized was ever so slightly larger(the container was about an inch taller), I used to... : acidnynex
          • Undeniable proof that Supersize is Gone and not relabeled: The current large fries are 6.0 oz, the curre : acidnynex
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    Still exists here in Canada. : mystifier
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      ? No it doesn't, the largest fries in Canada has been large forever now, Supersize is long, long gone : veras
      • Supersize = large : cncpun
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  Did anyone really think that fast food was healthy before watching that? Where's the surprise coming from... : Ebu
  • I thought that it was bad, I didn't realize it was that bad : spiffymc
  • I thought the movie kind of sucked because the guy is a fucking pussy. He eats (literally) one supersize ... : veras
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    I think what Abrasion is getting is that he's Australian, and in Australia our large size meals are proba... : red2lucas
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      My cousin is here in the U.S. visiting from Thailand, and she is amazed at how large our portions are. S... : afty
      • Not from McDonalds....that stuff is inetible after a couple hours. (I think they do that on purpose, so... : hawke
    • Exactly. : abrasion
• At the KFC I was at yesterday they had 'Family Size' cups that were 1/2 Gallon. IT said "Best Value" on ... : hawke
• One of the surprises is the size differences between UK sizes and the American sizes. Are large size is p... : yourname00
• You should read "Fast Food Nation" if you liked Supersize Me. http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-E... : lightsam

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  I couldn't stop laughing when he was snacking while talking to Dee. : sgtsanity
  • That whole thing was hilarious. It would've been awesome if he was eating something like a banana split : genjuro
• that his dad called him a fatty :( : dodob
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  The fact that I fucking love Tigh now. OMFG. : Omning
  • ''We're on the side of the demons. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of deat : Omning
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  sometimes the resistance guys remind me of the HL2 resistance guys with their jackets, unshaved faces and : gyokuro
  • haha so true the Cylon ambush while they were meeting in the forest.. I expected Gordon to appear out of : laidback
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  Shit, has BSG started? : askedrelic
  • 2 hour episode last friday : gyokuro
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    American Girl: Hey let's watch BSG at AskedRelic's! French Girls: No, let's watch Finding Nemo instead... : proclone1
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      Trust me, I will embarass myself worse soon enough and just have tell the shack all about it. This is has... : askedrelic
      • No Disintigrations! : proclone1
• he was that way in the final ep of season 2. : BulletPro
• It wasn't really a surprise for me since I had seen the video of him getting the fat prosthetics :( : uncle slappy
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  Probably Tigh's eye. And the way he described em taking it out and showing it to him. Also, Baltar : romulan
  • exactly. Baltar's so fucking useless and dispicable without Six to have those imaginary chats with him.. : proclone1
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  Fat Apollo was in the season 2 finale... : empathe
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    and to contribute... Starbuck actually holding cylon guys hand with her half daughter : empathe
    • I thinks she's playing them. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13000104 : romulan
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  how boring the episode was. Felt like those mini episdoes shown while the show was off : mista mista
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    http://www.viralmemes.com/images/what_what.gif : sgtsanity
    • hahahah perfect : proclone1
    • lol nice : NFXFSX
    • ^^ My background, tiled, on all 4 monitors. : rosewood
    • If you made that, I just modified it to form a caricature of a guy I work with. If you didn't make it,... : Omaha
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  starbuck that bitch is acting weak, i hope she is faking it : Enraged Pineapple
  • I hope so! * K A T I E H O L M E S ' D * : dodob
• That the show was still on the air (I kid...or do I? it is a mystery) : VegasX

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• I would like to see this too. : DOOManiac
• uploading it now... my upload speed blows so it might take a while. : Ctrl-Phreak
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  it'll be here in about 20 min. http://ctrl-phreak.shackspace.com/gamewalls.zip : Ctrl-Phreak
  • awesome thank you! : VegasX

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• Dyselxci where are your colors? : rosewood
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  Does anyone play it? : suruwek
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    Yeh its fairly popular actually, and a good game to boot. They've worked wonders with the engine. Worth a... : Grim_Grom
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      ^^^ says the limie. There doesn't seem to be a US Download location.. which makes me think there's not a... : proclone1
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        *Paging* themelon and rydogg. Requesting a server, k thanks. : lightsam
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          ah fuck, I need to download/install EnemyT as well?? : proclone1
          • Yes. : d0gbert
• downloaded it today. it nice like cs on crack. its a bonus that it runs on a decent engine like the q3/et... : Hoax

