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  Not bad, I saw 800k + once on a machine that had infected pretty much everything + all the windows restor... : sigpro
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    remember that somethingawful thread where they had a contest to see who could get the most spyware. Bo... : Iwannaacura
    • that'd actually be kind fun with a virtual machine : epit
    • Nope, I don't read SA. My coworker and I tried something similar with how many IE toolbars we could insta... : sigpro
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      ---> http://lunatic_angelic.shackspace.com/you%20think%20you%20have%20spyware.JPG : Lunatic Angelic
      • i love the hospice search button : tangles
• I love it when dumb leaches get viruses. "The world is at my fingertips and all I have to do is click Do... : pigvomit
• found the porn stash? : PapaBoo
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  Does this kid know he's gay? : hatelull
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    Pet Shop Boys? : perstephanie
    • Party Mix Disco Photos of Charms? 80's Remix ... I could handle all that (hell, I've got a lot of ... : hatelull
    • Pet Shop Boys is quality you did not just dis them. : Chod
• How many copies of 88 Minutes does he really need, anyway? : carrioN luggagE
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  Its one of those fun ones that generates a bazillion copies of itself named different things and sticks i... : GloriousCow
  • ah, interesting. Pretty smart from a virus point of view. : oatmela
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  Update: http://aycu28.webshots.com/image/27987/2006025513070089797_rs.jpg angelina Jolie wallpaper! ... : oatmela
  • I'd love to see Angelina Jolie nacked too. : pigvomit
  • lol at 5000+ threats out of 7000 scanned : sesmaster
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    Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Honeymoon Sex Tape : dodob
    • No, it was their "Honeymocn" which you know it's legit! : goatjc
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    72% rate now. You should nuke it from the orbit. There's going to be something left, no matter what you d... : mem
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      I'm not understanding why he just didn't do this from the beginning? That's usually standard practice a : hatelull
      • but its funnier to see all the shit he tried to download : headbone
    • I imagine all of us little tiny people running across oatmela's desk trying to get to the rocket ship sta... : dodob
• man.. wipe and reformat : bamb
• 50% infection rate. Impressive. : mem
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  Why are you working on a 13 year old's computer? Aren't you an industry journalist or something to that e... : bostrov
  • He's trying to get into pants of 13 year old kids mother. : mem
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  oh man, just nuke the HD. It's the only way to be sure! seriously, copy any important file to a backup H... : Modulus
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    Seems like he'd be better of installing it without the NIC drivers. : hatelull
    • or uninstalling the kid : Modulus
    • Or give the kid link to cheggit and couple of other places, which don't have 'leech' in their url. : mem
• So if you find compromising stuff on his PC, do you have to tell his parents? : pigvomit
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  that's sad. i remember the good old days when 13 year olds fixed their own computers. : MagicWishMonkey
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    Well that was back in the days before music downloading became popular. Why would anyone who wasn't a do... : pigvomit
    • 'sup, DOS-gaming buddy. : mem
    • memmanager4life : MagicWishMonkey
    • 386MAX! : afty
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      i miss computers with "Turbo" buttons : MagicWishMonkey
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        haha yeah, those were the days. Who used their computer without it being pressed. I remember hitting th... : pigvomit
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          I never understood that one. why the fuck would you not want everything to go faster? : hamachi
          • They were marketed as turbo buttons but their actual function was as a SLOWDOWN button. Old game develope... : boring gegtik
          • i figured it was so you could play really old games like nibbler at a somewhat normal speed. : MagicWishMonkey
          • Ancient DOS games used timing loops based on the processor being a certain speed (usually 4.77 MHz 8088),... : bostrov
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          anybody who used their computer with it pressed is retarded. turbo made your computer slower. : electroly
          • no way dude it made mine faster... you could feel a tangible aura of "fastness" around my whole computer ... : MagicWishMonkey
        • I used to press it during the boot-up sequence, especially during the memory check, just because I was am... : mikecyb
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        I miss those Shells that manufacturers like HP and Compaq would put on "Top" of Windows 3.11 or 95. : hatelull
        • oh god yeah, those were horrible : Mr.SEX
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      Yeah, I remember taking the bus to Egghead software to look at the books to figure out my problems. : Pettytheft
      • Oh yeah, Egghead softwares. I bought Ultima 7 and Might and Magic 3 there. I loved that place. : pigvomit
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      Oh god.. and allocating memory back and forth so that games could run. I need more conventional memory! : Edges
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        I almost committed suicide trying to free up enough for Wing Commander 2. : Stoned Gargoyle
