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• Don't forget you need to accept someones request in the friends menu if they add you. : Umbr
• PoopStewart : PoopStewart : PoopStewart
• my ETQW name is deject : mrfunky3000
• lightzout: lightz0ut : Lightzout
• Warmaker : Warmaker
• Guido-Anchovy : guido anchovy
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  you have to register an account to play the game? Wow, now I'm really not considering buying this. I ... : the archvile
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    I take it you didn't play any of the Battlefield games, or any Blizzard games online. It's a free acco... : DOOManiac
    • nope. The only game login I have is Steam, because I was forced to get it to be able to play Half-Life 2... : the archvile
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    All you do is pick a username & password, really- it's mainly for the ranked servers, IIRC. And you can h... : mn3m0n1c
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      but are you required to create a login? America's Army would let you play on non-ranked servers without ... : the archvile
      • Honestly, I'm not sure- I didn't try to join a game 'til after I created an account- I did have to login ... : mn3m0n1c
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  Same as my shackname: AlexXdude : AlexXdude
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    what is Xdude? : boomstickah
    • I wanted AlexDude but it was already registered :\ : AlexXdude
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  zeh : zeh : zehh
  • err, zeh : zehh : zehh
• Eat : whore
• Epher : i am the baker : i am the baker
• mnemonic : umm, -----> : mn3m0n1c
• DrZettl : DrZettl : DrZettl
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  Is there a server that most of the Shack prefers? : Fred Garvin
  • I'm thinkin' one of the Texas ones? I seem to ping OK to them from upstate NY, and they'd be sorta centra... : mn3m0n1c
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  Another good suggestion - Xfire & Gamewith.us Users Add your Xfire handle to your Gamewith.us page and pu... : PlanetPerfecto
  • Btw! my ETQW handle = Gibbs : PlanetPerfecto
• Oh hey, I also put "Shack" in the Clan Tag box, just for grins. :) : mn3m0n1c
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  Any single-player content in that demo? : Rotten Deadite
  • No. :( I could have used some practice, too. : mn3m0n1c
• Devildog : devi| dog
• cosmicspot : prime8 : prime8
• ctlaltl33t : ctlaltl33t
• Dynotaku I hope it keeps your friends list from beta to retail. : Dynotaku
• Mr.Fusion : Mr.Fusion
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  I went ahead and made a clan [GCR] and threw out a bunch of invites. : Dynotaku
  • ^^ hook a brother up, yo : Wheatloaf
  • I had to decline invite, I am already in the Goon clan sorry! :( : pancake humper
  • invite snagger! : snagger
• Wheatloaf : Wheatloaf : Wheatloaf
• I'm Daedalus. : ripper9
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  Teamspeak Channel created cause the voice stuff isn't working too well : RyDogg1
  • here, here, let's use this! check rydogg's profile for address. : zehh
• OrangePylon : Orange Pylon
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  egg5hen : egg5hen
  • I saw you playing the other night Egghax. I wondered if it was you. : moogle
• moogle : moogle : moogle
• imabot : QMS|superdave
• naabster : naabster
• magila : magila
• Hatta : Hatta : Hatta
• Kainen : kainen1
• grimiv : grimiv : grimiv
• Marc_Hawke Just got "Best Soldier" and "Most Accurate" That must mean the rest of the people on t... : hawke
• sergeon : sergeon : sergeon
• Archangelus : zipper76 : zipper76
• Athlon7 : Bowerbird : Athlon7
• zenrube : lightly inclined : lightly inclined
• bosst0ne : bosst0ne
• Melkore : Melkore : melkore
• SolveChrist : SolveChrist
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  http://shackers.gamewith.us/finder/etqw Sorry - been busy with work work. : ThomW
  • Thanks... added! : guido anchovy
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    Hey Thom? I just signed up at gamewith.us, but I can't join the Shacknews Group- it keeps telling me it c... : mn3m0n1c
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      Shack redesign hosed all of my Shack integration code. I've been super busy with my day job stuff (I'm ... : ThomW
      • No problem!!! I honestly thought I was doing something wrong, or that the 'capitalization' deal with the ... : mn3m0n1c
• Harvester - jiminybooth : jiminybooth
• Eggnoodles : eggnoodles
• WombatFromHell : WombatFromHell : WombatFromHell
• Boarder2 : boarder2
• Tincan : Tincan : Tincan
• ThresherGDI : Thresher
• Republica : TwiLyght
• freshyk : freshyk
• termer : cstamas
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  aaarrrgh : aaarrrgh somebody add me! : aaarrrgh
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    Butters? : Thresher
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      I thought that was Tweak? : zipper76
      • Gah! You're right. Fucked up my own joke. : Thresher
• hamachi : hamachi
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  geedeck : geedeck : geedeck
  • this post makes me think of that scene in Being John Malkovich where John Malkovich is dreaming about bei... : mrfunky3000
• ohm : Xhost
• kevp : kevp : kevp
• Donlo : donlo
• Pyrodeo : Rampancy
• zagzig33 : zagzig32
• kill-9 : kill9
• eeeealmo : eeeealmo
• slambast : slambast
• Conan : Conan
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  wait, where do i get a key/account? i was on an airplane all weekend :( : radula
