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• Library. I give them the ones I dont watch anymore and then they rent them out to people for free. Make... : ant_hillbilly
• Drive around and throw them at Hobos. : skitzo
• Half Price Books? : freshyk
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  sell them on the shack. : carazy
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    I'll buy 'em if there are pictures of explosions on the back cover. : dognose
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      Also, Half Price Books sells used DVDs, and I think you can get credit for books. : dognose
      • They rip you on the deal though. He'd do well to sell em on eBay. Just enter the isbn, it only takes 5 ... : romulan
• I usually donate DVDs to the local VA hospital. : pigvomit
• A shredder. then you have razor-sharp confetti. It's a real scene, man. : invisible_kid
• I'd be happy to take them off your hands in exchange for a copy of Duke Nuke'em Forever!! :P : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Re-selling Used DVD's hurts film makers. : SenorSpine
  • Nah, it just doesn't help them! : Rich McNinch
  • one time use for everything! : mista mista
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    I fucking LOVE this response, bravo. : abrasion
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      I was a little worried that it was a bit too smart-assish, but I figured he'd see the humour. : SenorSpine
      • If you hadn't of posted it, I would have. Mostly because I'm that guy. : sharkII
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    yea lol how is this any different : Patch-e
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      Because Big Momma's House isn't worth buying new. : dognose
      • It's not worth buying at all. : gireal
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  give them to your employees >:( : drucifer
  • If my boss gave me Christmas with the Cranks, I would be pretty pissed, but if my boss told me that he th... : skitzo
• Blockbuster will "buy" your dvd's for 2-3 dollars a pop (sometimes more), but it's in the form of store c... : action wombmate
• Wherehouse.com is what I used, when I purged my CD & DVD collection a year or two ago. http://www.wher... : Ride-My-Rocket
• I sell mine on half.com : mancide
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  Give them to dognose. : Rauol Duke
  • Bet I own all the good ones already :) : dognose
• i'll take some off your hands :) : Korban
• List them on Amazon? : Orange Pylon
• We sold a shitload on ebay as a package. : AndyGoin
• you should autograph them and sell them to shackers :D : Korban
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  Remember Revolution X? : DOOManiac
  • haha, good reference. : sammyl
• give them to a local, like me. : klearlyunseen
• Craigs list. I have sold about 40 of my older DVDs for between 4 and 5 dollars apiece. : Stoned Gargoyle
• ebay? : Jayx77
• Donate to US soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan? : Modulus
• Hey George, I unloaded an assload at the last place I worked. Just sent out a mass email and got rid of l... : Fred Garvin
• send them to shackers? : virus
• DNF preorder bonus. : sammyl
• Save them up for the next WE : peetabix01

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• hahaha happy birthday : Bantis
• sex for polansk! : steelsamurai
• Ha! You are old and still NOT gay! PS- no fancy crap, ok! : mn3m0n1c
• Oh ty polansk for ex...wait.... : CapnChaos
• Happy Birthday. : cerealSAM2
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  hey ppl we know i have a son my GF in six month right now hhehheh polansk dead!!! : polansk
  • hahaha oh dear lord no : crummynz
  • oh shit : busdriver3030
  • fool! what have you done! : ermac
  • What is portuguese word for coathanger? : ScrawnyJohnny
  • OMG! more polansks[s]s!? : mn3m0n1c
  • Rio De Jalolo. : Phil
  • oh fuck they're multiplying, WE'RE DOOMED : mikecyb
  • Congrats hope he has your gay!! :) : carazy
  • holy shit : filtersweep
  • attn gay menz mini-polansk : mojo the helpr monke
  • congrats man! I hope he gets your eloquent method of expressing yourself! : Jayx77
  • ...and the ghey shall inherit the Earth, felicidades polansk! 2x : Izakhar
  • Ass Babies. : sigpro
  • i am so scared right now. congrats : Clay
  • Oh my, he [procreated! What does this mean for humanity?! : Krypt_
  • I did not see this coming :( : thekidd
  • please have him start posting ASAP. it will be awesome. : dahanese
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    HOW IS BABBY FORMED? : eskimo spy
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      A+++. I've been looking for reason to use that quote all day. I tip my hat to you. : Modulus
      • hehehehehhe : polansk
    • lol, nice. Best laugh I've had today. : devi| dog
    • hahahahahahahahaahahah : askedrelic
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    you're like Borat, but less greasey : kevp
    • less more : mrfunky3000
  • Inf this one! Congrats polansk! : SiW73
• may your birthday be filled with hot gay homo menz! : Fredrik S
• Polansk birthday! Happy day! : devi| dog
• Everyday is an adventure with you still around. : Squirrely
• Ever since I saw Borat, I think of polansk : Bantis
• HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY POLANSK : mrfunky3000
• polansk, if you aren't a mod, you should be. : Bean
• hey is her my girl name is LUIZA RODRIGUES my lady hehhe im in love im order all hellokitty things hehehh... : polansk
• Happy fucking birthday! You rule. : knitemare
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  hey i want win interesting pls hehhhehe : polansk
  • ^^^^ HOOK IT UP ATTN GAY UMAX : Downforce
  • This is the interesting : felicia
• congrats on one plus and many blow luck and wishes : g.lee
• Happy Saint Groundhogs Day! : dognose

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  O_o ... that guy lost me when he called John Carmack a sloppy programmer : Bean