        • Same here with Tie Fighter... that was one of the few games that I simply couldn't get to work with 2 meg... : MagicWishMonkey
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          I had the hardest time with Ultima 7. It didn't let you use stuff like QEMM or 386max. They had their o... : pigvomit
          • And they managed to make it worse with Ultima 7 Part 2. You need about 600k free convential memory which... : Chod
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    lol so fucking true : ThomW
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      It occurs to me that I chew out my nephews every time I have to go over there and fix their damn computer... : ThomW
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        damnit kazaa is running slow again.. better call over Uncle Nerdface : boring gegtik
        • "Uncle Nerdface" lol : ThomW
      • you should make them fix it next time... sit there with them and answer questions but don't do any of the... : MagicWishMonkey
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        I'm all for not knowing one thing and instead knowing another. For example, I know nothing about cars, b... : pigvomit
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          WoW. lol : ThomW
          • haha, you should make them pay you in gold then. : Modulus
• Just format that thing already lol. : stonedonkey
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  Why would you even bother to continue the anti-virus? Backup the good files and format. : K1Bond007
  • now I'm curious as to how many files there will be :D : oatmela
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  Plant some pr0n on the kid's hard drive. : spectr3
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    JSP and scar him for life. : smax
    • lol it would be like when the exorcist face pops out screaming. "WTH.... is that.. a... REE REE : Phil
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  stopped it at 20K and am re-fomatting :( : oatmela
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    Don't give him admin access on this new install. : dmason
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      Don't give him admin access on this new install. Fixed that for ya. : RomSteady
      • He should just re-format and leave him with Dos 6 or something. : hatelull
  • Install Kubuntu, problems solved prevented : bipolar
  • bah, you dont learn anything that way. : onji

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• Yeah. :( : freshyk
• La la la I can't hear you la la laaaaa la lala laaa :( : dognose
• Wow. That's not good news for PC gamers. : ThomW
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  The really sad part about the PC SKU: Even with the warez monkeys, "SiN Episodes" sold more units than "B... : RomSteady
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    any proof of this? what's your source? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • He did QA on it. : d3tached
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      He worked for Ritual at the time? lol : ThomW
      • Oh damn, I forgot he is Ritual-MikeR, lol : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I really don't believe those numbers are accounting Steam sales. Still, even if the numbers were a bit hi... : ovrlrd
  • sin was pc only right? : kydaimon
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  How much of that is a direct result of shitty drm that punishes honest customers? : d3tached
  • it's ok though because it prevented a couple of people from obtaining an illegal copy : MagicWishMonkey
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    stop trying to be cool zach you pirate : timaste
    • ...Pirate of fresh hip hop that is : timaste
  • Yeah, I don't know how much these numbers really say. The PC appeared to be second fiddle all the way, u... : VinnieTheSquid
  • I planned to buy it through steam until I read about that garbage. They aren't getting my money now. I'll... : TheTick
  • I think the "Games for Windows," banner probably chased them off; most people thinking it was Vista-only. : RyDogg1
  • It stopped me from buying it. : Ebu
  • I'd guess it wasnt all that many. PC gaming just isnt as popular anymore. WoW is an enigma, although its ... : Tommy Toolbag
  • You reckon more than 5% of the potential customers even cared? : crummynz
  • Thread: "Outstanding PC problems" = 1,761 posts Thread: "Talk about SecuROM and activation issues here o... : reign27
  • i skipped out on the PC version for that very reason (was going to buy both 360 and PC) : qwpeoriu
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  To be fair, how many of the PC problems were SecuRom, Activation, or Shader Model 2.0 related? Things th... : AxeMan808
  • All true, of course. How much they figure into the problems are anyone's guess. What I worry about is tha... : Silent Sorrow
• Would be interesting to see what the Steam numbers are. AFAIK they're not included in the NPD. I guess th... : aeg1x
• If only all PC games could sell like WoW. : SockMonkeh
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  you can't test every single hardware configuration, you can easily test 360 hardware since everyone has t... : DaMojo
  • for PC I mean : DaMojo
  • You know, if the 360 wasn't so locked down in terms of running your own software, I'd probably have a 360... : terath
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  I'm damn proud to say I bought it on PC. Those numbers seem a bit low though, pssible they dont account ... : smacknca
  • Steam is not counted in that : Ebu
• What are the PC Steam numbers though? : oatmela
• and how much did they spend on each version? Bioshock doesn't even run on 90% of PCs out there : alexthegreat2
• lol, so what is the ratio between different PC setups VS. different 360 setups? oh. : dopeman
• I'm just glad the game is selling well, regardless of platform. We need more games like Bioshock to be ab... : headbone
