Morning Discussion

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• that was meant to be strikethrough not small : marmite
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  Glad he left... he was arrogant and was not very likable in my opinion. : Stroyent
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    not again : filthysock
    • hahahaahah : Downforce
  • OMG REMO LEFT US IM SO HURT I MUST PULL AN ALEC ON HIM!!!!!! : buzzbat
  • I bet you hate yourself : boomstickah
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    He left less than a month after you registered. Not time enough to get to know him at all really. : dognose
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      I kind of agree with him honestly. I respected the guy very much so, but he did come off as very pompous ... : two50six
      • Maybe his posts read that way to some people, but if you met him in person you'd see he's very soft spoke... : riptyde
      • he LOVED(S) games. he just didn't want to waste time with mediocre stuff : hamachi
  • Please leave TX :[ : chuck577
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    If you mean honest and straight to the point, yes. But I prefer my way of putting it. : melt_core
    • One mans arrogance is another mans confidence *shrug* : smellslikefish
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      I'd seen a few threads where he seemed to talk down to a lot of people that he disagreed with, it just re... : two50six
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        do you mean talked up to? ;) : robbomc
        • lol yeah : two50six
    • I loved it, but what he said usually matched my own opinions, and he tended to be very concise in how he ... : yAak
  • THIS SUBTHREAD : tomservo
  • I don't like you. Will you please leave? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • OH NO HE DI'INT!!!! : infiltrator`
  • EAT YOUR FACE! EAT IT! : Wolfanoz
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    What? Remo was the best thing to ever happen to the Shack. But at least the new guys are carrying on his ... : ConfusedUs
    • There are new guys? :P : d fluke
  • I agree entirely. : lakren
  • You and me, are gonna be best friends. : voodooraze
  • Amen brutha! : g0nk
  • FINALLY. someone says what we have all been thinking. : smax
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    Also disliked wii bias that came over the site when he joined. : dilutedq
    • it's also creepy how obsessed some people are for him on here. : dilutedq
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  Matias had better cookies : RikiTiki2
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    kbnerd had the best cookies so I've heard and he's only posted once a month for the last two months :( : Jonathan
    • wtf : RikiTiki2
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  Because he hates everything. : FushigiDenki
  • ...that is taller than him. which is damn near everything : dedgecko
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  i just know he had a pretty sweet car : robbomc
  • it was a rental : dedgecko
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    what did he drive? : flagg209
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      Yaris. : Blucklesworth
      • BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA : flagg209
  • He gets way too much credit for that shit, he wasn't the original yaris driver, he was making fun of anot... : voodooraze
• GAMING JOURNALISM : mourningstar
• Something about not showing his receipt at a Gamestop... : The Key
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  Do you think he comes here, reading all this stuff about him...and cries a little? Maybe he posts unde... : rustified
  • Stroyent, perhaps? : TShandy
• They needed the money to defend against take down orders from Johnson and Johnson. Remo's departure is Va... : Reavers!
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  so why did remo leave? : sch44cker
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    he was tired of monopolizing the front page : EvilDolemite
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      Also he hated how U.S. centric the site is. : Evil Benius
      • Because we couldn't have nice things. : rustified
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    Shacknews did not deliver to him his promised chicks. : K1Bond007
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      Shacknews did not deliver to him his promised checks. : SockMonkeh
      • Shacknews did not deliver to him his inebriated prom chicks. : Snuffles-
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    This job was a tall order, he just didn't measure up to the high demands of the work. Plus a lot of what ... : voodooraze
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      Chris Remo is short. : SockMonkeh
      • lol : boring gegtik
      • You're a beautiful man. : voodooraze
      • Hahaha : razorblade79
  • he's supply constrained : Dave-A
  • maarten's controversial political views. : smax
  • he probably asked for a raise or some ownership of the site and steve said no : dantastic
• why did he leave? the shack has pointy elbows : cptstern
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  why dont you guys obsess over faylor or something, his name is chris too : spaceless
  • Every single time Smash Bros says "FAILUURRRRRE" I think of him. :) : avatar_58
  • we will when he drops a drama bomb and leaves without telling anyone why. Then people will look back at ... : deathofrats
  • seriously. this is getting pretty old and seems a bit like an unhealthy obsession : Korban
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  his blog seems to be fine. : slickdoody
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    http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/index.php/2008/03/05/assorted-musical-sketches/#comments does this page work... : marmite
    • Seems to be front page only. http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/ : crummynz
    • nope. I can't read the full posts on the entries. : sigpro

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  around december i had a few. we literally spent the entire day playing rock band and watching episodes of... : xsoulbrothax
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    Where do you work that you can play Rock Band? Speaking of which, I got the Hall of Fame Inductee Achi... : jackomack
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      evil evil corporate environment. lots of suits, lots of conference rooms with TVs and 360s! : xsoulbrothax
      • I love all of those things... are you hiring? : ieGod
      • you in a game studio? you're in San Jose, so that'd make sense : Postal
• not today =( : ass-street
• i've wasted the entire afternoon online :( : PapaBoo
• Pretty much been my whole week. : sigpro
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  I call these "mental health days" : Arctic Fox
  • Turning into "mental health weeks" ... : Alco23
• Last job I had they tracked our progress... so I didn't get those nice days like that. : slax0r
• I don't trust anyone who doesn't have those days : EvilDolemite
• I've had entire JOBS like that. "I ain't doing shit today this year." : Bold
• every day at my job is like that. : sinner0423
• Yeah, I have those a lot. It just sucks when you work for yourself. : ADSliv
• My LPO that is one of those "I have nothing to do so I check on everyone else" kinda guys left on leave t... : jackomack
• My last job I did that about 7 hours a day. I literally had a nap time 2-4 am. : Koral06
• You mean, like, every day? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• This pretty much describes my life up to this post. : sukabljat
• Today was department-wide cleanup day. : snuff
• I couldn't do that. Too much shit to do. : Freon
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  I got a fucking excel chart tracking my hourly activites, you bet i can't stop working lol : Utopia
  • I bill my time in 15 minute increments...makes slacking quite difficult. : rossimo
  • ugh, they tried to do that to us but we fucking revolted. so obnoxious. it didn't last a week. : opengl128
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  Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can'... : pointyelbows
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    I need to watch that movie again. So badass it will never die! : Utopia
    • I'm surprised that Mike Judge didn't make a sequel to that movie. Not sure what the sequel would be ab... : Maddog_Delphi97
• i went 6 days once, i even counted the days till someone finally gave me something to do. I even asked f... : chodog
• I fell asleep for a good 30 mins just now. : jackomack
• no, that has never happened to me. : ease one
• No way. I hit the ball out of the fucking park at work today. I took care of at least a dozen critical ... : rosewood
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  lol : virus
  • ^^^ his "20% other projects" time at Google involves making paper planes : Postal
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  The boss and I chip and putt balls around the office most of the day occasionally.. wager on who can hit ... : randomnull
  • Have you beaned the cleaning lady yet? : Maddog_Delphi97
• Once I had a "I ain't doing shit this month" month at work, but we didn't have any clients. : melt_core
• Have plenty of them. Was supposed to have one today and called in sick instead. : snagger
• most day's are like that for me : red2lucas
• boss is in shanghai all week. party on : cpt_gloval

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• Disturbing Terrorist Runner : Wolfanoz
• My Little Wedding Commander : MisterPhoton
• "Retarded Fun Freak" sounds about right : ctlaltl33t
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  "John Romero's Software Restaurant" JOHN ROMERO'S ABOUT TO MAKE YOU A DELICIOUS MEAL. SUCK IT DOWN. ... : DrWaffles
  • "Donkey Kong's Bungie Studio" LOL...looks like Microsoft was really a sucker on this one : ctlaltl33t
  • .oremoR nhoJ ,em tae tsum uoy emag eht niw oT : dmason
  • http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/powersauce/ironchef_romero.gif I spent too much time on this st... : DrWaffles
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  Paging degenerate: Unreal Hobo Force : MisterPhoton
  • He's arrived "Hideous Hobo of the Deep" : ctlaltl33t
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  One for drucifer - "Angry Squirrel Onslaught." : helvetica
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    Or... "Lovely Furry Munchers" : ctlaltl33t
    • is this a Second Life expansion? : Fyunch Click
• Colonial Hitman Championship -- someone needs to contact Sid Meier. : buroja
• Canadian Pony Patrol - lol I get to be a mounty! : DarkWolf5
• Unreal Lawnmower - Total War For Xbox 360 : Crimsonbeak
• Religious Chocobo - The Quickening ...wow : ass-street
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  not working in Firefox? : metalremains
  • works for me : flagg209
  • not working in Firefox 2: The second not working : skitfish
• Dance Dance Croquet Syndicate : podman405
• "Morbidly Obese Basketball Kid" LOL : -=kodiak=-
• Secret of the Badminton Terror : Fred Garvin
• "Michael Jackson's Landmine Detective" sounds pretty... gay : intothefray
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  Communist Skate Racer : icannon
  • Amish Dungeon Hunter : icannon
• "Ninja Vocabulary Bloodbath" I would buy this so fast. : Perturbation
• Dead or Alive Manlove Insurrection : ChibiJosh
• That's the FUNNIEST random name generator I've ever seen. I'm dying so bad here. Some are just non-se... : hawke
• "Catholic Outlaw Bastards" Oo : humbleone