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    !If you're sniffing around to score a spot in the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta, I'm sorry to say that... : imperator
    • KHAAAAAAN!!! I wanted to get in on that too. Had to go to a wedding over the weekend. : Arcanum
    • Sonofbitch!!! I can't belive I missed out on this. : voodooraze
• Nitrium: Nitrium : Nitrium
• Wouldn't Games For Windows help out here a bit? : sharkII
• Cash : Cashh
• People, remember to double-click the buddy icon to approve their friend request when you see someone popp... : zehh
• Crunkfunk : crunkfunk
• vynn: vynn : vynn
• blakerson : snagger
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  be interesting to see the shack expose this type data translation as a RDF data source : Antilles_Prime
  • What would that look like and what would it be useful for? : ThomW
• mine is Korban : Korban
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  Wow I put like 50 people on my friends list and only 3 accepted?!? Boo I don't want to play with yall any : Cashh
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    what happened to that server we were playing on? Game crashed when it switched servers. : aaarrrgh
    • errr, switched rounds. : aaarrrgh
• Commodus: Postal : Postal
• I'm going in! Add me and follow : geedeck
• I'll post this again, I started a [GCR] clan, and threw out invites to just about everyone. I also promot... : Dynotaku
• mystifier : Rezwalker : mystifier
• FuzzyOnion : FuzzyOnion
• Tangles : tangles
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• If I refuse to buy a PS3 at $599, I sure as hell won't buy a phone at $499, especially a first gen one. : deathofrats
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  I expect to have a great computer-phone in a year or two. : Nation
  • but not for $499 + a two year contract ... not today, not this year. : Nation
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  I'm not. : edgewise
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    I can't imagine anyone actually needing all of that functionality on a routine basis. Am I wrong? : PoopStewart
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      business people who travel will love it ... as long as it works as advertised. : Nation
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        How? Any business person who needs to sync to exchange will not like the iphone. : sigpro
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          something like 86% of all jobs are with companies that has less then 100 employees .... 50% have 4 or les... : Nation
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            thats simply not true, exchange servers aren't expensive, many companies are switching to exchange server... : snowwolf
            • God damn right I do : rosewood
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            Can you actually give sources for those stats?... : D45hiz
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              It is a very believable number. Think of how many small businesses there are. Scan the yellow pages and t... : Ebu
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                Alright, but lets look at the true market for a phone with Email capabilities used everyday. What percen... : D45hiz
                • Also, if a company can't afford an exchange server, they won't be paying $50+ a month for email on their ... : D45hiz
            • I use to, if I looked enough I could pull it again. Reading what I posted there is a slight error ... it'... : Nation
          • hmmph : judge
          • I dunno man... Since I've started where I work now ~35 people, I've met lots of other people who also wo... : spazzium
          • We were 30ish people when we set up our exchange server. I'm pretty sure the phone will do well. Apple ha... : dravalen
      • lol. business people will be the *last* group buying that crap. : Ariakus
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      who the fuck only buys shit they need? : vigilante
      • Perhaps you've not seen the pricetag... : PoopStewart
    • The only functionality people need is the cool it eminates. : walker270
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      I need a lot MORE than that functionality : rosewood
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        Such as? : PoopStewart
        • fleshlight attachment? : pigvomit
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    but you're a dentist! isn't buying trendy gadgets what your kind does best? :( (that and fixing teet... : Postal
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      yeah, some of my friends are way into that mindset, but not that many. Frankly, as far as gadetry is conc... : edgewise
      • ah, I see. that said, we'll see how you hold up the first time a friend wields an iPhone in your face. : Postal
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    http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/animation/animation-min.js : ventro
    • http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.2.2/build/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js : ventro
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  I'll wait for the second iteration or the other phone-makers to clue into the whole "interface" thing. : sgtsanity
  • Just like other OS vendors clued into the whole "interface" thing? :( I bet the other phone makers do wh... : electroly
