Evening Reading

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  Aaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh : crummynz
  • Aaaaaaaaaaaagghhhh : xsoulbrothax
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  haha, Samus and Pikachu running next to eachother. : DrFlammable
  • haha, I was just going to post this. Best part of the video. : aethyr
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  Heh, I love the dramatic music for a cutesy fighting game. : yellowtexan
  • That's just how Nobuo Uematsu rolls, son. Respect. : Orange Pylon
  • i'm the exact opposite. I think hyper-kinetic music would have worked better : RikiTiki2
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  I am so excited to play Olimar. I've wanted him in the game for so long. : Modica Sol Solis
  • Yes. Very interested to see him and the pikmin work together. It's a toss up between him and Wario for ... : atom519
• i want to play as snake and dk and bowser!!!! : JINKY
• Zomfg kick ass O.O : Malku
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  wtf did i just watch? diddy kong with wood gats? lol : gokart.
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    He's had those guns since DK64~ : Modica Sol Solis
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      Ahhh the memories... : Malku
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        I felt like I was one of ten people who really liked DK64. At least, up until they made me play the or... : Modica Sol Solis
        • Lol. Wait.. Wasn't that an arcade lvl... By a small hole for tiny? : Malku
        • DK64 is probably the biggest platformer game ever with all the crap to unlock and find. : MoreVespeneGas
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  fox is so badass : dantastic
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    Hope they took out falco though. He sucked on ssbm : Malku
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      from that video, it certainly appears so. i guess i don't really miss the removal of the 'twin' chars tha... : xsoulbrothax
      • Well.. Is there ANY legit complete list of characters? : Malku
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        Mario = Luigi Yoshi = Princess Toad = Koopa Bowser = Donkey Kong : phobium
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          mario and luigi i'd agree with pretty readily, but the others are a bit of a reach compared to falco/fox ... : xsoulbrothax
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            Talkin Mario Kart my man! : phobium
            • oh thank god. i was wondering wtf toad was doing in brawl :D i'll stop right now before i realize i misse... : xsoulbrothax
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            those characters all played wildly different : lord cecil
            • the idea was that they could play differently, but a lot of the actual moves and such were the same. i du... : xsoulbrothax
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      The best player in the world plays Falco. I hear Fox is kinda nerfed this time though. A lot of the gli... : Boxelder
      • I played with Falco a lot! I must be good! : Rice-Rocketeer
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  music's a little too "operatic" for me : RikiTiki2
  • it's fucking awesome. epic intro deserves no less : pyide
  • It's definitely cool music but I liked the intro from Melee better personally. : Begawkiness
  • It's amazing, the gfx and music is better than most of the other wii games prior to Galaxy. I was saddene... : Sailor of Fortune
• Loved the Metal Gear in the background at ~1:20. : coldfusioncs
• i'm probably still only going to pick kirby whenever i get a gang of friends together. : davislovestacobell
• Cool as hell. Only 2 more days till that fucker comes out here. :-D : MacemanInTW
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  I don't like that I'm probably going to buy a Wii just for this game :( : Begawkiness
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    good luck finding one. i planned on having one before the release of this game but i gave up a while ago.... : pyide
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      I've had a reserve for quite a long time :) : Malku
      • Oh fuck... I just had a panic attack :(. I grabbed the little card that I got from Toy's R Us for SSBB ... : Malku
