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• theatre fucked up im pretty sure : noobja
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  There should've been some kind of exchange between Bond and Le Chiffre, but IIRC it does cut to him enter... : Arcanum
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    Yea, it was really confusing. He sat down, Le Chiffre said something about his shirt, Bond said somethin... : rosewood
    • What else do you want to see? Another 15 mins of poker? :) : Skoal^Fyfan
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      I didn't find it particularly confusing. The director was sparing the audience several hours of mind-num... : Arcanum
      • Whatever happen to the movie technique of: Show picture of analog clock. Show time move fast -> stop -> ... : pobone
• Thats how mine was, too : theamazingrand0
• Yeah, that was a pretty awkward cut. I think that the games he was playing between the little story even... : Krypt_
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  My new favorite Bond. That movie was so kick-ass! : nickwallace21
  • Agreed. : Albemuth

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  mmorpg? I wouldn't call UD an mmorpg by any stretch of the word. I wanted to have fun with that game :... : Bantis
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    I copied Nixx's post. I think of it more as a MMO but people add the RPG. : Zhaneel
    • yea I'd give you that : Bantis
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    So you didn't have fun with Urban Dead, or Nexus War? If UD wasn't enough RPG for you (which I underst... : Nixx2004
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      I was really impressed with the RPG elements in NW, but the chance to hit for starting characters doesn't... : Balboa
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        Ah, bummer. Maybe you had bad luck, or I've had good luck. I've also only had experience with hand to h... : Nixx2004
        • In theory it should have been slightly easier; picking ranged combat give you 35% chance to hit, vs 30% h... : Balboa
• My Shack Hype Person is at 9, 34. I'll stay in the range you posted but will probably move a bit tonight ... : perstephanie
• Okay, weirdness = my Shacknews char. is also already in the area you said to go to. Hope I don't die befo... : perstephanie
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  Nice. Having Medical Primary is awesome for Shack Hype. : SwiftyPants
  • Yeah, I like the changes we did. More healing (and more damage for the other factions) means more experi... : Nixx2004
• I will work on moving to those areas in the morning. : Nation
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  Wow, found a portal to Purgatorio: http://withinbounds.com/nexus/purgatorio.gif Started near the middl... : Nixx2004
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    Yea, I stumbled into stygia via a portal a while back. It burns. No, really, it burns. : Visceral Monkey
    • I end up in Stygia almost everytime my evil characters die now. it's a pain, since there's practically no... : captfarrell
    • Heh, yea, I see now. Need to be a demon (or have a certain skill) to not take damage. How much was it? ... : Nixx2004
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  ok, i'm in an apartment building, just over the bridge on my way up north. i tried to hide a few times o... : radula
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    Yeah, sometimes hiding can be a pain. Can use 10-15 AP and still not do it, other times can get in the f... : Nixx2004
    • Err woops, guess it's night right now. Just bad luck I guess. Day/night cycle takes 4 hours (2 of eac... : Nixx2004
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  Hmm, it somehow gipped me out of my 10 CP when I got to lvl 4 :( : ColoradoCNC
  • Nevermind. I'm an idiot. : ColoradoCNC
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  who has the character 'Stepha'? : ghale
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    perstaphanie. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13332497 : Nixx2004
    • Errr, perstephanie. You know what I mean. : Nixx2004
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      aah, well sorry perstephanie. My alt wailed on you earlier today before I realised who I was killing. : ghale
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        No worries. Please to be not making a habit of it. :) : perstephanie
        • I'm an idiot this was yesterday. : perstephanie
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  Just hit level 7 with my healer and took the Surgery skill. It's not as good as I hoped. I missed t... : Nixx2004
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    7?! You bastard. I just caught up to you at level 6. :p : SwiftyPants
    • Only level 4 here so far. : ColoradoCNC

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  i did. segasoft we hardly knew ye : RikiTiki2
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    I just downloaded the demo. Time for fun! : chuck577
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      well, that didnt work to good. It wont install. : chuck577
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        try win95 compatibility? : RikiTiki2
        • Yeah, setup ran but then crashed when it was guaging my pc for performance. : chuck577
  • 2006 Remake [In October 2006, an attempt to build a remake of Rocket Jockey was announced by Solar-Ray... : chuck577
• Holy shit! I only ever had the demo off of one of those PC Gamer discs way back when, but I played the s... : paulatreus
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  yea! loved Big Red Racing too : cygnus
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    I played the demo of BRR a ridiculous amount. : crummynz
    • someone pls 2 be remaking this game. : PlanetPerfecto
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  Rocket Jockey was fantastic. It's a shame it used software rendering, it would have been perfect as a sho... : hellspit
  • Oh, also - Rocket Jockey Mod for UT2k4 - > http://motd.4d2.org/TJ/index.html No idea how good the curr... : hellspit
• god i loved that game : cam3lt0sis
• oh i loved that game : boomstickah

