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  I have to agree it looks good, however, gameplay wise it doesn't come even close to the awesomeness that ... : te[R]ror
  • This years FIFA is shaping up really well. Might even be nearly on par with PES. : soggybagel
  • Wow my friend loves Pro Evo too! There must be something to this. : SpaecKow
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    I actually preferred FIFA 07 to PES6. It was just more fun. : peanut-
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      On current gen though right? They both kinda bit ass on next-gen. : node
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        please start using current gen and last-gen, "next-gen" is in the future : OrkO
        • Ugh, yeah, you're right, sorry, hate that. So annoying. Every console is fucking next gen for 90% of its ... : node
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      i'd prefer PES over FIFA if FIFA didn't have so many goddamned gameplay bugs. : ^-SeaWolf-^
      • i mean i'd prefer fifa over pes : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    Anyone who actually plays football or knows anything about it rates pro evo above fifa, i dont know how a... : thewindcriesmary
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      Also, checkout the faq for FIFA08. The pc version is the PS2 version because EA claims modern pcs are not... : thewindcriesmary
      • they do that with all their sports games : derelict515
    • fifa isn't really bad. PES is just such a master piece that its hard to compete with. Its awesome for soc... : Neech
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    no winning 11 love? : fletch_
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      same game as PES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Evolution_Soccer : jcupitt
      • oh well carry on then : fletch_
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  bullshot : Krypt_
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Have you seen the replays in FIFA 07 on 360? : node
• Yeah, but in 2000 that was pretty awesome. : dopeman
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  I dont know,the crowd in 2000 looks much better to me. : Cashh
  • makes me want to run up into them : mXENO
  • It's focusing just on the foreground, the crowd looks much better closer. : h o s t i l e
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  The PS1 screenshot looks like it has texture filtering too so it'd look even worse. Or is that the PC ver... : node
  • Doh, it is. But yeah, the PS1 version would look even worse for better console>console comparison. : node
• hint : he's not the same guy. : barichnikov
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  test s{sleepy}s : p4ck3tloss
  • sleepy : p4ck3tloss

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  Holy shit that sounds awesome. :( : filtersweep
  • Yes somebody needs to buy them nowwwww : dopeman
• No love for some awesome hip hop? : dopeman
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  I would kill someone for tickets to see Public Enemy live. : -efx-
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    I would totally go but my friend unloaded these tickets on me last minute and I can't make it :( : dopeman
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      re-post these in the daytime not at this ungodly hour. : nyranger66
      • True that. : dopeman
• holy fuck thats a good list. : moe6
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  even including their extra fees you can get tickets for just about the same price on ticketmaster :P u : moonbreaker
  • I'm not looking to make a profit, I just saw the price and figured Ticketmaster applied the rape charges ... : dopeman
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  Jesus, aside from Del, that's pretty much a list of my favorite hip-hop acts and Rage : tomservo
  • Oh and Gravediggaz should be on there, but :( : tomservo
  • It's a pretty awesome lineup, I'd go for sure if I was local. : node
• awesome lineup : tcxsnoop
• BUY THESE TICKETS YOU ARE DUMB IF YOU DO NOT I didn't even get MF Doom or blackalicious at my rock the... : geedeck
• Great lineup, I wish I could go. :( : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Though a fan of his work, MF Doom is supposedly HORRID live. I'd go to see Nas, the roots, and mos, thoug... : aaarrrgh
  • Nas is AMAZING live. I saw him in Pittsburgh in a gym and he fuckin ripped. : h o s t i l e
  • oh, also seen blackalicious. they were amazing. : aaarrrgh
• Saw this in jersey, great show! : scapin
• Bump for the daytime peoples. I'll repost again if we get a new chatty, but people CHECK OUT THE LINEUP!... : dopeman
• Another mid-day bump for those looking for some hip hop action this weekend! : dopeman
• One last bump before Saturday. Fuckin' a people this show is going to rock, I know one of you wants to b... : dopeman

