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• Hmm... I could throw out the last two... : DOOManiac
• They must realize how useless the sequels are :( : aggressor
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  That has got to be an error. MSRP is $99.99. : EvilDolemite
  • I ordered anyway, might as well try even though I know what I will see in my email tomorrow. :( : pigvomit
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  FUCK! Why don't they ship to Canada? Someone order this for me and I'll pay you : jcutner
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    10 to 1 odds they'll cancel all the orders at that price. : EvilDolemite
    • quit being a negative nancy : buzzbat
    • quit being a debby doubter : johnny nada
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    someone order it for me : jcutner
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      I think the only thing someone will do for you at the moment is set you on fire. : mojo the helpr monke
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        lemme get a match : CoRDS
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          Dude, he's 12. When he's 13 he'll realize how stupid his rickrolling links were. : dognose
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            have you seen the new rambo trailer/rough cut? http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/19/john-rambo-iv-feat... : dodob
            • Yes, I got a RAMBO-ner. : dognose
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  I ordered it as soon as I saw it (on passwird). eventhough my ultimate matrix collection is in the mail : funnyguy84
  • hmm posted early + misuse of tags. Anyways, I'll use it for a gift, or sell the ultimate. I realized af... : funnyguy84
• Only 1 matrix movie came out. I refuse to acknowledge the other two. : wtf242
• direct link to sale? passwird doesnt work here at work. : NeoMoose
• price changed to $79? : prime8
• says 79.99 for me. : jonin
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  great, now Trinity will be even uglier : Degenerate
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    You'd still hit it and you know it. : node
    • i wouldn't touch it with a remote controlled cock from the other side of the world. : CoRDS
    • I'd hit anyone that dresses in shiny clothing. : Orange Pylon
• Comes with free Animatrix in HD! http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/05/22/hd-dvd-version-... : Fred Garvin

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• Very smart. $200 doesn't seem like too much to ask, either. : nomaad
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  sweet. now all i gota do is work out how to image my macs current hdd and then get one of those. : CoRDS
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    external USB enclosure + carbon copy cloner : Toraz Chryx
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      omg, I said USB. * shame * FIRE FUCKING WIRE : Toraz Chryx
      • for shame, toraz. seriously. : warpdude
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        who are you and what have you done with toraz : nomaad
        • I ate his brain to absorb his power. : Toraz Chryx
      • Mods, ban this guy as someone has taken over TC's account. : rosewood
      • I, for one, cannot go on living. : Phil
      • Yeah, throughput on USB 2.0 on any Mac sucks rocks :( unnecessarily so. : Hiro
      • I can never trust you again. Part of the shack has died! : moshman
      • ya but i thought i read apple doesnt support firewire anymore...i dont know shit about macs so im probabl : papaskot
• Cool, but I want high density solid state memory. : Fred Garvin

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• If he wants to save the environment maybe he should turn a few of those off and recycle the 9 trees worth... : voodooraze
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  http://gamewith.us/shackspace/al-gore.jpg : ThomW
  • lol @ crackdown. : Fyunch Click
  • Hahah, well played Sir! : basketofkittens
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  OMG, 3 of those 30" screens?! Enviro-friendly not so much =[ : geneshifter
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    mowing your lawn probably generates more co2 than they would in a month : aeg1x
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      what? Electricity isnt produced by magic. : mavmavv
      • you're telling me the stuff that comes out of those cooling stacks isn't fairy dust? : aeg1x
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    they're energy efficient and throw off a minimal amount of CO2 and radiation : Korban
    • this made me LOL : Theos
  • They magically re-freeze the north pole. It would be quite foolish to turn them off. : melt_core
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    How much do you have to hate Al Gore to try to belittle him about his computer monitors? : FlatlineDixay
    • lol, none of us use monitors. Or 3... : mavmavv
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    Gore buys carbon offset credits so that he, and his family, have a zero-carbon footprint. People who cri... : buroja
    • lol you have to be kidding. : eldiablo01
    • Except only industrials are allowed to buy these credits, so he can't possibly have bought some : melt_core
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14427967 : kramweil
• I don't get the hate Gore gets, he invented the tubes! : ErneX
• Don't speak ill of Jesus Reloaded. : Phil
• What happened to the paperless office? :-( : low-g
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  LOL Gore etc, but the associated article is actually really good ( http://www.time.com/time/nation/articl : mn3m0n1c
  • Al Gore is a pussy compared to me : rosewood

