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  Doesn't nonde mean "to drink"? : thaperfectdrug
  • you are correct but he's saying something else: Nandayo is slang for wtf : ki11_viru5
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  you're correct, sir. and just in case you're curious, it's "nan da yo" nan = what da = is (but casuall... : snagger
  • Hey thanks much! I've seen it used in so many ways I was beginning to have doubts about its meaning. Ni... : Rich McNinch
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    wat dee fok? : podizzle
    • yo : podizzle
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  I, too, have learned a lot from watching animes! they may just be short phrases that will not help me in ... : AbortedFetusChristi
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    wakatmasen on your last one there man... or if you prefer nadeyo on that last one... what the heck : flagg209
    • you need to watch more bleach, man. senbonzakura kageyoshi is byakuya kuchiki's zanpakutou's bankai. : AbortedFetusChristi
    • wakarimasen : Dynotaku
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    lol, I recognize those as well as the following: excuse me i'm home welcome home lets eat mother ... : dopeman
    • oh shit, and how could i forget WONDERFUL. : dopeman
• ITADAKIMATSU! : electroly
• FUZAKENA!! : zanzaban
• Ganbatte! : RevRaven
• MANKO CHINKO ! : qwpeoriu
• KURI TO RISU! : Faluzure
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  TETSUOOOOO!!!! : beastrabban
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    KANEEDAAAA!!! : hadokennn
    • p.u : creep
    • GIMMIE BACK MY BIKE!!!! : BlackCat9
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  just from watching Shogun, i got: wakarimaska? - do you understand wakarimasen - i don't understand ... : onji
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    please tell me you read the book. The mini-series is ok, the book is so much better though. : retardhumper
    • oh yes, read the book twice before seeing the miniseries : onji
• Rich McNinch baka! : bRAINsick
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  Vas Ort Grav bitches. : mechanicalgrape
  • Kal Des Flam Ylem! : Simulacrum
• Hi-Doo-Kin? : krym3
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  ZIDOHANBAIKI! : Ride-My-Rocket
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    VENDING MACHINE! : cpt. ken
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      Hehe, yep. :) SINE, KURUMA! : Ride-My-Rocket
      • "DIE, CAR!" Now I'm just confused. : cpt. ken
• cool. i remember being at that point. check out something like this to get an understanding of how thei... : sirkne
• i believe it's hadoken and awyuken. : vassili_zaitsev
• Every bit of Japanese you'll ever need to know can be learned from Anime. For example: When confron : Rotten Deadite
• Just got back from my first Japanese class. This is going to be crazy hard to learn :( : Yanks
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  You watch a lot of Japanese movies, and you feel like you've discovered the meaning of two phrases. Thus... : cam3lt0sis
  • ahh-so : cpt_gloval
  • Knowing is half the battle. : mechanicalgrape
  • i.e. He now knows more Japanese than he used to. And in his post he's trying to confirm their meaning. Wh... : Dynotaku

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  Damn, I hate no home/end keys. I use them constantly. Oh well, I'm sure I'll still love it. USPS verified... : zyklonbee
  • god I just bought a new laptop and the home/end keys are in a different location so I keep hitting pgup a... : mikecyb
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  I'm using mine right now too. I'm still in awe that the Nuitech thing worked. I do need to set up boot... : ohhjebus
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    what about the Mac Office 2004 test drive that's included in the OSX Install? : g0nk
    • That's not 2007. : Ebu
    • and its only for 30 days before you have to pay for a full license (so for those of us with legit copies ... : derelict515
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  now i keep using my thumb for the apple key, when now at work i need to pinkie my windows key FUCKING ... : dahanese
  • yeah, at work yesterday, i kept mousing over the the upper left side of a window to close it.. doesn't qu... : g0nk
  • You can flip the keys in the keyboard options. I use an external keyboard, and hate using the windows... : jason bergman
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  Would you have paid full price for it? : Fred Garvin
  • now that i've had time playing with it, Absolutely. : g0nk
  • no way because I'm broke as hell. If I had the money then sure. : boomstickah
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    my only reservation would've been dropping the full $2000 for something without a cutting edge graphics c... : derelict515
    • ia. if the mbp had just a slight bump in the gpu area, it'd be a steal. : slickdoody
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  Oh baby, I've been fufilled! : sammyl
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    when did you start/finish? I parked it before March 1st and am tempted to actually do the offers now : multisync
    • I started feb 9th, finished around the 15th. Got my voucher out on like the 25th, but I have shitty handw... : sammyl
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      here's my timeline.. Started Offers: 2/06/2007 Finished Last Offers: 2/15/2007 (took me an extra week : g0nk
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        no one who has read this site in the past month can NOT know your timeline. my specific question relates... : multisync
        • *HMPH* : g0nk
    • I'm in the same boat. I 'started' like 2/15 or something but never went any further. : cltcprd