• Michael Jackson's Chocobo Encounter : mr.sleepy
• "Cool Shadow Smackdown" - Hell, i'd totally play that. : mindmann
• Peaceful Lawnmower Maniac : nodge69
• Hitler's Drug-Dealing of Love lol : jane911
• Indiana jones and the squirrel munchers : hirosushima
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  Perverted Ghost Unit : m0nkz
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    Transvestite Vigilante III : m0nkz
    • Sounds like a JRPG... Oh, my submission: Inbred Soccer Revolution : quanta88
• Invisible Love Trainer : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Tactical Werewolf Unit sounds like a game for which I would buy the Collector's Edition. : SockMonkeh
• Rock 'n' Roll Baking Commando : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Romantic Manlove Hell LOLOLOL : razorblade79
  • That sounds like the name of our COD4 shack parties on the 360. : FormerHPB
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    "Medieval Caveman Police", now that sounds rad! : razorblade79
    • "Jamaican Yak Warfare" this thing is incredible! : razorblade79
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  Virtua Porn Rave : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Is that one coming out for the DS? : ctlaltl33t
• Papal Shadow On The Oregon Trail : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Deadly Sudoku Turbo : Mad Brahmin Disease
• King of Landmine Rush - All kinds of awesome engrish game : phokz
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  Jackie Chan's Sex Agent : pyide
  • Def Jam Mahjong Gaiden : pyide
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  attn edgewise: POST-APOCALYPTIC DENTIST APOCALYPSE : phokz
  • Hahah post-apocalyptic apocalypse :) : Odoyle
  • can't wait for my copy of "sleepy breakdancing warrior" also, I got "duke nukem: alligator thieves" : AbortedFetusChristi
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  Magic Porn Rescue! Great Job! But, we're sorry, the Porn is in another castle! : changejar419
  • Wouldn't that be Super Porn Rescue? : Totenjaeger
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  Drunken Helicopter - 2nd Impact : Prozium
  • This is probably more fitting for the shack, Transvestite Banjo 2000 : Prozium
• "Curse of the Sex Hospital" I'd buy it : ctlaltl33t
• In Your Face Stapler EX ! : eskimo spy
• Derek Smart's Graveyard Explosion Oh man, talk about necrophilia.... : silentw
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  Drunken Vigilante Revolution - sounds like fun to me! : SirX
  • Irresistible Cannibal Zone lol : SirX
  • Morbidly Obese Skydiving Nightmare - i imagine it is... : SirX
  • Hip-Hop Castlevania Spies - probably is capcoms next rhythm game... : SirX
• BudgetSoft Presents: Metal Mayhem oh yea bring it on : xsii
• Islamic Assault For Kids SOLD : smegmar
• Legacy of Booty Competition : mechanicalgrape
• Claustrophobic Monkey Crime Scene Investigation This might be a better tv show than a game. : Snuffles-
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  National Lampoon's Beast Shack : robbomc
  • Claustrophobic Volleyball - The Next Generation : robbomc
  • Jedi Surgery Brothers : robbomc
• Panzer Sunshine Slaughter. : Fyunch Click
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  Look, last time this was posted I got Confusing Manlove Experience. It just can't be topped. I don't se... : nurglich
  • All-night Manlove Adventure : genom
• Biblical Cheese Strikes Back : ADSliv
• Drunken Hobo Assassins : trelain
• Mind-bending Animal - The Lost Levels : ikonoklast86
• lolz - Biblical Trailer Park Island : Shadowdane
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  Emo Bingo Experience : Totenjaeger
  • Loony Tunes Blood Hero Is that when Elmer can't take it anymore? : Totenjaeger
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    The Infernal Sudoku Hoedown : Totenjaeger
    • Inbred Vigilante Deathmatch Original title for Next of Kin and/or Road House. : Totenjaeger
• Sid Meier's Penguin Espionage : Thisispol
• Amphibious Llama Massacre : niceguynick
• Golden Fun XXX : Stoned Gargoyle
• Full Metal Programming Simulator : Saman
• Master Chief's Bong All-Stars : fuell
• International Manlove Journey : samekh
• Supreme Sniper Siege : metalremains
• "Corporate Barbarian Task Force" is a winner for sure. I picture the Diablo 2 Barbarian dressed up in a ... : Chod
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  Here's the contest to CREATE a game from the generator: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=1223... : phokz
  • http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=1238.0 my money is on this guy... : lowpoly
• Spirit of the Zombie Spree : Jayx77
• "First-Person Shaving Freak" : genom
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  Charlie Brown's Wheel Chair Rally Wasn't that funny, until I thought about what the game would entail. : locater16
  • Deranged nudist armageddon : locater16
  • I can imagine the opening graphic is him breaking his back after Lucy moved the football away too many ti... : Totenjaeger
• Nerf Bobsled at the Olympics : Grimmadog
• 3D Pirate Shack : Ariakus
• Subatomic Walrus of the Blood God : gmd
• Surprise Viking 2K All I can see is a Viking with his horned helmet jumping out of a birthday cake. S... : Teiresias
• Dr. Unicorn Squadron : grifter
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  Not this again. : ant_hillbilly
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    Not this again 2: Repost Harder. : skitzo
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      Post Hard 3 : Repost with a Vengence. : Totenjaeger
      • Live Free and Post Hard : rustified
• Zombie Vampire Task Force : Rag and Bone Man
• Heavy Metal Bible Encounter \m/ : c0bra
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  Quest for the Yeti on the High Seas. Uh, I think you're doing it wrong. : silent prophet
  • Yar. No wonder I couldn't beat it. : Totenjaeger
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  Islamic Techno Expert : losder5000
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    hahah, omg. African Dodgeball In The Dark : losder5000
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      This fucking random generator is racist. : losder5000
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        They could be South Africans. : Totenjaeger
        • Prolly still be black. This is what Molyneux created. Racist AI. : losder5000
• Retarded Wizard Football --- awesome : sludge vohaul
• Apathetic Goth Jamboree : smax
• Mystic Whale Co-op; I would play this. : DonkeyPopsicle
• Hidden Afro Struggle. that is all. : sKetchflow
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  Duke Nukem Forever : dognose
  • I feel for ya dognose. : Totenjaeger
  • That's just silly, no one would ever make a game called that. : perstephanie
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  Hahah Inappropriate Military Quest : magistersmax
  • The Six Million Dollar Platypus Omega : magistersmax
• Underground Matador Forever ? : skunk_ape
• Nudist Cowboy from Mars. Lol. Maybe it would be a spaghetti western. Har har har : tostador
• Transvestite Business Academy : jonin
• Wacky Nazi Ex wouldn't go down well in Germany I fear. : ihya
• Revenge of the Helicopter Jihad : jonin
• Duke Nukem: Elevator Uprising : MrGrindy
• Disturbing Deer Hunter Demolition : jonin
• Mind-Bending Transvestite - Hot Pursuit bwahahahaha the shack hype is strong with this one : dewdman
• Indiana Jones and the Jetski College : jonin
• last one.... Retarded Cannibal Jam : jonin
• "Super Bong Man" :\ : jenisthebest
• Tom Clancy's Snowboard Tycoon : EvilDolemite
• Intense Disco Jihad : Hello Cthulu
• Sounds like Phil and Fry have been playing too much Transvestite Internet Offensive. : pigvomit
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  Zombie Hobo Racer : EvilDolemite
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    CHAAAAAAAAAAANGE gear : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Speaking of which, if they ever make a South Park about Obama (again), it should be a sequel to Night of ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • which SP was this? : focusdaily
      • What do you mean? The zombie one was in the episode mentioned above. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • GETTERRRRRR! (oh wait...wrong genre... ;P) : genom
• Happy Afro Shack : vandal
• whoa man this thread took off .. you guys are easily entertained *dances* : virus
• Throbbing Trampoline Train : g0nk
• Legend of Amish Espionage : genom
• Rise of the Booty Family... don't think that would get rated here. : dooberzoo
• Spectacular Stapler Over Normandy awesome! : sikander
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  hehe, reminds me of the Castlevania one I did up a while back : Entity
  • Yeah I guess a link would be handy, to not be a jerk and all: http://entity.shackspace.com/castlevania/in... : Entity
• Hillbilly Burger Runner : EvilDolemite
• Celebrity Prison Raider : carnivore
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  We Love Nudist Kids : genom
  • That may just beat out Confusing Manlove Experience. : nurglich
• Japanese Harvest Operators : Judicus
• Darkest Hang Glider Rave. AWESOME. Where do I buy it? : GrimmyD
• Dance Dance Grizzly Bear Kid : Prototype
• Deep Space Manlove Factory : drbriefs
• eww I just got Throbbing Cowboy Dudes I was hoping to post a cool one : DinK
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  Feverish Spider Mayhem You guys'd love that one. : gakera
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    Ingenious Goth Struggle ...I think they already made that one... : gakera
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      Viking Underwear in the Sky OR The national game of Iceland! : gakera
      • Rockin' Office Experience :( Now I'm going to bed... Another Rockin' Office Experience ahead of me tomor... : gakera
• Frisky Donkey XXX ... i shit you not. : ghost hacker
• Vegeterian Mafia Beatdown! : Stoned Gargoyle
• Rock 'n' Roll Transvestite Punishment! : Stoned Gargoyle
• British Unicorn Invaders. : Matto357
• Lost Quantum Forever hahaha : Omaha
• All-Star Worm Babies : skitfish
• Children of the Porn Paratroopers (what the hell??) : skitfish

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  i once got mad while playing wow and called a guy a fag. : jackalope
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    Dude that was TOTALLY out of line : phate81
    • but what else could he do? : xxiv
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      !?!? WHY in the word would it be out of line?!? Let me guess??.... Your a homo??? Just words man!!! The... : FirstUFO
      • Wow, are you polansk's cousin? : silentw
      • the downside of an open mind is that the sarcasm filter gets turned off : robbomc
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  For me, and I'm embarassed to admit, was Castlevania: Portal of Ruin. Just after losing some stupid battl... : geedeck
  • Oh god, castlevania. In that castlevania for the 64, there was a section where you had to carry nitrogl... : TheQuad
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  i usually just rage quit, even then it's more just bored of getting my ass kicked quitting. not very ... : xxiv
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    I've had that a couple nights in TF2. It's not even the rage, it's just like you know your mojo has faile... : geedeck
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      i usually get tired of being head sniped. any other class can dominate me all night and i can usually shr... : xxiv
      • i tend to ragequit when i can't stop dying and the respawn times are like 20 seconds. : jenisthebest
