Morning Discussion

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  Are you excited for StarCraft 2 or leery of what it may bring? : Degenerate
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    Both. I don't know how detailed a response you're willing to read, but here goes. I'm super excited f... : Blucklesworth
    • neat. i never thought about the micro/macro stuff. : [fry]
    • As much detail as youre willing to put into it is what I want. :D I just know the reason starcraft has... : Degenerate
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      The balance achieved in Starcraft was a fluke I don't know if I agree with this statement. Blizzard s... : walker270
      • its not that they didn't try to balance it really well, but the inherent difficulty in balancing a system... : derelict515
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        I'll give you some direct examples: 1) With Brood War came the Medic and Lurkers. Medics to help keep... : Blucklesworth
        • Whoa that video is sweet : riptyde
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          This is interesting. A lot of your arguments could be directly applied to the BF2 competitive scene in 20... : Sgt_Boomstick
          • The same arguments apply to almost any sequel made to be more accessible almost, in any game that had a c... : alias
          • Or the move from Quake to Quake 2 and 3. : Serpico74
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          Surely you understand that there can be no competitive scene without noobs. You have to cater to them (i.... : datoo
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            Yes you have to cater to newbs, which is really unfortunate. The rules of professional sports don't chan... : Blucklesworth
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              One more thing: Most people play games because they're fun (hopefully esports included), and while compet : datoo
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                A game catering to competitive players is unlikely to succeed. There's no incentive for the new players ... : alias
                • True. I don't think keeping the skill ceiling high necessarily discourages new players from picking up t... : Blucklesworth
        • Why don't you work for Blizzard? : pancake humper
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      so should fighter pilots blind themselves in one eye because depth perception gives them an advantage? ... : boomstickah
      • Shouldn't you be out playing whichever race is wildly imbalanced this current patch? :D : Blucklesworth
    • this man loves his starcraft and I love hearing him discuss it : askedrelic
    • great read, thanks. : edgewise
    • I agree with you that Starcraft's balance was a fluke. That being said, I do feel for Blizz when it come... : Rotten Deadite
    • Wow, that is really interesting. Thanks for typing this up. I hope they're somehow convinced not to go MB... : Magus
    • Oh cool haha. I could talk about SC/SC2 for hours if people let me :D There's so much art to the game, ... : Blucklesworth
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      I'm calling it right now, bluckles will be to SC2 what alias is to TF2. :P : dkrulz
      • He hates vulture bikes.. wtf sticky grenades! : TreMetal
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        Shrug, competitive players are on a whole other level in all games... : alias
        • I know and I agree with lots of your posts, but I only vocalize them here and there because most people a... : dkrulz
    • It's short sighted to say that there's no way pros can take advantage of the extra time granted by MBS. J... : ZombieAcademy
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      I'm with the design team on this one. Anything that makes playing the game easier from a user interface : omnova
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        Hmm, very true. I'm absolutely willing to try it, I'm just scared of the results. There's many types of... : Blucklesworth
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          Does anyone now understand why I made the analogy above? : dkrulz
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            Developers really don't have a lot of experience with the competitive players usually. They are the ones... : alias
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              100% true. Outside of a few games, developers generally don't give a shit about the competitive scene. E... : Sgt_Boomstick
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                Which in itself is a bit sad, though I understand completly why this is so (there is no money for the dev... : alias
                • I agree, one of the many reasons I thought CS:S wasn't really going anywhere as far as balance as much a... : dkrulz
                • I remember John Carmack stating that id would never create/design a game specifically for the competitive : rock elf
        • No game is ever truly engineered from the ground up for competition. No game. It ends up being fluke or t... : Sgt_Boomstick
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          If I'm understanding everything so far correctly, styles (using you terminology) were born from a limitat... : omnova
          • Well, we're coming from different places; you from the theory and experience gained from playing multiple... : Blucklesworth
        • Couldn't they just introduce a "Pro Edition" patched with (possibly minor?) balance changes for pro-level... : Magus
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      Glad you typed this up, I like reading thoughtful discussion of gameplay. Let me be devil's advocate f : Johnny Law
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        While change isn't always bad, the underlying reason for it generally is opposite to what the competitive... : alias
        • TF2 is a good example of over-simplifying a game to appease new players while pissing off the high-end co... : Sgt_Boomstick
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        Are your experiences with Myth -> Myth II? (I seem to remember you were in CP). Care to share how the ... : rock elf
        • I remember the tactics getting all messed up as they through in too many power units. (ie Warlock / morta... : Sgt_Boomstick
        • The particular games I had in mind: Quake -> QW -> Q2 -> Q3 Tribes -> Tribes 2 Myth -> Myth 2 The : Johnny Law
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      Wow, some people actually want to make a shitty UI and call it an important game element? This is why I h... : OverloadUT
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        I provided examples of what this limitation does and how it will affect the game if it's removed and not ... : Blucklesworth
        • I am with you. Taking away a choice is not something that usually contributes to a higher skill ceiling. : alias
      • I agree with you. While the competitive scene may have a good understanding of balancing, the vast major... : Sgt_Boomstick
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        I agree with you. As much as I love Starcraft and I am looking forward to the new one, I really hope the ... : razlebol
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          The decision between micro or macro is a strategic one. If Starcraft's "shitty UI" is fixed then the gam... : lechuck59
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            Exactly. This distinction between macro and micro only occurs based upon untold hours of game play as a ... : alias
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              Okay, what's that new thing that's going to be adding? I haven't heard any theories from people who have... : Blucklesworth
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                I have no idea. I've never even played SC enough or SC2 at all. Just things that are "fixed" but end up... : alias
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                  The community have suggested ridiculous solutions that obviously won't work. I'm sure there is a solutio... : Blucklesworth
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                    I'm not sure I understand your position. On the one hand, you say that the balance in SC was a fluke. On ... : MikkleThePickle
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                      SBS (single building selection) is good because it allows different styles to be equally viable. MBS is ... : Blucklesworth
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                        It just changes the way we will play the game. Having to manage which building you assign to a hotkey bec... : razlebol
                        • It's a strategic decision not a "skill level". Improving the UI is good. Reducing strategic depth is ba... : lechuck59
          • It should go without saying, but I'll add that, yes, of course Bucklesworth would like to see the UI impr... : lechuck59
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          And I agree with your comments but... I dunno. I love the competitive scene to some degree, but like othe... : node
          • Take your argument for this removal of a restriction to the extreme (as that is how it will be played at ... : alias
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      its fucking retarded to even think that a limited UI makes a game better. Its a handful of vocal "competi... : Jackass1233
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        I appreciate your feedback 2 years later. Be sure to reply again in 2013. : Blucklesworth
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          must be a tough job reading through all your posts from 2 years ago lol : Jackass1233
          • Actually this latestchatty app does it for me! : Blucklesworth
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      I'm so glad I found this post - you're one of those MBS guys, love it, just love it - lol : abrasion
