Morning Discussion

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  the caliber of play on shack servers is well above pubs. If you play mostly on shack servers and then go... : hirez
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    Yes. I once killed 10 dispensers on 2 fort as a *sniper* because the idiot kept on building one across th... : Crimson
    • That's why I got booted from that server a few weeks back. I was in an open spot, very visible (window sp... : duffmanwwu
    • On dustbowl, I held their entire team at the 1st cap point with one sentry, because they would try to att... : theamazingrand0
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  I'd have to say yes. I'd also venture to say that perhaps many of these newbie public servers contain pe... : dopeman
  • OH YOU DID WELL! /hwg. : hirez
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  being kicked for cheating when you're not cheating is the greatest feeling in the world. it's like being... : electroly
  • +1 True that. I got a good laugh out of it : duffmanwwu
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  It's fun to pub it up with a fellow shacker or two and use a little cooperation to completely dominate. E... : skankcore
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    That's not a bad idea. I live with a fellow shacker, a guy that actually got me on here in the first plac... : duffmanwwu
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      Yeah, about the living situation... : Sniper21
      • ouch! : anhero
      • OH SNAP!!!! ok... craigslist... give me cheap appartments... STAT! : duffmanwwu
• Yeah, I remember getting on a pubbie server and just owning shit as a demo man. Doing stuff i'd NEVER get... : sammyl
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  I find that some of the 32-player dustbowl-only servers have consistently better dustbowl play than shack... : ]pm[chem
  • I have to agree on this. 24/7 Dustbowl servers are the only non-shack servers I go on and their level of... : Horn
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  Pubs are all I do, but not by choice. There are a few servers that have a good, challenging turnout. ... : GeneticSlave
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    the server admins hold the key... 'nuff said : MrLobo
    • Thanks Lobo, I'll work with that =) : GeneticSlave
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  im a pretty big team player, i support my team as much as i expect them to support me. it's hard on pubs ... : laurgasms
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    I have tried pubs once or twice and get exactly the same way. I will assume that the three teamies next t... : A Sponge
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      lolol and the other day i got a 9 year old foreign kid who kept babbling about painting things and yelled... : laurgasms
      • I would have messed with him more... But then again, I'm a dick. : duffmanwwu
      • I always thought sparkly was American. : A Sponge
  • Medic is the hardest class to play on a pub imo. Other medics let you die, nobody protects you and 99% o... : itsjames
  • yep, the lack of team play is the worst. as a medic, i was healing a heavy on 2fort and he runs across th... : das_runt
• Honestly I'm usually a middle TF2 player on Shack servers. On pubs I instantly slip to the top. I joine : EvilDolemite
• I find that, while I'm very inconsistent in score on the shack servers, I'm almost always in the top 1 or... : DrWaffles
• i have only played on a pub once, and it was to practice with my squad. we ripped it up. so, i guess we... : virus
• depends some servers are generally leaps and bounds better than the shack ones, such as San Dawgs or a... : Enraged Pineapple
• yeah there are many shackers who are fucking awesome so it keeps players who are decent or good even bett... : mikecyb
• take it to cal/cpl : agentlead
• lol i got 14 points as spy on a pub before dying. it's funny because im a crappy spy : Mmmmmoo
• Here's what Shodan and myself did to a pub one afternoon: http://shackpics.com/files/v1g1rwxcgdwuqq9zed07... : skinlab133
• I once had 9 dominations at once on the arsclan server. I was very surprised! : terath
• Yes, when either they're full or empty. Plus, I get much better ping for backstabbing goodness on non-... : carrioN luggagE
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  Of course this varies by server. A lot of servers that have hlxstats attract repeat / better players. ... : TreMetal
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    what is hlxstats? : hirez
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      It basically keeps track of stats in a database. You earned points by kills, assists, building, etc. Fo... : TreMetal
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        do you have a link to the homepage for this? google brings up a bunch of stuff, but nothing seems like th... : hirez
        • http://www.hlstatsx.com/ Guess it is hlstatsx not hlxstats. : TreMetal
    • http://pcp.hlstatsx.com/ : MrLobo
  • Very true. The server I played on last night didn't have stats, but it was like a "Guts to Glory [GtG]" c... : duffmanwwu
