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  Backup Solutions: The first thing you need to decide is the storage medium for your backup data. CD-Rs ar : Bantis
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    That gmail thing is a really good idea. : soggybagel
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      it's saved my ass quite a few times :) : Bantis
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        it's = its; i'm tired :( : Bantis
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          You were right the first time. ;) : Sapiens
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            "it" - should actually be the correct word, am i rite? : doomed
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              I think he was going for the contraction of "it has". : harbl
              • i didn't know you can abbreviate "it has" to "it's" but english is not my main language and is far from 1... : doomed
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    Question Bantis: Have you ever had a flashdrive die? You mention they have a limited write/rewrite life-... : soggybagel
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      Yup, it took about two years of heavy use, but it started flaking out; files were corrupt, etc. I've also... : Bantis
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        Do you know of any external hard drives (USB or firewire) that have an internal RAID-1 setup? I just wan... : Prozium
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          http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=267 :) : Bantis
          • Oh, and grab a Firewire 800 card if you don't have a port on your mobo and watch that baby scream : Bantis
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        Hrmm, thats good info. Although I usually either lose my usb drives or get them stolen within a year. : soggybagel
        • Well, if you're going to use one for a backup, you wouldn't want to carry it with you. Just like CDs/DVDs... : Bantis
    • This is not uncommon. On my previous job, i had plenty of clients coming up with dead flash disks, eit... : doomed
  • http://divshare.com/ Unlimited storage, bandwidth, no advertising, your files don't get deleted, and it's : harbl
• thank you for this post. i'll plan my back ups accordingly. : reverend~heresy
• What To Backup: This is an important consideration to make. A lot of people will make a full image backup... : Bantis
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  But then you have to back up the backups! : soggybagel
  • This is why we have off-site backups for redundancy :) Obviously all your backups could go bad, every dri... : Bantis
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  Software Solutions: A lot of this can be done by hand, but software can save you a lot of time, and allow... : Bantis
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    An old gateway at work had goback on it. I hated it because it was such an intrusive resource hog. : Prozium
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      Yea, doesn't surprise me since its Norton. I just wanted to list something else that wasn't Retrospect, s... : Bantis
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        I guess if overall system performance isn't an issue for you then it's not too bad. : Prozium
        • Nah, I agree with you; I'm just wondering if maybe it was something with that PC, or an older version sin... : Bantis
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    I'm evaluating Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation, and so far I've been impressed. I'll be installing a ... : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Some tips for TrueImage+Universal Restore: -Make sure to point it to the right drivers, if you don't ha : d fluke
    • True Image rocks. Nightly incremental backups of my C drive mean if I install some heap of shit that crap... : nudel
  • For an incremental backup of personal data for home use you can even use something as simple as WinZip. I... : gireal
  • GBM Pro is awesome and extremely cheap http://www.genie-soft.com/products/gbmpro/default.html : wtf242
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    Regarding Ghost and Incrementals Ghost 9 and 10 (essentially PowerQuest Driveimage) have the ability to ... : Merconium
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      what is Ghost10 FAR ? : doomed
      • Free After Rebate : Enkidu
    • True Image is already Vista compatible and does all that, FWIW. : nudel
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    Norton GoBack never worked for me. It installed and I was able to create a backup, but I couldn't revert ... : prime8
    • It doesn't surprise me with it being Norton and all : Bantis
• Conclusion: So there you go. Hopefully you guys have some tips and recommendations. Backing up is a reall... : Bantis
• I will enjoy reading this. Thanks for taking the time Bantis : 2zero2
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  Nice. This is really frackin' helpful! SOMEONE INFORMATVE THIS! : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Seriously, this is good stuff. It is ridiculous how many internal and external backup drives I have, e... : Serpico74
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      Actually, fireproof safes etc are not a good way to store drives, cd's etc. In a fire the internal temper... : Bantis
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        And I realize UL-125's generally stay around 125 degrees F for about an hour in a typical fire, but I've ... : Bantis
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          I wish I could just upload them offsite but these are files that are over 80GB total. Ah well. : Serpico74
          • sounds like a perfect excuse to run a T3 line to your house. : Prozium
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        get a safe that is big enough to store a generator and fridge in. Stick the drive into the fridge. If the... : Morgin
        • How about I put my entire condo in a safe? That'll show that fucking fire. : Serpico74
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      Just do what I do and get a safe deposit box at the local bank and keep your hard drives there. I have a ... : angrytaxman
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        This is honestly the right thing to do. Every 6 months or so refresh the data that needs to be, etc. It a... : Bantis
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          Yup, I know that my bank has a good vault since it's a brand new building that they're in (opened a few m... : angrytaxman
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            It would be awesome if someone nuked your bank just to wipe out your baby pictures. : Serpico74
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              I'd still have them at home. : angrytaxman
              • the beauty of redundancy :) : Bantis
              • Guess they'd have to send two nukes then! : Serpico74
      • That's actually a really good idea. Now I just have to buy one (grr) since I recently got off the account... : Serpico74
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  This is all some great info. I'd like to add Acronis True Image to the list of software that's good for b... : angrytaxman
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    Yea I've actually heard some good word on Acronis' stuff, wish I would've remembered it for the post. Wha... : Bantis
    • oh nice, the home release is only 50 bucks; not bad at all : Bantis
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  I'd like to suggest Cobian Backup as a free alternative. Fantastic tool. http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobia... : MikkleThePickle
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    Oh nice, this actually looks pretty good. I like the FTP support too : Bantis
    • it's worked great for me with built-in encryption, ftp upload, etc. I just combined this with a $5/yr hos... : MikkleThePickle
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  Errata: One thing I wanted to add and forgot was Windows Home Server. For those of you who don't know wha... : Bantis
  • http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp : Bantis
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    I've got WHS up and running and so far really like it. You can throw any odd mixture of drives in it and... : ckj
    • Yep. I've been messing with it for a while now; need to get bigger drives in the PC though : Bantis
• Well, I'm off to bed. Hopefully this stays bumped or gets inf'd so people see this; it's really an import... : Bantis
• Great idea. Time to bust out the backup DVDs and start diffing. : Deathlove
• I use the built-in backup in Vista. Weekly backups. : nomaad
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  other than my kids pictures/movies there isn't much that I really have to backup... I like to make copies... : tunis5000
  • Yea, everyone will have a system that works for them. Since you're backing up a lot of pictures, you may ... : Bantis
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  Funny posted this. My Mo's HD just went out Friday. So means an hour and a half drive for me to get that... : jonin
  • Er Mom's : jonin
• I just turned on my external USB drive and used SyncBack to copy my Documents and Settings folder along w... : hanfeitzu