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    ps - what forum is that from? : Bean
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      ps3gamer, I won't link it due to terrible-ness but here is another snippet: GFW: Is any platform actin : EvilDolemite
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        "winning the battle" :( : Zibro
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          Because not selling units is half the battle. : uncle slappy
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            It'd be sloppy to sell too many. Consoles like the PS3 know how to operate in tight spaces, with lots of ... : zakazi
            • "Will Fold@Home For Food" : RomSteady
      • Heh, that's not even properly quoted- I read that article a few days ago, and it should read "...running, : mn3m0n1c
      • That's a particularly funny comment since anything that takes up the 360s memory would long be out of spa... : DinK
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    Ever look at his code? : FushigiDenki
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      Carmack's Inverse Square Root function for Quake 3 shows how much of a programming god he is. http://www... : tyrelhill
      • O_O "Not only does it work, on some CPU's Carmack's Q_rsqrt runs up to 4 times faster than (float)(1.0/sq : Bean
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        He didn't invent that method. : FushigiDenki
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          Show a link proving otherwise. : tyrelhill
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            http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/ : lord cecil
            • What a brilliant article. Of course, I didn't have a fucking clue about the maths/programming jargon but ... : ShekkyBoy
          • The article itself goes into details about newton's approximation (which is what he's using). It shows he... : ieGod
          • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_square_root#Inverse_square_root : strandgeck
          • http://blog.donews.com/snailact/archive/2006/04/01/806370.aspx Read the references. : RomSteady
          • It's in a million places on the internets. : FushigiDenki
          • It's an implementation (a good one) of a pretty standard numerical method. : SenorSpine
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          It's not the method he used that is the important part, it's the "magic" constant he used to reduce the n... : basketofkittens
          • Apparently nobody read the article I linked then and instantly thought the algorithm is what I was talkin... : tyrelhill
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            Where the hell did he get that constant? (I think I may have to appropriate that method and constant for... : Arcanum
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              Chris Lomont, who analyzed the constant, mentioned that it may have originated with a Gary Tarolli at nVi... : basketofkittens
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                if you read my linked article above they talk to Gary Tarolli. What did he say? You'll have to read to fi... : lord cecil
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                  Yup, I just did. That little bit of code has been around! : Arcanum
                  • Tis slutty code for sure! I wonder what other pieces of code have interesting histories. Know of any? : lord cecil
      • are there any sites with a lot of content like this? I'd be interested to read similar articles examining... : derelict515
    • I love looking at Doom's source code because I am a gigantic nerd a lot of it is so god awful. You can r : mikecyb
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    I'm not exactly sure what the guy means by sloppy though. There are plenty of sloppy programmers who g... : steelsamurai
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      The poster seems to have meant "sloppy" in terms of "unoptimized / slow code", which definitely does not ... : EvilDolemite
      • ^This was how I took it as well. And regardless of what you think of Carmack, the rest of the post was st... : Bean
    • Yeah, that's definitely a valid point. I can see that, possibly. : Bean
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      If thats true, how the shit is his stuff so easily moddable then?!?! : ShadowRam
      • consider that people rip apart the Xbox and mod it, they rip apart the Apple TV and mod it... the modder ... : steelsamurai
    • extra code? : kydaimon
    • It's a distinction between design-sloppy and implementation-sloppy. Carmack's code may be design-sloppy,... : Arcanum
  • its true though he'd tell you the same thing goto statements and ugly variable names but its all cool ... : Chandler55
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    I've seen a lot of Carmack's recent code. If that's sloppy, then the Unreal Engine is a pus-filled b... : RomSteady
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      that's nasty. : sigpro
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        Try debugging UE3 sometime. : RomSteady
        • fuck that. I never got into programming for a reason. : sigpro
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          I haven't looked at JC's code since Quake3, but I would have said the exact same thing in reverse :) : MrLobo
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            The UE1 codebase was fairly clean. UE2, a bit more complex. With UE3, the damn thing is pretty much an ... : RomSteady
            • Thats funny because the part I hate the most is UnrealScript :D We barely use it anymore on next-gen c... : MrLobo
    • He IS sloppy, but also brilliant. The unreal code is far worse, however. : tedv
• Carmack's graphics suck yo : fry975
• my head just exploded. and if that's not a teen, our species is doomed : Postal
• I feel dumber after reading that. Thanks :/ : bitter ego
• Fucking hilarious. : node
