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• Meh 38 : Experiment IV
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  That was damn hard. 25 first try. Might try again, idk. : basketofkittens
  • 58 on the second try, building only the ice and leaf towers. : basketofkittens
• Damn, 71. Author supposedly got 90. :( : burningtrees
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  72 on my second try. : Zero|DPX
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    wtf - can you take a screenshot of your strat? I get to 55 and start getting overwhelmed. Just hit 60 b... : kgargonmagrix79
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      Build only leaf and ice towers, and in the center of the map. Fully upgrade each tower before building a... : Zero|DPX
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        "fully" upgrade? I don't think that will work. The upgrades start costing too much to be effective with j... : edgewise
        • You've obviously never played any Tower Defense for WC3... Seriously, 1 fully upgraded tower is better... : paulatreus
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    Bleh, only 73 this time. Maybe I need more leaf towers and fewer ice towers. : Zero|DPX
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      75 building all leaf + 1 ice. WTF am I doing wrong :( : Zero|DPX
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        yea 75 via that strategy. I'm thinking the 3K tower has something to do with this but I can't figure it o... : askedrelic
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          No, the 3k tower is slow as hell. Plus it only deals 9000 dmg at $3000. Saving $3000 near the end is im... : Edges
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            The $3000 tower does 900000 damage or something equally mental after two ugprades, first upgrade is $5000... : veras
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              yeah it's 909090 : burningtrees
              • anyone managed to upgrade to that level? : Nation
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  I got up to 79 last night and 80 this morning. : edgewise
  • 77 just now. Building a Cost/Damage table for optimal ownage. : SwiftyPants
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  11. i have no idea how to play this game and i love it. : dahanese
  • 74 now. i'm going to hit 80 tonight goddamnit. : dahanese
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  Tried once, not sure I'd want to try a lot. Got a 63. What purpose is the lightning tower? It seemed l... : tedv
  • 62 for me, trying again! : askedrelic
  • I think it is ass, unless edgewise can shed some light on it I just try to stay away : kgargonmagrix79
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  this is fun, but why do i suck? i cant get more then 10 :( : virus
  • YAY!!! 61!!! now how do i get passed that? : virus
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  82. I still had 10 lives at 79. Lost 2 on 80, 3 on 81 and 5 on 82. Impossible to get 90. : Edges
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    What's the secret master? : kgargonmagrix79
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      I built nothing but the water towers and kept upgrading them. The fire tower is too expensive and nature... : Edges
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        87. Scratch the water towers, go all out nature! The end tower is 9000dmg and it's relatively cheap to ... : Edges
        • nice. thats next. : virus
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          and it's range is almost double the water towers. : edgewise
          • i didnt get even close to as far. : virus
          • No it isn't. Water Tower Range 300 Damage 7335 Nature Tower Range 215 Damage 9000 : Kentor
        • How do you do this? The highest I've gotten going all-leaf is 78. : Zero|DPX
• 67 first try : deKaf
• 71, pretty damn good game. : devi| dog
• First try 70. : Solstice
• 71 now that I figured out you could upgrade towers more then once! : SilverSnake
• 63. pretty fun game. : pandastrong
• 70 on the first try! And I was doing work at the same time (yay for dual screen at work!) : Bingo
• ok i got to 71 on 6 fully upgraded ice towers + 1 ice tower at the first 1000 available upgrade. what ... : virus
• first try was 63, now i can barely get passed 30 :-) : Korban
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  does the upgraded water slow the stuff down? : Nation
  • i dont think so. it just does more damage and has greater range. : virus
• 66 on my first try. I know where my productivity is about to go... in the crapper! : MorrisatCNN
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  How good are the defense maps in Warcraft 3? I honestly thought they were limited to Starcraft only. : sanchez
  • I played the tower D maps in Warcraft 3 for a long time ... there are several good ones from single playe... : Nation