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      Parked Feb 26th Finished offers March 5th Verified March 9th Voucher received by them March 12th ..... : zyklonbee
      • when did you start : multisync
• This is getting as bad as dognose posting about Chinese food in every other post. Seriously.. I get it.. ... : K1Bond007
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  noisy DVD drive? you say it's loud when inserting and ejecting, what about during actual use? (still have : Korban
  • during use it's about normal, i think it's just the slot loading mechanism.. it catches you off guard at... : g0nk
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  ATTN: peon73 did you get yours yet? : Korban
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    UPS just delivered mine! Roommate was home and he opened the box for me! Just waiting on newegg ram to de... : peon73
    • BALLS!!! i wonder if UPS delivered mine too... they tend to do deliveries about 10 minutes AFTER i leave ... : Korban
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  Sis says still no fulfillment page, they've had the voucher for a week, signed for and everything. : Lunatic Angelic
  • make sure she checks her email and spam folders in case there was a problem with her w9. : slickdoody
  • Same here, still no fullfilment and they got a week ago. : opengl128
• i agree on all three points. the dvd drive noises led me to believe that it was broken at first. so man... : slickdoody
• I never use home and end anymore really. Command + down arrow and Command + up arrow is how i've been do... : ovrlrd
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  I wish OSX had a better terminal :/ Not usually that big a deal, but I'm always VPN'ing in to work and... : qwpeoriu
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    Get iTerm http://iterm.sourceforge.net/ It has everything you want and more. Trust me it's awesome. : ovrlrd
    • I will check this out as soon as I get home, thanks !! : qwpeoriu
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    leopard (OS X 10.5) is going to come with tabbed terminals! about goddamn time :( : warpdude
    • hrm, I use X11, have a bunch of odd term's that are tabbed.. but I like the OSX one because it has transp... : dextius
    • iterm just added fullscreen display, so i'll probably stick with it in 10.5 : manero
  • You could also try Visor: http://docs.blacktree.com/visor/visor I use that and a terminal window or tw... : gingerninja
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen : vigilante
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  1) Why?, other than an excess blinking light, whats the point? 2) option+home/end pwns j00 bitch 3) tru... : Toraz Chryx
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    1) Because I am soooo used to watching a HDD activity light that I've grown accustomed to watching it to ... : g0nk
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      i just Tab -> Space to post now : dopefish
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        Tab -> Space?? doesnt work for me.. : g0nk
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          He means hit tab to select the "post" button, and then hit space to activate the button. : dopeman
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            on safari TAB puts you into the username dialog. I fight with this too :( : multisync
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              oh you morons use that stupid alt form. fuck that noise : multisync
              • I'll cut you >:( : mikecyb
              • I just straight assumed that's what they were talking about, seeing as the ctrl+enter thing would be some... : dopeman
      • I use Tab - Space too and I am on a nice windows computer. : Galadriel07
    • Macs never, ever crash or have problems, ever, period, NEVER!!!! *puts gun to head* : nukewinter
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    2) Yes, a key combo is every bit as quick, easy and intuitive as a single key. : Ebu
    • i actually use home and end all the time too, especially when writing papers : bradsh
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      If it requires less finger movement between the arrow keys and pg up/pg dn and so on and so forth, then i... : Toraz Chryx
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        One key will always be faster and less awkward than a key combination involving that key pressed while ho... : Ebu
        • No, I'm arguing that if you're navigating large areas and then small ones, not having to move your entire... : Toraz Chryx
• these threads make me want a MBP :( : Galadriel07
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  1) http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ It has tons of options, I use it for network acti... : opengl128
  • oh sweet! thanks to u!! : g0nk
• 1) there is probably some hack out there to transform the power/sleep light into a hard drive light. som... : dopeman
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  DIET.COM I've been waiting for this last offer to clear so I can be fulfilled. Diet.com charged me on ... : das_runt
  • bump for my question :( : das_runt
  • they suck, everyone on the scam thread said to avoid it so I did : derelict515

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• well, it's true... time is relative... some guy named Einstein wrote a paper on it. : drucifer
• You know that guy Einstein? The theory of relativity? Smart dude. : derelict515
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  What do you mean, explain? That's special relativity: time slows as you approach c. : Zero|DPX
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    (c being the speed of light... not a cookie) : drucifer
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      Deliciousness increases as you approach cookie! - Cookiemonster : skitzo
      • mmm, cookies... you've made me hungry. : Toraz Chryx