• i'm planning on watching it stumble around for a bit and maybe see where it's at in a year. : jvox
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  Fuck an iphone : mr.sleepy
  • that won't be possible until the next revision : esmokah
• I should probably wait until I'm employed shouldn't I? lol. : vigilante
• nope.. i just bought a Razr v3xx, don't need a $500 phone. : Shadowdane
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  I'll probably get the second version whenever that comes out. Or I'll see a friend's iPhone and succum... : Serpico74
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    I vote for #2. you live in LA, you're going to run into one this weekend : Postal
    • Yup. I'm positive that at least two people I know will have one and it is going to suck because I am weak... : Serpico74
• wow, apparently i'm the one here with too much extra cash, i'll be getting in line friday morning : dopefish
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  I'm really tempted. I've needed a new phone and new provider for about a year; the current one is fallin... : Caboose
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    I wouldn't worry about battery life. Apple recently upgraded the expected battery life to 8 hours of tal... : pyrogen
    • yeah, the new announced battery life sounds absolutely awesome, and like you said, i bet its mostly corre... : snowwolf
• five hundred and ninety nine us dollars for a GSM phone is insane, even if it's also an iPod. I'd rather... : the archvile
• Is AT&T advertising its plans and price on the iPhone yet? Because at least in Canada, I've yet to see a... : TwiLyght
• It's a slick device, and I hope the interface design sets a positive trend for the industry, but there's ... : Orange Pylon
• just wait for version 2 in October : prime8
• yes, ill have one, but im not paying for it. i get to test out new gadgets and toys, and that will be on... : virus
• Not me. Phones are one type of technology I prefer to avoid the bleeding edge of. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Just get this: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/keepin-it-real-fake-part-lx-iphone-clone-on-video/ A... : spectr3
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  I'm getting one, but I'm not lining up for it. gonna try my luck at the online apple store. i can afford ... : warpdude
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    I'm in your boat, gonna flex my spamming skills on the Apple site. F5 F5 F5 F5 : spazzium
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      I have no doubt that they have enough inventory to fill most orders made online, but I'm worried that the... : warpdude
      • I was there at zero hour for the first mac mini and the site was working fine. Granted not quite the dem... : spazzium
• Sadly... yes. Kill me now. : spazzium
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  No IM is a deal breaker for me. Curve instead. : D45hiz
  • AJAX provides a wealth of online AIM clients. Don't know how good that really will be though. : Yanks
• I have saved up, and am getting one. It's gonna be awesome! : lookitzpancakes
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  I REALLY want one but will wait for prices to come down. : vynn
  • not very likely within the next year or two, I think. their usual game plan with product lines is to main... : warpdude
• Like I said before, no verizon no buy. I need me my signal while on the DC metro. : gmd
• no way. : thief
• if i could get my hands on one, i would : Korban
• i'll wait a generation or two. maybe competitors will come out with something similar to up the playing f... : xxiv
• EDGE. WTF. That is all. : zyklonbee
• No way. AT&T was the deal killer there, fuck them. : Visceral Monkey
• No. I would like one, but Edge and the price kills it for me. I'll wait until 3rd or 4th gen. : Fredrik S
• Hell no : Begawkiness
• Prodigal? : Dynotaku

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• whoa. I think nintendo is having an epic year, and sony is having the worst ever. still... whoa. : hirez
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  How is that possible given all the other things that Sony is involved with? : spiffymc
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    It's pretty easy when the portion of your company keeping everything else afloat is failing miserably... : walker270
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      I always though sony electronics did well, when did they hit a downturn? Did they lose focus on everythi... : pigvomit
      • I think their higher-end TVs (LCoS, aka SXRD) are doing well, but I don't believe the rest of their elect... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    If I had to guess, I'm going to say Nintendo probably has a huge cash reserve and Sony might be carrying ... : kevp
    • More or less. Scroll down for their balance sheet: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=sne&hl=en : Serpico74
  • Because Sony is in a rough patch right now. They're doing terrible in everything they're involved with. T... : K1Bond007
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  Is that just Sony's gaming division or Sony overall as a company? : askedrelic
  • for the last few years there gaming division has been their star attraction, so to speak : pharoah mike
• Overall as a whole company. : sigpro
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  its really disappointing to me that wii is doing better than 360. really, really disappointing. hopefully... : bradsh