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  Basically there are two reasons for this, #1, back when half life was out, people were upgrading to be ab... : Amnesty_intl2
  • 3, maybe people just didn't care about it? : ibrokn
• I would have preferred bioshock over PC if only my computer was an ubergod like the requirements called f... : proclone1

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• hahha i love seth green : deathofrats
• bwahahahahah I'm dying here : Mad Brahmin Disease
• you should check out more of chris crocker's videos.... pretty talented actor :P : mwasher
• Him fixing the eye-liner had me lolling : HojuSimpson
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  You see Chris Crocker on Kimmel? : the moon and antarctica
  • I saw his video on Fox News on the TV in the break room at work. : Finestaut
  • on Kimmel? jesus christ. : edgewise
  • Is Kimmel turning into the dumping ground for cringeworthy Internet celebrities? : spiderfill
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  ROFL great thing to start the day. Too bad i dont think anything will top that on the interweb today. : Iwannaacura
  • did you catch Overdrift? : snuff
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  they are just making that idiot more popular : zagzig32
  • great parody though : zagzig32
  • If it's entertaining though, I don't mind. Just LEAVE SETH ALONE! : harbl
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  hahahaha perfect : askedrelic
  • hahahahhaha the adult swim thing at the end killed me : askedrelic
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  I would totally have mansex with Seth Green. : fleabug
  • Also, I can't wait for the Robot Chicken edition. : fleabug
• Hahaha this made my morning! : Nihilist
• link to the original? : mindmann
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  Link to the original please? I want to show a friend that doesn't understand why this is funny. : knitemare
  • i heard the original on the radio one morning and thought it was some retarded kid throwing a tantrum. i ... : dodob
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZAr9E8i3ng : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      that was shorter than i expected. is that the full clip? : mindmann
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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc : CRasterImage
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          wow, 5,000,000 views for that tool? : PapaBoo
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            Kind of makes you want to upload Papaboo.wmv, doesn't it? : ThomW
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              that would be my worst nightmare : PapaBoo
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                You do of course realize I'm uploading it to Youtube right now? : ThomW
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                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0zby61aEc lol : ThomW
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                    You are an evil, evil troll. : RomSteady
                    • hahaha, reminds me of this PA : http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/09 : mmogger
                  • aahahaha : Magus
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                    you are FUCKING kidding me! :( : PapaBoo
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                      hahaha I can take it down ... it's been on the internet for years... : ThomW
                      • and no one has cared yet! lolol i care : askedrelic
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                        the shack is one thing, the rest of the world? that's another. : PapaBoo
                        • I want this on the Internet forever so I can link it when you run for office. : pupismyname
                  • lolol I remember that :D : RikiTiki2
                  • Hahaha, such moves! : helvetica
          • parts of that video were also shown on national tv. not sure why. One of the things that was nice about... : slickdoody
    • ahhaha Chris Crocker's dad : tomservo
• aaaaaaahahahahaha. man thats awsome. seth green FTW : AMikaboshi
• I'm so sad that I don't have a computer with sound right now. Seth Green is awesome. : perstephanie
• That guy is so awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Hooooooly fucking lol : TastyWheat
• haha...love the plug at the end. : CapnChaos
• omg, that was absolutely hilarious. especially when he adjusted his eye-liner omg : virus
• total lollerskates : PapaBoo
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  these myspace vids don't work on my computer, wtf I'll have to check it out at work later : tunis5000
  • worked for me in IE unlike the shack :( : PapaBoo
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  10 bucks says Seth Green is a shacker. : royalally
  • Also, LMAO at that vid. Ending rules. : royalally
  • If he isn't he damn well should be! Maybe we could get Robin Williams to talk to him. : timmie
• huh. i had no idea he voices a major character in mass effect : pyide
• ..because I'm tangible.. hahahaha. : aaarrrgh
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  Hysterical. Also, An Evil Petting Zoo?! : Wolfanoz
  • I want another Austin Powers movie (with an Evil Petting Zoo). : capt tripps
• Jimmy... oh Jimmy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgds6uRp7mU&mode=related&search= : Fred Garvin
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  I love how the internet has become so mainstream now. : Anti_dentite
  • Eh, Seth Green is pretty geekish anyway. I mean, he co-created Robot Chicken. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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  first time I saw it I was like "Seth Green would be great to parody him" I need to stop meditating th... : azenmaster
  • think about me getting rich : RikiTiki2
• The internet moves at lightspeed : shred.
