Morning Revival

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• try new drivers? : hirez
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  Are you sure it's a crash? Mine, when alt-tabbed/accidentally Win key'd out of takes a god-awful time to ... : carrioN luggagE
  • it's kinda funny, since Id software nailed the alt-tab / Windows key issue from Quake 3 onward. The game... : the archvile
• I use vista, I dont have these issues at all :| : RobFlinn
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  it has nothing to do with Vista, you haven't been able to Alt-Tab out of Valve games since CS : derelict515
  • Lies. You can, but it's quicker to just kill the program and restart it then alt-tab out. : carrioN luggagE
• It's the only major thing I hate about Source games: Their alt-tab support is god fucking awful. : OverloadUT
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  I don't think fixing/optimizing the Alt-tab combo in Source games is a high priority. : pun][sher
  • Which is stupid because it's probably the only game (engine) I play that has this problem. : OverloadUT
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  PC gaming. : lplasmatron
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    yeah he should have gone with the console version so he could play with 5 people on a version of the game... : aeg1x
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      Not my point really. My point is that PC gaming sucks and that having issues like this is basically inevi... : lplasmatron
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        and my point was the alternative is even suckier :< : aeg1x
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          for basically everything except TF2 I think the 360 community is much larger (certainly for CoD4) : derelict515
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            What does size matter? It's not like 360 communities are actually good or fun to play in generally. Live ... : SpaecKow
            • large means it'll be quicker finding games which is particularly important a few months down the line whe... : derelict515
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        Playing an FPS on a gamepad also sucks as does the nickle and diming to death that is xbox live. Does the : terath
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          The gamepad issue really only matters to me if it is a competitive FPS, and the only one I play is TF2. (... : lplasmatron
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            Speak for yourself then. I can't work a gamepad FPS at all. Besides, what's it to you if some of us like ... : terath
            • A console wont suffice for RTS, MMO's or FPS's IMO either. : Pneum0
            • yeah but there's a difference between buying a computer and a gaming capable computer. I bought a compute... : derelict515
      • RROD says hello. : ewhales
      • you heard it here first. time to throw away your pcs everybody! : Unleashed
      • I'll hold back from calling you names and just say that any amount of tweaking has got to be better than ... : Pneum0
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    XBOOOX? : capt tripps
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      There's only one O in Xbox silly. : Sailor of Fortune
      • That's one O or three OOO. : capt tripps
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    OMG ANOTHER ONE OF THESE LOL PCS AMIRITE >:( : felicia
    • http://shackpics.com/files/serz_xp6fstj39edf9u3pn7nu.jpg : aeg1x
  • is the best : ballystix
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  I don't think crashing on exit is a huge issue. Mine doesn't crash on alt-tab either, it just takes a whi... : aeg1x
  • you can run it in windowed mode if alt tabbing is important to you as well : aeg1x
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  Amazingly it runs fine in windows XP. Seems to me maybe you should blame the shitty OS instead of the ga... : spazzium
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    alt-tabbing still borks steam for me in XP pro, fully patched latest nvidia drivers. doesn't happen to W... : Downforce
    • I've always been able to alt-tab, exit normally, everything else. : spazzium
    • Ditto. Likewise a few friends of mine. TF2 won't alt tab for shit without restarting. : node
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  Mine does same thing. vista doesnt play nice with steam. but running in dx8.1 makes the game not crash... : chilln
  • makes it not look good too : aeg1x
• Running Vista on a AMD 4000+ with 2gb of ram. Everything works with out a hitch. Alt Tab is actually fast... : VectorJKL
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  Yeah I'm getting sick of Valve's lazy asses. They are the only games that don't work with the games brows... : blarrr
  • you use the vista game browser? Funnily enough I use Steam for that functionality :P : aeg1x
• I agree. I had a problem with hl2.exe crashing at start every time. I had to resort to some shady network... : Albemuth

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  pretty cool I'd like to take this opportunity for a shill here .... my team at DigiPen is using XNA f... : smalakar
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    that is the baddest ass ice skating turtle I have ever seen... How you liking digipen? : Str8Dog
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      there's definitely some mixed views among us ... in my year there were only like 12 people. there are... : smalakar
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        that interesting, i thought after the Cinderella story of portal that place would be crawling with people... : Str8Dog
        • oh, there are definitely classes, they're more like regular university classes though. Like, Curves and S... : smalakar
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          Game Schools are, from my viewpoint, a generally bad idea (at least, for game programmers). They get you : mittense
          • this is very true ... DigiPen is basically unknown outside of the games industry, there is a Computer Eng... : smalakar
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        I see they also teach the jerry yang style of punctuation and capitalization. : Damodred