    • Yeah I know I should probably get a reserve sooner rather than later but I can't bring myself to do it. ... : Begawkiness
• march 9 can't come soon enough :( : Nali4Freedom
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  What's with the music? It totally killed it. : GodZilly
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    it's the same music used in like all the trailers, even the first ones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F... : pyide
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      Well I haven't followed the trailers but I remeber the intro for the previous game and I liked it, alot. : GodZilly
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        Didn't Melee have the same type of music for it's intro? : ImageOmega
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          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56P3-TwuRBo : ImageOmega
          • This one seems more in sync. with the video but after reviewing them both again it is definitely the oper... : GodZilly
• I d/l'd the theme from the site when they had it up back in like 2006. Now it's not there for d/l anymore... : Sailor of Fortune
• Epic Intro music! guess I'll consider getting a Wii around the time this comes out... although... what's ... : nephilem
• so like, is the game basically one button tap tap tap jump tap tap or what : Chandler55
• I would totally play a Metroid / Pokémon cross-over game. That clip with Pikachu and Samus is awes... : SilverSnake
• hehe Fox did a barrow roll!! : Nighteyes
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  Where is fucking Luigi? : Crimsonbeak
  • Although according to GoNintendo http://gonintendo.com/?p=34396#more-34396 Luigi, Falcon, Marth are all ... : Crimsonbeak
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  This game will be epic for the music alone, I wonder if they will release a CD for it. : stgdz
  • more like X CD Box set: http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music22_list.html those are just the son... : pyide
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  I really don't like Smash Bros. Mixing all of these characters together really dilutes them I think. ... : kek
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    it still makes more sense then MGS2 : GloriousCow
    • MGS2 made perfect sense : MoreVespeneGas
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    kojima is the one who wanted snake in the game (he wanted him to be in melee but it was too late). they s... : pyide
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      I was just using Snake as an example. I guess my point is that mixing them together makes them all weake... : kek
      • hahahahaha Link is cool now? : Sexpansion Pack
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        you are crazy, if anything it makes them stronger. i didn't know or care about a lot of these characters ... : pyide
        • YOUR OPINION IS WRONG ONLY MY OPINION IS RIGHT! ;) : kek
      • "It's just over the top silly" Um, that's the point? Smash Bros. has always been about sheer over t... : sevogajre
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  I just decided Im going to buy a Wii because of this game : Washburne
  • As Samuel L. Jackson would say, "Good motherfuckin' choice!" : ImageOmega
• Can't watch atm. Does anyone know if Falco is in the game? : Lionel2b

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• I think the next game is Super Smash Bros Brawl. I don't believe theres anything I'm interested in until ... : re4ctor
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  GTA4. : NFXFSX
  • for realz : cpt_gloval
  • that should just about do it for me : Korban
  • yes. day 1. The only question if it's the reg or special edition with a duffel bag I don't need.... : rustified
  • GTA3 has given me more hours of pleasure than any other game. I'm sure gta4 will not disappoint. I'm goin... : malengine5150
• Condemned 2 and Rainbow Six:Vegas 2 : Degenerate
• Stalker: Clear Sky : freshyk
• R6V2 : thejm4n
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  SimCity 4 Deluxe. I'm jonesing for some city building. : Kaerof
  • Music is so good too. : Omaha
• DMC4 for me. I can't friggin wait. : lplasmatron
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  Probably Dragon Age. If it ever comes out. :/ : Vantage
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    Pfft. Wasn't the last update on this like years ago? : Visceral Monkey
