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  hahah, and no one believed me when I said everyone thought we were jackasses now : AlexXdude
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    They should have considering you were part of the problem! lol : MrLobo
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      hell no, I was utterly respectful the entire time : AlexXdude
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        Nah I am just pulling your chain. Honestly I can't remember what was said and by whom. I just remember ... : MrLobo
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          it was just standard trashtalk going around really, nothing particularly out of the ordinary. I just gues... : AlexXdude
          • Well Valve steamrolled Shack the first time they played Valve, so I can only assume people were excited t... : Nighteyes
• I dont understand how this is a problem... : mavmavv
• What a bunch of crybabies. Then again, how bad were you guys being? : the city
• Shit happens. : sinner0423
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  I've slowly converted the people at Stardock to understand the awesomeness that is the Shack. I think ... : mittense
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    Yes, I realize now that there is no context whatsoever for this response given the situation. I'm okay wi... : mittense
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      I hope the new stardock game is cool. : hamachi
      • me too. I liked dark avatar. : hirez
  • Stardock rules! : Ravenkettle
• Wow do devs really think there is a line between them an "normal" gamers? If so fuck that. : EvilDolemite
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  what fags. the valve guys seemed totally cool with ius when we played them in person. : hamachi
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    Is it the Valve guys complaining? : dmason
    • They are clearly the other half of the game industry. : windowpane
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  well it's kind of true. : steelsamurai
  • Heh... yeah :( : crummynz
  • Kind of. It is. But it's bullshit to label only Shacknews like that. Seriously... --> Internet. : K1Bond007
  • people take their inner circle jokes to place they don't belong and fuck up a good vibe with it common... : [7]kami
• oh no some guy with a 0.81 kill:death ratio thinks i'm a dickhead??? LOL I"LL SHOW HIM WHO"S THE DICKHEAD... : stamps
• i was a dick head before that anyway : CoRDS
• yeah he's right, most of you are idiots. : boomstickah
• Haters : dmason
• I'm so proud of you guys. : Nick Breckon
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  don't hate because your team is weaksauce. : lakren
  • lakren you are an asshole but i kinda respect you for it : datoo
• "in the parlance of our times, 'tards.'" lol : freshyk
• oh christ. make a separate private source tv server if your virgin ears are damaged! : anhero
• Halp, someone on my interwebs called me stupid make them stop. : dmason
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  well, fuck if "brohammer" says we suck. we must! : hirez
  • don't hammer me bro : aeg1x
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    Eh. Hes a good guy. : cannelbrae
    • Damn straight he is. : Mad Jack McMad
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  half? shame on you shack. get your numbers up. : dahanese
  • i do my part!~ : rosewood
• It was worth it. : bcyde
• nice to know the TF2-playing shackers represent all of shacknews as a whole, and they do it so well! Swee... : paravis
• when you get invited to a party, and after its over the place is really trashed, you know it was a good p... : Charmplus
• hahahaha that rules : mr.sleepy
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  Who is [NC]DD2146? : Sapiens
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    http://steamcommunity.com/id/DD2146 : SiW73
    • Also, lol: http://www.gamebugs.org/members/dd2146.html Is DD2146 a common nick or something? :P : SiW73
    • I wonder if I'm part of the problem here... I immediately disregarded his opinion when I saw he worked fo... : Sapiens
  • He's in pflugerville, tx. Austin shackers, you know what to do. : mrwolf710
• half? try harder ! : rosewood
• totaly bitchin : ghost hacker
• Only half? You guys are slipping. : Pacalon
• MY MOM SAYS I CANT PLAY WITH YOU ANYMORE : spaceless
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  There are more than 200 competitors over 20 some odd studios in the league, and only about 12 of those vo... : Mad Jack McMad
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    I'm pretty sure "choke down the cock of shame like a chunky peanut butter sandwich" is the funniest thing... : SiW73
    • Glad you already said it. Saved me the typing! : SockMonkeh
    • That will overshadow any post anyone makes here for several hours. : seven
  • Hahaha.. this post is awesome. At least you're a good sport too, btw. : K1Bond007
  • post more! : anhero
  • well said. : maldoror
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  Oh well, their idea for a show sounded like a really retarded 30 minute long commercial. : socksta
  • that's what all sports events are : datoo
  • I wouldn't say "their" so much as "that guy's" :P : kungfusquirrel
• whatever, those asses need to hurry the hell up with finishing their games anyway : davislovestacobell
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  Whether devs like it or not, throwing a company tag on makes people informal representitives of their com... : cannelbrae
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    You know I hadn't thought of that, but it is a good point. That kind of makes me want to play as [RVN]Wom... : Mad Jack McMad
    • You are a laugh riot right now. : SockMonkeh
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    would the gaming press really give two shits about something like that? I can't think of instances of som... : aeg1x
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      No, but the mainstream media would. This is what PR folk think about. : Daochi
      • ^^ Right, thats the concern. Its unfortunate, as it means that self identified devs end up self censoring... : cannelbrae
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      Well... who would have thought a comment made by GeorgeB on the Shack would end up on CNN. :D Of course t... : K1Bond007
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        got a link to that? :o : humbleone
        • Can't remember the CNN article but here's the post it quoted: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=7653477 : crummynz
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        yeah but that was a quote of the guy in charge of 3Drealms telling the CEO of a Take 2 to 'stfu'. that's : mikecyb