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    Yeah, how dare a cheaper, reliable console with a new controller beat out a more expensive, faulty consol... : walker270
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      lol... yeah how dare!!! I can't even sleep at night without my 3 blinking night lights. : Edges
      • The rattling noises my replacement console makes are getting worse. Something tells me I'll have to repl... : walker270
  • It's not disappointing to my stock portfolio. >:) : Serpico74
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    Why does it bother you? It shouldn't really matter. : EvilDolemite
    • EvilDolemite with the rational responses, what are you thinking man? : d0gbert
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      because it signals games going in a direction towards silly nintendo driven gimmicks like touch screens a... : bradsh
      • Haha, give me a break. : ShekkyBoy
      • Yeah, people shouldn't like new, innovative control schemes! They should only care about incremental gra... : Arcanum
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  more proof that Sony is starting to circle the drain, and their feckless fool of a CEO isn't helping matt : the archvile
  • damn, that used to work in the funk.y days (opened with b, y, i; closed with y, i, b). : the archvile
• My only disappointment is that I didn't buy NTDOY stock earlier. No way I would have guessed a 40ish% inc... : Serpico74
• It is important to note that Sony's market cap has almost doubled in the last two years. The value of bot... : Serpico74
• That is what sony gets for walking away from the SNES. I told you people that this whole playstation thi... : rosewood
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  i just don't undrestand it. There hasn't been one game i've been interested in playing on the Wii since ... : burning eye
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    I guess you haven't been the one buying up all the Wiis them. : EvilDolemite
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      yeah. that's probably the reason... what? : burning eye
      • A little more bluntly... NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME TASTE IN GAMES AS YOU That about cover it? : walker270
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        the problem is you, not the wii. : donlo
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          really? what have these good games that have came out for the wii been? : lakren
          • Zelda, Monkey Ball, Rayman, Paper Mario, Trauma Center : walker270
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            RE4, godfather, SSX Blur, Excite Truck : donlo
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              i dont think you can really count RE4 : bradsh
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                Does that mean you can't count all the PS3 games that hit the 360 earlier, like Oblivion, etc? : Fayk
                • Ports don't count, so says bradsh : Serpico74
              • Right, totally, until it's released as a Wii-native game : geedeck
            • Really wanna hit RE4 for the wii. Add it to the list of games I don't have time to play :( : spazzium
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            It's not really about the amount of great games. The Wii is selling essentially because of Wii Sports, Wi... : K1Bond007
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              Yep, and out of those, I would say mostly Wii sports. People are buying into the gimmick, and gamers are ... : bradsh
              • not really im selling my copy after putting about 15 hours in, let me know when the add a decent save sys... : donlo
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                You're saying people buy the system w/o getting any games? 5 / 15 of the top selling games for May 2007 w... : aethyr
                • those are US numbers too, in Japan it's more like 5 / 15 Wii, 8 / 15 DS, 1 PSP, 1 PS2. : aethyr
  • Yea, me either, Wii is the new low carb diet, lol. : Sayj3000
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  It's lucky Nintendo makes money on the consoles because I really don't think all those casual gamers that... : Fred Garvin
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    i agree with you fred garvin : boring gegtik
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      Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day :( : Fred Garvin
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        what if the hands are what's broken and they've fallen off? : pharoah mike
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          he'd still post but he'd have to type with a wand attached to his head : boring gegtik
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            Oh, I already type with my "wand". : Fred Garvin
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              you probably post from a blackberry : boring gegtik
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                Nah, I post from one of those "large" format keyboards. Like the telephone Homer had for his fat fingers. : Fred Garvin
                • that's because you post with your fat fingers : boring gegtik
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    I wouldn't be so sure. if they market things right then they could turn them into cash-cows. I know peo : e1ghtball
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      Not going to happen. The casual game market is wide, not deep. : Fred Garvin