  • I've been on several servers with hlxstats and really didn't see that many good teams. I think the thing ... : terath
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    HLXSTATSX tends to attract stat whores and causes people to be more "campy". Might not be that great for... : Alco23
    • HLStats is a broken piece of shit. It doesn't provide points for healing, so as a Medic its near impossi... : Head Rush
• I pretty much only play on pubs and there is a pretty wide range of players out there and you may have ju... : Evil Benius
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  Incoming "Shacknews Sucks at TF2" Alias Post in 3.....2......1..... : Jackass1233
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    Jackass sucks at TF2. jk, pls dont kill me : laurgasms
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      i havent been on in a weeek because of this damn flu, cept for a few mins last night, and it was making m... : Jackass1233
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        To me, that sounds like fun... it'd make the game more realistic to be blown up, spun around, and actuall... : duffmanwwu
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          lol i can't play video games when im drunk for the same reason, they make me feel all wonky. : laurgasms
          • Hehe I love playing Warbirds (ww2 flight-sim) drunk..It's an amazing experience. : daedraug
      • You better be ready by the 5th. Don't care if you chuck on your keyboard and what not :P... When I get... : Alco23
  • As pubs go they are fairly decent. There is still a rather large gulf between that and actual scheduled ... : alias
• I was on a great pub earlier; the teams were superior to what you would find on shack servers, I dare say... : thief
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  Earlier maldoror and I were playing on a pub. I was top of the list as Heavy and he went combat medic ... : vile
  • Amen brother. We're lucky to have such an awesome community to play this game with. I <3 you all! Except ... : duffmanwwu
• me and Demius goto 24/7 dustbowl Pubs all the time my avg score is about 200 at the end of the rounds (iv... : okellyc
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  I'm an average Shack player but I'm a fucking god out on the pubs. I can just imagine what Zaun and Nast... : mrwolf710
  • Shack has they best players by far, no other server comes close to the level of play and skill found on D... : okellyc
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  I routinely destroy pugs, i do alright on shack servers : graceofdragons
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    Poor puppies :*( : zebosausamite
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      Quiet you : Robotic Puppy Eater
      • ^^awesomeness : duffmanwwu
• every pub i've been on i've only seen one medic, theres usually like 5 snipers and 7 goddamn engineers, i... : Dschinghis Khan

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  They're full of shit. : SockMonkeh
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    vinyl has a better sound than any digital format. the cost and space investment outweigh the positives t... : zagzig32
    • some of it has to do with how vinyl is mastered, you can't just throw anything on vinyl, it has to be sp... : zagzig32
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      No it doesn't. This is a myth that dates back to the original days of CDs. : Fred Garvin
      • i've been listening to vinyl since 1993, im speaking about my opinion : zagzig32
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  I'm pretty sure 24 bit/192 khz audio is more than adequate : Mr.Fusion
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    I have a few SACDs and DVD-As and some of the 5.1 mixes using 24 bit / 192 uncompressed is stunning. : gmd
    • * Porcupine Tree - In Absentia DVD-A to be exact. : gmd
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      One would assume that it gets to a point where the digital resolution of the original sampled signal will... : Mr.Fusion
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        No, it's not. : walker270
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          ok, any more info on this? im curious if there have been actual studies on this : Mr.Fusion
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            ehh... I was thinking he was referring to something else. I'm not sure about SACD/DVD-A quality... : walker270
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              DVD-As are 24/192 I'm not sure about SACD I think it is variable. Of course nothing reads them anymore ! : gmd
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                also both have to be used with analog cables for the channels they will not travel over optical or digita... : gmd
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                  The PS3 does use HDMI for sacd though. hooray! : DarkWolf5
                  • If you have a good setup get Peter Gabriels UP SACD, it is amazing sounding in multichannel. : gmd
                • I thought you can still get at least the 24/192 2-channel audio over optical or coax? : Prozium