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          You are likely right, but do consider these two things-- and try to see them through the eyes of a Compan... : Mad Jack McMad
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            "soulless obsidian jurimancer"... I think that's going on my next batch of business cards... : Bean
            • do you feel particularly obsidian? : datoo
          • jabroni is such an excellent word : Sapiens
  • They are complaining about what the spectators said on SourceTV, not what the players said. It'd be like... : mrwolf710
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  that domain pretty much sums it up. what a bunch of whiny faggots. : feek
  • I know i'm going to have a hard time sleeping, knowing that the nerd dungeon looks down on us. : re-verse
• haha, nice. : losder5000
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  Is it really that bad? This is just one post in a thread about it. : slax0r
  • lol yea wth : xsii
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  many game developers consider my huge dick heads. : jessipoo
  • I am confused and intrigued by this post. : anhero
  • ^ Jessipoo has a big cock : Drewus
• what the hell? They were crying about the audience trashtalking them? Lolz, how about they just not fucki... : duncandun
• This makes me want to be MORE annoying the next time round. : Drewus
• what a bunch of bitches. "disrespectful" who the fuck does he think he is anyway : JINKY
• The day the shack grows up is the day I leave the shack. POOP LOL? : TastyWheat
• Game studios are just as full of uptight dips as anywhere else on the net. : Fred Garvin
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  wtf blizzard is in the tournament? I'm all for play hard work hard but FINISH SC2 YOU LOSERS : Chandler55
  • I wonder if SHIT LIKE THIS is maybe what they're talking about? : Rauol Duke
• Guys on nerd-dungeon are saying we are immature. Yeah. Nerd dungeon. Moving on... : mrwolf710
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  How can you be "disrespectful" in SourceTV? Is there voice comm or something? : ThomW
  • The spectators can chat amongst themselves with text. No voice. The players can't see any of it. : Duffman8369
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  typical shit at games loser talk, cry me a river developers. : VuduChild
  • you must be a starter! : paravis
• who cares : arizona bay
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  who else do they want? gamefaqs? : buzzbat
  • lol nice : arizona bay
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  Told you guys to stop calling Valve fags. :( : yoonix
  • What more could they do? : seven
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  It's 2 people. Two. I think this is called blowing things out of proportion. : geedeck
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    Yeah but thats 2 people out of 20 posts, thats like... 70%! : jbury
    • We're winning! : scottythejock
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  I can totally understand this. The can be pretty abrasive to people not used to it and we are not the ang... : Evil Benius
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    I swear I typed "The shack can be". : Evil Benius
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      What's really weird is that's how I read it and didn't notice that Shack was missing until you told me. : mrwolf710
      • I probably did the same thing when I was proof reading my post. : Evil Benius
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    I've had several threads here lately pointing out how big of an asshole I am in fact. : RyDogg1
    • Last night I was playing on RyDogg's server and he killed my wife. : SockMonkeh
    • I haven't even played for the last week and you've kicked me anyway. : ieGod
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  Welcome to the fuckin internet. Why are you even advertising these games if you don't like the public... : SpaecKow
  • It is worth noting that no one who was actually IN the match being discussed is complaining about it. Sin... : Mad Jack McMad
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  i don't understand. i thought people playing the match couldn't see sourcetv viewer chat? and why wer... : pyide
  • a significant number of spectators were other tourney participants from other teams. : kungfusquirrel
• This really should be INF'd. : FormerHPB
• there are worse things to be called than dickheads. oh well. : xxiv
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  Sheesh, next thing you know they're going to start demanding good reviews of their products....oh wait : SolrFlare
  • Oh hey let's continue to piss off the developers for what a few publishers have done. : Carnivac
• There's 32 teams of developers involved - 384 on the tourney teams alone, and we've even got something li : kungfusquirrel
• I hope some of you guys posting the vitriol are joking, because otherwise it really does reflect poorly o... : FlatlineDixay
• This thread is awesome in so many multifarious, multicolored ways. Yeah it looks like there's only 2? ... : Johnny Law

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• Post here cause there are colors! What Hurley said is intriguing to say the least. : zanzares
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  Let the record show that mine was first. : trOmblyj
  • Mine was in the previous chatty. : zanzares
  • Mine was first :-/ : opengl128
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  This is your LOST thread. : brickmatt
  • eureka : pyide
  • Nuke spree! : yosemiteclimber
  • No, this thread was very easy to locate. The OTHER threads have been lost. : RomSteady
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  Sweet! Michael Cudlitz!! I've had beers with that guy. : trOmblyj
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    Daniels? : jwnin
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      No - the cop who was interviewing Hurley - he was in Band of Brothers and at a reunion I got hammered wit... : trOmblyj
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        He was in 90210 as well! : mitchwalker
        • and Grosse Point Blank! : HojuSimpson
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  post if for those like me who just switched it on : peter
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    Apparently the survivors are known as the Oceanic Six : trOmblyj
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      So we know Jack, Kate and Hurley are 3 of the 6. I wonder who the other 3 are. I'm also assuming that w : boredguy
      • Since Jack hadn't started growing his beard during the Hurley stuff I am going to have to go ahead and ca : deathofrats
