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• Aw man, that's all kinds of awesome!!! : Flint Ironstag
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  What am I looking at here? : red2lucas
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    ubuntu : GloriousCow
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      On not one, but two lcds! : skankcore
      • at the same time! : yosemiteclimber
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        Technically three, because my laptop runs it too, but I digress. I basically just bought a second 20" Sam... : basketofkittens
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          I love setting up my laptop with synergy next to my desktop. Moving the mouse cursor seamlessly over to t... : GloriousCow
          • What is this crazy talk? : red2lucas
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            wait what??? this cannot be!! : ghost hacker
            • oh yes it can. Works perfectly, no lag http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ : GloriousCow
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      I have a spare PC at home. I might install it. : red2lucas
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        Do it. I'm never going back to Windows. : basketofkittens
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          I'm guessing it runs any linux apps? : red2lucas
          • considering that ubuntu is in fact linux, yes : yedrin
• ubuntu is so sexy : sKetchflow
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  I'm trying out PCLinuxOS and I started missing Ubuntu about 10 seconds after I started the live CD bootin... : stuka
  • Wow. Just wow. I feel the exact opposite. I try to like ubuntu, but I can't. PCLinuxOS is by far, the... : BlueVette
• You're going to get banned for a chatlog. Which means I will too. :[ : notd665
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  The open thread on "HOWTO: Dual Monitors" on the Ubuntu forums is kinda cute. :P : SilverSnake
  • If you're on Nvidia hardware, it's as simple as running the Nvidia settings app and enabling the second m... : Conan
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  what's the point of two monitors showing the same thing? : feek
  • binocular browsing : aeg1x
  • cross your eyes and it's 3D! : OrkO
• Your setup is almost identical to mine, except one of mine is the newer model Samsung with the shiny beze... : Conan

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• Thats a pretty awesome pack. : Tommy Toolbag
• UT2k4 was pretty fun : ctlaltl33t
• just came out of a UT2k4 game 5minutes ago : gyokuro
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  Nothing beats Quake 1. :( : Sapiens
  • too true... : dael
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    For 1v1 nothing beats q2 for me. For CTF nothing beats q3. : -efx-
    • yeah i'd have to go with edge as best 1v1 map ever : dael
• not better, but close. Trick jumps were dumb. : paravis
• Neat, but I've collected all the games over the years anyway. : Orange Pylon

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• No, but I did reinstall. I still have my SC & BW CDs so I busted it out for some singleplayer action last... : Do_Or_Die
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  lol never removed it. play this weekend? : askedrelic
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    Yeah we should play this weekend. : dkrulz
    • hell yeah : grandmasterlee
• I thought about reinstalling it just because I never gave the game a fair shot when I played it the first... : Tommy Toolbag
• No, but planning on reinstalling this weekend. Never did ever beat Brood War, and I still have my savegam... : smoove
• a guy came into my work today (we're an electronics parts store) looking for Starcraft. I figured he was... : SolveChrist
• I did, kinda...bought a Blizzard Giftset: Starcraft+BW, Diablo 2 + Exp and Warcraft III. : Izakhar
• Last time I revisited SC, I couldn't find my Broodwar CD, so I might have to re-buy if the SC2 hype inspi... : Noobler
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  WE REQUIRE MORE ... well, you know. : VespeneGas
  • Ah, you should have left the "... well, you know." off! : SockMonkeh
  • lol :D : Noobler
  • I'm surprised that name wasn't already take when you registered. : nyranger66
  • props :D : askedrelic
  • Proof that n+p is still funny. : SiW73
• *This is Jimmy...* : mechanicalgrape
• I saw it at Target last Sunday and was like, "Why the hell not?" : Fail_Safe
• I had to download SC, had my key and BW cd, but couldnt for the life of me find the CD. :( : oldschoolbob-o
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  how does this game, and warcraft 3 handle widescreen? does it do it decently? do they have widescreen re... : broly1718
  • It is stretched. :( : TastyWheat
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    The game is hard coded at 640x480. : Fail_Safe
    • can these played in windowed mode? so that's it's not stretched? : TPSReport
• repurchase? LOL : mega man
• Hell, I am considering buying it for the first time! Back in 1998 my friends loved it but I never could ... : PenicillinX57
• Bought it for my 21st, it's still on my shelf. :D : Daggoth