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    Yeah I've ragequitted a bunch back when playing CoD 2 multi. With online FPS either you have the magic tu... : Kazomir
    • This is really accurate. Back when I still played CS:S I either did really well or just plain got my ass ... : ErikTehRed
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  oh so many - I was a bit of a hot head in my youth. I have bitten controllers (probably battletoads ... : flagg209
  • I don't even want to talk about breaking my replacement rock band guitar because suffragette city is a fu... : flagg209
  • i'm looking at YOU, Earthworm Jim! : anhero
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    how's the anger management working out for you as an adult? ....dont hit me : cptstern
    • I've been good since the rock band incident. That was really hard to swallow. lol : flagg209
• FUCKING RYGAR. nuff said : anhero
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  Quake3. Getting owned again and again by some LPB who was probably cheating. I threw my mouse at my d... : ezkilla2
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    I kind of miss those CRT monitors. With those I could release my anger by punching the screen REALLY hard... : Pho
    • Ditto. I have a 24" widescreen LCD... can't touch it. With my 17" old Samsung, I punched it so hard play... : stelth
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  when i was a kid i once spiked an N64 controller through a glass coffee table. don't remember what game i... : dirge23
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    oh man - that's great : flagg209
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      actually it was probably a snes controller. i think i did it by swinging the controller by the cord. : dirge23
      • Yeah I chucked a TG16 controller through a glass shelf door. I lied and told my dad I was 'vaccuming and ... : jreid
      • I've gone through roughly 20 or so controllers doing this through the years. I have since grown up (for ... : phipple
  • numerous stories of controllers denting walls. around the SNES/Genesis days. : bbmar23
• not since the NES days and trying to get old carts to load. progressing through slight taps on the side ... : smax
• I don't actually get angry about the playing the game directly, it's all the other stuff I get annoyed at... : Jonathan
• After uninstalling Hellfire using Sierra Utilities (which should make any sierra fan cringe, if they reme... : avatar_58
• Gears of War multiplayer is the only game that has gotten me genuinly angry in the past few years. I'm no... : nomaad
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  The worst I had was the end boss of Conan. That fucker took me close to 2 hours to beat. Never did rage q... : razlebol
  • I played the entire game till that fight and tried for about 30 minutes then said 'screw it' and never pl... : kgargonmagrix79
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  Duffman8369... every game ever. : FS|Archangel
  • Hey now there was... Um... Yeah you're right, I can't think of a game that HASN'T pissed me off. : Duffman8369
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  Playing Warcraft III against others is my own special definition of masochism. I love that game, but f : Sexpansion Pack
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    Not really. There is a lot to learn about the game before it comes down to who thinks better. : razlebol
    • yeah seriously don't think like that...rts != intelligence contests : flagg209
• TF2 i through my wireless keyboard across the room. It landed in my laundry basket, so it didn't get dama... : Flying h4x0r
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  Hopefully RobboMC sees this and tells the story of his guitar hero 2 CD. : flagg209
  • haha - i had just finished my GH2 custom disc, and was ready to show flagg209. of course, my real GH2 dis : robbomc
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  How can you get mad over a video game? : rosewood
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    BF1942 - In a pretty intense round I had jumped from my plane and had greyed out a flag, keeping our tick : rosewood
    • you need to play more games with old men : crappypants74
    • whoa. : hirosushima
    • do you surround yourself with balsa wood furniture for extra gravitas at times like these? : Klebold
    • Are you Bruce Banner : tomservo
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      I just maphole cheated past that office stealth mission in NOLF, and quit playing NOLF2 because the steal... : dognose
      • I'm going to eat Indian food for lunch today thanks to this post. : rosewood
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        I cheated past the stealth missions in SOF2. I didn't mind them in NOLF (they were frustrating but I was ... : tomservo
        • I suppose I could reinstall SoF2 for a 3rd try and find some cheat codes :( : dognose
    • Why are you like this : nomaad
    • Somehow, I'm not surprised in the slightest : stump
    • Hahahahahahahaha : mr.sleepy
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      calling it now, heart attack by 40 : bipolar
      • I say spontaneous combustion. : thetangent
    • Haha I've totally had a couple of BF experiences like that. We had one map where the tickets started at ... : riptyde
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      i found this post shocking until I read the name and was like "oh" : Kazomir
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        Shocking? : rosewood
        • well maybe that was an overstatement. odd maybe : Kazomir
    • rosewood, have you ever been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder? : CrustaR
• I punched my monitor the most during my Everquest phase. Haven't really been into a game since : kgargonmagrix79
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  A level in Super NES' Battletoads - a racing stuff, don't remember exactly. What a frustrating game. : Nitrium
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    Wow, I was wondering where the Battletoads post was. Anyway, yeah, the hoverbike crap was pure digital ev... : Noobler
    • I definitely lost a controller or two to that game : flagg209
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      But it's so awesome when you master that level as it's so close to the beginning. You can have a friend ... : Grumbeld
      • never made it that far. the jet one was the hoverbike x 1000 because you had to get so far just to practi... : RikiTiki2
    • Just watched that level on cracked.com yesterday. 108 jumps in 2 minutes. So wrong. : stump
    • I'm surprised that level didn't give me an aneurysm. : riptyde
  • Yep, I chucked a SNES controller durin that also. The fucking hover bikes with all the flat stone things... : illwill18
• I think trying to beat the RAY bossfight on European Extreme difficulty in Metal Gear Solid 2 got me clos... : basketofkittens
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  Anyone who gets flustered over a video game is a fag : boring gegtik
  • no offense to homosexuals I use fag in the generic pejorative sense : boring gegtik
• My mom has pictures of me playing SNES and crying in anger when I was 9 or 10 years old =( : Hello Kitty
• Perhaps I'm not looking hard enough, but I don't see a Devil May Cry 3 yet. Getting to the very end of a ... : kelzmelzer
• More recent: Hexic 2 beating the computer on expert (totally luck based), some harder guitar hero songs o... : astonish
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  I play SupCom every other evening with my brother and my best friend as a way to relax and shoot the shit... : liqker
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    WOW LOL , I love SupCom though, that's cool that you do that with your brother : kgargonmagrix79
    • Yea, it's the highlight of my days usually. He and I are both working adults and don't get to spend much... : liqker
• Getting totally raped by the computer on All-Madden setting in Madden 06 and consequently punching a rath... : mrseldowski
• I remember numerous occasions where I spiked an NES controller. Those suckers were indestructible. : zakazi
• Sonic Spinball. When it first came out, I would sit in the family room playing it with my dad. He was bet... : zerog83
• It's not exactly a rage story, but a friend and I have spent multiple evenings trying to beat Exam C of S... : Grumbeld
• Not me but I remember having to go running down the hallway when I heard my 8-year old sister pummeling t... : Schnapple
• God of War. I love the gameplay so much to these games, but they are so infuriatingly frustrating at time... : Entity
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  Batman: The Video Game for NES. That fucking game was so addictive and rage-inducingly hard. I still get ... : jreid
  • that game had awesome music too : flagg209
  • The day I beat the Joker in that was one of my best old school gaming moments. And yes, the music was ... : dirtboxer
• when i was really young (like 6 or 7) i was playing the original Mario Bros. in an arcade. I managed to l... : pukerat
• Ninja Gaiden on Xbox. I remember becoming so angry once that I held my controller at the base where the ... : David Craddock
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  Ultima Online - there were so many countless things to rage over when that released. Connection Lost. C... : phokz
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    I forgot to mention that after looting someone's house, changing the lock on the door, you could then cha... : phokz
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      That is so cruel, yet hilarious as well. i wish I had played it back in the day. : stump
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        Indeed. That sounds hilarious. :D : stelth
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          I was in HS at the time, and my friend ran into trouble with a guild at one point. He claimed he hadn't d... : Toth21
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            hahaha man. That sounds awesome. ;( : stelth
            • Yeah I tried to go back and play it recently, but it just wasn't the same. Instead of a wide open world f... : Toth21
  • I once just snapped after repeatedly getting stuff stolen from my character by thieves that I just went a... : Chod
• I think I punched the tv when playing one of the donkey kong country lost world levels. It was an old ju : itsjames
• Only real ragequit extreme! moment I remember is in UT99, was playing in a clan match on Facing Worlds, w : bipolar
• As a former WoW Guild Master i could pretty much fill the page with lolstories. But i decided to ban thos... : [7]kami
• This isn't a good story, but the QTEs in Heavenly Sword piss me off to no end. Get the boss patterns dow... : SinistarX
• You people are all unstable. : weaselmeister
• in Bards Tale (the old 1980's rpg) There was this one square if you stepped on it without wearing a robe,... : baron calamity
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  Playing Q2. ImageOmega and AnalRust railgunning my face every 3 seconds. I slammed the frame of my monito... : Slowtreme
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    lol did you tell me this story before? : ImageOmega
    • Possibly. I tell a lot of stories. But I really did shove my monitor through a wall. (in 2 different apar... : Slowtreme
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  I used to play counterstrike. i would get so angry I'd yell and curse at the screen and throw beer bottle... : deadfish
  • apparently I was so fun to watch counterstrike people would come over, drink, and watch the show : deadfish