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  spoiler this shit bitches I dont want to scroll down and have some amazing surprise ruined >:( : aeg1x
  • [oHOLY SHIT THEY'RE STILL LOST!!!! WTF??? o] : sesmaster
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    fish biscuits are made of people!!! : GloriousCow
    • http://goturselfabiscuit.ytmnd.com/ : opengl128
• Hurley Someone get that man a bra]o. : Horn
• Whoa Cedric Daniels! : trOmblyj
• Hey, it's dude from the Wire! : boredguy
• Guys....GUYS!! : Cashh
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  i forgot how much i hate the 5 minutes of show followed by 10 minutes of commercials shit >=/ : xxiv
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    Im never watching again LOST on TV ! : Cashh
    • i wish i had a dvr here so i could just pause it for 15 minutes, and then fast forward through the commer... : xxiv
    • Neither am I. I just wait one day then watch it on iTunes. : glio1337
• Collapsing until It shows here, I cannot be spoiled! Im awaiting your spoiler SMs : mavmavv
• da fuck : opengl128
• god damnit. i was so happy, but now i am sad. : wtf242
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  The hobbit lives! : zanzares
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    Anyone else think that Charlie in Hurley's flash-forward, when he was counting to five, right before he d : aethyr
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      no : opengl128
      • IAWTN : zanzares
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  Ahahahaha. Good old LOST. Getting nowhere fast as ever. : zanzares
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    um...they got a number of places pretty damn fast. OF COURSE they don't tell you answers, but they expose... : byorn
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      Don't tell you answers and exposed a lot of new info? They have been doing that for 3, going on 4, years : uglysad
      • oh it picked up after that. except for one 100% useless episode, its pretty aesome after ecko dies. : barichnikov
      • You missed 80% of the third season. You missed a whole hell of a lot. Catch up first then you can complai... : glio1337
  • If you feel this way after episodes still, then why are you still watching? : mittense
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  That answered almost nothing! :D I love this show. : Rauol Duke
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    I want to know what made Jack spiral into what we saw in the finale last season, from the happyish cleanc : Rauol Duke
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      no i don't think the other patient saw charlie, it was either part of hurley's hallucination or the patie : NastyNorman
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        i think some people on the island can become invisible think about that guy hurley could see in the s : johngloid
        • you are extrapolating far too much from Jacob : derelict515
    • I want to know who that guy is : spiderfill
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      I think there was more to the basketball scene than meets the eye. Back in the world, Jack is the luck : jimmy-buffett
      • maybe it's a big science experiment by the newcomers that messes with their heads and theyre still on the : dantastic
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      I bet.... he starts seeing his father. Hurley sees Charlie. Jack will see his father and there are clues : K1Bond007
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        Or... Jack's world is kind of turned upside down when he learns his father isn't dead. Or something. It w : K1Bond007
        • I really hope Christian comes back. The actor is such a badass. : mittense
    • Hurley always has good luck, but it's at the expense of someone else. That's sort of his character's curs... : jake2000
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  it was awesome - that's all you need to know... dudes: jacob that's all I have to say...this is goi... : flagg209
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    for 7 more episodes. then you get to take a break and go get more cotton candy till some random date man... : mwasher
    • yeah - that's going to suck... : flagg209
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    I wonder if Hurley saw Jacob or Locke in the window of the cabin. Or are they one and the same?!?!?!!? : Rauol Duke
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      i thought he saw both... because there was a dude sitting in the chair, and then an eye appeared in the w : jenisthebest
      • Yeah, that's how I saw it too. : mittense
    • well i watched the sequence a few more times on the old HD and the eye at the window definitely wasn't Lo : smax
• Good episode, if this season continues the way the second half of the last season went then it should be ... : Begawkiness
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  Heh.. I just realized that the guy who parachuted on the island was Upham from Saving Private Ryan. I kne... : K1Bond007
  • Haha yeah as soon as he came on screen my roommates and I were shouting "Upham! Upham!" : Begawkiness
  • He was also in Rescue Dawn. Good actor. : jasonepowell
  • THATS who that is! I was about to go to IMDB to find out it was bugging me : tunis5000
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  so who do you think the oceanic six are? : jenisthebest
  • Six guys robbing a casino in Vegas? : five_percent
  • We can be fairly sure it includes Jack, Hurley and Kate since they're all in flashforwards so far. Howeve : dirge23
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    It's going to be: Jack, Hurley, Kate - obviously. Desmond, Juliet (who will pose as someone on the fligh : K1Bond007
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      you're forgetting the dude in the coffin, which was believed to be Ben Also, I don't think Juliet got ou : Flynn
      • Well, you're right about Juliet. I don't think Sawyer at all. I forgot that Sun was pregnant too and that : K1Bond007
      • I think if the guy in the coffin were Ben, there would actually have been people at the funeral. : slax0r
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    Psshh....You guys are so forgetting about Michael and Walt : HojuSimpson
    • so did J.J. Abrams : cornchak
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  What a fucking episode. I love this show so, so much. : mittense
  • I am in agreement with your sentiment : tunis5000
• anyone know if/when they are re-airing this? or when it will be on abc.com? : maulla
• Anyone catch the Oceanic commercial during that show after LOST? : byorn
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  http://www.flyoceanicair.com/ : byorn