  • I still play Tower Defense maps for warcraft 3. There are a few good ones but the best ones are usually m... : bad_fish
  • they are awesome ! : barichnikov
• fire towers need a blue response : Experiment IV
• damn ok wave 71 with all 10 ice towers upgraded to first 1000 upgrade and i still cant do it. wtf is g... : virus
• ok is this all about balance or what? i can't pass 71. : virus
• I hit 75 today. : dltrem
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  also, what does the lighting do? : virus
  • not much ... just attacks and is not upgradable : Nation
• Why does it keep deleting my towers? Building too close together? : Nixx2004
• Nature towers are bugged. Damage doesn't go up properly. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
• THANKS A LOT IM OBSESSED : virus
• Need to save up for the tower all the way on the right, upgrading it 2 times will get you something that ... : boredguy
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  Stats for all tower types: This assumes all weapons fire at the same rate, which seems true. "Dmg*R : Zero|DPX
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    ice towers always seem the best because of their superior range : Anti_dentite
    • That's factored in, see the stats. Their range does help them, but even with that, the cost you pay to g... : Zero|DPX
  • Heh. I was *just* about to post this. : SwiftyPants
  • The Ultimate tower appears to have a slower rate-of-fire (RoF), IMO... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Hmm. The storm and ultimate towers seem to fire more slowly visibly. Not sure if they actually do less ... : Zero|DPX
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    Argh, there also seems to be some kind of acquisition penalty on towers: they don't start firing until a ... : Zero|DPX
    • Ya, the game is kind of buggy :(. : Ecks
  • Oh wow, these stats are lies, because the game COMPLETELY lies about range. The numbers it tells you and... : Zero|DPX
• I suck. Heh. Hopefully after dinner I can get into the double digits. : khaosman
• I was supposed to study tonight. Thanks a lot, asshole. : Moonbase Commander
• cool game : Ulfie
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  lol level 160 http://www.asktherelic.com/priv/Picture.png : askedrelic
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    Lies. : Zero|DPX
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      No photoshoppping at all, I swear to god. Hold the spacebar DOWN instead of just tapping it to skip le : askedrelic
      • I only got 158 :( : Moonbase Commander
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        omfg its true - i got to wave 255 : virus
        • lol, I got to 4000 before I got tired. : devi| dog
• 41. fuck this game and its addictiveness : electroly
• 51 on my 1st http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=52tq2.jpg I understand better now so it will get b... : mikefr24
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  This game is so damn addictive. : khaosman
  • Yeah..Damn you shackers to hell for posting this stuff! : mikefr24
• I cant beat 66.. cant tell if the really expensive gun is worth it : jaga
• this game is too buggy, I give up. : datoo
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  I can't beat 71. ARGH! : Moonbase Commander
  • I'm stuck on 69. Giggity giggity giggity!!! : khaosman
• 77, and I don't want to play anymore :( : Supine
• 68, got cocky while cooking and didnt pay attention to getting my ass kicked : buzzbat
• 73 :( : Ebu
• bunny bell jumping game dominates this one : infiltrator`
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  Noticed some weird things about this game I think the fire towers to DoT. Monsters that are nowhere c... : Anti_dentite
  • I think the other towers have different effects to. maybe water slows them down, not sure about nature. : Anti_dentite
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  Got to 67 with 5 Maxed out Nature and one Flower Power. Almost had the Ultimate cannon. If you don't st... : mikefr24
  • If you do the ultimate it's pretty impossible actually. It hits hard, but slow you can just barely squea... : devi| dog
• I wasted way too much time on this today ... and I still did not make it even to 80 : Nation
• 71 : vassili_zaitsev
• awesome game tagged tower defense warcraft flash game : inarius

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  Best incest jokes ever. What episode was that from, btw? Just trying to figure out where you're at. : BoKnows
  • episode 1 and 2 of season 1. omg. i can see how this show didnt make it with this style of humor, but fuc... : Antilles_Prime
• this hole thing will get SO absurd : naabster
• I can taste those meaty leading man parts in my mouth : AllYourBase
• I don't want no part of your tight ass country club ya freak bitch! : bradsh
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  Bob Boblaw lobs law bomb! : speon
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    the bob loblaw law blog : Clay