      • Not sure what you mean by this. I've always been transparent in my thinking. At that time I was antiMBS, ... : Blucklesworth
• hey they're the guys that make GOM player : aeg1x
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  i would love to see Boxer play, he's in the army now right? Sometimes i load up you youtube replays of h... : Iwannaacura
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    Boxer is in the Air Force right now. The Air Force actually have a professional team (ACE) that compet... : Blucklesworth
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      The fate of starcraft2 will lie in what he says about it aswell if you really think about it. Like i'm... : Iwannaacura
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        i doubt any starcraft fan is going to not play starcraft 2. that would be ridiculous : JINKY
        • he didn't say Starcraft fans, he said competitive players : derelict515
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        I don't think that situation is likely. Where else are these people going to compete? EA isn't running... : Porkasaurus
        • of course people will always be interested in competing. The thing is like in Korea the "GOSU"/Pros ac... : Iwannaacura
• Site runs slow for me when trying to load up the replays. : bcyde
• Awesome. I love playing, I love watching. Hey, I'm talking about StarCraft. :( : David Craddock
• Just got done watching a match. Having english commentary is HUGE. This is awesome. : d3tached
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  I never even finished Starcraft (I know, I know) and am only familar enough with it to be vaguely aware o... : A Sponge
  • Same here. I suck hardcore at every RTS, but watching this is fun. : Geoffrois
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  Thanks for posting man! I'm really enjoying the recorded games with english commentary : Lionel2b
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    [Group A] Game 1 - sAviOr vs Flash - was an awesome first game of the tourney.. What did everyone else t... : Lionel2b
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      Without boring you to death, it was crazy! A typical ZvT starts with a 3 Hatchery before tech build. ... : Blucklesworth
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        You'll never bore me with SC talk! I was surprised at Savior's route taken with the 2 hatch mutas, an... : Lionel2b
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          What the fuck? Do you play SC or stay up to date, or did you make that Blue Storm comment just based on ... : Blucklesworth
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            I do not understand, that is what I was saying about the Muta's on BS... And I see your point about th... : Lionel2b
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              Ahahaha, I think you took my comment backwards. Most people can't see a map once and figure out the opti... : Blucklesworth
              • yea, re-reading this makes me look like a fucktard SC master wannabe, so as I replied in your MSG I used ... : Lionel2b
• ReDeYe from the UK Q3 scene (and subsequently others) seems to be making a living from it too with quadv.... : node
• that announcer kicks ass : Draugluin

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  http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ Now get those Lohan pics. : pigvomit
  • That looks awesome! I need to vectorize some pictures for printing, so this is great! Thanks man! : SilverSnake
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    That thing works pretty good. http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2735 : yonderboy
    • Pretty good? That works amazingly well. If you've never messed with other tracing tools like Corel Trace,... : Dynotaku
  • this is fantastic, I've always begrudgingly put up with Adobe LiveTrace : phokz
• lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan pics lohan : Super Sparker
• wtf lohan pics? : disposition
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  Lohan ( . )( . ) : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Tits of Fury. : disposition
• someone mentioned lohan pics i think! : AMikaboshi
• This isn't what we were looking for : rosewood
• If memory serves me right, pancake is the king of let down when it comes to pics/divx : goatjc
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  http://www.gamewith.us/shackspace/ph_vector.eps : ThomW
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    Here's a preview: http://www.gamewith.us/shackspace/ph_vector_preview.gif : ThomW
    • {haha} : pigvomit
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      [ * H A H A ' D * ] : DrWaffles
      • Damn it. : DrWaffles
    • H A HA ' D! : disposition
    • Hahahha : Maddog_Delphi97
    • Awesome. : Rotten Deadite
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      Thanks, just sent it over to the vendor. I was worried the small text underneath wouldn't come out. : pancake humper
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        Did you really send the .eps? If so, post an update of your firing. : yonderboy
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          yes and I actually just looked at the image after you said that and realized what it says. fuck. : pancake humper
          • good lord, this is a joke post, right? : jcupitt
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            are you freaking serious : slickdoody
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              I didn't look at the EPS file. I looked at the gif and just thought he was making a funny. : pancake humper
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                my best friend/roommate/co-worker just got fired 30 mins ago from here too. God damnit this is going to b... : pancake humper
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                  come on admit that you're pulling our leg : snicker-snack 2
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                    E-mail just went out. Jake is my friend. Blanked out the name's etc... Effective immediately, Jake i : pancake humper
                    • BLAME IT ON JAKE!!!!!!! : sticman77
                    • Wow. : stump
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                      That email is so legit. : fotografico
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                        http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=2767 : pancake humper
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                          Who is Nancy? : fishbone
                          • A cunt. : pancake humper
                        • Who is eduardo?! : dedgecko
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                      Unrelated to the above image from ThomW? : fishbone
                      • Yes it has nothing to do with anything about that image. It's a long story. : pancake humper
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                  well atleast you can go home and post those pictures now : Flying h4x0r
                  • So this was the plan all along. lol : DarkWolf5
                  • I actually had Jake e-mail me the rar of the pictures (he's my roommate) but it's the wrong res ones. I'l... : pancake humper
                • Blame him. It was the act of a disgruntled employee, clearly. : WaterSign
          • posting in what will surely be an EPIC SUB-THREAD : Home Nugget
          • Hahahahaha : Maddog_Delphi97
          • Please tell me you're serious. : Blucklesworth
          • BAHAHAHAHAHA : rosewood
          • in before promotion : itsjames
          • more like unemployment insurance humper : acheron
          • ru4real : sticman77
          • Oh please let this be true. Please please please. : Rotten Deadite
          • Hahahaha. : Evil Benius
          • OWNED BY THOMW : suqur
          • Hahahaha. Hahahahahaahahahahahahahhaha oh my god : alarm cock
          • hahaha... dude look on the bright side, at least you will have plenty of time to brush up on your prog... : MagicWishMonkey
          • spaghettios dude, spaghettios. : mechanicalgrape
          • detention for the lohan mixup : oHnOES
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            lol : ThomW
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              You just aided the (possible) firing of another man. What do you have to say for yourself? : DrWaffles
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                He should have looked at the file. : ThomW
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                  You passed up an epic chance for some goatse :(. : DrWaffles
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                    I know. He got off lucky for taking a file off the Shack and sending it to a client. It could have bee : ThomW
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                      I trusted you too much I guess :/ : pancake humper
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                        Did you get fired or what? : SockMonkeh
                        • Not yet (from this image or other reasons). I am not at work tomorrow either. Back in the office wed. On : pancake humper
          • omfg ahahaha, i hate to laugh but I can't help it. : action roommate
          • ... Oh man.. this will be epic hah : Demius
          • mega-fucking-lol : eeeealmo
          • Holy shit, you have to be kidding. You should have just used the link I posted. : pigvomit
          • so owned. ThomW for Shacker of the Year 2008! : PapaBoo
          • oh man hahaha : mikecyb
          • Shacknews - It gets you pixfired : egg5hen
          • oh my lols...what have you done?! : Mister Groin
          • So good, so good. : Audhuml4
          • Oh man... : omnova
          • ahahah the shack has been AWESOME lately. : sammyl
          • EPIC WIN. : spazzium
          • HAHAHAHAHAH SUPERPWN : virus
          • omfg that is shitty. : SenorSpine
          • dude, LOL! What? You did not....say you did not. : kainen1
          • oh come on guys its pancake humper, there is no way this actually happened : Morgin