        • He picked that up from UF :) : Agrona
  • It's Chibi-Cloverfield! : RomSteady
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    Oh yeah, I remember this game. How goes the production? : DHAvatar
    • it's slowing down as we try to catch up with classes and thesis ... : ( : smalakar
  • gauntlet with a turtle eh. : bakanoodle
  • Anyone there seen (or read) Jpod? :P needs more turtle! : Super Sparker
• looks like a fun project. : xxiv
• looks good ! : qwpeoriu
• I'll check this out when I get home :D : SockMonkeh
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  Do you guys need any more coders? I'd love to contribute. : lordlobo
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    Yeah, I hope they expand the team for the next project. : SockMonkeh
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem we could make the greatest game ever! : Modulus
      • I'll get typing right away! : SockMonkeh
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        I tried that once, but they kept recreating Derek Smart games. : RomSteady
        • just faster and with fewer bugs : DapperDan
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  The second one looks like a cocknballs. Turn the first one upside down, and it's a vag. : romulan
  • But they look cool, you know, good job and all keep it up! : romulan
  • docking procedure initiated! : topkatz
  • its just begging for a bukke beam weapon... : Str8Dog
  • I like how 'cocknballs' is all one word. lol : Jobos
• The ships look great, good job SpaceKow! : razorblade79
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  Looks good! We just finished a single level for a game we were making for a class. It's a 2D cooperativ... : Begawkiness
  • as long as you are not trying to make money off of it and are posting it for educational purposes I don't... : Str8Dog
  • If they were from a Microsoft product, you could be covered. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/devel... : RomSteady
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    2d sprites only, or are you going to switch to 3d characters eventually? : deathofrats
    • 2D sprites only. Games we took sprites from include Little Fighters (we had never heard of it before thi... : Begawkiness
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  Is this going to be a Gyruss remake? : deathofrats
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    Yeah, that was the intent. The nice thing about it is that "Gyruss" is a very simple game that has a l... : RomSteady
    • Sweet. Gyruss is a great game concept to update. So much can be added and done with that idea. : deathofrats
• looks good =) Keep up the good work! : mnok
• Needs more Syreen Penetrator. http://www.urquanmasters.com/shipanims/WorkMaterial/SyreenSC1.png : DrZettl
• I cannot code for shit but I'd like to contribute somehow :( : TastyWheat

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• Retarded : Edges
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  i seriously keep waiting for MS to just say 'fuck it, we wont sell software to your nations anymore, go h... : smacknca
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    I am sure Apple would move in to take over the continent. : DarkWolf5
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      And that is probably why they put up with this. It's so ridiculous though that they keep doing it. : dilutedq
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        How dare the Euros not offer their butts! Instead it is the butts of American companies that receive all ... : enyakk
        • When I see microsoft doing something wrong I'll agree to that policy. : dilutedq
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          packing Windows Media Player with Windows does not seem like bullshit to me. : derelict515
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            How about Safari on Macs? : stonedonkey
            • Maybe my wording was confusing, I was defending MS and thought the EU's thing of making them remove WMP w... : derelict515
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          Explain how Windows shipping with IE and WMP in any way harms a consumer or a competitor. Now, when yo : riptyde
          • They should ship it without any TCP controls. Leave room for other protocols! : c0bra
          • The fact that IE & ActiveX have probably been the biggest security blunders in computing history might ha... : sinner0423
    • they'd be fined up the ASS though for having a computer+peripheral monopoly by EU terms : Downforce
    • In the meantime they'd be fucked. : Fred Garvin
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    yeah because it would be smart to leave the biggest paying market of of the world. not to mention that it... : Hoax
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      i only vaguely remember what the suit was over but at the time I remember thinking it sounded like the E... : smacknca
      • yeah pretty much. here is a short writeup why the got fined though. http://www.spiegel.de/internationa... : Hoax
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      What EU defines as Microsoft's monopolistic prices is rather petty, tho. God forbid an OS ships with a b... : riptyde
      • It was more than just that : "the record fine stems from a 1998 case triggered by Sun Microsystems, w... : Hoax
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  They just really hate MS it seems : ColoradoCNC
  • EU regulators fine lots of EU companies as well, they are very fine-happy : jcupitt
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  So? Fines based on percentage of revenue seem like a fair way to punish companies for not complying. No... : vigilante
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    I think MS should not be fined at all in this situation. : Evil Benius
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      I think MS should be broken up. : vigilante
      • lol that worked well for the bells : synack
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      They were not fined for a new thing, they were fined for not complying to the constraints they were put u... : MatzL.E.
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        I know and I did not agree with the old ones. : Evil Benius
        • Well, that's another story. : MatzL.E.