    • http://appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/ : Teiresias
• That show had more puns, visual puns, callbacks, callforwards and innuendo in one episode than most shows... : TwiLyght
• Such an amazing show. You are going to be LOLing plenty watching that show. : FormerHPB
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  A trick is something a whore does for money. : Deathlove
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    Or cocaine. : cornchak
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      or candy. the line is "or candy." : Deathlove
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        not in the original pilot. : broly1718
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          for deathlove: there was a unedited pilot on the dvds : oHnOES
          • tmyk. I never did watch those despite watching the series thrice now. : Deathlove
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  I really think much of America was too stupid to get that show.* *note: I said "much", so if you didn' : EvilDolemite
  • no, people who didn't like it are stupid : Clay
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    That and the fact that noone could jump in mid-season and 'get' the jokes. : DooBall
    • really? because almost every self-referential line is explained. : cpt_gloval
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  Tobias, you blowhard! : cpt_gloval
  • Tobias Funke: Analrapist. : Fred Garvin
• Check out who's behind us on the hog Michael!, George Michael! : broly1718
• Tobias: As you may or may not know, Lindsay and I have hit a bit of a rough patch. Michael: Really? Wh... : kgargonmagrix79
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  question re Tobias: why, late in the series, was he always hanging out in the fireplace... is there a jok : cpt_gloval
  • he's wierd. : broly1718
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    The season was cut down, and a few episodes weren't aired. I think the fireplace thing was explained in a... : sucko
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      ?! I don't think they wrote or filmed more than the aired 13 episodes in season 3. : TwiLyght
      • at the start of the season, it was going to be about 21 episodes. Then the ratings dropped (fox kept mov... : broly1718
• best comedy show ever? Yeah, pretty much. So sad it was canceled. I am still flummoxed as to who GOB's fa... : Fredrik S
• haha i just went and watched the first episode after this post. damn this show is funny stuff : spector
• ...and she calls it a Mayonegg : get_navi
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  Best show ever. : freshyk
  • ill go head and add a vote here : oHnOES
  • Tied with Office UK depending on my mood, but yes. : EvilDolemite
• Franklin just said some things that whitey wasn't ready to hear. : sgtsanity

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  CONGRATS!!!!! : drucifer
  • that is so awesome I can't stand it. : drucifer
• congrats. i've enjoyed your art posts. : strider_
• congrats :D : pandastrong
• Congrats! Have fun working there. Ps get me in some betas ;) : skobar
• WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT nice work man : boomstickah
• Wow, that's awesome. Good job. : blank
• Fantastic! You deserve it, man. Good luck! : ChibiJosh
• Hot damn! Finally! Congratulations and good luck! : filtersweep
• that's awesome, grats! : kydaimon
• Congrats! Its nice to see all your work has finally paid off. : freshyk
• Congrats dude, awesome! : askedrelic
• congrats dude, you really deserve it, your art is awesome. : whodares
• Congratulations! The gaming industry just got a little bit better. :D : sgtsanity
• Dude, I am so happy for you! :D : PoopStewart
• YAAAAAAY! :) :) :) Nicely done, Cap'n! : Rice-Rocketeer
• Congragulations Man! : snowwolf
• sincere congratulations man. i am thrilled for you that you're being rewarded/recognized for you talent : smoove
• Congrats! I think you have a pretty sweet future :) : SiW73
• Hey, congratulations sir! :) : tomservo
• Congratulations! You deserve it after coming so far. : ieGod
• big huge congrats! you have a very distinct style, I'm sure we'll spot it in your upcoming games :) : Supine
• Awesome. I've always enjoyed your art posts. :) : electroly
• oh that's awesome. I love your work : quietb0y
• Congrats and best of luck with your future work! : project13
• that's pretty cool man : thebigbeefsandwich
• Well done. Well done indeed. : eldersveld
• Congratulations. I hope the job is everything you imagine it to be. :) : Super Sparker
• excellente! been enjoyin all the characters you post for us :) : cygnus
• Nice work! Maybe I'll check out the Marvel MMO if you put some work in on it. : melkore
• Sweet, good luck :) : timmie
• awesome, looking forward to seeing more of your work! : MikkleThePickle
• Great news! Your post history leading up to this result would make for good inspiration to other aspirin... : graah
