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• Neat! I'll have to give this another go when I'm less tired in the morning. : sgtsanity
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  what the fuck is the difference between negro and negroid? : JINKY
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    hahahahhahahahah http://thenonist.com/images/uploads/eug23.jpg : JINKY
    • brb gotta write 2 papers for tomorrow : JINKY
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  The woman that started Planned Parenthood was big into eugenics. Makes you wonder a bit, doesn't it? : Colleton
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• There are a ton of awesome pics there, cool stuff! : wild falcon
• good shots and nice report. Thanks for posting! : Morgin
• way cool. I visited back in 2001 or so.. they only occupied the top floor in a two or three story buildin... : ZedAgent
• Thanks for the run down - Enjoyed the part about offloading subsystems to the cores. : davantalus
• hey cool; thanks for sharing. : thief
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  so so so so jealous : johnsto
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    Why aren't you working for Valve? Just not willing/able to emigrate? I assume from the tone of your post ... : rock elf
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      Not willing to move (mostly), and I think I'd be more of a hindrance than a help, being an HL fanboy :) : johnsto
      • So what are you up to now? Are you still making maps? : deathofrats
  • Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen you much of anywhere. How's life been? : Zips
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  Thanks for the write-up and confirmation on Hunted, that made me feel better. : wunderbred
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    It'll be interesting what changes they make. Seems to be the VIP would need to become a flag that any def... : johnsto
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      That would ruin it for me. I love that there are opposing sides, you have your defenders and the vip and... : wunderbred
      • I agree - the fact the round is over when the VIP dies, and the VIP is a sitting duck - are very importan... : johnsto
• Nice writeup and info! One day I hope to have a monitor as large as Gabe's, and I'm already sold on the s... : helvetica
• Oh I want the class specific Team Fortress 2 shirts now! That sounds awesome. : Lionhart32935
• terrific pictures man. Those awards were really awesome looking. : h o s t i l e
• Well written and pretty interesting article. Thanks for doing this. : socksta

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  that picture of the wrinkly dude is pretty gross : flasher 907
  • that's a fucking woman!!! : sandcrab
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  What an awesomely immature post. : ColoradoCNC
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    Yet smokers smoking themselves and others to death and damaging housing they don't own is somehow more ma... : baron calamity
    • Who cares about smokers who smoke themselves to death? Not me. However, what I do mind is their habit b... : Ride-My-Rocket
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  First off... good fucking luck enforcing that second why do you gotta call down smokers like that. I don... : godm0de
  • My Mom is a proud smoker and will light up in places that ban it just because. i think what will happen i... : baron calamity

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  yes : rosewood
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    is this the only way to do it? http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/st... : mojo the helpr monke
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      Naw, you can just copy+paste the entire steamapps folder, I think. : crummynz
      • ah, thanks. I'll give it a try : mojo the helpr monke
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    my god rosewood, are you purposely trying to be an ass lately? : moshman
    • He asked a question, I gave an answer ... therefor I'm an ass. I don't follow moshman. All he has t... : rosewood
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  copy -> paste : CoRDS
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    what, just the steam file itself under program files? : mojo the helpr monke
    • just the contents of the SteamApps folder : ctlaltl33t
• yup, copied the steam apps folder and it worked. Thanks guys. : mojo the helpr monke

