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• oh and its not slanted, the perspective there is weird : Morgin
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  looks sexy! how much time total have u spent on the project? : packav
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    like 3 hours staining it. I just arrived on site, my dad's been house-building since april and this is ju... : Morgin
    • Yea that door was bother me too lol : packav
• Nice coveralls. : theamazingrand0
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  black'll be impossible at night. I like it as is, or maybe a good brown : RikiTiki2
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    no just the pieces that are the trim would be black, the sides and the bit along the roofline : Morgin
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      oh, in that case, black'll be ok : RikiTiki2
      • any others you think might look better? : Morgin
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  why paint it at all? looks nice natrual wood colored. : edgewise
  • it's mid grade lumber at best. The cedar has to be stained to weatherproof and prevent from turning grey.... : Morgin
• Forest Green for trim? : Frozen Pixel
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  paint it red with the blood of your enemies! : not work safe
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    its an island of 300 people, not many enemies :( : Morgin
    • although i totally walked by the general store and checked inside for a woman wearing a bear suit : Morgin
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  How much did that cost you? : Modica Sol Solis
  • I think it was $700 bucks or so. Parents property, they paid for it, I'm just helping. I think you could ... : Morgin

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  cmd-shift-3 try putting an alias to the network drive in your "login items" under system preferences >... : electroly
  • looks like that works. just drag the mounted drive into the login items list. : electroly
  • Only want to capture part of the screen use cmd-shift-4 and it gives you a cross hair, you drag out a box... : Dingbat
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  command-shift-3, or open grab in the utilities folder for more options sorta, you can drag it to the d... : opengl128
  • Thanks fellas : red2lucas
  • Just dragondrop it into startup items in system preferencse > accounts and eh voila : Toraz Chryx
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  Have you gotten quicksilver yet? : djkenohki
  • Yes I have, I'm a bit of a novice at using it though. Novice at everything about this OS :\ I'm getting t... : red2lucas
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  Pro Tip: Hold Control while you use Cmd + Shift + 3 or 4 and you'll take the screenshot in the clip board... : ChibiJosh
  • I love that feature, I'm always sending in line snapshots of stuff in iChat. It's great for webdev. : Hiro

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• fucking resizing bullshit. : sigpro
• bank logs : fletch_
• thats one expensive fucking pizza : buzzbat
• now THAT'S pizza you can sink your wiener into! : MagicWishMonkey
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  so is it a gay hangout? : edgewise
  • I am not sure what the history is but the place seemed like your average college town pizza joint.. no o... : Str8Dog
• I'll have a large pizza, extra peppers, hold the sausage. : pigvomit

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• 64bit vista : feek
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  No need to fix it the RAM is setup in RAID... : whore
  • I dont understand : noobja
  • what? software or hardware based? : doomed
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    cute. : beastrabban
    • glad you thought so. HAHA : whore
  • mirrored RAM? what purpose would that serve?? : Flying h4x0r
  • WRONG! It's configured for CSS in conjunction with DLL-transmitters on his PHP-enabed GPU, dude. >( : warcrow
  • IBM has this as an option in their servers. : Warlock
• 32bit Vista still doesn't see 4GB. You have to go to 64bit for that. : mrwolf710
• Install Vista 64. That's about it! : aggressor
• Yeah I googled it. Nevermind : noobja
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  let me guess, 2x2GB? if it had been 4x1GB, he would have seen around 3.5GB or so : Postal
  • I have 4gb(2x2gb) in my vista laptop. The OS sees 3.5gb of ram and uses the rest for the shared video + d... : metalremains
  • I have 4x1gb and I see 2.75gb. : crummynz
  • can you stil find motherboards with 4 mem slots ? : doomed
• doesnt 32 bit windows xp support that address extension thing thats been around for a while? http://en... : diddlyd
• Uninstall some of his hardware. Vista 32 supports 4 Gigs of addressable memory. This includes addresses... : capt tripps

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  you could start by looking at the old one? : boomstickah
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    taking the PB apart is a timely procedure and leaves alot of small things lying around. I want to do this... : gummijoh
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      start by telling me what model powerbook. you may also consult this web page. http://www.ifixit.com/guid... : boomstickah
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        Its probably just a regular 4200 rpm IDE hard drive. this is what I saw on that webpage I just gave : boomstickah
        • This is the site i am using as a guide.. just did not browse it enough too see this. Thanks a lot for the... : gummijoh
• I think you need Torx wrenches? : Yanks
• http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/ http://www.macsales.com : Warlock

