Evening Reading

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  at 5? for some reason I was thinking 6:30... I may be late. Can someone sm me some directions or somet... : sharkII
  • *message'd* : EvilDolemite
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  ugh stop reminding me. i have to clean. also does anyone have a wii? I have never played one and would li... : wtf242
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    Do you want me to still bring my 360 even though we only have one guitar? I have about 12-15 games for i... : EvilDolemite
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      are there any good multiplayer games? : wtf242
      • shouldnt you be cleaning? : Degenerate
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        I don't know; most are pretty hardcore oriented. Stuff like Gears and Crackdown and DoA4. : EvilDolemite
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          DoA4 would be good for a party. It's easy to swap people in and out with that. What would be better is... : Degenerate
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            Yeah I don't think my 360 would get much playtime if someone brought a Wii, plus we have GH2 on PS2 with ... : EvilDolemite
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              i don't know anyone in austin who has a wii though.. not any shackers at least. : wtf242
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                I've played it at parties, and it's not really that fun. : CrustaR
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                  Why are you lying. It's a shitload of fun. Even when you're sober! : ki11_viru5
                  • I just can't get into it; sorry. :| It looks and feels way too gimmicky for my liking. : CrustaR
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      Yes, because playing GH all day is for ghey men. : Athlon7
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        It's for rocking out with your cock out which I plan to do : EvilDolemite
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          Well that too! : Athlon7
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            I really can't bring the 360 because my wife needs it to watch DVDs while I'm gone. Plus I'll admit, I'd... : EvilDolemite
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              That will be perfectly all right! Sounds like it's a bit like asking me to bring my PC... There's a reas... : Athlon7
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                i'll setup the snes so i can kill everyone in SF2 : wtf242
                • Maybe this time you can beat Super Ghouls & Ghosts : EvilDolemite
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  I'm thinking I might grab a bite to eat before going? : RikiTiki2
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    I'm not sure what I'm doing yet. I might take some steaks. : CrustaR
    • I might take some Tostitos & salsa maybe : RikiTiki2
    • I am thinking of going by Whole Foods or CM and getting one of their pre-seasoned burgers. If I throw in... : Athlon7
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    i bought 1 pound of hippy beef. enough for two burgers. i'm only going to eat one. I also bought some asp... : wtf242
    • That asparagus you grilled last time was the best damn thing I've ever tasted. I think I might steal one... : Athlon7
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  I thought you were going to see The Stooges and was going to hop on a plane. :( : Rauol Duke
  • who said that wasn't what's happening? : RikiTiki2
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  my vacuum stopped sucking. sorry guys, messy house :[ : wtf242
  • Better a messy house, than no house at all, amirite? : Athlon7
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    Do you think any of us will care? What time should I walk over? : EvilDolemite
    • depends on how messy. it could be like that story with the diarrhea poop in bags : RikiTiki2
    • I'm going to leave at around 4:30, so I should be there a little after 5 with the GH stuff. : CrustaR
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  update: EvilDolemite is drunk : wtf242
  • get your camera ready : drucifer
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    »[testing]« : wtf242
    • testing : wtf242
• update: Crustar and I went to an after-party at some house out in the middle of nowhere and we talked to ... : wtf242

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  hotbot 4 life yo : mmogger
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    seriously, it loaded fast and tended to have pretty good results. : sroylance
    • Yep, this is what I used too, hotbot 4 ly... oh, never mind. : boarder2
• Shit, I don't even remember what I used before Google. I can remember way back in the day using Altavista... : Jumperus
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  Altavista : Chris Remo
  • same here, altavista was the bomb : MikkleThePickle
  • Hell yeah. : Ctrl-Phreak
  • eggsactly : delataur
  • I was there too. I can't remember anything before that, and I've been net actve since 1998. : Tissen
