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  I use OSB who are re-seller for Enta.net it's £20 or £25 a month and i get 30Gig peak and... : chazums
  • With 4 computers and 3 360's all with pretty frequent usage (Wow, xbox live, youtube etc) I shouldn't hit... : marmite
  • Thats pretty impressive, like I said below mine is 40gb a month altogether. I'll take a look at these guy... : nodebug
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    Do OSB have a website? Google shows nothing... : marmite
    • http://www.osbroadband.com/ Might be worth talking to enta and finding a local re-seller : chazums
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  All the ADSL suppliers are fucking terrible, seriously. It's Carphone Warehouse/Sky/Tiscali/Wanadoo/Virgi... : peanut-
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    cable : peanut-
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      No cable in North Devon :( : marmite
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        I remember Toraz saying a while back that BT Business offer 8mb with no throttling, no caps. Its about Ã... : peanut-
        • I think new contracts taken on now have caps :/ and are on the same pricing scheme as BT Yahoo When ... : Toraz Chryx
• Eclipse are useless, a friend of mine has had every issue under the sun with them. Unfortunately I haven'... : nodebug
• Cable or Freeola. : breal0
• Jesus. That sounds terrible. And I thought we had it bad in the states. : famine101
• http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ is a good place to research UK broadband. At the moment, Entanet resell... : Balboa
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  I work for Zen, they are pretty good, the tech support is awesome, but expensive, and have a cap. I us... : Geordish
  • argh, posted too soon. They wont have to deal with the wanky bt infrastructure, or BT Openreach/Wholes... : Geordish
  • Zen are the least worst ISP I've ever dealt with ;) : alnya
  • <3 Zen. Been a reseller for a few years now.. it's great when you call tech support and people actually k... : cause&effect
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  I haven't had any problems with https://www.bethere.co.uk/ - £24 for (up to, so you'll never actu... : 60days
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    Ah yes, I have heard a lot of good things about Be. Plus, they have a fuck tonne of ADSL2+ LLU exchanges,... : Geordish
    • Be isn't available in Devon :( I need to move. : marmite
  • i switched to be about 4 months ago. no real problems so far : ) : grimiv

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• $$$ka-ching$$$ : nandu666
• Maybe it will do just as good as the movies! : ZombieAcademy

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  Sweet, I've been jonsing for something new on the anime front. : lightly inclined
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    It is good - not childish in anyway. : flagg209
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      What is it about? If it involves mecha in any form, I'm passing. : lightly inclined
      • Go-Go Gadget Google: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7382 : mordaken
      • No Mechs - It takes place in modern times, or distant future - the story is about these people called... : flagg209
      • http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4906 http://ktkore.hitori-janai.net/?p=292 : P47h063n
• how can you be darker than black? : RikiTiki2
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  Does anybody know a good anime for my roomates who love Azumanga Daiho, Ghost in the Shell stand alone an... : Hello Kitty
  • I bet she'd like: Ichigo Mashimaro (Strawberry Marshmallow) Ouran High School Host Club Genshiken M... : SiW73
  • perfect anime for her, great teacher onizuka : Enraged Pineapple
  • A brand new one that's really fun is Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann: gorgeous animation, wacky characters, f... : Borzoi
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  Darker Than Black sure is getting popular, although I really think Towards the Terra and Bokurano have be... : Borzoi
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    bokurano looked generic, storywise at least. I liked the art direction, the characters looked japanese, ... : deathofrats
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      um no....doesn't sound like you've actually watched it. : Borzoi
      • saw the first episode. I haven't seen the entire show, because, oh wait, it's not out yet! : deathofrats

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  Just play Company of Heroes. : trOmblyj
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    I wish I could name individual members of my squads. It's so sad to lose them in this game, their animat... : pigvomit
    • Anyway to mod the game? : Lightzout
  • *BEST* fucking WW II game ever. Best fucking RTS, actually. : Rice-Rocketeer
• BoB has buildings that magically pour out nazis over and over? ;P : paravis
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  Sadly, the best video games are still like B-movies comparatively. I love CoD but comparing it to BoB ma... : spiderfill
  • yeah but i need some m1 action : papaskot