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  i didn't if you kill him the first time you meet him you cannot get access to a weapons upgrade station a : qwpeoriu
  • cool, thanks : spazzium
  • aw damn i shoulda waited :( : multisync
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    how much later did you kill him? : pyide
    • Next zone you meet him again in his apartment : Crimsonbeak
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      A few hours (and sections later), gameplay-wise His apartment is in Olympus Heights and you have to lure : qwpeoriu
      • okay, thanks. not gonna click that spoiler tag. : pyide
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  All of you killing Cohen makes me sad. :[ : notd665
  • he attacked me first :( : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    He's a sick fuck! : NastyJack
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      Also the best character in the game... : notd665
      • For sure. : NastyJack
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        i found that to be true as well. He was such a great psychopath. : .sticks.
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          His whole section of the game was top-notch but for some reason I have a softer spot for the Doctor you k : Rotten Deadite
          • You should go to Dr. Steinman. Anyone who's anyone goes to Steinman. Yeah, he was very well done as we... : .sticks.
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    I killed him, and took a picture of his corpse. : Izanaki
    • Awkwaaaaard. : spazzium

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  strange, never noticed that. whoever made that sucks. : wtf242
  • >:( : ThomW
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  Goes to show how much people use the Wii online. haha The DS has 12 digit codes and the Wii 16 digit ... : ThomW
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    you must've broken it recently because i added a number of wii friends successfully from the gamewith.us : electroly
    • The Mii stuff worked fine, but when Pokemon (the first Wii online game) came out, I made the Wii games wo... : ThomW
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    It used to be right... I added shackers for Mario Strikers when it came out and it was fine. : c_man_tmt
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      Did you actually manage to exchange codes with anyone? : ThomW
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        I did, this must have happened in the last week or two? : MoreVespeneGas
        • haha nope. I haven't touched it since Pokemans. : ThomW
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    Well the only online game has been what? Pokemon Stadium or something like that? : fluffy64
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      Now there are a few. Metroid, Madden, Mario Strikers, Pokemon and the Mii Channel http://gamewith... : ThomW
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        Need to do something for Madden as it doesnt use friend codes : MoreVespeneGas
        • What's it use? : ThomW
  • well I added a bunch of people to mine when we first got our wii and managed to exchange miis and such. ... : Galadriel07
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  Wii games use a 3 x 4 code. The Wii itself is a 4 x 4 code. Nintendo itself is stupid for not followi... : Masem
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    I don't see why Nintendo is stupid for copying Microsoft? : MoreVespeneGas
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      not* : MoreVespeneGas
      • Because MS has a better method. : crummynz
      • I understand Nintendo's friend codes are 1) child friendly since you have to double confirm, and 2) prefe... : Masem

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  It's a good thing you told us what video card you have since that's probably your problem. : nyranger66
  • nvidia :P : synack
  • geforce 6800 pci-e : tangles

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  Get over to burro's apartment and play it, his 360 is catching dust in his place anyway. :) : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Long way from Princeton to burro's place. Something like 2 - 2.5 hours each way. I don't think I've e... : MorrisatCNN
• that totally sucks. check all your connections? : metalremains
• Bioshock killed my 360 as well :( : sandcrab

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  table info: CREATE TABLE `events` ( `id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `meet_id : epit
  • bah. needs more horizantal scroll bars. this should show the entire 'explain' result: http://home.socal.r... : epit
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    jesus i was going to take a look, then i gave up after seeing the volume of information provided : fletch_
    • heh. after scouring the net, that seemed to be the minimal info needed to address the situation properly:... : epit
    • lol. ditto. : Skoal^Fyfan
    • tl;dr ver: query: SELECT p.* FROM performances p, events e WHERE e.id=p.events_id AND e.event_ty... : epit
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    Try this: //{ SELECT p.* FROM events e LEFT JOIN performances p ON e.id = p.events_id WHERE e.e... : ThomW
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      that was actually the original way I did it. no change : epit
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        Are you sure it's the query performance? How long is it taking to execute in phpMyAdmin? : ThomW
        • ~50sec on the console. I can grab the p.id, p.mark_basic and put them into php, sort the array, and reg... : epit
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    You can try forcing it to select from performances table first and then filtering it afterwards. : AscorSix
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      what do you mean? I cant select by performances because the criteria lies in the events table (I want eve : epit
      • It's possible to retrieve all rows from performances based on the index (thus benefiting from pre-sorting... : MoNsTeR
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    The question is, what proportion of the performances table is returned by your query? If it's large, for... : MoNsTeR
    • its returning ~200k rows out of a 8M row table. then sorting that, obviously. I'm starting to think de... : epit
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    Try different indexes on events and performances. event (`id`, `event_type_id`) and performances('events_... : wabut
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      mysql can only use a single index in a given query. : Neech
      • Are you serious?! : MoNsTeR
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        it'll use multiple indexes on joins. : wabut
        • it will on joins, but not on ORDER BY- it has to use the 'first' table in the EXPLAIN statement for ORDER... : epit