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  I don't think this person realizes the major difference between PC coding and console coding. On conso... : RomSteady
  • While I vaguely knew everything you just said anyway, it's always interesting to hear it put more specifi... : node
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    Dude, you said PC ecosystem. this is my phrase to use in a sentence for tomorrow. : ezanga
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      "I just got a mac, I hope it doesn't unbalance my PC ecosystem" : crummynz
      • I'm not a professional, but I'm pretty sure your PC ecosystem is fucked up. : ezanga
• [lol] : Matt Burris
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  INTERNET! : pigvomit
  • Indeed. While that's a funny quote you can find thousands of asinine statements like that on forums ever : Johnny Law
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  Bullshit, a good programmer will shine anywhere, PC or not. As for carmack, well his style is more of ... : Enigme
  • Yeah, and it's not like putting a programmer on a console project magically makes them a good programmer ... : Krypt_
• I seem to remember the article that this quote was in being linked before, and some moderator said to sto... : shred.
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  Physics of Motorstorm - Live for Speed Graphics of Gears - UT Thank you, drive through : fleabug
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    The graphics of Gears truly cracks me up - yeah because we'll never see that on the PC... : Jonathan
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      That's not the statement that was made. : FushigiDenki
      • I don't see most console games reaching the standard of the graphics from Gears at the moment. Long term ... : Jonathan
  • That's why the word "most" was used, not "all" or "ever". : FushigiDenki
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  why did you bring this mind poison here? :( : geedeck
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    hi : Pink0r
    • I know. : geedeck
• personally I don't think this e-prophet's personal opinion is worth half a catshit : brewsterdog
• Aren't these the guys that thought Newell made Doom? : algernoN8
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  You know, I rented GOW when I bought my 360 and I thought the graphics were utter shit. All that cheap m... : trove
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    did you forget to put on your glasses? : derelict515
    • Probably that. I was running it on a LCD so maybe that was the problem as well. : trove
  • Uhh, were you playing GoW on a good HDTV @ 1080i, etc? Seriously, even my most diehard PC gamer friend w... : Force[FED]
• tighten up the code for level 3 : GMRiggs

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• nobody's got any love for this? i was kinda looking forward to installing it and trying it out : Korban
• It takes some getting used to but overall, its fantastic. : Wolfanoz
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  they should have included a traditional tutorial... : maulla
  • Exactly! I am little slowed down by how the game works and the fact that they just show you what all the ... : eldiablo01
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  The single and multiplayer missions aren't very interesting or fun, but I had a good time running around ... : lechuck59
  • The included missions are mediocre at best. That's being generous. What you see and play in the demo, ... : Dslyecxi
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  I am still getting wacked by unseen enemies. The range by which I am getting hit is really insane. While ... : byorn
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    Yes, this game has just been frustrating for me. I had a ton of fun playing Operations Flashpoint, but ev... : pyros
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      I was hoping ArmA would level the playing field, but I am still getting hit and never can hit the enemies... : byorn
      • There are some server settings that can make the AI much more fun to play against, actually. Aside from t... : Dslyecxi
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  i didn't much like it. i tried the helicopter and ground scenarios, to me it didn't feel very intuitive, ... : xxiv
  • It's more of a simulator than a shooter like BF2/TFC. : Magus
  • Steeper than most FPS games, yeah. Once you get over that initial curve, though, it ends up being really ... : Dslyecxi
• The graphics look friggin sharp with all the details cranked up. And it plays like a better Flashpoint. ... : Medster
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  That's because all the hype came from one shacker and his minions. : dopeman
  • That's some tasty hateraide you got there : cdbeckman
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    ... and how many minions do you have? : silent prophet
    • I think my minions could beat up his minions. D: : Dslyecxi
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  its gonna take a lot of customization to get comfortable w/ it like I was w/ OFP years ago. It also crash... : mankeroo
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    The animation system in general is one of the more limiting aspects of the current engine. It drives me i... : Dslyecxi
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      any suggestions on why it crashes when i quit? I see the desktop again, but I never get full control and ... : mankeroo
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        Go into C:\Documents and Settings\(your profile name)\Local Settings\Application Data\ArmA Demo and se... : Dslyecxi
        • i will when i get home, thanks! : mankeroo
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      Is the animation system even moddable? If so i might end up giving it a look-see : Drewus
      • No, that's an engine-level thing. : Dslyecxi