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  I remember it was 5 percent just a few months ago. It seems to go up about a percentage point per month. : feek
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    So they should convert all the XP users by... 2015? : smax
    • Just in time for the next Windows. :D I think we may see a bump in adoption once SP1 is out though... : SilverSnake
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  I've gotten used to vista on my new laptop. I can't really comment on gaming performance because I haven'... : mojo the helpr monke
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    The '"are you sure you want to let this program do this" shit' shouldn't bother you past the first day or... : nudel
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      First thing I did with my fresh Vista install was to disable UAC. : SilverSnake
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        If you then enabled it again after everything was set up then fine, but if not, why disable a useful feat... : nudel
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          Well, it's really annoying when doing all the installs on a fresh system. But once I feel I have most of ... : SilverSnake
          • One extra click when installing games (how often does that happen?) seems worth it for a bit of added sec... : nudel
  • Pretty sure Aero only uses your video ram. : feek
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  Most stats I've seen on Vista put it somewhere between 5-10% of the actual market. Pretty sad adoption ra... : K1Bond007
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    I doubt it, and I think MS feels the same. They just extended the Windows XP lifespan and are seemingly o... : Phreakin
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      There's just no good reason to upgrade. I don't include DX10 as a reason because that's a bullshit, artif... : ZombieAcademy
      • I switched to Vista when I upgraded to 4GB of RAM and I'm very happy with the OS overall. I find it consi... : AscorSix
      • DX10 isn't bullshit or artificially tied to Vista. I agree that it doesn't make a big difference *yet* an... : nudel
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      They extended the XP lifespan because of demand for XP which is greater than Vista from what I hear. I be... : K1Bond007
      • I would bet that a lot of the systems running Vista right now are doing so because it came with the compu... : Phreakin
    • Hmm, mine doesn't do this at all under vista. : DarkWolf5
  • What was XP's market share at this point in time? I'd bet higher but not a hell of a lot higher. People s... : nudel
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  I'd be willing to bet that among those with high or very high end graphics cards (enthusiasts), the perce... : godwit
  • I should learn to read other posts before I post :) : Phreakin
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    Also, the most common primary display resolution is 1280 x 800 which I believe is a very common resolutio... : godwit
    • I actually heard that dell initially went with vista only for at least their small business laptops, but ... : mojo the helpr monke
  • That might change when people want to use the DX10 features on those cards. So far the games aren't reall... : nudel
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  Wow, NVIDIA GeForce 8800's are 4th highest cards.. i didn't expect that. : Arsenal
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    yet a considerably smaller percentage of people are running 1920x1200.. heh, thats crazy.. i run TF2 with... : Arsenal
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      Well a monitor that can handle that resolution costs about twice as much as an 8800 : aeg1x
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        True.. i guess i just figured anyone willing to spend that much money on a graphics card would have bough... : Arsenal
        • The problem for me with monitors that size is that to run at native res you will have to upgrade your gra... : aeg1x
    • Most people prefer to run whatever their monitor's native resolution is, I'm pretty sure 1680x1050 is mos... : Izanaki

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  My game history begs to differ. Pink team won an amazing 6 out of 9 matches tonight. Nice pics of the ... : BlackCat9
  • The 'scuse me clip couldn't be any more perfect imo. : chazums
• bump : chazums
• Damn, did you play rocket race after I left? :( You gonna be on tonight for some more? : nodebug

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  THERE ARE NO WINDOWS AND NO DOORS! Of course there's always my way out! HAHAHA. : davantalus
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    misreply??? : baron calamity
    • Nope. :) I have no clue if you *can* make links, but the fact you can't seem to link out (except from you... : davantalus
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  HTML works for me. : Trepex
  • Ah... that works. Thanks. : baron calamity
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  what HTML tags did you try? : Trepex
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    I was using usl instead of href : baron calamity
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      usl? is that like doovde? : johnsto
      • I don't know either. Some how I thought thats what I was suppose to use. Thats what I get when trying to ... : baron calamity

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  Don't forget about the first cutscene, which counts as a level. : Chris Remo
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    Oh, snap. So if I do that, it'll register that I beat all the chapters on legendary and give me the achi... : brickmatt
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      Oh, well no, I mean you still have to beat the other levels too, of course. : Chris Remo
      • Yeah, that's what I mean. Assuming I beat the other levels, once I run through that cutscene it'll all t... : brickmatt
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    oh really? that may be why i didn't get my heroic achievement. think i restarted after that. : pyide
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      That's exactly the reason, the same thing happened to me. : Majuju
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        And me as well. I went back and replayed the intro on legendary and whammo :D : SolrFlare
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          who makes the intro cutscene count as a level I mean REALLY. : Majuju
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            At least it's easy to beat.... : SolrFlare
            • I died... : nodebug
• uhhh well i would think that you would have to beat all the levels on legendary, or else that wouldn't be... : JINKY
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  You have to beat all the chapters on Legendary, possibly including Arrival (the start cinematic) although... : nudel
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    IWHBYD is supposed to add different/rare dialogue. I don't know what that means. : brickmatt
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      http://www.halo3planet.com/2007/10/03/whats-your-favorite-iwhbyd-skull-effect/ : AbortedFetusChristi
      • Oh I see, so it's just more random dialogue but slightly more whacky? That'd be why I didn't notice it. I... : nudel
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  Interesting and would close a looming plot hole. I still don't understand what happened when the newly : enyakk
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    The ark and the new halo were outside our our galaxy. The portal on earth is how they were connected. : Umbr
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      I thought it was just The rim. Either way, yeah I agree the master chief would be dead since he didn't m : brickmatt
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        That or they entered the portal but then it collapsed when half the ship was exiting it and the other hal : SolrFlare
        • I believe that is what happened since on the legendary ending you can see some sort of planet he is float : Crimsonbeak
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      So the entirety of the Flood was on High Charity? Also, what happened to the Brutes and the rest of the C : enyakk
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        Well obviously there is still quite a bit of civil war/unrest that is still going to happen afterwards. : SolrFlare
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          I've played through all t he Halo games and I played through Halo 3 at least three times, and I honestly ... : Chris Remo
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            Halol. I think they're bring up shit from the books. : burning eye
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              There were elements of everything in this thread in Halo 3 (particularly the terminals if you read them) ... : nudel
              • Read the terminals? There was stuff to read in the game? Oops. : BlackCat9
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                The books and other EU material actually tell a much more enjoyable and fleshed-out story than the games ... : peanut-
                • Well, so do the Doom novels, at least as far as the story in Doom goes. But it doesn't mean that a game's... : BlackCat9
          • Paying attention helps =/ : MoreVespeneGas
          • agreed. All of the Halo games confuse the shit out of me. : bagelcc