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  where as my great grandfater was on that plane that dropped that bomb that bounced and broke the damns :)... : CoRDS
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    sweet, dambusters :) man i should speak to family more often - i was under the impression we are a lon... : abrasion
    • You're all just a bunch of criminals!! : AlexXdude
    • im also related to mawson on my mothers side : CoRDS
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  When my grandfather died, we found these photo's taken of English soldiers with thier heals lopped off an... : Slowtreme
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    err, Papa was American, the kills were Japanese. He wasn't killing english that I know of : Slowtreme
    • Right........ : lightsam
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  One of my great aunts got stuck within German-occupied Serbia and slept her way out of prison camp and to... : SpaecKow
  • hahaha, that's awesome : zakazi
  • Hah! She grabbed their flag and did a Scout Dash with Soldier support. Teamwork FTW! : Enkidu
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  You know what to do: COMPLETE THE MISSION. : someWayne
  • prepare a stug rush. make sure you have enough pioneers to repair them. : freakord

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  they didn't have time to finish it ? : OrkO
  • Just trying out a new style I think. : enyakk
  • Its snowing in Seattle, everything shuts down. : Subarushian
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  With all their money they need to hire a real comic writer to replace Tycho and just let him run the webs... : Magus
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    CHEESE!!!MONKEYS : boring gegtik
    • Hey boring Gegtik I'm gonna call you something that combines a normal word with a curse word in the name ... : SpaecKow

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• Photoshop : Patch-e
• do it on paper :), much better way of doing it. : trelain
• http://www.axure.com/products.aspx is pretty good. : alnya
• If you can get your hands on a mac: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ : Neech
• Inspiration is good for this as it will then actually build a site out of the pages you drag around. i... : Dechter
• Thanks a lot, friends! : Nitrium

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• I really liked Saw, I was suprised at the hate it got. only until I watched it after I heard all the comp... : Slowtreme
• it was pretty good, but the acting was mostly terrible. : trelain
• I liked it : abrasion
• i thought it was alright, hostel was awful though. : wetard

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  yes very slowly, i just think normal is too easy but man realistic is a bitch : EagleSweet
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    yeah. I just got the game today and was playing on normal, thought it was a bit easy. realistic makes me ... : Pacalon
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      normal gets harder pretty fast. i thought it was a good difficulty. : JINKY
      • I suck at games like these so normal was a perfect difficulty for me. : -efx-
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  yes. Though I'm more or less stuck now, it seems like I'm just about done. : bostrov
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    I beat the game earlier, where exactly are you? : -efx-
    • after the dam where you're defending Jung, you have to clear a fairly large room (the garage?) - you ente : bostrov
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  I want to see more photos of people with their faces scanned into the game. : enyakk
  • http://red2lucas.shackspace.com/files/me.jpg : red2lucas
• yes, it's almost too hard but not quite. it makes everything a lot more satisfying : kill9
• Realistic has given me some epic war stories to tell my kids about... : ghost in my shell
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  So how many bullets to the face does it take to die in Realistic mode? : Matt Burris
  • It SHOULD be one, but I haven't played the game. ;) : DM7

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• he is my hero : Patch-e
• That man is a sort of modern Jesus. : tigeN
• poor guy :( : abrasion
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  hahahhahahahaha : kgargonmagrix79
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    I'm hate to be a totla pussy but I don't find laughing at a mentally challenged person funny :( I'm a ... : abrasion
    • I think he is more shy than he is mentally challenged. : eldiablo01

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• why are you using a Win98 CD to boot with? Just to use CHKDSK? Why wouldn't you just use the Recovery C... : redfive

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• the whole thing is just stupid. I feel sorry for Pam and Tommys kids. : suicidemachine
• I like what thesuperficial.com said- you don't marry a burger and then yell at it for being delicious. : tashtego
• I believe she appeared in the movie. Borat being all crazy in love with her and went to visit her and she... : SilverSnake
• That movie is the least slutty thing she ever did : Neech

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• slow poke! http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13349350 : kbnerd