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  how do you know its damaged? i've never had this problem. : ventro
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    iTunes starts up, pops the dreaded "damaged library" message, then all your playlists and podcasts and mu... : thaperfectdrug
    • Technically they aren't gone, just the library metadata was lost. They are still on your hard drive waiti... : ovrlrd
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      How many times has it happened to you? You should save a backup of your itunes index xml file, it's only ... : ventro
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        ^ note: not the XML file. maybe ITL? You can delete the XML file, reopen+close iTunes, and it'll regen... : crummynz
        • It was the .itl file it was complaining about :( : thaperfectdrug
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  This has happened to me like 9 times over the last few months. : Rauol Duke
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    If you're on a mac, are you sure you aren't holding down Option when you launch? On a mac, holding op... : Fayk
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      PC with XP. OPP YEAH YOU KNOW ME! : Rauol Duke
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        who's down wit opp : FrayLo
        • lemme show ya what Im workin with! : Rauol Duke
      • Vista x64 for me, I know running iTunes on that is the equivalent of taping a loaded shotgun to my head. ... : thaperfectdrug
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  Is there a way to back up your library when you reinstall windows? I figured since the iTunes folder w... : king_darius
  • Yes, at least on the mac, iTunes has built in exportation as well as backup options. : Fayk
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    I just upgraded to Vista, and took along my itl and xml files in the itunes folder in my documents. it wo... : suqur
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      ^ You only need the ITL file. It's pretty cool, it even worked from XP > Vista when my actual music drive... : crummynz
      • If you change your drive letter for your music, you need your xml file. The itl needs to be rebuilt from ... : suqur

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  i think everyone has it now. wiki entry: Currently, the software is in an open beta stage; an invite... : Hoax
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    I downloaded it and used it for about 5 minutes before I realized it had absolutely no content I felt lik... : Hello Kitty
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      Fine. Be that way. : drbriefs
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        Maybe the full version will be better =( : Hello Kitty
        • they're adding content pretty quickly from major outlets, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's much more in... : Postal
    • You don't like adult swim, comedy central, mtv, nick, ren and stimpy, transformers, rocky and bullwinkle,... : carazy

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  Philips site has no info. Go for the newer one I guess. : badman
  • hmn thx will do that. : Hoax
• holy shit, i used to visit that site (geizhals) back in 1999 when i lived in germany. :D nostalgia : silentzero

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  If you go with Necromancer, I suggest a Summonmancer (also called Fishymancer, named after the person who... : slax0r
  • this is a very fun character to play, and powerful if done right : tunis5000
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  I've always been a far of Druids down the Werewolf line, though Werebear is probably cool too : derelict515
  • I actually just started a fury werewolf. The guide I'm using is a fury/rabies, but I've decided that rab... : slax0r
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  i gave up my necromancer when they nerfed the corpse explosion. mage with the chaos orb or whatever is t... : multisync
  • CE might have been nerfed but Necros as a whole are more powerful than ever since 1.10 came along. And C... : slax0r
• Play a Paladin. Diablo 2 was back before Blizzard learned to hate the Paladin. : Ajax
• melee/ranged sorceress. Enchant + fire mastery + explosive bolt FTW. : YamatoTwinkie
• necro : reverend~heresy

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• I'd say thanks, but thats like admitting that I munch cock. FUCK. : jbury

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  don't sell it 'till you've played Odin Sphere and Persona 3! :P : Borzoi
  • I'm hopeful they'll play on my PS3 :) : SiW73
• If only you lived closer :( : mad-d00d
• hold on to Rez! srsly, it might be worth a lot some day, and you don't want to find that you miss it (or... : Postal

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  i've just been doing the same thing for the last 2 hours. so much damn fun! manual gear changing makes s... : moshman
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    I can honestly say that it is the first console racing game i've played where the cars FEEL different (ha... : Drewus
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      yeah, the obvious difference in feeling between cars absolutely floored me - I didn't get that sense even... : warpdude
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        GT4 was horrible when it came to individual car feel. The car classes pretty much felt the same to me, th... : Drewus
        • it's just incredibly enthralling when you read all these articles describing the handling characteristics... : warpdude
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  two questions: is there multi in the demo? aaand can the player hosting races select which driving ai... : dael
  • No and no idea if the host can select the aides : Drewus
  • no and yes : red2lucas
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  Also i think the graphics look gorgeous. I dunno wtf is up with the graphics hate. : Drewus
  • It's not that it fails on a technical level visually. It does that too. The art assets aren't as good as ... : enyakk
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    Also, OMFG is the sound awesome. Best car game sounds evar! : Drewus
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      I'm seriously going to wet my pants the first time I hear the Carrera GT in-game. they got the throaty de : warpdude
      • also the collisions are incredible, visually and audibly : jcutner
      • They also nailed the Viper sound perfectly. The sound of that throaty V10 thrashing away is lovely. : Drewus