  • I also preferred altavista. : acidnynex
  • i was also all about altavista, sometimes yahoo : skizl
• webcrawler. i liked their "reverse crawl" that listed all the pages that link to a particular page, whic... : electroly
• I think i used to use something called "metacrawler" or so.. : bundy
• hotbot : tort feasor
• Hijack: Any non-google search engines worth using these days? A lot of other engines just seem to import ... : enyakk
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  dogpile! : kbnerd
  • Hells yeah! : RevRaven
  • Fucks yeah! : ki11_viru5
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  Metacrawler. : Kerath
  • ding : p4ck3tloss
  • werd! I also used hotbot for a bit before it became shit. : mrfunky3000
  • this was my choice for a long long time : cap n KRUNCH
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  webcrawler -> altavista -> yahoo -> google : synack
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    I miss the Webcrawler Search Voyeur. : eldersveld
    • me too - i think altavista had one too : synack
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      http://www.metaspy.com/info.metac.spy/metaspy/unfiltered.htm : Kerath
      • not the same as a scrolling marquee :( : eldersveld
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        who the fuck is searching for granny thumbs? : Degenerate
        • who isn't you mean : synack
      • i just watched that for 5 minutes : oHnOES
  • I used Webcrawler. : Ellissd
  • exactly. : Deathlove
  • Sort of the same, but I was never a big Yahoo user. : Fred Garvin
• I've been a yahoo man all my life, only been converted about a year ago : AbortedFetusChristi
• Yahoo. : NFXFSX
• Any Lycos folks here? : eldersveld
• lycos and hotbot are what i remember using, although i don't remember using search engines much back then : one baby to another
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  Were there search engines in 1994? I guess I'm of the pre-search era. : zanzares
  • I think I was using webcrawler back then. Still remember the logo. : razlebol
• ftpsearch.ntnu.no and altavista : woddemandred
• Altavista, Lycos, fuck hard to recall what I used before the all mighty google. : ghost hacker
• Yahoo and I seem to recall using Excite. :( : K1Bond007
• ARCHIE : dengar65
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  Infoseek : randomnull
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    Finally a brother in arms. : NastyJack
    • It took Google to pull me away from Infoseek. : thaperfectdrug
• Which old search engine's CEO was busted for child porn? Was it lycos? : Schnapple
• Altavista... then Dogpile... the Momma, then Google. : drucifer
• Webcrawler > Infoseek > Altavista > Google. : jasonepowell
• Excite : edgewise
• oh and don't forget copernic. : razlebol
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  altavista.digital.com : sexninja!!!!
  • oldskool! : timmie
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    RIP DEC :( : eldersveld
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      no such luck. That corpse is still being picked over. It'll only be put to rest after everything it sto : sroylance
      • True. I think HP literally just stopped selling Alpha systems. : eldersveld
  • Yup. I used that clear until I moved to Google. : zakazi
• I remember using Webcrawler and Altavista a lot : Frozen Pixel
• yahoo : Jayx77
• Altavista and Webcrawler here : Enraged Pineapple
• Yahoo, because like every other ad on TV was annoying enough for me to use it. "Yahhhhhoooooooooooooo... : Amnesty_intl2
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  Altavista. : timmie
  • same here : prime8
• I initially used webcrawler, then started using alta vista, then google came along. : thecray
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  Clearly nobody even used Ask Jeeves back in the day. : rock elf
  • The Algorithm knocked up my sister. : zakazi
• veronica and jughead : electroly
• magellean or something like that it was called : Morgin
• Altavista and Webcrawler. : freshyk
• On mosaic I used webcrawler until yahoo came around. : shotgun1
• Webcrawler was the best one, hands down. : biskits
• Webcrawler -> Altavista -> Google : GreatGooglyMoogly
• http://google.stanford.edu/ : slickdoody
• iwin was kinda cool, the daily cash giveaways and all : zagzig32
• Lycos! ... Go get It! : hatelull
• Altavista then Metacrawler. : aethyr
• I used all of the sites above plus a few others. I also bought only american cars. I got over that too. : TheArtMan
• Webcrawler. I don't remember if I used any before becoming aware of that one. : DOOManiac
• hotbot : yedrin
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  Northern Light (I didn't really use it though) : c0bra
  • I did actually. : balaams_ass
• I used Altavista and Yahoo. Altavista if I was grepping the web for a very specific word (i.e., search... : Arcanum
• I was Infoseek as well. : Entity
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  webcrawler was the first one I used, and I stayed with it till google. : thekidd
  • and wow, it's still around: http://www.webcrawler.com/ : thekidd