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  Lately I've been using some of the 230GB of space that DreamHost gives me. Prolly a bad idea since they'l... : Trepex
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    I've used Netdrive with dreamhost for a couple years, no problems yet and it works awesome =) : Farbauti
    • netdrive hates vista though :P : Trepex
• Splendid idea. Just uploaded my OSX Documents folder to my StrongSpace.com account and got my PC to do an... : node
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  Hands-down, my favorite backup & remote access tool is Netdrive. I use my ISP and hosted space to map a ... : Farbauti
  • that looks pretty sweet, I'll give that a shot today : MikkleThePickle
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  iPod - If you have a large capacity iPod, like 30gb-to 80gb, it makes for a great way to backup files, in... : glio1337
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    is it either or? like if you use it in HDD mode, it cannot be used normally? : edgewise
    • Not at all, you can use it normally with disk mode enabled. : glio1337
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    Like I posted in one of the sections, be REALLY careful doing this; it puts a lot of extra strain on the ... : Bantis
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      When I used my 10GB 2nd gen ipod as an external drive, I rested it metal side down on top of a heatsink I... : Toraz Chryx
      • haha that's actually a good idea : Bantis
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      Oh I'm not suggesting using it regularly as a hard drive, but it makes for a great and easy way to ensure... : glio1337
      • yea that's very true : Bantis
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  I have over two TB of storage available to me but all I back up are docs and pics. Everything I've DVR'd... : rosewood
  • Yea, I have a lot of friends that ghost their entire drives and dump them on bigger externals, but it jus... : Bantis
• I just got a 1TB Buffalo Terastation that I'm using for all my music and video and backup purposes. It's ... : Halen
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  Any recommendations for a NAS? I'm thinking it would be great to have a good network drive for both stre... : Amadan
  • I've messed with a client's Terastation and liked it a lot. He had no complains either, so it seems like ... : Bantis
• Mac backup script here: The idea is you turn on your external drive and then run this script. It create : Amadan
• Great backup thread. Thank you. : Zhaneel
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  I just set up an Xdrive account, out of curiousity. It uses your AIM login (if you want) so there's no re... : Dante
  • I tried Xdrive about 6 months ago; it sucked. The transfer times were so slow that it was unusable. It wo... : MikkleThePickle
  • I will agree, the investment to use xdrive is too high. There's no reason why it could not have been offe... : qwpeoriu
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    Update: it decided, rather arbitrarily, not to upload the entire folder I told it to upload. Then it cras... : Dante
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      Yea, after seeing your post i gave it a try too; kept crashing, complete shit : Bantis
      • lol, same thing for me. Uninstalled. : Phreakin
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  My favorite backup solution is Raid-0 aka mirroring. In 10 years I've had 2 drives fail on me, so finall... : binaryc
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    uh, RAID-1 is mirroring. : Toraz Chryx
    • And RAID is NOT backup. : dmason
• Par2. When backing up important files to CD I will create a par set of 10-20% of the total size of my bac... : Mantle

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• Hahahaha. That video is pretty fucking funny. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Epic. I laughed, I cried, I [lol]'d. : Phil
• Awful. Not funny at all. :( : Cottc Cid
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  epic and awesome. two things. 1) drink better beer, and your stories will suck less. look at degenerat... : draconic
  • [fry] plays Russian roulette with a bullet in every chamber. : BlackCat9
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  Awful. Not funny at all. :( : Serpico74
  • PS - INF this video please. : Serpico74
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  What the fuck kind of soda was that : mr.sleepy
  • the grown-ups kind sleepy : JINKY
• Awful. Not funny at all. :( : mr.sleepy
• hahaha : qwpeoriu
• Awful. Not funny at all. :( : CrimsonHandHiro
• :( : reverend~heresy
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  Ban Mustang| !!! : Spezzer
  • fuck that. Mustang| needs to be promoted for causing this : RikiTiki2
• Well I did like seeing Gordon Freeman's Big Gun. : SpaecKow
• Hahah - very nice. Ah you are drinking "The Beast" - last time I tasted that was in college. And I was ... : YoYo
• instant classic. would watch again if i wasn't drunk and tired myself. : skankcore
• Freaking amazing. This needs to be archived immediately. : spazzium
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  Awful. Not funny at all. :( what was that music during the posting? : RikiTiki2
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    Pompeii by E.S. Posthumus, from the Unearthed album. : jonas54
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      listening to their music on their site. might have to buy this CD : RikiTiki2
      • it's fantastic, i love the album start to finish : dopefish
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      wow, i only knew it as "that song from plasma pong." thanks. : cpt. ken
      • http://www.esposthumus.com/ you can listen to it here : RikiTiki2
• Awful. Not funny at all. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  omg fat hands.....and Vista. : bling1bling
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    the rest of me is even fatter. meanie. :( : [fry]
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      i was impressed at how well you must have edited out sausaging four keys at once while typing the post : JINKY
      • my breasts usually lie upon the keyboard as i'm typing so i had to edit that out, too. dick. :( : [fry]
      • OMG, hahah : Serpico74
  • you are really fucking houstonians for a [fry] shackmeet. ban pls. : p4ck3tloss
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  For some reason, my entire screen went black right as the video went black, and my first thought was "How... : Chris Remo
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    Science fiction! : Serpico74
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      Double Feature! : dopefish
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        Picture Show! : dopeman
        • I wanna go! : BlackCat9
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  Awful. Not funny at all. ----\\\_____O_o/----------- : cpt. ken
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    wtf is that : RikiTiki2
    • It's the "Hey you guys!" smiley. : SolrFlare
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      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14010753 : FrayLo
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        fucking sucks to be you. : sigpro
        • LOLINORITE? : FrayLo
      • It turned into french art pic at the end. fin. : silent prophet
  • LOL ¯\(o_º)/¯ : dopeman
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    Does that smiley have a genetic defect? : cam3lt0sis
    • FrayLo syndrome : aeg1x
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    looks like a fat, retarted superman : hadokennn
    • hey, that was my high school nickname :( : drucifer
• not drinking shack approved beer :( : papaskot
• But, how could you upload the video to youtube and then make this post if the end of that video is correc... : boredguy
• Awful. Not funny at all. great : naabster
• Soy chicano, y baboso Mencia! Te amo ♥ :( : dognose
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  Poor Mr. Cloppy :( Bad ass video dude : drbriefs
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    Cloppy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3KCFFC-sTA : Serpico74
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      The Cloppy sketch is always awesome : drbriefs
      • I love how he always just walks back in. : Serpico74
• Who are you? Have you been posting long? : losimagic
• You hallucinate from too much crap beer. There is no such thing as a "Failed [fry] post" : Githyanki
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  Sorry I made you kill yourself. :( : Mustang|
  • you monster! :( : Postal
  • i missed seven times. now i'm just horribly disfigured. :( : [fry]
• Ahahaha the dumping the ammo on the bed = maximum lols : Poor Yurik
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  jesus does everyone in Texas own a gun? : askedrelic
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    no, but I want to get a pair of Berettas for akimowning : RikiTiki2
    • Crap, I didn't know you were in Texas too! : askedrelic
  • I'm pretty sure it's mandatory down there : spiffymc
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    http://jumperus.shackspace.com/SIG/SP2340-2.jpg And that doesn't include the 300 rounds of Winchester ... : Jumperus
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      Why do you have so much ammo? : spiffymc
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        zombie apocolypse : Jayx77