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        I'm not really clear on what you mean by this. that the casual gamers are too wide a demographic to ... : e1ghtball
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          I am saying that there is a huge casual game market, but each of those gamers are not going to come anywh... : Fred Garvin
          • yep, I've been saying this and then since Nintendo won't have huge blockbuster games like 360 and ps3 (GT... : h o s t i l e

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  impossible to fake, 100% real : multisync
  • sarcasm aside, I still think it would be pretty hard to fake. : trelain
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  watching now. A ton of this can be faked pretty easily, and prolly is fake. But some of it is just creepy... : mavmavv
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    lol, some of this crap is laughably bad though. : mavmavv
    • wow. it got worse and worse. Like a bad infomercial. Its all fake dude, really bad fakes. : mavmavv
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    i think the most convincing is the one with the picture of jesus. the "demon" one I dont believe for one ... : trelain
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      Somewhere between 8:08 and 8:16, the picture of Jesus is moved while the camera angle stays the same. Pr... : Edges
      • And the last one is japanese. Knowing the Japanese and their love of horror movies... guaranteed to be f... : Edges
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  That demon child one would've scared me shitless : Edges
  • yeah, me too. : orgcaptainnemo
• i call shenanigans. : GonzoRookie
• I couldn't be bothered to watch the whole thing, it's so fake. : mrfunky3000
• scary? good god. i know, i know, i wish life was a lot more exciting than it is, but i didn't find any of... : cygnus
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  ahahahah HIS PANTRY DOOR OPENED!!!!! : datoo
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    clearly the only explanation is a ghost : the city
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      What you don't realize is ... there's NO ACTUAL DOOR THERE. It's a ghost door. : taronish
      • Okay, I laughed. : iamgoat
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  only for people with open minds! Reflective, incredulous, or critical thinkers need not apply. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • I can't tell if this is serious or a joke ... : taronish
• They used stop motion in a lot of 'em. Look at the shadows. : CrustaR
• I'm pretty open minded with this stuff, and a lot of that looks silly / edited. Also, my super skittis : tomservo
• Some of it is pretty creepy, and I thought the camera in the mirror thing was well done, but yeah, nothin... : Vincent Grayson
• Wow, that was horrible. : devi| dog
• Those are all so fake it's laughable. : Super Sparker
• Some of that is creepy, but all of it could be fakes relatively easily with simple mechanical methods or ... : Arcanum
• that first poltergeist one was pretty good, the rest was boring and crappy and unbelievable : Korban
• lol you actually believed that shit was real? if we can make dinosaurs look real for jurassic park, some... : eeeealmo
• Parts of me really, really wish any of it was true. : felicia
• HAHAHA, this begs for a parody video : headbone
• lol the one with the poltergeist jesus clock thing. the dresser in the background you can buy from target... : ant_hillbilly
• Friggen ghosts are the worst house guests. All ways tearing shit up. I mean what the fuck! Keep your shit... : .sticks.
• I see fake people. : Frozen Pixel
• i don't believe in any of that paranormal type shit but i absolutely one hundred percent cannot watch vid... : [fry]
• I believe in ghosts and know people who have experienced shit like this, but I don't think I trust the vi... : oatmela
• THEY'RE IN ROOM 1408 RIGHT NOW : kill9
• It all looks fake, but the one with the little kid ghost in the hallway was creepy nonetheless. : broly1718
• that was all really bad and horrible fakes : jaga
• They are all around us!! Idiots that think this shit can't be faked!!! : Haku-Jin
• I believe this... to be a Demon : bRAINsick
• Incredibly fake. : TastyWheat
• Uuhhhhhhhhhhhhh : mr.sleepy
• How can you be scared of this? The demon operating the camera must have turrets or Parkinson's disease ... : classicfork

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  Nope. I'm home and I'm chillin'. God bless my current job, where I can come in early, and arrive home... : Maddog_Delphi97
  • DIAF! : Wolfanoz
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    let's get it started then. : lacker
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      AFFIRMITIVE!! /me cocks autoshotty : Maddog_Delphi97
      • lol cocks : mrfunky3000
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  Why'd you leave, lacker? :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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    my mouse doesn't work anymore and I am used to switching weapons with the wheel. That's why you shot me w... : lacker
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      just switched mice. hopefully tonight's game will be better. : lacker
      • Cool. I look forward to seeing you. : Maddog_Delphi97
    • Oh. :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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  So sad. My video card, she be dying. I can't play anything too taxing anymore until I get bootcamp worki... : .sticks.