• was it...Hotbot? was that the one i used before webcrawler? : biskits
• Altavista mainly, and sometime Lycos. : Rag and Bone Man
• Copernic :D : mystifier
• Yahooligans. : Orange Pylon
• Altavista and hotbot. : spazzium
• Infoseek (until it merged with Go) > Altavista > Google > ??? : Daggoth
• dogpile : knitemare
• Hotbot and Altavista. : SiW73
• YAHOOOOO!!! : tunis5000
• Wandex : Yoshifumi
• Webcrawler-->Dogpile-->Yahoo-->Google : melkore
• altavista : afrochops
• Altavista and yahoo : losimagic
• Hotbot only because my professor created it. : shyguy74
• Yahoo. : thejm4n
• citeseer : cannelbrae
• Altavista and Webcrawler : -efx-
• Altavista : red2lucas
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  Dogpile : punchdog
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    must... resist... : Postal
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      Oh C'mon, that's hardly even a good one. : aaarrrgh
      • aaaargh! you're right : Postal

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  And US only. >:( : aaarrrgh
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    How is it US only I downloaded it from Gamespot last night with no problems. Will I not be able to pla... : marmite
    • dunno, said US only on the site. Guess I'll give it a whirl. : aaarrrgh
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    Change your gamespot location/account to the US. : Athlon7
    • I didn't even have to do that. I just tried it out. It worked and then crashed. I guess that's why it's a... : marmite
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  Whats you name on there...Ill add ya to buddies list. Game starts slow but once you start battling over... : xpogox
  • HelterSkelter is the name. I think my two favorite roles are infantry and support. Infantry is awesome... : Helter Skelter
• My comp finished downloading while I was mountainbiking. I just installed it. After showering, I'll go ch... : code-e255
• VERY cool game. Can't wait to see what else they have in store. : byorn
• is the beta still open? : zagzig32
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  I haven't played RTSes in a while, so it took me a little while to get used to all the controls relating ... : festivalman
  • It IS awesome, I'm going back in :-D : Athlon7
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  Downloading the beta now... Getting 15k/s from gamespot, and if I use their 'download manager' doohickey,... : theamazingrand0
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    I am using the gamespot program, and it starts eventually. Took like five minutes but I am getting 250k.... : D45hiz
    • Took me freakin ages to start with the gamespot client. Maybe half an hour. But I was getting about 10-20... : crummynz
  • The torrent is about a million times faster than anything else. : Helter Skelter
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    the gamespot d/l manager just gave me an error message, and then just refused to start. Couldn't even rem... : aaarrrgh
    • Post or sm me the link please. : D45hiz
• This beta is worthy of a shackbattle for sure. : xpogox
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  downloading now. Shackbattle tonight? : PlanetPerfecto
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    gamespot is pegged at 30k/sec , any alternate download links available for the beta? : PlanetPerfecto
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      Torrent here! http://www.ngz-server.de/media/WiC_closedMPBeta.exe.torrent : D45hiz
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        Does anyone have the MD5 and hash info of the original file from gamespot or direct developer link? I ... : PlanetPerfecto
        • Supposedly this is the developer link http://closedbeta.worldinconflict.com/WiC_closedMPBeta.exe : D45hiz
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          will one be able to play the beta ?without having signed up officially : Flinz
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            You need a key. Gamespot is giving them out for free members. : D45hiz
            • kewl! got one, be seeing you in the battle. : Flinz
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              Got more info on this process? : c0bra
              • Nevermind I found it. : c0bra
        • Whats this other link you speak of? : Nighteyes
      • I already have it, but I got the torrent so I can seed. I have crap upload though because my gay ISP thro... : marmite
      • awesome torrent, maxed out my connection. also, it works fine. : feek
• I played a couple rounds last night before I went to bed, seems pretty cool. Very easy to get into. Getti... : Noobler
• Dashiz is my name if someone wants to add me to friends. : D45hiz
• any idea how this will run on a Athlon64 3500/1GB/6800GT? : MikkleThePickle
• It looks amazing, but it is nearly unplayable on my system. :( : aaarrrgh
• OK, you got me curious, downloading now. : Goncyn
• Installing now. How do I meet up with other shackers for shack rapeage? : Nighteyes
• So what's the best way to download this? The torrent or is there a better direct link? : soulr