    • E3 Game of the year! (...in 2004) : doctorbfunk
• dmc4/the club!!!! : JINKY
• GTA4 for sure, unless I put together the spare cash for Rock Band between now and then. : mwasher
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  Probably RSV2, then I might be buying a Wii just for Brawl. Finally at the end of April we have GTA4. ... : Begawkiness
  • I must say though, the only one that I'm positive I'm buying is GTA4 and that doesn't come out for a whil... : Begawkiness
• No more heroes! : Nali4Freedom
• I honestly don't know. In fact, I'm delaying any kind of upgrade because I just don't see anything right ... : Visceral Monkey
• DMC4, STALKER, Crysis : EvilDolemite
• Civ4 + Expansions : Psigun
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  No More Heroes, you assholes : Chris Remo
  • This is probably what i'll pick up, maybe this week or next : megarust32
  • that's the one. : Fredrik S
• It's Audit Busy Season so I can play any games until March at the earliest, perfect timing for SSB Brawl.... : Sailor of Fortune
• likely left 4 dead : Draugluin
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  Frontlines: Fuel of War. The demo is awesome and the trailer is amazing. http://www.gametrailers.com/... : Wolfanoz
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    that managed to show me absolutely nothing about the game :[ : Draugluin
    • There are more trailers breaking down the game there. : Wolfanoz
• DMC or No More Heroes, or both. I kinda have a handheld backlog at the moment though. : Boxelder
• Culdcept Saga for me (if you don't count Rez HD on Wed!). I hope some of you bimbos want to play it on LI... : Borzoi
• MGS4 or Rock Band (Euro sucker :( ) : GodZilly
• I really don't know. Probably something "old" like Crackdown, or maybe Bladestorm. : SilverSnake
• Age of Conan : treework
• Condemned 2. : nomaad
• Age of Conan... *please let it be good, please!!* : Bamii
• DMC4, GTA4 and Rock Band. In that order. : Big Luke
• On the PSP it'll be Patapon & GoW:CoO, 360 will be GTA IV, PS3 is MGS4 and GT5 and then probably some use... : tcs
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  Starcraft 2 : [7]kami
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    same here. sadly nothing else really interests me : JohnnyDanger
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      Duke is on the list too. It is a very short list. : [7]kami
      • oh yeah, forgot about him. I will buy this too. Looking really forward to it. Finally something different... : JohnnyDanger
• I bought "Scene It" for 360 last night. YAY! Easy achievements and tons of fun when 4 people are going at... : Werkin
• Starwars: the force unleashed or GTA4 : AMikaboshi
• Rock Band, GTA 4, MGS4. : Daggoth
• DMC4 : TastyWheat
• Sins of a Solar Empire : ElPopo
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  I just bought DMC1-3 and Metroid Prime 1-2 to play through for the first time so I am pretty good. I will... : Evil Benius
  • Ratchet and Clank was great. I can recommend it. : GodZilly
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  probably gta4 (and hence a ps3 too) if they stick to the april release date. : lausai
  • Isn't coming out for 360 as well? : Omning
  • If you are buying a console for GTA4, do yourself a favor and get a 360. Cheaper and many more games ava... : FormerHPB
  • the 360 version is going to have considerable exclusive content. You would be MUCH better off getting it : marmite
• dmc4 : Sexpansion Pack
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  Rez HD : Sylvanus
  • yes : Omning
  • ^^^ Bingo. : pyide
  • Same here. : pyrogen
  • yup : tashtego
  • Just 1 more day! : spiderfill
• DMC4, followed by the glorious Smash Bros. : sevogajre
• GTA4. I have plenty to keep me busy until then. : FormerHPB
• Alan Wake, yeah a bit far off I know :) : shirif
• NEXT WOW EXPANSION S[ HELP ME!]S : tension
• Super Smash Brothers Brawl : Grumbeld
• I have so many games to catch up on. =( But I'll definitely be buying Super Smash Brothers Brawl! : Frozen Pixel
• Age of Conan ....GTA4 : cptstern
• DMC4, Orange Box and Rock Band when it finally comes out in Europe : freakyNinja
• Warhammer Online (assuming it doesn't push back it's release date again). Alternately, Age of Conan (tho... : Drifter141
• DMC4 is next, followed by Lost Odyssey. Phoenix Wright 4 should be out sometime soon as well. I'd l... : genom