• N+, COOP campaign map level 4-5. That map can kiss it! : geneshifter
• I used to scream at the AI in street fighter. I've never destroyed anything because I was too broke to re... : boomstickah
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  GHOSTS N' GOBLINS. I swear there are parts in that game that are impossible for you not to get hit. The... : c_man_tmt
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    IAWTP. Fuck that game. : riptyde
    • Seconded! : Totenjaeger
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  We used to throw controllers all the time over many many games. GOD THE ANGER! Most notable time is t... : changejar419
  • HAHAHAHAHA, oh man, that's awesome. : David Craddock
• Killing 8/10 terrorists in de_dust as the only CT left, no armor and NO additional ammo. 7 of those Ts w... : sukabljat
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  everyday when I try to play Blast Pit in Half-life I want to punch my fist through my monitor :( : PapaBoo
  • Whatever you do, don't watch Half-Life Done Quicker. Your head will asplode... : stelth
• Not my rage, but rage I caused someone else: Playing SF2 back in high school. I was Chun Li, and my f... : riptyde
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  The Death Star mission on Super Return of the Jedi when playing on the hardest difficulty (Jedi?). O. ... : riptyde
  • The Second Death Star Run in X-Wing Alliance was definitely rage inducing. It was so fuckign hard to fly ... : thetangent
• On another note, are you actually doing anything with these threads you create every day, geedeck? Writin... : Entity
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  Actually... TF2 >:( LKS vs HoK, me and unleashed were part of a 2nd uber rush going into point 6 and I JU... : Demius
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    oh yes, I had one of those moments with dmason on stage 1 db defense. I kept freezing in the most dangero... : itsjames
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      Are you talking about the 3-5 second audio-freeze/stutter bug? That thing is annoying as hell. : ieGod
      • shackwest, but I get that too. I play in the worst conditions of anyone in the whole tournament i think:... : itsjames
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    That might have been me. :( I've had the same experience when I'm the medic though, so I know how it fee... : DHAvatar
    • could have been... I just remember saying 'go go go!' ... "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK" : Demius
• I've smashed my keyboard so hard quite a few times it actually crashed my computer. heh : dabum
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  BF2 jet rape. Getting bombed the second you spawn or any time you get in any vehicle was massively rage ... : deject
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    I apologize, I was one of those assholes that was really good with the jets :( : DonarUDL
    • WAS? There's still mighty games of bf2 on every night just waiting for my jetrape. :) : dafugg
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  I'm shocked that the Supply Lines mission from GTA:SA (the PS2 version) hasn't been mentioned. That sh... : Helter Skelter
  • I didn't find that one as maddening as the one where you have to defend the building from the rc planes w... : riptyde
  • I found it completely based on luck. On my own go-through, I did it second or 3rd attempt. My brother bro... : Entity
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  Street Fighter II Turbo and Mario Kart multiplayer on the SNES. Nuff' said. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • A friend of mine cracked some knuckles by punching a wall while playing SF II. I had sympathy...Vega piss... : MaxPete82
  • street fighter i can see but mario kart? sure they would steal some wins from you but it just took time ... : handofthrawn
• Playing NHL Hockey on my PC against my step brother (Gravis Gamepads!). I had a stacked team of all custo... : paroxym
• I played all the way through Malice. I couldn't get out of bed for weeks; it was a debilitating rage. : pixelat3d
• N. is my ONLY true "rage" moment in gaming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_%28game%29 I stood up yelling ... : Kazomir
• Rented Ghouls and Ghosts for the Genesis to play at a friends house over the weekend and he got so pissed... : Wolfanoz
• Probably either the final boss (the guy with the flaming sword/body..Nightmare?) in the Soul Calibur seri... : silent77
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  Probably CS. : das_runt
  • did you scream in german? : Jayx77
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  Motherfuckin' Grim Reaper in the NES Castlevania. I've died to that bitch so many times, it's not funny.... : Matt Burris
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    Frankenstein was as far as I ever got :/ : EvilDolemite
    • I couldn't beat him until emulations - save states FTW! : flagg209
  • I beat him only once and then my NES locked on the last stage, I was so angry I didn't play Castlevania t... : Chod
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    is it just me or was castlevania a tough motherfuckin game? i dont think i ever beat it and people talk ... : handofthrawn
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      It was a great game but it was punishingly hard. The jump mechanics were shit, and most enemies knocked ... : EvilDolemite
      • I beat the game once... Pure stroke of luck... had that hardest time getting up to and past Frankenste... : dedgecko
• Ninja Gaiden. I got so pissed off trying to beat the first form of Alma, I threw my xobx controller thro... : Head Rush
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  Street Fighter 2 with CPUs on 9 difficulty. I would go fuckin NUTS. It was such bullshit. Sometimes th... : handofthrawn
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    how did you lose? It was so easy. Maybe i played it so much i knew exactly what they do and what trick to... : Iwannaacura
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      at lvl 9 it was never easy (maybe some matchups but not all). for example the long armed guy would do a ... : handofthrawn
      • i had a hard time with SF2 (snes) on level 6 or above...let alone 9! : ass-street
• Nothing is as rage inducing as watching a shithead destroy your days/weeks work with a 2 outer on the riv... : kgargonmagrix79
• I still suffer from game rage when I play 2v2 arenas in WoW. I broke my keyboard tray by punching it repe... : fuell
• I tore a gamecube controller as Viewtiful Joe was giving me a heart attack... : drbriefs
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  growing up playing nes games really built up my patience. I remember playing metroid and sitting there ca... : Lawgiver
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    Dude, old school games like NES games didn't hold back... some of hte hardest games ever were on the NES : Demius
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      Often times it was the only way they could extend the game :( : EvilDolemite
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        but it was so satisfying when you actually beat it... on that note, i never did beat the first ninja t... : Demius
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          I beat Ninja Turtles! It was ridiculous. : EvilDolemite
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            those swimming levels can DIAF, and they gave us 2 of them! : kelerian
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              Underwater...electrical wires? What the fuck..they'd pulse and yet, you'd survive...underwater. With li... : EvilDolemite
              • because underwater welders get shocked all the time... it's a question of volume. There's enough volume o... : zerog83
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      fucking mickey mouse, and little nemo: dream master. for games marketed to kids, they were brutal. : mindmann
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        Yo Noid was fucking bullshit too Duck Tales was pretty hard, but a good game Fuck that Simpsons game, t... : EvilDolemite
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          the first simpsons game was BRUTAL! i think i blocked that out of my memory cuz i never beat that one as ... : Demius
          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWOXpbm9-0&feature=related Bart vs the space mutants : Demius
      • I second little nemo: DM was tough as hell. : focusdaily
    • Adams Family Festers Quest was one of the most unforgiving games. Also Night Mare on elm street. 3 live... : Iwannaacura
    • I agree, kids today are fucking spoiled. Shit, I remember only being able to save my game before I went i : Totenjaeger
• I can relate to a lot of these "no patience" moments. First thing that came to my mind was dieing in Dia... : kiloblaster
• I think Sonic and the Secret rings has created the most rage for me... Though I would never hurt my Wii :... : Malku
• N+, 14, 4 coop : FS|Archangel
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  The last level in goldeneye on the radio dish. ahhhhhhhh : nepharious
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    and goddamn Battletoads, the jet/hover ski level : nepharious
    • The third stage? That shit was easy bro... the next level with the ice and the one with the snakes. FUCK ... : stelth
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  Killer Instinct multiplayer. Sitting there for seconds while my douchebag friend gets all 32 hits in -_- : Blucklesworth
  • no c-c-c-c-combo breakerrrrr? : RikiTiki2
  • C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! : MeenMunky
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    you were suppose to use combo breakers during these... the only time a combo could not be broken was duri... : mnok
    • The time I beat one of my friends with an ultra combo with Orchid while we were all drunk is the greatest... : Shivawn
• the water bitch. : jedi_27
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  Hmm.. Made quite the jerk out of myself in front of my friends while playing Prince of Persia Sands of T... : BlueVette
  • I did this with the PC version, I actually microwaved the CD. :( : stelth
• I remember once I threw my SNES Mortal Kombat cartridge against the wall so hard it smashed the plastic c... : stelth
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  TFC - Random pub server I can't even remember the game but I was so pissed I slammed my fist down on t... : gatts
  • hahaha :( : Chandler55
  • That's pretty awesome. : Merconium
  • hahaha : mXENO
  • A winner is you : rosewood
  • Oh man I am dying : Zero|DPX
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  I remember freaking out in Conquest of Camelot because I could not get some freaking riddles. : kainen1
  • Sierra loved to make you rip out your hair. :D "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN I MISSED A CRUCIAL ITEM 20 M... : avatar_58
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  Amagon on the Nintendo Entertainment System. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagon That game frustrated ... : Ajax
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    hahaha a shoe. NICE! : stelth
    • It's hilarious when I think about it now. But I remember being SOO PISSED back then! : Ajax
• I used to think JAWS for the NES, but then a friend showed me how to beat it in like 10 minutes. I rememb... : hirosushima
• I think the connection to my modchip on my xbox was flakey so I'd just end up beating the damn console un... : ErikTehRed
• GH3 - Raining Blood Then GH3 - Lou ... still haven't beaten it : boarder2