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• Housing was on the list of future stuff to be added on WoW's page for a while back in the day. : AndyGoin
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  meh, housing was pretty stupid. they are adding a guild bank, and thats really the only thing thats neede... : maulla
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    obviously youve never been inside a UO guild house pre-trammel : oHnOES
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      nah mostly just in DAoC. all it was was a place to hang trophies from raids and a place to access the gui... : maulla
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        Houses, and especially guild housing, was awesome in DAoC. I was in one of the biggest and best guild... : Tommy Toolbag
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          again, housing was just a showroom. they were fun to look at and decorate, but the only purpose they real... : maulla
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            We did a lot more than just decorate. Guild houses were a focal point for guilds. If someone wanted to fi... : Tommy Toolbag
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              /who is easier. : hbalce1
              • /who allows you to attend guild events? : Tommy Toolbag
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          What guild were you in? : Tripps
          • Vae Victis : Tommy Toolbag
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  what are you going to put in your house? there are no in world items : GloriousCow
  • i really fucking love this post : oHnOES
• why would i want housing, that's pretty much what my bank is for. Sorry, don't want to level my garden to... : grifter
• i mean thats what 20 or 30 polygons and some blury textures only? : gyokuro
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  It's really not necessary, but the devs have said it's something they'd like to add at some point. It wa... : Sapiens
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    obviously youve never played UO : oHnOES
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      You said that before. It's not a very convincing, or even interesting, argument. : Arcanum
      • glad somebody is keeping track : oHnOES
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      I played UO within a week of launch, I'm not sure what gave you the impression I hadn't played it (or had... : Sapiens
      • Heh, the housecat thing could happen in Nethack. It's not usually very likely, since your housecat isn't... : Arcanum
• OMG HOW THE FUCK CAN IT NOT WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT : multisync

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  Why does George Lucas hate us so? : Arcanum
  • Don't worry when he has a heart attack in about 15 years we will get new star wars movies 5 years after t... : stgdz
• I think Lucas debunked that himself.. : vrocket
• eh i think we had enough prequels : podizzle
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  the next thing will be a tv show between ep III and IV : VespeneGas
  • Yes we all know this. 1 live action and 1 animated. The one I mentioned is just a rumour. : red2lucas
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  Why not due a new sequel? All the same actors are still alive, right? : Malum
  • They could do a sweet film with Han solo and princess lieas kids being ass kicking jedi. : voodooraze
• really? did you forget about those prequels that came out already? : deep gray
• I wish I owned a franchise, just so I could get Joss Whedon to write/direct it. : spiderfill
• Its been denied but it would have been sweet. : pimpium

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• That game didn't get the credit it deserved in my opinion. I thought it was absolutely fantastic. It did ... : gl2 drivers
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  I was given a copy for the PC and I have to say it's quite good. I'd only played Chaos Theory before, thi... : PlanetPerfecto
  • It's a pretty good game, but buggy as hell for the PC. : someWayne
• i though it was ok, but it felt no better than chaos theory (besides the gfx) : X-GOUKI
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  I played the PC version and found so many bugs and glitches that I almost gave up. The glitches MUST be a... : avatar_58
  • I found the detection pretty glitched (or at least the methods I used in CT didn't work any more). I tend... : 60days
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  That game was tons of fun. I loved it. : Sexpansion Pack
  • ^^^^ The only SC game I really liked..... : Big Luke

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  you'll be back... mostly due to future shackhype. :) : j0nchan
  • and also, Lost was back months ago. : empathe
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  #1 Charlie felt that he had to die for Desmond's vision to come true #2 you obviously don't like the c : Ctrl-Phreak
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    About Charlie - Here is the real problem. If he was going to die for Desmond's vision to come true - w : Porkasaurus
    • No because it doesn't matter if they were Penny's people or not, Desmond claimed he saw them all get resc : K1Bond007
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      No has has ever said they are going to be rescued by the people on that ship that's currently off shore. : Ctrl-Phreak
      • Okay, let's get specific. Desmond's vision was that Claire and the baybay would be taken from the isl : SinistarX
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    #1 is bs since charlie was claiming he was going to live using the scuba gear to escape : mista mista
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      Charlie never really gave me that impression during that scene. He still seemed to be interacting with De : Ctrl-Phreak
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        he didn't do it first because he is a moran. He looked happy so I don't buy this whole I have to die thin : mista mista
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          once he had dove down there he had commited himself to dying, hence why he was laughing at the women down : DaMojo
          • he was talking to those girls that way before desmond and the scuba gear, so of course he's going to talk : mista mista
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            I don't buy that. There were a couple moments (after he first surfaced in the moon pool, after "patchy" : YamatoTwinkie
            • actually that would mean the exact opposite. his sacrifice has so much more meaning because he's choosing : empathe
            • I think that Charlie shut the door to keep Desmond from coming in and dying along with him. So that Desmo : Fail_Safe
• Everyone had to have thought the Charlie thing was dumb. Why you wouldn't put the scuba gear on first or : Porkasaurus
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  It's probably the best show on network television right now. But whatever, go watch Grey's Anatomy or som... : empathe
  • hahaha, indeed : megarust32
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    what's Grey's Anatomy? : mista mista
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      a show where "doctors" have sex with each other and no one has to much thinking. : empathe
      • oh come on, that's oversimplifying it. pretty sure some nurses have sex in it as well! : AbortedFetusChristi
    • an obstacle course where the entire cast must jump a shark filled tank repeatedly. : zakazi
• Biggest Gripe ... Never sure if people are dead, wtf really are they dead? Unless I see some one decapit : kanix