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  About fuckin time :). Now get us some posters! : Ecks
  • I second this very much ! :P : happynoodle
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  Fucking awesome, you deserve it. Your work rocks ass. : d0gbert
  • Much ashamed, but i hadn't checked your homepage until 5 minutes ago, but now, I can see why they hired y... : drekstar
• Congratulations sir! : -efx-
• Congrats man, love your work! : unlurker
• Yessss!! BRING ON THE MMORPG!!! : SockMonkeh
• I knew it was just a matter of time. Hope you dont have a life, the games industry will take it away from... : not work safe
• Awesome, dude. I knew you had it in you :D : Krypt_
• Congratulations! You do good stuff. : g.lee
• I went to your website and instantly saw why they hired you. You're freaking good man but you don't need ... : NastyJack
• there you go! I knew you'd get a job in art soon enough :) : Postal
• congrats! i looooooooove your artwork : pukerat
• Thanks thanks thanks again, everyone. :-) : robingchyo
• Nice, congratulations! : Kentor
• finally you sonabitch! :D congrats man! : buzzbat
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  Woot! Richly deserved! : Visceral Monkey
  • Also, you had better not stop posting concept art :( : Visceral Monkey
• That rocks, good to hear. Your work is amazing : 2zero2
• Awesome, you get to work on the Marvel MMO? I guess you can't say. Congrats! : Balboa
• CONGRATULATIONS! : Sylvanus
• Awesome work Robin. Good luck and keep in touch man. : Drewus
• Nice. Good luck, man. : Ratsofatsorat
• I will check out any MMO which uses your art as a basis for characters or environment. : BlackCat9
• Awesome, congrats! It's great to see someone breaking through into the gaming industry : bcyde

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  true that. did you see my new skin im makin? http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/5577/newgpgnetyj4.jpg : bradsh
  • nice, very nice! I might make one over break when I have a bit of time to waste, though, to be honest, I'... : Foxhawk
• I can't wait for a demo : chazums
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  Really. I don't know about that, it's missing so much character and designed purpose that the Relic games... : enyakk
  • TEHO; I certainly enjoy company of heroes more than a little bit (a lot), but Sup Com gets the nod becaus... : Foxhawk
• THat game is not better than Quake III! Q3A shackbattle last night was so much fun! We need to play tha... : FormerHPB
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  I would like to bitch about the music for a second though. It's not orchestrated. It's synthesized and oh : bradsh
  • The only thing Soule does nowadays that I like is the music for Guild Wars. Some say it's his brother tha... : enyakk
  • I turned the music off, wouldn't know :p : Foxhawk
  • I have no problem with the music, other than the battle music starts if you start building something and ... : Dynotaku
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  I finally got a chance to (briefly) see the game in action after installing the beta and downloading a re... : Silent Sorrow
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    Most of that is up to your taste, but can you really not figure out the supreme (lol) usefulness of the z... : Foxhawk
    • It was a rhetorical comment, my friend. Rhetorical. Obviously, I know what it's for but it's so unpleasan... : Silent Sorrow
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    the zoomed out mode is so you can be strategic. Sup Comm is to my knowledge the first RTS that actually d... : kbnerd
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      Yes because clearly you don't use any strategy in other RTS games. : Chod
      • You don't, not really. TA is the only other game to even come close to anything like broad battle strateg... : peanut-
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        Not on the same level you don't. : Arcanum
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          It's a completely different kind of strategy. Saying true strategy or the first one to be strategic is ju... : Chod
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            I think you guys are having a semantic difference, they feel strategic refers to a more generalized scope... : alexthegreat2
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              Most likely, strategy is the planning itself, tactics is your execution of said strategy. : Chod
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                I think that's pretty close to the accepted definition, that's certainly how I think of it. Strategy i : VinnieTheSquid
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                  Here's a post I made giving an example: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13154788 : Arcanum