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        technically speaking 44.1 kHz should be more than enough for the human ear since Nyquist limits it to 220... : gmd
        • but I still prefer DVD-As to CD's to bad it is dead : gmd
• In my opinion, these days due the physical limitations of vinyl, vinyl has better mixes because they can... : DarkWolf5
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  I have heard vinyls played on insanely expensive set ups and it crushed digital in terms of sound quality... : gmd
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    Once again I disagree. The noise floor alone makes analog inferior. : Fred Garvin
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      This was some piano recording that have very little noise. : gmd
      • (it was also on a record player that cost more than my car and I would never buy) : gmd
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        These days there are some fantastic digital converters. The old hat about analog being better just isn't ... : Fred Garvin
        • That is why I hold on to my denon player since it does DVDA/SACD playback ! : gmd
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  well i am not sure here but the main difference is the sound it self. with vinyl it is warmer and somehow... : blindi0815
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    See, i always hear that argument, but really i don't know what to think of it. The "warmer quality" i ass... : great-white
    • warmer usually refers to the natural distortion associated with analog devices, like with tube amps. : gmd
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      listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on CD and on Vinyl, you'll herer the difference spot on and ... : blindi0815
      • ah somethigns missing. Digital music you're for the most part only listening. But you can feel analog ... : blindi0815
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  "Lossless audio" is wrt CD -quality. : walker270
  • yeah, i realized that after i posed. I guess I was thinking more of like Super Audio CD quality? : great-white
• lossless just means there is no loss from the cd so it's still "snapshots" if you want to put it that way... : Mansmells
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  Problem is, most (all?) modern recording, mixing and mastering is done digitally, so the source material ... : Vantage
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    Ah, thank you. This is something I was looking to hear as well. Yeah, because what is everyones vinyl col... : great-white
    • It's not so simple. Modern recordings are typically done at much higher sample and bitrates than CD, so t... : Mansmells
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  I dont really care about the quality, it's negligible to me, but I always buy vinyl given the option if n... : feek
  • it's also usually cheaper. yeah, i really dont buy cds at all. : feek
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  The real problem with music nowadays is LOUDNESS WARS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war : The Key
  • Yep. This pisses me off. >:( : guido anchovy
  • Another article on the same subject: http://moozeek.de/mirrors/articles/over_the_limit.htm : Fred Garvin
  • I really hate this. I've heard "music" that suffers from this so badly that it borders on the physically... : Arcanum
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  Mini-hijack. What's the best way to store Vinyls? I've got a bunch of LPs that my dad had collected ov... : Cliffzorz
  • i think that's fine as long as it's not packed too tightly. : feek
• Much of the difference has less to do with the underlying storage technology than with the recording, mix... : Zero|DPX
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  Analog is still a compromise. I dare anyone to tell me that a 24 bit sample at 192 kHz doesn't sound as c... : Fred Garvin
  • IAWTGarvin. SACD/DVD Audio have the best audio fidelity currently available to consumers (though they don... : mn3m0n1c
• Why do you think vinyl died, and how did DSOTM stay in the to 200 for 14 years? You'll find the answer t... : capt tripps
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  There have been epic threads on Slashdot about this. From what I understand, Digital has more accurate f... : bipolar
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    couldn't you just add the distortion to a CD and make it sound the same? : marmite
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      recorded the impulse response of a tube amp and convolute the digital recording with it ! : gmd
      • but be careful. You could end up ripping a hole in the space-time continuum. : Prozium
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        People have done this as well as tape, tube, and amp simulators. : Fred Garvin
        • Yeah I actually did do it with my tube amp and some wav files with MATLAB. : gmd
    • no because the source sounds different. : Mansmells
  • There are so many different converters and processing techniques these days that it's not really applicab... : Fred Garvin