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• He does drive a mazda 3 yes, but I don't think he's in Mass. I also think he has a grey or the titanium c... : sigpro
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  ahahahahaha If I was a math nerd I'd put that on my car. I'd also probably had a lot more money :( : CapnChaos
  • If I had any hope of remembering it, I'd make pi my password but I'd intermingle numbers and letters ... : Toraz Chryx

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  Call me a prick but I hate loaning out my DVDs. : mechanicalgrape
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    I do too. I've seen how people treat their optical media. Games and movies strewn about, lying on table... : EvilDolemite
    • It'd be called www.whofuckingscratchedmyshit.com : spiderfill
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  did you see http://www.peerflix.com/ : j0nchan
  • Hmm.. except we want to borrow, not buy. :/ : DOOManiac
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  A couple of years ago the Shack went nuts over a site that let you catelog all of the movies you own and ... : pharoah mike
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    http://dvd.maartengoldstein.com/ : matrix
    • thanks! that's what i was thinking of : pharoah mike

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• I know the hate is strong for vgcats but I actually found this comic rather funny http://www.vgcats.co... : bRAINsick
• wow i think id rather read the dinosaurs : podizzle

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• Oh man this movie is gonna own : bozer
• lollertastic : riptyde
• rofl : Toraz Chryx
• lol @ cock dipping : podizzle
• yup, its gonna 0wn :) : trOmblyj
• It was just the head! Oh man, this scene was awesome. : pimpium
• So it's going to have couch riffing moments just like 40 yr old virgin? Or was that why it got cut? : Lunatic Angelic
• this combined with the Superbad trailer makes me expect a great summer. : Fyunch Click
• that was hilarious. thank you. : Supine

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  for fucks sake they are carrying in those tiny white things which i think are eggs. basicly they must be ... : deep gray
  • Congratulations! You now have an ant farm! : CrustaR
  • at least they aren't trying to steal your alarm clock. : changejar419
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  mamma mia! : PlanetPerfecto
  • jesus christ im getting a video of this if i can find the camera : deep gray
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  A few of those ants just installed the [lol] script to laugh at you on the anternet. : Phil
  • I DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD LAUGH OR CRY! : digitalsneek
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  The ant traps have pheromones in them to attract the ants. You want to put the traps where you want the a : Hiro
  • damn sir, informative :) : changejar419
  • What if I just spray "Raid Ant Killer" on their actual nest? : sharkII
  • Hey I put some knockoff raid stuff from ace and I sprayed it around my doors and junk. Should I worry ab... : carazy
• they take about a week to KILL THE COLONY. they do work tho : podizzle
• Looks like it's time to get a new clock radio. : HojuSimpson
• I had ants for all of a week until I got some Ortho Home Defense Max and a box of those little ant motels... : emnii
• man ants are serious shit. we had them a little while back...they would crawl over my PC desk and i'd si... : changejar419

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• never mind, someone else did a thread already. : baron calamity
• Joss Whedon is too busy not filming another Firefly movie/series :( : trOmblyj
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  no if that happens no one will see it. : CoRDS
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    Its star wars man. Its make money. : baron calamity
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      but if whedon writes it. it would be awesome but no one will watch : CoRDS
      • They went to see them when Lucas wrote them. Can't get any worse than that. : digitalsneek
• There's already an update saying it's bogus. : enyakk
• who cares... they will never recapture the feeling that made the original trilogy soo good anyways : godm0de

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• i don't know but this game might make me very happy : Mr.SEX
• how are people not sick of those games? : h o s t i l e

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• thats icey. they dont restart until 72 celcius trust me i used to push my 1700+ to the maxxxxx : podizzle
• Mine idles around 55 in the summer. Can get to 65 and then I have it reset. : mavmavv
• that is a tad toasty, check your heatsink for dust. : Toraz Chryx
• Seems warm to me. : PoopStewart
• Well, I hear some fan-dom going on - so I was checking my temps. Probably should crack her open and s... : zipper76
• I have a monster ass ZALMAN cooler, mine runs full load at 53C, idle 42ish. : GBeer11