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  yeah. it's more "blog-like" now.. only covering major stories and scoops : wtf242
  • That's not how blogs operate. Blogs cover every single little tiny thing. : Chris Remo
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  wut? : drucifer
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    IT. MAY. BE. MY. IMAGINATION., BUT. IT. SEEMS. THAT. SINCE. SHACKNEWS. WENT. TO. THE. NEW. FORMAT., THE. ... : capt tripps
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      there is literally 30x the gaming news on the front page, they hired two more writers, wtf more do you wa... : drucifer
      • also, it's all original content now, not just links. SO.YOUR.IT.IS.YOUR.IMAGINATION : drucifer
    • NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT YOU MEAN BECAUSE SHACKNEWS HAS 100X THE NEWS NOW THEN IT EVER DID WTF ARE YOU TAL... : GloriousCow
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      yeah, we think you are an idiot. go to gamespot or ign or kotaku if you want constant drivel. : dahanese
      • Think whatever you want, but it would be nice if I didn't have to search around to find out that World in... : capt tripps
    • You're on crack. There's more gaming news, they just moved the fluff that is linking to other peoples' n... : Arcanum
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  Look in the right sidebar. That's where most of the "such-and-such a site has a new preview up" sort or ... : Arcanum
  • It's still pretty light. There are a lot of stories that don't show up. : capt tripps
• huh? : rosewood
• From our perspective, we're actually covering more news than before. Could you elaborate? I'm intereste... : Chris Remo

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  last night it was still very playable, just lagged a bit at the start of a new round when the server is f... : tunis5000
  • i remember a month or two ago we could easily have a full server and not even have a stutter. something ... : eeeealmo
• I think someone is attacking the server's sockets. : Fail_Safe
• Around 20 players is starts lagging. : dmason
• we need reinforcements, it's almost empty! : tunis5000

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• Yeah, Microsoft is ruining the world. : vigilante
• I have to admit I rented Open Season just for the points :( : skunk_ape
• he just wants validation for his video game addiction :( : oHnOES
• Was it Eragon? It's $10 for the 360 version if you get the gamestop email newsletter coupons. : Prozium
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  Sigpro isn't that old. : filtersweep
  • Bitch I don't whore games for the points. I bet it was Randy Pitchford. : sigpro
  • hahahaha : Degenerate
  • lolololololololololololololololololol : FormerHPB
  • I don't know what achievements are, girlfriend, but I like this post : tomservo
  • awesome... : BanjoBoy
• Does he know rentals exist? : DinK
• pretty much. I know several people who will rent or a buy a game not because it's FUN, but because they c... : jimvolk
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  what game was it ? : qwpeoriu
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    ^^^ wants to rent it ^^^ : Degenerate
    • damn straight i wish i had enough time to whore for points : qwpeoriu
• So what are the approved, rational reasons for buying 360 title? : melt_core
• They're not even worth anything! What the fuck! : Majuju
• TMNT? : crummynz
• that doesn't make any sense. How can you say it was a shitty 360 title if you've never heard of it. The... : knitemare
• Let the retards be retards! : mr.sleepy
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  How did you know he was 35? : mr.sleepy
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    A/S/L is universal now : scorpiusman
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      I saw the rear-end a 47 year old, wheel-chair bound, Croatian ex-military-prostitute last week while boat... : mr.sleepy
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        Original lyrics to "Wheel-Chair Bound Croatian Ex-Military Prostitute" : scorpiusman
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          copyright infringement : mr.sleepy
          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4 : scorpiusman
  • he cut him in half, and counted the rings : drucifer
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  Do you think I could get rich off making a game where you only have to press all the buttons on your game... : Izanaki
  • No, if only because everyone will only rent it. Otherwise, yes. : Fayk

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• the 60Hz refresh rate has nothing to do with the pixel response. : electroly

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  computer shit > real shit : rosewood
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    Sounds like all you IT people should look into switching careers to janitorial work since it is so awesom... : vigilante
    • Yeah, totally : scorpiusman
• Physically cleaning a floor > describing how to clean a floor to someone else : Jiven
• Janitors can work all night alone without anyone asking stupid questions : drucifer
• Deal idiots all day every day and see how nice you are. : mrwolf710
• When a janitor asks a floor what icons it sees on its desktop, the floor doesn't say "A pencil and some c... : Sapiens
• Because they deal with people not trashcans : scorpiusman
• Because IT people are more like plumbers, who are also generally cranky and have an undeservedly high opi... : Serpico74
• The difference is, Janitors feel at home with a series of tubes : indosauros
• Because the janitor knows how to make the building implode while the best an IT guy can do is annoy you a... : Fail_Safe
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  because janitors don't work they just act like they are, while IT guys cant get away with not working. : ant_hillbilly
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    Hehe yeah, IT guys are hard workers!! : FlatlineDixay
    • Hey, re-installing Windows is hard work. : Torgo
• Because the toughest decision a Janitor faces each day is whether to use Mr. Clean or Mop and Glow. : skitzo