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  http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/05/09 : conandan
  • That's why I rented. And I'm so glad I did. :x : Ebu
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  www.gamerankings.com ? www.megacritic.com ? they could have saved you a week : donlo
  • I refused to believe that any company could fuck up the guaranteed win. SM2 was so great, all they had... : Ebu
• as frustrating as it can get, i'm glad i got it because i was able to get Spider-man 2 for free :D hon... : Korban
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  I really don't get why people can't have a rental's worth of fun out of this game. How do you not enjoy s... : derelict515
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    When I fight a boss, beat the boss, and then get thrown into a stupid as hell 'press the key that flashes : Ebu
    • when did that happen? if you miss a button in the boss fights, it just starts you over through the butto... : Korban

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• scandisk : CoRDS
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  have you tried all the in game sound settings? hardware/software/whatever else? : pyide
  • No I haven't. I'll try that next. : baron calamity
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  Reduce sound quality to normal acceleration. : thejm4n
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    Normal Basic : thejm4n
    • That's a very good suggestion. A lot of games hate the audio hardware in my PC. :( : ThomW
• Try another PSU. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  any luck? : pyide
  • I didn't have a crash but I only played about 20 minutes last night. : baron calamity
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  Try removing your custom music. You may have a bad/non-MP3 file in there. I had a problem with GTA3 cra... : capt tripps
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    This happened to me too. MP3s were making it crash. : oatmela
    • I'm not using custom tracks/mp3s and have none in the game directory. : baron calamity
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  Just stop using vehicles! : Pink0r
  • haha - he's not playing Crackdown! : ThomW
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  buy a console : OrkO
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    Have them, console controls are really hard when you have just one working hand. Especially the ps2 : baron calamity
    • yeah, I didn't realise, I apologise : OrkO
• i had similar problems, and i solved them by changing my onboard audio drivers to the ones from realtek's... : cpt_gloval
• There's your problem. Obloard sound is poorly supported considering it doesn't fit in the english langua... : ifallible

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• blink blink blink : rigg5kthx
• When Guild Wars first came out I racked up over 70 hours a week. Like crack. :( I can't play more than... : TheMonkeyWench
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  I haven't been able to play like that for years :( : woddemandred
  • I just haven't met a game that I wanted to play like that in years. :( : skizl
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  this is how we WoW over my way : changejar419
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    that was really hard to read : Slowtreme
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      Try saying it out loud 10 times fast. : -efx-
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        While standing on your head and drinking a glass of water. : Totenjaeger
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          During your prostate checkup : azenmaster
          • At a university hospital. : ifallible
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  I played Civ 4 until 3AM last night. Just started playing it, got my ass totally kicked on the "Noble" d... : aethyr
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    Don't play on the noble difficulty level? : Ebu
    • I think it was actually the one below that, Warlord. :( : aethyr
  • Work your way up, play on smaller maps first so you get an feel for the flow of the game Civ 4 also is qu... : Durandal07

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• i love that game. i carry it with me whenever I have my DS. :) : Galadriel07
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  I couldn't get much into EBA; Osu Tatakae Ouendan is just so much better; EBA's music makes my ears bleed : Bantis
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    Is music the only reason you prefer Ouendan? : crummynz
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      yup. it's just 100x better. : Bantis
      • yeah, except it's crap jpop : OrkO
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    They're both pretty full of shitty pop music. EBA's best stuff is better than OTO's best stuff, though i... : Chris Remo
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      Oh and I love both games : Chris Remo
      • Ouendan 2 is pretty rad. Personally, I still like the musical selection of the the original Ouendan be... : Helter Skelter
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      I prefer EBA over OTO simply because I'm a jamiroquai fan, and because it has september, but at the same ... : aaarrrgh
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        there's supposed to be an "also" somewhere in there... : aaarrrgh
        • no, I think you're missing a has : AbortedFetusChristi
    • listening to (final song in EBA) jumping jack flash still makes my eye twitch : shavenewok
    • see for me its the opposite. But then again, I love Jpop, Orange Range, High and Mighty Color, Asian Kung... : Bantis
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  Great game, shame it didn't sell better. I still play it occasionally and I bought it the day it came ou... : Boxelder
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    this is not a game I can just "pick up and play" after not playing for a while. I finished the normal mod... : Slowtreme
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      It's the exact opposite for me. I'll get stuck on a song, set the game down for a long time, and then com... : Helter Skelter
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        that works for you on 6 and 7 star songs? It takes me a while to "ramp up" to the speed of those harder o... : Slowtreme
        • Yep. Same thing happened with me and the Guitar Hero games. : Helter Skelter
• I found is way easier with headphones : Slowtreme
• If you think 3 star is hard wait for 4 star. I can't handle that shit but it makes me want to practice mo... : Tincan