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  I still maintain that Microsoft should release a severely crippled version of Windows for Europeans with ... : arizona bay
  • AOL cds would come back in style though. : DarkWolf5
  • If that was my company I'd just not release anything there. Fuckem. : snuff
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    I would love to see this. Do not include ANY software for which there is a competing version available f... : riptyde
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      Of all those you listed I only use Notepad, Calculator and Windows Explorer. I could *easily* replace the... : SilverSnake
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        You could easily replace the first two, but Shackers represent what, maybe the top 5% of computer users i... : riptyde
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          Yes, but people who don't know how computers works get them from people who know at least a little more. ... : SilverSnake
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            Have you seen the shit-ware and bloatware that OEM's already install on systems? What makes you think the... : mn3m0n1c
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              My point is that there would be replacements for all the Windows bundled software on OEM machines if they... : SilverSnake
              • Your point is valid, but I can't help wondering if the people buying these systems would really be better... : mn3m0n1c
        • Average computer users do not use a computer with just a basic windows install anyway. : vigilante
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      how would you get on the web to begin with w/o IE? : AllYourBase
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        As I said above, OEM or store would install a browser before selling it to you, and/or offering browsers ... : SilverSnake
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          Okay, by why? : SockMonkeh
          • but : SockMonkeh
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            I haven't followed the ordeal really, but I believe it's an anti-trust issue. If there were no browser bu... : SilverSnake
            • I guess that makes sense. : SockMonkeh
            • But now all you are doing is making things more expensive, because instead of coming bundled with a free ... : riptyde
            • Actually ,the point of contention (as I remember it) was that Microsoft was telling OEMs that if they ins... : DianeOfTheMoon
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    They did (the 'N' versions), and nobody wanted them! ;P : mn3m0n1c
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      I liked Navigator 4.x over IE. :( : snuff
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        The 'N' actually stood for "Not with Media Player", believe it or not - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind... : mn3m0n1c
        • LOL "Consumer interest has been low, with roughly 1,500 units shipped to OEMs, and no reported sales to c... : ErikTehRed
      • Same here. I think I used IE up to 2.0, then switched over to Netscape through 4.x, then back to IE for ... : riptyde
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    idiots, all of you. : Klebold
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      as much as i hate klebold, he has a point. I don't really agree with the fine, it seems kinda disproporti... : Wiimope
      • thanks, i think. why do you hate me? : Klebold
      • Who gets the money anyways? : snuff
  • Just re-package Dos 6.22 and call it Windows EU. : capt tripps
  • That would be the windows i'm using. firefox,vlc/gom/mediaplayerclassic etc. Not to mention that the w... : Hoax
• I don't agree with fining them every year but this time it's because they have not complied with a previo... : needlez
• Stupid. MS were forced to release WIndows XP "N" (without Media Player) and literally no one bought it! D... : cause&effect
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  The work of the EU is what's getting MS to finally start opening up their file formats and network protoc... : sroylance
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    hey i was gonna try out samba 4, i currently use 3 and no active directory functions. what kind of cool ... : bfzzzz
    • keep in mind, it's very alpha. That said, it's a completely functional AD domain controller. Everybody ... : sroylance
• they want to sell in the EU, they have to play by the EU's rules : jcupitt
• Haha two years ago it would have been like 2/3rds that fine, but the dollar's weakness is really killing : Lunatic Angelic
• Fuck the EU. : jonin
• Company gets fined for breaking the law. Huge shock! : aeg1x
• Will be invested in a trans-latvian bikeway. : xxx2xxx

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  Average bandwidth cost for 1 terabyte of data per month is $153.60. : RomSteady
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    that sounds way off. : mystikal
    • If you use Amazon's average cost of 15 cents per gigabyte as a basis and compare it to bulk pricing for b... : RomSteady
• they had fewer users, less advertising, and the movies were significantly bigger than youtube, which had ... : electroly
• someone will pop up eventually, it might be a couple of years though. : MagicWishMonkey
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  TechCrunch said about a Million bucks per month : snowwolf
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    heres some of the story of why it shut down: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/26/serious-drama-and-lots... : snowwolf
    • Dumb fucks :( : nomaad
    • Wow. Thanks a lot you goofballs. : Johnny Law
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      Wow, the DivX people are retarded. : FushigiDenki
      • DivX codec will be useless in a couple years anyway. : FushigiDenki
    • good read, how to kill the golden goose indeed : scottythejock
    • All kinds of stupid : rosewood
    • i love how people get so greedy they totally fuck themselves. : MagicWishMonkey
    • Wow, and all this time I thought they had a legitimate reason (piracy, bandwidth costs, etc) for the clos... : rustified
    • Lets hope the former stage6 folks are gonna do a new startup along the same lines. : liqker
    • hahahahaha. fucking idiots : alarm cock
    • wow, that's unbelievable. : dromo5
    • Do they hate money and fame? People confuse me : Lionhart32935
    • :-/ : moe6
    • haha good lord : itsjames
    • lol'd : duncandun
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      Everyone who views a video on Stage6 must first download the DivX player. Packaged with the download was : Schnapple
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        Well you can choose not to install the toolbar when you install it. : nomaad
        • Right, I know that I was just lamenting both the fact that installers try to sneak this crap in and the f... : Schnapple
      • Their costs are already covered? Jesus. : windowpane
      • If I ever make a popular application like this you can bet I'll be selling out :/ : ieGod
    • It has to be more than that, Stage6 had sooooooo much pirated content that would not get deleted. It's im... : shortbuscaptain
    • Good read, and awful approach by DivX. : ieGod
    • raped : sexninja!!!!