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuRhy4CqzU : Uthar Wynn
  • i give him a C : Uthar Wynn
  • Hahaha : Chris Remo
  • oh god...this will not end well. : Boxelder
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    hahahah rosewood is watching : askedrelic
    • Funny thing is I closed it after "Leave General Petraeus Alone" : rosewood

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  but you are neither a musician or artist..... : multisync
  • iawtp : oHnOES
  • oh fuck : mr.sleepy
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  yea, OSX is just amazingly good right off the bat. I'm never want to use windows again : askedrelic
  • micro$oft window$ cash money aahhhh ah ah ah ah : mr.sleepy
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    Me, neither, but I hate Apple so much now that I'm seriously considering switching back. : perstephanie
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      oo this should be good, please elaborate? : askedrelic
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        My ibook is broken, every time I take it in to Apple they tell me it's fine or that they've fixed it, the... : perstephanie
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          copy stuff off via network to another PC? is it like hardware crashing or just locking up? that sucks :( : askedrelic
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            It'll only stay on for 5-10 minutes the first time I turn it on, then 30 seconds if I restart, and then n : perstephanie
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              you should be able to remove the harddrive and put it in a usb mount too. im not sure how things are on t... : askedrelic
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                It's an ibook. I'm definitely not up for doing anything that risks my warranty at this point since I real... : perstephanie
                • is there a firewire port? boot up in target disk mode and attach it to another mac and grab your porn fil... : j0nchan
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          in all seriousness, make a blog describing IN DETAIL the entire situation; how many times you've taken it... : Bantis
          • ^^ perstephanie read this! : Bantis
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            I really really really wish I would do that. Thinking about typing it all out makes me feel like my head ... : perstephanie
            • The last guy I saw made a blog solely for this purpose and the only entries were about that; and apple to... : Bantis
          • Damn, no one should have to do that. : Fred Garvin
          • helpmewithmymacproblems.com : Bingo
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          Take it to a different apple store/depot. Some of them are better than others. : terath
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            I've been to 3 so far. : perstephanie
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              I knocked my macbook off a table and they gave me a new one, and I don't even have boobs. : vigilante
              • The boobs aren't helping me at all on this one. I think they're actually just causing the "geniuses" to a... : perstephanie
        • ok. never fucking take anything to the apple store. Ever. Call AppleCare, and if they give you shit then ... : Yanks
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      ^^^^^ IPhone early adopter : Phreakin
      • No, but my sister is and that sucked a lot too. : perstephanie
      • Got my 100 dollar store credit today... :) : spazzium
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  It's good for anyone. I've had five year OS X installs that run as well as the day I bought it with zero ... : Serpico74
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    My XP machine was like that. Guess it all depends on the user, not the software/hardware. Some people can... : avatar_58
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      I take great care of my XP installs, but that's the thing, it pretty much requires a bit of babysitting f... : Serpico74
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        Realy? Then why did my 3+ year install boot at the same speed as when I first installed it? Even with shi... : avatar_58
        • Never underestimate the ability of Windows users to download every stupid 'Free Program!' on the Internet : mn3m0n1c
        • I believe you until you said Windows 98. That and Windows 98SE had me wanting to impale babies. KERNEL3... : soggybagel
        • Entirely depends on your program usage. As a developer you start getting a shit ton of programs and serv... : Chod
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        babysitting consists for me of diskdefrag, cccleaner, and scandisk -- nothing complicated or time consumi... : thief
        • You're not missing anything, it's just babysitting that most people don't do. It shouldn't be necessary, ... : Serpico74
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        what? i've used the same xp pro install for about 5 years now with no problems. the whole reformat every ... : wtf242
        • My current XP install is two and a half years and it works fine, but not "fast like a fresh install" fine... : Serpico74
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        I don't buy this at all. Unless you're a moron and get infected with spyware crap than I haven't seen th... : carazy
        • You mean a three year Windows install with an average number of installed programs will run as well as th... : Serpico74
  • My "work" machine is like that. All I have installed are my audio/video apps and it rarely needs anythin ... : Fred Garvin
  • everyone except gamers/millions of other windows apps. But oh yeah you can dual boot... which I think ... : carazy
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  If it wasn't the shitty text antialising, it would be almost perfect. : Nitrium
  • yeah i noticed that text on shacknews looks rather strange : mr.sleepy
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    you can fix that, it's in the system preferences. : dopeman
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      I mean that the algorithm used by Apple is just different than Microsoft's one in Windows - but I got so ... : Nitrium
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        I'm sure you've seen this writeup by Joel Spolsky then about the Apple vs MS font rendering philosophies:... : Hiro
        • Yeah, I've already read it. I don't think Apple's way is wrong; I just don't like it. :) : Nitrium
  • I always thought text looked WAY better on OS X. : terath
  • Here's how to get text rendering perfect in OSX: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14605561#itemanch... : ventro
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  guy was giving a presentation the other night at a meeting and OS X locked up.. had to reboot. someone to... : wtf242
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    OSX locked up or the application locked up? What presentation app was he using, Microsoft PowerPoint? : pres589