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD - not sure if it's worth waiting for but I guess it's the 1080p... : Jonathan
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    ok wait the reciever has to be able to pass through 1080p video? You don't split the audio/video channel... : multisync
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      HDMI passes both sound and video. : Jonathan
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        so it's like DVD Player or XBOX -> HDMI to Reciever -> HDMI to TV? So does that statement hold true?... : multisync
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          I think as long as it passes HDMI then it will hold any signal type. : Jonathan
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            I'm pretty sure the receiver just strips out the sound and lets the video carry straight through to the T... : Jonathan
            • Most recivers only switch HDMI, only a select few actually read the audio data directly. A lot of them h... : smegmar
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          I love how this confuses you yet I see your ramblings about WoW setups and you know your shit there. That... : Tincan
          • :( : multisync
• If you are using the 360 as your main media component, get a receiver that supports WMA Audio. I've read ... : TK-421
• oh just buy it so i can see your damned apartment. : dahanese
• morning help : multisync
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  Bestbuy has the 47 inch westinghouse 1080p monitor on sale this week for that same price. : Matto357
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    i'm not gonna buy a westinghouse : multisync
    • why not? I have two and love them both. : Matto357

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  http://dognose.shackspace.com/grabbag.mid : dognose
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    what theme is this? : conandan
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      Is this ban worthy? : Chunks
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        wut? : conandan
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          It's the Duke3D Theme, if that helps. And yes I will ban you if you do not recognize it. So lie to me. : dognose
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            dood, I recognized it, couldnt place it, its fucking 3 in the morning. Give me some slack : conandan
            • You can still post, right? I gave you better than slack, I gave you some SHACK. : dognose
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  beastie boys - intergalactic : CoRDS
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    ooo good one I havent heard that song in a while : conandan
    • also the first 30 seconds of young mc's bust-a-move is awesome as an mp3 tone : CoRDS
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  my last one before this was the Green Zone theme in Sonic, any other game ring tones? : conandan
  • found this: WOW http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/index-classic.html : conandan
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  i use this: http://ringading/kd_ot_rocks.mp3 for my normal ring (katamari on the rocks) i use this: ht... : captain hampton
  • fixed links i must have been drunk http://captain_hampton.shackspace.com/ringading/06-suteki.mp3 http:... : captain hampton

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  when is it coming out ? : barichnikov
  • As soon as it feels that people won't judge it for being true to it's self. : voodooraze
• Does it take an ungodly amount of time to turn each page? : SiW73
• I am so buying this book. It's cheap too! : Faluzure

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  I can tell this season sucks just because no one posts about it anymore. : aethyr
  • This season started off better than the last four, but went downhill extremely fast. Now it's just laugh... : walker270
• oh holy shit, I'm watching for the rape rape rape action. What time does it start, 8PM? 2 hours tonigh... : askedrelic
• goddamn i stopped watching 24 after the first season and whenever i click on such a thread i feel sad for... : Hoax

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• ok that was creepy :D : Hoax
• uh, thats weird. : jonin
• i love it! "you never make 'em touch dude thats not cool" : papaskot

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• larouche is crazy though (and i know he didn't say those things, his staffer did) : FrayLo
• LaRouche ppl have no credibility. They're all over here in DC, and while they sometimes bring up val... : Hiro
• guess I should switch to heroine...would be cheaper : byorn

