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What's the best all-in-one IM client these days for windows? I've been using meebo, but I find it kind of annoying.

Nov 03, 2007 8:41am PDT

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  pidgin : Arsenal
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    Seconded. Pidgin is crazy good. : glio1337
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      Careful with plug-ins, though. Some of them will make it crash hardcore. : dealie
      
      Haven't ever used any plugins for it. What kind of stuff do they add? Any good ones to recommend? : glio1337
    - guy i work with is one of the primary devs for pidgin.. he's a zealot.. solid app... : dextius
  - ^^^ never used it, just going with the crowd here. : deviantpaul
  - nice and clean and simple. A+ : eeeealmo
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    Is pidgin better than Miranda? : Maddog_Delphi97
    - As a Miranda->Pidgeon user, I say Pidgin is now better. It wasn't before. : johnsto
  - Yeah, pidgin started off real bad, but I'm fairly pleased with it these days. : BoKnows
- http://www.pidgin.im/ : ThomW
- installing pidgin, thanks gentlemen. : whodares
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  trillian astra going to come out someday? Been curious to try it at least but its been forever it seems. : kelerian
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      They really need to do a public beta. They've been working it for fucking EVER. : NFXFSX
      
      it's not ready for public beta ... has some neat ideas. I log onto it every week or so (after each update... : Nation
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  Still rockin Trillian here : Phreakin
  - Same here. Haven't seen a reason to change. : riptyde
  - yeah, i just installed it, and its workin fine for me.. : stalewood
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      What do you like about Trillian over Pidgin (just curious, not trying to be a pain)? : glio1337
      
      I just find the interface better and easier to use. : NFXFSX
      
      For me, Pidgin reminds me of open source and that's why I hate it. : Phreakin
  - I use it, but I hate the shit out of it. : dopeman
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  I just stopped talking to people who refused to use one of email, IRC (QuakeNet) or Windows Messenger. ... : nudel
  - one of the areas of the internet that's got worse, not better : itsjames
- miranda, the rest of these people are wrong : Clay
- AIM express : scorpiusman
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  I love pidgin, but some of the standard settings piss me the fuck off. Here's how I have it set up: Un... : basketofkittens
  - I would consider using Pidgin if I could make it look more like Adium. That was one of the best IM's I h... : Tripps
- Pidgin, but the new version 2.2.2 crashes my pc all the time. I reinstalled 2.2.1 and it works fine agai... : grabbie
- There isn't one. : SlamDunk
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    - right on. : Jenings
- GAIM Pidgin! : mikecyb
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  Yes. : Sapiens
  - Fuck, reply to Jenings. : Sapiens
- miranda-im.org : liqker
- Trillian Pro : Magus
- pidgin : PapaBoo
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- InstantBird since it's so simple and non-bloated, and has huge potential in the future: http://www.ins... : Matt Burris
- if they ever fix the Pidgin memory leak, i'll endorse it. :( : biskits
- pidgin convert from long time trillian user. you can get the same functionality with the pluggins that a... : oHnOES
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  Alright so I just installed pidgin, is there anyway to get it to minimize to the tray instead of the task... : mechanicalgrape
  - Just press the X on the buddy list window and it'll stay in the tray. : glio1337
- im using pidgin, it works well : sexninja!!!!
- pidgin although some things about the interface aren't as smooth as AIM : jrock
- they all suck unfortunately : feek
- I just switched to Pidgin because of this thread, I'm liking it much better than Trillian. : devi| dog
- I use Trillian. : Galadriel07
- I use Miranda : TPSReport

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true story:

the other day at work i was scrubbed in a room helping with a thyroidectomy. while i was in there a surgeon from another room came in just to say hi to the drs i was working with, because her case was delayed. She was supposed to be taking out the gall bladder of a 390lb guy, but they couldn't start it, because before they start they had to put a foley catheter in (a tube that goes in your dick and up into your bladder so you dont piss yourself during the surgery)

Except, they couldn't put it in. Because they couldn't find where to put it.

The nursers and doctors could not find this dude's cock.

It got to the point where they had to call in a UROLOGIST to FIND THIS GUY'S PENIS. On top of that though, it still took the urologist -- a doctor who basically specializes in cocks, like 10 minutes to find this poor guy's schlong.

Around this part of the post i would say something like "and the patient's name was tomservo lolol" except I swear to God that I am 100% serious that this happened.

What the fuck.

Nov 02, 2007 9:11pm PDT

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Anyone playing Tabula Rasa?