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• gonna do a bait 'n switch? : liqker
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  Going to buy a new fish and try to play it off as the same? I think you should buy a fish that is obvious... : majestik
  • hahahaha DO THIS ^^^^ !!! : proclone1
  • Tell her it molted or spun an aqua-chrysalis. Or maybe it found Jesus. : sgtsanity
• bonus points: replace the fish and feed the cat the dead one. : grifter
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  tape dead fish to cat's paw : drucifer
  • hahhahaha : GBeer11
  • I support this course of action. : cam3lt0sis
• She's going to find out and fuck you up. : aggressor
• even badder news? she knows your shackname :( : reverend~heresy
• maybe if you hadn't been such a puss, you could have grabbed the dead fish with 1) a net 2) a small cup ... : proclone1
• it was a test to see if she wanted to breed with you and if you could care for things. * F A I L E D *.. : metalremains
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  Didn't I see this on any number of sitcoms? : Omaha
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    They always make me wonder how incompetent do you have to be if you can't even look after fish ... oops m... : yourname00
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      The cat is still alive >:( : johngloid
      • You have a 50/50 success rate then. : yourname00

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  16 : TroZ
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    At this rate, he'll be done at around 7:30 : Cognoscenti
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      They get harder as you progress. : Gonzo
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        1 hour in, 3rd one down. : acidnynex
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          the point really is not to rush through it... especially for that game... just walk away and come back la... : TPSReport
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            4th down. : acidnynex
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              HAHAHAHAH! I lol'd. : lookitzpancakes
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                I'm not really that into the scenery and what not, I use the sword to find the next colossi, kill next co... : acidnynex
                • Fo real. The game looks alright for being on the PS2, but not worth oogling over. : aggressor
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      the last one took me almost 3 hours. : Ctrl-Phreak
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        Jesus christ I downed it in like 20 minutes : joe.gonzalez
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          here's a peanut butter i kickass sammich. want some milk, too? ;0 : reverend~heresy
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            I only drink bull semen. Straight from the source. : joe.gonzalez
            • that explains a lot... : Ctrl-Phreak
      • * GOD OF WAR BOSSFIGHT THAT JUST WON'T END'D * : Omaha
      • Ditto. Of course, I was trying to do it on the tail-end of a long night of tripping, so that might have c... : Vincent Grayson
• There's 16, but the amount of time it takes to get to each one increases, plus it's far less obvious how ... : Vincent Grayson

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  did you upgrade from RC1 to RC2? might want to try a fdisk reinstall. : Str8Dog
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    I did a fresh install... twice. Even the install process wasn't as good as RC1. When I chose "format" it ... : bozer
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      wow that does suck... : Str8Dog
      • I had backed all my stuff up before hand, but yeah I have grown to dislike Vista alot. Theres just not an... : bozer
• to navigate up...try control-up arrow : mrspyral
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  wtf, there's no UP button anymore? : FrayLo
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    They've replaced it with the system OS X uses; back/forward buttons, plus the breadcrumbs. : Balboa
    • i never use the windows explorer "back" button :(. : FrayLo
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      what are 'breadcrumbs'? : FrayLo
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        Splits the path up and allows you to click on each section to go there, e.g. shared > pictures > porn ... : SiW73
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          What I like about the Vista implementation - and I don't know if this is in OSX because my iMac is out of... : SiW73
          • OS X has the multi-column view, which takes up more space, but might be less fiddly to use. It doesn't ha... : Balboa
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          you can command click the file/folder icon in the center of a window's titlebar to get a vertical version... : vigilante
          • Huh, never knew about that. Handy :) : Balboa
        • It's pretty BeOS-like, I love it. : rasputinreborn
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        This is a pretty good shot of it in action: http://www.bentuser.com/FileRepository/b5abb34d-8305-419a-a83... : Balboa
        • Being able to hit backspace to go up in a directory is like masturbating with my right hand : rosewood
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          makes no sense for them to remove it. I hit up and I'm all over the OS like a cheap suit. Now it takes t... : bozer
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            Probably like Rosewood, I can't even remember a time when I pressed the actual button. It's all about the... : Balboa
            • Likewise... ever since I first tried the Win 95 beta here... these mouse-dependent guys today... *wistful... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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            Probably because the back and "breadcrumbs" are better. Back does the exact same thing as up so I don't ... : Chod
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              wrong, it does not do the exact same thing as up. : FrayLo
              • Ok yeah you are right if you didnt go down that path you are correct, depends on how you navigated. Howe... : Chod
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              Up allows me to browse all the way to my desktop. Back allows me to go ..where I just was, only. : bozer
              • Just click the second dir name from the right, man... you're making this harder than it really is :) : rasputinreborn
              • so click the breadcrumb of the parent folder. same as up : nadasurf2
              • So click Desktop in the tree view? What's the problem? : Goncyn
• I upgraded RC1 to RC2 without any issues. So far so good. : majestik
• I thought I'd miss the up arrow, but I don't. The breadcrumbs are awesome, and as "the up arrow" usually... : SiW73
• The install process' format for formating and partitioning sucks. I liked having to press 3-4 different ... : rosewood