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• Some people think music costs too much and others too little; Radiohead's experiment will be interesting ... : johnsto
• Not necessarilly. The people downloading it are merely stating its not worth the sacrifice of giving 90+... : wunderbred
• That's not the point. The point is that for the ones who think it is worth something, all of their money ... : tashtego
• I used to be all about free music. I would get it anyway I could because the prices of CDs were getting ... : changejar419
• Not true. Many people would be more than willing to purchase music if they didn't get raped on the price,... : ColoradoCNC

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  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. : VinnieTheSquid
  • I'm on the phone with the air force. We are planning a strategic strike on the entire west coast of Ameri... : jasoncrowley

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  hows the weather effects? : ant_hillbilly
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    havent really seen much in that dept yet. The gfx are super smooth, prolly 60fps and the tracks are ve... : mavmavv
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      Yay for the return of uphill and downhill! : enyakk
      • can it do rooms-over-rooms? : johnsto
• I'd love to play it... too many games atm, though. :( : Magus
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  is it PGR3 with bikes? : cpt_gloval
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    Yes and No, My first impression was that this game was made by different developer. But that is mostly w... : PumpRock
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      The menus are fucking awesome compared to the travesty that was present in PGR3. : aggressor
      • They got a work experience coder to do them. True story. : node
• Afraid I am going to have to skip this one because I already have 3 racing games for the 360 and too much... : Evil Benius
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  oh boy i want it now! : moshman
  • Anyhwere it can be ordered from this week? : enyakk
• Its good but pgrnations is messed up for me and I have no idea how to upload my photos. : gmd

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  And just think, you'll never be able to afford to retire there! : Lone Swordsman
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    why not? its not that expensive, or at least similar locals arent. : not work safe
    • But you have to buy a house, move your things, transfer your assets, and then buy any furnishings you cou... : Lone Swordsman

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  i hear that ALchemy barely supports the audigy2zs and below :(. : moe6
  • So what would be more compatable for gaming goodness. That sound blaster or my motherboard's onboard soun... : baron calamity

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  Always keep your meat away from the cold. Find a nice, warm, wet place to put it. : steelsamurai
  • Cover it with a condom first in case of cooties : DingoStoleMyBaby
• you're not feeding him enough, and you're making him slave away at that piano writing songs so that you c... : Majuju
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  I'd imagine that more breadcrumbs makes it shrink even more, since the bread will get saturated and the m... : famine101
  • yeah i can see the breadcrumbs causing more shrinkage after thinking about it.. i used 92% lean on this l... : bfzzzz
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  'cause he would do anything for love, but he won't do that : Toraz Chryx
  • drucifer post detected. : CoRDS
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=cDdpizsB1lw : PlanetPerfecto
• don't put it in a loaf pan. spread the loaf out free-form on a baking sheet. are you using really lean gr... : tashtego
• Haven't you noticed the ooze that is all over the pan after it has shrunked... shranked... shranken ? : balaams_ass

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• cue elevator music : balaams_ass
• Is google down? : ColoradoCNC
• See: Your host file has been hijacked, kthx. : davantalus

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• Well the spec in for on-board intel hardware. Intel says it supports directx9 and shader 3 but never ment... : Lightzout
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  WoW and down. : boomstickah
  • And it barely even runs WoW :( : aggressor
• Quake 3 runs nicely : red2lucas
• intel gma graphics, i wouldn't get a macbook for gaming. : ErneX
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  I just installed HL2 and gmod and both run great. 1440x900 all on high. : dudehoyt
  • Sometimes, I need to read things twice. Sorry, thought you said on a MBP. : dudehoyt