          • i logged back in just to LOL this epic event : jrock
          • looooolllol : pyide
          • looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool : burning eye
          • that is awesome. : thekidd
          • hahaha no way I don't believe it : Yanks
          • God damn this is a great Shack Morning. : ZombieAcademy
          • wow..... I don't mean to bring up the obvious, but why didn't you check the file? You know how the shack... : mindmann
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            ThomW is God. : dmason
            • ^^^ dmason is smart : ThomW
          • oh shi.... : hirosushima
          • I love waking up to shit like this. : Sgt_Boomstick
          • omg on one hand I feel terrible for you, on the other hand, this is the funniest thing I've read all year... : deathofrats
          • if this isnt bs then LOL : AMikaboshi
          • awesome : chungathebunga
          • dude. lol : smax
          • oops : sanchez
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            please give us updates no matter how horrible they may be : Nihilist
            • please give us updates no matter how horrible purely brilliant they may be : whistler
          • this makes me happy =D : mmaster_pw
          • Don't believe you for a second, but lol'd anyways! : sandcrab
          • omfg hahah : xsii
          • why didnt you look before sending? : jono181
          • no one is that stupid, nt : askterix
          • Plausible deniability. : c0bra
          • quick, IM your boss and call him a dwarf. Its the cure-all solution. TRUST ME. : El Tigre
          • Haha, I must've missed that. : thejm4n
          • thom you can change it back to [lol] this pretty much ensures victory : Omning
          • hi guys, i'm here : SockMonkeh
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            lol good job guy : warpdude
            • no job : Merconium
          • economy-sized LOLs : vile
          • hahahahaha EPIC : NFXFSX
          • that will learn ya! : d3tached
          • You're still going to post the pics, right? : pilgrimage
          • Hay guyz, what's happening in this landmark thread? lulz : node
          • oh. my. god. : Begawkiness
          • Hahahah fantastic : TastyWheat
          • lmfao wow. Just wow. : ateam311
          • oh god, everything else has been said already. XD : manero
          • delicious. : Deathlove
          • Lol, this delivers : shred.
          • ok stop laughing now :( : pancake humper
          • hahahhahaha : grabbie
          • Please god be joking. You have to be joking. There is no way someone would post a request to the shack th... : TheTick
          • Am I obligated to post here? everyone else is :( : infallible
          • oh god, how did I miss this?! ahahahahahahahahah : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • The yield on this post is in the mega-LOL range! : coldfusioncs
          • hahahaha wow. : thewriter
          • oh my god this is the best thing ever : Flynn
          • Ahahahaha that's awesome. : voodooraze
          • hahah thomw for teh win : RobFlinn
          • oops. : K1Bond007
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            EPS files are the new CIH virus : geedeck
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              It's been 8 good years. I am happy to hand over the crown. : tomservo
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                We will never forget : rosewood
                • link? : c0bra
          • this is also awesome, epic, LOLZ, shacktacular, and just plain WTFHORSE type of pwnage : Downforce
          • oh my lolololol : cpt. ken
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            Fuck you ThomW :( http://www.lmnopc.com/greasemonkey/shacklol/ : pancake humper
            • * L O L ' D * the :(-ing about an * L O L ' D * post in response to an * L O L ' D * post. complicated! g... : xsoulbrothax
            • What's this site? : Jobos
          • lol...oh god : ColoradoCNC
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          Does the EPS match the GIF? : Omaha
          • Oh yeah. : ThomW
          • I fail at reading, as I just noticed the gif was labelled "preview." Ahem. [lol] : Omaha
        • just because this will be in shack history, i must reply. pancake... damn.. : d0pamine
      • Second fake post today. : ayesel
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      Thom, you know this qualifies as a kill. You can mark it on your PC's case. If you get 4 more people fi... : pigvomit
      • lol : silent prophet
      • aaHahaha : Jobos
    • http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ : fr0ggie
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  ok I give, what's with all the Lindsay Lohan references : Omaha
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16288008#itemanchor_16288008 : mechanicalgrape
    • Oh Jesus God why am I at work!? : Omaha
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  holy shit I am not posting the rest of the day. WHY WHY WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF. : pancake humper
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    'cause you're a Failcake :( : losimagic
    • I think we need to greasemonkey his name to failcake humper. : Rotten Deadite
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  probably a troll, but we need to know the outcome anyways : Patch-e
  • This better not be a troll. : pigvomit
  • Considering he just blatantly trolled a bunch of people in the Lohan thread my calculations place this re... : ayesel
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    i can't believe how many people are believing this. : lakren
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      even if it isn't true, it's still an entertaining post. =) : mindmann
      • it would be great if he got this: http://www.outatime.it/ritornoalfuturo/materiale/bttf2(13)you_re_fired... : kainen1
    • i can't believe how many people think your TF2 team is good. : pancake humper
• What does the small text say anyway? : ArB
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  2nd try http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ : fr0ggie
  • Sweet page! Here's my first attempt: http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9333/cybercomphcopyaa0.jpg : Jobos

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  I think the idea of visiting other planets with intelligent life is great. Especially when you consider ... : pigvomit
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    They still did a pretty good job though. The Indians never had a chance :( : Perturbation
    • Well, I think we need to get the best fashion designers at work on our new Neo-Conquistidor outfits and u... : pigvomit
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    i wonder if alien animals will be as tasty as the ones here on earth. : MagicWishMonkey
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      If Futurama taught me anything, yes. : Evil Benius
      • If Futurama taught you anything, we'd be eating Humans (yay soylent cola) rather than aliens (excepting b... : whistler
    • I don't know, but I intend to find out. : riptyde
• It will be an awesome day. : Perturbation
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  If we see signs of life on a distant planet aren't the distances so unbelievably far that by the time the... : marmite
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    that, or they'll already be on their way to kill us. though if we got anything within the 100 light-ye... : kungfusquirrel
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      that, or they're already here, looked us over, and decided we were way too small to worry about, built a ... : mmogger
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        Man, if they anally probe us just for scientific research, imagine the probing we'll get if we trespass a... : riptyde
        • dong probes most likely : papaskot
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        that, or fuck with cows and draw pictures in corn. : kungfusquirrel
        • Cosmic griefers. : terath
  • Depends on how far. The closer they are, the easier they'd be to detect and the more likely we could eve... : DinK
  • theres /alot/ of stars like our own within 100 light years of us. : duncandun
• I think I already do. : zebosausamite
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  Too bad we are probably going to go to a new planet, sneeze and kill an entire new species. : hirosushima
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    you prefer they come here and do the same first? : biskits
    • You trying to start a sneeze race? : Dynotaku
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  They also called pluto a planet in the article. : hirosushima
  • Old habits die hard. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Is it really astonishing to people that there's intelligent life on other planets? The odds of us being ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    I thought the odds of life being on any planet were infinitesimal. : exigence7
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      Bacteria and/or single-celled organisms? We've already found organisms in our own oceans that can thrive... : Ride-My-Rocket
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        I don't think finding life existing in extreme conditions here on earth means that life can be created in... : exigence7
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          I remember seeing it on a Discovery Channel deep-sea show. I think it might be the same ones mentioned i... : Ride-My-Rocket
          • Or you can Google "extremophiles" for more information on this type of ultra-hardy life: http://en.wik... : Ride-My-Rocket
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          Well I think the argument for extraterrestrial life isn't so much that life can be created in extreme con : riptyde
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            I don't think that argument holds much water. The number of things that have to be ideal for life is unf... : exigence7
