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  in before iPhone : RikiTiki2
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    no way, too expensive and locked to hell. I was looking at a Blackjack. : mavmavv
    • buddy of mine has blackjack and hates it. : scapin
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  iPhone, no doubt. If you can't afford it, check out Helio's phones. : pancake humper
  • the ocean looks cool, but I cant get a pricebreak on it. I can get the blackjack for 100. : mavmavv
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    so is helio it's own thing? or could i get a helio phone on (for example) t-mobile's service? : Mr.SEX
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      it piggy backs to sprints network but its its own device. BTW its CDMA so the best you could ever hope fo... : boomstickah
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        ah, fuck it. it's pretty expensive too =/ : Mr.SEX
        • yeah. :( : mavmavv
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        And my friend is having a nightmare with customer service. He's only had it 3 days. lol. : SiW73
        • yeah the only reason I would get it is that I'm like 20 mins away from the main Helio store in Palo Alto.... : ant321
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      Helio is their own thing. They use the Sprint network for their service, but they are their own company. ... : pancake humper
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        I've been doing research on it and I'll probably go with the Ocean myself on the helio service just becau... : ant321
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          I'm looking for a new phone and currently have sprint, is it possible to just buy the phone and use it as... : monikerdaven
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            nope you can't. Helio actually uses both verizon and sprint towers you can only activate the phone throu... : ant321
            • Thanks for the info... damn contracts. : monikerdaven
• Blackberry Pearl : Ebu
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  what carrier? : tcxsnoop
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    ATT :( : mavmavv
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      yah I have em too.. I can't wait till my contract is up. : Shadowdane
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        well, pretty much every network sucks in one way or another. Im really leaning towards this Blackjack wit... : mavmavv
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          Where did you see that deal? : pancake humper
          • http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plan-details/?q_sku=sku1000033&q_planCategory=c... : mavmavv
      • I went to att from verizon and want to shoot myself. vzw had no choppiness or dropped calls : fathertime
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  The more stuff you have saved in memory (txt's etc) the longer that delay/lag gets. OneLessMoment had ... : Chunks
  • no, even fresh its slower than shit. Its annoying as hell. Stupid "feature" from Motorola. : mavmavv
• 3125? *shrug* I used to be jealous of GSM customers because of the phones, but looking at what US car... : SiW73
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  Blackjack kind of sucks man. A bunch of my co-workers have them for their campaign phones and they're no... : ejectorpod
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    what do you recommend? : mavmavv
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      Fuck man, I've had one shitty phone after another. If you just want text messaging and calling, LGs phon... : ejectorpod
      • my boss has a blackberry and he actually prefers the Blackjack to it. : mavmavv
• Google Maps would be great on the iPhone, but you could alternately hold out for the RAZR2 - it's a lot t... : Postal
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  http://myworldphone.com/k800i.htm you'll love this phone trust me = ) : Break
  • I was looking for something more PDA(qwerty) style. But the specs look impressive! Thanks. : mavmavv
• The Samsung SYNC is a huge-screened 3G beast. : shitkatapult
• How long until your contract is up? If it's a decently long time, you could get a Mogul or Treo 755p from... : Deathlove
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  Nothing with Windows mobile. I wouldn't even wish it on you. ;) : geedeck
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    really? Whats so bad about it? : mavmavv
    • Slow, poor ui, mystery issues love to come up : geedeck
• Damn, just looked at the upgrade costs of a phone, It would be cheaper for me to cancel my service, pay t... : xtofuconsumerx

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  They aren't assholes, they set a price and if people buy it then why lower it? Besides, any wireless brid... : boomstickah
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    buy a buffalo and turn it into a bridge with tomato...hahaha. You would sound crazy to anyone not in the... : papaskot
    • any wireless bridge works. : boomstickah
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      COMBINE> buffalo WITH> tomato ..... COMBINING ..... YOU NOW HAVE> a bridge : AndyGoin
      • If you spliced right you could have made two bridges. : ( : devi| dog
      • buffalo bbq sauce : Fish_Bulb
  • they can still be assholes for doing this : ermac
  • Yeah, it's like...less than half the price. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    nah, it's price gouging. They're assholes. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. :) Very cool advi... : phipple