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  Nah thats just UPS ground... Took em 5 days to get from Texas to Florida... : hawthor
  • interesting though.. the package is 8 pounds.. for a return box? the console is about 7 lbs, so maybe the... : g0nk
• Welcome to holiday shipping season. : Slowtreme

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• Holy Hell! :D : algernoN8
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  Cum pumping as ordered captain! I heard about this ages ago from SA, no one believed it, it was too h... : SpaecKow
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    Preacher came to me a bit too late, it was too un-necessarily gritty, (lol guys the angels, they're drink... : SpaecKow
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      well the whole point of the series was to break all those boundaries. it was meant to be so ridiculously ... : grifter
      • THIS is over the top: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_pope : byorn
  • yeah, it's been rumored for a while, but the go-ahead just went through. : grifter
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  Great news! I can't get into CHUD. How far along are they? When's it scheduled to air? : dodob
  • they just ordered the pilot to be written. still really early, but it's a step in the right direction. : grifter
• HOLY FUCK! my pants are full of cum over here : smax
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  Oh oh.. The other news is that the pilot is being written by Mark Steven Johnson, the man behind Daredevi : OrkO
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    yeah :( but he also wrote Se7en. : grifter
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      No, that was Andrew Kevin Walker. : lightly inclined
      • oops, my bad : grifter
  • Great, now they're going to emo and ruin Preacher. : Magus
• Oh damn, this is gonna be awesome. : lightly inclined
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  ive never heard of this but it sounds cool. too bad the guy who wrote daredevil is doing it :< : sexninja!!!!
  • do yourself a favor and get the graphic novels. it's a pretty amazing series. not your typical super-hero... : grifter
• That's incredible. It's always who I thought should do Preacher. Oh but the writer :( : geedeck
• I bet you are going to see a lot of these in the coming months thank's to Heroes sucess. : baron calamity
• Is this confirmed or just another rumor? There's been talk of various Preacher projects for years. I re... : Dechter

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  interesting that a Waterloo prof would have heard about him : redfive
  • Hey, I went to Waterloo! Didn't take English though. : SeaLlama
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  klerck still trolls. : nomaad
  • and hes trolling the fuck outta my school i think i need to go piss on his grave or something to fix that... : oldschoolbob-o

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  Will this spoil anything in the movie? I've not seen it yet (probably this weekend), but the article see... : Dechter
  • Some general spoilers but nothing you couldn't have intuited from the trailers. : aeg1x

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• don't be so depressed right now it's 69F and by this time tomorrow we'll have gone up in temp to 72F and... : kbnerd
• 1F outside where I am right now. Yes, 1 freaking degree. : Dechter

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  I never played SS1 but greatly enjoyed SS2 : ColoradoCNC
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    Guess I'll be checking it out then. Shackhype wins again. : cause&effect
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      if you want a truly awesome experience you can download the texture and model upgrades. i forget where th... : trelain
      • I noticed that! There seem to be some mixed opinions about whether they stay true to the 'System Shock 2 ... : cause&effect
• I would pass. In it's day, SS1 was awesome but nowadays it's clearly pre-quake in technology and would pr... : geedeck
• No, just play SS2. : cdbeckman
• SS2 with the upgraded models, skip the first vampire game, play Bloodlines. Both are great games. : Fyunch Click

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• Poop... THANKS SIKANDER : SwiftyPants
• who sent it? : drucifer
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  Who's the korean friend? : soggybagel
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    I'm assuming lunato, his wife. : SwiftyPants
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      lunato is into polygamy? : Ebu
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        Wait. What? : SwiftyPants
        • Oh, damn. For a second, I didn't realise you were you, I thought you were someone else replying to so : Ebu
• "death of a dude" sounds like an awesome book lol : jrock
• I love Cruel Intentions. Such a good movie...I still need to get around to reading Dangerous Liaisons eve... : ColoradoCNC
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  hooray! you got it :) - #2 is actually the stand for #9 ... one of her feet has a small hole that goe... : sikander
  • It is now standing on the camera lens cover, looking at me saucily. Heh heh. That's a brilliant, yet hor... : SwiftyPants
  • Everything is written in foreign, so it must be good. Awesome stuff! : askedrelic