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              I'm sorry but you could not pick a more biased source. A Christian-Science think tank looking for reasons... : derelict515
              • Actually, many of the scientists that work there became Christians because of their scientific findings. ... : exigence7
            • The article there is fun until he douchebags it up with his last statement: Thus, less than 1 chance i : riptyde
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              The universe is unimaginably massive and so, despite the number of criteria that need to be met, the odds : Ride-My-Rocket
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                Can you provide any numbers for that? I know the universe is big, but at numbers as high as people are t... : exigence7
                • Well, we've already found a similar solar system within just a few years of trying: http://space.newscien... : mn3m0n1c
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                  You do realize that for all intents and purposes, the Universe has no limit to it's size? All we can obs... : ucanbfuzzy
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                    I'd be careful using the word "design" when describing DNA. : SenorSpine
                    • someone's gotta give mother nature credit : ucanbfuzzy
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                    I do know that, but science is based off of what we can observe. Therefore, we can scientifically make a... : exigence7
                    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment ^ A good assortment of the building blocks of life... : ucanbfuzzy
                • With what we actually know about the universe and what is required for life to exist, no one can provide ... : nurglich
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                  400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Maybe 100 billion then end up with Sol type planetary systems. NAS... : steelsamurai
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                    Making up numbers in an attempt to prove something scientifically is kind of.. dumb. : walker270
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                      I mean, your post boils down to "really big numbers times not so small numbers equals still big numbers."... : walker270
                      • reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/384/ : fugu124
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                        except I'm not trying to prove anything. The only number we have for life occurring on earth-type planets... : steelsamurai
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                          No, it doesn't end up being overwhelming. At all. You cannot assume that it does. For all we know the ... : walker270
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                            lol, ok mr. serious, jesus came to earth and brought people here and everywhere else is barren and lifele... : steelsamurai
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                              Wow. Argue you can't make shit up to prove something scientifically, and now I'm a Bible thumper. You... : walker270
                              • I mean, by definition, the probability that life exists on a planet is <number of planets with life> / <t... : walker270
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                                I will repeat since your reading skills are not so good today: I'm not trying to prove anything. For t... : steelsamurai
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                                  I'm agnostic. Why is everything black and white with you? Every single position you take you support,... : walker270
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                                    you need to sit down, have a drink, turn off the lights, and do some gentle breathing. This is not as... : steelsamurai
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                                      I find it funny that you think I'm flipping out over this. I also don't believe I even took a side -- I ... : walker270
                                      • k. : steelsamurai
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                        True, but when applied to the omghuge number of stars in the known universe, to assume that A) life is ex : mn3m0n1c
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                          While I don't disagree, you cannot use that reasoning to prove anything, or make claims about people who ... : walker270
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                            I don't think the argument is intended to prove anything, just give support to the idea that other life o... : riptyde
                            • but you can't say statistically likely by just making it numbers (note I think it very much is statistica... : derelict515
                    • You're right, but he provided evidence. Astromers put the milky way alone in factor of hundreds of billi... : noven
        • Should probably read this. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/did-life-evolve-in-ice : Stoned Gargoyle
    • according to our survey, earth type planets with liquid water have 100% odds of having life. : steelsamurai
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      even if they were, the sheer numbers of planets out there would mean there were millions if not billions ... : edgewise
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        The size of the universe is the problem. It is just so fucking large that humans cannot really comprehend... : eldiablo01
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          According to Wikipedia, there are between 200 and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. There are billions ... : Goncyn
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            Yeah, but comprehending those numbers is so much different than just saying them. : eldiablo01
            • This helps to put things into perspective. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBV-cXVWFw It would be a... : shortbuscaptain
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              that was my point, hundreds of billions is incomprehensible. : Goncyn
              • Let alone <carl sagan>billions of billions</carl sagan>. : timmie
        • "The size of the universe is the problem" Why is that the problem? If we can understand that we can't... : noven
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    do we have any good evidence to base solid probability judgments on, positive or negative? : DonkeyPopsicle
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      No. What we have is a whole ton of speculation based on our extremely limited view of the universe. W... : Finestaut
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        And there's mounting evidence that similar solar systems are not all that rare: http://space.newscientis : mn3m0n1c
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          While this is true, everything still hinges on the question of "How similar?" The big deal here appears ... : Finestaut
          • I understood that the reason they're so excited about this is that it's a small G-class star with two gas... : mn3m0n1c
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    I think life on other planets isn't hard to believe in but intelligent, i.e. concious, life? Much harder ... : Grim_Grom
    • Intelligence is a very strong trait to have as far as natural selection is concerned. I don't think it's ... : Psigun
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  Nothing says "WE ARE YOUR GODS NOW" like hitting the planet with a hydrogen bomb before landing and meeti... : Omaha
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    I say we misdirect a comet/asteroid into them, then arrive under the guise of "helping" them recover. : pigvomit
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      FEMA of the future! : WaterSign
      • Ever read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"? : Freon
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  We can barely get along with our own species down here, we'd go to war with them in .1 seconds if we foun... : DM7
  • Yeah, I'd hope we'd figure out our own shit before messing everyone else up. : tomservo
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  If theres life out there I'm going to fuck blue chicks and cause a media shitstorm. : Kazomir
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    Blue chicks are hot! Do you suppose they have purple nipples? : DoctorBuffer
    • http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/19 : dirge23
• Are you saying that it's naive to think there is life on other planets, or naive to think there isn't? : mockery
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  What if all life started on earth? WE SHALL BE AS GODS : Mondo
  • True story. About three weeks ago I invented a time machine and traveled back a few billion years. It... : walker270
• Although I like to think there is life out there, there is really no good way to say how often exactly we... : Freon
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  I wonder if somewhere, out there, Aliens are all arguing and debating the same thing on some sort of alie... : Unleashed
  • No, they're too busy watching Earth!, returning this Janumon at 8 on FOGNL. : mn3m0n1c

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  it didnt seem to handle speed metal very well :( : NeoMoose
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    Haha oh man, I can imagine. : daedraug
    • it tries to dumb it down for easier difficulties with horrible results :( : NeoMoose
• Back in Black was pretty awesome. Huge bumps in the track for the beat. : tashtego
• Cities of the Future - Infected Mushroom. This on elite is ridiculous. : Chepito.