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  So I find that 1 of my 512mb RAM sticks was bad (PC kept blue screening)... Dell sent me replacements a... : El Tigre
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    you sure they aren't supposed to be paired up the other way? Also, some mobos can't actually handle RA... : Zero|DPX
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      i tried 1gb | 512kb | 1gb | 512kb and got the same errors. I think its just the motherboard being a bitch... : El Tigre
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        I don't see what the point of putting 2x512 kilobyte chips in if you have 2x1gigabyte chips anyway. Throw... : famine101
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          Nit picking but please stop saying 512KB as they are 512MB sticks. : sigpro
          • See, thats what I was doing, but I forgot teh funnay. : famine101
          • oops, didn't even notice that. : El Tigre
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        No, I meant GB | GB | 0.5GB | 0.5GB. : Zero|DPX
        • i'll try that in a few minutes.. hopefully it works. : El Tigre

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  sure, right now? : Mansmells
  • Yeah probably, could be up to a hour though before I figure out ports and config etc. Just giving folks ... : RyDogg1
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  Someone try to connect, info is in my profile : RyDogg1
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    I couldn't get it. Just timed out : hawke
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      BTW, I can ping it just fine, but can't get in on 27733 : hawke
      • same here : re4ctor
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        Okay let me take a look at the ports. It's definitely listening. Is anyone on Xfire that can communicat... : RyDogg1
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          No but i am in the steam chat for the 1st shack group : sigpro
          • I just joined the channel. : RyDogg1
• Default port? It's not working for me. : sigpro
• I'll help :) : zipper76
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  Beta 1 or 2? : guido anchovy
  • Beta 2, if you were in Beta 1 you can still be in beta 2. Go download the latest client. : RyDogg1
• im fucking there A+++ : eeeealmo
• I'm in on the default port. Took me a while to connect though (over 30s before any response) : famine101
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  Hey people come help stress test this thing, we had 8 folks, need more. : RyDogg1
  • I joined and there was nobody on it. Are you going to leave it up for a while? : ctlaltl33t
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    I thought people were leaving, so I left. Sucky thing about this game is that it's not a whole lot of ... : famine101
    • yeah, it definitely needs enough people to have a few people as each class. : bording
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  I forgot to check my ping, but it didn't seem any worse than the other servers. (really hard to play w... : hawke
  • Pings seemed to be around 60-120, entirely playable in this game. Perhaps we can organized something for ... : re4ctor
• I thought you were talking about QuakeWorld at first. Don't get my hopes up! : Orange Pylon
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  IMPROMPTU ET:QW SHACKBATTLE! 10 pm EST tonight, server will be up for the next day or so, all connecti... : RyDogg1
  • Damnit!!! ....next time =( : ctlaltl33t
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  best place to download the latest beta? : nyranger66
  • there was a torrent that I'm still seeding I'm sure you can find it on any torrent site : famine101

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  Before http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=76550995yg1.jpg After http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php : Wheatloaf
  • I think it's a touch heavy, but looks good overall. : bipolar
  • Looks good! : Serpico74
  • I think they all look better except 2 and 3. #2 makes her look like a vampire in the 50's, and #3 looks o... : flox
  • Is that you in that first photo? : CrustaR
  • Not a big fan of the changes, I like things with saturation :( : Zero|DPX
  • They all look better except the ones with the chick to me. : sigpro
• Before is more vibrant and a little more TLC/Discovery Home. After is a lot more edgy, drawn out and more... : scorpiusman
• you just pulled the saturation down? eh. :( : GloriousCow

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• it helped out my network performance a bit. but I have an older video card, so no news about that side o... : hamachi
• uhh what? : spaceless
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  are they official now or still beta? : ant_hillbilly
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    yea what the fuck are you talking about where do i get this? : spaceless
    • google is your friend. And this is an official release, not beta. http://www.google.com/search?q=vi... : paravis
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      windows update and there is a direct link to the downloads somewhere as well. I did the direct stuff ... : hamachi
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        so can I install both packs or do I only get to choose one? : spaceless
        • I did both. : hamachi
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        dosnt seem to be appearing under windows update, I did check for updates also. I guess its still not off... : ant_hillbilly
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          well I guess maybe just not appearing under windows update for vista business possibly, but I was able to... : ant_hillbilly
          • I think it'll be on the next month/tuesday rotation. : hamachi
        • it's official, just not being released on windows update. : paravis
    • I posted about them 3 DAYS AGO YOU FAGGOTS. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14890555 : sharkII
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  ooh! i installed these last night after a day of being terrified of them, so far i've noticed a pretty de... : GonzoRookie
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    I have similiar specs but with 6800 instead, so far I really havent seen much differences except for the ... : ant_hillbilly
    • yea i've just noticed it having a little more zip on certain things that used to hang. : GonzoRookie