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                    How do you fare vs humans, because AI gets kinda predictable after a while. : boomstickah
                    • Haven't had time to play much against humans, sadly. Right about when I got my beta key, my class load p... : Arcanum
      • This is where the battle over the semantics of Strategy Vs. Tactics that occurs in every SC thread starts... : SenorSpine
  • ^ wow...IAWTP! well put. : Skoal^Fyfan
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    rename all the units to people you care about then it might have a bit more life to it ctrl-n : synack
    • Awww, my tech II Mom died of dysentery. :( : sgtsanity
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    its about strategy not life and character. you might enjoy a shit game like warcraft instead : bradsh
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      Boomstickah is gonna git you!! : project13
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        no its an osiris_brad post I'll leave it alone : boomstickah
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          i dont think i deserve this rep, you could probably convince me warcraft 3 was great : bradsh
          • shutup osiris_brad . Just one look at your post history and everything is explained!!!! no wonder you cha... : boomstickah
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      Didn't much care for W3, actually. Bought it, never finished it. I like Company of Heroes though. And the... : Silent Sorrow
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        then i dont see how you think supcom is different from TA. its the same game practically. alot of the uni... : bradsh
        • Yeah, Supreme Commander is TA++. I don't know how you could complain about lack of character in one game ... : SenorSpine
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    Exactly. MOO3 suffered from the exact same problem with the 'battles'. It was technically accurate (scale... : FiReaNG3L
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      they should make it so you dont have to click? alot of stuff is nicely automated, its just a matter of... : bradsh
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        If they really want to set the focus on strategy, please automate resource building at least a little. Ri... : FiReaNG3L
        • My thoughts exactly : Neech
        • this is so, so, so, so (so) wrong. any intermediate player will kick your ass if you try this bullshit : Foxhawk
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    The lifelessness is what turned me away from Total Annihilation. :/ : omnova
    • But that's the thing--I didn't feel the original TA (OTA) was lifeless at all and I certainly remember th... : Silent Sorrow
  • Chris Taylor explicitly said in past and current interviews that he doesn't like violent wargames where t... : EvilDolemite
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  isn't that what everyone said about coh? : xxiv
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    yup, and CoH is indeed the bee's knees. 100% recommended if you don't have it. : Foxhawk
    • I second this 100% review 100% of the way. : Moonbase Commander
  • Whoa, you're saying two great RTS games exist? C'mon now, let's be realistic here! : EvilDolemite
• supcom is nowhere near as engaging or fun as my warcraft. : boomstickah
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  Has it been patched much since the original closed fileplanet release? I haven't played the beta since. : pigvomit
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    3 times actually. GPGnet has seen even more patches. New patch next week too. so far, 20->27->30->38 ... : bradsh
    • cool, i'll have to try it again. It disconnected to lobby the three times I tried to run it originally, ... : pigvomit
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  i dont understand how people who saw the preview videos are now complaining about how "lifeless" it is. w... : bradsh
  • I created a mech and named him George. : Spoetzl
  • They expect that if you click on units multiple times that they start making funny pop-culture references... : Dynotaku
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  What is Supcom? : pillzer
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    I can't decideif this is a joke or if you've really managed to miss all the previous Supreme Commander th... : Arcanum
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      Ho, I heard the name. But I really don't know what it is. :) I'm focused on Wii and Work these days, not... : pillzer
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        SupCom is as if Total Annihilation had cloned itself to have sex with it and spawned a glorious successor... : pebui
        • haha. I see; that sounds like a glorious description. : pillzer
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          Something like that. Take Total Annihilation. Now add things like formations, and an even more robust c... : Arcanum