        • Fat chick apocalypse. : Jumperus
      • the 6 clips is the best part though. i mean, it takes a long time to fill a clip, and he may have to do s... : mallrice
    • HI2U, JACKBAUER. : Rice-Rocketeer
• It's even better with the sound off. : eldersveld
• Ugh, you need to get off the alcohol buddy. : Athlon7
• thanks.flv :( : Deathlove
• great video man, many lols. : falkan
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  I liked it up until the real gun part :[ : bagelcc
  • Yeah, that's frightening that he has a gun. Some of those stories.... : FormerHPB
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    Yeah. My wife's cousin shot himself when she was a kid and her whole family is still very tweaked about i... : ThomW
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      For what it's worth I didn't actually kill myself :( : [fry]
      • I figured that out, thanks. : ThomW
• That was spectacular. Well. :( : mittense
• Is it bad that I jerked off to the sounds of you crying? Because it felt good. : pres589
• Fry post. I liked it : nomaad
• never change dude... hello dude? oh shi... : Jayx77
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  I thought there was going to be a twist at the end, fry goes out and kills mustangl. Why else would he ha : nyranger66
  • Fry realized that it would take more than one gun to bring Mustang| down, so he opted for Seppuku instead... : spiffymc
• Should have used the wilhem scream after the gunshot : rosewood
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  lol, I didn't even know that 'post to reply' button existed at the top. : lowpoly
  • Hello fellow go to the bottom of the page to post brother. : rosewood
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  this is the only part of the post i could really get. the other parts seem to be about the pickup and her... : mallrice
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    Ok, ^^^^^^^^^this guy^^^^^^^^ should be banned for the day. I just puked in my mouth a lil bit... achem : c0mpatibl3
    • why me? fry wrote it : mallrice
  • hahaha : wtf242
• We must all reply to fry's posts to ensure he doesn't kill himself from now on. : manlyman
• ok...if you gonna do all that, um could I have your guitar hero2 for the 360? btw... I've been there..... : c0mpatibl3
• hahaha that was so awesome : SockMonkeh
• hahahaha good stuff. I assume that the Youtube community is very concerned about you. OMG Dontz kill ur... : pigvomit
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  how do you have that window pop up to post??? : zagzig32
  • http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/options_nuked.x check alternative post form : lakren
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  Your arms look like someone shaved panda legs and splattered them with orange paint. : Rauol Duke
  • HAHAHAA *high five* : heff
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  WTF YOU'RE WHITE?!?! : notd665
  • Why's he gotta be white? : Hiro
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  Hope you did not use all those bullets and have atleast one left : oneshot
  • in case he shot himself retarded? : reverend~heresy
• Needs more of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wQzqlavOI : Rag and Bone Man
• A tormented genius. : stump
• CARNIE FINGERS : Magus
• Is that light on alcohol or light on carbs? Because I think I know what your problem is if it's the forme... : abrasion
• i love you! : dahanese
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  If it had cut before the gun part I would have liked it better :( : Zero|DPX
  • agreed : wtf242
• I was dying when you were F5ing. I know the feeling. hahaha : ThomW
• Pretty decent... you need to tighten your editing way up. There's at least 30 extra seconds in that. A... : Wheatloaf
• lmao... oh wow that was awesome. : Megara9
• Thou shalt go down in history as one of the all time greats... : Dimmona
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  drinkin the beast! great stuff : mindshot
  • nevermind, it was light : mindshot
• late lol : aurealis
• video has been removed by user :( BOO : celerity

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• I'm not going to watch it until I get sometime after exams! : The Key
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  The Chief hears the music as well? I don't remember that from the last ep : genjuro
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    seems like it's new to this episode : pharoah mike
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      no it was there last week too : trOmblyj
      • i meant as far as tthe Chief hearing it : pharoah mike
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  off to a good start, i'm liking this threesome defense discussion group : pharoah mike
  • The lawyer looks kind of like a less ugly Quentin Tarantino and that distracts me : genjuro
• This thread is going to get ugly. :) : pimpium
• Damn, the vote came early this episode. : sgtsanity
• hahaha, that poll they just posted is great. One of the choices is directly from the old series. : pimpium
• "said the joker to the thief" : trOmblyj
• Tigh There must be someway out of this place heh : pimpium
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  You missed, BUTTERFINGERS! Oh Baltar what will you say next : genjuro
  • I loved that line. Great stuff with the way he said it. : pimpium
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  Well, I got a new man-crush. : sgtsanity
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    screw you! I loved him even when he was fat!! : digitalburro
    • I liked him better fat. : pimpium
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  That Apollo speech was fucking retarded. : carnivore
  • Screw you and the high horse you rode in on! : Matt Burris
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    Uhh, no. I don't think so. : pimpium
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      No, it totally was. The whole idea of him presenting on the stand as a witness? What the fucking fuck was : carnivore
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        You diss the speech, but you say it's the vehicle that bothers you, not the speech? Make up your mind. : Matt Burris
        • Okay, you're right. I made a mistake. A, the vehicle was stupid. He shouldn't be where he was. That's a t : carnivore
• Guys, please SPOILER things adequately ok? even glimpsing past you can spot some ideas of what's happenin... : abrasion
• And the verdict is in! Let's see how long the fleet has got to freak out about this before the events : pharoah mike
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  Ugh, signal problems here at a few points. Don't think I missed anything special. : Deathlove
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    Haha I think the fleet knows just how you feel right now : pharoah mike
    • [Fry]'d : SolrFlare
    • OH DUDE DURING THE LAST FIVE MINUTES, TOO >:( Time to TiVo the rerun. : Deathlove
• PLEASE SPOILER-TAG YOUR ENTIRE POST FROM NOW ON : sgtsanity
• Love the score in this episode. : pimpium
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  so thats four out of five.... and one who predates the believed start of humano-cylon development... : pharoah mike
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    hey maybe starbuck makes 5 : pharoah mike
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      Baltar did seem to start hearing something right before those people took him off. I could be reading tha : Tincan
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        yeah, i don't think he is one of the 5, when he was in the hall with six there were the other 5 white fig : Valiant
        • oh right. I forgot about that. : Tincan
• Ok that last 2 minutes saved the episode for me. : Tincan
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  I don't really know what to think... : trove
  • WTF : trove
• Fucking awesome! : pimpium
• Oh. Shit. : Matt Burris
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  That last five minutes was pretty surreal. Very well done : digitalburro
  • The score really went well with it. Least for me. : pimpium
• holy shit fuck : trOmblyj
• I can hear a collective WTF from every viewer : cap n KRUNCH
• what. the. fuck. ?! : FushigiDenki
• They can throw all the filler they want at me. Thats the kind of ending that just fucking rocks. : buzzbat
• TEN FUCKING MONTHS : sgtsanity
• and now we have to wait 9 months for another episdoe....i hate this shit. : xvizionx
• WHAT THE HOLY CRAP : slickdoody
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  Jesus christ they sure know how to end a season. That was all kinds of awesome. : NastyJack
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    It was? I thought it was the worst finale of the series so far. Completely predictable. : Tommy Toolbag
    • Worst? Predictable? Wow...just wow. : pimpium
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      lol yeah ok. I didn't predict a fucking thing but then I don't listen to podcasts or read internet shit. ... : NastyJack
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        Nope. I dont read a thing and have never listened to the podcasts. Hell, for weeks here people have been ... : Tommy Toolbag
        • I didn't know what would happen with Baltar and I had no idea if anyone would be a Cylon or not. The only : NastyJack
• Hahaha, that promo shot of "user-generated content" ensured that I will never be watching user-generated ... : sgtsanity