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  Are you serious? a , you use an when followed by a vowel or a soft consonant : rosewood
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    considering his mother tongue is not english, the question seems valid to me. : moshman
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      Tsk, rosewood, always raging on the germans : ShekkyBoy
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        Well he didn't get to bomb them last night in BF1942 so there's no release... : Jonathan
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          do you join in on those games? what kinda ping do you get? I never bother cos I figure with a 200+ ping ... : moshman
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            Ah I'm currently hanging out in the US so my pings are pretty ok... : Jonathan
            • well screw you!!!! : moshman
          • I tried the CS:S server for about 10 minutes. 180 ping is like playing in treacle, and I TK'd someone wit... : peanut-
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            We'll have our own euro shackbattles. Just me and moshman... : ShekkyBoy
            • ok now i'm scared to ask if i can join... : Hoax
            • i've been playing 2142 like a madman lately, I love that game. titan is great and the map design for the ... : moshman
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      I need some icons so I know who not to offend on the shack. Something that shows you aren't a native eng... : rosewood
      • paging ThomW : moshman
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        i dont give a flying fuck about the shack community and even i know that sleepy is white, abrasion a crip... : Hoax
        • see, that's what I've been saying for years. Mr. Sleepy is the whitest member of this community. : aaarrrgh
• an is only used before a word that begins with a vowel : nodebug
• I'm afraid to answer... it must be a trap. A. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  that is an stupid question : aeg1x
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    Well considering he's German and all... How's your German grammar? : Jonathan
    • i've been studying german for 15 years now and it still freaks me out : moshman
    • tadellos : aeg1x
• a since the following word starts with a consonant that is not H : kingdok
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  ^^^thank you very much. I'm a foreigner and wasn't sure whether a/an is based on the following word or th... : matthaeus
  • always the following word. "an" is always used if the following word starts with a vowel sound, *unles... : dopefish
  • Note that it is if the word following it starts with a vowel sound that you use 'an' a opossum an off... : Ebu
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    Lots of foreigners around here fail to distinct between 'et' and 'en' in the Danish language, and I've al... : aaarrrgh
    • Yea, that's one of those small things that identify you as a non-native speaker but that only a real assh... : Ebu
    • But is there a solid rule for et and en in Danish? I know in Dutch there is no way a foreigner can decide... : aeg1x
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  are you an foreigner? : SMBYourFather
  • lol :) : moshman

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• think kevin durant + 3" I'd post the youtube video but the music is absolutely trash. awww hell ht... : boomstickah
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  is he gonna be in the draft? : h o s t i l e
  • maybe, maybe not. I read he says he was born in 87, but some say he was born in 85. : boomstickah
• I dunno, Yao when he first came in was moving like a guard minus the speed. He still showed all the fund : Lunatic Angelic

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• I had loads of fun with Halo and Halo 2 in a barracks setting when I was in the Corps. Haven't played it ... : Dslyecxi
• The Laser totally rocks everything :D Also, I was playing yesterday and there were a couple of guys in... : nomaad
• Hehe, fun when you're winning isnt it ;) : nodebug
• :) : Silent Wolf
• Yeah, the fun really is in the social aspect of it. Whether it's splitscreen coop with a buddy, LAN shena... : burningtrees

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• Well, it wasnt a prediction, he knew what it was. : scottythejock