• IT JUST SOUNDS WARMER allow me to adjust my wooden volume knobs wankwankwankwank : aeg1x
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  I recently got onto the vinyl bandwagon, and bought a nice stack of albums, some new stuff, some old reco : Rauol Duke
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    That has a lot to do with the mixing/mastering. Some people know how to make CDs sparkle, some don't. : Fred Garvin
    • somemost violins on CD make my ears cry : synack
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      I don't want some cock suck trying to make my music "sparkle", I want accurate replays from what the arti... : pres589
      • You have no idea what mixing and mastering is, do you? : Fred Garvin
• Vinyl has the potential for smoother high-frequency response, but lacks the dynamic range capability of C : mn3m0n1c
• This argument is so dead, these days, especially if you are relating it to any kind of electronic music / : mwasher
• Vinyl was a PITA, Needles were a PITA. It took up too much room and was easily damaged. The swag was ni... : capt tripps

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  I enjoyed it. maybe you're too old and jaded : wtf242
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    what did you like about it? : edgewise
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      everything except for the annoying "hip" dialog : wtf242
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        Seeing as how a movie isn't necessarily a modern movie without dialog, what on earth did you enjoy about ... : felicia
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          have you seen the movie? There's a lot of slang usage that's unrealistic and seems out of place specially... : wtf242
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            only in the first 10mins really : synack
            • yeah, after the first 10 mins they seemed to chill out on that angle. : zakazi
          • Nah, I refuse to see it. : felicia
        • The dialogue in the first half was so forced and fake and overwritten. : Serpico74
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        That "shut your friggin' gob" line was so forced. That was the worst part of this excellent movie. : bakanoodle
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          or honest to blog. ugh. : pandastrong
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            I'm fo shizz up the spout wtf does that even mean? : oatmela
            • I have no idea but it is kinda funny. : bakanoodle
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        How bad are we talking here? Are we talking "Gilmore Girls" bad? : genjuro
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          along those lines, but way worse : feek
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            Why the fuck do you watch The Gilmore Girls, feek? : genjuro
            • it's sometimes forced upon me :( : feek
• Why are you watching a drama anyway? : dognose
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  oh god now I will never see it. I saw Hard Candy on cinemax or showtime and I was actually hoping he wou... : gmd
  • exact. same. person. : edgewise
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  your obviously broken :( : Iwannaacura
  • his broken what? don't leave me hangin here : jake2000
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  Your opinions is aligned with mine and thus correct. My biggest gripe is the way the male characters are... : egg5hen
  • Finally, some people that agree with me on this movie : Fox n Panther
  • Maybe they're supposed to be pushovers and not what you want them to be. Maybe. *cough* : action roommate
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  Was it you who gave me a double ration of overclocked shit for not liking the ending quarter of No Countr... : Mad Jack McMad
  • probably not. I'm not a huge champion of that movie either, but it was loads better than Juno. : edgewise
  • Haha, INCOMPARABLE. : midgetherder
• You don't understand good movies. : stump
• I found it to be mildly entertaining but yes I agree she was annoying. : datoo
• Oh shit first negative review I've heard. Urge to watch fading. : ieGod
• excellent film, sorry you are dead inside. : mwasher
• I liked it. I like Ellen Page's character and I thought she was genuinely funny. : bRAINsick
• iawtedgewise. what an overhyped turd : feek
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  I can see why. It's dripping with a quirky unreality that doesn't sit well with everyone. The main I kept... : Home Nugget
  • It seems like people liking it is contingent on if they've known anyone like that. I knew some people who... : zakazi
• It certainly was no Rambo. : Geoffrois
• I thought it stunk bad. it seemed like it was trying to be a weirdo comedy like Harold & Maude (just in t... : thebigbeefsandwich
• i agree. I thought it was ok at best but geezus it's getting a lot of positive reviews. : integer
• I've never disagreed with you more. : Fred Garvin

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  I feel so at peace watching fast bunny hoppers, it's kind of weird. : Audhuml4