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  How is it I'm not seeing a Totenjaeger post to this thread??? : AhmNee
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    I do work at work...sometimes. : Totenjaeger
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      I'm disappointed at you. Working at work. Bah! Tell them about the keyboard/soundcard WoW thing.. :D : AhmNee
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        That was the players, not the game. : Totenjaeger
        • I suppose that's true. >:D A worthy yarn. : AhmNee
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  Kirby's Dream Course - I beat the shit out of my wife when i heard the music : Rosewood : burning eye
  • The Vs mode was fun, with the powerups and knocking people off the edge. : MeenMunky
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  Double Dragon 2: I have bite marks on one of my NES controllers to remind me. There's a stage in which y... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • haha yea i remember those. having a friend constantly fall down didnt make things better. great game thou... : xsii
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  In case anyone was curious about the Battletoads level mentioned above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... : riptyde
  • I think there's MUCH harder levels in that game, just most people don't get past there. The level with t... : Blucklesworth
• Playing Halo at themelon's during Quakecon last year and having my Y-axis not inverted after I'd been pla... : Totenjaeger
• Dying in everquest and having to run for like 30 minutes to get my corpse, only to be killed within viewi... : great-white
• The Dota moments all blend together now. :( : Barnahog
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  Metal Gear for the NES fucking owned me. "i feel asleep" LOL : robbomc
  • you're cute : boring gegtik
• Odin Sphere, threw my ps2 controller on the ground so hard it snapped and plastic shards went everywhere.... : bninja
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  Videogame not so much. But there was a time where I was beating someone so badly at Risk they slammed my... : Crimsonbeak
  • Your mother sounds like a bitch. : Chod
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    haha holy shit : crummynz
    • He is in med school now, I hadn't talked to him for like 6 or 7 years. He called me up one day and apolo... : Crimsonbeak
• I wanna be that guy, holy fuck is that game infuriating. And level 8-4 of Super Mario: The Lost Levels... : aaarrrgh
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  smashed my PS2 Guitar Hero controller after failing Bark at the Moon at 98% 3 times in a row on expert. : skinlab133
  • One time I failed BATM on the very last note. :( : DOOManiac
• Related: anyone ever have someone shut off your console that you had left on far into a game? For inst... : EvilDolemite
• I had to stop playing BF2 because I was pissed off so often and so much that it had a noticeable effect o... : DOOManiac
• I rented Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles from Blockbuster. Me and a friend were trying to play i... : megarust32
• My brother and I were playing some fighting game on the Neo Geo cart system. I was so frustrated at the ... : sukabljat
• geedeck's daily attempts to keep it real. A guy on my SOF2 team used to break his desk 3 times a day... : losder5000
• My best recent videogame rage story involved Fifa 08. I brought the game to my friend's house, as we u... : shogberg
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  I played through one of the longer races in GTA 3 - not one of those ridiculous endurance races, but one ... : Teiresias
  • Er, make that GT 3, not GTA. Stupid acronyms. : Teiresias
• Battletoads, you've all been there : kill9
• Mafia Racing Mission Not the best, but this is one I remembered recently. : Portax
• Once I was playing Soul Calibur with some friends and was getting thoroughly stomped by one guy. Nothing ... : Code RedBeard
• You guys are all crazy. The most frustrating game I recall playing to anywhere near that level was Midni... : alias
• Getting kiled in Half-Llife Deathmath and I fucking smashed by Sony Trinitron CRT G400 (19 inch, 50 lbs) ... : Utopia
• Metroid Fusion. I was playing this on the gamecube via the gameboy player. Now I'm a huge fan of the M... : ConfusedUs
• Counter-Strike. Every time I play that game, I'm angry. : MurrayTheSkull
• broken xbox controller playing halo on legendary : Jayx77

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  You don't let women pick baby names. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • No kidding. : m0nkz
• She should name him The Jackal. : Koral06
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  i know a couple naming their babby Matalene (Father's named Matt, Mother's name is Paulene) : PapaBoo
  • do they live in a single wide? : xxiv
• Sounds like something I'd name my WoW character. : stump
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  you should suggest a normal name like Justyce : RikiTiki2
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    "please welcome to the stage... JUSTYCE" : med1c
    • it's funny cause it's true. : xxiv
  • Fyre Rayne : jenisthebest
  • First name Apollo. Or Massiv : avatar_58
• I'd go with Shoggoth : CapnChaos
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  Its better than having another Mike or Joe or Amber or Jane in the world. I encourage parents to name the... : theghostofsmdever
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    Who wants a name that constantly gets misspelled, insulted, or pronounced wrong? : Felraiser
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      Don't live in America, especially the south, most people can't pronounce anything with more than two syll... : dkrulz
      • actually most people can... : xxiv
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    I'd rather be named Jane than Declan. : jenisthebest
    • Conformist :)~ : theghostofsmdever
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      uh... well it is a guy's name... : lakren
      • Yeah, if I were a dude I'd still rather be named Jane than Declan. : jenisthebest
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    My name is "Brian" and it's bad enough having to tell people it's an "I" and not a "Y". An actually uniq... : electroly
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      However, if I ever have a kid, the middle name will be "Danger." Girl or boy. : electroly
      • or "handsome" : xxiv
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      Yeah I have problems with Jen. JEN. IT'S THREE LETTERS. "Jan? Jane? Julie? Jon? Jenanifer?" : jenisthebest
      • jenanigans. : xxiv
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        Jenanifer? : nurglich
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          yeah, at my old house the gas bill was always addressed to Jenanifer, even though i corrected them probab... : jenisthebest
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            Heh, wtf kind of name is Jenanifer? I don't think it's possible to correct utility information once it... : nurglich
            • i dunno, but my roommates thought it was hilarious and called me jenanifer for probably 2 years, haha. : jenisthebest
      • My name is consistently misspelled with two ns, even by my friends, and I just don't get it. : DianeOfTheMoon
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    G. F., Esq. : boring gegtik
    • lol : deathofrats
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15814163#itemanchor_15814163 : mafu5150
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    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/04/entertainment/main699675.shtml : industro
    • As much as I like Penn+Teller, I really want to punch Penn in the face for that. : thetangent
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    aw :( : mikecyb
    • You were here first : ) : theghostofsmdever
  • I'll tell you who: people who have to write down your name on the phone, that's who. "and what is your n... : AbortedFetusChristi
  • One benefit of me having a common name is that nobody can find me with Google. : TwiLyght
  • Oh I'm sorry, I just want my kids to have a job when they get older. : creep
• Limanjello : nurglich
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  what's wrong with declan? I know a couple. : lakren
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    because it sounds like a mmo command to leave your guild? : deathofrats
    • but it's deck-lin, not de-clan :( : lakren
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  Better then Bob or Greg!!! : nukewinter
  • Hey! My middle name is Robert and my brother's name is Greg. : ArB
• Declan is an awesome name. Kazmar is not. : eskimo spy
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  Is she Klingon? : gmd
  • best follow-up : Merconium
• Declan is a good irish name... is she giving birth to a potato? : boring gegtik
• How about name it baybay : Melll
• name it bradley : spaceless
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  Obligatory "is she black?" : riptyde
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    Nope, neither is the father. : m0nkz
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      Damn, that's usually the case, like my friend's sister who is a coal burner and got knocked up, and wants... : riptyde
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        jiz-on apply directly to the forehead jiz-on apply directly to the forehead jiz-on apply directly to the ... : boring gegtik
        • lol : nodge69
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          jiz-on, i hate your commercial, but your facials are AMAZING : riptyde
          • this hurt my face with lolz. I need to quit watching cable news. : losder5000
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        is "coal burner" some kind of slang for black people having sex? I'm going to assume that it is. : ArB
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          http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coal+burner : boring gegtik
          • I hate white people. : ArB
  • If that were the case, you would figure it would either be spelled wrong or have extra letters in it. jk ... : Totenjaeger
• Goddamnit I hate parents that name their kids stupid shit. THINK about how much a name can get someone ma... : thetangent
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  Declan's not a bad name. I'd rather go with Cosmo than Kazmar. : edgewise
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    Yeah but your kid's name is like Hoo Phaun Koo - of course you like it : kgargonmagrix79
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      >:( : edgewise
      • this made me laugh far more than it should! : Postal
• Well, there is a seemingly normal lady at my church who has two kids (under 5yrs of age). The eldest, gi... : BlueVette
• This is why I'm naming my son Agamemnon. http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/15.html : c0bra
• strange names have little long-term impact: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11tier.html?_r=2&8d... : DonkeyPopsicle
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  Screw Declan, Deckard FTW! : locater16
  • Declan made me think of Deckard too... "stay awhile and listen!" : jlavrenz
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    No no, DEXTER. : five_percent
    • If I had a kid right now I would totally name it Dexter. But I probably shouldn't have any kids un... : jenisthebest
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  Rock the Kazmar. : hawke