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• what kinda system do you have? : moshman
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  I played it with everything maxed out at 1680x1050 as well. It looked very nice, but it did not run that ... : Jackass1233
  • Beta is DX9 only. Wait for the Oct 26 SP demo to get the full bells and whistles, both in DX9 and DX10. : SlamDunk
• Could everyone who comments on performance in this post their system specs? I'm considering an upgrade f... : Chris Remo
• 1920x1200 high settings c2d 2.4ghz, 4gb mem, 8800gtx, xp64 Ran fine, but I was not impressed by the g... : Reptile
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  1650*1080 - all on high except shader and shadows on medium - very playable framerate. E6600, 2gb, 790... : steve_o
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    you got it running with almost all high at that resolution on a 7900gtx? what kinda framerate? 5fps? : moshman
    • i have no idea but Im not epeening anyone. I was as suprised as you. ill download fraps to see what I get... : steve_o
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      Proof. Got around 20-24fps. Like I said, very playable :) http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=... : steve_o
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        ugh i suck at imageshack http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1402/crysis2007100410580757pk4.jpg http:/... : steve_o
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          must be pretty cpu bound, because on my x2 4400 with 7800gtx SLI'd, i get to play in low and it's still s... : moshman
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            oh dont get me wrong its still very jerky when in battle and such, I think it'd lap up 4gig ram, a bit li... : steve_o
            • hardly gonna be worse with 2 cards though really. Could try though : moshman
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  what is the best place to download this from ? : doomed
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    http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/crysis/beta/ Sounds like it is too late if you aren't a vileplane... : Reptile
    • this this mirror should be a lot faster than waiting on fileplanet. was for me anyhow. http://games.in... : PlanetPerfecto
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  1024x768, all medium settings, i get about 100fps inside, and around 30 outside in a firefight. amd x2 5... : radula
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    hehe, finally someone telling the truth :) : moshman
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      worst thing is the 200+ ping, hard as hell to lead a running player, and when the go tough on you for the... : radula
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        still, driving the nuke tank out of the prototype factory, and firing straight at the hills WAAAY in the ... : radula
        • just saw my first nuke go off in the enemy base, holy fuck wow :D : steve_o
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        How ur Winmodem? : peanut-
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          think before you post McFly, think! : radula
          • That goes against everything the Shack stands for. : peanut-
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            btw internode lists some crysis servers now, pretty sure they are all australian too , look - http://game... : PlanetPerfecto
            • yeah, just jumped on, much better! : radula
  • i've similar specs. 4300@3ghz 2 gig ram and a regular 8800gts 320mb but i can run it in 1280x1024 with sl... : Hoax
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  For the lower end guys, I'm running it at Low with Med textures and something else on a x2 4400+, 8600GT,... : Thomas Hace
  • forgot to say it runs pretty well, and is really fun : Thomas Hace
• I went back to TF2 pretty quickly. The fucking Korean voices are annoying. I like the distance you can s... : razlebol

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• That's that has really been bothering me. : mathyou
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  That's bloody insane. I use process explorer to determine which background apps are causing disk i/o bef... : SLUDGE^
  • According to SecuROM: 'Process Explorer' has dumping capabilities as well as registry monitor / file m : Schnapple
• heh, that's why I never played bioshock on my PC. I bought it for the 360 instead : mojo the helpr monke

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  My sister would die for that. Plus the webcam portion appears to be a dalek vagina. : PlanetPerfecto
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    EXSPERMINATE! : hardfl1p
    • ha! : drucifer

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• Agreed. Besides Shrek, he basically fell off the face of the earth. : ThomW
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  Wouldn't a new Austin Powers movie be the reuse of a joke in and of itself? : DinK
  • probably but they did set it up with scott evil turning evil . : CoRDS

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  oh hell yeah : JINKY
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    american gladiators on 360 plz : JINKY
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      Can you imagine that amazing shackbattles that could be had? Jousting 1 v 1 with another Shacker.. then d... : K1Bond007
      • In all seriousness, this could be big on XBLA : snagger
    • American Gladiators on Wii plz! : Super Sparker
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  man that game killed me. I could do pretty well on most of the events, but the wall-climbing was impossi... : Caboose
  • That game was fucking brutal if you didn't have the manual one of the events needed some specific timing ... : Kniggit
• yeah they are bringing back the aussie version next year on channel 7, gunna be lol again :D back to 1995... : thewindcriesmary
• My dreams are slowly coming true, one by one. : wunderbred
• Awesome. I'm totally watching this. : ThomW
• Are they still going to have names like Nitro and Lazer? : Phreakin
• My brother used to always kick my ass in the jousting in that game : ColoradoCNC

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• nm my stupid dns is acting wack : sludge vohaul
• Google is never down. : T1nu5
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  you think they only have one server, in one location on the planet? : moshman
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    you think they're made of money? : lightsam
    • "You think that's air you're breathing?" : Super Sparker
    • Um, yeah. It's Google. : BlackCat9
    • getting there : moe6
    • Pretty soon this will be the new google logo http://media.threadless.com//product/585/zoom.gif : PlanetPerfecto
• no, and in fact the Sputnik graphic is a nice touch! : Postal