• Sadly, probably episode 3 or starcraft 2. I got a massive amount of expenses coming up the next many many... : aaarrrgh
• Definitely GTA IV. The Force Unleashed after that. Those IGN videos had me drooling. : AltZero

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• DOOM. Seriously. Just the first time playing it was a revelation. DOOM again. E2M8, the music, the *so... : strider_
• Firing up Wolf3D for the first time on my 386. I remember playing it at a friends house briefly but ther... : Wolfanoz
• When I downloaded bots for the original counter strike mod for HL1. Finally! I could play with 5 ping pla... : Trips
• Duke3d. : GodZilly
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  Quake2 CTF. Man I wasted too many hours on that. : timmie
  • YES!!! I spent a whole summer on this mod. I was so in love with it I would run through the maps drea... : esecasco
• Thunderwalker, Cheat Complex, LAN party in canada I drove ~8 or so hours to go to. So much fun. withou... : Chunks
• Playing Quake 1 on a Sierra Screamin 3d Rendition Verite card : Drewus
• my first one was when i was able to get doom to work on two pcs in one room. my second moment was find... : malengine5150
• Action Quake 2 : te[R]ror
• "hacking" into the PCs in my high school keyboarding class and playing Quake1 deathmatch in class. There... : Prozium
• When I truly got into mp in 1998 on quake 2. There was this server (oreo I think it was called) that had ... : -efx-
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  Unreal Tournament. I'd never really played an online FPS up to that point, and futzed around with offlin... : bipolar
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    Testing a theory: Is everyone's first serious MP FPS experience (the first game you spent several weeks o... : bipolar
    • I got my start with Doom II and Quake but I easily spent more time playing CS. I probably spent a solid ... : Prozium
    • I think that's pretty common. It's hard to break free from those earliest thrills. I'd have to say for my... : Borzoi
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      I enjoyed Quake 1 CTF perhaps more than I enjoyed Doom II deathmatching. : Zero|DPX
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        Yep same here, My first FPS experience, MP and SP, was Doom... but Quake grabbed me more. : Johnny Law
        • And a lot of the reason was the explosion of the Internet-based Quake community. Forums, maps, mods, tou... : Johnny Law
    • I enjoyed UT more than Q1. YES I SAID IT! : Evil Benius
    • QW was my first, but I think I hold Q3test as having most of my fondest memories. : tomservo
• making custom sounds packs for duke3d and exchanging it with friends. : j0nchan
• Playing Halflife DM with friends on a mini-lan. Beep-beep-beeeeep and ofcourse the red rocket light that ... : Bamii
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  having floor wars in OFP on college. The famous time we were taking out a huge russian convoy with like 1... : deadfish
  • Nice. :) That's an awesome story. : Rice-Rocketeer
• - opening the curtain in Duke3D, billiard, strippers, huge bosses - "get out of my bar, you always cause... : razorblade79
• playing Fallout 1. Owning and getting owned in UT. ah, the good old days. : contentious roy
• I had a lot of fun playing UT against bots back then. I'd try to play around and experiment with the diff... : lausai
• Marathon 2 deatchmatch and coop with my high school friends : datoo
• the first time I ever saw Doom. my jaw dropped : moshman
• using up our 200ishMB download limit to get CS, and having to wait a month before i could play online, an... : shika.art
• 8-16 people LAN parties with Duke3d, Starcraft and Half-life DM. : [7]kami
• me and my brother in Goldeneye for the 64 : AMikaboshi
• Goldeneye all-nighters, easy. : snagger
• Doom 2 & Duke Nukem 3D Deathmatches after work at work. : Sylvanus
• QuakeWorld Team Fortress, specifically the map Hunted! This is the game that turned me into an online ... : zerog83
• Quake 3 Test. It was the first time I really got into FPSs. I wasted my whole summer playing that game. : StuMan1337
• Shortly after "Quake IV" came out, I got a chance to play 1-on-1 against a former CPL finalist and I actu... : RomSteady
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  In the vent in HL1 where the soldiers discover you and it all comes crashing down. Catch The Chicken m... : redfive