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  I do not like this plot twists >:( Also, I don't know why but the fact that the Cylon song sounds like : genjuro
  • genjuro, you're a moron, you know that? : digitalburro
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    You do know it's Dylan right? All Along The Watchtower. : NastyJack
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      well I was wondering why I recognized some of it What do you want from me I heard that song like twic... : genjuro
      • well they do, that was explained in the miniseries : hobosapien
• SWEET JESUS FUCK!? DAMN YOU 2008! : NFXFSX
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  OMGWTFBSG?!?!? : TroZ
  • lolz : SlamDunk
• It really sucks that they couldn't have made this into some sort of exteneded miniseries. : trove
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  Ten months guys what do I do on Sundays now?? : genjuro
  • Watch Rome...oh wait. Fuck! : stump
  • cut yourself. : Deathlove
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  So was kara's ship cloaked? Sure looked like it to me as she snuck up on lee. How did Tigh know the wo : Tincan
  • All 4 said a line of the song. I thought it was obvious that song was somehow the trigger but only they c : NastyJack
  • The song: Hopefully it's a connection to Earth. Otherwise it's kind of ridiculous. If that's true, that w : Nick Breckon
  • I thought her ship would be like the blackbird they used earlier in the series but it looked just like a : boredguy
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  Has SciFi picked up BSG for another season? And have they said anything about next season being the final... : fatman
  • Yes, and pretty much. : BoKnows
  • There is a forth. Unknown if it will be final, but we do have that DVD coming later this year. : NFXFSX
  • Yes to the first question. And nothing "official" to the second but yeah it's been said and hinted enoug... : SolrFlare
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    I was at the I-Con SF convention this weekend where Jamie Bramber (Apollo) appeared. The latest that he ... : TroZ
    • As they say in Sister Act... Oh Happy Day : fatman
    • god i hope this is true : hobosapien
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  If this season of the Shield isn't awesome I will be sadface oh god : genjuro
  • How can you ask that? Its The fucking Shield! You know it will! : pimpium
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  Could someone explain to me what just happened? You hear an arabian-influenced version of a Bob Dylan : silent prophet
  • Well I think that only they could hear it and it directed them all to the same place on the ship would te : NastyJack
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    I guess because they were all drawn to that specific spot on the ship at the same time by the same song. : Nick Breckon
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      I'd like to think they were planted as babies on their home worlds. : NastyJack
      • Yeah, I thought about that, but they've already established that the Cylons can't make babies. I didn't t : Nick Breckon
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      The "five" are actually Envoys from earth who were sent out to discover the lost colonies. One of the Fi : Crimsonbeak
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        Thats a fucking awesome theory. : Tincan
        • My theory is better It's all a dream that's dreamed up by Boxy as he stares into a snowglobe that looks l : kikilupo
  • They get activated, like Boomer did. Boomer just "knew" as well at one point, and then she started knowin : SpaecKow
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  • Don't read the thread. Seriously. Stay away. All it'd take is one careless sentence to ruin the episode f... : NastyJack
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    Well, I think I just figured out the entire series. Major speculation spoilers here: Humans *are* Cyl : SolrFlare
    • whoops, meant as a reply to the OP. Still the theory stands. : SolrFlare
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      Interesting... : NFXFSX
      • It does fit. I might be wrong of course, but it really does fit especially when part of the focus of the : SolrFlare
• My wife went to bed before we watched it tonight ... I hope this ep of BSG does not suck. : Nation
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  I don't think I liked this :( : mr brown
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    I'm not sure I really did either. We have a long time to decide, anyway. : Nick Breckon
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      The very last few minutes were the awesome kind of head exploding I like with this show. The 5 minutes be : Tincan
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        this is why I don't like it, its too improbable and a bit of a stretch : mr brown
        • And you know they only did it because they are characters we've followed ( mostly) all along. They don't : Tincan
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    I don't think I do either, but I definitely want to see what happens so in that sense it's a success. I t : carnivore
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      I'm hoping that in season 4 we learn that they're not really cylons, or something, and that Lee is halluc : mr brown
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        Haha, it would be incredible if Fatty-Lee steps back out of the shower like at the beginning of the seaso : sgtsanity
        • lol that would be great. fatty gets out of the shower, has some donuts and the end. : pimpium
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        perhaps its in his head ala Baltar/Six etc. I really dont think she is a cylon but i wouldnt object to it : pimpium
        • Well, there was the theory that Starbuck's phantom raider was real and rescued her. It would be interesti... : reign27
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        * S T E L S W H E R E ' D * : fatman
        • sorry.. forgot an e.. that should read St. Elsewhere. :( : fatman
      • naw, see my reply up above it's more like they/we are all cylons, or at least in part from an even older : SolrFlare
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  Update: reading through the SA thread on BSG. At a certain point, it - like our thread - just turns in : sgtsanity
  • No shock from me. I love it. : pimpium
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  I enjoyed this. The cinematography was really good. The way they did the last 2 minutes was really surr... : vitek r
  • I totally agree. I didn't really like the music but loved the visuals and the atmosphere. Very surreal. : NastyJack
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  lol omg Bob Dylan is a cylon! : beastrabban
  • No, Bob Dylan is the Cylon God! : pebui
• I really don't think Starbuck is the 5th. It's all too convenient, and proper. Roslin had this weird sen : bounty838
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  I gotta say I was actually kind of disappointed with the episode. Predictable and not even close in terms : K1Bond007
  • I liked how he brought up stuff that happened long ago. Sometimes you wonder if they (writters) even care : Tincan
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  Does anyone want to explain how Kara shows up in her Viper, fueled and in pristine condition even though : genjuro
  • Okay the second to last question makes no sense - the space people are supposed to be our ancestors. n : genjuro
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    perhaps these are the types of questions that will be addressed in the upcoming season genjuro : sgtsanity
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      I MIGHT NOT LIVE THAT LONG I HAVE A HEART CONDI : genjuro
      • I <3 Condi too! she's SMMMOKING hawt. oooh that gap in her teeth just sets me all a FIRE : beastrabban
      • Vice President Cheney, you're hallucinating again.. Calm down sir! : laidback
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    so far no one else has seen her or acknowledging seeing her so its just a CLIFFHANGER : mr brown
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      Head-Starbuck? :D :D :D :D : sgtsanity
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        that is the one thing I want cleared up the most. how do 6/baltar show up in each other's heads?? it's : beastrabban
        • I'm still waiting for the scene where Head-Baltar and Head-Six meet each other. So much potential for awe : Nick Breckon
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          My guess: they're spirtual guides, of sorts. Baltar's Six, Six's Baltar, and Kara's Leobon were all guid : walker270
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            interesting idea we still have no clue who is controlling them though and I suppose that's what's driving : beastrabban
            • RDM has stated the spiritual aspect of the show will be a prime focus for the rest of the series. My gue... : walker270
  • the same way baltar went to the diseased cylon base star in a pristine raptor that the cylons captured? : dantastic
  • I am still pulling for everything since Baltar winning the election being a dream of his. : Nation
• Goddamn, I hate these waits :[ : Noobler
