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  How many diamonds is she? : phipple
  • Nice. : Serpico74
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    it's roses at houston.craigslist.com : anhero
    • I like to quote my rate in roses too. : Serpico74
• working it to webcam pics doesn't count : RikiTiki2
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  greh kleh, I've always liked you man, but no. : AlexXdude
  • well okay, maybe. : AlexXdude
  • awwwww, I've liked you too. a lot. : greh kleh
• she is very attractive, and those titties look OM NOM NOM NOM : qwpeoriu
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  I don't know ebout prettiest girl ever, but she's damn cute. : Arcanum
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    greh kleh is one of those really hyperbolic excitable types who probably falls in love like once a week. : action wombmate
    • i wish i was still young enough to fall in love with some new pussy once a week : qwpeoriu
• (o_0) hawt! : bitter ego
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  http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5763/memikeykisszh7rr5.jpg is she taken? http://www.votemeoff.com/vie... : thief
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    you are a stalker : AlexXdude
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      You are a sombrero wearing inspirer! I write poems in my head as I sit in corporate finance and wonder a : thief
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        After seeing your picture yesterday, all of these posts make so much more sense. : AlexXdude
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          I lied. I was really the guy holding the imported soda. : thief
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            No that was mXENO and Kumar : AlexXdude
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              Uhm. No. Alex, is your memory so messy? : thief
              • You can't fool me!! : AlexXdude
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    that chin strap rules : pwnage1232
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      oh dear I hope you're being lighthearted, or at the very least, drunk and equivocal. : thief
      • i wish there was a way to subscribe to your posts : blarrr
  • lol at movies: PORN PORN PORN : blarrr
  • Style: thug? Also she's engaged. : Horn
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  spitzer collection? : CoRDS
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    http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml : aeg1x
    • Thats a fine looking woman : Bender : CoRDS
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  Maybe it's because I'm watching Arrested Development again, but I laughed at the Anyung button. : DOOManiac
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    Anyung! : Matt Burris
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      Hello! : Drewus
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        anyung! : j0nchan
        • HELLO! : phipple
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  hey it's a final fantasy protagonist : sgtsanity
  • It's Zidane Tribal, except as a hot girl instead of an androgynous male! Ahahahahahaha... http://bisho... : Psigun
• Yeah she's fairly hot. congrats. : Drewus
• tranny surprise : Hoax
• and she knows it, pass. : two50six
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  So wait... was she your choice from the 3? REALLY? : spazzium
  • It was never really up for me to decide : greh kleh
• is that a spider on her lip? : fsck
• She looks like a hotter, younger Franka Potente. : nomaad
• she's alright : arizona bay
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  Have her was her lip first : rosewood
  • seriously : flagg209

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• Somehow whenever I see these awesome things I can't stop but imagine some asshole terrorist blowing up so... : NFXFSX
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  Awesome. What is it from? : spiderfill
  • don't know, my guess is just someones render... hell i would even call this a dyson ring instead of your... : ssj4megaman
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  why can't the river meander a bit :( that's a long lap swim. infinite, even. : thief
  • Finally. No more flip turns! : davantalus
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  i like the person reading the newspaper. : thief
  • IN THE NEWS: Terrorist Manages to Stop Spinning of Neighboring Ring. Shit Has Hit The Fan. : ventro
• Things like that always strike me as... creepy. : Omaha
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  how many years till we have this? mmmm i say 350 years.. : ssj4megaman
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    Not even close. I'd be we'll have this sort of thing before the turn of the century. : Vincent Grayson
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      impossibly... if it takes 30 years just for us to return to the moon then it will be alot longer before w... : ssj4megaman
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        I think it depends on how quickly private industry gets going in space. If we get a space elevator in 50... : Arcanum
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          yah thats why i said maybe 350 years... it not implausible to think we could have a space elevator in the... : ssj4megaman
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            I think you're too pessimistic. I say within 100 years of the first space elevator. Possibly within 50 ... : Arcanum
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              possibly, though i was expecting that when we hit the moon and then once we won the race everything slowe... : ssj4megaman
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                I think that happened because it's so terribly expensive and risky to do anything substantial in space us... : Arcanum
                • mmmm you make sense. Conventional rocketry is so dangerous and limited, but if we do end up getting a spa... : ssj4megaman
        • Been reading Arthur C Clarke lately? : Bonestormm
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        meh, depends on how quickly stuff like nano-technology and auto-constructing robots progress from here. ... : YamatoTwinkie
        • Here comes the technological singularity! Well be turning astroids into self replicating nano robots soon... : djkenohki
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      We're going into space in the same vehicle we've been using since the 1980s, with the same basic methods ... : riptyde
      • Space exploration needs more funding! : AlexXdude
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        right, but private enterprise has only just got started on that problem. Already Burt Rutan and co can pu... : aeg1x
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          This doesn't matter unless there's something more than space rollercoaster rides out there for private co... : Psigun
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            one small metal-rich asteroid would be worth trillions of dollars : aeg1x
            • or that billion trillion karat core of that one sun..... imagine trying to mine that =D : ssj4megaman
            • Good point. The problem then is getting craft into space in the first place still then. We need a space e... : Psigun
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    humanity will have destroyed itself by then. : spiffymc
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      I really disagree with such assertions. : thief
      • same here. I honestly think things are getting better for humanity (slow progress sure, but things are a ... : thetangent
    • Man, I wanna be at that party! : Omaha
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    1000 years. : edgewise