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• funny i just came here to start a thread, IGI TOO : kill9
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  6 on, let's move it move it : Foxhawk
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    dust2 : Foxhawk
    • wait no compound :< : Foxhawk

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  Mainly the highest resolution textures on next gen games right? : vynn
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    thats what they say but I call BS. It's going to help a little but not enough to warrant spending $100 mo... : buzzbat
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      No, it's not BS. It helps a lot, even in some current games. It all depends on the resolution you want to... : aggressor
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        Texture resolution isn't linked to screen resolution. : timmie
        • http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2926&p=3 : aggressor
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  you can always get a 2nd one later on down the road and SLI them together so you have a total of 640. or... : Korban
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    Doesn't work like that. Both of the cards need to have the same data in memory, so it'll still be 320mb. : aggressor
    • I've just bought one and it breezes through every game I've tried. Thats on my 2.2 core 2 duo and 2gigs o... : niceguynick
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      but if you have two cards each with 320mb on it, won't the system see it as 640mb? : Korban
      • No, texture data needs to be duplicated in each card's memory, because the interconnect is not fast enoug... : mathyou
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  spend the extra $20-30 bux and get the superclock version. (Very important) : supertech68
  • or save the extra 20-30 bucks and overclock your own like I did ;) : buzzbat
  • Is this the cards running 550+ mhz? : vynn
  • And you can get that for $244 shipped when you pay with paypal. http://www.xpbargains.com/index.php/send... : megarust32
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  anyone know the software overclock utility for the 8800? : Concrete
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    it's built right into the driver isn't it? : vynn
    • Not on mY evga, anyone know a file to allow me to overclock? :) : Concrete
• I would wait until the 9800 series is out personally. I have a GTS 320 MB card and I REALLY wish I would ... : mystikal
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  evga 8800 gts 640mb for $305 AR. I'm a bit annoyed as I just payed 420 for the superclocked version, but... : smacknca
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    Damn, that is a nice price. Now i just have decide if it's worth it or if I should wait for the new nVidi... : aggressor
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      well the evga gets you 90 days of upgrade. basically if a new nv card launches in early november you wou... : smacknca
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        Now I'm trying to decide if there are any good PC games coming out. The 360 has really spoiled me :( : aggressor
        • yea if you already have bioshock that was the first big one. HL2:EP2/Portal/TF2 (source has been updated... : smacknca
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  320mb should be fine unless you are playing over 1600x1200 res. : atom519
  • There can be a pretty sizable difference even at 1600x1200 in some current games. Spend the extra $60. : aggressor
• I have the 640MB and I love it. I think the difference is marginal on lower resolutions and some games, ... : rastafar1an

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  I go with visi.com as a qwest dsl reseller, but I also work for them, so I'm biased. : NexusOne
  • I used to use VISI years ago after I stopped working for CompuServe, but that was back in the dialup days... : MoreVespeneGas
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    holy shit dude you have Zebulon Pike on your shakespace, /hi5 : MoreVespeneGas
    • I've seen them live 4 times this year. : NexusOne
• I use http://www.skypix.tv/ I've used comcast for years prior. They're both fine. Both go out from tim... : MoreVespeneGas
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  Some clarification: I'll actually be in the city. Pretty much right on Cedar Ave. and Riverside. I... : mathyou
  • Cool I'm just a bit west of there. : MoreVespeneGas
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    Minneapolis has citywide-wifi, and I'm pretty sure there's access at cedar/riverside. Personally, I ca... : manero
    • its not done yet : MoreVespeneGas
    • Yeah, I just checked. Cedar/Riverside is the test deployment site for the muni wireless network. I'll h... : mathyou
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    YOU GONNA GET SHOT!! : soggybagel
    • <3 : mathyou
  • So seriously, any Covad/reseller DSL customers up there? Perdy please. : mathyou
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  You work for Visi?! I love those guys. Do they pay well? Get me job there dammit! :P : Halen
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    They don't pay me much, but I was unemployed so not in much position to bargain. On the plus side when yo... : NexusOne
    • Hmm, they have a sysadmin/hosting engineer position available, I may have to check that out. : Halen
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  I had Comcast for 4 years in Bloomington, flawless service pretty much. : Damodred
  • If i had the choice between winning $10,000 or burning down the comcast offices with everyone inside and ... : NexusOne

