Evening Reading

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• eeeeeerrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh : Mr.SEX
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  I dont really get it. Dammit :( : mavmavv
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence : AbortedFetusChristi
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      no, ive heard of that. I guess im just dead inside. : mavmavv
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        wasnt it in The Da Vinci Code? : changejar419
        • that movie was retarded, don't know about the book : SockMonkeh
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  I can't wait until this chick dumps him. I'm so sick of these sappy-ass comics! : tashtego
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    I take that back- I don't hope she dumps him, because that's mean. I do hope he stops making infatuated, ... : tashtego
    • Yeah, they've definitely been on the decline since he's been getting laid. This one is pretty clever, bu... : skizl
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      if she dumps him we'll just get months of depressed mopey crap anyway : SockMonkeh
      • but funny despressed mopey crap! : zebrigazi
• I don't get it. :( : PowerofA
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  This one makes me want to throw up. : CrustaR
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    and count the chunks to see if it's prime? : Modulus
    • lol : Phil
• ha! very good one. :) : Fredrik S
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  That's it. As of today, I'm starting my own web comic. Apparently anyone can do this. http://i1.uplo... : Phil
  • hahahaha : Mr.SEX
  • you're a RSS feed away from internet fame and glory!!! : digitalburro
  • ahahah, I whole-heartedly support this endeavour. : Foxhawk
  • classic : pulse2115
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    Gold. I swear, that guy is such a loser. I cringe when I realize that I found one of his strips amusin... : SatansLilHelper
    • The tape measure comic was pretty funny. : knitemare
  • thanks phillip : SockMonkeh
  • but but.... its not... : mavmavv
  • I laughed harder at this.. nice work. : stonedonkey
  • If you write it, I'll draw it :) : knitemare
  • hahaha : lightly inclined
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    Except... your math is wrong. T O T A L L Y R U I N E D T H E J O K E'd : Masem
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      That is part of the joke. She kills herself because he can't do basic math AND because he's doing math j... : Phil
      • How can she tell she's doing math jokes? She's a girl! :) : Masem
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      That's why she's shooting herself, because the math is wrong. As the original xkcd comic highlights, math : helvetica
      • also she's probably pretty self-conscious about her flat chest : SockMonkeh
  • Funniest XVCDHJDJ ever. : Rauol Duke
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    I hate to rain on your math parade, but you didn't quite get the Pythagorean equation right. $1^2+$2^... : Dynotaku
    • i'm not sure, you didn't even read the post like 3 up from your own. : lakren
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=47929 : CrustaR
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        YOU"RE DOING IT WRONG : Omaha
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          Oh, right. Sorry: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14749172#itemanchor_14749172 : CrustaR
          • /me slaps forehead audibly : Omaha
    • Gah, that's what I get for not hitting 'post' for 20 minutes. : Dynotaku
• Sounds like our boy there has a touch of the ocd... : Jenings
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  the "about" page says he draws the comic fulltime. HOW LONG CAN A STICK FIGURE TAKE TO FUCKING DRAW *angr... : jbury
  • Just long enough to make it consistently entertaining and funny. : Lionhart32935
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  About as funny as inoperable testicular cancer. : spdon
  • that's pretty funny : Izanaki

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  secret admission: i played about 5 minutes of Metroid Prime before I gave up and lost interest. I've not... : multisync
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    Are you DS equipped? The DS metroids are quite good. : spazzium
    • you mean the GBA metroids (i hope, metroid prime hunters, while a decent effort, isn't old school metroid... : ttyRazor
  • metroid prime was my favorite :( : Mr.SEX
  • YOU ARE DEAD TO ME : jbury
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    ive tried metriod on the gba (hated it) and on the CG (didnt like) and on the ds (also didnt like) i g... : CoRDS
    • cg is the new old gc : CoRDS
  • I tried slightly harder than you to like it, but I didn't. Sorry. : SiW73
  • Exactly the same here. : Rauol Duke
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    Loved prime but the thought of playing another one makes me want to puke. : geneshifter
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      This... doesn't make sense. : ShekkyBoy
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        It's just the same crap again with the new controller scheme. : geneshifter
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          Not from what I've read. : FushigiDenki
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            Yeah, supposed to be less back tracking, less METROIDSTART-TAKEAWAYMYTOYS Samus and (seemingly from my pe... : geedeck