    • and it'll be orbiting the earth or mars at best. : edgewise
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    Never perhaps? That's a lot of mass to put into orbit and there might not even be enough "stuff" on the ... : alias
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      If we can get better lift technology (i.e., not rockets; something dramatically better), mining the aster... : Arcanum
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        yah thats what i was saying lower down... we would have to strip mine pluto to build something like that.... : ssj4megaman
        • Why couldn't we be born in a time when 'Asteroid Miner' was an actual occupation. That'd be badass, and i... : Psigun
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  How is it that a 'city' that densely populated has like 5 boats in the water? : hadronflux
  • Water = City's waste river! Who'd wanna float on top of that! : DingoStoleMyBaby
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  Funny it's all futuristic and the dude is reading a newsPAPER! : Utopia
  • He's an eccentric who enjoys paying $5000 for the privilege of using paper. : Delithio
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    It's probably an amazing yet disposable OLED supercomputer. : Perturbation
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      it probably plays crysis... : ssj4megaman
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        woah now, lets not get ahead of ourselves... : synack
        • That'd take at least the processing power of a food replicator. : davantalus
    • No doubt. A sheet of silk-like material that has the computing capacity of 100000 of our modern day PCs a... : Psigun
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  we would probably have to strip mine a planet *pluto =( to have enough materials to build something like ... : ssj4megaman
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    Why bother mining Pluto, just smelt it. : ifallible
    • i am pretty sure that pluto isnt completely ice.. then again i could be wrong. : ssj4megaman
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  Reminds me of the main citadel thing in Mass Effect : Drewus
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    yeah http://masseffect.bioware.com/_commonext/images/me/screenshots/2007/masseffect_27_1280x760.jpg wh... : pyide
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      Ring cities like that are by no means a new idea. They've been around a long, long time. : Arcanum
      • i know, i just wanted to know the artist in the OP, or one who has done similar work. i remember seeing a... : pyide
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  Once we actually colonize space and find some type of economic resource our technology will advance rapid... : gmd
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    Also I foresee within 50 years some private company with a colony on the moon raping it for all it is wor... : gmd
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      what's up there that's worth the transportation cost? : edgewise
      • Helium, eventually. : losder5000
      • http://www.lunarrepublic.com/atlas/titan_map.shtml : gmd
      • gay aliens : slickdoody
      • Helium3 : riptyde
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    Too bad we'll all be dead. It would be fucking awesome to live on one of those space station thingo's : Drewus
    • I'm hoping that thanks to computing capacity doubling every year or whatever that stupid rule is, we'll b... : Psigun
  • This is the conundrum of space exploration. It will advance at a snail's pace until we are so advanced on... : Psigun
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  Why would you curve the ground? (side to side I mean, duh) : jaga
  • because it looks cooler. : gmd
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    Also, how would you regulate night and day? huge shutters? you never get to see a starry sky? =( oh I sup... : jaga
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      You turn off the lights you moran : gmd
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        those look to be windows on the ceiling, numbnuts : jaga
        • super advanced space LEDs : gmd
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          There are ways; you could have an inner "wheel" that covered the windows and moved at a staggered pace, s... : Conan
          • this is essentially the solution provided in Larry Niven's Ringworld if I remember right. They were orbi... : hadronflux
  • i am assuming because its like a tube.. : ssj4megaman
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    So you can spin it, and have simulated gravity. : theamazingrand0
    • ^^^--- This is what's up. : Psigun
    • Read his post again. : LeapingFool
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  thats awesome. I love the river in the middle. : hirez
  • I wonder what kind of current that would generate : jaga
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  Even better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere : spazzium
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    Dyson Sphere's are such a ridiculous concept because of how fucking large they have to be, at least the p... : gmd
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      if you're a species smart enough to have machines do everything for you and have a limitless lifetime (or... : hobosapien
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        You still need raw materials, and a full sphere would take a fuckton. : Conan
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          More material than is available in a solar system, for that matter. : theamazingrand0
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            Exactly. Not to mention that there surely would be far better sources of energy, some that we probably ha... : Psigun
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              I just want to know what the "break even" time is. That is, how long would the Dyson sphere need to run ... : electroly
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                I'm thinking that while it is a plausible idea, a civilization that could actually make it would scoff at... : Psigun
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                  i see numbers for the amount of energy the sun produces in a day.. which is pretty damn high "3.34ÃÂ... : ssj4megaman
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                    "3.34×10^31" is the correct way to type it. : ssj4megaman
                    • Ahhh, but I counter with the fact that an anti-matter reaction produces two orders of magnitude greater e... : Psigun
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                  I disagree. Right now humans are making islands in teh shape of the earth, in the name of the earth's wel... : focusdaily
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                    btw, Skynet knows this : focusdaily
                    • Also, you have the same callsign as the brand of contacts I use. : Psigun
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                    No, we really aren't creating anything comparable to a Dyson Sphere. Creating a Dyson Sphere is so many o... : Psigun
                    • by my crappy math per wiki, if we stripped the crust of the earth, spread it out to a plate (like a map w... : ssj4megaman
                    • In the way that we use a large amount of resources for an undertaking that changes or modifies the earth ... : focusdaily
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          I imagine they'd construct it using some sort of Von Neumann device which builds the Dyson sphere as a si... : electroly
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            Even self replicated machines have to make themselves out of something. : Conan