  • oh man! catch the chicken was hilarious! : zerog83
• First time playing through Half-Life. One scene in particular, with a headcrab zombie jumping through... : aaarrrgh
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  First time running Quake in GL. It was if a choir of angels suddenly sang "laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". : riptyde
  • I wonder if we'll ever have a computer upgrade as awesome as the Voodoo was :( : GloriousCow
  • Yep. I was at an indoor laser tag game and they had just installed four computers. I saw GL Quake and wen... : dafugg
• Deus Ex when you are taken by the bad guys and stuck in a holding cell and have to break out, only to fin... : steve_o
• Quake World and Q2CTF. : zakazi
• The original Doom Life changing gaming asskickery That one level where you go into a room and ther... : trevis
• Playing the format level on Tron 2.0 : stgdz
• BF1942 *.* : rosewood
• Any Halo custom edition CTF game where it was 2-2. So intense, with one side capping and then waiting fo... : flagg209
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  UNREAL - Making my way through the corridors of the Vortex Rikers and stepping onto the surface of Na Pal... : PHeeNIxx
  • seconded! : Snif DeCrac
  • oooohhh yeah that was awesome; the scenery in the first few levels of that game was great. I loved the pa... : zerog83
• LAN Rainbow 6:3 demo all night gaming extravaganza. some pretty good MOH:AA clan matches in there too. : d0pamine
• Quake 1 Co-op/DM with friends using the lab computers at the college I worked at. : trOmblyj
• Surface Tension : drodver
• NetQuake DM clan tournaments, LANs, and leagues. : skizl
• pre-cs1.6 competitive matches. : maulla
• Tribes: bunch of snipers outside enemy base taking down every heavy that showed his noggin instantly. It ... : lacker
• Q3 OSP/CPM, ShackES, LanSanity 2, CS/DoD all-nighters... but now it's like a dead language... :( : das_runt
• 1. Quake 2 since it was the first FPS I ever played. First time playing multiplayer over dialup I was so... : FormerHPB
• Jedi Knight when you get the light saber. That was about 20 years of pent up geek waiting to come out an... : Bruzilla
• A couple: Half-Life: The entire sequence to On A Rail once you start fighting marines is one of the mo : tomservo
• Before Quake 3 was released -- before Q3Test even -- there was a PC executable floating around with 3-4 t : MatthewPhillips
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  In Half life 1 - too many great moments to list them all. Spoilered for papaboo The lift full of scientis : marmite
  • God that demo mission is SO good. I have a story about it: (copied + pasted from an old post) It was t... : tomservo
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    oh the original Jedi Knight too. I played it before I had seen the films and the atmosphere and character... : marmite
    • I'll go as far as to say that crashing ship level has not be outdone yet to this day. So intense. : qtussin
• Seeing the bridge in hl2 from afar then coming up to it and seeing it upclose, and realizing just how hug... : itsjames
• Not sure if this is a spoiler for anyone or not - but in HL2, looking up at that column of smoke at the r... : Drifter141
• My first kill in TF2 beta. Late nite Counterstrike. Playing through Call of Duty in one intense sitting... : spiderfill
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  Lord Bafford's Manor from Thief E1M2 from Doom The Cargo Hold from System Shock 2 The intro to Bioshoc... : Rag and Bone Man
  • Oh, and playing on the CTSNET Canalzon 24/7 server for QWTF : Rag and Bone Man
• 1. Quake1 CTF with this guy from my clan (deimos) named Mystere. I had so much goddamn fun playing that ... : Ovate
• Soo many great memories! The first time I saw a Quake with a 3DFX card at a friends lan party. OMFG! I... : AltZero

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  What an accomlishment! And they say that games aren't fun! : wytefang
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    It is! a couple of the billboards were tricky jumps! : Degenerate
    • you are definitely more fit to breed than i. :( : xsoulbrothax
• I am really undecided on if I want to track all that shit down. I think I will wait and see after I finis... : Evil Benius
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  I just drank an oatmeal stout and it was enjoyable what do you think about that buddy. also steak. :D : mikecyb