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      It's not price gouging because they aren't the only method of connecting your XBox wirelessly. Dur. : Ebu
      • It's the only out-of-the-box solution available, isn't it? : Rice-Rocketeer
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        I understand the true meaning of price gouging, but my point is that this is pretty damned close ;) : phipple
        • Not really, no. : Ebu
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  The $40 buffalo router I picked up from Circuit City the other day is doing it's job as a bridge for my x... : Omning
  • Can you link to this? I have no idea what a buffalo router is but I want to buy one at lunch today. : sammyl
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  I'll sell you mine for $45 shipped. I sold my xbox 360 yesterday. : geneshifter
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    Why? : abrasion
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      trying to keep one step ahead of the red ring? : MoreVespeneGas
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        So I got drunk at the wrong party and my asshole ended up looking like the Japanese flag. : abrasion
        • That will teach you to go to a shackmeet. : MoreVespeneGas
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  Why consider wireless anyhow? If you play HD content from the PC there's a chance the wifi will be swampe... : abrasion
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    54 mg? I think that is plenty of bandwidth, and yes, at a 100 bucks it is a ripoff. I guess if people don... : Grandmoff
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      Bandwidth isn't the issue, interference and random packet loss is. : FushigiDenki
      • yep wifi isn't the best for streaming at high bitrates. : Shadowdane
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      Actually it's not 54mbit they claim that but the consortium who setup these specs are fucking wankers. ... : abrasion
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        3mb / sec = 24 megabits / sec : Shadowdane
        • Yes excellent you can do math, again - I've worked with many many many wireless networks the overhead is ... : abrasion
      • Yeah, in reality even 2 feet from the router you're never going to see more than 20-22 Mbit. Plus an AP ... : afty
  • we stream HD from server to media center pc all the time at the house no problems : papaskot
  • Wifi works great for games and friends list etc. Not everyone uses their 360 for streaming media and the ... : nudel
  • I got the new d-link N model (dir-655), works 10x better than my old 54mb : Enigme
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  Don't waste the money. I put up with wireless for nine long months until I just got sick of the dropped ... : EvilDolemite
  • It really depends on your house and the amount of other networks (or other devices using those frequencie... : nudel
  • This is weird to me, I have probably the shitiest router on the market (v5 wrt54g) and I have no issues w... : Grandmoff
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  I use the wireless adapter and it works perfectly for me. I thought it was a little pricey, but other tha... : Simulacrum
  • I also have it- got it because I was too lazy to look at the alternatives. : Mmmmmoo
• Babump: One of these is what I want to be getting, right? Is the 60$ one significantly better? http://... : sammyl
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  is the latency significantly more if you play on live with wireless vs wired ? : smellslikefish
  • no wireless adds maybe 2-5ms to your ping if that... : Shadowdane
• A lot of good info in this thread. Hmm.. what to do. : phipple

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  I thought the gameplay itself was great, but yeah the level design left a lot to be desired. In the end ... : Chris Remo
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    I think I read somewhere bungie stated no more cu n paste levels : pun][sher
    • all PC FPS developers should take a queue from them then. : paravis
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      Hopefully. When it comes down to it the online co-op will make it okay for me anyway. The fundamental g... : Chris Remo
      • I am also looking forward to the co-op and hope Bungie pulls it off as good as Epic did in GoW. I am mos... : pun][sher
      • That feature is what pushed me over the edge into buying it. : FushigiDenki
    • they also said that for halo 2 : JINKY
  • Gameplay shit that bugged me: Such a small FOV made me feel like I was looking through a tube. Enlarge... : Magus
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  while halo 2 is not as good as halo 1, halo 1 is still one of the best FPS both PC and console ever made.... : paravis
  • I disagree. Replaying halo 1 now is a pain and I did like it at first. : razlebol
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    Halo 1 was not fun for me on PC at all. If it had co-op...that would be different. : Rice-Rocketeer
    • well it's pretty well known the PC version was plagued with issues right? I only played it on xbox. : paravis
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      I bet if you played a shitty port of Quake 2 years after it was released you wouldn't think that game was... : derelict515
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        I had a computer that ran it just fine, and wasn't all that impressed by it. Unless they changed a signif... : shred.