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  where ? : qwpeoriu
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    on the business front: www.shacknews.com : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      The GAME, silly. If I can pick it up today, I'd like to also. : qwpeoriu
      • Oh, sorry: http://shop.shacknews.com : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I think he's asking where he bought it from. Stores aren't selling it until tomorrow. : Serpico74
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    Fred Meyer. I was shopping for food and saw it in the electronics department. : project13
    • damn that place, i want to enjoy some MP3 love tonight now that I've completed the glory that is Bioshock... : smacknca

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• What little I saw about it was luke warm reactions, but I don't think many people here have a PS3 and th... : MoreVespeneGas
• I actually really enjoyed the game. It was fun. Sure, it didnt do anything ground breaking, but I just en... : warcrow
• For the most part i think people considered it a good game. My personal opinion was that it was good but ... : qwpeoriu
• i only played a bit, but it still feels like goldeneye : gokart.
• It seems enjoyable enough, but I'm only past the whole church of Eng uproar bit :( : Daggoth

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• Did it red Ring on the way home ?! L!O!L!O!LO!!L!O! : Jackass1233
• Welcome to the black side. : Sailor of Fortune
• It's worth it :) : pun][sher
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  Mass Effect is the most expensive game ever. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    eh, the 360 is the same price as a good videocard. : pyide
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      which is pretty crazy. one component of a system costing as much as they do these days. : xxiv
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        One gives you this: http://masseffect.bioware.com/_commonext/images/me/screenshots/2007/masseffect_49_... : Matt Burris
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          not exactly accurate comparison there. no one is going to run mass effect in 440p :P : pyide
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            I looked around and couldn't find any high resolution screenshots - not on the official site, not on IGN.... : Matt Burris
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              http://images.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/5179/904_0002.jpg : thaperfectdrug
              • Says Forbidden for me. : Matt Burris
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              the 'download' links have 720p shots http://masseffect.bioware.com/gallery/ thought it's 1280x760 beca... : pyide
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                Direct link of the shot I linked above: http://masseffect.bioware.com/_commonext/images/me/screenshots... : Matt Burris
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                  hay guys what's going on? http://masseffect.bioware.com/_commonext/images/me/screenshots/2007/masseffect_... : pyide
                  • That's my patented diarrhea face. : Matt Burris
      • Technically the first Canopus, Orchid and Diamond Voodoo 1 cards were $300 a piece, $600 for SLI. Vide : Lunatic Angelic
  • Have they commented on a PC port? : jigstah
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  quick! switch the shipping address to: Scott Radner 134 Boulder Moutain Ln andes, ny 13731 : papaskot
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    somebody send this man a poodoo bag : kainen1
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      reading comprehension my friend, i want a 360, not a poodoo bag : papaskot
      • Poodoo it is. : Afterglow

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  Honestly, nobody at that company saw that and thought.. hrmm. : stonedonkey
  • Well it is a german company. : Prozium
  • Or Trekstor is a front for the KKK. : Chod
• Wow. How does shit like that actually get past everyone in the damn company? : Ctrl-Phreak
• wake up white people : trOmblyj
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  Shoulda called it i.beat.blix. There you go, Hans Brix. How you rike that, you butt-fucking cocksucker! : thaperfectdrug
  • You're breaking my bawrrs here, Hans... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• lol for the fashionable Klan member. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• "Finally an MP3 player for the LAPD" "focus groups vetoed the initial name, I.Beat Negrazz" lol : Delusional

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• it doesn't matter. : Prozium
• a) it doesn't matter b) this: http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/tooptococodi.html The converters ... : Chunks
• a) Usually receivers let you assign digital inputs to named inputs. I haven't seen one that has them fix... : adpalumbo
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  It doesn't really matter, but check the 'Setup' menu- on most Yamaha recievers, you can re-assign the dig... : mn3m0n1c
  • Awesome, thanks. I figured it didn't matter but was weirded out by the way it was labeled. : phipple

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• yes : JINKY

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• get ye to a lightning-boltery! : thaperfectdrug