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    I'm very proud of you little buddy! We tried Black Flag Imperial Stout on Saturday night and holy shit... : Degenerate
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      I had this one: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/113/571 :D : mikecyb
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        A most excellent choice! : Degenerate
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          it was the only oatmeal stout that whole foods had so it won by default but it was pretty awesome what... : mikecyb
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            Why are you asking me this? I only drink beer if its in a 40 oz! : Degenerate
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              okay then I will just buy a heineken draughtkeg instead. the commercials have convinced me it's awesome!... : mikecyb
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                those commercials make me want to hit the painted chicks with a brick. Do you think that hitting a woman ... : Degenerate
                • haha oh man the painted chick ones make no sense at all. I don't get it, am I supposed to... buy a robot... : mikecyb
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    burnout + beer subthread, i'm liking this. : xsoulbrothax
    • I totally agree. :) : metalremains
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      don't forget the steak! : mikecyb
      • i did! D: pouring another glass to make amends! : xsoulbrothax
  • I just had some Kuhnhenn stouts http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/kuhnhenn-road-rash-imperial-stout/76464/ ... : FirmButtstone
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  oh fuck you degenerate, i still have like 12 smashes and 6 billboards left :P : dopefish
  • I still have like three jumps left to find. :( : Degenerate
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  Holy shit dude. What license do you have? I probably haven't played as much as you have but when I ... : ThomW
  • I got my A class and did a few events in that but not many. : Degenerate
• I'm gonna go back to playing now. If anyone is bored and has room (I don't like hosting, too much pressur... : Chunks
• Fucking CHRIST I just need one more stupid repair shop for the full slate and I can't fucking find it arg... : Deathlove
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  i still have two events undiscovered, and i don't understand. all the empty intersection type areas have ... : pyide
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    there are events on the 88 (the highway) at the tollgates : dopefish
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      yeah, i've got all those. been wanting to do some races up there :P : pyide
      • ahhh, those were the ones i found last, felt kinda dumb, but the game was pretty clear about "at intersec... : dopefish
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  SUPERJUMP QUESTION there are a few guides out there with all the superjumps marked on a big map of the... : dopefish
  • I know which jump youre talking about but dont remember it being a super jump. I think the super jump in ... : Degenerate
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  I have so far to go =( I'm at 225 or so smashes (which is what I really care about, because the car you g... : tashtego
  • The bulk of them came from just driving around. Especially when playing online on my way to challenges or... : Degenerate
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  I just got my Burnout License and I'm debating on whether I should set it aside and play Assassin's Creed... : Matt Burris
  • i would probably play assassin's creed to take a break from burnout, and go back to burnout for a while a... : pyide
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    I still only have my A class license since I've been trying to work on other things. I need to start work... : Degenerate
    • i've gotten more smashes and billboards online than off. lot easier getting some of the tougher billboard... : pyide
• Those of you who want help tracking down the last things you need, I've got maps and stuff up at http://h... : mancide
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  oh boy guys what a fun game, lets go grind billboards and fences! ....yea fuck that. no. : .ka`boom.zZz.