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    Not quite bunny hopping, but you love this. http://www.stage6.com/Game-Videos/video/1006126/Tricking-iT-Q... : djkenohki
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      thats some pretty damn good presentation for a quake trick video :D : GloriousCow
      • Most of the Shaolin Production stuff is like this or better. : djkenohki
    • Now that's really impressive! : alias
    • These people have way too much time on their hands. : action wombmate
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  show to this to PapaBoo and make him cry. Look at all the time is he wasting. : askedrelic
  • hahahaha poor guy : mwasher
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    :( : PapaBoo
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      hey dont watch this video, it might spoil the 60 hours you could put into the game : askedrelic
      • Actually it might create some sort of PapaBoo/AntiPapaBoo explosion. Stay away. : Johnny Law
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  watching it now, holy shit the train scene really is very long... : graceofdragons
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    inside joke ha ha ha : crazywigga
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      what? : graceofdragons
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        innuendo : yAak
        • in-YOUR-endo : Cliffzorz
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  i like how even during the parts you normally have to wait, he does all kinds of things you wouldn't thin... : davislovestacobell
  • at one point he bypasses an entire chapter in a second : davislovestacobell
• you know im gonna have to watch this now during my lunch break : grabbie
• its hypnotizing lol : yAak
• a couple parts it looks like it cuts out and back in in a different place. : bakanoodle
• Related: Ballad of Black Mesa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbL5elVXrU : zanzares
• ho-lee-shit : pilgrimage
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  Higher quality version @ Stage6: http://www.stage6.com/user/StrikerNL/video/1516977/Half-Hour-Half-Lif... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    fuck me, i just watched that whole blurry mess and i was wishing for this. : nandu666
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      Watch again with commentary! http://stage6.divx.com/Speed-Demos-Archive/video/1817329/Half-Life-hard-3... : zakazi
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        where's the commentary? :( : GloriousCow
        • right click-> audio track-> track 2 : Nali4Freedom
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    is this sped up or something? : oatmela
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      No. He is exploiting the odd physics of HL1 to get massive speed. : zanzares
      • wtf,, I can barely keep up just watching this and processing the moves in my head! : oatmela
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  That guy is such a ridiculously good bunny hopper. Like HLDM style almost. Ahh the days of uncapped heh... : alias
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    how do you bunny hop anyway? I never could do it. Isn't it something to do about alternating diagonal ju... : GloriousCow
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      The basic technique is to strafe + curve your mouse in the same direction to generate speed. You see him... : alias
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        thats what I tried, but I guess its a lot harder than it looks : GloriousCow
        • lot easier to do with a mwheel jump script : Enraged Pineapple
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          It takes some getting used to that's for sure. The movement is so unnatural the first time you learn it,... : alias
          • http://www.stage6.com/user/ArxFF/video/1959078/Fortress-Forever---Tutorial-4---Bunny-Hopping For a bit mo... : alias
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  I wonder if people are still working on that Black Mesa mod for HL2. It's practically the DNF of mods now : blarrr
  • Nah, it hasn't been that long. I hope they're still going, it looked awesome. : cdbeckman
  • The last big media update was just last month. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15863493 Also t... : varsindarkin
• I watched one of these ( I think they were down to 45 minutes back then) with popcorn on a projector back... : cdbeckman
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  He skipped the whole interlopper chapter haha, If I had knew that possible....!!! : melt_core
  • I fail. : melt_core
• Crappy games these days only have a half hour of gameplay, what a ripoff : Zero|DPX
• That's nuts : action roommate
• god, i forgot how much longer that game was than HL2. : biskits

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  Inspired by actionroomate's blog, diningondallas, and by the fact that there are no quality review sites ... : thewriter
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    You need a designer AND a developer. : zanzares
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      A multitalented individual! : thewriter