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      OSX locked up. he was switching between apps and it just stopped responding completely : wtf242
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        i've had that happen to me a couple of times... : j0nchan
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          yeah.. others at the meeting said it's happened to them too. OS X is not perfect : wtf242
          • Do they ever use disk utility? : perstephanie
          • NO THATS IMPOSSIBLE ITS BUILT ON UNIX WHILE WINDOWS CRASHES WITH BSODS CONSTANTLY (i havent had a bsod... : bradsh
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        I wouldn't be surprised if it was in a long swapfile reorganization. That OS has had this issue since 198... : steelsamurai
        • OSX hasn't been around since 1988... what are we talking about here, FreeBSD or NeXTStep? Because OSX ow... : pres589
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    You don't normally have to reboot even if a program locks up. My computer has been freezing completely la... : perstephanie
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      The only time I've had hard lockups were due to a bad stick of RAM a few years back.. Swapping it out did... : Serpico74
      • I tried that, but it didn't fix it. : perstephanie
      • Yup, and the problems weren't minor either. Bad RAM = serious business. : dopeman
  • He should have responded "I wasn't aware windows could over come ram errors! Maybe I can run windows on m... : terath
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  Maybe it's just me but I have that same feeling with Vista. I haven't had to do anything since setting it... : avatar_58
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    i like how restarting is basically unnecessary now, even for driver upgrades : bradsh
    • In theory, yeah, but every driver I have requires a restart. Even the ATI drivers because of CCC. : Orange Pylon
    • Really? There isn't a single driver I upgraded that didn't require a reboot. In fact, I don't think I reb... : Bingo
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  What I liked most about OSX was the way you could use that QuickSilver thing to find files quite easily. ... : seven
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    I wish explorer had tabs :\ : thief
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      I just wish I could maximise shit in OSX - like Photoshop. Applications having their own background, m... : seven
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        Applications having their own background, maximised to full screen with their own controls - makes a lot : dopeman
        • It may differ entirely between user contexts - no question. As for why it occurs - I can't speak to that.... : seven
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    OSX w/o Quicksilver isn't fully a mac in my opinion. I love being able to start any program just by doin... : Hiro
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      It was one of the main things I saw being used by the power-users at the last place I worked, which I rea... : seven
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        Oh snap... once I'm back at my desk this Launchy thing is going to get the business, I'll report back on ... : pres589
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          Update: This is pretty damned nice. : pres589
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            It's decent? I never got around to installing it - I've always been kinda wary about apps that plug-in... : seven
            • Yeah, it's very decent as far as I can tell. Ask me again in a couple weeks when I've used it a bit, but... : pres589
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      You can do that without Quicksilver, it's called spotlight. Although you do have to "arrow down" to selec... : ovrlrd
      • no need to arrow down, just hit Cmd-Enter and it'll run the first result. : electroly
• other than installing a new iTunes update every couple days it seems like. Mostly true. But then again th... : tomatoactivator
• good to hear. being proprietary for so long must be nice. : Downforce
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  Try changing the name of your home folder. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    You've never used unix have you? Everything related to your account on the machine is based upon the use... : Hiro
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      well it's more that it's in lockstep with the information in the passwd file or derivative system than th... : steelsamurai
      • Well sure, but the username is in the passwd file, and everything else about the user derives from that, ... : Hiro
  • Try changing the name of /Documents and Settings/User Name. : terath
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  OS X needs more keyboard shortcuts!! : dodob
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    oh hey look what i found!! http://lixlpixel.org/mac-keyboard-shortcuts/ : dodob
    • that list is fairly incomplete, but a good primer : Fayk
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  Wait until you get your hands on Leopard :D Honestly the only "bad" things about it are the transparent ... : SolrFlare
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    All the OS X updates have been slightly faster, at least since 10.2 which is when I started using it. : Serpico74
    • That's one thing that's always impressed me, every update, even to old computers, tends to make the machi... : Hiro
  • I want a Touch monitor NOW. they need to get going on that now that they worked it out with the iPods. : jvox
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    I've always hated the Dock, it seems overly wasteful on space and kludgy vs. the bar in Windows. I wish ... : pres589
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      yeah the windows bar is just better. nothing ever interferes with it and it's clean and functional. : jvox
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        I still prefer alt-tab on OSX to the other above listed OSen though. I hate that in Windows when I'll ha... : pres589
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          I hate that Cmd-Tab in OSX can't be disabled... it's one of the most-used shortcuts in QuarkXPress and th... : jvox
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            More like, why did Quark decide to use an OS-wide short cut for something? cmd-tab has probably been aro... : pres589
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              not true at all, Quark predates OSX. OS9 didn't have Cmd-Tab. : electroly
              • It's been years since I used OS9, did it not have app switching like this with a keyboard shortcut? : pres589
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  I hated finder. I hope leopard fixes that. Otherwise, yeah OS X was cool, different fun, etc. : boomstickah
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    I don't think Leopard will fix that :( At least from all the preview articles I've read it won't. : Hiro