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  Yes that is correct. : imperator
  • She can come by my house if she wants to : drucifer

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  The new Crackdown content is now out! : Dalnor
  • its out already? i thought it was for next week! sweet. : jcutner
  • The harpoon is awesome. : boredguy

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  try not to crush it instead? : Hoax
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    well I already had a close call using the iPod... it is not something I want to break : ctlaltl33t
    • well if its only for the gym then that one looks ok specs wise. /not that i claim to have any idea though : Hoax
• It looks like it has good specs. If I had money I'd probably get it. : freshyk
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  if you want something that size id say get the new version that has a pretty oled screen. also im preson... : smacknca
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    this one does have the OLED display... : ctlaltl33t
    • oh woops so it does. weird i thought that the nice screen ones didnt have that jog thingy anymore. i ha... : smacknca
• The bullet has been bit. Noise canceling in the gym will be a life saver because the music that they play... : ctlaltl33t
• I read that as "shit on my face" :-( : jcupitt

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  From my experience, it defaults to the slowest timing between them, so it should work. : Dookeyfingers
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    Cool, that's what I thought. Thanks! I don't want to be giving bad advice and then being blamed for it. : freshyk
    • btw. Ram is now incredibly cheap. I just ordered another gig. : _hiob_

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  wtf what is this crap : ctlaltl33t
  • its ok but the music sucks : SockMonkeh
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  Great game guys, its a lot of fun. Also, that P.H.L.O.P game is pretty addictive. : cokefiend
  • Hey, thanks for trying it out! : ctlaltl33t
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  Your game was actually pretty interesting :). I'm pretty sure Jessipoo thinks so too since she was there... : Ecks
  • Also, what did you think of the whole experience? I'm really curious to know :). : Ecks
  • shut up. : jessipoo
• Nice, how was the master program? I'm considering DigiPen a couple years from now... Probably at the S... : Nullzero

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• Surely if you're playing it you have a legit CD key. : wild falcon

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• Hahaha! All of the Best of Weekend Webs are absolutely priceless. : freshyk
• holy shit lol : pyide
• that was disturbing and funny at the same time. : Hoax
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  thanks Chris, that ruined my night : jessipoo
  • any time! : Chris Remo
• oh my god im fuckin in tears over here : Mr.Fusion
• The nuclear blast footage really brought the whole thing together. : Helter Skelter
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  That's amazing. Is it a regular feature? : enyakk
  • It's not regular, but there's a bunch of them, and there'll be more coming. : SpaecKow

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  did you add semen? : jessipoo
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    Only yours. : Ecks
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      OH DIZZAAAAYUM, SNAP, YOU SO BUUUUURNED JESSIPOO. OR SHOULD WE SAY JESSIPOOWEND. *SIZZLE* THAT'S THE SOUN... : Hello Kitty
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        no, he's being literal. i gave him a mason jar of my sperm the last time we hung out. : jessipoo
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          What was that from? Two, maybe three "sessions"? : action wombmate
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            one. i'm prodigious. : jessipoo
            • Be prodigious on my face plz. : Hello Kitty
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              Nice. Proteiney. : action wombmate
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                You're the Peter North of obviousness! : PlanetPerfecto
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                  andy and jessie sittin in a tree t-r-olling-i-n-g! first comes dont call me jessie next comes ill cu... : jcutner
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                    what the fuck is an andy? : jessipoo
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                      an andy can come in many forms. in this form, he is planetperfecto : jcutner
                      • they call me andy the pansy around these here parts : PlanetPerfecto
                      • that doesn't even make sense. stop using words. : jessipoo

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  The comic I get is a shit on spiderman 3. : SpaecKow
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    Hmm, ctrl+F5? Their site is shit, god knows how they manage to make uploading a picture such a struggle. : peanut-
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      same problem. : Hoax
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        http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2007/20070511.jpg : peanut-
        • thx+lol : Hoax
        • The free player's armor and weapon are awesome :D : SpaecKow
• haha, nice. I'm liking their little netcasts too. : chazums