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              I'd assume they'd use up a solar system or two. : electroly
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                That's not nearly enough mass for a dyson sphere. : Conan
                • yah, you're right... if a dyson sphere had a 1 AU radius =O =O =O : ssj4megaman
                • wait wiki answered it for me..."would have a surface area of at least 2.72x1017 km2, or around 600 millio... : ssj4megaman
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            Ugh. Von Neumann probes are such a terrible idea if you care at all about being good galactic neighbors.... : Arcanum
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              wouldnt that be ironic if we ended up being what we dread the most. : ssj4megaman
              • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(Saberhagen) : Arcanum
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              Have you read Alastair Reynolds at all? : Psigun
              • i have absolutions gap but havent finished it yet.. : ssj4megaman
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                No, the name is vaguely familiar though....Why? : Arcanum
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                  He's a great hard sci-fi space opera author with some themes similar to those present in this thread in h... : Psigun
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                    gimmie a few weeks and we can talk.... which book did you start with? : ssj4megaman
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                      I was talking about the series you said you were on: Revelation Space -> Redemption Ark -> Absolution Gap... : Psigun
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                        when i picked it up i never check for prequels so i started with absolution gap... bah imma have to get t... : ssj4megaman
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                          Definitely do so. It's a series that really builds and builds throughout all the books and comes to a big... : Psigun
                          • rgr will do... check your messages... but i'll just post it here.. what other books of the same caliber d... : ssj4megaman
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        Not really. A true Dyson Sphere or Ringworld has one very serious problem: It requires a material stron... : Arcanum
        • i would say we could do that we would truly be a type 1 civilization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardas... : ssj4megaman
  • I would hate to be a taxpayer under the government that came up with that idea. : bostrov
  • Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld : capt tripps
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    Wouldn't the sun fuck us over anyway when it dies? : NFXFSX
    • We'd just use a giant colony ship to move to a fresh, young star. : Psigun
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    yah one of my favorite reads... i love reading about megastructures. I think you could consider this a dy... : ssj4megaman
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      It wont be a dyson ring, because the earth is not a source of energy. The entire point of a dyson 'whatev... : thecray
      • true, i was doing some research and it looks like its a Stanford torus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St... : ssj4megaman
  • The problem with a Dyson sphere is that if it were possible to construct one, there would be far better w... : Psigun
• fake : crummynz
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  Living there would confuse my primitive 21st century mind. You look to the side to see the rooftops of ... : pigvomit
  • But you don't understand, I need this drink. I'm a caveman and I'm frightened by your strange flying mach... : gmd
  • It would be trippy, that's for sure. I bet they'd have all kinds of crazy sedatives to make things o.k. t... : Psigun
  • future != gravity is magic, youd never see more than a small % of the arc : jaga
• And then the evil gundams crash it into the earth. : Dynotaku
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  HOLY SHIT, PEOPLE ARE HUGE IN THE FUTURE! : stgulik
  • They're huge right now in the US. : ifallible
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  Other pics like this from wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Internal_view_of_the_Stanford_torus.j... : ssj4megaman
  • Reminds me of the colonies in Gundam. : NFXFSX
  • this site seem to have a WHOLE lot of pics like this http://astrona.blogspot.com/2006/09/space-colonies-... : ssj4megaman
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  It'd be a lot cooler if the physics weren't screwy. Why is the surface of the pool tilted (side to sid... : MamiyaOtaru
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    Its a tube shape,objects closer to the centre would appear flat the further to the side the more angled. : thewindcriesmary
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      right, but theres no reason for them to be angled, as there's no force pushing them that way : YamatoTwinkie
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        Perhaps the ring is rotating on two axes? That is, it's spinning around a central point like a wheel, but... : Bold
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          Definately not. MamiyaOtaru is right, it shouldn't need to be like that. I guess it might make constructi... : thecray
          • Or use terraces. A curved bottom could work. Just use terraces or split-level houses or something. : MamiyaOtaru
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          I don't think what you're describing isreally stable, though. An object spinning along one axis is highl... : YamatoTwinkie
          • I thought of that after I posted--I remembered the weird effects exhibited by a spinning gyroscope and re... : Bold
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        no no no no, its built on the tube, there are no forces or anything making it angled like that. Inside of... : thewindcriesmary
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          although i agree thsi design WOULD NOT WORK because in some houses the gravitation force would pull u on ... : thewindcriesmary
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            It spins incredibly fast making you stick to the floor/wall. : devi| dog
            • yeah i understand this concept. However the directional force only goes one way, so buildings that are on... : thewindcriesmary
  • perspective maybe? : ssj4megaman
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    It's because that civilization can already generate artificial gravity. They're not rotating the torus, t... : LeapingFool
    • They had to scrap the mobius strip world because people kept puking everywhere. : Perturbation
  • Leaving this particular representation's "physics" aside, I remember reading about the idea of ring colon... : MamiyaOtaru
  • its like that because the author was stupid. simplest answer : blarrr
• reminds me of Babylon 5 :( : Frozen Pixel
• Ringworld is unstable! etc. etc. : electroly
• We need to build one of these at a LaGrange point. Maybe not so freaking massive, but at least big enough... : Psigun
• O'Neil colony at a Lagrange point. Very cool. : Visceral Monkey
• If we were going to build something crazy like that I'd prefer one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... : aeg1x
• Never going to happen. :D : bitter ego
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  Unrealistic. In the future, cities will be completely made up of bathrooms for idiots to take pictures of... : stuka
  • Paging action roommate : action wombmate
  • I find this post both amusing and depressing. : d fluke
• Mass Effect 2 concept art. : GeorgeB3DR
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  reminds me of rendezvous with rama. : Waffles!