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              mmm, no back tracking sounds good. I hated that. : geneshifter
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                Backtracking has been an integrall part of Metroid since the beginning. Maybe they are lessening it, but ... : Serpico74
                • Yeah, I specifically said less. It's still there, and for that I'm glad, because it is part of the game's... : geedeck
        • have you played the new one? : AllYourBase
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        not really, there are lots of games I loved playing but just don't really have any interest in playing th... : qwpeoriu
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          It's not "the same crap" because of the new controller scheme. Honestly, I think a lot of hate is because... : ShekkyBoy
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            Gah, reply to geneshifter. Anyway, can you name some examples which you weren't interested? I can underst... : ShekkyBoy
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              katamari damashii, call of duty (I got the 2nd one for like 10 bucks really cheap but just never really h... : qwpeoriu
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                oh yeah, splinter cell was another one I've just never had a desire to play after the first (even though ... : qwpeoriu
                • Conviction may be OK, but I hated DA and loved Chaos Theory. I hope they don't screw up this one. Looks... : geneshifter
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    surely you have tried the greatest game ever? Super Metroid. : stgdz
    • he must have failed to mention that, somehow. its the only explanation : yAak
  • Same here. Seriously. Then, a couple years later, after hearing nothing but ridiculous praise, I sat ... : Chris Remo
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  according to the bubble on the front page - "it fucking rocks" : flagg209
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    yes but i want a full remo style write up >:( i'm really curious as to how the controls work beyond "the... : Mr.SEX
    • I'm with you - I never really played a MP game before, and I haven't played any shooters on my wii yet. ... : flagg209
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      Coming this evening : Chris Remo
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        good deal. Did you get to see anything more on Smash Bros Brawl other than what was shown during the key... : c_man_tmt
        • No, and I don't think anyone did. I asked about it during my exec interview, but didn't really get any n... : Chris Remo
      • (It's up!) : Chris Remo
  • That will be one of the critics quotes on the GOTY box. : Serpico74

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• of course. It could probably work in 98 too. They just need to program it for it. : razlebol
• I wonder if that guy likes microsoft. It's really hard for me to tell from that article. : qwpeoriu
• Inquirer. : Fred Garvin
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  ugh, Vista is not "ME II" : suqur
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    Dude, it's the Inquirer. : Ajax
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      Broken 3D audio, crappy "games for windows" console ports, problems with the LATEST video card drivers in... : Amnesty_intl2
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        crappy "games for windows" console ports <-- wut? Are you complaining about the fact you can get achievem... : nudel
        • well guess what, which self respecting PC gamer would buy Halo 2 (A 3 year old xbox 1 game) or shadowrun,... : Amnesty_intl2
• Impediment removed doesn't mean you can just drop it into XP, you guys have to know that programming is n... : FushigiDenki
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  "EVER WONDER WHY MS refuses to release DX10 for XP" Er, no, since it's their OS and their API and they... : nudel
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    How about DX10 being really the only reason to upgrade. All the rest of the stuff you just listed are ni... : RyDogg1
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      You're gonna need a new PC to run Crysis only and that's the only worthwhile DX10 game I know of so what'... : nudel
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        Thanks for talking me out of ME2. : RyDogg1
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          Why not go the full hog and call it M$ ME2. Go on! : nudel
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            I have nothing against MS or Windows. I have run XP for years and before that 98SE as my primary OS. I ... : RyDogg1
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              Unlike ME, there's no reason to avoid Vista either. Don't run to it but don't run from it. Unfortunate... : nudel
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                I agree for the most part, they did some major kernel work in terms of what you describe with more footpr... : RyDogg1
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                  Stuff doesn't have to be written to take advantage of SuperFetch, it's all automatic. Yeah, the compla... : nudel
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                    I have a bad ass digital clock gadget for sidebar, it even has 3 power buttons for shutdown, restart, and... : sigpro