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  is this an ep that I will want to watch more then once or be so ticked off that I will not want to see it... : Nation
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    Dude nobody can tell you how your gonna react to it. : NastyJack
    • I'd say that's the correct response. : FushigiDenki
  • If she's a fan, wait to see it together, much more exciting that way. : slickdoody
  • The BSG season enders are better with a crowd. : genjuro
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  /!\ Season 3 DVD Release Planned For Mid-August /!\ And more info about how Bear McCreary composed the : sgtsanity
  • w00t! : NFXFSX
  • Ron is really losing it. I happened to catch Ron Moore in the hallway at Universal and, in a brief co : Nick Breckon
  • I really want that version of All Along The Watchtower. Hope it's on the soundtrack. : Edges
  • Cool, I can't wait for the Season 3 OST to come out, I'll definitely write another review for that! : pebui
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  Oh man the season-4-wtf-ending thread is going to be epic. NINE. MONTHS. >:( : genjuro
  • Technically there's a TV movie that will occur in late 2007. A 2-episode movie if you will that will take : K1Bond007
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  Does anyone else find it immensely ironic/funny now that We know the chief is a cylon that he got talked : SolrFlare
  • But Dean is still an awesome cylon. : NFXFSX
  • boggle.. boggle.. boggle. also: NORTON.. you know that I know that you know that I know.. : beastrabban
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    For me, that scene made me think they were both cylons lawl : reign27
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      lol, it's interesting too, if you notice that should Kara prove to be the final Cylon, it all kind of fit : SolrFlare
      • They chased humanity across the stars looking for love, when all the time it was right there waiting for : Nick Breckon
  • i find it highly improbable that any of them are cylons. only because the colonel fought in the first cy : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  i so badly want to click stuff in this thread but i must be strong. im sure ill have plenty of bitching... : smacknca
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    Adama is a sexy latino man with a white son. : Rauol Duke
    • hotdog = adama's RL son : beastrabban
• Just got done watching today's episode off my DVR. Pretty good I thought, very good actually. : qwpeoriu
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  Was Baltar officially removed from the office of president? Is he still legally the president? : capt tripps
  • He abdicated so Zarek became President. Zarek then chose Roslin as his VP, resigned then was chosen as Ro : K1Bond007
• Watching it again now. The last 10 or so minutes really are set at such a great pace. Cant help but be pu... : pimpium
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  that only showed 4 of the final 5. whos gonna be the fifth? its gotta be baltar : Antilles_Prime
  • Roslin. Maybe.. : K1Bond007
  • They showed the fifth. Its Lampkin, the attorney. : Tommy Toolbag
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    It could be Adama. It's one way the stories of Ty and Adama could match. : Sylvanus
    • Leoben flat out said Adama was a cylon in season 1. Maybe it wasn't just him fucking with the Roslyn, ma : uncle slappy
  • I assumed it was starbuck : Cygnus X-1
• here is the real questionif they do get to earth. What is the year on earth? 2008 or 2080? : alsey7
• Wow, great episode...Can't believe we have to wait till fraking 2008! Regarding the song being the trigg : Flynn
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  Season 4 begins with a StarFleet battlegroup warping in response to a massive group of ships that are not : bradsh
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    lol subspace hails. that would be neat though, however, it would be neat if a large group of ships (from : hobosapien
    • so much has been pulled from the original that I would bet money earth is going to be relatively caveman : mega man
• If the Chief and Anders are Cylons then how come they don't heal fast or whatever. Chief and Anders have : scd73
• OMG WTF...I fucking love these type of endings. The feelings that it brings out are so incredible...I jus... : sanchez
• can someone tell me what happened during the Roslin / Athena / Six scene? i got a phone call just then, a... : shyguy74
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  Me and a friend just had a huge arguement about the episode, I watched it, then he came over and we watch : uncle slappy
  • ... yes. : Afterglow

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  Cosby Bebop, for sure. : sgtsanity
  • I want someone to give the Jonny Quest intro the Cosby treatment. I mean the original one ( http://www... : genjuro
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    http://cosbybebop.ytmnd.com/ : broly1718
    • hahahahaha that's amazing : proclone1
• cornonthekabob.ytmnd.com : egg5hen
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  Sixty four kid: original http://nsixtyfour.ytmnd.com/ beatles remix http://whenimnintendosixtyfour.ytmn... : crummynz
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    Stupid alt post form. http://duelofthecorn.ytmnd.com/ Real moon landing: http://rmlnw.ytmnd.com/ ... : crummynz
    • FUCKING alt post form. http://raptorj.ytmnd.com/ With followup: http://sweetraptorjesus2.ytmnd.com/ ... : crummynz
    • real moon is fuckin fantastic. ytmnd ftw : Crimson
  • that beatles one is lols : synack
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    The GMan practical joke one is an all time favorite of mine. : DinK
    • The facial expressions, as well as the running poses, get me every time : crummynz
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  fzero.ytmnd.com <33 : Modica Sol Solis
  • Whoops, here as a hyperlink or whatever. http://fzero.ytmnd.com/ : Modica Sol Solis
  • http://fzerodean.ytmnd.com/ : cygnus
• http://damnedrichcoonts.ytmnd.com : Wolfanoz
• why must you taint the innocent? : mikecyb
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  http://legaliniceland.ytmnd.com/ : p4ck3tloss
  • http://lazytownworkit.ytmnsfw.com : p4ck3tloss
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    http://stephaniegrowsup.ytmnsfw.com/ : The Key
    • I could stare at that for hours. : p4ck3tloss
    • Woaahh... I think she ate just the right amount of cake. : Vantage
    • Oh wow... who's the actual chick in the picture? *drool* : silentw
  • my friend did this one, thought it was funny http://stephaniefcc.ytmnd.com/ bleeps out her song so it... : papaskot
• http://ralphwiggum.ytmnd.com/ http://howtofindthegspot.ytmnd.com/ : The Key
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  http://asiandance.ytmnd.com : TastyWheat
  • Haha, I made that one. :D Sikander gets the credit for the original animated gif I believe (made it for ... : Vantage
• i wish i had never heard of it. : kbnerd
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  ughh, i can't stand those things! : romulan
  • look at teh Worthwhile ytmnd's, most of em are gold : cygnus
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  Oh shi! - http://fatalitiesthreehundred.ytmnd.com/ : DrFlammable
  • more amusing 300tmnds: http://spartafuntimes.ytmnd.com/ http://spartaneducation.ytmnd.com/ : DrFlammable
  • ROFLOL OMG : Barbarian
• http://ultimatesuffering.ytmnd.com/ : Shadowdane
• the 57 second kkkramer rap remix. : abrasion
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  http://bttf-google.ytmnd.com/ : bad_fish
  • whoa, cool stuff : DinK
• http://epicmacgyveragain.ytmnd.com/ : pimpium
• http://livinonaprayer.ytmnd.com/ http://rdf.ytmnd.com/ http://strokinwank.ytmnd.com/ : sundance
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  3 of my favs http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/ http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/ http://jeffgol... : synack
  • that first one is one of the all time greats : DinK
  • You have a deep and complex sense of humor : FiReaNG3L
• I just saw this one. I'm scared. http://dropkickthehammer.ytmnd.com/ : ohhjebus
• bah. someone vandalized one of the best. do not look for the 'George Bush Cares About Black People' with ... : eskimo spy
• http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/ : Ride-My-Rocket
• http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ : the archvile
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  http://zaza.ytmnd.com/ : harbl
  • original black "blue power ranger" ftw : hobbespanache
• You cant ignore the Picard one. http://picard.ytmnd.com/ : Judicus
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  http://scott.ytmnd.com/ : Dimmona
  • I enjoyed this one. : mockery
• http://arnoldsafety.ytmnd.com/ : Serpico74
• http://hesdeadtired.ytmnd.com/ : Serpico74
• http://chococosby.ytmnd.com/ is AMAZING : veras
• Seriously, consult the wiki: http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Main_Page What makes YTMND special is the intercont... : Serpico74
• PS - http://talbfij.ytmnd.com/ : Serpico74
• http://taskbah.ytmnd.com/ It's so simple. It explains what it's all about. : hawke
• http://escapetaint.ytmnsfw.com/ : rosewood
• http://chunkpicard.ytmnd.com/ : YamatoTwinkie
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  http:\\itson.ytmnd.com : mrfunky3000
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    I'm retarded. http://itson.ytmnd.com : mrfunky3000