    • Wow. Worst businesspeople of 2008 award right there (if it's true). People spend years trying to think ... : Ovate
    • Wow, fuck. Morons. I can only hope the guys that quit take a stab at something similar on their own, but ... : node
    • I actually know a few of the guys in that article (our startup company shared the same VC, so we'd hang w... : Dimmona
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  http://www.vimeo.com : bozer
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    Vimeo's player is buggy in Firefox and the embedded one sucks (no full screen functionality and no HD). ... : Matt Burris
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      Where can I get a free .FLV encoder? : razlebol
      • There's a bunch of encoders out there ("riva encoder" is an easy one I think). Depending on your time ... : zehh
    • The video lags a bit though. Was it a framerate issue or the original is better than this? : razlebol
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    The Vimeo "HD" is far from HD... : SlamDunk
    • Just an idea :/ I didn't create it : bozer
• wtf stage6 died? : moe6
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  http://www.newstage6.com/ http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=DIVX hm : thief
  • (though who knows wtf newstage6 is) : thief
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    Interesting. Rename it to stage7 :P : razlebol
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      It has already been done. http://stage7.ning.com/ There is the successor. : shortbuscaptain
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        I trust this place! Their catchphrase: "We wont deleate movies! films for download." : Xevo
        • lol : razlebol
        • Yea I signed up and checked it out, it is meh : shortbuscaptain
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  i always think its funny we are all talkign about bluray and hd dvd, when the majority of video watched i... : gyokuro
  • yeah. good old 1990's quality. 320x240 ftw! : SlamDunk
  • That's not a valid comparison. : ieGod
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    More like it pisses me right off they're not going higher. Watching anything on that site is a fucking ey... : node
    • 640x480 + higher bit rate would make a world of difference... but NOOOOO. : SlamDunk

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  I really liked 'Rendezvous with Rama', have you read that one? : monkeygone
  • Also maybe the classic Greg Bear novels, like Eon. : Goncyn
  • i hadn't read this in a decade so i proceeded to do so over christmas. it was as awesome as i remembered... : mwasher
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    No, I haven't. What's the premise? : Fred Garvin
    • An anomaly is heading through our solar system. Dudes must find out what it is. Hehe, that's all I'm goin... : monkeygone
  • I still need to read that! Everytime I tried to get it from the library they would only have the sequals... : gigaduck
  • yea dude that book is bad ass, so is the sequel. : bfzzzz
  • if he's looking for a connection with the characters he's not going to find it reading Rama. That book wa... : aeg1x
• Read the robot books instead. : losder5000
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  Only read the first three Foundation books. The rest get progressively dumber. : nurglich
  • i just finished the first three foundation books! my buddy told me to skip the rest of the foundation se... : ece_ssg
  • Good advice. There's a reason a lot of people call it the foundation trilogy. : Horn
• You got that its a partly allegorical story of Islam right? : theghostofsmdever
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  Downbelow Station? : Toth21
  • I never was able to finish that. : Wadmaasi
• If you don't care about characters the Foundation Trilogy is amazing. It jumps through time pretty quick... : Horn
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  you should read PastWatch the redemption of christopher columbus : mp7rox
  • I felt this could make a good movie - I do not think ender would make a good movie - it would be hard to ... : mp7rox
• Don't forget hyperion. : Koral06
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  if you read foundation, do not, for the love of god, read the blurb on the back. It tells you what's goin... : itsjames
  • That wasn't on the back of my book. : Koral06
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  Have you tried Kim S. Robinson's Mars series? Really well-written, and with a more 'modern' sensibility t... : mn3m0n1c
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    Ooh, definitely. Lots of cool near-future technology and social theory. I never did finish the last boo... : nurglich
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      It gets a bit 'out there' toward the very end - Robinson sort of fast-forwards through a bunch of develop... : mn3m0n1c
      • I"ll probably just reread all of Blue Mars. I really can't remember what happened in which book between ... : nurglich
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  Which Ender's Game books did you read? I think the characters in the "Shadow" branch are mostly forgetta... : riptyde
  • really? I thought Ender's Shadow was 100x the book any of the other sequels were. i read Speaker for th... : electroly
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  Print is dead, get over it. : sukabljat
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    Nonsense. Only the gimps of society no longer read books. : theghostofsmdever
    • Your new catchphrase should be poppycock. : losder5000
    • NOT reading a book and choosing NOT to read a book are completely different things. : sukabljat
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  I know it's not a classic (only came out in 2002) but Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan was suggested t... : ErikTehRed
  • i love this series. : deadfish
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  Dune is very much not about the individual characters so much as it is people and their machinations. Th... : hawkeye
  • I love this post and everything about it. except the author : edgewise
  • Wikipedia also points out some things I neglected to mention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel... : hawkeye
  • I agree with every part of this post. Dune is one of my very favorite series'. : Hiro
  • Perfection. : Fyunch Click
  • i agree 100%. glad to see someone who encourages reading through God Emperor. : stgulik
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    well said, It bothers me that so many people stopped reading after the third book. I thought all of the b... : duncandun
    • To be fair the 2nd and 3rd books feel like rehashes of each other. Assassination plots and fucking Duncan... : Porkasaurus
  • Good post about Dune. I think God Emperor is indeed the paramount of the series. : ovrlrd
  • I'd like to add my support for God Emperor as well. This is the classic Dune argument. People dump out... : Porkasaurus
  • This is quite possible the best assessment of the series that I've seen. I read Dune for the first t... : Thresher
  • Very, very good meltdown of the series. I ran through the series like a starved cat, I'm not sure if I co... : felicia
  • wow. I finally found the one other person that loves God Emperor. Where have you been all my life? : obiquatro