• This game seems pretty sweet, and it runs well, but it crashes about half of the way through a game for m... : crummynz
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  Anyone want to play? : D45hiz
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    I doubled nuked an enemy, all over ther spawn I creamed their faces it was hot fun game no commas though : Nighteyes
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      The game is pretty fun. I really enjoy infantry. I feel with them i can counter act all the other speci... : D45hiz
      • Yea, I like the map with the beach. Infantry dominate the center as long as your air suppress their artil... : Nighteyes
• Seriously awesome. Its shattered galaxy in amazing. : Neech
• Yeah it's a great concept and heaps of fun. Keep in mind there is an NDA though... my in game name is : aeg1x
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  I think I'd enjoy it better if it didn't run like crap on my system. I know it's using the Ground Contro... : PenicillinX57
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    what kind of system do you have? I'm trying to determine if it's even worth my time downloading this... : MikkleThePickle
    • It runs perfect @ medium detail on my ATI x1950 pro, 2.8 p4, 2gig ram : Nighteyes
    • I'm running a 2.53 P4, 1GB, and a 9700 Pro. I can only play on the lowest settings (1024x768), but the... : dedgecko
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    Don't use air, its retarded and feels like they have barely worked on air units : Nighteyes
    • There's a lot of micro with air. Really, there's alot of micro with all the units. But in the end it ... : dedgecko

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  yeah, i liked it : qwpeoriu
  • Good enough for me! I thought I had seen it, but was confusing it with another movie. : thief
• it's good - watch it : flagg209
• as long as you're not squeamish you should enjoy it. if you are though... stay far away. : AbortedFetusChristi
• Yeah it's a good watch. Hooray for space vacuum. : spazzium
• watching... with your eyes? : aethyr
• its hilarious : Unleashed
• It has boobies in it. : spiderfill
• one of my favorite movies. definitely see it : kill9
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  It tries hard to be scary, but in the end it's just a black comedy with indulgent set design and a bored- : eldersveld
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    oh. : thief
    • Which isn't to say you shouldn't watch it. I laughed my ass off. :) : eldersveld
  • i liked it. : reverend~heresy
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    I went to sleep twice watching it. It's boring. : Maddog_Delphi97
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      It helps if you have alcohol and friends that are good at MST3King. : eldersveld
      • I do, I do! : thief
      • lol, I'll have to try that sometime. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • disagree. started sci-fi, turned into scary. great transition. : Downforce
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    So it's kind of like the Matrix? : Yoshifumi
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      Thinks a sort of horror take on Solaris. : Conan
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        Oh, sorry about that. Joke went right past me. :P : Conan
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          It's cool :) I've actually seen Event Horizon and every movie with 'ol Larry in it, he's always frown... : Yoshifumi
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            Except when he's playing Cowboy Curtis... : Conan
            • I lol'd when he said, in one episode "You know what they say about guys with big feet" or something to th : Orange Pylon
• I think it's awesome, but a lot of people don't. (they are wrong) : lplasmatron
• one of the scariest goddamn movies i've ever been forced to sit through in the theater. definitely watch... : biskits
• Yeah, it's not perfect, but entertaining at least. : devi| dog
• Great sci-fi horror oddball kind of film. So yes. : MoreVespeneGas
• Arguably one of the most refreshing comedies of the last 20 years. You're going to find it to be so funny... : Sgt_Boomstick
• has its moments, worth a watch : grandmasterlee
• yeah i thought it was pretty good for a cheezy sci fi horror movie : gyokuro
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  Basically the first half is good and the second half is bad enough that it comes out as a film that isn't... : enyakk
  • pretty much sums it up. : thief
• No. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12387085 : Flinz
• It's a great movie, for watching what might have been the next Aliens if the excessive last half had been... : thewriter
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  No. Nope. No it isn't. : SlamDunk
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    it's a sci-fi movie that hates science. WHAT THE FUCK? what a crappy piece of cheese : mXENO
    • To me, it was simply just a really bad movie. : SlamDunk
• Best unofficial Hellraiser movie ever ;P : genom
• I didn't like it. : ieGod