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                      Hehe, I think I saw that one and I thought, why the fuck would shutdown, restart and log off buttons in a... : nudel
                      • I didn't even know it had the clock at 1st. I like the bottons but it's still easier for me to alt-f4 and... : sigpro
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        It's playable in xp with Dx9 though and should run a lot faster. : razlebol
        • I hear it'll also run faster if you switch to 640x480 and run it in black & white. :) : nudel
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      I just went back to XP from vista, and man does XP seem slow in terms of regular windows stuff. Probably... : paravis
      • this may sound dumb, but are you comparing 2 fresh installs? I've never used vista, tempted to upgrade if... : spdon
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    I would pay 50$ for directx 10 and stick with xp. They should release it. I don't care about paying, I ju... : razlebol
    • I want you to upgrade so I can start using the cool new APIs in my software. :) Think of the developer... : nudel
  • I had a real desirable urge to punch this shitheaded enquirer writer in the throat. Irritating little fuc... : Entity
• The opening line is hilarious. I'm sure the Linux fold is growing geometrically because of lack of suppo... : Omaha
• i really do wish they would release it somehow. Vista has grown on me using it on my laptop but I really... : smacknca
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  Sadly, I will admit that I did upgrade. I went from XP to Ubuntu and bought a Wii. Since when was tha... : CrustaR
  • The "Vista sucks" articles always seem to be written by OS X / Linux fanboys trying to force their choice... : nudel
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  Guys, here are a couple posts by Phil Taylor, who is the graphics lead on Flight Simulator X and was invo... : TabsAZ
  • Thanks for those. Pretty much shows that The Inq's article, and all the complaining about DX10 on XP, is ... : nudel
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  Is it possible to do a straight upgrade from XP to Vista? Also, is performance in games still fairly bad... : CrustaR
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    Of course. Performance is on par or better in vista now. Ignore the haters. : x[sliver]
    • Cool; I'll probably upgrade later on once Crysis comes out. : CrustaR
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  Speaking of Vista - How much worse is it still than XP in terms of performance in games for nVidia cards? : MuteMode
  • Not at all. : x[sliver]
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    I've seen benchmarks with the same hardware showing 5-10% drops in performance in Vista. I think it's jus... : suqur
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      have you seen any benchmarks with the latest nvidia drivers? I've been trying to find some. But yeah xp ... : paravis
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        The 162.xx series is closing the gap; lotsa guys pretty pleased now. : Merconium
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          can you get those on the nvidia site? I haven't seen higher than the 158 series. Also do they work on 780... : sigpro
          • The 8xxx cards use different drivers than the 7xxx and below. I don't think that's changed in the last mo... : Ebu
  • http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTE3ODAxMDUyMnpRY0pEeTlDZXpfNl8xX2wuZ2lm sometimes only... : thebigbeefsandwich
• Well at least that author isn't wearing his biases on his sleeve. : Dynotaku
• * D E M E R J I A N ' D * Charlie may have valid opinions now and then, but he lays the anti-fanboyism... : the archvile
• OpenGL for the win. : SlamDunk
• Weren't similar arguments brought up for Win2K and XP? Face it, eventually we will all be on Vista. : Fred Garvin
• lol fuck that guy : feek
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  Wow. I didnt know there was such a thing as true MS fanboys, but I guess I have been corrected. I dont a... : stygian_whisper
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    Oh but billy, why didn't they go ahead and also implement Aero and Sidebar and the new MCE and the new Se... : FushigiDenki
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      Lol, is this supposed to make sense? DX10 is not comparable to Aero and Sidebar. Its a new release versi... : stygian_whisper
      • You are wrong, DX10 is part of Vista not part of XP. Also, I complain about MS all the time, just beca : FushigiDenki
      • FFS man, DX10 will not run on XP. Read the stuff TabsAZ posted. There's stuff in the OS, in the kernel... : nudel
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  Wait. MS makes products with new features and sells them to people for money? Who would have thought. ... : capt tripps
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    I'm surprised he paid that much for a Wii. What the hell, why didn't they just make the GCN compatibl... : Ebu
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      Ebu, the CrapCube cannot do Metroid Prime 3 at 60FPS, with Bloom, with Quake style turns, all while you'r... : Amnesty_intl2
      • Also now that I remember it, meanwhile running in 480p, in widescreen. Also the Wii has a faster CPU and ... : Amnesty_intl2
• On one hand MS is like oh we support PC gaming 100%, then on the other side they do stupid shit like this... : crazywigga
• That is the most poorly-written excuse for an article I have read since... : Ebu