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUB8jLjH7NQ : indosauros
• Fraggle Rock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDeoO-j3G0 : scorpiusman
• The Smiths - How soon is now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NrIALcNOw : ant_hillbilly
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPj-ln8HQ4 : oHnOES
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    I hate you, seriously. Deep black bottom of the ocean anger. damnit : ant_hillbilly
    • I counter your crap with this classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg : ant_hillbilly
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-r8HWri41s : NastyJack

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  I used to, but no more! : drucifer
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    Wear size XXL, or like Valve's games? : Majuju
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      I'm an XL now soon to be L : drucifer
      • more like an ex-lol : kill9
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        I straddle XL-XXL and I'm not sure I will ever get into an L and be comfortable due to these BROAD, MANLY... : Majuju
        • Built-in Kevlar+Helmet ftw : scorpiusman
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          well, even skinny, my neck size was 17 1/2" so large might be a dream : drucifer
          • hahaha yes, I love exploding the necks off of dress shirts : Majuju
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        i wear an L to work out :O : rosewood
        • you bastard >:( : drucifer
• I'm an S :( : dantastic
• GONE!!! Thanks for playing : ctlaltl33t

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  omg i did it : [fry]
  • I think you've gone too far : Bean
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    omg you're my new favorite shacker. : Steve Gibson
    • you man whore, we are no longer going steady. : smacknca
    • lol : drucifer
    • Incoming marriage proposal! : The Key
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  pandas in asia are crying right now. why must you guys hurt the pandas? :~( : Steve Gibson
  • I dugg it before you even asked. : sigpro
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  i'm about to start crying in the corner. the pain.. it hurts so much.. the pandas... NOOOOOOOOOOO..... :( : Steve Gibson
  • Pandas are assholes but I dugg it anyway. :( : yoonix
  • id digg it, but i dont have a digg account so it seems that i can't. i don't ever visit the site, so I du : Bean
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    Why can I not see the Digg button? I ctrl+F5'ed and I don't have ads turned off, am I just an airhead? ... : dognose
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      we prefer to not have you specifically digg our stuff. nothing personal.. but its totally personal. : Steve Gibson
      • Whew, I thought it was me. Turns out it's me! : dognose
  • I dugg it ages ago, I canna digg it no more :( : Jonathan
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    Dude, I dugg already. I dugg so hard I'm gonna hit China! : warcrow
    • Just remember to save the pandas. : Jonathan
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    Is digg the new benchmark for advertising? Why has there been a big push with it the last couple of week... : stgdz
    • it's good way to get new people to the site. : edgewise
    • monies : anthonybean
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  maybe you should implement a digg-to-eliminate-PRL feature, that'd get em : RikiTiki2
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    hell yeah "Digg this and have no PRL for 24 hrs!" : Bean
    • "Digg this and see nuked posts for 24 hrs." I'd do it for that one! : deveus1
• i was the 24th. : knitemare
• Whats that green star thing on the digg button now? A "numbah 1" kinda thing? : thaperfectdrug
• The Shack is so modern. Jesus! : Rice-Rocketeer