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    basically an o'neil cylinder : ssj4megaman
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      Or rather, a Stanford Torus. : LeapingFool
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        per wiki "In the Rama series of books by Arthur C. Clarke, gigantic alien spacecraft similar to O'Neill c... : ssj4megaman
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          Sorry, I wasn't commenting about the Rama series. I was commenting that the parent post link is of a Stan... : LeapingFool
          • gotcha.. : ssj4megaman
• I'm seeing a lot of material that goes hand in hand with this article by Charles Strauss my favorite Sci-... : djkenohki
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  i always read your name is shugamom and i get very confused :( : filthysock
  • omg, me too!!! But then I go ... wait a minute. : sHugamom
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  By the way, isn't this a screen from Rama by Sierra? : focusdaily
  • No. Rama was a cylindrical craft. This structure looks like it's a ring. Also, Rama was by Arthur C. Clar... : thetangent
• First I thought this was from MassEffect, but then I realised it's Planescape 40k! : razorblade79

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  UO pre-trammel free server :D : oHnOES
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    Something with pretty graphics please : trOmblyj
    • WTF, did you just insult the greatest MMO ever created? : mechanicalgrape
  • Will you direct me to this. Info please. : hirosushima
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    Sup fellow UO old salts? : Omaha
    • ^^^ HARD GAME CLUB ^^^ : Omaha
  • Uggh, i had so much nice stuff last time I played. Then my PC died and my house decayed and my account pr... : great-white
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  http://www.eqemulator.net/main.php : pixelat3d
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    good recommendation : sexydingo
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      no way would i play a buggy emulator for free. u'd spend like 8 days camping some shit and then turn in t... : gyokuro
      • there are well established UO servers that have been up for years. not sure about this eq thing though : oHnOES
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        I'm 32 levels in and have found very few bugs, but whatever you want to think. This thing has been in de... : sexydingo
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          i mean unless they added some cool shit or changed some rules, why wouldn't you just play on the real ser... : gyokuro
          • Well free vs paying is always an easy decision. Yes I daresay that $14/month for a 9yr old game will be ... : sexydingo
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  WoW is the best just let him have fun and stop being overprotective : multisync
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    Yeah but I don't want to play WoW. I want to play something too. : trOmblyj
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      WoW is the best just have fun and stop being lame : multisync
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        multisync in new mmo blood. dont listen to him : oHnOES
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          bitch i had a fucking UO subscription : multisync
          • squawk squawk squawk : oHnOES
          • you are definitely not old school though : oHnOES
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          Yeah he is pretty much wrong. : Evil Benius
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            Yup. Anyone that thinks WoW's crafting is good has limited MMO experience. : adodric
            • Ugh, crafting. The most boring part. I'd rather adventure, kill stuff, and get involved in the story th... : action wombmate
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              Crafting Elitists are the worst kind of WoW-Bashers. Crafting in any game is never "good" . It all com... : Charmplus
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                SWG had the fucking best economy/crafting system : oHnOES
                • ALL player based : oHnOES
              • EQ2 has an awesome crafting system. : Ebu
              • I don't even like crafting. : adodric
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      age of conan has guild level crafting where you can build a guild city + seige equipment for attacking o... : cptstern
      • That sounds pretty cool. We are definitely looking into that - I get the newsletters but am not in the b... : trOmblyj
• EQ2? Great game. : nukewinter
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  DaoC, EQ2, Lords of the ring Online, Tabula Rasa. : razlebol
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    We're gonna start the LOTRO 7 day trial together this weekend in lieu of Warhammer not being out yet. : trOmblyj
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      It's fun. I found the combat a bit slow compared to WoW though. : razlebol
      • I played in the Alpha in August 06 and did a trial over Memorial Day 07. I liked it but was a little bor... : trOmblyj
• Just wait it out for Age of Conan or Warhammer : sexydingo
• Venguard and GL lol : D45hiz
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  Though I've never gotten into crafting as much as others, one would think that crafting would be more rew... : Craven13
  • swg owned when it first came out : oHnOES
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  http://www.ryzom.com/ This game has awesome crafting, I haven't played in a long time (and haven't see... : gia-
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    oh crap, just checked the site etc and the game is dead now :( : gia-
    • Thus strides WoW, reaper of digital worlds. : Psigun
    • Is it? It still looks active to me... Anyway I like what this game's trying to do. User-created ques... : Rotten Deadite

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  depends. What color is it? : sparkly
  • All I know is that it's sparkly. : thief
• Nine. : sgtsanity
• Nine minutes, good question though. : Cottc Cid