  • yeah Kazmar sounds like a pretty epic name. : focusdaily
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  She should name her baby "Armageddon". It'd be awesome, people will say: "Hey, here comes Armageddon!" or... : Mmmmmoo
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    or "The British" : c0bra
    • or "Ze Germans" : Yabrodan
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  Kazmar is just a few letters off from greatness : Kazomir
  • Tell me about it, my cat's name is Calmar : Milleh
• a dude i know has a kid named Jor-el :| : cpt_gloval

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  Wow, that's really cool. : electroly
  • Not surprised that it was invented by a German dude with a huge beard : electroly
• +inf this one! holy.. Oo 9/10 for the link. The missing number is because you should have written it as : humbleone
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  posted by Fred Garvin yesterday :-( : MisterPhoton
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16468330#itemanchor_16468330 : MisterPhoton
• Man I want a big grizzly beard like that guy. I could hide speakers in my beard and play music. : voodooraze
• Audiosurf hacks :( : Flying h4x0r
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  Wow, Jerry Garica didn't die, he just moved to Norway : edgewise
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    also, while it's amazing and all, it's just another way recording studios can market a band of "musicians... : edgewise
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      Well, yes it could be used that way, but for anyone doing production/mixing it's a god send. Even compose... : Fred Garvin
      • ...or when your guest vocalist haates B flat major : mn3m0n1c
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      It still takes talent to make good music.. Get all the tools and all the software you could possible use... : humbleone
      • No kidding. A few years ago I gave a talk at a recording school in London and they told me about one stud... : Fred Garvin
      • agreed, I have been using FL Studio for over a year now, and am just now starting to get a grip on things... : ghost hacker
    • At that point, it's not really about the musicians and rather the writers and producers. : Vantage
• That is simply amazing. : mattfl
• That is amazing. : bRAINsick
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  Jesus fucking christ. THIS IS NOT RIGHT : Yanks
  • Also, I'd like to see this with other instruments since I think that this might not work as well. Additio... : Yanks
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    What are you talking about man? It's 110lbs of awesome. : Fred Garvin
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      It is awesome but shit I imagine it is nowhere near as flawless and as seamless as that video made it out... : Yanks
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        Yeah, the proof is in the pudding, but Melodyne is really great so I'll give them some credit. : Fred Garvin
        • I'd never heard of it before your post about it yesterday, but now I want it! : mn3m0n1c
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  Wait, midi is pronounced 'mee-dee' ?? : bipolar
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    No, the guy is on crack. : Fred Garvin
    • well, maybe that's how they say it in Deutschland. : mn3m0n1c
  • It is mee-dee. : MrGrindy
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    How else would you pronounce it ? : Lightbulb
    • "jib" : indosauros
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  This is fucking brilliant. Producers have to be drooling over this. : eseiat
  • Timbaland just sent the guy a check. : Fred Garvin
• omg, this looks fantastic ... so by their words this will work with Reason and FL Studio?? If so.. sold. : ghost hacker
• holy poop : sKetchflow
• I've always wondered if it's possible to modify an audio file like a midi. Looks like it is now. That's... : DHAvatar
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  Wow! That is awesome! Also, what is the music piece they had near the end? Just a tech sample? It sounded... : terath
  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=317272265 : ant_hillbilly
• It almost seemed to work too perfectly to be true. I'm still floored regardless. : paroxym
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  what is it just harmonic analysis? : gmd
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    I's gotta be more sophisticated than that, 'cause it seems to get the harmonics, too or maybe I'm imagini : mn3m0n1c
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      harmonic analysis is finding the harmonics, but I doubt it auto detects a tone and all associated harmoni... : gmd
      • D'oh - I meant to type overtones there. I wonder about that myself - I'm a mediocre guitarist, and a stee : mn3m0n1c
    • +t : mn3m0n1c
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      That's awesome! No way that's going to pickup each sound in a multi-layered song tho...I just can't imagi... : icon_of_syn
      • lol misreplied : icon_of_syn
• jesus christ that is incredible : eeeealmo
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  10 years ago, I was telling people on Usenet that this was totally impossible. This is absolutely incred... : Vantage
  • In a way it's a lot like extracting 3D data from pictures. That would have been near impossible 10 years ... : Fred Garvin
• Yeah.. this changes everything : indosauros
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  wait till its released guys, even though Melodyne is a great company it still sounds a bit too good to be... : dignan
  • I dunno, melodyne as-is is fucking incredible already. I show it to people and they had no idea it was p... : Halen
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  great, even more studio bands. i am not enthused : blarrr
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    You people have a very narrow view of audio tools. Very few albums these days aren't edited out the ying ... : Fred Garvin
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      i usually assume that if a band sounds like the CD when live, they didnt need much editing. very few band... : blarrr
      • You'd be wrong. It's a lot more complex than people think. I mean there are tons of fuck ups during live ... : Fred Garvin
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      Also, fixing broken chords is nice, but what really gets me hot and bothered are the constructive possibi... : indosauros
      • What will be strange is the ability to make genuine sounding Guitar Chords (for example) that are physica... : jayacheess
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    EXACTLY. This is an extremely cool technology, but it will be consistently used in place of real musi... : jayacheess
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      Wrong. This doesn't make great music. You still need someone who knows music to create a song. This is ju... : Fred Garvin
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        With a technology like this, I could see an entire generation of song writers growing up having never had... : jayacheess
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          Instruments are so 20th Century. The next generation of songwriters will most definitely grow up never h... : indosauros
          • ^^^^^^^^ - This man knows wtf. : GrimmyD
        • A computer can be a musical instrument, also, lol. : silaslang
        • I fail to see how that is a problem though. You don't have to know 'notes' to have a sense of how music w... : aaarrrgh
        • So? Nobody cares how good or bad Mozart was at the piano. He's famous forever because of his songwritin... : Vantage
        • so? music is music, who cares if it's created on a traditional instrument or with a computer. : mikecyb
        • Why is this a problem? It's this kind of elitist arrogance that keeps people from wanting to learn an ins... : ArB
        • How is that a problem? If it's creative and sounds good, who gives a fuck about "tradition" requiring ... : Vincent Grayson
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          I agree, and it's a problem because there's a lot that is lost when you no longer have a band together. ... : exigence7
          • Though I should point out that it could be a very useful tool for writing a song, as in trying different ... : exigence7
          • With the above tool, it shouldn't really be a problem that the computer gets it right though. Judging fro... : aaarrrgh
          • I guess this is it. It's not as much being afraid of change. It's being afraid that the change that's c... : jayacheess
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          Blaming tools like this is like blaming formula movies on CG. It's just a tool, it doesn't make good musi... : Fred Garvin
          • Also, there are tons of composers out there that can write and arrange for instruments they cannot play. ... : Fred Garvin
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          As long as females exist, won't people continue to learn how to play instruments? at least menz on guita : DinK
          • Chicks dig pianists. True story. : indosauros
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          Who cares? If they still have the skill to compose a great song using samples, what's the big deal? I'... : Drewus
          • Yeah. If the music sounds good, I listen to it. If that means that people had to make it with real instru... : crummynz
        • You may as well complain that today's authors use computers and editing programs to write instead of hand... : sKetchflow
        • Oh get over yourself dude. : deveus1
        • I'm friends with quite a few 'midi wizards', and though half of them have learnt/are learning instruments : 60days
      • I concur with Fred. Someone has to design the desired end result. Whatever tools are used to make that en... : Entity
• I've done audio design for 6 months, and as a semi-professional, I can tell you that the above is pretty ... : aaarrrgh
• Wow. Studio time just got more affordable for poor bands. : lowayne
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  So I can take existing mp3s, run them though this, and change them any way I want ? Awesome!! : sikander
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    Honestly, it's going to introduce completely new elements to remixing. : aaarrrgh
    • Can't wait to throw the TF2 Scout "Bonk" into any song I want. : snuff
  • It might not work as well on something highly compressed like mp3s. I'm also curious if it could still p... : Vantage
• WOw : Jiven
• wow that's pretty amazing stuff : mikecyb
• Wow that is amazing!!! : mace
• I can finally edit my porn videos and make women sound like robots or warewolves! : Utopia
• I wonder if this works w/ vocals? This could make Rock Band customs feasible! :D : DOOManiac
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  I may be wrong, but one thing this software can't do is affect the timbre of the notes/chords. So you wou... : spectr3
  • You would be able to convert the note data into midi, thus allowing you to substitute all manner of sound... : silaslang
• That is really fucking cool : Drewus
• That's pretty incredible. I'd like to see the patents for that stuff. If it works as well as that video... : Freon
• WOW when did Flight Simulator get this cool technology? : pigz

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  Good - maybe this will deter people from buying gift cards. Honestly? Just give me the cash if thats your... : avatar_58