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    CS:S runs better on my MBP than my Athlon XP 2400+ :( : manero
    • Well that's no shocker there. : EvilDolemite
• 6 going into PRODIGY. ps. thunder storm going on rite now, if lightning shocks me through my monitor i... : DrFlammable
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  speaking of CS:S, I found a port of cs_backalley (one of my favoritest maps of all time) to Source, but i... : manero
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    There's a custom map (made for CS:S) of one of the first maps for Counterstrike... but I can't remember w... : Maddog_Delphi97
    • cs_siege? : manero
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      Yeah, that's it. misreply went to the parent of this thread. :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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        i miss hanging around in the little building behind the grate windows with a TMP on that map : manero
        • Was the framerate good near the bridge on CS 1.6? : Maddog_Delphi97
• 7 assault : DrFlammable
• Yeah, that's it. : Maddog_Delphi97
• 9 on cs_compound. IGGY!! : Maddog_Delphi97
• the shack's love of dominating blowouts = me quits : RikiTiki2
• IGIGIGIGIIGG : mista mista
• 9 on cs_office now. I think datoo is cheating :( : Maddog_Delphi97
• 20 or so on office : DrFlammable
• Shit, 9.5am here, still at work. ;[ : lightly inclined
• Everybody's gone now. :| : Maddog_Delphi97
• sure, igi now : lowayne
• 5 on asstech : bradsh
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  But the demo for QWET is out. : Dynotaku
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    Umm, You mean Quake 4 MP Demo? : Fail_Safe
    • I think he means the beta : trOmblyj
• 16 are in on Nuke currently : pharoah mike
• 15 on italy currently. : Durandal07

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• It loves eating loads of RAM. :( : sgtsanity
• Those graphics are amazing. : CrustaR
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  Gogamer has it for $4.90 if people want to save even more money. I ended up getting it, the only space g... : Lionhart32935
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    FYI, that might be the StarForce version (1.0). There's a slew of patching that went on for the original ... : Rampancy
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      http://www.boycottstarforce.net/game-list/ This website says you just have to patch it up to 2.0 befor... : Nali4Freedom
      • This is correct. Starforce installs when you run the game otherwise. : Helter Skelter
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        Just spend the $20 and buy the DVD version, which is Starforce-free and comes with some additional conten... : Ride-My-Rocket
        • over $5? Man, no way, I'm a cheap bastard. : Nali4Freedom
  • Nice catch; purchased : drodver
• How does this compare to EVE Online besides, of course, the fact that EVE is an MMO? : PenicillinX57
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  Q: Do you control your plane a la Tie Fighter or is it point and click? Why the fuck does every fan-ma... : Ebu
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    It's full on control, unlike EVE's. It has inertia, so it plays like Tie Fighter with strafing. The comba... : Rampancy
    • (700megs that is... not gigs!) : Rampancy
  • I have a P4 3.0ghz with 1g ram and an X800SE, and it ran the game pretty well. : riptyde
  • I enjoyed the music :( : cryptical
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    Muse is amazing. The game looks sweet, too. I'm tempted to buy the game and play a Malcolm Reynolds typ... : Enkidu
    • If I ever had a space sim trailer I'd use that song too : Mondo
    • You...I...one can do something like that? For reals? : Ebu
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  Also, the game is 100% playable on a 360 gamepad if you use an app called XPadder to get the right stick ... : Rampancy
  • please do, I've been thinking about giving this game a go and a functional 360 pad implementation would h... : a uberboy
  • Same here, I love 360 gamepad on PC goodness. : Fail_Safe
• I had to surgically remove myself from that game because I was playing it so much. I was the fucking Exx... : riptyde
• i love this game one of the few games where you can realistically spend over 100 hrs playing and not g... : Enraged Pineapple
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  X2 killed my 6800GT. True story. hardlock and the thing never booted up again. :( Also, the economy i... : Caboose
  • The D2 "stress test" killed one of my SLI'd 8mb Voodoo 2s. Act 1 encampment, it started raining, bolt of ... : Daggoth
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  www.igneferroque.org/X3.mpg Basically, I decided to go out the west gate and look for trouble. When I ... : Rampancy
  • Holy shit, excellent host. Capping my 1.2MB/s connection :D : Ebu
  • that looked awesome : whore
• That mod looks like it improves the ships 100x. If they could make this game with a simple homeworld or s... : eldiablo01
• its cool to think that somewhere in the universe that is actually happening (Whats going on in the traile... : hobosapien
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  Any guest passes to this for me before I consider buying it? :( : ejectorpod
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    It's not an MMO : riptyde
    • Just single player then? : ejectorpod
  • no steam guest passes sadly. :( And it's SP... I remember there being a demo a while back but I could ... : nephilem
• Watch out for the kha'ak! http://youtube.com/watch?v=pi8n6uN091E : Prozium
• I just picked up the CD-rom edition (with starforce but they have a utility to remove it) for $4.90 at Go... : melkore