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    fences are valuable because they teach you shortcuts and billboards are fun because they are usually hit ... : pyide
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      I keep getting screwed by "shortcuts" during races more than helped by them. I'll hop on a "shortcut" and... : ThomW
      • that's why it's good to know exactly where they go by getting the gates at each entrance :P i've had s... : pyide
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        shortcuts are awesome for marked man though- AI cars rarely follow you into them : tashtego
        • haha yeah I try to do this too. I suspect they will be extra handy once I start doing the A class and hig... : Degenerate
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    We get that you dont like the changes in the game even though you havent played it. You've made that abun... : Degenerate
    • haha well said. : ThomW
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    more fun than trolling the shack! : tashtego
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      Yep, if you dare to share a different opinion you're a "troll". People are going to have different opi... : wytefang
      • Correction - meant to say "But it's hard NOT to poke a bit of fun at Degenerate's less than critically im... : wytefang

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• batman is mostly about stealth and sneaking around but he'll also fight a bunch of dudes if he has to. y... : mikecyb
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  Much as I'm on the fence about Assassin's Creed, I think that sort of format would work best for the Batm... : malengine5150
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    The Assassin's Creed engine/style would actually work very well for a Batman game. You'd need vehicles(i... : SolrFlare
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      Also: huge, skyscraper buildings which you could enter and move through without loading times (probably n... : sharpie
      • I agree. Well we still havent seen the full potential of either the 360 or the PS3 so maybe it is possibl... : Ureval
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      Assasin's Creed/Crackdown hybrid would be awesome for a Batman game : YamatoTwinkie
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        i was just about to say that. totally f'ing perfect. : xsoulbrothax
        • that's what i'm saying! let's brand this shit now before EA steals it. : malengine5150
    • Dude i hadnt even thought of that. Youre totally right. Running down villains. Holy crap yes! : Ureval
• I agree with you, except the SNES Batman game based on the animated series kicked ass (implemented the gr... : sharpie
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  The NES Batman game was fucking awesome. Hard as shit, but great. It had wall jumping for fucks sake! ... : DOOManiac
  • NES Batman owned : megarust32
  • That was an awesome game. : Serpico74
  • I've seen controllers destroyed from NES Batman. : spazzium
  • NES Batman is in my top 5 favorite 8-bit games of all time. : dealie
• Batman Vengeance wasn't bad. I think a serious Batman adaptation of the films should have a certain a... : K1Bond007
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  GTA with batman please. : losder5000
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    I did the next best thing in GTA:SA when I donned the gimp suit and used a police cycle and did vigilante... : RikiTiki2
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      man what version of batman have you been reading : mikecyb
      • [lol] : thewriter
      • Frank Miller's? : Conan
      • hahaha : ThomW
• i liked the batman for the nes and i believe it had awesome reviews at the time : davislovestacobell
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  Hellboy > Batman not that I read the Comics anyway, but in terms of movies. : locater16
  • what are you smoking? : gibolas1234
• splinter cell/final fight : JINKY
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  Let's wait and see who does the inevitable The Dark Knight game. : rudds
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    I don't think it matters. Has any movie tie-in game ever really been worth a damn? Goldeneye doesn't co... : action wombmate
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      Riddick was highly acclaimed. : Prozium
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        That wasn't really a movie tie-in. : action wombmate
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          yes it was. are you crazy? : malengine5150
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            yeah, the movie and game came out the same week. : Prozium
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              so isn't that a tie-in? also, why doesn't goldeneye count? : malengine5150
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                Well maybe I'm mistaken, but I was under the impression that Goldeneye was only loosely connected to the : action wombmate
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                  goldeneye was almost scene for scene dude..... : Turd Ferguson
                  • lol yeah you could basically play the game and not watch the movie cause they were essentially the same t... : infiltrator`
  • A good Dark Knight game could be killer : rosewood
• You know there's a Lego Batman game right? : Sailor of Fortune
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  I remember playing the hell out of Batman Returns on Sega Genesis. : joesnizzle
  • Yeah that was pretty good for its time. The graphics especially. : socksta
• I'd do a thief style game with investigation taking the place of the actual theft. Stealth, combined with... : Conan
• I think a WWII shooter or sci-fi RTS would suit Batman best. If they did an MMO I would make it fantasy. : Sexpansion Pack
• This whole thread sounds like something my friends and I would discuss in 6th grade. That being said, tho... : gooblerampling
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  City of Heroes/Villains, man... Not saying it can't be expanded upon.... : Sylvanus