• Bah, I didn't like Dune and the only good Ender book was that first one. Go read The Icarus Hunt, by T... : locater16
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  watch the movie! you get to see Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks kill Sting : Postal
  • I'M WORRIED ABOUT COOP! : obiquatro
• Jerry Pournelle/Larry Niven - Ringworld series. Jerry Pournelle (ed) - War World series (shared univers... : AxeMan808
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  As much as it blows my mind that you don't like the Ender books AND Dune, I guess you just have to feel c... : mrwolf710
  • I didn't say I didn't like them, I was just disappointed. They just don't live up to the hype for me. As ... : Fred Garvin
• i know its not a classic but the mass effect book was pretty awesome : dantastic
• You are dead inside. The characters don't matter as much as the plot/dynamics between all of the faction... : semaphore
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  Reading Dune will never risk your "nerd cred," it's more like a rite of passage. I was expecting this pos... : Charmplus
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    I think the idea was he had never read it before now : derelict515
    • Guess it depends on his age, meh. : Charmplus
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  I started to read Dune a couple of times when I was "young". I didn't enjoy it and put it down on both o : capt tripps
  • Seconded. I've been reading "The White Plague" and am really enjoying it so far. : obiquatro

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• shit! rick roll'd! : synack
• I do the left foot thing. :( : DOOManiac
• oh yeah? http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 : Smellsy
• hahaha nice : RobFlinn
• It was one of my favourites so far. : batkiwi
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  I used to be in the marching band, and I quite honestly do this without thinking. Any music playing nearb... : scottv7
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    If you and a friend are walking down the street, do you try to get in step with them? Yeah. :( : slax0r
    • I do. : OverloadUT
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      Yep. You could tell who was in band in school, everyone walked in step in the hallways. : felicia
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        Oh, god, I still do that. Also, you could always tell a fellow band-mate by the upper body movement...... : DianeOfTheMoon
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          EXACTLY. Yes. Hahaha, I miss it. :( Football games were especially fun. We had a halftime show my seni... : felicia
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            Clarinet or French Horn? I can't see you playing Flute (or anything niche like Piccolo or Oboe...well, ma... : Ebu
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              I almost played Oboe, but this one girl whined and whined to be the oboe player. So I stayed clarinet.... : felicia
              • Oboes didn't get to march in our band and had to be cymbal bitches. So maybe that's a good thing. : slax0r
              • Damn I'm good :D : Ebu
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  does he read the Shack? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16334021 : cap n KRUNCH
  • does he read the internet? Rick Rolling has been around for a while, long before the shack. : deathofrats
• Once again, you are wrong. It is a great comic. One of his better ones in recent months. : Ebu
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  You know your life sucks when you get rick-rolled by xkcd. : nyranger66
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    I can picture some guy reading this going "oh man I wonder what song that is!" and busting out his casio ... : mikecyb
    • mikey you need to just calm down and have some kix or something : the city
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  i like fuck grapefruit back up 1 comic : barichnikov
  • That fruit comic was pretty funny. : OverloadUT
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    that shit is all wrong now I hate him even more >:( : mikecyb
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      Bananas are in untasty? WTF man. I love bananas! They're the best tasting fruit ever! : Orange Pylon
      • Of course everyone's chart would look different because of individual taste, but I love the idea of the c... : OverloadUT
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      Bob the Angry Flower had it right: http://www.angryflower.com/getthe.gif : helvetica
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        no I agree with his grapefruit assessment but a lot of the rest of the fruits are wrong! : mikecyb
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          Grapefruits are tasty! It looks like a moldy grapefruit from the image, maybe he was eating bad grapefrui... : helvetica
          • My girlfriend loves grapefruit, but they're so bitter. How the hell is that tasty? : ieGod
  • That was interesting, but WRONG. How can bananas be on untasty? And he needs to swap green and red apples... : ieGod
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  today's? more like everyday's amirite? : voodooraze
  • No. : Dynotaku

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• that is a feature... it gives you some time to decide it that was what you really wanted to do.. : Str8Dog
• I found even after a few days it would lag in weird places. Put SP1 on yet? It does make a difference. : cause&effect
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  as long as it takes you to update your hardware? : xxiv
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    New computer. : woddemandred
    • New like shiny or new like fast : devi| dog
    • sorry bud, it sounds like you skimped on hardware : dantastic
• uh oh. that'll go over really well with my click-happy users. : Jeepy McJeeperton
• I never noticed until I reinstalled WoW to a different drive, but it went away after about two days. : walker270
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  Okay, I guess this might be somewhat related to what is advertised as 1GB of ram is apparently 766? Shoul... : woddemandred
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    sounds like you're using shared video. your video card took a chunk of it. you should have at least 2GB... : dantastic
    • sorry i meant cheapER laptop. : dantastic
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    Does the machine have integrated video? It steals RAM to use for the video card. : afty
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      Oh, should have figured that when it didn't say an amount of ram with the "graphic control unit". No worr... : woddemandred
      • with ddr2 memory at $20 for a 1 gb stick, why not just buy it? : boomstickah
  • Owned by shared graphics memory. : walker270
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    1GB of ram + Vista = sad times : oatmela
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      also < 2GHz dual core CPU + vista = sad times : dantastic
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        what? Wrong. my 1.73ghz is fine, even in games. : boomstickah
        • i dont believe you unless you play at 800x600 : dantastic