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      They made some nice improvements to Finder, but yeah, its still the weakest part of OS X. So, it's bette... : SolrFlare
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        browsing files from an application with that godawful column view is just horrible. : jvox
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          you can click the list mode button to get rid of the column view. i, too, hate the column view with grea... : electroly
          • i like how you try to double click a file, but between the first & second clicks the column jumps out fro... : jvox
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      haha finder hard locked on me at least 10x in a row once when dealing with a network share. And it barely... : boomstickah
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        well leopard finder is *much* better when it comes to network shares. it's one of the few legitimate imp... : dopefish
        • ahh thats good to hear. I'd like to fool with it. Maybe I'll get a macbook to play with one day. : boomstickah
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    pathfinder >>> finder : derelict515
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      no, god no, that thing is monstrous. : vigilante
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        you mean slow? because I don't see how its any bigger than Windows explorer : derelict515
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          I mean http://www.applemacpunk.com/C213178526/E20060321213850/Media/Window.png I'm no explorer lover e... : vigilante
          • I knew i liked you for some reason : boomstickah
          • From my experience, Leopard's network performance is much improved, especially in connecting to Windows V... : BlackCat9
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      pathfinder is like switching from vi to emacs. yeah, it might be better, but it's got a ZILLION TRILLION... : electroly
      • I use it mostly for the tabs. those are real handy. : jvox
      • I just turn off or hide most of the shit. If you just use it as a file browser it's great. I agree it's... : Amadan
  • I don't see why so many people complain about finder. it doesn't seem any worse or better than explorer. : warpdude
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  and i'm a PC, nothing works on me because you have to download the drivers first raar. i'm too complex f... : dantastic
  • Gee PC you sound like a shit box then. : pres589
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  Can't Apple just announce the official date for Leopard? I'm dying here, waiting for that announcement to... : Bingo
  • I am thinking the end of next month, with an announcement of it's release at the very end of this month. : ovrlrd
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  My PC works just the same and I can maxmimize windows easily, it features a handy "add remove programs" f... : bozer
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    bozer is here to set us all straight folks : electroly
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      As soon as I read the bit about add/remove programs fully removing everything from an application install... : pres589
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        Totally. I've never, ever, encoutered a situation where I went "remove program", and it said "sorry, e... : seven
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          Thats what brought me to the breaking point. Final Cut Pro installations. When it fails, you have to rein... : bozer
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            I don't add or remove a lot of applications from my OSX machines, as one is pretty new and the other is f... : pres589
            • http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-71844.html First thing I googled for final cut pro i... : bozer
  • I agree, I don't understand all the apple love :-P : carazy
  • keep fighting the good fight : derelict515
  • I've been a PC guy for a long time, but I love my MBP. Sure it has it's flaws but it's not anywhere near... : slickdoody
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    I work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. It's a huge productivity booster to me. I surely wouldn't want ... : Amadan
    • "The fact is I'm able to get more done on a mac". Oops. : Amadan
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      yeah. I find myself always managing all the stupid little shit in Windows that just kills my productivity... : warpdude
      • Yep, hotplugging my external display on my Macbook Pro works great compared to the hassle of doing it in ... : BlackCat9
• maybe i am a retard but something bothers me about plugging stuff in and hoping it works. i like to make ... : cpt_gloval
• I like Vista................... : Drewus
• thats weird. at work, which is a motion capture studio, there are a few macbooks around. they all have ... : ibrokn

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  they're out? : gendail
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    yes : mattfl
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      well damn...time to go to the apple store. Do they still do that "trade in your old Ipod towards a ne... : gendail
      • don't think so : Bantis
      • Call first, I don't think they're everywhere yet. : snuff
• Did you get a student discount on it? I remember in the past being able to get the student discount pric... : Prozium
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  fyi your camera is backwards : industro
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    its the isight on my macbook : Bantis
    • i think it's broken. the image is reversed left to right. : slickdoody
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  hey jim how ur ipod : FrayLo
  • awesome! :P : Bantis
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  You're doing it wrong... you forgot to flip your photos on the iSight. : digital_d
  • i didn't care enought; too busy playing with the thing : Bantis
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  I cancelled my online order and picked one up at the apple retail store here in San Diego (Fashion Valley... : smackpiece
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    they have Touch versions over there? i didn't see one in UTC when I went there for lunch : Ariakus
    • Yeah I tried calling UTC a few times and no one was picking up. I just decided to go to Fashion Valley on... : smackpiece
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  Ssergorp ni cnys. : Lone Swordsman
  • he must have bought a French one. : edgewise
  • Fragile, Must be italian. : scapin
  • Uosdwis R. Dewoh : algernoN8
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  Why is it grey in the bottom? I think it looks quite ugly. I am sure that it is a wonderfull device but t... : razlebol
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    That's a reflection. : Zeeliv
    • oh, from the pic it sure doesn't look like one. : razlebol
  • lol : warpdude