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    this is a faulty statement. Time doesnt slow as you reach c. Time appears to slow from other perspectiv... : conandan
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      I was oversimplifying because I wasn't sure how to make an accurate statement without using math or tons ... : Zero|DPX
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        Your total speed in space-time is equal to C. When you are still, time moves at the speed of C. When you ... : pebui
        • That math is way wrong, fyi. It's not linear like that. There's a good plot on this page: http://www.th... : DinK
        • That makes no sense whatsoever. Your perception of time is governed by the Lorentz Transformation equatio... : asdf
        • yeah, way wrong as stated above. Again, this over simplies and creates a highly false statement. The on... : conandan
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  It's making use of subjective time compression due to relativity. If you accelerate relative to earth's r... : bostrov
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    2 may not be completely true. There's a trick that can be played with wormholes involving accelerating o... : Arcanum
    • so basically... 2 is not possible (your statement is so purely theoretical and conjecture as to be little... : derelict515
    • If we're going to go down that path, we can assume that warp drives exist and the Enterprise can dive int... : bostrov
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    A little simple query here. Yes, i am new to this, but , how does your travelling faster makes others/ th... : vikramwillrock
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      It all starts from presuming that c is constant, and is observed to be constant by all viewers regardless... : bostrov
      • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_special_relativity is a much better description. Scroll down... : bostrov
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        Well described. I understand what you mention but have a few queries on the same. How does 3lakh Km/sec h... : vikramwillrock
        • Read the wiki intro to special relativity I posted, it's better to read that than to try to explain it in... : bostrov
        • It doesn't only work with light. Light just illustrates the point well and is something we can relate to... : DinK
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      That can't really be answered in a simple, common-sense kind of way. It's the result of the way the univ : Arcanum
      • Intresting. I have always heard about these sort of theories, including einsteins' version and wanted to ... : vikramwillrock
  • For me, the easiest way to see this was always the light clock: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virgin : asdf
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  Just watch planet of the apes. : skitzo
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    probably not the best idea. : drucifer
    • It's Einsteins vision come to life. :( : skitzo
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  It's a consequence of Einstein's theories of relativity. Basically, they say that time is relative, and ... : Arcanum
  • ah, a post that doesn't point out how I don't know who Einstein is. Thanks! : maltrogg
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  Makes no sense to me. Time/age is just that. We have adhered to the normal 24/12/365 clock and that is ho... : vikramwillrock
  • This is already shown to happen (atomic clocks onboard high speed aircraft and so on), as well as the obs... : bostrov
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    What you just said is scientifically wrong. Einstein's theory of relativity, which is still the accepted... : ra1n
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      I see.... i was not aware of that. Never read up on it.... but even so, if that was the case, i am unsure... : vikramwillrock
      • ??????? : crazywigga
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        to the guy on the spaceship going near light speed, time would continue to pass normally to HIM. everyth... : the_doctor
        • Ha!, that made some sense. Although i have another query of course, but asking it would make this make le... : vikramwillrock
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    You can see Twin Paradox time differences as slow as 15mph. If one person is going 67,000mph through spa : Lunatic Angelic
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      Alright, if that is the case, assuming you land on another planet which is slower through space, will you... : vikramwillrock
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        It's an infinitesimally small difference at slow speeds, but it becomes tremendously huge at the speed of : Lunatic Angelic
        • More like gain milliseconds. I think the calculation was for some sort of astronaut in low-earth-orbit fo... : zakk
        • Wow, i did not know that! : vikramwillrock
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        are you seriously trying to use intuition to contradict the theory of relativity? : derelict515
        • not only do i miss the random comment feature, but I also think that is the best thing I've read all day : pharoah mike
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    Dude, there's a reason Einstein's name is so famous. None of this shit makes sense until you learn about... : DinK
    • I understand that. I was always putting it off for later, well, this thread made me realize how numb i am... : vikramwillrock
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  wonder how long before the next great theory comes about that refines or redefines physics as we know it : judge
  • Dark energy/dark matter or do you mean something beyond that? : Lunatic Angelic
  • I'm sure that'll happen when/if we actually figure out what the hell gravity is. : Eej
