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• the game looks really nice... : ghost hacker
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  Wow, that's the first time I've seen night shots in a game that actually look like night. The quality of ... : BlackCat9
  • you totally copied me : aeg1x
  • If you have a pretty good proc, a good amount of RAM, and a nice Shader 2.0 card, you should be able to r... : Dslyecxi
• Wow. That is the first game that's really made night look like night and not just day with a dark blue fi... : aeg1x
• Oddly enough over the past weeks, I've been playing OpFlash again at 100+ fps :D It's such a great con : Lunatic Angelic
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  looks fucking great, but my short experience with arma so far (with details rather high) didn't look like... : Foxhawk
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    No, those are all straight from the game, unedited (except for one or two that were cropped). It's the : Dslyecxi
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      nice, that's awesome : Foxhawk
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        I think it may be his ATI card that provides such a lush color and vivid texture because the demo looks l... : Lightzout
        • well, I have a 7900GTO, and the game looked far from pure ass. Not like the shots he took (tbh, I didn't... : Foxhawk
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  Re: ArmA Night This is in reply to the posts about it actually looking like night 'should'. There a : Dslyecxi
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    Looks mediocre, i remember playing the demo, was extremely buggy and you almost needed a second keyboard ... : Lukiopimp
    • The demo didn't come anywhere close to giving a good representation of the vast possibilities inherent in... : Dslyecxi
  • I'm thinking that once this comes out, I won't have the time to become good at this game, but I really li... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Man, it looks so pretty :( How come the demo doesn't look so nice? : AlexXdude
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    I don't know. Is there anything in particular that looks different in my shots compared to the demo? B... : Dslyecxi
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      I don't know, it just seems like the overall texture quality and detail is way better, even though I had ... : AlexXdude
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        Do you have anisotropic filtering turned up? That can play a big part. I actually have texture qualit... : Dslyecxi
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          I'll try the AF thing tomorrow. I wish this game came out already :( : AlexXdude
          • The only catch about AF is that it can knock your framerate down a few notches. It may not be worth the f... : Dslyecxi
• that looks amazing. : d0pamine
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  Too bad the demo crashes when I try to run it. Nice programming. : Subarushian
  • 1. Do you have a Shader 2.0 video card? 2. Have you tried the updated demo exe? (found here: http://www.... : Dslyecxi
• Awesome as always, Dslyecxi. :D : DOOManiac
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  As buggy and horrible as the demo experience was, your shots still amaze me and always bring back the hop... : Sgt_Boomstick
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    In that case abandon hope, as the game won't look cinematically shot like this during actual gameplay. : enyakk
    • Take away the DOF and it looks the same. DOF is a primarily cinematic effect anyway, I doubt people are e... : Dslyecxi
• jeeze some of these look photorealistic. too bad in the daytime shots the textures look really muddy with... : videlectrix
• Thanks for the night shots, it was way better than I expected it to be. : pebui
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  haha what, there's no way a game can actually be as good as this game looks. Waaaaay too good to be true.... : downrightevil
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    It has great widescreen support. You can set the aspect ratio, do multi-monitors (dual and triple-monitor... : Dslyecxi
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      A couple of my friends and I used to play a fair amount of OpFlash. LAN and such. Does it play similar to... : downrightevil
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        It's basically a revamped version of Flashpoint, so yeah... it's very, very, very similar. Some mods (lik... : Dslyecxi
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          Well that's definitely a good thing. One aspect of OpFlash which i totally loved was the mouse control ai... : downrightevil
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            Yep. ArmA made it so that you can adjust how much "free aim" you want. It's possible for people who don't... : Dslyecxi
            • ah, well done. I definitely think that having the gun independent of the view is very important, as it fo... : downrightevil
• outstanding shots as usual. : SAS_Ale

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  I tried Pscychobilly on hard and it was just like one big solo, practically impossible : Smellsy
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    Oh yea that one sucks. Can't wait to do it on expert oh wait. Basically after this I'll probably hittin... : khaosman