• two cuts 3 mins a piece, you need one more cut so 9 minutes. : romulan
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  One of you were supposed to get it wrong ):< : thief
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    Eleventy three! : ForkingAxle
    • ah ha! You're wrong! Even with all the right answers above! I award you for not giving into peer press... : thief
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  three light switches at the end of a hall and a closed door at the other end. there is a light in the ro... : romulan
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    ATTEMPTED THREAD THEFT! THREAD THEFT! : thief
    • ^^irony : romulan
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    Um, walk down the hall and open the door without going in, then walk back and mess with the switches unti... : Zero|DPX
    • Yeah, or just flip all the switches and see which one causes light to come out from under the door? : LeapingFool
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      That'd be too easy. You can't go back for whatever reason, and the door closes, it doesn't let any light... : romulan
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        you should amend the question to say that the room is around a corner or something so that there is no li... : Bean
        • Sure, but if the answer is that simple something's fishy, nothing wrong with talking it through, or askin... : romulan
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        Ah, NOW the fine print. : LeapingFool
        • He's a terrible DM. :( : Super Sparker
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    turn the first switch on, turn the second switch off, turn on the third switch for 1 minute or so and the... : Bean
    • correct : romulan
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      FAILURE: the light is a CCFL. modern technology thwarts this puzzle. : blarrr
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        Or what if the light is 20 feet up and there is no ladder or other way to get up to it? : LeapingFool
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          Then it's impossible. You are all wrong. There is no solution and I'm just fucking with ya. : romulan
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            It's not impossible. I just forgot to mention the infrared goggles next to the light switches. : LeapingFool
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              Room is enclosed in lead and further protected by 100% coverage wavelength distorting electric fields. : romulan
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                Haha. Joking aside, I like your question (and the answer -- I don't think I ever would have gotten the re... : LeapingFool
                • Just watch the monitor next to you linked to a surveillance camera in the room with the lights as you fli... : lyme
  • THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS! : monkeygone
  • leave each switch on for different lengths of time, turn them all off, feel the bulbs. : dopeman
  • walk to the back and hit the switch.. : focusdaily
• CLEARLY THE ANSWER IS 8 MINUTES. ((6 / 3) * 4) = 8 somebody had to do it wrong, right? its nine : blarrr
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  Eight. 2 minutes per cut. : coraldayton
  • bbzzzzt. : edgewise
  • LOOK HOW WRONG YOU ARE : TheMonkeyWench
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    i could do it in 8 minutes, fuck the haters. : radula
    • Yeah, by the time you've made that many cuts, you've gotten practice and are speeding up. : perstephanie
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  Would be more prone to answer wrong if you wrote 6 minutes to cut a log into 3 pieces I think. : Skoal^Fyfan
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    I am not here to trick people. If you observe my posting, and consider my TF2 playing, you'll see it's a... : thief
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      I guessed 8, everyone said 9. I feel much worse about myself because you just brought up my mathematical ... : AlexXdude
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        After seeing a picture of you I knew there was nothing I could do. For you. I'd share it just to have s... : thief
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          What is wrong with you, go to bed. : AlexXdude
          • I go to. : thief
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  6 / 3 = X 6 + X = Solution : EvilDolemite
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    Only actually requires two cuts to cut a log into three pieces, which is the 'catch' here. So it's actual... : Danny5225
    • With my help, we can do it in 6. : changejar419
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    Tell me you're joking, ED. Please. : Bean
    • I was going to say something along these lines. : famine101
  • I failed Calculus three times and even I think this is a stupid answer. : DOOManiac
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    ^^ is correct if you cut the tree from it's standing position then cut it two more times to make 3 pieces... : devi| dog
    • but I guess the condition "log" that it's already in signifies that we won't be doing that. : / : devi| dog
• If you're cutting the log longitudinally, then it requires the same time. It takes 2 cuts either way... t... : AlvinKlein
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  You could get 4 pieces of log in 6 minutes if you cut hot-dog and then hamburger. : famine101
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    woah. WOAH. slow down with the technical terminology there, egghead : stamps
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      If you're serious, he just means two cuts, one horizontal (as a patty would be cut from hamburger meat, I : Felraiser
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        You never had to fold your paper hot-dog or hamburger style in kindergarten? : famine101
        • Haha, what? Wouldn't the rolling be the same, just along different axes? : Felraiser
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  0 id pay some one to do it : CoRDS
  • It would take 4 months, after CoRDS pays me a billionty dollars to do it. : DingoStoleMyBaby