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  UniTed : synack
  • Yup.....United's Discount Service IIRC.... : zipper76
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  "He consumes the other Kennedys as they die." : ChibiJosh
  • Hahah, nice one. : MR 9000

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• gotta catch 'em all : VespeneGas
• like : Mad Brahmin Disease
• It is like crack...but my cheating Knight kind of ruined the game for me. I definitely had hours and hour... : CapnChaos
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  new mario bros is pretty awesome : oHnOES
  • Yup - Played this all the way to Seattle and back (4 hr flights both ways) : zipper76
  • This is probably my favorite DS game. : FormerHPB

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  Busted, with like 3 teeth and peg leg. : voodooraze
  • zing! : liqker
• it better be a transformer : podizzle
• It's made of pure awesometonium, didn't you know that???? : Toraz Chryx
• lol it's made out of the crushed souls of gamers" : changejar419
• They gotta make their money back somehow! : digitalsneek

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• Rock on, I'll import it again. I imported #2 and didn't regret it for a minute. : yoonix
• Take that! : aethyr
• Hold it! They did this with both previous games, as well. I imported #2, and I'll be doing the same wi... : Helter Skelter
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  Why is 4 already out in japan and 3 is not. i don't get it. : gibolas1234
  • Gyakuten Saiban 1, 2, and 3 were originally GBA games. Gyakuten Saiban 4 was the first DS only game. : aethyr
• I'll wait for Ace Attorney 4. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  dam someone already used it : oneshot
  • fuckin lurkers : red2lucas
• I have a retail code for sale, $40. : PoopStewart
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  One more.... ER4ZF-DZQJE-TD2F2-DZALC-9NPAW : gargy
  • I used this one, thank you. : Phreakin
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  If I have lost my US copy of the game can I download this and sign in with my still active US account? : -efx-
  • i would imagine yes : lakren
• God help me :( : Phreakin
• Does this client include the HD textures or no? : trOmblyj
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  I have two buddy keys if anyone would like one- SM me for info : tashtego
  • SM'D : trOmblyj
  • SM'd : theargent
• I've got a buddy key if anybody needs one : Clay
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  Is anybody playing LOTRO on a 9800 Pro? Is it do-able? : Degenerate
  • Hahahahaha......... :( : Rauol Duke
  • I'd say yes as that is above what my brother used for the beta. It doesn't look too pretty though. On my ... : yemeth
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  what is a buddy key? a trial account like in WoW? : beastrabban
  • yeah, its a 10 day trial : Degenerate

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• Katamari : uglysad
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  Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, Resident Evil 4 (if you don't have a GC/Wii). : peanut-
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    oh yeh i have sotc but i hate it with a passion. and katamari is a bit too fruity for my tastes : CoRDS
    • What're you talking about, Katamari is awesome. : ColoradoCNC
    • Katamari is great fun. WTF is wrong with you?!?!? : FormerHPB
    • You play videogames to prove your manliness? Seek help. : ChibiJosh
• im liking xenosaga : deep gray
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  MGS 1 and 2? FF12? FFX? : changejar419
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    i mean MGS 2 and 3* : changejar419
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      nah i hate games like mgs that need me to be sneeky : CoRDS
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        embrace your inner sneaky hobbitses. what about san andreas? : changejar419
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          oh yeh ive got that as well. i really should have checked what games ive got before i posted. i think ive... : CoRDS
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            i have GT4 that never gets played. It's yours if you pay zee shipping. : changejar419
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              where do you live : oHnOES
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                maryland, just outside of baltimore. : changejar419
                • CoRDS is an aussie, so he wouldn't be able to play it. : Helter Skelter
• rez never ends, kid... get odin sphere, everyone is ga ga over that mother fucker : teethmarks
• Katamari Damacy : aethyr
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  warcrow and Remo seemed to like God Hand, I've yet to try it, but it looks cool : bcyde
  • oh please, remo knows nothing about console games.... : CoRDS
• gitaroo man katamari : VespeneGas
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  Okami, Katamari (you will play it and you will LIKE it, mister), Rez again (and again and again), Zone o... : Helter Skelter
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    no really i hate katamari. i rented it and despise every line of fruity code in that game. also i hate th... : CoRDS
    • you are dead inside. How can you not have fun with that game? It's got simple, addicting gameplay and t... : FormerHPB
• Devil May Cry series, Tekken Tag, Soul Cal 2 or 3 : kanix
• Get Okami and you'll never go astray. And any others already mentioned. : bitter ego