What is the monthly charge for it? I can't seem to find it on the website.

Nov 04, 2007 7:32am PST

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  your social life. : mechanicalgrape
  - Woo hoo! FREE GAMES! : SwiftyPants
- The Shack consensus seems to be that this game is too average and boring to bother with. : Matt Burris
- Richard Garriot was at our local Gamestop Friday night promoting TR. I wish I got pictures.. : deathofrats

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Just finished I Am Legend. Wow, what a great book. I read it in anticipation of the movie so that I could have the "real" story before the inevitable butchering that will take place in theaters on 12/14.

Easily one of the best vampire books I've ever read. I think my favorite is still The Historian, though.

Oh, and did anyone get the extra short stories that seem to take place in a post-Robert Neville world? Undead vamps are mentioned in more than one story, so that leads me to believe that the short stories are set in the universe after the new civilization gets up and running.

Nov 04, 2007 12:34am PDT

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What is the ultimate video player I can download that will play avis, divx, dvd's, etc. ?

I just did a clean install and lost all of my video programs. It's fine, I was sick of having 12 progams and codecs all over the place.

Any other handy programs I should look into besides video players?

Nov 03, 2007 7:02pm PDT

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- VLC is cool : AlexXdude
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  - why not both? : stalewood
- VLC, GOM or mplayer. Nobody ever mentions mplayer here but it has a GUI on Windows now, and it's usefu... : rock elf
- GOM made me its bitch, it's just that good : AbortedFetusChristi
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  CCCP + MPC (which is included), accept no substitutes or shitty players with built-in codecs. http://c... : Sapiens
  - This man is correct. : jayacheess
- VLC, it's for mac and PC too. : jackalope
- VLC EOT : Schnapple
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  - signed : soapland
  - Now with more Soviet Russia? : davantalus
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  Media Player Classic and Divx codec installed. : abrasion
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    buffering my response... .... .... ... .... .... ... ... .... : cap n KRUNCH
    - haha ain't that the fucking truth : El Tigre
  - If it weren't for Tunak Tunak Tun Realplayer would have died and dumped into the gutter where it belongs. : Sailor of Fortune
- I'd use GOM and VLC, DVD's are kinda funky on one of them, I don't remember which. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  - Signed. KMP rules so much that no one knows it exists. : stuka
- media player classic + ffdshow + haali media splitter. plays everything flawlessly : anthonybean
- Media Player Classic : 00MeatPuppet00
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  VLC will do it, but it's ugly as shit. MPC will need some decoders but it's worth it in my opinion. : ieGod
  - ugly as shit, but it also doesnt suck up 50meg of memory like the 'pretty' ones do. : bfzzzz
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  media player classic+ffdshow or gom player : t0ad
  - agreed. i use mpc and fddshow : AMikaboshi
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  GOM is better than VLC, it has a far more polished interface. : Fred Garvin
  - Yeah, the program looks like it's sometihng you would have to pay for yet it's free! : Sailor of Fortune
  - GOM has jacked up my in browser codecs before... (so has VLC but i was able to fix it) : afrochops
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    - Interface wise VLC is a joke. : Fred Garvin
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  - have you got sharpen or blur turned on? : steve_o
- I use VLC : OwenButler
- vlc. : bfzzzz
- GOM, i much prefer it to VLC : snowwolf
- VLC, take 2 mins to learn hotkeys and the bastard interface won't matter : dael
- I prefer ffdshow + Media Player Classic. : Nitrium
- CCCP = ffdshow + mplayerc + some demuxing, subtitle stuff : dodob
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  - whys that brah : oHnOES
- TCPMP is about the best. It has very stable versions for mobile PCs and desktops, Linux and Windows OSs i... : Loki-Tek

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I'm starting to regret buying Hellgate London.

In reply.

Nov 03, 2007 8:12pm PDT

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I just read an article about how PC sales have been in a steady decline for the past few years http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071104/bye_bye_pcs.html. It got me to thinking.

As I'm sure others are, I am embracing a more mobile PC-like experience; perhaps it's a sign of the times. No doubt there are multitudes of consumers that have a firm connection to the desktop at home; I haven't felt that pull in awhile now. In a tragic way, I kind of miss it.

I remember planning a PC build, shopping for the best bargins and sitting in the middle of the living room floor putting it all together. A dark little secret: I never used a static discharge bracelet.