• it runs like poop on my computer :( : SockMonkeh
• poopy : adhy
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  i like it a lot, and am looking forward to playing with shackers. there are a couple weird things that a... : busdriver3030
  • The "walking with your gun raised" thing is probably happening because you're crouch-walking. If you're a... : Dslyecxi
• It crashes on exit repeatedly. : Pneum0
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  runs fine. not my bag. I really don't feel like spending 20 minutes running between points on the map bec... : empathe
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    The MP content in the full version is pretty much anything a mission designer wants it to be. This is som... : burningtrees
    • MP LOLZ example: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-217170248948388974&hl=en This is a repost fr... : burningtrees
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    I won't defend the maps or design decisions made in the demo. I think they're crap, to be perfectly hones : Dslyecxi
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      i think what it boils down to is that it's just too sim for me. I like arcade-style realism I guess. : empathe
      • In that case, have you ever played the Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2? If not, you might want to c... : Dslyecxi
• ooh, I will have to DL this tonight! : Jayx77
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  Related question, I'm getting really poor framerates in the demo. I have a 2.5Ghz A64 and a 6800GS. What ... : Vandeq
  • I don't know the cpu/gpu answer, but try this: go into the advanced options and set everything to normal... : burningtrees
  • Switching from a 7900GT to an 8800GTS made a rather massive difference for me. Also, the "Normal" setting... : Helter Skelter
• Shack stunts may be strong with this one... : jane911
• my computer is being a bitch and i can't play :( : knitemare
• Can't wait to get into this with ShackTac : Fail_Safe
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  Turning off shadows helped performance a lot. : SockMonkeh
  • Others have reported that either shadows set to off, or high works best as low/normal seem to use an in-e... : burningtrees
• I really like the intro music :] : Nighteyes
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  smooth framerate but crazy ass stupid mouse lag. : n0v4
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    What are your computer specs and vid settings in game? I had those symptoms, but after some tweaking (and... : burningtrees
    • i seem to have much worse mouse lag when i go to iron sights : SockMonkeh
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  i just tried it. i instantly died when i chose a spawn (i didnt even get shot, just spawned dead). then i... : feek
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    Comments like this suck to read. :( Sorry that happened, and let me say that the first issue you had : Dslyecxi
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      Why is it that the community can only make good missions? : adhy
      • It's not really that. There are some good missions in the main game, but the ones in the demo are pretty ... : Dslyecxi

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  are you using "save to web" in photoshop? if so that's probably what's doing it. : wtf242
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    nope, just uploading the image taken from the camera straight to Flickr.. Flickr resizes it, but i cant s... : g0nk
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      Try resizing yourself first : geedeck
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        Are you saying he's fat? How rude : Entity
        • Dude's not just a little bit short for a storm-trooper... : geedeck
• I think that lizard is trying to court you. This is your chance! move in with the lizard under the porch... : Modulus
• flickr recompresses the photos you upload. removes a lot of the depth from them especially if shot them i... : cpt_gloval
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  could be a color space issue. If you are shooting in ARGB and not converting to SRGB before posting to... : ewhales
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    hmm, it says it's just in RGB.. but the ColorSunc profile is "ProPhoto RGB" .. : g0nk
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      Make sure you convert any images to sRGB before you upload. PC + Browsers = no color management : ewhales
      • ok, i just found out where to check in CS2, the images were sRGB when uploaded.. :( : g0nk
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  This all in auto mode? I just picked up a D50 last night and can't wait to fuck around with it. Gonna tak... : pancake humper
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    yeah, all were full auto except the flower one which i did Aperture Priority mode, so I could get a bette... : g0nk
    • o, ok : pancake humper
  • People who buy a DSLR and use it in Auto mode make this Swordsman cry. If that's all you're going to do,... : Lone Swordsman
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  Those are all good shots - aren't colors pretty accurate? With my D50, I've made my colors a bit warme... : jasonepowell
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    the colors are accurate out of the camera. my only concern was it desaturating things when the photos wer... : g0nk
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      use Picasa dude. : pancake humper
      • picasa owns color too : cpt_gloval
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  How much did you spend on the D80 ? I wouldn't mind eventually picking one up if I decide to get more ser... : qwpeoriu
  • it was on sale at Circuit City for $1234.99. That's with the kit 180135mm lens. : g0nk
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  SQUIRREL!!!!! http://xmasvacationsquirrel.ytmnd.com/ : harbl