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• "The problem is not the themes of videogames." We ARE definitely having a problem of pigeonholing game... : enyakk
• To add my own thoughts, if you look at some of the most succesful recent game franchises (they use Halo, ... : peanut-
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  No, the themes are a problem. Your average adult still isn't going to have much interest playing as an e... : Chris Remo
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    Even further, I'm sick to fucking death of elves specifically. Thousands of years of human culture to dr... : s2jason
    • Malazan Book of the Fallen. :) : Magus
    • I like orcs though, keep them. ;P : DM7
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    The same goes for the beefy bald space marines, and the post apocalyptic cyberwarriors, and whatever else... : Chris Remo
    • This is what makes Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy stick out in my mind as a rather unique gaming experience. : aeg1x
  • I've said it before but not here I don't think: Condemned would have done a lot better being just a C... : SpaecKow
  • You're absoloutely right - they need more games which focus on fiction books but not necessarily sci-fi o... : abrasion
• Plus there's a huge stigma about playing computer games. My friend is constantly telling me that I need t... : red2lucas
• In my opinion he is both right and wrong. The games that we, the 'hardcore', play can be likened to jazz : chazums
• I think the problem that nobody really wants to tackle as themes go is how to make emotional/political/so : s2jason
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  If people always wanted themes handled in a "mature" manner we wouldn't have movies like Torque or Dude, ... : Fred Garvin
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    Because those movies certainly topped box-office success lists. : peanut-
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      Well, Torque is a bad example for popularity, but the Fast and the Furious certainly makes a lot of money... : Fred Garvin
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        Because it has a strong appeal to a certain niche/demographic, which is the point that the article is mak... : peanut-
        • A difference being (I imagine) that 'hardcore gamers' requires a bit more quality or at least some techni... : SilverSnake

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  you know what I want? Some way for me to consolidate the 4 or so email accounts that I have (and keep due... : Mr.Fusion
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    Oh yeah and I need a way to get my archive of Outlook email into this service, so I have access to my old... : Mr.Fusion
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      won't gmail do that? : jcupitt
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        I don't think Gmail can check other accounts, can it? : Mr.Fusion
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          click settings / accounts / add another email address : jcupitt
          • and turn on fwding from your other accounts : jcupitt
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          Get all your mail forwarded to your gmail account. Use Thunderbird (or Outlook) to retrieve all your mail... : DingoStoleMyBaby
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            interesting.. i will look into this. Thanks! : Mr.Fusion
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              Yeah, what they are saying works, problem is it doesn't use folders :/ : abrasion
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                I used folders for years, don't miss 'em at all. : jcupitt
                • I'd like flagging AND folders tbh and gmail REALLY needs a "replied to" (purple) "forwarded" (blue) and ... : abrasion
• What is at all crazy about that? Someone provided an option with all the functionality of a basic mail cl... : SpaecKow

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  hmn yeah id had always great support for the community by releasing sdk/source and tools pretty early. se... : Hoax
  • id? lol yeah ok at some point in time sure, but in this day and age no one has development tools like Epi... : SpaecKow
  • Valve were like that with HL1. They've done a lot to improve the tools in HL2 and I imagine the SDK will ... : aeg1x
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  Hahaha hay dude don't forget to use lots of hint brushes so everything vises properly XD Yeah, using S... : SpaecKow
  • Tell me about it :\ Fucking around with programs command lines is not user friendly, ok Valve? This Studi... : aeg1x
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  Valve should take notes from F.E.A.R.'s toolset. : wild falcon
  • I really REALLY like how level geometry is created in Jupiter's level editor. It feels like the very best... : SpaecKow

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• I don't see anything mystifying about this. The experiences you mentioned are directly related to each pl... : enyakk

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• Oh might be NWS : red2lucas
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  do they release new issues online every month? : Mr.Fusion
  • I have no idea : red2lucas
  • they imply weekly... : gakera
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  From the UK? I haven't even looked past the cover, but it has that look. : Fred Garvin
  • Definitely British. If the football and bands weren't clues enough, the "Nice TT's" headline sealed it. : peanut-

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  you aint seen nothing yet. : CoRDS
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    So say we all... : r3ckless
    • *slowclap* : aeg1x
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      I will say this....screw that two-timing trick Dualla. : cack
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        no really, read my post again : CoRDS
        • In that case, I'm starting up season 3 right now. : cack
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        Hey don't talk about dee that way! : SpaecKow
        • I'm sorry but bros before hoes. : cack
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        Billy wanted to leave the show. His loss. :\ : geedeck
        • No way, he did? : someWayne