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    Everyone knows to just get me Best Buy gift cards. I basically buy stuff there once a week almost. : Evil Benius
    • I get BB cards as gifts from my sisters all the time now. Works well for me. :) : FormerHPB
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    no expiration date on gift cards here in NH. State law. \m/ And that apple policy above is the stupide... : FormerHPB
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      The mall gift cards here "degrade" at a very slow rate. I don't know how long it takes, but I don't care.... : avatar_58
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        money doesn't degrade? well, goddammit, i want my 5 cent candy bar then. : papaskot
        • Money doesn't degrade at $2/month like most gift cards. : electroly
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  Apple customer service is pretty bad. Reminds me of all the cases of people bringing MacBooks in for rep... : FushigiDenki
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    "all the cases?" IIRC, it was Dave Winer who simply assumed he'd get it back. Apple warns that you may ... : Postal
    • Yea, I think he's thinking of the Winer case and spreading it : Bantis
  • i don't know where you're getting that. my experience with apple customer service has been above average ... : mindfk
• http://consumerist.com/367277/update-apple-will-sell-you-a-computer-if-youve-got-too-many-gift-cards T... : pwnage1232
• There is an update out and they got it worked out for the guy. : sigpro
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  What's the issue for Apple? I mean they are the same as cash are they not? People paid for them. : Fred Garvin
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    Why do they charge for iPod Touch updates? They do a lot of stupid stuf. : FushigiDenki
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      lol they charge for that? No way? : Melll
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        $20.00 : FushigiDenki
        • wow. lol I just checked apple site because i couldnt believe it. : Melll
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        They charged for the "get the iPhone apps on your iPod" update. Regular OS updates have always been free... : electroly
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          But I thought all that shit came along with it since thats how ive seen it promoted... : Melll
          • No. You can update to the latest firmware of 1.1.4 w/o paying for the apps. : sigpro
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      Because they can. They are trendy and popular, and despite their horrible support and sales people flock... : Crimsonbeak
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        I've had pretty great experiences with service at their stores. Sure there are exceptions, but all-in-all... : not work safe
        • The fileshack support is pretty substandard honestly. : Crimsonbeak
      • Exactly, and unfortunately it's very off-putting. I would probably own a Touch by now if it weren't for ... : FushigiDenki
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      some kind of law. its included with touch's released after the update. : not work safe
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        false, this silly rumor has been debunked : FushigiDenki
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          where : not work safe
          • There have been several threads about it, rosewood has posted links to articles debunking any legal reaso... : FushigiDenki
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        what the hell kind of law would that be : feek
        • Sarbanes-Oxley is the law people are citing, but I have yet to see an actual statement from Apple on the ... : electroly
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    reselling gift cards , people paying less than the full price of the cards. They don't want people to 't... : dignan
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      That's really none of their business. Once they sell the gift card to someone, if that person wants to st... : Fred Garvin
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        im just guessing their logic on this, yea, its retarded.. Apple has the money no matter how you look at i... : dignan
        • I'd guess it's something way more mundane, like "our shitty billing system only has 4 fields for gift car... : electroly
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  i probably have close to $500 in best buy gift cards, i wonder if i can use them all at once : Flynn
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    I haven't had a problem using 3-4 at a time. They have to take them all and combine them into one massive... : Haxim
    • That's what Dell will do with their gift cards as well, last I checked. They'll let you use something li... : Arcanum
    • One gift card to rule them all : dearjamie
• wow, that is pretty retarded. : dopeman
• I don't really get it, they still got the money for the gift cards so why is it an issue. : nukewinter
• Future Shop has a 3 card limit, although it has to do with their POS only accepting up to 3 forms of paym... : quanta88
• They do this to curtail unlockers Right wrong, for better or for worse... Apple doesn't want cash s... : rosewood

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• Seems kinda lame to me, but either way they're dead so who cares:) : .frame
• Wasn't me I don't think but usually when I do that I'm just frustrated. : Grimmadog
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  As a Spy I can say sometimes it's less frustrating to kill yourself than get fucked by some horseshit lat... : EvilDolemite
  • I've pretty much given up on Spy on Chicago and East. My pings are 100-ish usually, and I'm tired of wat... : Head Rush
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  i think suicides count as deaths, so it doesn't really make any difference to their stats. it does take a... : re4ctor
  • I dunno, I think I'd feel pretty robbed if someone suicided rather than let me kill them. My bonesaw occa... : Arctic Fox
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  How about engys demolishing their buildings when they know they won't get there in time to un-sap it? : sanchez
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    i don't think you can do that anymore if its being sapped... : .frame
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      Yeah, that got fixed, but it was pretty lame to do before the patch. Are people really that desperate to... : Head Rush
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        When did it get fixed? I know I haven't seen it done in a while but it annoying me when I did see it. : sanchez
        • I think it was either the last patch, or the one before it. Very recently. : Head Rush
      • I did it because I thought it was a "feature" : Pneum0
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        What's wrong with blowing them up early? It gives you a chance to rebuild somewhere else quicker, instead... : Mmmmmoo
        • Yea I don't really see a problem with it. The spy's goal is served either way. : c0bra
        • I never blew them up early until a few days ago when I wanted to move a teleporter exit. It got sapped a... : jenisthebest
  • they can't do that anymore : zerog83
• I don't know, but late last night when things were dying down on badlands there was a team switcher who I... : bcyde
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  Are you sure it wasn't just a mistake? Maybe they were just that bad of a spy? : terath
  • "Now let me see, I've always had trouble with these butterfly knives..." "Oh blast, I appear to be ble : Arctic Fox
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  You still get the kill, it says you finished them off. I don't go that far, but if a pyro lights me up I... : snuff
  • Noooo, you must use your pistol to get the burning to death kill! : terath
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    Well as a spy, if a pyro lights you up, and there is no visible water/healthpacks/medic, you're pretty mu... : Arctic Fox
    • terath's idea: also good. : Arctic Fox
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      so you might as well so you can spawn a few seconds faster ;) : re4ctor
      • i swear i typed suicide in there. : re4ctor
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        I can see both sides of the story, yeah. Personally, if I was the spy on fire, I'd be trying to take the ... : Arctic Fox
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          Definitely. The pistol is quite powerful and can shave off 100+ hit points with a few shots : EvilDolemite
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            But his flamethrower can kill you instantly : snuff
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              Yeah of course, but if you're singed and still alive (and dying) you can get a couple of stabs or shots o... : EvilDolemite
              • Meh, just gives me a couple extra seconds to get a drink. : snuff
  • That's not cool. I always try to take the bastard pyro with me, or go off and backstab one of his preciou... : SockMonkeh
  • I didn't even get to light the spy up. I had my axe out at the time and chopping to the tune of whatever ... : Alco23
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  I always, always blow myself up if a pyro has set me on fire and I can't get to a health in time. Not for... : NastyJack
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    what principle is that exactly? : xxiv
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      The principle of not letting some pyro motherfucker get the satisfaction :) I just hate running around... : NastyJack
      • You could go with "saves me a few seconds in respawn time" for less Shack ridicule. : romulan
      • Kill people. Kill kill kill until your very last breath. : jreid
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        As a spy I've never killed myself to avoid being killed. : adodric
        • bah didn't mean to reply to your sub-thread : adodric
    • fuck pyros : SockMonkeh
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      To keep pyros off the top of the scoreboard. : bcyde
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        hehe I wouldn't do this if it happened more often because then it'd be a dick move. It's only in the very... : NastyJack
        • I was just joking. I've been playing TF2 a lot less and hardly pyro compared to how much I used to play ... : bcyde
    • I've done it in an attempt to take the pyro with me. But otherwise I'll try my hardest to get to health o... : terath
    • The principle of lame as shit. : the city
  • This is one thing we can agree on. : xjdrake32
  • Haha, if you've got time to run for health it means the pyro is probably dead, so it doesn't really matte : Alco23
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  It sounds like you're the stat-whore, otherwise you wouldn't care how they died; as long as they're dead ... : OverloadUT
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    Well this is a shacker and I'm bound to play with them on MY team sooner or later. Is this a habit you wo... : Alco23
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      If he knows he's going to die, he'll respawn quicker if he suicides, right? I can't really think of a rea... : OverloadUT
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        How's he know he's going to die? If he pulled out the pistol chances are in his favour, I wasn't close en... : Alco23