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    squirrels are the root of all evil. : dahanese
    • See... I'd have thought you would blame tarantulas. : MorrisatCNN
    • OK. You and I are over >:( teehee : Squirrely
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      Squirrel = √(Evil) ? : Ebu
      • yesh >:( : drucifer
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  Funny, i just got a D40 today. I think i'm gonna be pretty happy. : huds0n
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    , from what i've read, the D40 is damn fine!! : g0nk
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      i'm so torn. I want to get in cheap, but the lack of an auto-focus motor on the D40 shies me away from i... : cltcprd
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        that was one of the things that swayed me to the D80. the D40x is essentially the D80 with no built in AF... : g0nk
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          yeah, i'm looking at D50 and D70s bodies because the D80 is too much and the D40 is too little. : cltcprd
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            srsly, take a peek at the new D40x. i've been reading good things about it! : g0nk
            • no auto-focus motor is a no buy to me. It limits the lens selection too much in my eyes. : cltcprd
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            my major qualm with the D50 body is the single dial. the D70s has dual dials; on manual, one controls the... : cpt_gloval
            • This makes me kind of wish I had gotten the D80...but the D50 was already so expensive... :\ : Ebu
            • what? You move the dial left and right for shutter speed, and hold the button (which is right there wher... : jasonepowell
      • get a used D70! <3 mine. : cpt_gloval

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• Certainly wouldn't surprise me. : Phreakin
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  http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/systemreqs/ Says one gig here. Though I imagine that ... : dirtboxer
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    eeek! What in the hell?.. Developpers certainly have become lazy about that with time.. A couple years b... : pillzer
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      photoshop cs3 costs $649 and the 1gb of disk space costs $0.33. who cares? it'd be retarded to push bac... : electroly
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        Yes, but no. It's not like they're in a hurry. I call it lazyness. IMHO that's something that's part of t... : pillzer
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          You don't play games over a gig? : / : DM7
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            Of course I do. But it's different. It's a problem too, but it's much harder to compress assets for a gam... : pillzer
            • a lot of it is the camera raw stuff. : ewhales
        • Developers have deadlines to make. Programmers time is expensive. Computer time and space is not. : Chod
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    2 gigs for macs... see macs suck. : carazy
    • Single-core intel macs aren't listed. No CS3 for you! ;) : davantalus
  • Yeah, that's alot of Stock Photo crap. I think all of CS3 is only 2.5Gigs. : zakazi
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  giga wut? :[ : My Documents
  • gigawatt. : pillzer
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    one full gigawatt! : deveus1
    • 10 fucking seconds argh! : deveus1
  • gigapet : great-white
  • giga stole my bike : warpdude
  • http://website.lineone.net/~mattyk/wav/gigawats.wav : Korban
  • giga bytes... tera ftw! : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Giga, please!! : Maddog_Delphi97
    • I see what you did here. : pillzer
  • snappy threaded giga's : thaperfectdrug
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  So what? Vista requires 15gb free. : abrasion
  • Yup, my Windows dir in vista is like 7.6 GB. : sigpro
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    and what's acceptable in this fact? It's a fucking OS! it shouldn't take up more than a couple hundred me... : pillzer
    • Seriously if you can't ruffle up 40gb for OS and apps, get out of PC use plz. : abrasion
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    And BTW that's one of the reasons I'm not getting it. : pillzer
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      MICROSOFT IS IN BIG TROUBLE : boomstickah
      • AS IS ADOBE! : yoonix
• i've seen HP printer driver installations that are 4+ gig : GloriousCow
• You speak like a gig is a lot. Gig is the new meg. : ewhales
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  didn't it used to take only like 150MB? what the hell did they put in there? 800MB of clip art or what? : skryte
  • Pretty much. The core of the thing is still around 250, but you have to delete by hand all the stuff you ... : pillzer
• Final Cut Studio 2 takes 4GB for the apps and optionally 55GB of templates, docs, etc... : vigilante

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  this should be a budget title : n0v4
  • I couldn't agree more. : abrasion
• They're a few years too late. : CrustaR
• Should at least have been XP compatible ESP considering it's not even a DX10 game (despite earlier report... : cause&effect
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  whats gonna happen when it runs like crap on Vista just like everything else? : kevp
  • lol : abrasion
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  I really liked halo 1 on PC :( I need ultimate because I have a linux domain controller that all my ma... : sroylance
  • Halo 1 multi was fun as hell on PC, but then Halo 2 released and eclipsed it in every way. : EvilDolemite
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  For a lan party we had last weekend MS sent us like 400 t-shirts for halo 2 pc. I ended up using a bunch ... : shred.