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  Is there anything important that I'll miss if I don't follow the storyline? Besides the story, I mean. : forktaileddevil
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    I'd do the first mission about the patrol, and then when you get asked to meet up with people at the Gone... : Rampancy
    • That's the thing, the first mission has never worked for me. The briefing just ends a few seconds in and ... : forktaileddevil
    • Do you have to finish the main plot to start the Bala Gi research thing in the 2.0.02 patch? If so I'd sa... : daedraug
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  Is this on GameTap? I can't remember. : Majuju
  • No. X2 is, though. : Helter Skelter
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  That looks totally rad. Shit. The last game you told me to buy was Myth 2, and we all know how that tur... : brickmatt
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    Is the gamepad a total necessity? I have several Xbox 360 controllers, is there an adapter or do I need ... : brickmatt
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      This will save you from endless frustration: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=162408 I thin... : Rampancy
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        The gameplay practically demands that the game is played with a mouse. The maneuverability is so high tha... : forktaileddevil
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          what about joystick...i like my space sims with my microsoft precision pro : papaskot
          • The interface is mouse based. Autopilot, communication, navigation, and so forth are accessed by rightcli... : forktaileddevil
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            I use a Saitek X52, works great and has plenty of buttons which reduce the need to reach for the keyboard... : daedraug
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              And combat works too? That's impressive. : forktaileddevil
              • Yeah absolutely. Missiles, targeting, strafe, throttle etc. all on the HOTAS, it's great. Haven't really ... : daedraug
• I had about 40 game-hours logged in X3 2.0 , and was just starting to get the hang of it, when my hard dr... : Ride-My-Rocket
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  My main problem with the game was the crappy combat, it was just so difficult to hit anything. It's like ... : sanchez
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    There are upgrades you can buy that makes targeting easier, pretty hard -not- to hit with those installed... : daedraug
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      The larger ships seemed to move slower than molasses. Making them dock was longer than most peoples vacat... : eldiablo01
      • Heh true, with seta turned to 10x (max?) in the settings it's not so bad though. I seem to recall an upg... : daedraug
• Still looking at Freelancer + Discovery Mode, then I'll give X3.Reunion + xTended mod a look. : Lukiopimp
• lol you played Vanguard. How does it feel to be part of such an exclusive club? : Sexpansion Pack

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• the game is not BF, it's not supposed to be slow. did you not ever play wolf:et? in other words, lear... : Zibro
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  well if the other players are hitting their shots then maybe it's not the game? : Mansmells
  • olol that doesnt make any sense............to him : X-GOUKI
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  I only played for about 20 minutes but I felt the weapons were much more effective than the weapons in th... : sanchez
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    the weapons felt just like the weapons in wolf:et to me, except instead of bullets they were lil laser th... : Zibro
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      Same here. It definitely had an ET feel to me, which I found pretty odd (although very positive). It's li... : zehh
      • Yeah, this is exactly what I thought, too. I don't understand the vehicle complaints, either; I don't wan... : Zibro
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    i think that system performance can make a big difference. the way it is setup now the system defaults in... : Mansmells
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      meant to say the game defaults in an fps lock : Mansmells
      • and lest i explained that poorly or incorrectly here is an official explanation of the fps lock http:/... : Mansmells
    • Yeah, 8800GTX system here, maxed out settings and it ran smoothly. : sanchez
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  It reminded me of C&C Renegade. : pigvomit
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    I think that's a delightful thing. : geedeck
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      I delightfully agree! : pigvomit
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        WTF? Are you sure? I'm a huge fan of Renegade. Quake Wars was definitely off my map though... : bearxor
        • ya the maps are smallish, the gunplay arcady and the vehicles fun (a little more arcady than UT2K4) witho... : donlo
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  What's wrong with circle strafing? : Edges
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    It apparently doesn't belong in a game with a rocket jumping heritage. : pigvomit
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      rocket jumping didn't work very well in wolfenstein : Zibro
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        Hint: quake : zehh
        • this game is nothing like quake though : swoopx
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  Ironically, I was just in the tank on the hill raining down hot death on the strogg. There are plenty... : Toxy