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      I finally got through Psychobilly on expert the other day. Freebird on expert still seems ridiculous thou... : MrAdults
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        Kudos! Yea, freebird on expert, f that noise. My rendition on hard is akin to having a seizure. : khaosman
        • The annoying part is that if you run it in practice mode on Slowest, the pattern of notes on the solos is... : riptyde
    • bwahaha I just tried Psychobilly on expert. In-fucking-sane. Fuck that shit. I should just hang this b... : khaosman
  • Just 4-starred that today on Hard. Practicing the individual sections first seemed to help a lot; it's no... : Bold
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  I have a friend that had a really hard time with it, too. I beat it second or third try, though. :D J... : ArbyBean
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    I beat it on the first try :( : ki11_viru5
    • You guys are l337 :/ I have musical downs-syndrome though, so it is okay. : khaosman
  • Still stuck on Psychobilly. :( I can totally pass songs after that one, but I don't know if I'll ever ... : Serpico74
• You think the main part is stupid, wait until you get to the part that repeats over and over again midway... : megarust32
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  I can't get past 60% on Freebird on expert. Just don't have enough star power to get through the really ... : riptyde
  • for Freebird, I used starpower on the really fast inititial riff of the solo and BS'ed my way through tha... : ki11_viru5
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    It took my brother in law too fucking long to get passed "Hangar 18" on Expert. Those turkey gobbler sol... : hatelull
    • amen brotha. : ki11_viru5
    • Fuck that, those solos still kick my ass on Hard >:( I can beat the damn thing, but it isn't pretty. : khaosman
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  hard is currently kicking my ass. carry me home was one kick to the nuts after another. I passed (and ... : Supine
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    i've started playing expert songs now. there are still some hard songs that kick my ass (six, pbfo, etc.)... : skankcore
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      Heart Shaped Box on expert is easier than most songs on hard. It's great that you're playing expert (only... : Serpico74
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        i know it's easy, that's the only way i can five star it. but you're right, it's definitely not indicativ... : skankcore
        • Agreed 100% : Serpico74
  • Play them enough and you'll get the hang of it. Also -warm up before you attack the songs. Carry Me Hom : dopeman
• I still can't do it. I stopped playing completely for 3 months because of that lame ass song. It would be... : Halen
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  did you just say the sword is terrible? i should slit your throat. : eeeealmo
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    See above post, #3314. : khaosman
    • still wrong, sword rapes my ears with thors weiner, and that can only be good. : klearlyunseen
  • well that last part is pretty boring. The band rocks, though. I love Barael's Blade. : DonkeyPopsicle
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  I just cant get having the 5th (orange) button down. I dont understand when to move my hand back and fort... : FPSDavid
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    What I do is, by default, have my fingers on GRYB, and when the orange comes into play, move them down to... : riptyde
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      How do you know when to switch back to GRYB after going to RYBO? : FPSDavid
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        If I see a few greens coming down the line then I'll slide back up. I'm not an expert at the game by any... : riptyde
        • Yea, this is what I do. I used to suck. Well, I still suck but I beat the game on Hard and am over half... : khaosman
      • Oh man, I just started Hard on GH1 and got 3 stars on the first 3 songs, 4 stars on the 4th, and the 5th ... : FPSDavid
    • IMO it is better if your home position is index finger on red. It is much easier to pop up to green than ... : Serpico74
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    My learning strategy to prepare for the ORANGE button: First, I played through Medium and got used to : Bold
    • I can still only 85% Cowboys from Hell on Medium. : FPSDavid
    • Yep, I did it like this, too. Helped alot to get over the finger-shifting-barrier! : MatzL.E.
• Psychobilly Freakout on expert is about 1000 times harder. It sucks. : Serpico74
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  Freya is the second worse song in the game. Not because it's ungodly hard, because after practice you can... : DOOManiac
  • imo War Pigs is the worst. I love listening to the song, but when you play it you spend 50% of your time... : riptyde
• My blocker ATM is "Rock This Town" on expert. Finger massacre. : MatzL.E.

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• It wan't raining in "Prince land" : Prozium
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  lol, Prince's "Press conference" http://www.bonitanews.com/mediagalleries/super_bowl_media/2484/?file_id... : byorn
  • Lol at the Burger King : shred.