  • I started doing that, then I went to find815.com, and then started doing some weird movie/interactive "ad... : mittense
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  I cracked up when it showed Hurley running in slo mo to do a cannonball. He has great breasts. : Ureval
  • That was some serious baywatch manboob action. : dirge23
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  Did they do a season 3 recap before airing the episode? I kinda need to catch up. : edgewise
  • they had a whole recap episode prior to it : derelict515
  • yes, it's the 1st hour of the 2 hour "season premier" : proclone1
• HOLY SHIT!!!!!! : sesmaster
• oh man. Good episode but man does this show drive me nuts. : mavmavv
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  Good episode. Here's my thoughts... the "flash forwards" we're seeing will happen eventually, and they'll : Magus
  • maybe they didn't have 8 full episodes and are stretching what they had out with commercials. :( : Psigun
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  so crazy theory question. in the opening flash back stuff to last season when penny is on the video conf : smacknca
  • I dont think that would work if her and desmond were from the past considering that Jack met Dessy when t : sesmaster
• s4: the people who are from "not penny's boat" will arrive and attempt to murder/enslave anyone on the is : liquidlies
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  So who stuck around for Eli Stone, and what did you think? Very much a feel good / touched by an angel : Kniggit
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    what was the message from oceanic airlines? : j0nchan
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      it was happy happy Oceanic Airlines! -- "pirate" feed cuts in -- don't trust these people. pretty stan... : Kniggit
      • oh and didn't it show some underwater footage of the crashed airplane? I'm obviously forgetting some stuf... : Kniggit
• Man, I liked that episode. Hurley saying "I should have gone with you" to Jack at the end was great f : Kaerof
• Needs more polar bears and invisible monsters. : darkT
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  is the episode available online? : anhero
  • yes http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=FEP : Sludgehead

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  lol : AlexXdude
  • Where is yours? : Fred Garvin
• Holy shit dude. : dmason
• and the circle of life continues : thetangent
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  I am so scared when reading posts like this ( mine just turned a year old) : mr.sleepy
  • mine just died, didnt even make it a year, MF 03/2007 (GG) : .ka`boom.zZz.
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  xbox 1 is alive. I really actually want it to die? I mean wtf do I have to do to it? : sigpro
  • I want mine to die, too... At this point everything is already wonky; random freezes, DVD not reading som... : zerog83
• Please never touch me. : DarkWolf5
• Seawolf! NOOOOO! :( That is ridiculous. : mwasher
• Holy crap. You are what gave me hope. With this happening, wow... : rustified
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  Who had 2/1/08 in the pool? Someone nailed it exactly last time, I think Rauol Duke. : Bean
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    Also, SeaWolf, is the wiring in your house old? You might want to look into getting a power regulator for... : Bean
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      I think someone mentioned this last time and for some reason I remember him denying this could be any kin... : mojo the helpr monke
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        Yeah, well, as I said below, 7 Xboxes into it, there's MORE than just a problem with MS's hardware. He HA : Bean
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          I think he's even changed houses at one point. : bipolar
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            Yeah, we talk about that below. I really have no idea. It's all very weird. I'm baffled. My diagnostic sk... : Bean
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              obviously seawolf puts out harmful magnetic mind-waves : datoo
              • I'm not surprised. If I recall correctly none of his other electronics have such abysmal failure rates an... : ihya
    • I'm sure he has other electronic equipment though. If the 360 can't handle the same wiring as all other ... : aethyr
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    The pool for this one was pretty small. Matto357 has Feb 2 which is the closest. http://www.shacknews.... : mallrice
    • oops, wrong pool. lol. : mallrice
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  something about Wolves and Xboxes that just don't work out. : slax0r
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    Mine's still good! Wish the fucker would die already.... : DarkWolf5
    • thats pretty fucked up : MoreVespeneGas
• Poor xbox :( : burning eye
• you are the statistical anomaly : hirez
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  somehow at #7 I think the common denominator is you... are you sure you're not putting your 360 in the ov... : Charmplus
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    yea i agree with this. not necessarily the oven, but maybe more along the lines of what Bean mentioned ... : mwasher
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      Yeah. I agree that he's got to be doing or overlooking something at this point. There's a comedian out th : Bean
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        nah, it's well ventilated and the last 4 of them have been plugged into a line interactive UPS which shou... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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          Maybe it has something to do with people named *Wolf.*? This is the first time I've jumped on anybody say... : Bean
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            7 completely new boxes. and no you probably didn't jump on silent wolf, but the last time he posted ab... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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              Hmm. I really don't know what to say then. Where do you live? Is it excessively humid in the room where y... : Bean
              • pretty average climate. i'm not living in a blast furnace in the middle of a rain forest. i would say... : ^-SeaWolf-^
        • how much use does your xbox get? what kind of climate do you live in? do you leave your xbox on often? ..... : Charmplus
        • Maybe you guys should stop shedding so much. I bet your fur gets in the 360 and fucks it up. : SockMonkeh