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  do you drive high performance vehicles? : oHnOES
  • id like to think so. an e30 325is with a bunch of mods. granted ive never raced in on a track before. ... : eeeealmo
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  I'm liking it for the most part. I can place first with the first 2 classes of cars and haven't really t... : boarder2
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    yea the graphics arent as good as i expected either. after seeing shots of GTHD i was expecting more i g... : eeeealmo
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      The cars don't look quite right. It's almost like they seem cartoonish, but that's not exactly it. : Arcanum
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        i thought it needed more AA : eeeealmo
        • I don't usually notice AA issues. I just noticed that the cars all looked vaguely unreal. I can't put m... : Arcanum
      • Everything is way too smooth. It's like cars that shouldn't have a hotrod finish ... do : boarder2
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      GTHD looked way better at E3 last year. Still though, the gameplay is where its at I suppose. : bozer
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        GTHD doesn't look that great IMO. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Motorstorm. : Boxelder
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          I've played Motorstorm, and I didn't think it looked that great, TBH. It didn't look bad, but I had a di... : Arcanum
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            Did you play the demo or the final game? The visuals improved over the demo. There's a lot of times it ... : Boxelder
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              Both. : Arcanum
              • I'd give it another chance when/if you get a PS3. Maybe it has to grow on you or something. The reviews... : Boxelder
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      Wait till there is GTHD in playable form, then make a comparison. : mavmavv
      • There is, it's a free download. : Boxelder
  • I am really disappointed that the people making these big games like Forza and GT with hundreds or thousa... : ovrlrd
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  Do you have a wheel? If not, that's why. : harbl
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    i can totally imagine it being so super awesome with the wheel but i dunno if i want to drop 150 bucks on... : eeeealmo
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      I've been playing with a controller and all the assists turned off. You just have to be really smooth an... : boarder2
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        Lol, you make it sound so easy. It's really hard though when a big aspect of racing is physical feedback.... : harbl
        • Right. It'd be better with some sort of force feedback. : boarder2
        • it's still just a game, and it gives you plenty of cues as to what's going on. brakes reaching the locki... : ^-SeaWolf-^
    • Yeah, I wouldn't do it either unless you're 100% positive you'll play it all the time. : harbl
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  What assists are you using? Just use ABS. It makes the cars pretty easy to handle. using the other ass... : mavmavv
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    i've always believed that using the assists actually limits how fast you can go. you don't want TCS to... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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      word. Maybe if I had FF pedals I would turn off ABS, but those dont exist :( : mavmavv
      • forza2's fantastic with letting you know when your wheels are locking up with sound cues. at least w... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    I don't agree with this. Traction control exists on an overwhelming portion of modern sports cars, and a ... : PlanetPerfecto
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      lol, the noob part was a joke, and I was saying USE ABS :D : mavmavv
      • hehe. yeah, I know you weren't attacking anyone who used assists. I just meant that for newbies such as e... : PlanetPerfecto
  • ABS is the worst of all the aids. It's like putting the game in easy mode. Just learn to brake before tur... : aaarrrgh
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  Also, look at the curves you are going around, now observe your speed. Do you take tight curves at the s... : pigvomit
  • haha I noticed this exact thing not 10 minutes ago. I was in the ferrari, taking one of the tight corners... : thecray

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• i'm holding judgement until the full release. : FrayLo
• Did they hold back on the graphics for the demo size? Or did I just expect to much and that's a real rep... : devi| dog
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  I agree. The driving is perfect, and the graphics are OK (but so smooth!). But the demo lacks polish. ... : afty
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    I have the same feeling, but I can't really pinpoint it. Maybe it's the track? Racetracks are never very ... : aggressor
    • the AF (lack thereof) really bugs me too. it could be why it's hard for me to gauge speed. the pavement i... : pyide
    • It's got 2xAA during gameplay and 4xAA during replays, or so their community manager (or whatever) says o... : SilverSnake
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      I thought the 360 could do AA for "free"? : aeg1x
      • Only if you don't do fancy pixel shading business. There have been 360 games without AA or with lower tha... : enyakk
• yup, driving is spot on. graphics seem like an xbox 1 game in HD. the lighting is really off on the car... : vassili_zaitsev
• From all the Forza 2 videos I've seen, it seems to me that the lighting is really unrealistic. For exampl... : code-e255
• I totally agree, i wonder how well it's going to sell. : chazums
• Live For Speed is not blah. Get out. : aaarrrgh
• They were very minimal with all the features of the menus in the Demo. The videos I've seen on GameTraile... : Fail_Safe