    • http://dew.ytmnd.com/ : Serpico74
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  Thanks to whoever in this thread linked to ROY4L's YTMNDs. That was cool stuff; I'd never seen his work ... : Chris Remo
  • The Zappa one is my favorite of his, though I'm biased towards Zappa so it may not be saying much. : Rag and Bone Man
  • Yeah, his stuff is really creative and trippy. My alltime favorite is probably still Cooke because appare... : Serpico74
  • Isn't he awesome? It's great to see something so different from YTMND. : crummynz
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  May as well join this bandwagon: http://scottyrobsmax.ytmnd.com/ http://slapthatcowboy.ytmnd.com/ ht... : Rag and Bone Man
  • Man, I forgot about Vader on Wheel Of Fortune. Good stuff. : Serpico74
  • haha, Cloudsong on the Runaway one... LOL : proclone1
• Here are a few of my faves not listed http://tngrhapsody.ytmnd.com/ http://barkingtracy.ytmnd.com/ htt... : historyinthemaking
• http://pokeshake.ytmnd.com - Old School Ytmnd goodness here. : zakazi
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  How do you even say "YTMND" to someone? It's almost biblical. Yahweh? : Priest77
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    wy tee em en dee? : RikiTiki2
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      I have a friend who calls them "You're-The-Man-Now-Dogs". Yeah, I know that's what it stands for, but tha : Bean
      • . . . for some reason, I never figured out what ytmnd stood for until now. : YamatoTwinkie
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  http://colorit.ytmnd.com/ : Barbarian
  • Yeah, that's one to unleash after they become familiar with every YTMND fad ever. :) : Serpico74
• http://niggertreat.ytmnd.com/ I remember this promotion when I was little. o.o : DM7
• http://www.ytmnd.com/users/sockmonkeh/favorites : SockMonkeh
• http://stephaniefcc.ytmnd.com/ : papaskot
• Duke nukem 3d outtakes http://nukem3dcollection.ytmnd.com/ : peetabix01

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• Nice. I think you'll enjoy that one. : FormerHPB
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  Did you play HL2? : nomaad
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    That's next! :D : dognose
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      Your priorities are backwards. : Subarushian
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        nah, playing such a bad game first will only make him appreciate HL2 more! : Bantis
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          Such a bad game? Geez! : soulr
          • Yeah I'm really impressed with this. : dognose
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  dognose, what chinese dish should i order tonight? : NeoMoose
  • dung kow poo : dognose
• good stuff right there, q4 is a SOLID choice for that good old hardcore fps feelin' : dael
• i enjoyed q4, i hope you do too : filthysock
• Ooo I like the way the machine gun feels : dognose
• Good job, Quake4 is awesome. It just feels.... right. : r4wk
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  what was your final opinion on Sin Episodes? : lord cecil
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    It's awesome! That's not opinion but fact. : dognose
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      This is a statement full of Truthiness. : gireal
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        and lies : skinlab133
        • You're on notice. : gireal
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  It has the guy from the V-Dub commercials : jcutner
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    Peter Stormare? : the archvile
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      Yeah, it sounds like he phoned in the performance. : freshyk
      • Literally. I think he used a cellphone. : treefingers1
• Funny story, I got Q4 for $3.95 yesterday due to a pricing error at the local computer store. Because I u... : TastyWheat
• very fun game! enjoy : hobbespanache
• I love Q4. lets dm : Mustang|
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  Are you playing mostly single-player or multi-player right now? : Maddog_Delphi97
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    SP, only MP I've ever played is UT '99, Serious Sam, Q2, SoF2, Q3A. : dognose
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      One more question... do you have an xfire account? Maybe we can hook up one night using xfire or somet... : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Dunno what xfire is... I been trying to talk themelon into hosting some UT :) : dognose
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      ^^^ Find the missing game!!! Duke Nukem 3D ... wtf! : ThomW
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        He's never played D3D online if you can believe it. I mean the SP was fun and all, but the MP was what I... : AndyGoin
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          I didn't have any friends who played games back then, and probably wouldn't have understood how to set up... : dognose
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            I would rebuy the game if someone set up a Shackbattle and there was enough time for it to arrive from 3d... : ThomW
            • When I buy people games from there it tends to arrive pretty quick : dognose
          • oh dude, you missed out. back in the day we had so many awesome dukematches custom maps and stuff, 16hr l... : CoRDS
        • OMFG. No DukeMatch!?!? UGGGH. That's *terrible*! :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Now I have a shotgun :D : dognose
  • Ho Ho ho.... : Rauol Duke
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    That's my favorite weapon in the game. It felt really solid. : freshyk
    • I've actually switched back to the machine gun, the shotty packs an amazing wallop but takes too long to ... : dognose
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    The game does an excellent job of having each weapon carve out its' own little tactical niche. It is w : Rice-Rocketeer
    • I'm hoping for grenades. I fell in love with the grenades in SiN Episode, and I can only imagine the awe... : dognose
• quake4 is pretty great dognose, you'll love it. : grendel
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  if i posted about installing quake 4 would anybody respond? will anyone respond to this? my theory is pro... : donlo
  • here we go again : Bantis
  • Its because NO ONE FUCKING LIKES YOU. : Rauol Duke
  • you don't understand the history of dognose, shack regulars do - that's why there are responses : lakren
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    shack celebs lol. should i write a shack celeb gossipblog? take pics with giant lenses through their wind... : jessipoo
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      Who will be the shack's Paris Hilton? : Horn
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        i think we all know who : jessipoo
        • leave multisync out of this, he's had a rough week! :P : Bantis
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    if you had a history of posts meriting a response, you would get a response. dognose has for some reason ... : carnivore
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      you know what amazes me more? that you think you deserve some kind of response. What, you think because y... : carnivore
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        or he just wants attention, and is getting his wish. : lakren
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          Fine then he can have his infamy. If he wants to be universally reviled as complainer then he can have it... : carnivore
          • abrasion? : Bean
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    jesus christ, you have more sand in your vagina than a welcome mat in Malibu. : edgewise
    • HIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! : Rauol Duke
    • Your vagina has more sand in it than a Malibu welcome mat : Ebu
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      is there any stopping you this weekend edgewise? i'm getting tired of continuously hitting [lol] : Bantis
      • the kids were at grandma's this weekend and I've been getting drunk and laid regularly. life's been good. : edgewise
  • Boo fucking hoo.. you've been here since January of this year. Work up a few years then bitch if you're s... : K1Bond007
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    I got responses for playing the original Half-Life a year or two ago and I'm pretty sure if anyone knew w... : p4ck3tloss
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      You're right about that, cockface! : Bean
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        Is that why you kept asking to sit on it? : p4ck3tloss
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          I fear making a snarky reply here because of what happened with the post preview last time I did. :( : Bean
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            oh bean, always so timid and fragile. what's up for our birthday : p4ck3tloss
            • This I truly do not know, but we are on the eve of such a celebration. : Bean
    • ps. half the people that respond, even to his terrible posts, have actually met him. : p4ck3tloss
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    Can I get a list of all of the Shack celebs? I want to make sure I reply to their posts and not waste ti... : AndyGoin