          • I wasn't interested in the game until this post. : Orange Pylon
          • You might want to check out the videos on Fileshack to get an idea: http://www.fileshack.com/browse.x?ca... : Arcanum
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            Hooo hold on... isn't that this 'famous' game that's been in development since for ever? (as you can see ... : pillzer
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              No, I don't think so.... : Arcanum
              • Ha, ok. Must be thinking of something else, not sure what. I'm thinking of some strategy game that was ... : pillzer
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  To address those who think supcom is lifeless, what would classify as full bodied life? Is a game where y... : d0gbert
  • I think it's more than though the races are different the units seem fairly generic and characterless, un... : node
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    TL;DR Answer: the original TA. : Silent Sorrow
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      this answer does not make sense: supcom IS TA, half the units are even the same. its mostly UI and scale ... : bradsh
      • actually aeon's tanks can hover over water.. hence hover tanks are restricted to one race... : ballystix
• I truly wish I could have got into the beta :( : -efx-
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  Would it be wrong of me to say I find the art style horrible? There's something about it and the way t... : abrasion
  • yeah, i wouldnt mind a more imaginative art style. its altogether too realistic : bradsh

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  It's a crappy photo, because he didn't use a 10 000 megapixel camera. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I concur, 2988000 pixels is insufficient. and yes, I do only say that because I want to look into people... : AbortedFetusChristi
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  Needs a mushroom cloud off in the distance. : Lunatic Angelic
  • More like GOJIRA. : sgtsanity
  • "See ya in Hell, Michigan" : The Key
• Crazy. The CN Tower does look superimposed. : ieGod
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  http://g0nk.shackspace.com/youhearsomething.jpg ? : g0nk
  • Ahaha, wow that's awesome. : MaxPete82
  • For some reason I just started laughing like crazy when I looked at this pic. : verbatim
  • AWESOME : boring gegtik
  • *applause goes here* : Toraz Chryx
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    Holy crap! AHah, best image all day. Can I put that on my site? I'll credit you. : knitemare
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      lol! go for it. :) : g0nk
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        Added, do you update your blog ever? If so give me that too so I can put a link to it. : knitemare
        • i might update it again, someday.. it's just g0nk.com for future reference.. : g0nk
  • An excellent 20,006th post! : ChibiJosh
  • YES. : Krypt_
  • paging drucifer : wtf242
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    http://www.penguinvsgirl.com/youhearsomething2.jpg ?? : felicia
    • haha, awesome! DOOMSDAY!! : g0nk
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      If that nuke was aimed at Godzilla they missed by a lot :( : Krypt_
      • I really like The Incredibles, but I really get annoyed by the Mom's--Holly Hunter-- voice. Is it some so... : The Key
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        why would they aim for Godzilla? :( : drucifer
        • Well he's about to wreck the city, so naturally people are going to try to fight back. I guess this is t... : Krypt_
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        He was created/awoken by nuclear testing in the first place. What makes you think a thermonuclear firebal... : sgtsanity
        • *breathes lolz : sgtsanity
    • Needs more Cyclon love : The Key
    • Needs more Adama maneuver! : Toraz Chryx
  • aha YESSSS : suqur
  • YEAH! : drucifer
  • I give it two snaps up in a circle! : HuggyBear
  • smiling like crazy right now. bravo. : shyguy74
  • Wallpaper'd! : Super Sparker
  • needs more Trent Reznor : silent prophet
  • Should have sent... a poet! : sgtsanity
  • fantastic. absolutely fantastic : Crimson
  • And the 'Thread hijack of the day' award goes to... : pillzer
  • New work wallpaper, I believe. : SeaLlama
  • absolute perfection : 2zero2
  • That's perfect. : metralgia
  • lol, mind if i keep that? great stuff. : BongSlayerB
  • Oh god damn that's fucking fantastic. : Ecks
  • hahaha, awesome. i love it. : lightly inclined
  • Well done! : khaosman
  • lol nice :D : valiance
  • Beautiful! : genom
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  http://jonasnaimark.madelynvogel.com/download/fogtorontoist_nuke.jpg : jojomcbobo
  • Not as good as the GOJIRA! one. : Majuju
• http://www.carazy.com/images/shack/montyfog.jpg : carazy