• I think some songs depend on witch vehicle you chose. For faster stuff I think Mono works the best. I hav... : Duffman8369
• My favorite so far is The Outsider - A Perfect Circle. : daedraug
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  The first song in Daft Punk's Alive album is amazingly good. The track alternates between going fast and... : Lionhart32935
  • Really that whole album is great. : Duffman8369
  • I bought it friday night. Amazing. Makes me pissed that I missed that tour. :( : pigvomit
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  VNV Nation - Chrome went by pretty f'n cool in the beta... couple loops and twists and such. Combichri... : -=kodiak=-
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    ahh a fellow electro fan. I downloaded Audiosurf just to try out some VNV Nation and Destroid but haven'... : .frame
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      i played through a bunch of various EBM and industrial stuff, even some psytrance. the more fucked up ... : -=kodiak=-
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        I may have to break out some oldies for the demo then. SP's Mirror Saw or something from Too Dark Park..... : .frame
        • ah i payed some puppy, mostly stuff from mythmaker... didnt turn out too good.... was kinda dull to play ... : -=kodiak=-
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          Mirror Saw is actually pretty tame. I tried Convulsion from Too Dark Park and that was much faster and wi... : A Sponge
          • wow sponge is a fan eh? When I said mirror saw I took a second look and found I was thinking of a remix ... : .frame
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  I'll just link some videos so you can see for yourselves. Classical music and orchestral stuff in gene : Helter Skelter
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    Sort of a hijack, but what video settings are you using there? That looks really cool : Thomas Hace
    • I just run at Premium detail, 1600x1200 (I have Fraps records at half-size, 800x600). No AA for videos, b... : Helter Skelter
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  LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends Maserati - The World Outside M83 - In Church : pandastrong
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    Love that LCD S song! Franz Ferdinand did a pretty damn good cover of it, too. : coldfusioncs
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      it's an alright cover, but the people who claim it's better are insane. LCD's song is amazing. : aaarrrgh
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        Agree with you there. How's the rest of that CD? I'm reluctant to buy it just for that song. : coldfusioncs
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          LCD's? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15727836 http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15456438 ht... : aaarrrgh
          • If you are still in doubt, go youtube some of the videos from his latest album. maybe they will convince ... : aaarrrgh
• Oh shit! I've never played this since my PC bugs out on the demo, but I have a FUCKING RAD dream where th... : node
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  I've said it before but Chop Suey by System of a Down was awesome. : marmite
  • I liked this one too. Tried recording a few movies of it, but I kept screwing up. I did a perfect run on ... : SilverSnake
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  i always see people playing that game from my friends list. but i can't play it :( i always get some erro... : Mmmmmoo
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    If you've installed some codec packs, that can severely screw up Audiosurf. : Enkidu
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      hm. i dont think i have any installed but i'll double check later. thankd : Mmmmmoo
      • try restarting after installing the plugin. worked for me : Thomas Hace
  • Restart steam. I had that too. : geedeck
• first, i think the game should let last.fm scrobble the songs. I really liked navigating Beethoven's t... : barichnikov
• I've found that a lot of pop-punk songs generated some amazingly difficult tracks. Stuff like New Found G... : mittense
• Pendulum - Slam Justice - Stress : aeg1x
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  how is the demo limited? : thief
  • I think you only get to play 3 or 4 tracks before it expires and you have to reinstall or buy it, plus I ... : Helter Skelter
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  I'll tell you what doesn't work. Baroque Organ pieces. Guess tempo is pretty important to the game. To Ba... : Duffman8369
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    Update: For those of you looking to get your Bach fix, Brandenburg Concertos work really well. : Duffman8369
    • i did the 4 seasons and Brandenburg myself i enjoyed them.. Also: Block Party -Banquet remixes make me... : Iwannaacura
• http://www.stage6.com/user/oneshotg35/video/2226998/AudioSurf---Ronald-Jenkees---Derty http://www.stage6... : pancake humper
• Two songs that I had alot of fun doing were jay z - 99 problems and avenged sevenfold - beast and the ha... : DonarUDL
• NIN - In This Twilight was pretty sweet... And pretty much anything from the C&C: Red Alert 2 Soundtra... : Shadowdane
• So far any Rage Against the Machine, Tool or Perfect Circle work really well. : hashd
• Pain of Salvation is a good time. It's such schizophrenic music that it's constantly changing. Opeth ... : valael
• In the Meantime by Space Hog and Electric Worry by Clutch : Bean
• Overseer - Supermoves Nothingface - Murder is Masturbation : NFXFSX
• Weezer - It is such a pity was pretty cool. : sludge vohaul
• Brand New - Sowing Season, and Degausser were some good tracks to play with great tempo shifts. : pwnage1232
• Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy Orbital - Waving (not Drowning) have been my favorite so far. jazz hasn't wo... : stgulik
• Propellerheads' On Her Majesty's Secret Service was a lot of fun, though it starts off a bit herky-jerky.... : bigmaki
• marquee moon by television. play this immediately! : anthonybean
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  Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things : moe6
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    I am going to load up calculating infinity when i get home. : hirosushima
    • DEP on Audiosurf is fucking insane : moe6
• Cut Chemist - Butter : prokat
• gah, I can't play this game, movement + colour blindness = Dizzy/vomit. : Fluffy_Bunny
• Dark Materia - The Picard Song : jbury
• Fascination Street, The Cure is a fun ride : coyoterys
• Lyrics Born - Change My Mind : focusdaily
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  I don't quite understand the block thing still. I have no idea what I'm doing in this game. : oatmela
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    in it's basic form this is a puzzle game.. your suppose to match up blocks in pairs of 3 or more. Wit... : Shadowdane
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      like three blue vertically in one column, or across horizontally? : oatmela
      • you can do either... you will also eliminate any matching blocks that touch the row or column of blocks... : Shadowdane
  • after watching the videos i have no idea how it works. on the surface it looks like Frequency if Frequen... : electroly
• Queen - March Of The Black Queen was lots of fun because of the timing changes. First couple tracks of... : pyros
• Kaiser Cheifs - Na Na Na Na Na and Oh My God are really fun : smegmar
• Holy Fuck - Tonebank Computer : phokz
• Some Eurotrancepopwhatever music right here: http://www.stage6.com/user/SilverSnaken/video/2245816/Audio : SilverSnake
• A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You Video: http://www.stage6.com/user/mattjaybe/video/224... : Matt Burris
• Has anyone tried Merzbow yet? : deathofrats
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  Anybody tried Autechre? : dirge23
  • I tried it on Gescom's 'Slow Acid' It works pretty well. The irregular beats make it interesting, lots ... : deathofrats
• ive enjoyed most matt and kim songs the most. : feek
• not being fair play compatible sucks. : topkatz
• Let's Make Out by Does It Offend You Yeah? Flathead - Fratellis It's Just A Song About Ping Pong - Oper... : Plinth Inc.