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    Wow, how'd you sort that out? How big was the LAN party? : crummynz
    • We had about 100 people. They wanted us to do a few events for them and they'd give us money, but we decl... : shred.
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  Halo on the PC was so utterly horrible and boring, I can't muster up the courage to try this, let alone r... : Matt Burris
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    I agree. Halo was...not fun. :p : Rice-Rocketeer
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      It was fun for console players who had never played a FPS. That's why it was so "revolutionary"... : Bingo
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        Don't start this. : EvilDolemite
        • Because Evil and I will take all you Mofo's on! : Malum
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        Please examine whatever process led you to this incorrect conclusion and modify the process so that you r... : vigilante
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          Well, that's only my opinion. I'm mainly a PC Gamer and I have to say no FPS attracted my attention on a : Bingo
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            You're right about that, the PC port was assssssssssssssssssssssssss : FushigiDenki
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              The PC port came much too late and the performance of it was fucking horrid. : sigpro
              • While console players had been playing Halo 2 the PC world was gearing up for Half Life 2 and we got blow... : manlyman
          • If it's only "your opinion", stop extending it to "console players," for fuck's sake. I was a diehard PC... : Chris Remo
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        It was revolutionary because it got FPS controls working well on a console. : FushigiDenki
        • And what are TimeSplitters GoldenEye and PerfectDark? : SpaecKow
      • You have big cojones, my friend. : Matt Burris
      • Its like playing portal, you keep stepping out of and into the same room. : Turd Ferguson
      • no : derelict515
    • I'll happily agree with you. : Durandal07
    • PC or console version though? PC blew but console wasn't a bad game overall - I mean I did actually finis... : abrasion
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      It was buttloads of fun co-op. : SenorSpine
      • FOR FUCK SAKES, I KNOW. BUT WHY DID THEY NOT GIVE THIS TO US ON PC? SERIOUSLY. WHY. WHY. WHY. WHY. : Rice-Rocketeer
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      multiplayer halo is where it's at. who gives a fuck if the sp is a little repetitive. show me another gam... : thebigbeefsandwich
      • I thought mp halo was even worse than single player halo. I cannot tell you how much I hate it, so I'm no... : shred.
      • Totally agree. It was a fun game to play. : Optimus Prime
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        umm SP gamers probably do!? : abrasion
        • well for the most part the sp was amazing, the AI was (and still is) stellar, and coop better than anythi... : derelict515
        • then play a game that's great for SP. one game isn't going to do everything perfect and Halo is far more ... : thebigbeefsandwich
      • I agree. I know once I get Vista, I'll get it 'cuz it adds cool stuff that was in H1 mp. : thejm4n
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    I loved Halo 1 on PC. Online was so much fun. : pigvomit
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      I was at CPL 2003 in Dallas where they had Halo competitions, especially at the NVIDIA booth. Most peopl... : Matt Burris
      • When I was playing it online, it was not hard to find a full server. I guess CPL people just have differ... : pigvomit
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    I liked it. I think it lived up to it's promise. It was a shooter with more or less uninspired graphics... : sroylance
    • When it first came out, it blew everything away in the graphics department, including the latest shooters... : FushigiDenki
  • I liked it. Even the single player. The best part was having grenade as right mouse, no other games seem ... : Smellsy
  • It was meh. I enjoy the multiplayer occasionally, and the singleplayer wasn't half bad. The port was done... : Orange Pylon
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  If they thank forcing a game to use DX10 that doesn't need it is going to make me upgrade to Vista, then ... : spazzium
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    *think : spazzium
    • *thunk : deep gray
• A friend of mine works at M$ so I'm getting Vista for $45. It's the retail Ultimate version. Not quite ... : Optimus Prime
• Oh boy, I'm going to get my copy of Vista right now! : Noobler
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  how long until someone hacks it to run on XP : yedrin
  • ^^^ Hopes this happens too. Would save me the trouble of making Vista more XP like. :) : Optimus Prime
  • that's what I'm waiting for... if it never happens oh well : tunis5000
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  i played this on Xbox up to where you become the alien dood and completely lost interest. i just don't s... : Korban
  • thats like the second level. lol :) : n0v4
  • Wild, I did the same thing.. I thought the first level rocked, got to that and hated the idea and just st... : AndyGoin
• Only way I'll be upgrading to vista is for GTA IV. : Amnesty_intl2
• Gonna wait for Halo 3 on the next OS : 60days

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  High time for me to change my username, I think. Just need to make sure mah lightning bolt goes with me! : Damodred
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    haha yea, your different nicknames are going to confuse me sooner or later :P : Bantis
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      Some lurker's sitting on my real name. Hrmfle. Also, I hear there are shenanigans involving with ever cha : Damodred