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        The two rarely combine. : zanzares
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          Yeah, I'm more a designer with laughable developer skills. : Matt Burris
          • didn't you develop shackpics? or did you just design it and grab the code from open source projects? : Demius
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    setup wordress with a decent design and you're done :) : blindi0815
    • This was my first though. At least to get started : melkore
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    I cant do all that, but Id guess 50 grand if you're looking for cheap : jaga
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      I wrote http://www.themeparkcritic.com over 5 years ago now, it took probably 2 weeks of coding (total ti... : stonedonkey
      • hah. Id say quite a bit more than that.. : jaga
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    If you want to do it on the cheap, take a Wordpress install and customize the template to make it sexier ... : ThomW
    • This is probably the best idea for now, I guess. : thewriter
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    hm. shouldnt be that hard to get wordpress do that. : naabster
    • yeah. and that should be to the op. shouldnt be that hard to do that : naabster
    • how do you get multiple category types though? as in, you can tag your posts a variety of things, but ... : thewriter
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  Might be hard to hack up wordpress to do all that well. Looks like a custom job to me. I'll do it for $15... : wtf242
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    jumping jesus that's a lot of money : thewriter
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      why not just use yelp? http://www.yelp.com I review restaurants there : wtf242
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        I can't potentially turn it into anything else if I do it on a webpage : thewriter
        • on SOMEONE else's webpage I mean : thewriter
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        Wow, cool. I'd never seen that site before. : Bean
        • it's a cool site. http://wtf242.yelp.com : wtf242
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      yeah I had the feeling you had no idea what you were asking for as you started asking.. just think abo... : jaga
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        Obviously I'm not a fucking web designer/developer so I had no idea how much it costs/entails, hence the ... : thewriter
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          I didnt mean it in a bad way, I just meant I assumed you probably weren't that rich to just blow that on ... : jaga
          • Sorry for snarkiness. : thewriter
      • Web design and web development are pretty much trades. People good at it spend years learning and relear... : stonedonkey
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      15 grand for this project is cheap : manero
      • i'll do it for 14 grand : manero
      • well i wouldn't touch the design. it would look like ass. Also i just threw a number out there. If he rea... : wtf242
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    I wish I could find a good designer to work with... I'm awful at design, but can hold my own coding. : stonedonkey
    • Okay, well, I'll draw you pictures of what it should look like, and then you make it. k? Good. :D : skizl
  • I'll do it for $10,000 and not use Rails. : mwasher
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  Okay, THREAD REBOOT: WEB DESIGN MENZ How much for a sexy wordpress theme.... just images and layout, a... : thewriter
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    consider this template http://www.geocities.com/cwazykitty_5157/index.html I can do it for about $5... : oatmela
    • ahahahaa fuck off : thewriter

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  Oh this looks awesome. Please be as awesome as I imagine : geedeck
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    I just started it up and i am starting to think its even more awesome than i imagined : choppp
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      Pics plz. At work, want to see. : zebosausamite
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        I just opened it up again to SS, here ya go: http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n309/cchoopp/LDDScreenSho... : choppp
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          It seems the Myth Buster guys got decapitated trying to fly it on a conveyor belt :( : alphane
          • hahahah i feel bad now :( : choppp
• does this work on vista ? : doomed
• whoa. ok. i'll try it. : bakanoodle
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  Sub thread. Is anyone playing Blockland (it's $20 now?) online? : metalremains
  • ^^^ not enough blockland love in this subthread : manero
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  I wish you could order a set based on what you built. : Crimsonbeak
  • If they did this I would finally finish my scale Einhaender model. : Omaha