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• plz forget to log out. thx. : sparhawk
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  I love the cock. : ryuuseki
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    Hahaha, learns quickly, this one! : coldfusioncs
    • seriously. quick learner. : mindmann
  • Haha awesome : OverloadUT
  • hahahaha : Magus
  • haha, nice. : sparkly
  • I think you understand the Shack very well. : Moonbase Commander
  • Hahhahahahaha nice job! : TastyWheat
  • hahaha, that was fast : grabbie
  • bless your dear heart. Your choice of an ILTC Classic (TM) is very refreshing in this day of overblown, o... : steelsamurai
  • hahahaha : manero
  • brilliant : c0bra
  • well, that was unexpected, right? : xsoulbrothax
  • We already knew that, when are you going to tell her? :( : Audhuml4
  • Freaking awesome : shred.
  • Very well done. : spazzium
  • Quick learner. I like you. : carrioN luggagE
  • holy shit wow A+++ : Yanks
  • hahaha... well done! : Shadowdane
  • Marry her. Seriously. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS : aethyr
  • lololol : Maddog_Delphi97
  • dear GF of ryuuseki.. you are awesome : El Tigre
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  This is suspicious... : Omaha
  • Yeah....I don't buy that ILTC. : Chepito.
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    it's attention whore day on the shack : qwpeoriu
    • oh wait a minute that's every day : qwpeoriu
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    Hey Omaha, I am going to let MY GIRLFRIEND browse my lol history : gmd
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      I love big fat horse dicks rammed up my tight hairy asshole : gmd
      • This gets my vote for post of hte day. : Omaha
      • sup :* : yoonix
      • a / s / l : FrayLo
      • you heard it here first, people : SockMonkeh
      • Woah I just saw this, I am going to go punch her in the cunt. : gmd
      • whoa hahahah no way!!! that's crazy!! 100 lols sir 100 lols : JINKY
      • so when does your girlfriend get here? : mikecyb
    • ahahahahah : Downforce
  • It seems too obvious not to be staged, but I laughed anyway. : OverloadUT
  • Omaha, I agree and so does giant metal dog. : CrustaR

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  Come play on moron east and prove it. : rosewood
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    I only play with tourney winners rosewood : EvilDolemite
    • That's a lot of tough talk from a team that only barely scraped by with a win. : WaterSign
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    I tried at work, but my laptop sucks for TF2 :( : bcyde
    • if you can get a macbook pro one day, go for it. I play on a macbook pro and love it. mac gaming ftw! : ]pm[chem
• I think I am decent pyro. And if the stars align properly I can play soldier ok. : bRAINsick
• yeah playing on pubs compared to shack servers is like night and day : mikecyb
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  seriously, if you ever feel down about TF2, go onto a pub. you'll feel like a golden god. : hirez
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    I've had people accuse me of posing as "the CptTrips that played Valve." haha what can I even say? : Trips
    • you're famous! : electroly
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      seriously? thats pretty awesome. i thought attention to those matches came solely from within the shack. : mXENO
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        That's what I thought. This isn't the first time either. Back when I made a video for Wolfenstein:ET, peo... : Trips
        • yah i had that back in the LMCTF days... i made one of the official maps for LMCTF. No one ever believ... : Shadowdane
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        Aren't you the mXENO? The #2 draft pick, holy cow ! <3 : bcyde
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          Yeah and who's in your spray? : ieGod
          • haha, poor girl. : sammyl
  • so true. I hadn't played in a couple of weeks so I hopped on a pub to brush up on my skills. Defending se... : edgewise
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  Jerk off privately : megarust32
  • but seriously, you're pretty good even on the shack servers : megarust32
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  I'll join in on this. I got 11 backstabs in a row last night on a shack server. could have been more ... : ]pm[chem
  • Greedy greedy greedy. I am so glad I ended your spree. Maybe next time you will consider not backstabbing... : A Sponge
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    That one game of well we had was crazy. Back and forth so many times. 45 minutes (?) and each team pushed... : Sze Ior
    • yeah, that went on forever. most closely matched cp_well fight I've participated in. gg : ]pm[chem
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  I can't tell if I'm good or the Solider is just overpowered. I'm almost always top 3 and I play soldier ... : Boxelder
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    I have a hard time doing well with the soldier in tournament games, but can do pretty well in normal Shac... : mittense
    • Doesn't Valve play with a lot of Soldiers? : Boxelder
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    soldier isn't overpowered - he is so fucking slow. good heavies and scouts stop soldiers dead. as far a : mXENO
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      I've noticed in tourney games the soldier is a lot more difficult for me to play. Makes me realize how m... : .frame
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        you dont suck. it is easier to rack up points in pubs because you dont worry about the objectives as muc... : mXENO
        • Yeah, when in a team game you generally think of the team rather than I WANT POINTS. : mittense
      • It's not suckage -- it's playing to help the team. : thief
    • Heavies can't kill my soldier unless they surprise me or catch me out. They move so slowly that you can ... : Boxelder
  • I play soldier fairly often and I can't hit the broad side of a barn with a fucking rocket launcher, so I... : Orange Pylon
  • Soldiers excell at getting the last few points of damage on something for the frag, thus generally have f... : alias
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    crit rocket spam is underrated : ]pm[chem
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      Suppressing rocket fire in general is underused. There are many situations where two soldiers hammering ... : EvilDolemite
      • agreed 100%, especially on pubs : ]pm[chem
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        Yeah, I'm all about prediction spam. I've played so much quake it's second nature. : Boxelder
        • Actually that one of the two keys to success 1.) spam, 2.) reload (never charge ahead unless you're fully... : Boxelder
• my top was 19 backstabs in one life on the shack servers. : adodric

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  sony really should have turned that tech demo into a game. i know id buy it again just to replay with pr... : smacknca
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    I would have too :( I found my copy for the PC, and im trying not to re-install it... .. damn thing keeps... : Demius
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      Mine is still installed, sitting on some dusty sectors of my hard drive, wondering when I'll light it bac... : Rotten Deadite
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        Golden Saucer!! :D : Demius
        • That shit was genius. GENIUS. I actually flew through most of the game in an effort to just get back to... : Rotten Deadite
        • man, I loved Golden Saucer. I probably spent half my time in that game playing the snowboarding minigame... : bakanoodle
        • Really? I just got there and left and hated the whole area. : Evil Benius
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    I would be more excited if they remade it for the PSP. That system would sell like hotcakes. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • I'd buy it. I'm still holding out for a PS3 remake. Whichever it comes out on is the one I will purchase. : zerog83