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  aww, that sucks. I took a coupel nice pics a while back : moshman
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    seems the damage isn't all that bad, 50% of the ship had been taken offsite for resauration work. Still,... : moshman
    • c) the builders I used to work in a museum and we only ever had the fire alarms go off when builders w... : jcupitt
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  Tell us about your Shackname. : dognose
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    haha. man you're a random dude. : reverend~heresy
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      I wanna fuckin' know. I was a troll in other online forums (under a different name) prior to Shack, and ... : dognose
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        Which ones? I doubt it though, the Shack is the only US-based board I ever posted on. My name originated ... : peanut-
        • No "say it in the mirror 3X"? K you're not that guy. : dognose
        • That's genius : skitfish
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          I had coke cans on my desk :< : cokefiend
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            I had a llama in my sea :< : SeaLlama
            • I had a... nevermind. : AbortedFetusChristi
• No, it was gravely injured, but the soul still burns. (it was partly taken apart before it happened, so ... : woddemandred
• how? arson? : RikiTiki2
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  I think I heard a reporter on sky news asking if it could have been al-Qaeda. OMG SHUT UP! WE WILL BUR : scottythejock
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    I don't believe that just because I don't believe they'd have stopped covering "OUR BELOVED MADDIE!" long... : peanut-
    • MADDIE WAS KINAPPED BY AL QAEDA! : moshman
• That sucks :( I used to live just by it, it was a beautiful ship up close. : 60days
• "What was the name of the bad guy in Tron?" : Omaha
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  I had a replica of that boat when I was a kid :( : red2lucas
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    I only had a bottle of Cutty Sark scotch. :( : ChibiJosh
    • isn't it ironic that I ended up a pirate and you ended up a drunk : red2lucas
    • I only had "Die Tonight" :( http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/cusa.htm : Sludgehead
• I sunk shitty ships like that for breakfast in Pirates! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• It's written somewhere it was "badly damaged". Now that's what I call an euphemism. The boat was totalled... : Nitrium
• There is still one in a Scottish museum according to a BBC article. Still a real shame. Beautiful old shi... : node
• One of the cooler school trips I went on :(. : yoshimi20
• yeah it sucks. I love tall ships. : Degenerate

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• Kali? : Omaha
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  Hamachi, I think. : lightly inclined
  • thats the one cheers : eyegeegeewhy
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    Would you recommend this program in a business environment? What are the advantages/disadvantages over a... : treefingers1
    • Anyone who thinks this is suitable for a business enviroment is mad. : Jonathan

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  I totally pushed the guy to include support for my router. :D :D :D I sent him my spare router and he... : boomstickah
  • thats pretty fucking cool : deep gray
  • Donate to him! I donated after he got back to me about a website blocking problem the same day I sent the... : ShekkyBoy
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  Why should I install this on my router? Does it prettify stuff, make it easier to use or allow me to do m... : scottythejock
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    you already have the previous version? or what? what : feek
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      Never used it. Ever. I only have a router at the family home, just wondering if this provides any tangibl... : scottythejock
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        if you use bittorrent it's worth it. : feek
        • Yes, well, I have been having problems with p2p and utorrent (which im pretty sure is a large part of the : scottythejock
  • It's kind of a mix. It can make certain things easier (I fucking LOVE the port forwarding improvements), ... : Helter Skelter
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  I thought you were telling a joke about some delicious new type of tomato that genetic engineers had just... : SpaecKow
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    http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2006/05/01/tiger_tomato_debuts/6820/ : losimagic
    • TOMATO REVOLUTION : SpaecKow
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  :( failed. I have version 6 : lacker
  • awesome. my router is neutered. why do i always find this shit out AFTER i purchase something? : lacker
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  By pure coincidence I've just finished installing this on the Buffalo router that arrived this morning. ... : Balboa
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    How easy was it to get by that window? Thats something that's always put me off from the Buffalo one. I... : Horn
    • It wasn't too hard - I had the command prepped in the cmd window, I plugged the router power back in, and... : Balboa
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  yeah ok this update is causing me problems. I was running 1.06 before. Internet is back working again aft... : Trepex
  • I've had better luck with DD-WRT vs this. Also, I hate how they use 7z for their shit. I was at a cli... : rosewood
  • Did you clear the routers nvram before or after updating the firmware? : Tommy Toolbag

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• yeah what is that? free? standalone? : dael
• looks like just some user created lvl. I'm gonna download it i guess and check it out. : jonin

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• yeah that issue with the component cables is weird... I never had any problems with it, and it kinda suck... : carazy
• or she'll see right through your evil plan and think you're a dick. either way, you got a wii now, and i... : Korban

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  He has a knife and kills lots of people. It's all bloody and he dies of congestive heart failure at the e... : voodooraze
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    congestive congenetive? : scottythejock
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      Congestive : http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4585 Congestive Heart Failur : Hiro
      • ^ that's the stuff. : voodooraze
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        I stand corrected. : scottythejock
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          The cheese stands alone. : voodooraze
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            I was always the cheese in pre-school. : Omaha
            • cheesy. : scottythejock

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  Depends on what you want. Onix and Steelix are defensive powerhouses and make great physical tanks. Geodu... : Helter Skelter
  • Onix looks cooler. : Ebu