        • Oh, I thought you were silent wolf. Maybe you should try changing your shack nick to PolkaFairy so I onl... : losder5000
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          I thought Microsoft said don't put 360's on a UPS or surge protectors? http://gamepolitics.com/2007/07/08... : cause&effect
          • Not the article I was thinking of but "Make sure that the power cord is plugged directly into a working w... : cause&effect
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        Didn't we agree that it could Just Be the Xbox with the other Wolf, though? I mean, he moved houses duri... : SiW73
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          I don't know at this point. I have my wolfs confused. It's all pretty ridiculous if you ask me. : Bean
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            I know what you mean though. I don't want to believe that such an apparently successful product is so ap... : SiW73
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              Yeah, I'd love to see some actual numbers on this so we don't have to sit here and ponder these bizarre s... : Bean
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                way back when, thomw had an xbox breakdown page where we all entered the number of xbox we were on. if y... : ^-SeaWolf-^
                • according to those 'statistics' the chance of your xbox dying 7 times is 1 in 10,000, or 0.0001%. Those a... : Charmplus
              • These situations are clearly not common, but when so many units are failing, it is inevitable that they w... : Chris Remo
              • Why would they do a recall if there's no safety risk and people have to send them back for repairs anyway... : DinK
  • In my basement we fire up the wood stove which gets the temp up to 35°C (95°F) and the 36... : Werkin
  • lol no kidding : MikkleThePickle
  • funny story. My friend had not turned on his xbox for 2 months, and it was working fine last time he use... : paravis
• My brother has a launch 360 that still works and gets regular use. :D : SockMonkeh
• What the hell do you do to your Xboxs? : Pacalon
• launch box and 1 1/2 yr box still livin it large over here! =/ : paravis
• I'm still on my launch 360 and it gets regular use. I've had a red ring a few times but after I reboot it... : socksta
• wtf are you doing to these things???? : ghost hacker
• At what point can we assume that you are contributing to the hardware failure? : Sapiens
• Ok, let me help you before this shit gets out of hand. Lie detector test for your g/f, mother, wife, d... : devi| dog
• you need to film urself playing the xbox and showing how its connected so the shack can troubleshoot : gyokuro
• Good timing, though. Not much out after the industry blew its load in the 07 holiday season. : tcs
• http://members.tripod.com/~Son_Struck/wavf/21taps.wav : PlanetPerfecto
• Wow dude, that's atrocious. Some people have all the luck I guess. : Fred Garvin
• Your experience is horrible, and it's not in any way your fault. However, there MUST be something in y... : batkiwi
• Is this the last one for you? : -efx-
• Sucks. :( ~Just had mine fixed only to find the Mass Effect DVD is, in fact, probably to blame. Ah well, ... : node
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  STOP RAPING THEM. : CoRDS
  • it's karma for using meatspin sprays : deject
• My xbox 1 just died - but not by its own hand. We just got cable installed, and the tech put my 360 on t... : AisfortomAto
• :( : FormerHPB

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  The ones you own. : pres589
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    So the Xbox, 360, GameCube, and Wii are the worst console ever? : Dave-A
    • Yes. This is all the proof I need. : pres589
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  Virtual Boy : pandastrong
  • i vote for this one : biskits
  • my eyes still ache from that fucking thing. : jimmy_legs
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  that philips cd-i thing. : pyide
  • ^^^ My uncle bought that off of their infomercial. Oh boy did he regret it. : pigvomit
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    I had one of those. Burn Cycle and Space Ace were badass on that system. I had the Zelda games on it, a... : CrustaR
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      You should be grateful, the curse was lifted. : windowpane
      • haha : xelencin
• Dude. NGage. Or Gizmondo. : OverloadUT
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  I'm going to go with the Virtual Boy. That thing died fast. The Jaguar is up there though. : redfive
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    Virtual Boy is really nifty, but i don't know a single person who doesn't get a headache in under 5 minut... : Borzoi
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      that's what I'm talking about. I remember working at EB when that came out and we had the demo unit on t... : redfive
      • The fact that you don't remember selling a single unit means nothing given that you actually worked at EB... : Priest77
  • I have a Nintendo Virtual Boy in my closet right now. I bought it when it came out with some bonus money... : Thresher
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  that cell phone console system... forgot what the name was.. n gage? : Demius
  • gizmondo? Dietrich FTW! : Dave-A
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  Bwhat? Sega Saturn? Worst console ever? Have you even SEEN a video game before? Maybe you should talk to ... : Mad Jack McMad
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    Dragon Force was on it for christmas sakes! : Mondo
    • and panzer dragoon 1 & 2! and saga! plus virtua cop, virtua fighter, etc., etc. : skryte
  • seriously : JINKY
  • I agree. Post-Genesis Sega consoles have been some of my favorite of all time. I love Saturn and Dreamc... : arizona bay
• PS3 : multisync
• atari lynx : deadfish
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin : pres589
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    I was going to suggest this. No-one's even heard of it :P : Arctic Fox
    • Yeah well a lot of people here are noobs. : pres589
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    But it had a port of Marathon!!! : datoo
    • Well it was basically a Mac, wasn't it? : Dave-A
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  Lets not forget the Sega CD and 32X! :/ : Frozen Pixel
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    Those weren't really consoles though. Those were addons to Genesis. At the risk of being unpopular aro... : K1Bond007
    • If something is released, and has games made that only play on that thing, then I think that classifies a... : Frozen Pixel
• PS4 Called it first!!! : posito