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  His guitar work was awesome but I didn't really like the songs he used He should have done hendrix he ... : Mondo
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    iawtp he really shouldn't have gone with All Along the Watchtower though : boring gegtik
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      That was the only part I didn't care for. : capt tripps
      • So.. did he cover this before or after he became a JW? : cause&effect
      • Someone told me that he was covering the Dylan version, not the Hendrix version, but I have never heard t... : riptyde
• i actually enjoyed it, except for the whammy bar : cygnus
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  Hahaha, "live" good one. : mavmavv
  • ....what : FrayLo
  • um...did you watch it? Several times he didn't quite make it back to the mike and the volume of the vocal... : byorn
  • srsly, wtf does this mean? it was very obviously live. it isn't britney spears we're talking about.. : Ctrl-Phreak
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  His guitar looked like a giant cockandballs behind that screen thing at a certain angle. Also: lol at ... : romulan
  • haha we burst out laughing at that too : Mondo
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  He's playing basketball against the Bears right now. : EvilDolemite
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    GAME... BLOUSES : proclone1
    • You guys want some grapes? .........bitches. : Ojalo1982
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  the last 20 seconds or so he kicked over the mic and it unplugged his guitar and he was just playing away... : n0v4
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    I think he was trying to get the crowd to sing "purple rain." It didn't work too well. : romulan
    • football fans.. purple rain.. sounds like a great match. good call there. : boring gegtik
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      Didn't Foo Fighters cover a Prince song at one point? Maybe it was a respectful nod back to them from Pr... : mrwolf710
      • They covered Darling Nikki as a tribute to Prince. However, Prince doesn't really like people covering h... : riptyde
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  prince covering the foo fighters? :[ : wtf242
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    DAVE GROHL IS KING,..........thats why hes the prince. : mindshot
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      dave ghrol is a fgtz and woundt be what he is had kurt cobain never exsisted. seriously the guy is a... : exsnforumer
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        He has a shotgun made of money. He has more talent in his thumbs than most of today's "artists" have in ... : Salad Sammich
        • money gunz > money hatz ?? : cause&effect
  • That was just painful and unnecessary on his part. : prfectjon
  • Did I miss any other tracks in that segment? Almost felt like a medley but the sound was kinda quiet for ... : node
• That was some good shit. : rosewood
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  If prince didn't wear a scarf on his head and act like a faggot, he might be pretty good. : ki11_viru5
  • oi shi... run dude! Run! : Ojalo1982
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    He's probably a secret gay terrorist : Chris Remo
    • Do they get 72 shackers in heaven? : Chunks
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    His "fag" act has probably led to him boning more women in one night than I will in my life. : soggybagel
    • Well said, except don't knock yourself buddy! Hopefully you are better in the sack than you are at sackin... : PlanetPerfecto
  • When do you graduate from high school : genjuro
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    The more replies to this post the more that will read it. Just an FYI. : romulan
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      AAAND I just replied. gg idiot : romulan
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        And again. Nicely done. : Vantage
        • *cowers* : romulan
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    uh huh huh huh YEAH DUDE FUCK HER IN THE ASS! *high five* : jessipoo
    • Yo yo while you're out gaybashing I'm gonna be at your house fucking your girlfriend....IN THE ASS! : zakk
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    hahah it damn sure wasn't the men's section! : wetard
    • Bwahah, god that was great. : soggybagel
  • Oh do pray tell, please explain this faggotry and how it makes Prince bad. : geedeck
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  yeah we were having bets on either the twins or Prince (since he was also wearing heels) would slip and f... : cap n KRUNCH
  • I think it was my favourite half time show by a long shot, dude can seriously play and the stage setup wa... : node
• As much as I hate to admit, I enjoyed this halftime show. WTF is wrong with me?!? : pigvomit
• yeeeah see I thought it was horrible. A friend hadn't seen the dick-in-a-box skit so we watched that inst... : Trepex
• funny how extreme the opinions are on this show. i personally don't see how anyone could think it was ter... : FrayLo
• I thought it was fantastic. If he wasn't so wierd and self indulgent i'm sure he'd be 1000 times more po... : Pneum0

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  Whatever would make you think he was playing Crackdown? : eldersveld
  • Because he's a cold, spiteful man. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13784881 http://live.xbox.com/en-U... : DrZettl
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  GTA games lack substance? what more are you looking for? I doubt crackdown will have more of anything, ex... : edgewise
  • The problem I encountered with the GTA games was that, unless I was running through the story, the most i... : Arcanum
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  GTA games may lack STRUCTURE but substance? sorry, no. : abrasion
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    Outside the storyline, most of the "substance" (i.e., things to do) seemed to be random achievement thing... : Arcanum
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      You're missing everything. The game is fantastic, there's sub missions upon sub missions, there's just... : abrasion
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        I haven't played San Andreas, only the previous ones (and mostly GTA 3). Did the later ones change that ... : Arcanum
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          GTA:SA gets all the good parts from 3 / VC and puts them together and adds a LOT more, it's amazing. I... : abrasion
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            if you don't like the story in san andreas you're racist : SockMonkeh
            • shut it cracker! : abrasion
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  hijack Limpet charges... how do they work? I can stick them to a wall, but are they proximity mines? remo... : edgewise
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    Hold down the grenade fire button for a second, and the placed limpets will go off. : DrZettl
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      tyvm. I'm gonna try sticking a few to a car I'm driving, drive full speed towards a bunch of baddies, rol... : edgewise
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        Fucking awesome idea. Another fun one is to pile up some barrels and cars in the middle of an intersecti... : DrZettl