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• where have you been? : gibolas1234
• never heard of a fishing pole, john? : podizzle
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  wait did he PUNCH that guys head off? : podizzle
  • negative. he used the machete, you can see him drop it as soon as he whacks the guy : newek
• Gory. Nice. : riptyde
• Me likey the guy being hit by the arrow, falling to the ground and blowing up. Screw Rocky, this is what ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Holy fuck. I didn't click on the links the past few days because I thought this was a joke. This looks fu... : baronzemo78
  • rick loll'd : oHnOES

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• IIRC WPA is the way to go. : drucifer
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  -use WPA -Change your SSID to something else - Change your router's default password. That will pre... : whodares
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    I like to turn of SSID broadcasting too. : sKetchflow
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      I wouldn't bother doing this personally, and from I've heard from other Shackers. A determined hacker wil... : ShekkyBoy
      • Correct, the AP can still be found by sniffing the wireless traffic destined for the BSSID (router's mac ... : liqker
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    What is this SSID thingo? Isn't it just the name of the network? : Drewus
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      It's the name of the router being broadcasted to everyone in the immediate area. It's used as an identif... : liqker
      • So I guess if i name it GAY PORN, i'll be safe? : Drewus
• wpa . change ssid, change admin password, use a different ip range (eg 192.168.somethingotherthan1 ) use ... : CoRDS
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  Really, WPA is the only thing you need to enable. That is plenty to stop any person from casually joinin... : s2jason
  • correct : redfive
  • correct : VespeneGas
• WEP or Wire Equivilent Protocol (tehe) is easy to break. Use WPA, with mac filtering, and hide your SS... : Geordish
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  If you have a DS, you have to use WEP or nothing. WPA is more secure, but the DS doesn't sprechen sie WP... : ThomW
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    your MOM doesn't sprechen sie WPA : Korban
    • Mine doesn't, either. :( : ChibiJosh
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    so have a WEP on a locked down subnet and a WPA for computers. : metalremains
    • cept you can't use both on the same router? : yedrin

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• I want to live in that UFO : theghostofsmdever

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  That doesn't sound sweet at all. : spiderfill
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    i too am not seeing the sweetness of this occurence : [fry]
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      The microwave is made of honey.... : voodooraze
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        now that's what I call a sticky situation. : Matto357
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          *ba dump bump* : zipper76
          • You're going to get drummed out of here with jokes like that. : Rauol Duke
        • You should bee careful with these posts : indosauros
• damn, did the bike survive the microwave ? : PlanetPerfecto
• Damn those microwaves to Hell! : NFXFSX
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  I had an 800lb walmart special mountain bike fall on the hood of my new Mazda 3 a while back. Dented and... : darcspeed
  • :( that's awful. : Hiro
• i had a shelf in the garage fall on my head once. jars of screws and bolts, spray paint cans, power suppl : podizzle

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• do you live in a weird spot? they always have trouble finding my house until i call and bitch and moan a... : kch
• I think Destination Scan means it's at the UPS Hub in your area where they put it on the delivery trucks. : mrfunky3000

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• keep doing what you are doing and she'll eventually catch on. :) : changejar419
• The image of you barking at a hungry dog is faily hiliarious : ShekkyBoy
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  You have to get excited when you say speak. Get the dog to associate the word speak with being aroused. : theghostofsmdever
  • My dog generally tries to jump on me whenever I get excited with her. The only times I ever hear her bar... : uncle slappy
  • My dog associates me jerking him off with being aroused : kgargonmagrix79
• DVR the dog whisperer and watch intently : Phreakin
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  I'd like to train my cat to meow on command. I can get one to do it - but the other has an awesome squawk... : thaperfectdrug
  • the only thing i ever wanted my cat to do was catch treats. after hundreds of them bouncing off his fa... : changejar419
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  I can look at my dog and go "What? What? What is it? Huh? What do you want?" He'll start growling, and ev... : voodooraze
  • my dog gets sassy like that also : oHnOES
  • my cats even do that. My old dog would pretty much always answer. : moshman
• The only time my dog barks is if she hears something unfamiliar outside. It's pretty unnerving if we're ... : darcspeed
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  just be thankful your dog doesnt bark at everything he sees like my dog does ..the mailman, paper delive... : cptstern
  • Yeah, my brother(roommate) has a dog that does this, and I was thinking while I was trying to make her ba... : uncle slappy
• Robot dog heads. : Rauol Duke