  • Boooring. 9000 Batmans running around fighting 9000 Jokers is not a Batman game. : ThomW
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  Because I'm Batman that's why http://shackpics.com/files/iwipx50q1rft521a2dqp.gif : trevis
  • fucking GENIUS! : scottythejock
  • EPIC. WIN. : knytehawkk
• LEGO Batman is going to be the shit. : changejar419
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  Make it a Batman set in the 1940 and that would be my fantasy game right there. : baron calamity
  • Batman/Lovecraft? Yes please! : genom
• I'm still waiting for a good Judge Dredd game. : Fredrik S
• I'd make it work sort of like GTA where it's a wide-open city and shit happens in it, but with a bit more... : ThomW
• Ninja Gaiden/Splinter Cell : Rag and Bone Man

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  GC trades higher memory usage for performance. With a large enough heap, GC can be as fast as explicit m... : afty
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    If you have more questions, feel free to ask. I am a grad student doing research in GC, so I know a bit ... : afty
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      Wow, awesome. So with the current prices of memory becoming so cheap, do you think that Auto-GC is the wa... : DrFlammable
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        That's a tougher question to answer than you'd think. I do think that GC usage is going to increase for ... : afty
        • As a ruby developer, working on a fairly large application, I'm thankful for things like GC and the like.... : theamazingrand0
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          explicit memory management is not difficult. The average programmer is a retard. It's a point of view thi... : steelsamurai
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            I highly doubt actual retards would be doing programming of any kind. >:( : DrFlammable
            • I have no doubt because I spent 12 years in the industry. : steelsamurai
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            it may not be difficult in some situations but its certainly exponentially more error prone than having a... : derelict515
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              if the GC is correctly implemented, then it is 0% error prone, so it will always beat manual for errors. ... : steelsamurai
              • certainly, and I wouldn't argue that one shouldn't learn explicit memory management even if GC languages ... : derelict515
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      im a grad student doing mine in wireless mesh network algorithms. is your professor trying to kill you to... : Antilles_Prime
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        My professor is actually very cool and very laid back. I would probably graduate sooner if he did push m... : afty
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          Any advice for someone who plans on applying to PhD programs to start in Fall '09? I'm looking to apply ... : Rasnowl
          • I think it helps if you know someone at the schools you are applying to. Do you have any undergrad profe... : afty
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      I will read this paper later on tonight, but my question right now is that (just from reading the title) ... : qwpeoriu
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        You can't have GC in a language like C++. This problem is at least NP-C, if not more complicated (I susp... : itsjames
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          Microsoft has a managed version of C++ with garbage collection, and the C++0x standard has laid the found... : qwpeoriu
          • Managed C++ is MSIL with marshaling for native code. There's two distinct types of classes, those that ar... : dravalen
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            I don't think managed C++ does everything you think it does. Let me put it this way, if you were to deal : itsjames
            • In C/C++ you don't know that is and isn't a pointer, and that's the problem. You can't trace through all... : afty
          • Managed C++ (properly termed C++/CLI) does this creating objects on the managed heap that the CLR manages... : derelict515
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          Wow, you might want to do a little more research before saying that you can't have GC in C++, that's just... : dravalen
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            I'm saying you can't do it more effectively than NP-C code. And I'm pretty confident in that statement. ... : itsjames
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              Who's saying you have to do an exhaustive search? You can implement a generation mark and sweep GC in C++... : dravalen
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                I highly doubt you could bolt on a mark and sweep GC that is as effective as one for a language designed ... : derelict515
                • Regardless it's still possible and viable to create a GC system in C++. Unreal Engine 3 uses one under th... : dravalen
              • Wow, I guess you can sum up this entire subthread with one line: You would have to do an exhaustive searc... : itsjames
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        A few comments: - You're right in that this doesn't take into account stack allocation. On the other ... : afty
        • Thanks ! That's kind of what I had assumed. I'll read through the your link when I get off work, interest... : qwpeoriu
      • I think it really depends on the use case. For any garbage collection algorithm (reference counting, gene... : asdf
  • Thanks for the link, interesting paper. : ahlee
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  funny fact about Java's garbage collection: Running System.gc() does not actually run the Garbage Coll... : Clay
  • that makes sense. maybe it's smart enough to recognize that if a call to System.gc() is executed right af... : DrFlammable
  • I think that's standard practice, the .NET garbage collector works the same way with GC::Collect(). It al... : derelict515
  • Python is like this too. : jcupitt
• Big-O notation isn't that hard once you can draw the giant robot : smegmar