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          well 2 years later plenty of other games had copied the vehicles and environments and multiplayer and etc... : derelict515
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            I'm sick of this argument. Just because a company "copies" elements of another game doesn't mean that sai... : thewindcriesmary
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              I've been playing FPS games since Doom. Halo was the best thing since HL1, and some of the best combat in... : spdon
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                No one lives forever. : abrasion
                • forgot about that. I don't have it any more. : spdon
  • I agree with you and Remo here. The level design of Halo 2 was awful but the original Halo is still one o... : spdon
  • "while halo 2 is not as good as halo 1, halo 1 is still one of the best FPS both PC and console ever made... : abrasion
• The base gameplay was really good. The intensity of every fight is what makes Halo fun.There was some gli : peanut-
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  LOL @ shitty fov, especially when listed first : dopefish
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    I don;'t get that. I worried about FOV in quake because it affected how well I can do twitch kills and t... : paravis
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      love fovs make me sick, sp or not. and halo is a big multiplayer game as well. i wish someone console fps... : pyide
      • love? what the fuck. low! : pyide
    • because it FEELS WRONG like your eyeballs are in the wrong spot, period - done, over - simple as that, th... : abrasion
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  Halo 1 was classic. Halo 2 was slightly below average. (single player game, only). I've stated it... : Super Sparker
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    I thought it was a fine idea, the game just had some problems. I don't give a shit about the Master Chie... : Chris Remo
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      I've never understood the appeal of the Master Chief. I find him to be a very plain character. : freshyk
      • read the books.. changes everything.. : g0nk
      • MC was abducted when he was a kid by the military along with dozens of kids his age and pressed into mili... : Sailor of Fortune
    • Some of the Arbiter levels weren't that fun, especially in comparison to the MC levels. I think that may ... : spdon
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      But why let us see the internal politics of the enemy. Who cares? If anything, throw them in a spin-off ... : Super Sparker
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        I could ask the same thing about the other cutscenes. I don't care about that story either. I don't car... : Chris Remo
        • Halo (as in the original) has a really cool storyline in a 80's cheesy Scifi kind of way. Hinting at a gr... : spdon
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  How can you not like the graphics of Halo 2? Remember that was a 733Mhz CPU and 64MB of shared memory. : jake
  • I did like the graphics, I guess I just typed that out weird. : Magus
• I like all the same things you like about Halo 2. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Halo: The frat boy's Doom. : devi| dog
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  Are Halo 1 & Halo 2 compatible with the 360? : wykd
  • Those two games were probably the first to be compatible with the 360. : freshyk
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    They are both compatible and both were updated to run in 720p. Halo 2 also runs in widescreen. but it s : Begawkiness
    • I enjoyed Halo 2 except for the ending. : wykd
• Yeah I still go back and play the better levels of Halo 1 today, but there's really nothing I ever want t... : Begawkiness

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• god. i used to game a shitload in college. i can't belive how many hours i put into guildwars as part of ... : mindmann
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  Down to maybe 3 hours a week, probably will be even less soon. I'm thinking of selling off all my 360 gam... : Fyunch Click
  • GIVE ME ALL YOUR GAMES : Degenerate
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  The week Bioshock came out on PC, I spent 35 hours playing that and some other stuff. I feel slightly ash... : Autocrawler
  • I spent about 25 hours playing Bioshock the week it came out. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  thats me except its sex all the time (with women) : boring gegtik
  • the women are hot and i never get tired or sore : boring gegtik
• wouldn't that be Masem? : ^-SeaWolf-^
• Masem, probably and the time he doesn't spend playing the games, he's reviewing them.. :P : K1Bond007
• I try to play about 10-12 hours per week. Sometimes less, sometimes more if I'm on break or have a great... : EvilDolemite
• I used to game a lot more, but nowadays, I don't have as much time. I have more time to game when I'm ... : Rice-Rocketeer
• I'm not it. Sevogajre is the most hardcore gamer I know personally. : spazzium
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  Masem. No contest. : ThomW
  • first shacker that came to mind for me also : oHnOES
  • He's the Judge Dredd of the Shack. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • Yeah Masem is pretty hardcore. : suqur
  • yep, first name that came up. Sigpro is pretty hardcore too. : edgewise
  • Right, that's it, you all suck! I'm going to home and cry to Remo right now : Masem