• 8 minutes. I'd get coraldayton or radula to do it. : mem
• Depends on how big the saw is and the dimensions of the log. If the log is roughly square (same height... : genom
• this many. : xxiv
• about the same. I just say "Este registro cortado en cuatro pedazos." : g0nk
• takes as much time to cut a log into 3 pieces as 4. : Pantene Pro-V
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  Time is an illusion. The log is/was whole and in multiple pieces simultaneously. This is the only answ... : gooblerampling
  • There is no log : genom
• 12 minutes. The first cut would go pretty quick, but then the second would take a bit longer because I'm : Gnowknayme

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  Unreal Tournament 3 : cyclonebee
  • This was the 1st thing i thought of. : rmjackson
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  ArmA is king of shitty interfaces. : DOOManiac
  • this is a correct answer. : contentious roy
• stalker isn't so hot : terath
• Morrowind/Oblivion : derelict515
• Gothic and the default interface for WoW is unbearable to me. : fleabug
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  Every Battlefield game. : Matt Burris
  • Thread is over. This is the only game under windows where I'd rather end task than go through the proper ... : dafugg
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    the interface uses FLASH. FUCKING MACROMEDIA FLASH : blarrr
    • I still remember being in game, pressing Esc to go to the menu, and waiting for 10 seconds with the words... : downrightevil
  • damn fucking right : moe6
  • did they ever get around to having a useful voting system? one where you didn't have to type some exotic ... : dooberzoo
  • I still can't believe it has to load the menu when you press escape : aeg1x
  • Yeah, 1942 didn't use Flash, but it did have that asinine thing where it wouldn't let you save your key c... : Schnapple
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  Derek Smart games. : freshyk
  • ^^ This. : mem
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  Sitty functionally or shitty looking (or either)? : LeapingFool
  • Either/or, preferably both. The worse, the better. : Mikuya
• star wars rebellion : jackalope
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  Gonna call Stalker, here. More pc games in general, than console. : GeorgeB3DR
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    What do you guys have against Stalker's interface? : smax
    • Well, it kept me from wanting to play... : zerog83
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      Yeah I figured it out in a few minutes, not sure what the problem is for everyone else. : RyDogg1
      • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in general feels very rough and unpolished. It's a great game and a hell of an atmosphere ... : Schnapple
• STALKER : Bean
• STALKER, Battlecruiser Millennium : Drewus
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  Deus Ex 2 Invisible War : brollercoaster
  • ^^^^^^^^^ : drucifer
• Unreal Tournament 3 : [7]kami
• <insert any simulator game here> : GodZilly
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  mass effect's was pretty goddamn unintuitive. : erotic sock
  • ^This too : Drewus
• Star Wars: Rebellion is the all time champ : bipolar
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  X2 and X3 space games. : DarkWolf5
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    ^^And these : Drewus
    • TBH, it had to do alot of stuff. : dooberzoo
• Christ... all the above are pretty bad. But worst EVAR? Dwarf Fortress, hands down. The learning cu... : Nullzero
• Deus Ex: Invisible War : Conan
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  any game ported from console to PC. Take some time to shrink down your huge buttons at 70pt text pls :( I... : aeg1x
  • "What do you mean the body text is typeset like a headline?!" : SpaecKow
• Nintendo interfaces. I hate interfaces that take up a significant portion of the screen and are always d... : Wombat Woo
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  The witcher. I love the game, but dear god, the alchemy interface... : aaarrrgh
  • The Witcher inventory is annoying as hell, but I didn't find alchemy hard at all. Pick your potion and ju... : SovietOrchestra
• Master of Orion 3 : baron calamity
• If Memory Serves, Outpost was pretty bad. I never played it but I hear you had to pick your ship speed fr... : Schnapple
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  Mass Effect's inventory management can go straight to hell. : Duffman8369
  • It's pretty poor. : Merconium
• Ahhh...shitty UIs. We need some designer people to get on this, STAT. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Call of Duty 4 for the PC : kill9
• I remember a screenshot from a 10 year old PC Gamer that showed a first person bow and arrow and then li... : smegmar

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  ugh copyright restrictions outside US and all that jazz... any other link to this? : whippy
  • OK, I have got screwed from watching so much stuff online because of this. Someone ought to tutorial us o... : astonish
  • i have 720p over at http://www.hinjang.com/m/mo_the_hulk_trailer_revised_720.mp4 : emacs
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  wrf was wrong with Ang Lee's awesome Hulk? : Fredrik S
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    It didn't make that much money. Also, I liked it a lot, but it was really uneven in a lot of areas. : action wombmate
    • I loved the directing and the cinematography of Ang Lee's one... the writing, not so much. : Arctic Fox
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    Wait.. you mean the boring as fuck movie that sucked ass? : riptyde
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      No, I meant the best damn super hero movie that was made. You must have thought of Ghost Rider. : Fredrik S
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        Damn straight, everything was good to go for an action sequel since Ang Lee got the back story out of the... : pulse2115
        • exactly. This just looks like they took all the great stuff Ang Lee introduced (the dark demons, the mora... : Fredrik S