      • Well then thank god my new pc will have an E6750 and 4g of ram (vista 64 home premium) : riptyde
      • my 1.8something system handles vista great. I even take it as far as using Dream Scene. : cack
  • Integrated video card? Bleh. : CapnChaos
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    * A C E R ' D * : redfive
    • my old mans acer lappy runs vista home premium pretty well, for medium level specs. : xxiv
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    Integrated video? It might be stealing from main memory. : GloriousCow
    • refresh post cow :( : GloriousCow
  • lol Vista without 2 GB? You don't deserve better : Mad Brahmin Disease
• needs more faster computer. : hirosushima
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  Get better hardware maybe? I haven't had any problems with Vista running slow on my laptop. : ColoradoCNC
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    You might look at picking up a 2 gig flash stick and putting it in for readyboost, it might help some. : ColoradoCNC
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      Readyboost destroys flash drives pretty quickly. : wykd
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        I haven't heard anything about that. Newer firmware on flash drives these days prevents that and you c... : Sailor of Fortune
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          If you go check the hardocp forums, there are plenty of stories of guys with expensive flash drives going... : wykd
          • RAM is so damned cheap these days that i don't see why you wouldn't just put more in your system, rather ... : riptyde
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  sounds like something on your rig is messed up : FushigiDenki
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    I have a Vista box and an XP box sitting next to each other and Vista is more responsive (probably thanks... : FushigiDenki
    • i dualboot and while vista got snappier with sp1 its still not as responsive as xp. : Hoax
    • I think it's just the RAM, really. : woddemandred
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  Vista is sluggish on machines with 1/1.5GB ram. It runs very well (with Office 2007) on machines with 3.... : metalremains
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    It runs fine with 2GB I routinely have word/outlook/excel 2007 open, SQL 2005 management studio, tons ... : wykd
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      haven't had any 2GB configurations yet but I would assume it runs ok on that. I think the core OS needs ... : metalremains
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        Nah, I play all manner of games, have multiple firefox tabs (10+), mIRC, winamp, MPC, pidgin, steam, utor... : blarrr
        • oh and i have 2GB : blarrr
• Vista is fucking fast. There I said it. : zerog83

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  ughhhh shrimp and mayo crust ughhhh : EvilDolemite
  • I think I just vomited in my mouth a bit. : Pettytheft
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  Some of them don't look too bad. I like the triple cheese topping. I <3 cheese. : Koral06
  • Errrrr.....Triple Cheese + Abalone slices + Crayfish and Crab roe sauce? : AxeMan808
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  Hehe. I did saw some of those before. They don't look like pizza though. : razlebol
  • Looks like Klingon food. : pigvomit
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  Wow this is awesome. : pyros
  • seriously, i want to get a frozen one delivered to my house to try it out. that mrpizza one with frigge ... : bfzzzz
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  I've had the shrimp one, it's not terrible. It's just not pizza. :( Pizza hut's meat lover is the closest... : sirkne
  • Aoki's is good. : bombay
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  its funny how thats like "american food" over there kinda like howe our "asian food" over here probably m... : sexninja!!!!
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    i like that pizza is now "american food" rather than italian. : dirge23
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      We took it and ran. We fucking stuffed cheese in places it's never been : EvilDolemite
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        we're losing it to the asians now!! : dirge23
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          What's it matter when it's all cooked by Mexicans? :[ : My Documents
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            the mexicans definitely have a lock on mexican food. : dirge23
            • You get better burrito's here in the states than in Mexico. It's only a matter of time. : Pettytheft
          • Why is it always about race? huh huh? : boomstickah
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    I think asian food over here is a hell of a lot more authentic because we have lots of immigrants that ma... : pigvomit
    • Dude, a lot of asian food (especially chinese food) is nothing like it is in the home country. : Sirus2400
    • Nah they want to sell it to the locals, living on immigrants alone would be a problematic business. Authe... : Hoax
    • depends what you're talking about. A chinese restaurant might be fairly close, but a place like Panda Exp... : edgewise
    • lol. Crabrangoon (I love it!) : kevp
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    seriously. sushi? on boats? lol wtf :[ : My Documents
    • i bet to them this is kind of like the paper pirate hats at bad seafood restaurants. : dirge23
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  Had horse on my pizza in Japan, it was quite good. Next up (soon, actually): whale. Upon my next trip, ... : sukabljat
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    jeez why not just toss some babies in a meat grinder and try that too. : bfzzzz
    • too expensive : Fayk
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      I'm waiting until the US lifts the ban on federally funded stem cell research. : walker270
      • mmmm, stem cell crust. : timmie
    • too much fat, not enough meat. : Hoax
  • Whale's kind of meh... I would say go for raw horse, or blowfish : Sirus2400
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  OH MY GOD The German King looks awesome. : walker270
  • I would eat that one now if I could get my local pizza hut to make one. : Githyanki
• Wtf.. The crust of the German King is folded over every few inches to encase a ring of sausage atop a lay : K1Bond007
• pizza crust shouldn't distract from the toppings/sauce. most of those sound disgusting : wtf242
• umm most of those look fucking good except for the cookie dough one, lol wtf. : duncandun
• when i was in hong kong, the pizza hut there had this horrendous pizza called thousand island. that's ri... : vassili_zaitsev
• I gotta say, the "mizza" sounds... intriguing... : Toraz Chryx
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  Best pizza I ever had was in Japan. Ham and Scalloped potatoes with like a garlic sauce on a crust that ... : losder5000
  • Every single one of these sounds awesome, wow. : losder5000
  • I've had a couple potato pizzas before and they were great. : crummynz
• whoa : the city
• I feel sorry for anyone that enjoys or thinks that is really pizza. So sorry : bozer

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  no one hates pbf! :( : sexninja!!!!