  • Good points, the Strogg side requires more teamwork to win, at least for Sewers. : vynn
• I wonder how we're having such different experiences. I think the weapons are delightful and well balance... : geedeck
• OMG, your post gives me Quake 2 flashbacks. Fucking Llama. : CRasterImage
• I played maybe 30 minutes total and killed 7 people. I don't do that well in two hours' worth of BF1942. : Orange Pylon
• Ooh, I never thought of spamming the EMP location with the tank, thanks for the idea! And the weapons ... : Dynotaku
• I'm going to play some more, I'll find a half-full server, just friend-add my name and you should be able... : geedeck
• Some servers, even where I have a sub 100 ping, seemed to have much more latency than others. I don't kno... : vynn
• Well, if you feel this way, perhaps you could share your account so people who didn't get to fileplanet o... : d0gbert
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  I've seen alot of people talking about 'bad netcode' (lol) in this game - but no one stating theyve even ... : eskimo spy
  • True. I'm playing this game with a 170ms+ ping and it feels like heaven. Not as good as, say, quake1 (... : zehh
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    there are definitely some issues with servers lagging right now. i was playing yesterday with two other f... : Mansmells
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      That's exactly what I experienced on some servers but there are a lot of good servers that don't have tha... : vynn
      • Yes, I played around 8hs and had that a few times too, with small freezes. I was on TS with a friend thou... : zehh
• Go field op, deploy rocket launcher, lock on tank problem solved. : ctlaltl33t
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  This game is not about weapons but more about using all of the class-unique items/deployables (and your b... : High-g
  • My favorite method for tanking out the Titan tank is to hold the Shift key and plow right through it with... : vynn
• gdi.. lol. : doomed
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  the more complaints i hear about this game the more excited i get. seems to hard to "get" just like wolf... : gokart.
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    hopefully the maps will all be balanced enough for replayability, unlike that beach bunker one in wolf:et... : the archvile
    • hopefully, the origonal RTCW maps where all fantastic, a lineup that good would be just wonderful- the be... : snowwolf

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  I wonder what Edgewise sees when he looks at that picture. : Chunks
  • $$$$$$$$$$ : phobium
  • probably the vomit all over his screen just like the rest of us : SockMonkeh
  • a challenge : lacker
  • Home : drbriefs
  • Another $3000 lamp for his mansion. : ChibiJosh
  • Opportunity. Knocking. All over his fucking door. : Fyunch Click
  • He see nothing. His head is thrown back in evil maniacal laughter while he rubs his hands with evil glee : .sticks.
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    that one chick could eat a corncob through a picket fence : onji
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      ahh fuck, read the whole thread dumbass : onji
      • it's OK, I think you and I are the only ones here who had heard that one before... it's as old as the hil... : drucifer
  • Big Ben, Tower of London, Chunnel. : edgewise
• if i had a carrot id feet it to the one with the big chompers. : -=kodiak=-
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  atleast they are having fun... :( Oh god... I bet they're hungry. : mavmavv
  • the one is tenderizing the other one's tit. All she needs is a bottle of A1 in her other hand... : Fyunch Click
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  She could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence! : drucifer
  • hahahahahhaahahahahah : filtersweep
  • hahahhahah : Shadowdane
  • dude....I peed laughing... : Wolfanoz
  • New record of lol's to a drucifer joke ? :) : imperator
  • hahahaha wow : proclone1
  • i'm trying to visualize this and i am only getting more confused : mr.sleepy
  • i can't believe ive never heard this saying before. google ensures that its not new but god damn its too ... : porp
  • This is a job for.........edgewise : TheArtMan
• If she wants to get that fixed, I hope she's on her parent's insurance. That stuff is pricey! : helvetica
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  Her face is like a hungry hungry hippo. :( : sgtsanity
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    http://images.funagain.com/cover/huge/01604.jpg : Wolfanoz
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      Photoshop it stat.. I'd attempt myself but I don't have Photoshop at work. :( : Shadowdane
      • on it : mavmavv
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        http://supermonkeyballz.shackspace.com/WTFHippos.jpg : supermonkeyballz
        • hahahaha @ choking hazard warning! LOL : Shadowdane
        • nice : drucifer
        • HAHAHAHAAAAAAaaaaa /faints : mystifier
  • For a while I was like "whatever, this pic is not near so terrible as people are making it out to be," bu : Majuju
• http://iacmusic.com/Uploads/38895_7_2_2006_8_07_30_PM_-_nosferatu.jpg : Rauol Duke
• http://img181.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=07189_hippo_122_412lo.jpg All I could do quickly with paint... : mavmavv
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  I bet half of you fruitcake secretly wished you were that guy doing the grabbing, then you alt+tabbed bac... : scener
  • damn. You got me all figured out. : ki11_viru5
  • Um...dude, none of those are guys. : knitemare
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHrZ07QVN5k : Rag and Bone Man