    • http://lmnopc.com/greasemonkey/shacklol/ : dognose
    • I hereby elevate myself to celeb status for the following 30 minutes! : thief
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      The shackchicks are at the top. : Rauol Duke
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        so... get a gender reassignment for instant shack celeb status? : Bean
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          thats the only thing left for you to do anyway, after you listed what tv shows you enjoy : boomstickah
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            how's your love life, boomstickah? : Bean
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              I was gonna make a your mom joke then I realized how lethal you are. j/k I'd just kneecap you and plunder : boomstickah
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                Dude. My mom would rip you up and spit out your lifeless husk. She's 5'0", 105 lbs of 55-year-old Italian... : Bean
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                  sounds like the making of another bad sitcom : kydaimon
                  • Next week on Boomstickah and the Crazy Old Italian Lady, our main man Boomstickah forgets that it's his a : Bean
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          i got a pair of scissors, you want me to help you out Bean? : jessipoo
          • I would, but the woman has my boys in safekeeping somewhere. : Bean
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      im the ultimate celebrity here on this website. sort of like the r kelly of the internet. : arizona bay
      • i have four of your posters on my bedroom wall :( : [fry]
      • *pulls gun out of drawer* *blindly shoots at closet door* : ki11_viru5
      • You're definitely trapped in the closet. : NastyJack
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        Yo, you seem pretty smart, why don't you use capital letters? r u ee cummings? : boomstickah
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          I ee when I cum! : Bean
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            Sorry. I don't know what came over me there. : Bean
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              ugh. just for that i'm never punching you in the face. : jessipoo
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                ee! : Bean
                • ^^^^^^^^^^^^just came : boomstickah
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        ^^check out all of these responses^^ : arizona bay
        • He's so dreamy! : Rice-Rocketeer
  • when guys buy girls drinks at bars, do you walk up to the guys and complain? : mallrice
  • holy shit people learn to take a joke >:( : donlo
• dognose, some people say that cucumber tastes better than pickles, confirm/deny? : lightly inclined
• "hardworking American" : snoozy

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• mods inf plz : dognose
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  Nope. Perfect in every way, and it's even under 100 minutes! : Serpico74
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    There is absolutely NOTHING you could change or improve about it. You could remake it frame for frame usi... : haiku
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      Agreed 10000% percent. And as if all that wasn't enough they toss in satire on the corporate America that... : Serpico74
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        PS - This still rotates in as my notebook desktop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Buyfordollar.jpg : Serpico74
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          Seriously what kind of film can produce so much awesome that the have some to spare on creating some mino... : haiku
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            It was one of those big films for me, although I have no idea how much of an actual impact it has made on... : Serpico74
            • Gah, this movie is so awesome. ED209 was not only both a killing machine and comic relief, it itself was ... : Serpico74
    • OMG I never wanted to make love to you before just now :( : dognose
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      Toxic windshield guy, yeah I still remember that. The ED-209 scene was fucked up too. But toxic windshiel... : qwpeoriu
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        What was with the 80's obsession with toxic waste and gross-out characters? Toxic waste spawned: Ninja... : hadokennn
        • Don't forget Joker in Batman. : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • toxic waste was the global warming of the '80s films(if anyone starts a debate here on gw I'm personally ... : spdon
• The clothesline in the convenience store makes that entire movie : mr.sleepy
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  The only film better than the theatrical release of Robocop is the Director's cut of Robocop. : zakk
  • I cherish my ultra rare Criterion DVD of the Robocop director's cut... so much... : Serpico74
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    Also, Die Hard. ktknksbyebye : dognose
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      is Die Hard better than Aliens ? : qwpeoriu
      • Yes : mr.sleepy
      • Oof, that's really tough. Die Hard is better suspense/mindgames, Aliens is better relentless action again : Serpico74
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        Of course it is, silly :D : dognose
        • yeah I think it's the best action movie ever : qwpeoriu
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        I'm going to pick Aliens, but it's by a hair. : edgewise
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          Wait what kind of hair >:( : dognose
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            chinny chin chin hair. : edgewise
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              I don't understand :( : dognose
              • That's because you need to watch more Aliens. : brickmatt
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                three little pigs? : edgewise
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                  It's 5 am your time. Why are you awake :( : dognose
                  • maybe he had too much coffee last night like I did : RikiTiki2
                  • the kids are at grandma's house so I got to stay up extra late and sleep in! : edgewise
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        no. no, no, no. : AbortedFetusChristi
        • Yes. : dognose
• No there ain't mothafucka and I'm gonna catch it on my ps triple, sucka : drbriefs
• Goddammit I just realized I do not own this awesome movie, bill collectors can embp this month, I am sure... : dognose
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  Mary Poppins : snoozy
  • If you post your ban message under an alternate account, I will deny all culpability. I don't even kno... : dognose
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  Bitches, leave. : brickmatt
  • Why did it take so long for someone to post this? : Caboose
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    All of the quotes from Robobop are awesome. Guns, GUNS, GUNS : Sylvanus
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      It was really Kurtwood Smith's movie. : eldersveld
      • I agree. He steals the show in every fucking scene he is in. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Robocop 3 : hadokennn
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    robocop is a brilliant comdey : moshman
    • Strapping jetpacks on stuff makes anything hilarious. Imagine Terminator with a jetpack.. or an Alien : hadokennn
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  Is there a shackpinion on Starship Troopers? Personally I fucking loved it at the cinema and still re-wat... : cause&effect
  • Lots of people seem to hate it but I really like it. Same director and writer as Robocop, same basic idea... : Serpico74
  • Shack Hype is divided. Personally, I love it. One of only two movies I've ever seen twice at the cinema. : ghale
  • It's good : dognose
  • I'm a Starship Troopers hater. Aside from the "Would You Like to Know More" thing (which was awesome) I ... : action wombmate
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    I love it. Everyone complaining that it does not do the book justice can eat shit. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I loved both. However, there was one part of the movie, the book could not do justice...the coed shower : TheArtMan
  • I liked it. : dmason
  • "Would you like to know more?" High camp value, great popcorn flick. : Masem
  • it's Beverly Hills 90210 in space with awesome monsters. : aaarrrgh
  • I preferred the animated "Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughn... : Bold
  • I love it. Along with Robocop. : sgtsanity
  • It's an awful movie, yet I still watch it everytime it's on. I guess because it's the closest thing to a ... : lord cecil
  • I love it despite wanting to hate it. : Dante
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    I hated it. dumbest movie ever. : edgewise
    • This is exactly where I clock in as well. : brickmatt
    • I thought it was pretty dumb when I saw it in theatres too. : Chris Remo
  • Love it!!! The second one though was a heaping stinky pile of crap. : voodooraze
  • As great as Robocop. And D.R. doesn't smile all the way through - she loses her smile when she evacuates ... : MatzL.E.