      • lol I had enough sense to skip that movie. :D : riptyde
      • I think he's talking about that Ang Lee piece of shit movie. : Jumperus
    • For a character origin story, I thought it was awesome. Most people expected HULK SMASH the entire movie... : Rag and Bone Man
  • emo Hulk? HULK SAD! : byorn
  • Eric Bana as The Incredible Sulk? : hardfl1p
  • they forgot the awesome : jaga
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    As I said in the last thread, I remember liking it despite the ending going haywire with the nick nolte c... : thewriter
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      Are you sure you don't want to stretch this review out to 3 or 4 more paragraphs? : SockMonkeh
      • I'm sure if I'd seen it again I could work up at least a half page. : thewriter
  • the ending. don't get me wrong i still liked the movie, but that movie really fell apart towards the end... : pandastrong
  • Cause it was 90 minutes of boring followed by 20 minutes of awesome, followed by 10 minutes WTF and suck.... : Dynotaku
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    Mutant poodle. That's what was wrong. : moogle
    • this man knows wtf! : erebus
  • Mutant Poodles and Daddy issues are the two main issues that spring to mind. I debated as to whether or n : Ajax
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    his pants grew. HIS PANTS GREW. : jenisthebest
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      Do you really want to see giant green gamma-radiated cock? : Ajax
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        won't edlin get jealous? : jaga
        • ZING! : Ajax
      • prequel to brokeback mountain : brollercoaster
  • don't worry, you aren't the only one that like it, i liked it too. the others can fuck off with their pet... : g0nk
  • people wanted a dumb action flick and they got a good movie. They were displeased. : Clay
  • I loved that move. But people think it's boring. Just want more HULK SMASH : Pettytheft
  • The only thing that is good about him not directing the sequel is less masturbatory shots of scenic vista... : ColoradoCNC
  • Nothing at all. All the haters can fuck right off, the movie was genius. Morally bankrupt and certifi : qsylvr
• Trash. : Lord Grey
• The drama behind the movie: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/ed-norton-and-marvel-in-a-hulk-ing-feud... : byorn
• doesnt really look any better than the previous one imo : Unleashed
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  this comes out June 13 and this is the first time we've seen anything from it. Did they ever think about... : grabbie
  • you know, i'm not really at liberty to say who, but there might be certain vfx companies still waiting fo : ibrokn
• i still say this shows promise. : mrsparil
• The incredible hulk just wasn't that cool of a character to begin with, keep remaking the movie all you w... : Turd Ferguson
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  wtf, new Lost Boys? http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1583143&vid=215372 : atom519
  • hahahaha... edgar frog!! Oh man.. this will be the biggest turd since water world. : Fredrik S
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    truly sad. I saw Lost Boys again just 2 weeks ago and love it's hokey 80s awesomeness. : thewriter
    • it's its ITS fuck off : thewriter
  • Yeah I just saw that myself, looks absolutely horrible and not in a good way. : classicfork
  • o_o no, god no : NFXFSX
  • Well there goes all my happy memories of the original, someone needs to put that Cory in porn so the rest... : jasoncrowley
• Needs more of the Hulk eating 100+ people in Manhattan. THAT is the Hulk I want to see in a movie. : Evil Benius
• heh, that city scene was filmed in downtown toronto... zanzibar haha : dantastic
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  WOO TORONTO REPRESENT : jenisthebest
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    yeah! I saw the SAM sign and ZANZIBAR :D : sikander
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      I love hollywood movies where you see obvious Toronto things. : jenisthebest
      • Have you seen Resident Evil:Apocalypse ? They blow up Nathan Phillips Square! : sikander
      • aww what about seeing vancouver things...like the freeway watchmen, the day the earth stood still and eck... : focusdaily
  • I got yelled at in Hamilton one night when they were blowing up a bus since I was in the shot. I was jus... : SeaLlama
• He doesn't look like a Bruce : spiderfill
• Looks horrible. : megarust32
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  They made Hulk fight another bad guy with an almost identical looking silhouette to Hulk? Unless this is : DooBall
  • It is The Abomination. : Evil Benius
  • Haven't played Ultimate Destruction? They're both in it. : Wolfanoz
• Step Brothers looks funny : broly1718
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  No Eric bana? :(( : sharkII
  • While he was good, the rest of the movie sucked and he lost his chance to return. No fault of his. : baron calamity
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  That doesn't look good. Probably better than Superman Returns or the last Hulk movie but this isn't the n... : baron calamity
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    it does look pretty weak. didn't they learn anything from last time? : hamachi
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      I think Marvel did but they made a whole set on new mistakes. : baron calamity
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        lol did you see the justice league cartoon thing on dvd? that wasn't bad. not great but not bad. ... : hamachi
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          I have it but haven't watched it. I honestly have around 40 unopened DVDs I haven't gotten around to watc... : baron calamity
          • I have many many more than 40. I just haven't been inspired to watch much recently. : hamachi
        • which Justice League thing? The one that came out a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, it was good but needed mor... : thetangent
• Looks generic. Isn't it too soon to try to resurrect that franchise? : pyrogen