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  The book? I hated that book, complete shit. : askedrelic
  • To be honest, I was thinking of the movie that came out a couple of years ago. Although... now I'm th... : Cognoscenti
• I support the feeling. :( I can't speak about the book but that was one fine piece of filmaking. : aavenr

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• get in The shack pw shack : duncandun

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• Links will be one less read request on your DB. Depends on the site if you need the functionality I suppo... : idmud
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  I say just let the webserver handle the images unless they're tiny like forum avatars or something... doe... : mikecyb
  • I agree, unless they are really small images, the performance advantages of storing them on the filesyste... : Goncyn
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  ANOTHER QUESTION What exactly does "salting" user's passwords mean? : airrob
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    Never heard that one before... Wikipedia says: Salting The benefits of precomputation and memoizat : DOOManiac
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      Easiest way to look at this would be to take the users password and add say their username then hash. Th... : Chod
      • I don't know as much about security stuff as I probably should... If they can see the hashes, wouldn't... : DOOManiac
  • Running the passwords through a one-way hash before storing them They way if a hacker manages to get r... : theamazingrand0
• Storing it on the filesystem is definately faster, especially if the image is large, but there are times ... : DOOManiac

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• they should work in a Iron Chef competition in the next one : spigot

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• funny post, given your handle : spigot

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  if youd like a brick, take the xbox : oHnOES
  • :( gf7300 LE in there right now, has been good enough for CoH demo. X360 + extended warranty for the w... : BulletPro
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  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130065 Do it. I dont understand the wife part,... : feek
  • replaced my p4 2 years ago with an iMacG5. :P : BulletPro

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  Damn, that looks really cool. I love that kind of art style. How advanced is your friend? I've done pl... : Ecks
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    I don't think he's advanced enough to do something like Limbo. We'll probably try for something closer t... : PSYCHON
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      Good luck with it then. If you ever have questions, don't hesitate to ask :). : Ecks
      • cool, thanks man :) : PSYCHON
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  looks like an interesting take on a side scroller : hobosapien
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    Is it a side-scroller? I have no clue what kind of game it is, but it looks like all kinds of amazing. : MC Kingsley
    • It's like Out Of This World or Flashback (Blackthorne was NOT made as a sequel of sorts to these games...... : AxeMan808
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  unfortunately for so many upstars.. cool concept art does not a game make :( : Omaha
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    But more power to him. I'm not one to talk, I spend more time trying to get my infrastructure code leet ... : Omaha
    • What are you working on now? : Ecks
    • I abandoned that method a while ago and I'm actually going to finish a game now. Rather than overenginee... : SiW73
• Its amazing how much this post resembles this: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13001493 : Warmaker
• Damn, that's hot looking. : jhof

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• they should call it Vividlicious : spigot
• PS: It's getting harder and harder every day not to think about upgrading my D50 body to a D80. Today ... : dodob
• Nikon is silly. I like some of their cameras but overall they're just silly. : sKetchflow
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  The D80 feels so good in the hands. : yakz
  • How does it compare, feel-in-the-hands-wise, with the D50? : dodob

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• yeah theres like 5 or 6 different versions all together : bozer
• 6 If I remember correctly : soulr
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  not really. you either authenticate against MS servers online or a .biz server on the enterprise wan tha... : metalremains
  • ah groovy...thanks! : xocsida
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    ^^^ Exactly. Unless someone finds a way to create some faux auth server, Vista piracy is dead in the wat... : rosewood
    • I'm sure some kind of piracy will occur even if it's incredibly complex. There are just too many pirates... : sKetchflow
• why? So you can download it off the interweb?!! : sKetchflow