  • Not only would I buy it again, I'd likely pay 3x the retail price for it. : ieGod
  • I've had the discussion several times about how many PS3s would sell if they remade FF7 in the style of t... : DinK
  • I don't get this sentiment really -- don't we want new experiences? I think people underestimate the amou... : Yanks
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  The sound quality is not bad and you can enable some nice graphical enhancements to make it look nicer. : sanchez
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    Oh and don't run off the cd, rip them to iso and run it that way. : sanchez
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      I'll rip from iso tonight when I get home; The sound quality really isn't bad, it's just the missing and ... : zerog83
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        Pete's OpenGL2 driver is the best, really lets you enhance the game nicely. : sanchez
        • I'm pretty sure that's the one I'm using. Like I said, I'll need to poke around a bit more. : zerog83
  • i was playing it recently and thought it looked & sounded pretty good. i got bored after a few hours and ... : pyide
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  Here's a dirty secret of mine: I've never finished Final Fantasy VII. And the farthest I've gone is r... : DrWaffles
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    I never finished it either and came to the boss battle where you have to split the party in two groups, a... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      :( you were not far from the end of the game like less than 10 minutes i would say. All you had left w... : Iwannaacura
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        yeah, if you don't count the 2 hours of boss battle. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          ten minutes with KOTR. =P Cheapest "spell" ever. : zakazi
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            KotR + mimic spam gg : walker270
            • haha, I forgot 7 had mimic... Yeah, *that's* the cheapest ever : zakazi
          • I hadn't found it back then. : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • omnislash works really well, too. : zerog83
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          if you spent 2 hours beating Sephiroth, you probably should've leveled up a bit more beforehand :) i jus : electroly
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            No, I died at the dragon thingie. Before Sephiroth. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              ah. some of the bosses leading up to sephiroth were harder than sephiroth himself, imo : electroly
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                I noticed that. I also noticed too late that I had split my group into two very unbalanced parties. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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                  the separated parties thing was just stupid, i just put my normal party on one side and then didn't use m... : electroly
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                    does this work? I thought there was a 3 person limit to each side? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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                      yeah, 3 people on each side. If people play the game like I do, chances are you use the same 4 characters... : zerog83
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                        yea basically just put one strong party and forget about your other gimp party. I think i had cloud,ba... : Iwannaacura
                        • Same. My original party was Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Aeris, but.... you know. : electroly
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    pretty early on you can buy a materia that eliminates random battles : electroly
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      Wouldn't have that made the later boss battles very difficult? I don't think that I'd be able to gain en... : DrWaffles
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        i grinded for hours in the Sunken Gelnika. it's much more efficient to level up with big scary monsters ... : electroly
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          Awesome. Thanks for the tip. I'll probably give the game another go this weekend. : DrWaffles
          • don't grind too much, i spent way too much time leveling up, and then the final boss battles were a joke.... : electroly
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      How the fuck would you grind them, bosses later are impossible to beat if your party sucks. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • once you find the best spot for grinding, you can remove the materia from your sword : electroly
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    I made it almost to the end but the whole "am I a clone or what the hell am I?" story I just couldn't und... : TwiLyght
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      Every morning Cloud would pull a piece of paper out of a hat. On this piece of paper was a possible orig... : walker270
      • that's pretty much the gist of it. : zerog83
    • But when he finally realizes what his role in the whole Neibelheim scene was, and what really happened...... : Omaha
  • That's actually what happened to me the first few times I played it. I just couldn't get past that part.... : Omaha
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  i have the OST and every time i listen to any songs from it, it makes me want to play the game over reall... : electroly
  • I have it as well, but I keep it hidden elsewhere on my harddrive; I'm afraid of people finding it :[ : zerog83
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopqwVYy0W8 : Fred Garvin
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    brief synopsis? I'm at work : zerog83
    • Live performance of One Winged Angel. : Fred Garvin
  • STFU nerds : Mad Brahmin Disease
• If you spend some time tweaking ePSXe and the plug ins you should be able to play at better quality than ... : SenorSpine
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  one time got Meteor Rain by the time i got to Cosmo Canyon : Dschinghis Khan
  • I still have a save file where I have Aeris at level 99. : ieGod
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  Which plugins are you using? The Eternal Sound plugin is leagues better than the default ePSXe one. Also,... : Orange Pylon
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    I'll have to find that; I'm using Pete's Sound, Video, and CD-ROM plugins. : zerog83
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      http://www.ngemu.com/download.php?action=plugin&id=2 The rest are pretty good, but which of Pete's vid... : Orange Pylon
      • Already passed that point :D I'll check this out once I get home from work. Thanks for the info! : zerog83
  • just got home and installed the OGL2 plugin. looks great except... A lot of borders in the pre-rendere... : zerog83
• Once I finish Harvey Birdman on my PSP I'm goint to load up FFVII on it and finally finish the game. : Prozium
• god i love that game. i would buy any system that did a remake of it. : xxiv
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  FF7 looks amazing on a PSP : Deathlove
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    Oh no... am I going to have to buy a PSP now? Is there a PSX emulator for it or something? : zerog83
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      There has been for almost 2 years now. Install the M33 custom firmware on your PSP, run a program on your... : Prozium
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        is this possible without the unbricking business? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          unbricking? install firmware, problem solved! you should harass helter skelter he is a guru and awesome. ... : Deathlove
          • slim : Mad Brahmin Disease
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            I heard you needed either to have access to another unbricked PSP or mess around with a spare battery and... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              you're using unbricked wrong. unbricked = dead/broken system (most likely due to a bad firmware flashing)... : Prozium