  • Yeah, that man is a MACHINE. : silentw
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  I beat Xenogears in one sitting. That was pretty hardcore. : Modica Sol Solis
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    How did you manage that? : CrustaR
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      Started on Friday -- it was a snow day -- and got hooked. I took a couple breaks to get bowls of cereal, ... : Modica Sol Solis
      • that's hardcore man. : tcxsnoop
  • wow. that is pretty hard core. now do disgaea. : mindmann
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  roushimsx :( : DapperDan
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    why did he quit posting again? : wtf242
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      drama queen : pancake humper
      • that's what i figured : wtf242
    • some shackers on a 'private forum' bagged the shit out of the guy. : abrasion
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      Because of not enough real gaming discussion around here : Magus
      • That's not the reason. : abrasion
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    i miss hearing his reviews. =/ he got me into some really cool games i would've never found on my own.... : mindmann
    • www.roushimsx.com : Magus
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    He's talking about all games though, not just a narrow definition of shooters. : Zeeliv
    • Have you read his blog lately? I havn't seen many shmups. : crummynz
  • RIP. :( : deathofrats
  • Motherfucker should've never left. : Orange Pylon
  • Takes the cake. : ieGod
• i beat every final fantasy game — including XI — in chronological order in one ... : electroly
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  i get maybe 10 in a week :/ : maulla
  • same here : anthonybean
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  Who is the biggest faggot on the shack? : mr.sleepy
  • you. lol : wtf242
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    physically or are we talking number of dicks sucked : [fry]
    • thats a tie to multisync either way so.... : pancake humper
    • that's a win/win for you fry : JINKY
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      37? 37!! : zipper76
      • In a row? Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot! : Maddog_Delphi97
  • definitely not work safe. definitely. : virus
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    GIANT FAGGOT : DapperDan
    • def. the largest : boring gegtik
    • FIX'D- GYANTE PHAGGOTE : silentw
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    I just found out it's you. : CrustaR
    • lol : boring gegtik
  • http://ashkie.shackspace.com/you.gif : ashkie
  • when you jizz on your keyboard and show it to the shack, that would make you a fgt 4 sure : hobosapien
• i play maybe 4 or 5 a week, 90% of which is the bigs with my roommates : fletch_
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  Sigpro, have you seen his setup?! : mavmavv
  • pics? : arizona bay
  • what kind of setup does he have? : hobosapien
  • No. Let's see it! : ThomW
  • atleast I think it was him. I searched his posts and cant find the links. : mavmavv
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  The hardest core gaming thing I recall doing was beating Max Payne within 24 hours during a finals period... : Sailor of Fortune
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    what did you do for the other 18 hours? : maulla
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      lol, for reals. I beat that game in one glorious sitting myself but it was such an awesome ride the whole... : qwpeoriu
      • Yeah, me too. :D : Rice-Rocketeer
    • I played it straight up until the second to last level. Then I crammed for an hour and a half for two exa... : Sailor of Fortune
• I'm pretty much down to maybe 4-5 hours a week of Wii, and another 4-5 of Civ IV. : Dante
• a maybe 4-5 hours a week. Easier during the summer when TV is terrible. : FormerHPB
• i would nominate myself because well, thats mostly what i do. but i almost never finish any games and it... : oHnOES
• I play WoW from Noon to 5am almost daily until I get a project to complete... no time for console games..... : johnny nada
• I own a 360, Wii and PS3 (from this generation) and I play maybe... 2-3 hrs a week now a days? Hah, it's ... : GodZilly
• I spend 4 hours a day at least 5 days a week in the source sdk making a half life 2 mod, I win, plus I pl... : Amnesty_intl2
• Well, I imagine he won't be responding because he's in a game right now. : Vangoghs Ear
• You quitting your job to contract is the worst thing that has ever happened to the shack : haiku
• Definitely a toss up between Masem and Roushimsx. Nobody plays more games than those two. : Magus
• Marteen? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Masem, no question. : Serpico74
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  Just tallied up some games... Masem has completed 33 games so far this year, whereas Roushi has finished : Magus
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    i'm up to 23. would be more if i had quit world of warcraft sooner. i also do not write reviews at all.... : pyide
    • 23 is indeed impressive. : Magus
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    I beat 39 but some of them were DS games : spiderfill
    • where is your list!? : Magus
• roushi until he left, hands down. : node
• I don't play much at all anymore, its not really a lack of free time as such, I just tend to get bored wi... : Grim_Grom
• king_darius : someWayne