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• 4/10 : enyakk
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  Critics of the former USSR dying suddenly and unexplainable in a small amount of time? Gotta be a coincid : ColoradoCNC
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    Why, Colorado, you have nothing to fear, the president doesn't want to poison you... he just wants to kis... : SpaecKow
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      Putin cleaning house before he declares himself president for life? : bostrov
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        There's an adorable little thing that BBC does in all it's online stories concerning Putin, where if they... : SpaecKow
        • And the Russian constitution only limits consecutive terms, not total terms. So Putin could get one of hi... : bostrov

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  yeah tis sad, there is no more satirical stuff on Australian tv which is a disaster (apart from whats on ... : thewindcriesmary
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    If that were true McChallef would already be on 10 and replacing that pinhead Rove. : SpaecKow
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      we still have the chaser. : CoRDS
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        Until ABC with their anti-political-satire crackdown decide to axe it too. : Drewus
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          aww fuck. damnit i pay my 8c a day i want my fucking satire : CoRDS
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            At least Chaser's on DVD so they can't memory hole that one. :P : SpaecKow
            • its also on their site so everyone can watch it www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/ : CoRDS
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  wait, just for this year or forever? i hope just this year : CoRDS
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    Forevertyever. Corrine even teared up at the end. Sniff :( : SpaecKow
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      She's a bit fugly, but i love her anyway -_- : thewindcriesmary
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        lol I find Corrine infinitely affable, she's uggo in a completely adorable way. : SpaecKow
        • id fuck her only cos shed make me laugh during sex which would make me thrust harder : CoRDS
• Yep. Blows goats : rabbit003
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  What?! :( : lord warlock
  • http://www.abc.net.au/glasshouse/ : CoRDS
• awesome, hand me some stones. : chazums

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• damn, i suck at this :P : radula
• Cool, but the lack of a guitar in-hand is kind of a letdown versus GH. : wild falcon
• awesome, but I suck :( : red2lucas
• they forgot to make the part you do make a sound : jaga
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  oh shit that OWNS! can we hope for The D on GH3?! : jcutner
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    Hopefully they will be a downloadable song in GH2 on 360! : mancide
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      JB was playing GH2 on IGN. Maybe he'll be able to offer original's to RedOctane? : jcutner
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        All you need is Wonderboy and all would be good. : Serpico74
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          and "Rock Your Socks Off", "Karate", "One Note Song", and "Fuck Her Gently" : Prozium
          • If you had to pick one song is what I'm saying. They generally don't put two songs from the same band in ... : Serpico74
• I can't hit space when holding two other keys. >: ( : SwiftyPants
• Thats fucking awesome, wish this was on GH :( : drbriefs
• I suck at Guitar Hero and all flash imitations of it. : BulletPro
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  2378200 on tenacious argh i messed up a bunch of times : JINKY
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    4354960 DON'T YOU KNOW THIS IS A COMPETITION SHACKNEWS : JINKY
    • 6571530 argharhg : JINKY
  • 3049070 not going to do that again.. though it was certainly easier than I thought it was going to be. : dopeman
• Holy shit I am so terrible at this. My brain doesn't work that way at all. : mindfuck
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  This is cool, but I can't play very well with it oriented horizontally like that... they either need to r... : Bean
  • That's the same thing that was fucking me up too. I kept hitting 'e' or 'c' trying to go up or down a str... : mindfuck
• So is guitar hero the same in that the 'rythm' your trying to play doesn't necessarily match the guitar r... : The Warthog

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  store? : multisync
  • well online, store...doesnt matter. seems no one has them here in LA... : buzzfunk
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  I got mine at circuitcity, I think the $40 off coupon is still active if you can find it. : qwpeoriu
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    Good till the 30th. http://serpico74.shackspace.com/circuit%20coupon.jpg It's where I got mine. $16... : Serpico74
    • aw shit yeah! i totally forgot about that. thanks for the reminder. i'll try for it tomorrow. : Korban
    • damn, I think this will weaken me enough to get it : Senor PoopyPants
• Anywhere that sells xbox360's? Seriously, Its even at my local zellers and a future shop I was in the oth... : SirX
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  target. : edgewise
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    Stay on Target : multisync
    • There's too many of them! : Korban
    • That totally jumped into my head too. : abrasion
• I got mine at gamestop (physical store) : trevis
• I was told it was only going to be availble through Microsoft Online Store here in the UK. (I was also to... : marmite

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  if only human bouncers would bite off the legs of drunk and disorderly people. : bostrov
  • It got better, they just showed alcoholic monkeys in the Caymans that are masters at stealing drinks from... : ColoradoCNC