              • erm, bricked = dead/broken system, so unbricked just means a working system. : Prozium
  • what, explain!!! : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • This is the biggest reason my PSP still gets used. I never had a PS1 so its a great way to replay some o... : Horn
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    Yes, works flawless. Also fits the screen perfectly since it's letterboxed and emulator can zoom : tcs
    • well i don't know about flawless, the rip i made i couldn't get past the monster battle in junon harbor w... : Deathlove
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  FF7. Either one of the best games ever or a pile of shit, depending on who you ask. I've never seen a... : EvilDolemite
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    It's actually simple. FF7 one of the best JRPGs around. The people who hate it are people who hate JRPGs. : terath
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      Have you ever played FF6, or FF5, or FF3? : walker270
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        Uh..or IV, one of the best console games period. :P : RevRaven
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          I think I meant 4 instead of 5. 4 is the one with the knights, and 5 is the one with Butz and his choc... : walker270
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            yeah, I am surprised by how good 4 was, really. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              story wise, I really dug the job system in 5 more, though, so I can't wait for the DS version! : Mad Brahmin Disease
              • honestly? i liked the dressphere job system in FFX-2 the best. being able to switch classes in-battle i... : electroly
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        I've played FF1, FF2, some of FF6 (or US FF3), FF5, and FF7. I still like FF7 best, although I know I sho... : terath
        • I've played all but VIII and IX and the only thing I remember fondly of VII is Sephiroth as a bad-ass vil : Ebu
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      I'm gonna go against the grain on this one. I really dislike JRPGs. I think I loved Final Fantasy VII bec... : zerog83
      • I think I agree. I played (but didn't beat) FF5, FF6, and FF8, and none of them grabbed me quite like FF... : electroly
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      There are a good deal of JRPG fans that don't like it, too. FF6>FF7 arguments have been common on the int... : Orange Pylon
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        I think it's the same thing as Halo, really... FF7 was where the series really went mainstream, and so : walker270
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          no, Goldeneye did all that earlier. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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            Golden Eye didn't get football jocks to play it in between testosterone injections, beating up nerds and ... : walker270
            • Of course, it did! : Mad Brahmin Disease
            • Uh yea it did, I played it against them : Mondo
            • so you were the cheerleader, then? : zerog83
            • It did at my school. : omnova
            • It most certainly did. : ieGod
        • I disagree. I played FF titles from the time the first came out (when I was 8 or 9), and I still thought ... : Vincent Grayson
      • I didn't know you had to hate the one you don't prefer. I actually enjoyed both a lot and I don't feel th... : razlebol
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      You're quite simple. >:( FF7 was, while not shit, not a very fun game. I got as far as disk 2 and just... : Ebu
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        I was hoping you wouldnt see this thread and make my head hurt with just how WRONG you are. =( : kelerian
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          It's this or phyics homework. :/ : Ebu
          • understandable : kelerian
      • wow just no. : Yanks
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        Yeah but you actually like X so your opinion is invalid. : ieGod
        • Not like, love. : Ebu
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    ask around about Xenogears : Demius
    • Probably one of the most polarizing games ever. I never made it through -- I think I got about 35 hours ... : Yanks
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    i remember when the game came out, everyone was jizzing over the graphics saying it was the best shit eve... : -=kodiak=-
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      hey, you try making a human with 4 triangles. ;) : electroly
      • Hey now, their hands had 16 each. : walker270
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      It was more the FMV visuals, which were cutting-edge at the time : EvilDolemite
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        i liked how it had FMV cutscenes with no voiceovers, just the same old MIDI music. it was like a silent ... : electroly
        • man that game was really ghetto when i think back : electroly
      • ^^^ yup, not the character models. Surprisingly, they look much better on a good playstation emulator tha... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  FF7 PC has some interesting mods http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5805/mm7ok.jpg : Mondo
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    Floating Elena mod! : Snuffles-
    • Tifa lift-n-separate mod! : Omaha
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    http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7602/sonic1pp3.jpg : Mondo
    • haha, wow. is that for real? : bakanoodle
• I need to pick that up. I have a pretty leveled team WITH Omnislash at like 32 hours in (or was it level... : DinK

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• sparkly is dead O_o ? : steelsamurai
• lol and i think you'd rather be in hell be in hell than in sparkly's heaven :D : blindi0815
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  good try. : sparkly
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    where'd you get that pic, anyway? : sparkly
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      you posted it a while ago, I had it saved when I did a bilbo baggins photoshop. : gmd
      • ^^^^^^ creeeeepppyyyy....... : infiltrator`
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        i remember the post because i remember seeing sparkly's fangs : electroly
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          I remember posting it, but it's a bit weird he saved the file and hasn't deleted it...that was almost 2 m... : sparkly
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            he must have a big harddrive : derelict515
            • or a sparkly shrine : electroly
        • mine are 3 times as bad as that, almost looks like i've got aftermarket dracula fangs : zagzig32
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        post the original so we can all photoshop it up and creep out sparkly : SockMonkeh
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          http://sparklyfresh.com/merry.jpg : gmd
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            this outta be fun. There are better pics of me, though. http://www.joshlyon.com/index.php?v=list&i=0&p=S... : sparkly
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              This pic just says "hey kid want some candy?" to me http://www.joshlyon.com/photos/Self%20Portraits/DSC_0... : SockMonkeh
              • the riddler : blindi0815
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              http://www.joshlyon.com/index.php?v=view&i=32&p=Self%20Portraits/straightened_02.jpg Hey, is your indi... : yoonix
              • http://gmd.shackspace.com/emosparklyman3.jpg : gmd
            • http://www.joshlyon.com/index.php?v=view&i=28&p=Self%20Portraits/sparklytrip.JPG Are you sure you aren : riptyde
          • He has a kind chin. : pancake humper
• not your best effort : mikecyb