• The shit? He looks the same like the other movie... they fucking copied and pasted the 3dmax file or what... : Utopia
• Nothing else will ruin this movie more than the fact that Liv Tyler is in it. All she does is look glass... : sinner0423
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  my boner is so huge right now not even a klerck ascii cocktropolis could do it justice : anhero
  • Edward Norton & Tim Roth - maybe I'm just naive though : anhero
• Looks like shit. I'm starting to be of the opinion that most comic book movies would be better off as fu... : PenicillinX57
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  Hulk kicks the crap out of Thor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWmHEF_PT8E&feature=related : steelsamurai
  • More like Hulk beats the shit out of Iron Man, Thor, and Wasp & Hank Prym in 90 seconds... http://www.... : Lunatic Angelic
• Incredible green plastic man : gmd
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  Heh... I'll see it, but I expect less than Iron Man. Also that punch at the end was so cheesy :( : crummynz
  • yeah :( : synack
• Well they showed me the entire movie in that trailer, thanks for saving me 12 bucks. : ghost in my shell
• ...bleh. I don't like Edward Norton as Banner, he just doesn't fit to me. Also, sure the last one was k... : Begawkiness
• I'll probably watch it, but this is really weird to me. 2 hulk movies in such a short period of time. : phipple
• HAHAHA! Oh man. Is this a satire? THIS SUMMER... OUR ONLY HOPE... IS SOMETHING..... INCREDIBLE!! ... : moneyshot
• Doesn't look very different from the film that was already made : ctlaltl33t
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  great trailer. lets hope its better than the first EMOhulk movie : CoRDS
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    I'll still watch at least some of Ang Lee's Hulk if only just to catch the cool fuel-air bomb effect towa... : LeapingFool
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      yeh i know it had lots of awesome. (i bought the superduper collectors edition dvd thing with the hulk fi... : CoRDS
      • I don't know if I can agree with that. I know people's first instincts is HULK SMASH but when you think ... : action wombmate
• loooooooooooooooooooooool. : brollercoaster
• Does The Incredible Hulk really have that large of a fan base to warrant another film whether it's a rebo... : TwiLyght
• There's a strong rumor that IRON MAN shows up in the new Hulk movie : Wolfanoz
• When are people going to realize that you need 2 words for a Hulk movie to be good. 1) Hulk 2) Smash ... : Duffman8369

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  atonement : dkrulz
  • Want to see this one keira knightly : spazzium
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  did you see eternal sunshine of the spotless mind? if so the science of sleep could be another option, a... : choppp
  • yeah ive seen that movie and loved it : oHnOES
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    I watched eternal sunshine 2 nights ago, having recently broken up with someone of 5 years. It was quite... : abrasion
    • Yeah, it was tough to watch that part. In the end all we are is good memories of times past. : Psigun
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      I know the feeling abrasion! The other day I was just going through a long talk with my ex... and we al... : choppp
      • I found it substantially more difficult to watch, having almost no bad memories at all (no really) :/ : abrasion
    • yeah eternal sunshine is a really good movie, maybe my favorite movie ive ever seen although that seems t... : arizona bay
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    Science of Sleep was awesome. Sort of depressing, but not for the reasons you would expect. I took away t : ctlaltl33t
    • Wow, i think i'm going to have to check this movie out again for myself. : choppp
• Little Children was pretty good : Flynn
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  Once : Haku-Jin
  • that's not depressing at all. : sikander
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  Last of the Mohicans contains a depressing love story... : thewriter
  • two actually. : thewriter
• bump : oHnOES
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  A Beautiful Mind : DOOManiac
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    tragically i suffer from something similar to john nash and ive seen that a million times : oHnOES
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      When I first saw the movie I got really freaked out because at the time I was in college and my roomate l : DOOManiac
      • You didn't have a roommate! : action wombmate
• Before Sunset : EvilDolemite
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  Happiness. : mem
  • You're shit...and I'm champagne : ctlaltl33t
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  that will ferrel tax man thing : anhero
  • Stranger than Fiction. 5stars! : dignan
• La Vie en Rose : Reavers!
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind : Psigun
• Casino Royale. : K1Bond007
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  what was that one with that old whore cher. : CoRDS
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    Moonstruck? Mask? : dignan
    • yes : CoRDS
• Breaking the Waves : stgulik
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  Wes Anderson: a tinge of depression and sadness but with some whimsy to make it not so bad. : focusdaily
  • Wes Anderson films are actually a pretty neat chronicle of depression, IMHO. http://www.24liesasecond.... : sgtsanity
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  Leon. : rustified
  • The only correct answer. : sanchez
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  Reign Over Me : FPSDavid
  • ^^gets extra points for having a whole scene revolve around Shadow of the Colossus. : Prozium
• American Psycho : contentious roy
• Star Wars Episode III : smax
• edward scissor hands : feek
• dreamlife of angels : datoo
• Requiem for a Dream : marmite
• THE NOTEBOOK for gods sake this is the perfect movie you are looking for : arizona bay
• vanilla sky : mp7rox
• WHat Dreams May Come? My Life? : BingusLargus
• Jeux d'enfants (Love Me If You Dare) : TwiLyght