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  wi-fi is fast on this baby, itunes previews play immediately, no lag on youtube, this is kickass. : snuff
  • Damn you apple! This would be an instant buy if it just had larger storage. Now I just don't know what to... : DarkWolf5
• So its pretty much a PDA? I'm just trying to figure out the big use for it is all. =( The iphone had the... : kelerian
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  16gig max for $400? not in a million years. call me when it's at least 40gig. : proclone1
  • Should be about a year or two before 40gb of flash memory is affordable. : Prozium
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  It looks SO FUCKING NICE in my cell phone/ipod holder. I was thinking I'd keep my 4th gen in the car, but... : snuff
  • This thing is begging for a case. I hate the fact that my buddies are gacking it up with their oils. u... : smackpiece
  • hot http://www.punkassgamer.com/incar.jpg : snuff
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  I hope you like iTunes. http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/2007/09/apple-cuts-us-off.html : protozone
  • yes I do, I quite love it to be honest : Bantis
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  will it play divx? : headbone
  • No, you gotta convert all your movies/shows :\ But that's easy, just get 3GP Converter and drag a few ... : snuff
• They are out in Russia? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Hey a question for you Touch peeps. Do you have to activate the iPod, similar to what you have to do with... : nomaad
• The nano-phat I ordered has arrived. it sure looks weird. Screen is sharp, but small. : thaperfectdrug

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• yes : adpalumbo
• Stop watching right now. You're not allowed to any more. : EvilDolemite
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  I'm in love with Lindsay : ThomW
  • Is that the girl who eventually ended up on ER? If so, yes. : walker270
• It doesn't matter, after that you don't deserve to watch any more episodes. : boredguy
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  Stereotypes of people from the 80's would be the never lasted "That 80's Show." Now go kill yourself. : soggybagel
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    I was wrong. These aren't stereotypes from 80's movies, they're just stereotypes of a high school life th... : the moon and antarctica
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      The acting is pretty atrocious too. How is Shack hype so accurate in some things (Firefly) and fuckin... : the moon and antarctica
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        Firefly sucked. And you watched on episode. Now stop ruining one of my favorite shows. : soggybagel
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          The first episode was fucking god awful. There was one decent part -- when Sam and Lindsey are talking al... : the moon and antarctica
          • I'd disagree. The characters on F&G seem more like people I knew in high school (including myself) than a... : Vincent Grayson
          • You have your opinion and I respect that. I would encourage you to check out another episode or two and ... : soggybagel
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            Watch the one with where Bill goes to the hospital and tell me that : EvilDolemite
            • I won't lie, I damn near cried in that episode. : soggybagel
        • You shut your filthy heathen mouth. : action wombmate
    • You have to give it some time. It gets a lot better. It's not difficult to see why it didn't attract ... : ThomW
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  Please relinquish your Freaks and Geeks card on the way out. : CRasterImage
  • I don't think he had one to begin with :P : RikiTiki2
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  haha, you really called down the wrath of the Shack God of Hype down on you with this one : HojuSimpson
  • shackhype, fickle like a woman : kydaimon
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    It's not just a Shack thing, I'm fairly sure it's almost universally regarded as fucking amazing, and a t... : Vincent Grayson
    • seems unlikely : kydaimon
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      no. : Super Sparker
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        Pretty sure it is actually widely considered a amazing series by most people. : soggybagel
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          I tried to make it past 2 episodes, but couldn't. I also tried to make it past the second LotR movie but... : Super Sparker
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            i dunno about F&G but your opinions, as evidenced by this post about LotR, are no longer valid. Please r... : slickdoody
            • I also tried to read the books and tried to make it more than 1/2 through the first book at least 3 times... : Super Sparker
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          where are these amazing 'most people' statistics coming from? I'm having a hard time finding people who'... : kydaimon
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            The whole reason I even went back and watched the show at all is because I've seen so many references to ... : Chris Remo
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              so it's fairly well known among the writers out there, but among the public at large? I doubt that, other... : RikiTiki2
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                Its fairly well known about anyone who recalls the press. The public at large wouldn't know because it g... : soggybagel
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                  it was on long enough for my non-commercial watching self to have seen a couple of episodes. : RikiTiki2
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                    What does non commercial mean? Like you have Tivo or what? : soggybagel
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                      I never caught the NBC commercials for it, so I wouldn't have known about it anyways : RikiTiki2
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                        so I'm implying that people that did see the commercials would have known about it more than me : RikiTiki2
                        • Well I do know the show got reshuffled and went through an extended break then it got canned...so its a b... : soggybagel
          • I mean I could compile you a list of links and what not but just google Freaks and geeks. Its pretty muc... : soggybagel
• Who the fuck do you think you are? : Vincent Grayson
• You may as well just hit that logout button and never come back. : SiW73
• That show rules so much. Bill for the win! : sirkne
• Give up and send your DVDs to someone who deserves themme. : perstephanie
• I agree, it's really shit. : Super Sparker
• I never cared for it. : broly1718
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  While I liked the first few episodes well enough, I thought the characters got increasingly better and mo... : jake2000