The growing pains of OS and application installation. Some highlights: the SE edition installation of some bulk package, only to have a permanant error message pop-up every time I rebooted. The dreaded file not found message that appeared every time I started a re-install and walked away, only to return much later to a prompt urging me to SKIP, ABORT or RETRY. The infernal NTLDR NOT FOUND message, may you rot in hell.

Maybe it's my long history with MIcrosoft, a proud partner since 1993. At one time I had to install 6 3.5" Win 3.1 disks, then a Win 95 Upgrade to a Win 98 Upgrade. Then came Win2K Pro, a WinXp Upgrade and finally the full version of Vista Home Basic 32-bit DVD, which never installed correctly.

I am going to miss running some new, slick 3D application in full stereo that is a marvel of digital engineering, but I have hopes with ATI's Imageon and the inevitability of mobile 3D in an everyday useful form factor.

Right now, my desktop is powered down, a victim of neglect. It was crippled by an unsolvable audio problem and recently a 'USB overvoltage error'. These days, I can't find the time to fix it.

Nov 04, 2007 9:07am PST

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  The only issue that bugs me is having to pay 400bucks for a good videocard. : tension
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Nvidia acts strange these days:
- 1st they launched a 8800GT (G92) for 250EUR which is almost as fast as a 8800GTX
- In the end of November they'll launch a new 8800GTS (G80) with 112SPs, 640MB
- In the beginning of December they'll launch a new 8800GTS (G92) for 350EUR with 128SPs, 512MB

The new 8800GTS (G92) will definitely beat the 8800 GTX but no version of the GTX has been announced yet.

Thats all pretty confusing. A regular consumer won't be able to notice the difference between the different GTS versions. They should have named them 8850GTS and so on.

Nov 04, 2007 7:44am PST

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Lawyers have to take this ethics exam called the MPRE. I would put alot of money on my just failing that about 10 minutes ago.

Oh irony, you warned me that an ethics exam and I would not get along.

Nov 03, 2007 9:01am PDT

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I think I know what bugs me about GH3.*

*note - I love GH3. Having a lot of fun with it.

It feels like Neversoft maybe doesn't "get" music the way Harmonix does..maybe? I can't say for sure. Maybe they had guitar consultants on-staff (I'm sure they hired some).

But, the gameplay correlates less with guitar playing than GH1 or 2. It's like they went sadistic...just decided "Hey, fuck it, people don't think it's hard enough, well here's THIS AND THAT, try that note chart on for size fuckers!" But the point of GH games isn't pure difficulty IMO.

Like, the outro solo on Cult of Personality. On Expert. Now, I love playing this song. It's pure fun, great song, great melody. But fucking a, that solo would be easier to play on a beat-up Ovation acoustic guitar from 1992. It's ri-dic-ulous. I feel like some of the music connection was lost when they shifted to Neversoft, and they definitely took more of a pure "game" approach (see: Boss Battles).

Nov 04, 2007 12:14am PDT

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When did the whole collapsable subthread thing start? I just noticed it.

Hooray!

Nov 04, 2007 7:25am PST

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- since the redesign..... : RobFlinn

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I cleared Super Mario Galaxy today... :(
spoiler: Mario saves the princess

Still need to collect the remaining stars though

Nov 04, 2007 2:18am PST

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Hooray, it appears that Steam's massively region locked. The copy of the Orange Box I bought online in the US won't download content from servers now that I'm in Asia. Peggle Extreme and Team Fortress 2 are stuck at 0%. Sweet.

Nov 04, 2007 1:07am PDT

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EVE MEN

Are you freaking kidding me?!?!?!? I get podded by some asshole and I've lost EVERYTHING that I have worked on for the last 2 days (since I started).

If that's the case, fuck this game in it's ass!!!!!

Also the freaking noob channel is worthless cept for isk SPAM.

Nov 04, 2007 7:49am PST

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might be a repost but I didn't see it before.
New Zero Punctuation for MOH Airbourne. I ebayed my game before I completed it, so I have to say I agree with his review 100%
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2582-Zero-Punctuation-MOH-Airborne

Nov 03, 2007 9:44am PDT

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DEATHMETAL, Thrashmetal, etc playing till 4 am (good sound quality) :

http://video.conncoll.edu/wcni/wcni_live.html

I used listen to knon 89.3, a community radio station here in texas that plays the same type of music till 3 am, but their sound quality has gone to shit. Plus, the ads in the window that is opened annoys me.

Nov 03, 2007 10:10pm PDT

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- OOooooo awesome thx : PeniX
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When RSS feeds wreck your Sunday morning state of mind...

http://i3.tinypic.com/62n4i02.jpg

I'm making the dalmatian mini-waffles and an omelet this morning to atone for my unworthiness for his devotion.