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          I started practicing throwing exploding barrels and shotting them in midair. gotta get the strength up be... : edgewise
          • Toss em off a building. Drop some Muertos bodies on top of barrels for shenanigans. : DrZettl
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  Why is this question directed to remo only? Is he just that much better than anyone here? If so, why not ... : ki11_viru5
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13785405 : YamatoTwinkie
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    Maybe because he's the only one on the shack who has a copy of the full version of Crackdown at the momen... : AlexXdude
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      Ding! And I ask publically because others might be interesting in the response. : Arcanum
      • Don't worry about ki11, he has one of those "Jump to Conclusions" mat : AlexXdude
  • I bet you feel pretty stupid for asking that now. : ShekkyBoy
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  We need a Remolight. Do we even have a symbol for Remo? : cdbeckman
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    he's probably playing the Halo 3 beta now, he'll post about it in a few mins : qwpeoriu
    • lol hay guyz wherez the battle rifle on snowbound lolz : coldfusioncs
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  Once you kill all the gang members in the city, all of a sudden the world feels pretty empty--it's very d : Chris Remo
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    How long did it take you to get to that point? No matter how long that does sound rather shitty. : boredguy
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      Oh, and have you gotten to do any co-op at all? Do you get to use your char from singleplayer and keep a... : boredguy
      • Yeah you keep your character. : Chris Remo
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      I'm not really sure, it's going to vary wildly for every person. You can go straight through and take ou... : Chris Remo
      • damn i was hoping for something more GTA length... : Shadowdane
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        16 to 18 hours? Perfect length for me. : Drewus
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          Yeah if I wasn't reviewing it, it would have lasted me weeks. : Chris Remo
          • So after the review is done, will you be going back to play it again? : DrZettl
  • they don't regenerate randomly all over the place? you actually... defeat crime? : mr brown
  • Well, if you played co-op with others in their cities you could probably extend the game. Take your supe... : ThomW
  • That is kind of strange. If they were going to take that route, I would've expected a Regular/Nightmare/... : Arcanum
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    Update: You can actually turn on "ambient crimes" and bad guys will pop up randomly. : Chris Remo
    • Oh sweet! That's good news. :) : ThomW
    • If you replay single player at a harder difficulty level, does it restart your character? Or does it pers... : DrZettl
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      Oh, cool. Are they just random groups of enemies standing around, or do they do stuff without your inter... : Arcanum
      • As far as I can tell they just stand around. They're good for grinding. : Chris Remo
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    Also, holy shit. The second rocket launcher plus maxed out explosives skill... you guys have no idea. : Chris Remo
    • Holy fucking hell this game needs to come out already. : pwnage1232
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  I don't GET this game. I've played the demo like 20 times. I want to like it SO bad but I feel like I am ... : mr.sleepy
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    JUMPING : Chris Remo
    • Seriously, jumping is instant fun. Jumping Flash proved it. : Drewus
    • ^^^ I don't have actual retail game experience, but start collecting those agility power-ups scattered al... : ThomW
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  So would this be a better experience than say... Gears of War or is it just different? : Sylvanus
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    I have enjoyed it more than any other 360 game to date but I don't expect everybody will feel the same wa... : Chris Remo
    • How would you compare it to Mercenaries on PS2 as far as pure fun is concerned? Thanks, btw. :) : Sylvanus

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• that photographer is a lucky bastard : mattsull85
• That is completely insane. : Chris Remo
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  Holy crap, I bet there's a yeti there somewhere too. : sgtsanity
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    also pictured, big foot, the abominal snow man, elvis, the decedent of jesus holding the holy grail, and : rosewood
    • also sweaty elvis, good elvis, fat elvis and an elvis impersonator : DrZettl
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  Holy shit ... getting the exposure right on that, and the focus and ... just holy shit : rosewood
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    The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections fro : boring gegtik
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      yeah that ruined the whole thing. : dopefish
      • photoshop always wins. always : Downforce
    • fucker, i retract my props. : mattsull85
    • i feel cheated : takio
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      I want to know why the people on the beach have ghost trails .. is that just the exposure time? There ... : Daggoth
      • longer exposure would cause that. : broly1718
    • unless he had 3 cameras with him, I'm sure they did happen at different times. : edgewise
• that is *the coolest* picture I've ever seen : snowwolf
• Beautiful. : omnova
• photographer's gotta know he'll never top that lol : proclone1
• THIS WORLD IS FUCKING AMAZING : mindshot
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  did the photographer just kill himself after that? because there is no way he could top that. : takio
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    I just imagine the photographer looking at a large print of that photograph, his eyes widen, he says: "HO... : Rice-Rocketeer
    • haha. the imagery here is just so awesome, i cracked up out loud from reading this :) : PlanetPerfecto
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  I could've sworn that the comet stopped being visible a couple of days before that ... I'm just skeptical... : Daggoth
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    Southern Hemisphere hax. It's still visible here. : aeg1x
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      oh you live here... well my point still stands! : aeg1x
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        It's nowhere near as bright anymore as that photo makes it out to be. I remember the bureau saying it cam... : Daggoth
        • Well that photo would be a pretty long exposure. : aeg1x
• Are the original images viewable anywhere? : lord cecil
• Holy twig and berries that photo is awesome! : Krypt_
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  Is that a shooting star in the middle part? : Sgt_Boomstick
  • "Comet McNaught continues to move out from the Sun and dim, but should remain visible in southern skies w... : romulan
  • *head explodes* : Pink0r
  • I would never have noticed it if I hadn't read the description on the site. Such an awesome picture. : shred.