        • Because clearly he sucks enough ass that he's willing to do that to ensure you don't get any points off o... : the city
• I don't think so, I haven't seen anyone being retarded about trying to rack up points. : dkrulz
• i blow myself up with rockets all the time as a soldier. : ass-street
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  TPB Vs. Pwnify tonight guys @ 9PM EST probably on Moron : dkrulz
  • You spelled Chicago wrong. : xjdrake32
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    I can't make it for 9pm :( Good luck TPB! : paroxym
    • What about 9:30? : dkrulz
  • oh god this might interfere with LOST. im glad im not playing : feek
• This is why stats are a bad idea. : yosemiteclimber
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  Dear TF2 Shack Server Admin's: Can we have a designated night where the server turns of criticals? La... : ant_hillbilly
  • turns *off* criticals... :( : ant_hillbilly
  • I second this idea. : dkrulz
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    Fuck 1 day out of the week, how about 365 out of the year. I still don't know how anyone who played that ... : xjdrake32
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      how does that work with the sniper? : .frame
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        doesn't change criticals for sniping and back stabs. : ant_hillbilly
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          No wonder drake32 likes it then. : Arctic Fox
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            I played demo the entire time crits were off. Its not a huge change for the sniper not having crits in th... : xjdrake32
            • actually I take that back, it'll probably lower my knife kills per game :o : xjdrake32
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              hey, dodging is a skill buddy! Also, they are blue and hard to miss coming at you from across the map. I ... : terath
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                Haaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy when you're a sniper and zoomed in you can't see the entire screen! : dkrulz
                • That's true. Ok, snipers are exempt from dodging competitions. ;) : terath
            • ^^^my point : Arctic Fox
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    you will have awesome 1v1 or maybe even 2v2 games!!!!!! PRO STYLE TF2, SERIOUS BUSINESS : Downforce
    • I wouldn't really call it PRO STYLE. I'd call it non-newb style though :o : xjdrake32
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      it's more fun, after playing no crits for a while. it is more skilled of a style of play, the better play... : lakren
      • I think this is why we have a grass roots RA3 movement. settle it there for DM needs. last time I was ... : Downforce
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    I honestly can say I prefer crits : EvilDolemite
    • I enjoy a crit kill more than a crit death pisses me off. So I'm with you, ED. : Arctic Fox
    • Me too, I like the cool sound and the pretty blue it makes! : yosemiteclimber
    • Me too. I would not want to play with them off. : crummynz
    • The game is way better with crits. It's just more fun overall. : NastyJack
    • I love crits too b/c I know that no one ever kills me, they just get lucky with some crits. : rosewood
    • Yea, crits improve the game. it becomes abundantly clear on servers where they are turned off. As soon as... : Neech
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16473124 I thought I turned off crits? Is it back on again? : Maddog_Delphi97
    • yah reverse came on. He likes his games TF2'y so turned them back on. : ant_hillbilly
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      Re-verse turned them back on remember? ;) Leave RCON alone Maddog, you're mad with the power :P... : Alco23
      • :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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      why would you turn them off? seriously, just ignore the complainers. if it's not crits it will be a... : smax
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        I'm not complaining, i'm just trying to change things a bit. Is a few hours without crits really that ba... : ant_hillbilly
        • I think it would be better if we do have no-crits then allocate a time or a server for it. Don't do it ra... : Alco23
  • shooting a crit rocket makes me nostalgic of all those ridiculous quad runs. I'd absolutely love a quad d... : boomstickah
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  CRITS IN TOURNAMENT I think if both captains agree, crits should be turned off. Discuss. : lakren
  • Oh, yeah, no question about that. Both captains should agree in advance on this sort of thing. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Agreed. Lakren check your SM's. : dkrulz
  • that might be a good idea in a tournament setting, but i think it'd be pretty shitty for a normal game. : feek
• Shit like that is why suicides should count as -1 point. : Arcanum

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• http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9535&Itemid=2 : Sludgehead
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  Car radios now only play ads for Axe bodyspray : reign27
  • worse yet, real radio commercials, using ip addresses to give local ads. : Fyunch Click
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    My granddaughter got me some Axe for a Christmas present. I don't like it...it smells like a locker room... : RomSteady
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      .....granddaughter..? : oHnOES
      • Granddaughter: http://www.romsteady.net/blog/2007/08/last-night.html : RomSteady
    • Axe: Ball Sweat : Wolfanoz
    • is this from your wife's side? : slambast
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    12 channels of EA Trax! : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Brought to you by DJ Cockstain : Klebold
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    DJ Atomica will force us all to turn off the radio. :( : ThomW
    • "Hey there Thefters! DJ Atomica here, looks like thre was a group of thugs outside my studio selling Gril : Fyunch Click
    • oh god you just made me really sad :( : mikecyb
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      This is Atomica... You know, cruising the streets of Liberty City looking for a purse to snatch or a car : Ajax
      • stop it!! why do you want to hurt me :( : mikecyb
      • Why do you say these things? :( : Rauol Duke
      • Exactly. :P : ThomW
      • auuuuuug : jcupitt
• its ea games: challenge everything : podizzle
• NooooOOOooOOoo : Begawkiness
• Jokes about EA are always so consistently hilarious. : mittense
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  That's EA Sports' slogan : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I thought poppin' caps and slappin' hos was a sport. Sorry. : Sludgehead
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  I wonder if that would change the release date so that they can make changes to it. : razlebol
  • they wont because stock would drop if announcing a delay. : Iwannaacura
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  Eh does not really bother me, EA is not all that horrible these days. : Evil Benius
  • Doesn't bother me either. If anything I'm hoping for PC port to come out of this. : Sludgehead
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    seriously. you can't look at ea taking a shit on jack thompson, then look at ubisoft pulling their games ... : JINKY
    • They both suck : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  We need to make a list of evil things ea has done so that when they start acting like they're less evil w... : kaddar0
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    The only thing I really blame them for is cancelling UO2. : Evil Benius
    • YES YES YES AND MORE YES : sKetchflow
    • Motor City Online: Sunset NEVER FORGET :( : Ajax
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    the whole NFL license i can blame them for. NFL2k for 20bucks that year was the best football game that ... : Iwannaacura
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      And MVP was the best baseball franchise and then Take2 bought that exclusivity and made the shitpile that... : Deathlove
      • they did make the Bigs though : mikecyb
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        High Heat, when it was on the PC, was the best baseball franchise. The Show is currently the best basebal... : Tommy Toolbag
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          2k8 is pretty good. And High Heat had two or three years that were TERRIBLE. HH2K1 was amazing, though. : Deathlove
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            Yeah, I think HH2001 was my favorite. I stopped buying it once it went to the consoles. The Show is li... : Tommy Toolbag
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              I hear amazing things, but PS3 :( I hear the PSP version isn't any great shakes, either, so, you know. : Deathlove
              • I bought the PSP version for my nephew, but I havent talked to him since I gave it to him. IIRC, it revie... : Tommy Toolbag
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      I really don't get this. The NFL said they were auctioning off the exclusive rights, and EA bid on them a : xsoulbrothax
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        No did you ever read the article from 2k. If this is the case no way they could compete since EA = $$ : Iwannaacura
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          So EA's supposed to.. not bid on it, because they have too much money? I dunno, it seems pretty mind-b... : xsoulbrothax
          • The NFL sucks for letting their license go exclusive, and the top brass over at EA Tiburon suck for all t : Ajax
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    They have been making consistnetly good games for as long as I know. Can't think of why they are evil. : dilutedq
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      Westwood and bullfrog were lobotomized. : kaddar0
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        They fucking closed down Origin. Ultima Series Wing Commander Crusader Series System Shock : sigpro
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          That's exactly what I was going to post. To me EA is still the company who ruined/buried some of the best... : razorblade79
          • yeah. the grudge that i hold with EA is taking an awesome serious (C&C) and turning it into absolute shit... : mindmann
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    It would be better to make a list of all the companies they bought and eventually shut down. Westwood... : deathofrats
    • Yeah, but without EA's backing, UO might never have seen the light of day. : Tommy Toolbag
• EA Games: Jack Everything! : baron calamity
• Not to mention 2k Aus, Boston, Wherever (Formerly Irrational) will go with it. yay................. : Drewus
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  Threadjack: This leads to an interesting question. I know several people over at T2 who were...um...shit... : RomSteady
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    are they at Take-2 itself? because Take-2 is mostly corporate dudes I think... they don't produce or man... : mikecyb
    • Do you think they might even go as aggressive as anyone not attached to a studio would go? : Jonathan
  • You know several dudes at T2? Can you... can you get me a job at 2k boston? :/ : kaddar0
• Riccitiello makes a wonderful hack job on Take Two here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7294812.s... : Jonathan