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    Agreed. At the beginning of the show I can't help but think that everyone watching kind of had the attit... : ThomW
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      http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503140/ This guy ruins every scene he's in. Nice resume too. Sandlot 3?... : the moon and antarctica
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        I'm talking more about the burnouts that Lindsay's hanging out with. That guy's just a periphery charact : ThomW
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          The fact that they're "burnouts" and constantly being referred to as "freaks" bugs me too. What, exactly,... : the moon and antarctica
          • The only good scenes are the quiet ones -- Sam and Lindsey, Lindsey and her mom, Neil and Lindsey. Those ... : the moon and antarctica
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            You do know that if you had the ability to go back and observe you and your friends in high school that y... : SiW73
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              No, I didn't know that. But thanks for telling me exactly what would happen if I time traveled! While... : the moon and antarctica
              • You also didn't exist as TV characters. Of course there's going to be some stereotyping, but you need to... : SiW73
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            Those characters are being portrayed that way in the first episode because that's the way *Lindsay* sees ... : adpalumbo
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              Lindsay turned out to be white trash with an abusive mother. SHOCKING. Couldn't see it coming. This is de... : the moon and antarctica
              • Sorry not Lindsay but the mean girl in the crew. : the moon and antarctica
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            Again just try fucking watching another episode. If you don't like it then peace be with you but you are... : soggybagel
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              I watched episode 2 and 3 since the first post. Pretty much the same -- a whole bunch of cliche BS with p... : the moon and antarctica
              • Well then I apologize. : soggybagel
• One of my favorite shows of all time... I liked episode 1 just fine, but it does get better and better th... : jlboyd132321
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  Don't tell me that shit! My boxed set is coming today! : grasshoppah
  • don't listen to him, the show is like a good hug from an old friend. it's fucking great : dopefish
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    The show is fantastic. This guy just has horrible taste in everything but women. : Drewus
    • My favorite fruit is kiwi. I even worked on a kiwi farm this summer. : the moon and antarctica
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  It was alright, but I never really liked it enough to make it something I wanted to watch every week : RikiTiki2
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    especially since the first part of its run was on Saturday: Walker, Texas Ranger night : RikiTiki2
    • A man does have to put his priorities in order. : soggybagel

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  that's awesome. so is this going to be an upgrade for current SF2 owners on live? wish they would do t... : pyide
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    Is this SSFT2 or Hyper Fighting? If it's SSFT2 I will have to buy whatever system it is for just to play... : Blucklesworth
    • It's SSF2T HD Remix : sigpro
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      I'll buy a 360 and play online ONLY if it's SF2T:HF. : boring gegtik
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        I like HF as much as the next guy, but I mean... come on :) : Blucklesworth
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          super sf2 sucks, not a fan at all. I really only love SF2T and SFA2 : boring gegtik
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            Any reason why? I dont really like the alpha series at all =\ and you dont liek first strike either? w... : Blucklesworth
            • I play anyone in HF and kick everybody's ass. I used to make the asian kids run away crying in the compet... : boring gegtik
          • fag. : Super Sparker
          • somethin wrong with ya : onji
          • Those are my two favorite of the SF series as well! : ahlee
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    I want to see Marvel VS Capcom 2 on Live. : TwiLyght
    • that would work as well, even the first one. or even marvel super heroes vs street fighter. anything! ... : pyide
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  Think how good its gonna look when I pause during chun li's roundhouse! : skunk_ape
  • also the upside down bird kick hubba hubba : boring gegtik
  • Look, right there you can see her underwear. : pancake humper
  • wow I did this too as a kid. What a sad sad existence : boomstickah
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  Are the animation frames going to be the same? : pigvomit
  • ^ I want to know this as well. Has there been any word on this? : dodob
  • Yeah. The mechanics of the game are going to remain unchanged. This is only a cosmetic upgrade. : Ajax
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  I want SF3 HD dammit >:( : genjuro
  • so I can kick your ass in HD? : Foxhawk
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    dude, raging demon & fist to the floor wave > hyper bomb i proved this to you already! : X-GOUKI
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      Sorry dude akuma is banned from tournaments for a reason. If you use him for fun occasionally then he's c... : boomstickah
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        Is he? I was under the impression that he was fair game in SF3:TS because he takes damage like a limp bit... : dodob
        • SFA2 Akuma was the best. : creep
      • Only banned in Super Turbo. The game wasn't designed to deal with his moves (particularly his air firebal : ahlee
  • fuck Alex. : creep
• Please, PLEASE, update the animations for the characters and don't pander to the "BUT I'VE BEEN USING THE... : ColoradoCNC
• That is quite old actually. I'd really love to see the new ones. 1080p 2d sprites ftw. : razlebol
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  This is Super Turbo (the last iteration of the SF 2 series, with 16 characters and super meters) with rep... : ahlee
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    Do you know why CE Guile/Bison are supposed to be so good? I have a decent idea that CE bison has some sc... : boomstickah
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      I'm assuming you're referring to the anniversary edition that allows you to play all the different iterat : ahlee
      • Oh nm, that Bison in the youtube video is Champion Edition. : ahlee
• Too bad the d-pad on the 360 still sucks ass : Ebu
• is this gonna be different from the current SF2 on XBL? : sexninja!!!!