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  Just saw a deal: $50AUD for the trilogy on DVD. Tempted, as I won't be getting a HDTV anytime soon. : furiouscrak
  • There was no Robocop trilogy. There was only the one movie. ONLY THE ONE MOVIE. : timmie
• I bet if I tried, I could jerk off to Robocop. I have that much confidence in its perfection. : Ely
• Nope, there isn't. Stop asking rhetorical questions. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  A L I E N S : Sylvanus
  • Pretty much. It has everything someone with a beating heart needs. : djkenohki
  • IAWTP : kydaimon
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  Predator, Terminator 1, Aliens, Mad Max 2... all better 80s action. : spdon
  • all those are only lesser equal, you fool. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  It might just be because Grindhouse isnt out yet. Also Army of Darkness. Fuck YOU. : Rauol Duke
  • I thought we said "bitches leave." >: ( : sgtsanity
• the fact that one of the bad guys became Eric Foremans dad on that 70's show totally owns : RobFlinn
• I hope you are talking about the Directors Cut version. : sigpro
• bump : haiku
• Maybe Predator - maybe. : abrasion
• oo available on blu-ray! : jcupitt
• I watched that on spike last night while I tried to put the baby to sleep. That movie is horribly awesom... : rosewood

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  Everyone but Chad. : NFXFSX
  • lol. I almost revealed a certain shacker's real name because I thought you meant him. chad be ballin! ... : p4ck3tloss
• only a doomed company insults their customers : mr brown
• "P-S-Tripple 4-Life." : The Key
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  God I hate Sony. I'm pretty sure I'm at the full on Boycott stage now. Seriously, fuck them, fuck PS3. (S... : graceofdragons
  • yup same here.. I'm completely annoyed with their arrogance and downright stupidity! : Shadowdane
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    every time you buy a game for your ps2 though... : kydaimon
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      whats left to buy? : graceofdragons
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        did you buy god of war 2? : kydaimon
        • why would you buy a single-player game that you can beat on rental? : biskits
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    I totally agree now, I honestly can't stand this shit anymore. I tried to play neutral for a while, but i... : Bantis
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      dude the media is feeding half of this bullshit - if you read the damn link properly they aren't being th... : abrasion
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        I came to this conclusion long before this article; and I still have issue with that article regardless. ... : Bantis
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          They are adding rumble to the thing, which was half the problem. In 24 months when their wallets are s... : abrasion
          • I'd consider it after a price drop, and if they just stopped the shit slinging. It doesn't help the indus... : Bantis
      • Absolutely. These retarded blog sites are climbing all over each other to find the next "stupid Sony" quo... : aeg1x
• someone should tell him that americans wipe their asses with $600 : mallrice
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  I think they're misquoting him : MikkleThePickle
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    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23722 : Visceral Monkey
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      oh ok, so it was you misquoting him.... If you take what's considered to be the most expensive and th... : MikkleThePickle
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        uh, are you kidding? consider the US with its massive land and cheap people. : Bantis
        • absolutely not. see: all the other people in this thread who actually read the article and came to the sa... : MikkleThePickle
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        Hey man, I just saw it on digg and reposted here. : Visceral Monkey
        • but I think that's the root of the problem... nothing against you personally, but it's the whole thing wi... : MikkleThePickle
  • In the quotes context, he's referring to the cost of labour versus UK. Trashy journalism to suggest other... : marku5
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    it's funny because of what's in the last paragraph of the article : egg5hen
    • yeah that's exactly what I was thinking : MikkleThePickle
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  They are misquoting the guy just to be sensationalist, Sony hasnt' fucked up - for a change. : abrasion
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    I can't believe I'm agreeing with abrasion. : TheArtMan
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      considering how often i see "i can't beleive i agree with abrasion" I'm thinking a massive swing in votes... : abrasion
      • You've graduated from "fishing party" to "christian democrats"? : SpaecKow
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        you win the "davecrazy replacement" award. : DonkeyPopsicle
        • both posts are a harsh harsh zing. p.s i've seen dave's wacky ps3 posts @ stoo, good lord - i didn't r... : abrasion
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    That's still an insult, even in context. : MaJeStu
    • No it isn't... he's talking about the cost of labour. : aeg1x
  • yep, completely correct. what bullshit reporting. : lakren
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  ouch 5% sold http://www.playfuls.com/news_06689_PS3s_French_Debut_A_Total_Disaster_95_of_Consoles_Left... : edgewise
  • lol : cam3lt0sis
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    So France is to Sony as Japan is to Microsoft? : SeaLlama
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      The french won't buy anything, it needs to be a government handout. : bostrov
      • Americas are ignorant, fat, dumb, religious fanatics. : spdon
    • Europe was the biggest market for the PS1. : spdon
  • Maybe they just have common sense with their money. : abrasion
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  Best part of the article: "Close to 22hrs the journalists receive an SMS from the French Xbox marketin... : Eej
  • Oh man how did I misreply. :| : Eej
  • http://kotaku.com/gaming/only-in-france/xbox-crashes-french-ps3-launch-246475.php : edgewise

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  Animation + lossless + transparency + small filesize = win : Zero|DPX
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    So a GIF with more colors. : Sapiens
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      The main thing it has over animated GIFs is a full alpha channel instead of a single transparent color, w... : Zero|DPX
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        Also, GIF's are lossy. : mn3m0n1c
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          I think technically both GIF and PNG can do lossless and lossy compression. : Zero|DPX
          • Well, I think he meant the 8-bit color limitation. : sgtsanity
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            I'm thinking in terms of the 256 color limit, mainly- you can't do 'true color' images in the format, AFA... : mn3m0n1c
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              that's a completely different though : Clay
              • Well, it is a loss of information, though. : mn3m0n1c
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              That's not really the same as lossy compression, though. If you're converting a true-color image to 256-... : Arcanum
              • Well, it helps with the run-length compression. ;) : sgtsanity
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                no, that is lossy compression, that's the definition of lossy compression. : qwpeoriu
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                  Guys! This argument is stupid! : Zero|DPX
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                    nobody's arguing, stop being an ass : qwpeoriu
                    • He's the end all, be all, of browser talk so you obviously have no idea what you're talking about :) : Phreakin
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                  Uh, no. Lossy compression is a compression algorithm that happens to lose data when the compression and ... : Arcanum
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                    so then what does this sentence mean ? Graphic data (images) is often converted from one data storage ... : qwpeoriu
                    • lmao I copied that straight from wiki and even go the [edit] thing I feel like such a dork now :P : qwpeoriu
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    you forgot the most important thing: nonproprietary : qwpeoriu
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      Well, Microsoft hasn't said anything about it yet. ;) They'll simultaneously release APNG-XTREME(TM), wit... : Bean
      • and you can accelerate AlphaBlast with Blast Processing amirite? : mrfunky3000
      • Plus it'll require an HDMI output and also leverage the enhanced content granularity of Windows Vista Par... : sgtsanity
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        either that or they'll just never properly support it in IE which will effectively kill this with much le... : qwpeoriu
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          >:( Yes, but there's a whole lot less humor in saying that. : Bean
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            but a whole lot more reality :( : Clay
            • Reality is overrated. I want to live in a world full of gumdrop trees and shimmering roads paved with hop... : Bean
      • because that is what happened with gif, jpeg, etc right : mallrice
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      Didn't the patents on GIF expire a while back? : Arcanum
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        Yes, which is why I consider the "nonproprietary" bit pretty unimportant. : Zero|DPX
        • Once the patent expires, it seems like something only open-source obsessives would really care about. : Arcanum
  • I applaud this development- we need a better animated image format. : mn3m0n1c
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  questions, do you people say P-N-G, or 'ping'? : Patch-e
  • questions : Patch-e
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    I find A-P-N-G less easily confused with "<a ping>", which is real but not widely known. : Zero|DPX
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      As in "Give me a ping, Vasily"?? : Do_Or_Die
      • No, as in the ping attribute on the anchor tag. I believe the WHATWG may have specced it, and it's imple... : Zero|DPX
  • P-N-G. : g0nk
  • Png's Not Gif : protozone
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  Won't it be pointless until IE adopts it? : jonas54
  • pretty much. such is life. for realz. : Bean
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    I think that's a bad attitude to take. If only website developers had a bit more spine to them, everyone ... : protozone
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      That's a really naive approach to it. Bottom line is it's not going to happen. Firefox has alot of suppor... : Phreakin
      • It's not naive. It would work if only the web developers would actually do it. The idea is that so many w... : protozone
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  Whatever happened to MNG? I seem to recall a Mozilla browser that could render it years ago, though I don... : Conan
  • Konqueror implemented it but unlike APNG, it doesn't degrade gracefully to a non-animated PNG in other br... : sgtsanity
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    MNG is an utterly retarded format that tried to be all things to all people (much like SVG) and as a resu... : Zero|DPX
    • But...but...I like SVG.... All kidding a side, though, I kinda figured that was the case. After posting, ... : Conan
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      Heh, I actually ran into an .svg the other day (this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2 : mn3m0n1c
      • Firefox can read that, y'know. : Conan
      • You'd probably be surprised how often you are running into SVG files. Wikipedia uses them a fair bit, I t... : protozone
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  YTMND will never be the same : Chris Remo
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    YTHDMND.com : sgtsanity
    • I await this eagerly! : Athlon7
• about freaking time. nothing drives me crazy more than working on an animated gif banner advertisement a... : sketchuout