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  Virtual Boy is my pick for the worst : baron calamity
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    the VB was awesome. : alarm cock
    • awesome for having for the worse name ever, and causing headaches and nausea! : MisterClaw
    • Every once in a while I'm tempted to track down a VB on eBay or something with whatever acceptable games ... : dltrem
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  Either the Game.com or the Virtual Boy. Probably the Virtual Boy, because it actually gave me migraines. : jason bergman
  • Great read. Thanks for the link. : CplBeaker
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  Jaguar was awesome, I still have mine. Tempest 2000!!! : tfboc
  • AVP and Iron Solider !! : gmd
  • The Jaguar had a good many decent games. Some really horrible ones and crappy controllers but over all th... : baron calamity
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  Everyone needs to stop saying anything except for the NGage. The Virtual Boy is out because there are lot... : OverloadUT
  • who the fuck liked the jaguar. it had ONE good game. at least you could call somebody on your NGage. : GloriousCow
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    3DO actually had a lot of good games for it jaguar had a few good games virtual boy was just shit ... : -=kodiak=-
    • I still cherish my copy of Star Control 2 for 3DO. The voices and redone music were pretty cool. : pigvomit
  • the NGage was somewhat useful though. I can't name one useful thing about the VB though. Maybe it's a p... : redfive
  • I will step up and say that the NGage was great for what it was. There were some great games on it, Pocke... : geedeck
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  road rash was the shit on 3D0 and that karate game in first person too : oatmela
  • dont forget Space Hulk, all the EA Sports games that came out on it, Way of the Warrior (i know it got LA... : -=kodiak=-
• 3do wasn't that bad. return fire kicked ass. I liked the OOTW and flashback versions on it as well : mista mista
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  Turbo graphx 16 : sherwinpg
  • lots of great games, ninja spirit, bonk, assloads of great shooters : GloriousCow
  • You are so wrong. So many gems on this console. : razlebol
  • splatterhouse says you're wrong. : pandastrong
  • Bonk & Splatterhouse strongly disagree with you, sir. : sinner0423
  • turbo grafx 16 was great! it just didnt get a big enough following in the US. the turbo express was pret... : sexninja!!!!
  • military madness, splatterhouse, lots of SHUMPS, the portable was the exact home system. TG16 rocked. : zagzig32
  • It's clear you never played vigilante. The plot was "Madonna has been kidnapped". That was a masterpiece. : Hatrat
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  32x for worst. The Saturn was actually one of the best consoles ever in terms of games. : adsriordan
  • 32x indeed. : zakazi
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    I had a 32x for years. Man, that one game I had for it (Knuckles Chaotix) was pretty awesome. : Orange Pylon
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      It had Star Wars Arcade and Doom also, right? Surely the Sega Cd sucked more. : node
      • The Sega CD had Snatcher, Sonic CD, Dark Wizard, the Lunar games with the original bad translations (as o... : Orange Pylon
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  dreamcast, snes, ps2 : fried rice
  • Studies show those who don't like dreamcast are actually cockloving monkey anuses. : ryuuseki
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  Atari 5200 : PapaBoo
  • for the joysticks alone, works joysticks ever, period. : zagzig32
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  Wii... for real, other than 2 or 3 games(made by nintendo of course) all the games have sucked. Added ont... : godm0de
  • Ugh.. the system has only been out for a year. You deserve the "flame". : K1Bond007
  • I agree with you for now, but you can't really name current gen consoles. Who knows what the future hold... : Begawkiness
  • fanboy'd : atom519
  • Yes, the best selling console of the current generation which has only been out 14 months and has one of ... : pupismyname
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    Yeah I hate my Wii, if it wasn't for Guitar Hero 3 I would never touch this piece. And the only reason I... : arizona bay
    • Oh but it's by no means the worst console ever, I vote 3DO for that. : arizona bay
• I want to change my answer. This is the worst console: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGA_gH-7l_c : baron calamity
• while i really regret my purchase of an atari jaguar, i was able to sell it to some dumb kid even after t... : kill9
• Virtual Boy. Followed closely by the Atari 5200 then Jaguar, then 3D0 : SolrFlare
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  Game.com : Pittst3r
  • yeh, actually i change my original vote to this. i had this as well. lame product, and cost about over ... : davislovestacobell
  • gamecom active : xelencin
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  Apple Pippin : Prozium
  • ^^ winnar : kn1fe
• Those are not good choices for worst console by a long shot. I think it has to be either of Tiger's br... : SiW73
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  *]Atari 5200[* would be the worst console ever. Do your homework! : sinner0423
  • and I should do my shacktag homework fucker. : sinner0423
• Action Max : freak!
• I'd say either Game.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com because it was so lame, or Gizmondo ... : Schnapple
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  Philips CD-i : mccreadypj17
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    I am ashamed of ever having owned one. :[ : CrustaR
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      Those things were so expensive and such pieces of crap. I don't even know why people bought them. : mccreadypj17
      • I thought Zelda would 0wn. :[ : CrustaR
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        To see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGxvJQ3-8w : Orange Pylon
        • You have brought up bad memories, Pylon. I swear one of those voice actors was trying not to crack up wh... : CrustaR
        • oh my god...the gestures.... : mindmann
        • Hhahahaah holy fuck : TastyWheat
        • This is amazing. : socksta
  • EoT, period, done. : stuka
  • I had one of these while AT&T was testing them. There was actually this little samurai game that I found... : spazzium
  • This gets my vote. My parents bought us one when it was new. That thing was.....bizarre. : thetangent
  • I'd say 3DO but Philips CD-i beats this by miles. By gaming console by people who'd have rather develo... : MatzL.E.