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    Except for the guy who drew it apparently. :( : OverloadUT
    • :~( never forget : sexninja!!!!
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      whoa, wait, what happened? : deathofrats
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        its over : FiReaNG3L
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          :( I just read that on his blog. That sucks. : deathofrats
          • damnit at least i have his book! : synack
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          "semi-retirement" http://www.blorgable.com/2008/02/19/the-perry-bible-fellowship-enters-semi-retiremen... : dirge23
          • i read this as "i'll write more when the money runs out" : dirge23
      • wtf what? : synack
  • at least they better not! >:( : sexninja!!!!
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  this is a little too close to the shitcock PA. : dirge23
  • I like them both, but I think this one has the nice extra touch of showing that the man was a really happ... : OverloadUT
  • Yeah, and it doesn't have the interesting theme and style that made that one funny. This reads like a pol... : Felraiser
• Cry Mich Ein River : SilverSnake
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  CAD is the absolute worst online comic out there. The worst. The guy constantly kills his punchlines by... : deathofrats
  • Seriously. Imagine this comic without any words at all. The signpost is enough. : pyros
• Accidentally wandering to 4chan does that to anyone. <- This is not a meme. : mem
• ok, that was fucking funny after I read longcat is long. : shortbuscaptain
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  Now that PBF is over, I think Electric Retard is the only funny web comic online. : theghostofsmdever
  • jesus christ that's so horrific and not eye safe but hilarious : thewriter
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    That shit makes me depressed. I'm serious. : dltrem
    • I agree, talk about a horrible comic strip : fugu124
    • I don't know if I'm giving the guy too much credit but it's essentially just satirising the media's obses... : thewriter
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    you guys have serious issues : sKetchflow
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      We've all seen some seriously screwed up shit on the internet, but this site takes it to another level. ... : slickdoody
      • seriously what the fuck was that shit : deject
    • seriously, wtf. : Hoax
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    what do you mean over? : Iwannaacura
    • It's over. The creator is not making any more. : OverloadUT
    • nm i cant read : Iwannaacura
  • This is the only funny one. The rest are disturbing. http://electricretard.com/0017.html : re4ctor
  • It's quite possibly the worst webcomic I've ever seen. : Modica Sol Solis
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    http://electricretard.com/0023.html Ok this one is so horrible you have to laugh : melkore
    • No. It's so horrible that I just feel a little shitty now that I've looked at it. : dltrem
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  wtf that domain is so much easier than typing ctrlaltdel-online.com : c0bra
  • even easier: www.cadsucks.com : mem
• Accurate yes, funny? no. : two50six
• I like ctrl-alt-delete online most of the time, except for when he goes on his three-month-long tirades o... : Rotten Deadite
• Obligatory http://www.cadsucks.com/ : Rag and Bone Man
• I remember when CAD used to be funny... it was about a couple of weeks into the running of the strip, sin... : thewriter
• Spacemoose 4Life : Rag and Bone Man

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  There are more people buying games now than there were in 82. A lot more. : Horn
  • For consoles anyway. The numbers on the PC haven't changed much since the 80's. Thats why some companies ... : avatar_58
  • But not that much more than in the last generation of consoles which is what the main point of the quote... : sammyl
• In 2003, the average game development budget for a AAA-title was $2 million. : RomSteady
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  I wouldn't pay more than $60 for a game. : FushigiDenki
  • Neither will most people. This is why the breakeven point for most titles has gone from 350,000 units to... : RomSteady
  • yea there's no way... I have a hard enough time justifying $60 I am a lot pickier about games than I ... : MagicWishMonkey
• Of course! We're talking about a lot more art assets and more complicated code here. : CrustaR
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  This is why games are shorter as well. : Fred Garvin
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    Yeah I remember those 100 hour games of Contra I used to play. Epic. : sammyl
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      Is this sarcasm? Because I probably really did pump 100 hours into Contra! : Edges
      • Yeah but the game itself really only takes 15 minutes to beat. The 100 hours was just learning how to no... : riptyde
    • That's because we didn't know any better. After playing Contra on the DS, I'm through with insanely diffi... : Pettytheft
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    I'm an advocate of shorter games, my pile of shame is huge because a lot of games tend to force themselve... : FushigiDenki
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      yah i have a PILE of games I haven't finished... so many games soo little time. : Shadowdane
      • I have a shitload of games I haven't even started. : ieGod
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      assassin's creed took you 20 hours? wtf. I beat it in 8 at the most. After the 2nd or 3rd assassinati : sicko
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        No, I actually got bored before that and now I just play it in small spurts. I was told it was 20 hours. : FushigiDenki
        • if you are already bored, I wouldn't waste much time on the game unless you really really want to. There... : sicko
• I remember reading how game makers would print their manuals and package their own games in plastic wrap ... : Sailor of Fortune
• ...and this is partly why some titles have in-game advertising yet have the same RRP. : johnsto
• Now it's all Hollywood with studios trying to suck every single fucking dollar they can from the consumer... : sinner0423