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        Too much effort to change it here (and on shackmap, and update my profile, and on mercury, and and and ..... : Damodred
        • haha that works : Bantis
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  I believe that it is not a true acronym at all. It's merely a play on words mmo = massively multilayer on... : angrytaxman
  • this is what i got out of the domain also : oHnOES
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    mmomojo would have been better. : TroZ
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      mmojo is so fun to say though! em em oh joe! : Bantis
      • I'd have gone with mmojojo : Jonathan
    • mmojo jjojo : mmogger
• the url is kind of like p-p-p-owerbook! but more mmo. also, cool site. : dahanese
• Not an acronym, no. But yeah, we're just getting started, but we have big plans for the site. If there's ... : Modica Sol Solis
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  blinking flash ads interspersed with the stories please : electroly
  • hahahah now that's an idea :P : Bantis
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  Daaaamn. EVE Online is looking pretty cool. It is unfortunate that I can not stand the combat mechanic... : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I'm guessing you don't like the somewhat passive nature of the combat system? : Modica Sol Solis
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    totally agree. I also got insanely bored during the travel times. : byorn
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      I think my biggest want would be full control of my ship via either mouselook or joystick. Now that'd be ... : Bantis
      • With lazorz! Pew pew pew! : Damodred
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        Well, there is one feature I neglected to touch on which I'll save for when there are more concrete detai... : Modica Sol Solis
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          That sounds kinda simmy and neat, but I'd be worried about latency in this mostly turn-based universe. I ... : Damodred
          • The graphics upgrade is coming with a full scale hardware overhaul, which is supposed to help immensely w... : Modica Sol Solis
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            Is it turn based though? seems real time when I play... if I am in combat I think the only thing delaying... : jane911
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              Turn based? No, it will likely work just like the modules, or it will be a command for a given module (i.... : Modica Sol Solis
              • EVE's combat MMO combat is about knowledge and preparation, how well you know your ship character, how we... : Damodred
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              I'm not sure what the term is. Realtime would be Freespace - you push the button, things happen. Not the ... : Damodred
              • yea its cooldown based, and there may be a "global cooldown" keeping skills cooldowns on a set pace. : Bantis
      • That would be awesome. I would not even mind mouse control like Earth and Beyond had. : byorn
• That EVE character shot is pretty impressive. Can't wait for this. I imagine stations with bars and sho... : trOmblyj
• Thanks for the link man :) And yea, if you guys have any questions or comments, let us know! : Bantis
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  also, do you think the tag-line is too obscure? I came up with it on a whim, but I suppose a lot of peopl... : Bantis
  • if people don't understand, fuck em, i like it : graceofdragons
  • Maybe if the font was changed midway through the word to show that the whole thing is not an acronym. : byorn
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  Needs more Warhammer Online : Tommy Toolbag
  • I'm definitely with you on that, I'm sure all of us are! : Damodred
  • Yea, I agree. I don't want to force news though, but I've noticed you can get a lot of info just using de... : Bantis
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    There's no real cool Warhammer news though, they keep it under pretty tight wraps unless you're in beta, ... : Modica Sol Solis
    • They release a lot of cool info in the newsletter. Heck, the explanation of the RvR system is cooler than... : Tommy Toolbag
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  Man I hate doing this icons for the categories :( : Bantis
  • It's looking great! I like what is in. : byorn
  • Use dev heads, shack-style. : Damodred

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• how about changing the name to a link that opens their shack profile? also, excellent work. : sikander
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  How come your numbers are so different than kinskorner's stat page? : mancide
  • I think funk.y posts aren't tracked by the search amongst other things. 7k??? Yeah that's right I'm : Jonathan
  • kin's pulls the number off your post history search page which doesn't grab every post possible in your h... : Holesinswiss
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  How come this didn't earn an inf last night? : romulan
  • I suspect because it crashed straightaway. I'm kind of glad it didn't get INF'd yet. :-) : Holesinswiss
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    Because stuff like this encourages post count bumping with shitty posts, so whilst cool, it's not encoura... : losimagic
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      That's a dumb excuse. Here's a guy who's spent countless hours on the community, give him some credit. : romulan
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        lol @ "countless" : ThomW
        • You're just jealous! : romulan
        • hey, he said a guy, not the guy ;-) : Holesinswiss
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        I agree with you. It would probably be best if not INFd until it works as he would like it to though. : knitemare
        • Yeah, i didn't consider that, good point. : romulan