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  also: Neo Geo lol. games were like $100 each or something : kill9
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    Shame, because the games themselves were fucking awesome. : Orange Pylon
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      yes i wanted one so bad but wheres a 10 year old gonna get $100. plus the console itself was at least $5... : kill9
      • $650, with games upwards of $200 each in many cases. Ouch! : Orange Pylon
  • I think I got over $100 out of Samurai Shodown 1, 2, and 4. : Omaha
  • one day i will own one. it shall fulfill an old childhood goal of mine. : reverend~heresy
  • Expensive, but far far far far from the worst system. I consider it one of the best. : TrptJim
• None of those. : EvilDolemite
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  Game Gear. No contest. Portable console that requires a wall socket. : pauk111
  • I had that. I remember liking the Sonic games on it. I played my game boy more often though. : neokolonial
  • I still have my Game Gear. It was the best portable, other then needing a nuclear power plant to power it... : Frozen Pixel
  • lol. I had the external battery for that fucker too. It was this huge brick with a belt-clip. : algernoN8
  • Oh how dare you. I love my game gear. =( : DinK
• The Fairchild Channel F didn't really have much going for it, but it was in the early days of consoles an... : Orange Pylon
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  Infinium Phantom : pupismyname
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    hahahahahaha holy shit nobody else remembers it cuz its so bad! : posito
    • I want the phantom's mouse + kb : Mondo
    • also probably because it was never released : arizona bay
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    Damn you beat me to it. : action wombmate
    • Indeed. : seven
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  The Sega Saturn rocked. : dmason
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    Panzer Dragoon Saga, 5-player Bomberman, Nights into Dreams, Blast Chamber, DoDonPachi.. Yeah, I'd say... : slax0r
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      Dude, no, TEN player Bomberman. Sega Rally, Sonic R (no really), Burning Rangers, all those awesome light... : node
      • Man I kind of want to pick up a Saturn now and play all of those games. Such a great system, and it came... : arizona bay
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  Sega CDX, now only did it cost a fortune, totaling way more than the genesis and sega cd combined anyway,... : davislovestacobell
  • as for virtual boy haters in this thread, as much as it made your eyes burn, it was fucking awesome, and ... : davislovestacobell
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  32x? Virtual boy? : paravis
  • i had doom and virtua fighter on the 32x, just found the system the other day too, but no cables :( : xxiv
• Saturn had lots of cool games... : tcs
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  Amiga CD32? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32 : marmite
  • Amiga = awesome. CD32 = lol. Balance achieved. : stuka
• Colecovision. Whoever thought that a mini steering wheel and a telephone number pad would be great inpu... : hoopfam4
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  No hate for the Vectrex? I think it had a 4.5 inch screen or something... : AxeMan808
  • heh I bought one of those : jcupitt
• BTW, worst controller EVAR: Intellivision. : stuka
• i had oneof those : eyegeegeewhy
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  Sega CD. Only Eternal Champions and Sonic CD were worth shit. Pile on all the horrible FMV games and it's... : node
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    LUNAR HELLO??? : arizona bay
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      Lunar is reason enough to own anything, god I loved that game. : jasoncrowley
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        I still have both Silver Star Story Complete and Eternal Blue re-releases for PS1 in mint condition, I bo... : arizona bay
        • My younger sister has an almost complete collection of the lunar series (only missing Lunar: Walking Sch... : jasoncrowley
  • It bombed because nobody bought the games. They just rented and then burned them. : Totenjaeger
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  Neo Geo. For the time that fucker was expensive and the gimmick was pretty bad too. : Totenjaeger
  • But you DID get arcade quality games in your living room which was unknown at the time. You're right t... : cause&effect
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  PS3 : .ka`boom.zZz.
  • why? : JohnnyDanger

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  Go do homework : rosewood
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    i just got back from driving!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was fun : stalewood
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      You'll learn to hate it : felicia
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        serious. i'm not the biggest fan of driving ever since i drove 6 hours (each way) to see my gf every week... : mindmann
        • not everyone hates driving. I love it. Not all the time (traffic sucks), but I generally enjoy driving (r... : thetangent
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      It's like a scene from the ice planet Hoff out there, what were you driving for tonight? : pres589
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        you have to get experience on ice some how... i think it's kinda funny that my first time driving was on ... : stalewood
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          my first time driving was at night in the middle of a snowstorm! also my driving instructor was batshit ... : jenisthebest
          • "OH MY GOD YOUR ENGINE IS ON FIRE hahah just kidding NO BUT REALLY YOUR ENGINE IS ON FIRE OH MY GOD" : AlexXdude
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            jesus if my mom had yelled MOOSE at me while i was driving, i think we would both be dead.... : stalewood
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              "HOW DID WE WIND UP IN CANADA" : AlexXdude
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                fuck, i lol'd : stalewood
                • it's okay, you can laugh, it won't kill you : AlexXdude
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      You should be a truck driver. : Sailor of Fortune
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        why? : stalewood
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          Why ask why? : CrustaR
          • Drink Bud Dry. : CRasterImage
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      hey em did you see any cornfields on your drive : AlexXdude
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        no, but there were some wheat fields... its super snowy though, so its hard to see much. : stalewood
        • It's supposed to snow 10 to 15 centimeters here tomorrow afternoon. I hate snow. :( : AlexXdude
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    That was the most productive couple of hours I've had in a while : pwnage1232