Dogs greater than sign cats.

Nov 04, 2007 7:08am PST

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- Now I am sad 8( : Lord Grey
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    My guess would be that the dog's owner died, and the dog was bummed out and laid with the body. : weaselmeister
    - dude you haven't fed me all day get up off your lazy ass <~ dog thoughts : goatboy
- truly mans best friend :( : xxiv
- Seriously, why the fuck would you post that? Where's the "Not Happiness Safe" tag? : Phearsome

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I, Robot is on Space. What a crappy movie and IMO an insult to Asimov. It's sad too because Will Smith has shown that he has depth and doesn't have to play the "Will Smith" character all the time.

Nov 03, 2007 7:12pm PDT

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Anyone here have alot of experience with the WRT54GL?

Just ordered 2 of these things for my house's network. We're getting pretty weak signal in our back rooms, so we're pretty much getting one for each end of the house.

My roommate's going to have his 360 hardwired in in the living room, and I'm going to have my 360 hardwired in in my bedroom. The two routers will be linked together somehow wirelessly.

The one in the living room will be the one hardwired to the cable modem, and we want to be able to connect to the internet via either of them from our laptops.

So... my plan right now is to get DD-WRT (or should I get Tomato?), and set the one in the bedroom up as a bridge? How should I set these things up?

Nov 04, 2007 7:26am PST

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      If latency turns out to be a big deal (like my Macbook wirelessy conencted to the router that's wirelessl... : phobium
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I have a weird question. I found this site a while back that let me feed it a URL and it would spit back a ton of information bout the web server, such as host, OS, what languages were used, what databases, etc. It was really neat but I can't find the darn thing anymore.

I've been Googling and all I can find are sites that tell me who hosts it and what the OS is, but nothing about the technologies that went into developing the actual site.

Anyone ever use something like this and can share it with a poor web dude?

Nov 04, 2007 7:54am PST

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    - It does attempt to scan for more information from registered servers, but I don't know much more than tha... : ThrillKill

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What do you guys think is the most disappointing book to movie translation? Recently, I'd say I, Robot was a pretty huge letdown. Not because the book (a collection of short stories) is particularly good (most are just logic puzzles, really), but because they chose to adapt it at all. If you want Asimov, why not the Foundation books? Or the Caves of Steel books? Fuck.

I'm preparing myself for I Am Legend to suck huge donkey balls.

Nov 04, 2007 12:37am PDT

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You know how those radeon cards are blood red colored? Well, now this one actually has blood on it. Fucking heat sink is razor sharp.

Nov 04, 2007 7:55am PST

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  - It knows where I sleep :( : d0gbert
- You need to clean it up well because the iron in the blood will settle on the board and short circuit it. : omnova

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Has id removed the CD check from Quake Wars yet? I almost bought it on Steam, but then a friend pointed out a) Still cheaper in shops b) id almost always remove the CD check (but keep the CD key check of course)

Nov 04, 2007 2:55am PST

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UGH!! Get past Raining Blood and One on hard and having to deal with the boss battle
makes Baby Jesus cry. What a fucking stupid game mechanic.

Nov 04, 2007 6:25am PST

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yesterday my parents cleaned out one of their closets and found a bunch of old vinyls.
i'm sifting through them right now and i found this gem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pWX46lJc1Y

also found the soundtrack for Breakin' and a chaka khan single.. it's like christmas! but in 1984

Nov 04, 2007 7:41am PST

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- Jam all around, and upside down, keep jamming to the Jam On Production sound : drucifer
- Did they have to pay the audience to show up? : Githyanki

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Homeworld IP owned by THQ confirmed

http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQXJgFieAfqRqCLGpugijnCBIH1vfV-P_NxU_QD9gtzQ0IhyR0UAsP-yKA!!/delta/base64xml/L0lDU0lKQ1RPN29na21DU1Evb0tvUUFBSVFnakZJQUFRaENFSVFqR0VKemdBIS80SkZpQ28wZWgxaWNvblFWR2hkLXNJZDJFQSEhLzdfMF8xMkwvNC9zYS5nb3YudXNwdG8udG93LmFjdGlvbnMuRGV0YWlsVmlld0FjdGlvbg!!#

First document lists the transfer of Attorneys, second page of that has the rather obvious "THQ" inc. blurb and the signature of their Senior VP of Business and Legal Affairs.