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    You can. You build what you make, go back to the site, upload your file and place your order. : RomSteady
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      What. WHAT?! : Omaha
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        Sorry, looks like they made it easier in this one. Load your model, click the "Check Price" button and t... : RomSteady
        • OMFG, do they have Star Wars pieces in the mix? : disposition
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  Can you build something complicated, and then it figures out the easiest way to manually build it and gen... : OverloadUT
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    yes. see my post below. : marmite
    • Holy fucking shit yeah I just did this myself. You can even view animated build instructions on screen. T... : OverloadUT
• it's really awesome to see an old(er) toy company embrace new technologies like this and succeed instead ... : eeeealmo
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  http://marmite.shackspace.com/lego/Building%20Instructions%20%5BNo%20Name%5D.html : marmite
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    holy shit it creates directions for you? : mwasher
    • yep. It even creates a little animation that you can play that shows the bits wizzing in from all sides. ... : marmite
  • higher res screen shot http://marmite.shackspace.com/lego/LDDScreenShot1.png : marmite
  • Holy shit dude you just built almost the exact same thing I just did. : Majuju
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  TF2 LEGO SET anyone remember this post? - Someone needs to post the digital instructions so we can all bu... : disposition
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    Hah! Recreate TF2 Tournament screenshots in lego! GO GO GO! : zebosausamite
    • someone get on this STAT : AMikaboshi
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    Oh man you just gave me an idea for the first "real" thing to build in this: The TF2 Sentry. It's a simpl... : OverloadUT
    • OMG post the design. : disposition
    • yes I would love to build some TF2 stuff and I'm not even a lego person:) : .frame
    • Working on one now, here's what I have so far. http://shackpics.com/files/figb0w2sfo9p8r2y0ngw.png : d0gbert
• pretty cool I´ll check it out later : someWayne
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  nVidia experts! I am trying to tell the nVidia control panel to anti alias in this program, as it looks l... : OverloadUT
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    FRAPS just means it is using DirectX for rendering. They could be pre-rendered pieces. : RomSteady
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      O.o you can't prerender 3d models if you allow the user to rotate the camera around. : OverloadUT
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        Is it an orthographic or a perspective render? Can't check it out at work. : RomSteady
        • It's a fully 3d whatever-you-want program. It's so awesome. : OverloadUT
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    Anti Aliasing!! A reboot fixed it. Look how much better this looks than the other screenshots posted: htt... : OverloadUT
    • inf. : mwasher
• Just wow. : skizl
• The only problem with this is the fact that a lot of useful pieces are omitted. Larger wheels namely, whi... : d0gbert
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  This really needs a build and share online thing. Or have I missed that? : pieman
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    It has it.. button on the top bar send it to Lego.com where you can create an account and share. : stonedonkey
    • Thanks! : pieman
  • Yeah it is there. Lego thought of everything it seems, this thing is amazing. Now if I only didn't suck... : dmaownsyou
• yes - this is as awesome as advertised. now i will get nothing done. THANKS A LOT. : virus
• You can actually export to a format convertible to OBJ ... so you could get this into a game engine prett... : imperator
• Hah, nice, you can even customize the packaging. : Sgt_Boomstick
• freaking amazing! : packav
• Here is the interface - http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/161/lego1py8.jpg : flubba79
• someone make GOATSE! : Iwannaacura
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  my bridge :P http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa166/packav/LDDScreenShot1.png : packav
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    Imagine if you combined this and Pontifex. : Fred Garvin
    • i started out trying to make the bridge from 2 fort but got side tracked :P : packav
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  Does this install any bad spyware type things? It looks too good to be true. : Rag and Bone Man
  • Nope. Presumably they offer it for free because of the ability to purchase the model you create. I can al... : OverloadUT
• I made a mech http://marmite.shackspace.com/LDDScreenShot2.png : marmite
• needs more pieces :( Why does the base plate group have a picture of a road, but no roads when you expan... : GloriousCow
• this looks pretty sicknasty : delataur
• Nice, thanks :) : posito