    • me too... :( : DrFlammable
• I got scared for a moment. :( : NFXFSX
• shouldn't you be in bed? : Flynn
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  its not down : jono181
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    It's also not quite up... try doing a comment search. : Jonathan
    • nothing happened when i clicked latest chatty.... and then it went to a white error page.... : stalewood
    • had to disable that to isolate a problem. It is back so it will be updating soon. : themelon
• we need more COD4 360 shackers to join our party. : jono181
• you know its not very often... but someone was banging an intern on the shack server and hit the reset b... : erebus
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  http://shacknewswtfboom.ytmnd.com/ (loud audio) : the archvile
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    Haha I have to laugh every time i hear the WHAT THE F- from that soundfile : Lightbulb
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      What is that clip from? : Pacalon
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        It's an edited audio clip, the laugh is from the Animatrix or Heavy Metal, I forget which. Dunno where t : Lunatic Angelic
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          The WTF sounds like Ray Liotta from Goodfellas to me for some reason : sigpro
          • I'll see your goodfellas and raise you an aliens : scottythejock
  • hahahaha...i love that. : NFXFSX
  • This is pretty fucking awesome. I also liked the little animation with the hamster dance playing in the b... : thetangent
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  upgrades : drucifer
  • ah, ok. Looks like it succeeded; I tried comment search a little while ago and it was doing ok. : the archvile
  • Steve upgraded the server... ONE FLOPPY AT A TIME. : skitzo
  • lol : Chris Remo
  • lolol Neo gonna fuck you up anyway!!!1 : node
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  I kind of think of you as the shack mascot. I like. Keep doing what you're doing. : steelsamurai
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    : stalewood
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      Duke Nukem or empty bits? : CRasterImage
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        censored "fuck you" : askedrelic
        • *ding ding ding* we have a winner! : stalewood
  • I really do not think we want a 14 year old being our mascot, especially after that epic thread yesterday... : Evil Benius

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• Wow. Google must have MS absolutely terrified. : bipolar
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  ew. why?? : smax
  • Aren't they Googles biggest rival? : scottythejock
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  62% above yesterdays close.... JEBUS : losimagic
  • ya from what was it, like 16 to 31 per stock. jebus indeed : AMikaboshi
• they'd be crazy not to accept : snackula
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  Link? : node
  • cnn : smax
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  how stupid... like burning money. Yahoo is crap it isn't worth anything. : BigT
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    I imagine Flickr is a HUGE attraction to Microsoft : losimagic
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      Sure, they're still pissing that cash away though IMO. That's a huge sum, and for what? A competitor that... : node
      • i am not too sure that this'll bomb, but it is indeed somewhat an act of desperation : blindi0815
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        I love to laugh at the random non-ceo/board member of 100billion+company people thinking they know more t... : paravis
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          right, MS never make mistakes : jcupitt
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            you should reread what I said, because I never said MS doesn't make mistakes or anything remotely like th... : paravis
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              I thought you were laughing at people who thought they knew better than MS? I guess I suck at reading. : jcupitt
              • right, MS never make mistakes ought you were laughing at people who thought they knew better than MS? ... : paravis
        • AOL -Time Warner merger. Need I say more? : MisterClaw
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    except not. : paravis
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      Come on man. 44 billion for a company that's been struggling for years now to regain their past glory. Go... : node
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        all I'm saying is you have no clue what you're talking about. I wouldn't either, neither would anyone in... : paravis
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          Wow talk about being arrogantly insecure... : Jonathan
          • You don't know the history of yahoo. he does. : GloriousCow
        • ^^^owns stock in yahoo : scottythejock
      • yahoo.com would instantly point to search.msn.com sounds like a good idea to me heh : dantastic
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    it's worth a lot, but it's a typical Microsoft knee-jerk reaction to anyone who's a legitimate competitor... : Postal
    • Or the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live! : seven
  • Yahoo purchased Meedio somewhat recently. Could be a good move for MS Media Center. : Odoyle
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  that would mean MS would own the all seeing eye! : aeg1x
  • LOL. WINNAR OF DIS THREAD^^^^^^ : paravis
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    lol, that's dead now, sadly. QTrackers owns though. : node
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      yeah, still waitin on the new COD4 support free version =( : paravis
      • Looks like they heard you http://www.qtracker.com/news.php First i've heard of it, but it looks good..... : Arsenal
• I hope they do buy it and that full integration of facebook/live/yahoo goes fast! : melt_core
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  just about everyone i know in japan(japanese people, i mean, not foreigners) defaults to yahoo as their s... : Nighteyes
  • So it's just a step in their plan to make the Xbox360 sell better in Japan? Yahoo360? : SilverSnake
  • Yeah, when I was there there were advertisements everywhere too. That and Paintshop Pro. Weird : zakazi
• If they fuck up my Yahoo mail I'm going to kill someone. I've used yahoo mail for like 10 years or more ... : mrwolf710
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  this is like sears and kmart merging : stgdz
  • holy shit that made me laugh, thanks for helping me wake up this morning. : .ka`boom.zZz.
• Jesus christ why : nomaad
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  Microsoft has been trying to takeover Yahoo for around 4 years now. Every year they go into talks for a ... : Kentor
  • If the bid succeeds, they better do something I've wanted for awhile now: Flikr + Photosynth + Image S... : Kentor
• Microsoft + Yahoo = Microyahoo : PlanetPerfecto