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    Didn't they put a clock on an airplane and fly it around the world a few times, and when they got back th... : cncpun
    • ^^^^ This was supposed to be in the root : cncpun
• Except for that nasty speed of light decelleration where it catches back up with you... : Zhaneel
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  That guy's logic from your quote is a common misinterpretation of special relativity. If you were to tra... : reelbk
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    if i fucked you in the ass at the speed of light it would seem to take forever from your assholes point o... : boring gegtik
    • But its size would look about right. : reelbk
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    I don't think that's right. Time dilation is real, it's not just an effect that you see as an observer. ... : DinK
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      No, that's correct. You observe clocks moving relative to you to be slow. If you were moving at some ... : asdf
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        Ok so what happens when you stop, what do the clocks look like then? : DinK
        • Depends on the person who decelerates. Special relativity deals with inertial reference frames, so only ... : asdf
• Yeah, but I heard that the trip back's a bitch. : capt tripps
• A really simple explanation that my professor gave us a while back was the faster you go, the slower time... : mega man
• i wonder what the physics implications are for time stopping. the castlevania watch got me thinking, s... : eggnoodles

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• I must wait until the weekend to get it, but I'm going to get it. : RomSteady
• im excited. i finally got around to beating the first one this past week. : pandastrong
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  I pre-ordered, but when it is actually showing up in stores? They gave me a free demo disk when I ordered... : oatmela
  • most places wont have it until wednesday : pandastrong
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  The best price I've seen is 49.99 at Best Buy/Futureshop. I can't wait...I hope they have it tomorrow. : cookblaze
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    frys (outpost.com) had it for $39.99 with free shipping iirc, they may not anymore : derelict515
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      Fry's ad for today says they will have it for 49.99 on wed. by noon. : sigpro
      • yea i saw that 49.99 and did a big W T F. yet they are going to have stalker for 29.99. Whats up with t... : smacknca
• Pre-ordered it. Can't wait! : razlebol
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  I wish I could bring myself to finish the first one. Someone tell me it has an amazing ending that I M... : marmite
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    not joking. It has an amazing ending. Probably one of teh best I've ever experienced in all of gaming. : oatmela
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      Amen. The ending was 100% worth struggling through Hades for. And can you believe that, before the fina... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Its amazing how much trouble I had with Hades my first play through on normal. On God mode it was cake fo... : derelict515
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    The final boss battle was pretty meh in my opion, compared to the rest of the game. But the overall e... : MatthewPhillips
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      I'm swimming underwater and I have to duck into these little gaps (it's side scrolling) while spikes go o... : marmite
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        Wait, you're there? You've hardly gone anywhere in the game! : Arcanum
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          wtf Im HOURS into it. at least 6. Unless maybe I'm past that bit. I don't remember. I've done the bit on ... : marmite
          • Ok, hardly anywhere is an exaggeration, but there's still a lot of game after where you got stuck. You'r... : Arcanum
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          No he's pretty far in. That's one of the 4 "Pandora's Box" challenges, the challenge of Poseidon I think : MatthewPhillips
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            Yeah that's the one. I feel far in. I'm wanting it to end soon but then saying that, I've hardly levelled... : marmite
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              A few more hours, I think. You have an incredibly awesome moment ahead of you once you finish the four ch... : sgtsanity
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                Don't lie to the guy... : ieGod
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                  I'm talkin' bout the spear-impalement from dozens of miles away. :D : sgtsanity
                  • Oh I see, yeah that was pretty cool. The proceeding part, however, was not. : ieGod
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        Do you not know how to hold R1 and release for a speed boost? That part is actually pretty easy once you ... : derelict515
        • It took me only 1 speed boost BEFORE actually going in. : razlebol
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        Hahah I was stuck there too for a while, just got past it last night after not playing for about 2 months... : SatansFist
        • When the platforms raise out of the water, look around. Bigger hint: look in the water : Bold
• god is that out THIS WEEK already? Fuck me I have too much gaming to do :( : Deathlove
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  Any Euro release dates yet? : MatzL.E.
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    April 13th according to my local software pusher. : aaarrrgh
    • Good. Some more time for CoH, TDU(PS2). : MatzL.E.