• lol, a wiki link to Australia? Just in case we forgot about where/what it is? : Foxhawk
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  So, where is Waldo? : InfoBiter
  • Zoom on the comet, right there. : Izakhar
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  that is fucking amazing, where when is that? : eggnoodles
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    is tells you on the page he linked? In Perth, 5th Feb 2005 : moshman
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      Bzzt, photo was taken 26 January 2007 (Australia Day) : Daggoth
      • uh yeah, dunno where the 2005 came from either. : moshman

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  You need to bookmark and re-read this post when you get caught up. : InfoBiter
  • oh trust me I want to like this show. I hope it happens : boomstickah
• oh and the thing fly boy does with his lip is really annoying. : boomstickah
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  YOU HATE HIRO!? DIE NOW PLZ! : NFXFSX
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    Hiro is worthless. : Bean
    • he screams like a little girl : mindshot
    • just like your mom. : ki11_viru5
    • lol iawb : boomstickah
    • more lawyers are useless : sharpie
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      Hiro is going to end up saving everything and you're going to eat those words :( : electroly
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        I highly doubt it. The show already sucks. If he "saves" everything, as shitty a character as he is, so w... : Bean
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          Super-Hiro :( : electroly
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            That alone is enough to make me want to choke him out. : Bean
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              Do you seriously think you can take him with his "sword?" :P : Ecks
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                Without question. Even with super powers he'd be a god damned fool to mix it up with me. My hate is stron... : Bean
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                  I can understand the hate for Heroes, but Studio 60? :( Seriously Bean, wtf? The last episode or two... : Ecks
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                    Hey, I wanted to like it, I really did! (proof - http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12929937 see?) But ... : Bean
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                      And yes, I do realize that Sports Night being my favorite Sorkin show ever kinda contradicts some of what : Bean
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                        Eh, I can see it even if I don't like it. Enjoyment of shows is so damn arbitrary that I can't fault y... : Ecks
                        • It makes sense. I like the style too. I just think the style fell flat for the show's setting, basically.... : Bean
          • those paintings he had on his back looked an awful lot like the "sword" he had in the future.... i'm just : dopefish
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          why do you watch it if you hate it? : sludge vohaul
          • I don't anymore. If a show doesn't make me immediately vomit, and the subject matter is one that I think ... : Bean
    • No way. He's awesome! : Rice-Rocketeer
    • ur broken : klearlyunseen
• oh shit I take everything backa i said about claire that was awesome. claire wreck!!! : boomstickah
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  I fucking hate the cop guy and I don't know why. I love Hiro and Claire. : electroly
  • the cop's wife is straightup MILF pin-her-legs-behind-her-head bang her on the bed so hard the alarm cloc... : proclone1
  • the cops one of my favorites, the only one I cant stand is nicki but im certain shell be dead soon. : klearlyunseen
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  Hiro needs his own damned show, or video game. : GeorgeB3DR
  • he needs to finish working on Pirates3, THEN he needs his own videogame. : dopefish
  • for all the hiro haters, man you should have seen him on the Tonight Show.. or was it conan? Either cona... : proclone1
  • Shadow Warrior 2: Super-Hiro : veras
• Anyone who hates Hiro has no soul. : Ojalo1982
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  dude, heroes is amazing, I have weekly HEROES sessions where me and my girl watch it like a fucking movie... : klearlyunseen
  • So you have sex while it airs? : Mad Brahmin Disease