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  I'm in, Frenchie. : SockMonkeh
  • For 8. : SockMonkeh
• Okay, everyone post in this thread so we know everything is going smoothly. : SockMonkeh
• 8pm yeh : painangel
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  I'm ready whenever but I think the consensus was around 8PM EST. : moogle
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    Go ahead and throw the server up, can't hurt. : SockMonkeh
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      My upload sucks, I think it was zanzares who was hosting last night. : moogle
      • Oh, ok. Well whoever was hosting feel free to begin the hosting process. : SockMonkeh
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  Game loaded and staging room open. Shack2/lime. I hope you passworded your civs. : zanzares
  • I'm there. : moogle
  • Locked and loaded. : SockMonkeh
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  PAGING Buzz and Foxy. : zanzares
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    Come on you two. : SockMonkeh
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      i'm here you cacksackers : Foxhawk
      • You sure about that? : zanzares
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  VALVE IS A FAG Oh my god, they release version 303 on Steam today but not for the retail copy. All it ... : SockMonkeh
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    this is retarded. i love steam, but this is stupid. : Foxhawk
    • this is the dumbest thing EVER, literally ever : SockMonkeh
  • Paging Jason Bergman to this thread. Give us 3.03 so we can continue our game please :( : moogle
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    why can't he play? what does a steam update have to do with civ iv : wtf242
    • the steam version of civ is updated to 303, the retail is still 302 : SockMonkeh
    • sounds like it updated civ 4 as well - incompatible versions : trOmblyj
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      Civ IV Beyond the Sword is available on steam, which is how he's playing it. The rest of us are playing i... : moogle
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        sounds to me like he wins via future tech : wtf242
        • lol : SockMonkeh

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  Woah, that's gonna be like driving a garbage truck for 10 years and then buying an Ariel Atom... : silentw
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    If that's a garbage truck, what's my amd 2500+? :( : stump
    • a snow sled trying to catch momentum uphill? : sesmaster
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      Lieutenant Dan on a bicycle. : BoKnows
      • ...before his prosthetics. : BoKnows
      • I lol'd. : Orange Pylon
    • Slower than my 2600+. : dltrem
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      Yeah, mine is a 2500+, 9800 Pro, and 512 MB RAM. :( : Zero|DPX
      • Hah! i have 1GB. : stump
      • Ouch. : ieGod
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        Wow, in 2003 I had a 1800+ that I overclocked to around 2800+ and a 9700 Pro with 2 GB of RAM. I was c... : Fail_Safe
        • You say this like 2003 was a long time ago! : Zero|DPX
        • Motherfuck, the 9700 Pro was my most favourite card I ever owned. : Rice-Rocketeer
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      I'm still rocking a 2500+@2GHz, 1GB, and 9500 Pro. : opengl128
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        OpenGL you are a legend among many : scorpiusman
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          nobody likes you use me anymore :-( : opengl128
          • *to : opengl128
  • Man, it is not that bad. My old system was roughly that. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  i have about the same old system but i really dont want to have to upgrade. im pretty sure im going for ... : oHnOES
  • Nothing is safe any more : scorpiusman
• woot, i'm back and this computer is sweet so far. I'll post more about its awesomeness after fish fry w/... : esmokah
• I just went from an amd 2300 + 9600xt to a c2d 6550 + x1950pro, it's such a huge difference. : boredguy

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  It has lots of doves : sigpro
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    it needs a gun that shoots doves : Crimsonbeak
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      I'd rather command the doves to do my bidding and some of them would be wired with explosives. : Fail_Safe
      • How come there are no games that give me full control of the wilderness? : Modica Sol Solis
      • Reminds me of 8 eyes for the NES, except for the explosives part. : bcyde
• It has that, quite a bit of it actually. When I found out I just dove right in. : -efx-
• what it was missing was falling paper cards. If you watch hard boiled basically every firefight scene ha... : skunk_ape
• All it was missing was Max Payne. : marblehead
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  • this post needs more love dove : Ebu
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  What Stranglehold needs is to not suck. : Deathlove
  • Note: More doves would help. : Deathlove
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    The cubs suck, the game is fun. : sigpro
    • while you may be correct on both counts, this is the first console FPS I've ever played and I am super-re... : Deathlove
• Maybe a strongly-worded letter from GeorgeB3DR will get them to add the feature in as a patch. "THE GA : Majuju
• I terminate any demo that does that. Much faster to just flip up Task Manager and mash "End Process". : the archvile

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• I'll for sure be on tomorrow. . .might be on late late tonight. : goatjc
• Not right now, maybe in a couple hours? : Orange Pylon
• ok, downloaded this official Highway Tampa map. Now I should be good to go : RikiTiki2

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• TF2..... me wants! : zipper76
• Steam BROKE Civ IV today. :[ They rolled out a 303 patch, and the retail peeps are still at 302 and they ... : zanzares

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  It contained the info for his security box with emergency passports and cash. : Prozium
  • Doesn't everybody have one of these? : zanzares
  • Yeah, I think I'd just write it down. I'm not planning on getting amnesia and then exploring every inch ... : vigilante