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  Atari 2600 games were $35-$45 each! brand new (but hey, you'd get 100 games per cart!!! - damn marketing... : dignan
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    Actually most 2600 games were single-game per cart. All of mine are. : EvilDolemite
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      but look at any box, "70-120 games included!" : dignan
      • "Asteroids , 66 Games included!" www.racketboy.com/images/asteroids-box.jpg : dignan
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        That's because they multiplied every game mode by every difficulty level. : FushigiDenki
        • yea, i know, thats why i mentioned it. read my original post. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=1635... : dignan
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  I agree I would spend upward of $1000 per game : boring gegtik
  • Neo Geo ftw? : sevogajre
• It's funny the games I've enjoyed most outside of WoW cost nothing near that. Puzzle Quest is a great ex... : stonedonkey
• the cost to produce something doesn't set the price of the item, the price consumers are willing to pay f... : a uberboy
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  If you want to argue the development costs vs shelf price, you might want to include some mention of the : reign27
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    Less than 15% of the video games released in any given year make money. Those that do have a large amoun... : RomSteady
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      when a game gets discounted/bargain binned @ below $20, what happens to the money the retail store origin... : dignan
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        It depends on the title, the retailer and the publisher. A large chunk of what would be royalties for ... : RomSteady
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          that has to suck, but w/o that 'insurance' retail stores probably wouldn't stock 1/2 of what they do. : dignan
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            Given many publishers also have to pay for shelf space for the products that do go out, ad positions and ... : RomSteady
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              what? retail stores charge Publishers for the ad space in circulars? I'd think that would part of the r... : dignan
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                Publisher X pays for the ad space months in advance of the ad coming out. If the game slips, Publisher... : RomSteady
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                  and thats all acceptable to Publishers? I doubt it was like that in the Nintendo days - just the big N f... : dignan
                  • It's not just games that have to deal with this...it's most products. Even back when Nintendo was king... : RomSteady
      • it's not that small. when i worked at compusa the "cost"(factors in shipping) was around 40 for a 50 doll... : feek
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      That means too many games are made : FiReaNG3L
      • Pretty much. And to win this battle it's not about having the best game necessarily, but just like music ... : ieGod
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        yeah, exactly. I don't care that most games lost money... most games are crap. There are definitely good... : sicko
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          There are plenty of games that we all adore, but for one reason or another failed in the marketplace. "P... : RomSteady
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            sure, as I mentioned... there are good games that lose money. That is nothing unique to the video game in... : sicko
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              Funny, the Mary Kate and Ashley games are infinitely more likely to make money than the games you love. ... : RomSteady
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                The profit margin of some games allows them to gamble on lots of titles, that is true. But that doesn't m... : sicko
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                  The games that make the money are the longtime franchises that most hardcore gamers lambast for lack of o... : RomSteady
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                    I just don't buy that argument. Most AAA games that are really worth it, make money. There are always e... : sicko
                    • The portfolio for an average publisher is 50% licensed, 25% franchise, 25% new development. Licensed t... : RomSteady
                    • I agree. At $60, I might buy 2 games a year. Maybe. But I buy probably 10 <$30 (whether price reduced ... : Ebu
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        Yep, but it also shows that hit games make enough money that people are willing to invest in game develop... : DinK
        • The other part of this is that game developers learn more from failure than success. We look at the ga... : RomSteady
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  Yeah but Pacman was hardware as well, right? I mean it was a complete arcade game, with joystick, monito... : exigence7
  • Pac Man arcade was around $3k to arcades back then (shipping included). : dignan
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  Does anyone else remember N64 games being initially like $70 or some ridiculous amount? : ErikTehRed
  • that was when RAM/ROMs were in short supply, i believe it was only like that for 6 months or so. : dignan
  • i remember i paid >$100 for Dark Castle on the Mac back in the '80s. Wizardry on the Apple II was around ... : Dave-A
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  It cost pac-man $100,000 ? Holy fuck : rosewood
  • That's some mighty special grammar you got there. : Dynotaku
  • Pacman would have required electrical engineers, software engineers (which back then were in much shorter... : yakz
• basically the world needs to revert to PINBALL ONLY for a while amirite or amirite : Downforce
• I don't know why they keep going for these huge AAA blockbusters if so few of them actually succeed. I'm ... : aeg1x
• Yes. Still too expensive. Prices should be a fraction of what they are, they'd make it back in volume. ... : trevis
• 15 million - for what flOw? : Porkasaurus