It also appears as if their attorney, Douglas R Wolf was actually added to the case way back on the 18th July 2006 but who he was working for wasn't listed then.

Homeworld 3, anyone?

Nov 03, 2007 1:53pm PDT

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- Please let there be 3. I want next gen epic fucking space battles! : NFXFSX
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  Doesn't Relic work with THQ? I thought they owned the IP : stgdz
  - THQ does the publishing for Relic. : NFXFSX
  - THQ own relic. But sierra/vivendi/havas owned Homeworld (and Legend Entertainment before them owned th... : Beady
- : X : warcrow
- About damn fucking time! I can't imagine how epic Homeworld 3 is going to be considering the leaps and... : Sailor of Fortune
- :D :D :D :D YES YES YES HW3 NOW PLEASE. : Chepito.
- Homeworld 3 on Steam please. : Serpico74
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  This could also lead to a Volition space-sim set in the Homeworld universe, but the chances of that are s... : Beady
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    - You could do this in Homeworld :) (but not HW2) : Beady
  - oh god don't do that to me, my heart is weak : pwnage1232
- I sincerely hope that this doesn't interfere with any potential developments of a Dawn of War 2. : capt tripps

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Anyone use Power Usenet for usenet?

I keep threatening to stop using Usenetserver and this time I'm gonna do it.

Sick and tired of not being able to connect or getting cut off, even when using SSL.

Nov 03, 2007 3:18pm PDT

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      newsleecher + supersearch. Awesome stuff. That and I use newzbin to see comments on downloads. : paravis
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Was it so hard for the makers of Guitar Hero to add the lyrics at the top of the screen?

Sometimes I don't understand game devs.

Nov 04, 2007 7:27am PST

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- Turn on Subtitles. : judasen
- Unnecessary and adds nothing to the game. : emcea

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One of my son's friends called to say that the Orange Box for 360 sucked. I politely asked him why because I couldn't ban him from phoning for trolling and he said that

these are pretty much direct quotes

"Portal is dumb you just walk around and when you walk through the hole you just end up at the same place again"

"Half-Life 2 is alright but it's not Halo"

"Team Fortress 2 is gay, there's no story mode"

I was taken aback at the saucy attitude of this petulant 13 year old and I didn't know where to start. I told him to just take the disc out and smash it. Then pick up your 360 and throw it into the nearest fireplace.

I asked him how far he was in Portal and he advised me that he couldn't get past Level 1. Level 1. I then insulted his intelligence by telling him my 4 year old could get to Level 5 by himself. Kids these days.

Nov 03, 2007 6:54pm PDT

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- You should have killed him. That brat. : freshyk
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    it is funny but they talk to me because they know I'm a gamer. : redfive
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    he would complain that the graphics are shit and then I would be up on charges of murder. : redfive
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      tell him he needs to respect the classics. : the archvile
      
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      Everyone should start console gaming with atleast an SNES : AlexXdude
      
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      even better, one of the original MegaMan games. : the archvile
      
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      and *that* is why EA still exist. "Making simple games for simple people since fuck knows when" (TM) : dafugg
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- He doesn't deserve the Orange Box. Release him back to XBL where he belongs! : Ovate
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      ok i exaggarated. i agree, it is average. a solid fps though, just an average experience. but comparin... : dantastic
      
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- halo invented modern society. : duncandun
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- Beat this kids ass. "Half-Life 2 is alright but it's not Halo" Hit him again for me. : BanjoBoy
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It's always good to find out one isn't alone about certain things: http://xkcd.com/337/

Nov 04, 2007 4:58am PST

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It's always good to find out one isn't alone about certain things: http://xkcd.com/337/ : d fluke
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  - *sigh*, true. : biskits

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Any of you guys/gals ever play with finance sites like mint.com?

Seems like a cool idea, but also strikes me as incredibly unsafe, as you are basically handing over access to all of your accounts.

Nov 04, 2007 5:53am PST

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- yeah, fuck that... there is no way in hell. : drucifer
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i forgot how awesome 'one flew over the cookoos nest' is

its on amc

Nov 04, 2007 7:40am PST

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i forgot how awesome 'one flew over the cookoos nest' is its on amc : oHnOES
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Hellgate: London thread

Anyone playing today before the Pats vs Fags today?! lol see what I did there?

Add me to friends list or invite me to guild. In game name Utiria or Sothebys

Nov 04, 2007 7:42am PST

Hellgate: London thread Anyone playing today before the Pats vs Fags today?! lol see what I did there? : pancake humper

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