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• invites into the beta, that is. for more info about it, www.mythos.com : bipolar
• I'll take one. : -efx-
• Me! : spiderfill
• I'd love one : the moon and antarctica
• SM me an email address -efx-, spiderfill, and the moon and antarctica. Thanks for playing all! : bipolar
• Damn....always too slow.... : zipper76

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• no one? : hamachi
• hirez recently bought one of those and he seems to be a big fan of it. I'm a Shuttle XPC fanboy myself, b... : Ajax
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  micro atx isnt ideal for gaming.... : oHnOES
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    It isn't? Do tell... : Ajax
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      just my opinion : oHnOES
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        would comparing it to a laptop for gaming be reasonable? : oHnOES
        • some laptops scream of course... but are they nerfed for bandwidth or something? is there a handy wiki p... : hamachi
        • Not really. Because you're not nearly as constrained by a microATX build as you are by a laptop. : Ajax
      • ...and that's fine. I was just curious as to why you felt that way. : Ajax
  • how so? as long as I can cram a decent CPU and vid card in...will it matter? and anything will be an up... : hamachi
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    It's just fine for gaming unless you really want to OC the cpu. If you buy a fast CPU and a nice video ca... : sigpro
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      ahh. thanks. I have no real big desire to OC. so I'll be happy then! : hamachi
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        Yeah you should be fine. I used an A64 3200+ on a micro ATX board + a 6800 for like 2 years and it played... : sigpro
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          What motherboard are you looking at? The p5b-mx is a nice little board but the onboard sound is total shi... : sigpro
          • I'm just starting to look. I've had great luck with asus but I'm open for suggestions... and I planne... : hamachi
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      why would the form factor affect OC'ing? Wouldn't that be more dependent on the chipset? : cltcprd
      • Usually because they gimp the bios and feature set on some micro atx boards. They don't make them as fanc... : sigpro
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    my mistake. i was thinking micro atx : oHnOES
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      er. whatever you use for car-puters! : oHnOES
      • that makes more sense. those pico sized ones look cool for certain applications : hamachi
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  My roommate is into small cases too. He just upgraded from a Shuttle-sized case (like the one you posted)... : famine101
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    I'll keep that in mind down the line. but I really just want something small as hell now. this will be ... : hamachi
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      Have you looked into micro atx towers? Next time I upgrade that is most likely what I will use. It's stil... : sigpro
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        the one I linked to can take a full PSU as well. it's slightly fatter than a shuttle in that regards. ... : hamachi
        • good deal then. : sigpro
  • that's sweet, gonna use that to build my friends system I think :) : phokz
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  Hirez had the one with the handle at Quakecon. It's an awesome case but kinda heavy. Get the silver one... : mrwolf710
  • le bummer. I went with black! : hamachi
  • All shackers should know that you never move a case by using it's handle. : Prozium
• If I do an upgrade soon, that's the one I planned to buy, : Visceral Monkey

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  Godamnit, i just ordered my new computer from newegg and didn't know about the paypal deal =[ : randomnull
  • get $20 off any order of $100 or more! Use Promo Code PAYPAL20 at Checkout. **To redeem offer, enter ... : ohhjebus
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  Get another gig of RAM. : lookitzpancakes
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    ^^This would be the most immediate benefit. If you got a new GPU it most likely be capped by the CPU a... : Fail_Safe
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      I guess more RAM it is. : ohhjebus
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        Do you plan to do a major upgrade within 6-8 months? If so I'd wait. 2-300 bucks can get you a lot by ... : Fail_Safe
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          Unless your RAM can be upgraded for under 50-60 bucks, then it's not a major waste. I was thinking in ter... : Fail_Safe
          • I was figuring on grabbing 2 sticks of 1 GB. Thats about $100, so with the $20 off thats not bad. I'd ... : ohhjebus
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  Hmm, maybe a C2D and a new motherboard that can use your old ram? Like this CPU is $211: http://www.n... : DinK
  • Yeah, I got an E2160 for $87 bucks (The E2180 should be out in a few weeks and that'll drop the price eve... : Fail_Safe

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  My mom does. I fucking hate them due to being forced to listen to them while we decorated the christmas t... : sigpro
  • Your mom sounds awesome. Please arrange a meeting. : eldersveld
  • our moms would get along. I fucking hate them too. : phokz
• I read that as "Who loves Cleveland Steamers?" >:( : Bean

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  no one is ordering their wife girlfriend mother flowers? well I tried to be helpful! : thekidd
  • Shacknews - You can't buy someone flowers in World of Warcraft : tomservo