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        meh, well it's the reason that was talked about when kin83 made his tracking page : losimagic
        • Really? I think it would also help some people not post as much. : romulan
    • Look at those stats. Anyone who tries to bump their stats through pointless spamming will soon find it a... : Vantage
• covering some questions from after I went to bed: It looks like a lot of posts are missing. Did you ge : Holesinswiss
• Nice. Could you make it so that a line is highlighted when hovered over? Could you also make it so tha... : SlamDunk
• That's awesome, nice job. : freezejeans
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  I went from top200 on that other list, to top400 on this. :( : aaarrrgh
  • aarrgh? : oHnOES
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    yeah I am in the top 50 on the other one but I'm 129 on this one :( : mikecyb
    • I went from 15 to 67 :( : sigpro
    • Well I went from 445 to 458... oh the distance :( : Jonathan
  • likewise, because my ~7k posts pre DB crash aren't counted : derelict515
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  Neat site, but without a search for a username it's almost pointless unless you in the to few pages.. : stonedonkey
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    sorry, I know. "Quickest" way right now is to sort by username and look that way. Once you know the numbe... : Holesinswiss
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      Yea.. it's cool stuff for sure, just as a most wanted I think the search would help the most people.. doe... : stonedonkey
      • haha, yeah, it's a little trickier than that, but believe me, I want it in there too. : Holesinswiss
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      Remove the anons. ;) : DM7
      • I've considered cropping the rankings list via a minimum post threshhold. There are a ton of people with ... : Holesinswiss
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        Agreed. There's like 35 pages of "anon@" names. : AxeMan808
        • anons are people posters too! : Holesinswiss
  • Ok the last part didn't make any sense but you could sort by username and then treat it like an address b... : Jonathan
• ahh neato! this is closer to what i expected my count to be : OverBurN
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  what was the date of the DB crash? this is supposed to include counts from then too, right? its sayin... : maulla
  • Yeah... I don't really have any extra comments on mine either :/ I would have thought I had way more than... : K1Bond007
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14230088 : Jonathan
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  Notes: "Comments/Day" is currently calculated from the time they started posting to today instead of f... : RomSteady
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    #1 This is correct. I don't have user registration dates yet, so I couldn't calculate from there. I think... : Holesinswiss
    • I think the rank should be unchanging - ranked by post is the only real variable that counts other than U... : Jonathan
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  :| #86? Where are my lost posts, I had like atleast 10K posts post in the crash too :| : askedrelic
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    I don't think he could track posts that are no longer on the shack just the ones not found by the search. : Jonathan
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      Yea, bummer. I really started posting full-time, around that time, it's not fair :( : askedrelic
      • whine whine guys, whine whine : king_darius
  • Based on my calculations, you probably lost around 5800 posts to the db crash. During the 2 months pri... : Vantage
• Thanks for this man, goddamn it I'm ranked 1103...time to take posting to THE MAX : drbriefs
• Deathlove is my posting buddy : redfive
• I'm not in there :( Or maybe I am but can't find me. Need a username search : oatmela
• I beat klerck! : c0bra
• I feel like such an under achiever. : baron calamity
• Weeee!!! Top 25! : Wolfanoz
• That's pretty awesome, but...but...I'm pretty sure I lost a lot of posts in the database crash! It doesn'... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Looks nice despite the rough edges. May I ask how you get/got the data? I know Kin's stats page parsed th... : rock elf
  • no database access, that'd be awesome though and save me a ton of work. Just grinding through the posts a... : Holesinswiss
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  While we're in the mood for stats, I refreshed my NWS stats. Here's the new top 25. If you remember last : rock elf
  • Also, here's a top 10 for 2007. 01 - 44 posts - Fred Garvin - http://www.shacknews.com/jazz/search2.x? : rock elf
  • haha, nice! : Holesinswiss
  • woo woo! i need to post more kodiefiles! : askedrelic
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    Jesus, I'm just on all the lists : rosewood
    • So far I'm the number 2 poster here behind abrasion in 06 and now in 07 : sigpro
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  holy fuck, how did the db crash lose almost 7k of my posts!! : nyranger66
  • or crashes, rather. : nyranger66
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    Which db crash? The missing 11 months probably account for around 3300 posts of yours (averaging just ov... : Vantage
    • I've been posting regularly since 2002(lol noob), and I only remember the crash of 2004. Were there any c... : nyranger66
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  I am certain I posted before 05/06/2001 : Clay
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    It might be as Huntsman or Paragon or... I can't remember if that's all of them but I guess they might be... : Jonathan
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      It wasn't "paragon" but yep, there they are : Clay
      • Did it at least start with a P? : Jonathan
• I could swear I was posting earlier than 2001. I know I was at least lurking in 98 or 99. : bRAINsick