    • Well, beats waiting five months like last time. : node
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  is there a feature, where if you have the original save game that to keep all the moves and stuff you le... : creep
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    don't you think that would rather drastically change the game? starting with level 5 blades and maxed out... : derelict515
    • not if they had an unlocked hard mode for when you did that : creep
• Will definitly pick it up when the price has dropped. It's a rare thing for me to buy full price games an... : Fredrik S
• I got the demo from the Playstation store when I went to go see 300. I was just playing it this morning, ... : qwpeoriu
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  I have the first one and I'm really trying to want to play it, but I just seem to get bored with it reall... : Halen
  • It makes sense, because it's really just more of the same. I usually have a hard time playing sequels bec... : qwpeoriu
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  please tell me they actually named it God Harder - I'll buy it just because if they did : flagg209
  • Nope, sorry. The actual subtitle is, "Electric Boogaloo". : Bold
• yes. picking it up as it will be the last ps2 game i ever buy. : virus
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  Is that really its title? Hilariously bad. : Vangoghs Ear
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    lol you are amazing. : silentzero
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      Hey, the fact that I think it might be true only reflects how uncreative the industry can be sometimes. : Vangoghs Ear
      • No because everyone else got the joke : derelict515
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  I'm going to get it, but for some reason, I'm not that stoked. I'm sure I'll like it, but I think until ... : David Craddock
  • Punch yourself in the face. : MatthewPhillips
• oh shi.. can't wait : loboca
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  This will be the BEST GAME on PS3. : GeorgeB3DR
  • when ign initially thought it would render natively at 720p (and would look noticeably better) on the ps3... : smacknca
• it owns my money tomorrow for sure : cap n KRUNCH

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  not a bad movie. you have to be in the mood for it though : spiffymc
  • one of my top5 ever, for sure ! : barichnikov
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  Yah. Yah. Yah. : tunis5000
  • Yah? : SockMonkeh
• oh man it's awesome : mrfunky3000
• Oh, you betcha, one of my favorite movies. : trOmblyj
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  lol @ the wood chipper : dealie
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    I was kinda disturbed by that. Especially at the end when it said based on a ture story. Then I go a lear... : Tincan
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      the true story part is bogus BTW : barichnikov
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        he covers that in his post, BTW : SockMonkeh
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          sorry i jumped the shark : barichnikov
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            Gun. You jumped the gun. : NastyJack
            • yeah, genjuro jumped the shark : cpt_gloval
          • no need to apologize, i just thought it was funny : SockMonkeh
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      Wait, seriously? It's not based on a true story? How do movies get away with this? : Ecks
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        Because it doesn't matter one way or the other? Seriously who does it affect? : NastyJack
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          I always feel tricked when that kind of thing happens. I mean, it really doesn't matter in the end, but ... : Ecks
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            I thought everyone knew that Blair Witch wasn't real. :( : SockMonkeh
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              We do now, but I distinctly remember there being internet rumor when it first came out that people didn't... : Ecks
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                I guess it's just because I live in Maryland. :( : SockMonkeh
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                  http://www.filmquipsonline.com/blairwitchproject.html and then the actual website www.blairwitch.co... : Ecks
                  • I thought it was roughly 3 or 4 minutes of good horror movie, and that was the very end. But I could have... : thewriter
                  • Yeah, but I thought of that as just a typical hype-machine. I didn't know people actaully thought it was ... : SockMonkeh
            • I know a guy who still swears it was real, despite seeing the lead actress go on a talk show after the mo... : DOOManiac
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            I knew it was all a hoax and I still watched Blair Witch and loved it. I mean some stuff yeah your rig... : NastyJack
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              Don't get me wrong, I still love Fargo. I also know that there's some tremendously fucked up stories I r : Ecks
              • Oh yeah that "Million Pieces" thing is really, really bad because no one would have cared about the story... : NastyJack
          • That's the whole point, it puts you into a particular mindset. That's why they did it. Then at the end ... : Chris Remo
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        The Coens did it as a joke. : mechanicalgrape
        • it's a really good idea too ! : barichnikov
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          A joke with sad consequences: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,970908,00.html : thewriter
          • fatal hilarity. : mechanicalgrape
• ahhh whatthechrist! : manero
• I'm not here to debate ya Jerry! : beastrabban
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  Well, you can pretty much sum up the whole movie in 5 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zsnRoH9... : karhgath
  • cue "that's not 5 seconds" responses :/ : thewriter
  • Ja I like the 5 second editions. : idmud