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  welcome to 1998 : multisync
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    I guess. I thought 8 characters would take a little longer though.. Guess not. Is there any minimum that'... : airrob
    • not really. i guess 10, 20+ perhaps, but how practical is that? and at that point you should just run so... : multisync
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      12345678 is the first one they try man! : DarkWolf5
      • 1234? that's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage? : shavenewok
      • That's amazing! 1234 is the combination on my luggage! : BlackCat9
    • 15+ characters is safe. http://www.securityfriday.com/Topics/win2k_passwd.html : lostgoat
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  lol there is a utility that will allow you to create a pw and overwrite the current one : boomstickah
  • well yes but that requires local access and reboot of machine. for remote access/cracking though i think... : multisync
  • It seems much more useful to find out somebody's password.... Um, in theory of course. : airrob
• dont use LMHashing.... problem solved : darklox
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  woo rainbow tables! Even scarier, the opencipher guys have FPGAs that can brute force lanman faster th... : zakk
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    I used to follow stuff like this but the sites that covered stuff like this would a) Not give enough ... : rosewood
    • Same...or it had links to lots of shitty porn. : soggybagel
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    Either you're speaking an unfamiliar language or your post was made using a random word generator. : Orange Pylon
    • Its a one-time pad : YoYo

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• fucking reply bug : jcutner
• "If I am ever put to death on the hook," Bokonon warns us, "expect a very human performance." : MONGOLOID

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  People say they hate the lack of E3, but to me it's felt like E3 for about two weeks. Sleep pls. : Chris Remo
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    sleep is fgt talk : multisync
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      no u : Chris Remo
      • Go to bed Chris, but not in your chair again! ;) : Frozen Pixel
  • Have you been invited to much the closed door stuff? Or is that just for the shills : chazums
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  Yeah, lots of cool stuff going on. I'm curious about what Konami's up to, though. : Orange Pylon
  • Making sure Metal Gear Solid 4 doesn't get fucking delayed, that's what. : aeg1x
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  i want more ps triple news : deep gray
  • Where are the booth babes :'( : DingoStoleMyBaby

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• eh, he has saved Vic's ass a few times. : vigilante
• french vick mackey owns so hard french shane sucks bad : boomstickah
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  shane is an awesome name. : wtf242
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    I heard Crispin Glover's middle name is Shane. : edgewise
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      i seriously googled this and evidently it's "Hellion". What an awesome middle name. : wtf242
      • they must have named him while he was a toddler : RikiTiki2
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    Cletus Van Damme is a better name. : bcyde
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      Walton Goggins is the best name. (p.s. I don't like Shane) : contentious roy
      • Yeah but he's a really good actor (although that's not how he got his Oscar). : bcyde
      • He was a champion clog dancer. Also, his wife killed herself during the filming of (I think) season 4 of ... : Orange Pylon
  • only faggots name their kin shane : multisync
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  prettty much story of ur life : multisync
  • this time when you get banned don't shackmsg me ok? : boomstickah
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  Anybody else kinda feel hesitant to watch the Shield at times because you just know some bad shit is gonn : K1Bond007
  • I can't wait to see Vic flip out when he finds out there is no appeals board. : skitzo
• I love what they did with this latest episode. Rather than drag it on until the end of the season, Vic kn... : Orange Pylon
• for like a split second there, I thought you were talking about L Word : Frozen Pixel

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• That USB thumb drive just hacked you. : soggybagel
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  how fast is very fast? check for a stuck key on the keyboard? : cause&effect
  • Sounds like that to me as well. : tsuba
  • I thought that, but it makes the sound even with no keyboard plugged in. : airrob
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  Google for the motherboard model and "series of beeps" or something, sounds like a BIOS error code, proba... : SilverSnake
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    Says it's a "Power error" - wtf mate? This thing has worked for 6 months. : airrob
    • That's what makes it an "error". : woddemandred

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• Don't think so... it already includes TF2 and Portal. They'll probably have a package on Steam with ep1 i... : aeg1x
• orange box has everything (hl2, ep1, ep2, portal, tf2) while the black box is only ep2, protal and tf2. ... : smacknca