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• Is it better than WoW? : Ellissd
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  any sort of demo? i understand if that isn't possible with the strong MP aspect, but i like being able t... : eeeealmo
  • yeah, a X day free trial to get a feel for things would be nice.. : Drakoniac
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  Is it fun? Is the world immersive and has it a sense of deepness and awe? How about the quests, do the... : xxx2xxx
  • Oh btw. thanks in advance:) : xxx2xxx
• What is best in life? : dirge23
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  Huh? Did I miss that they will lift the NDA or something? Or did you just got in the beta and is lo... : nosseman
  • Maybe he is meeting with the devs tomorrow for an interview or meet and greet? : gendail
• Is it gonna 0wn? : CrustaR
• I heard there are really bad loading issues, is this true? Also I heard there are many many promised f... : shortbuscaptain
• How is the combat? This is my #1 interest in this game. : byorn
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  will they allow for console <--> pc playtime (ie console users playing in the same world as pc users). (I : humbleone
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    wordsto remove is the answer - correct? : humbleone
    • i better sleep : humbleone
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  Will I be able to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of the women? : phate81
  • the lamentation of their women is a big part : Clay
  • This is really the only question that needs to be asked. : Dynotaku
  • I love that quote. : sanchez
• Yea, considering what I'm hearing about performance and fearing a Vanguard repeat: How well really will a... : Visceral Monkey
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  what do all the employees plan to do once this flops? : mwasher
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    Kinda harsh man, this is the first MMO I have wanted to see succeed in a long time. : Lightzout
    • I'd like it to succeeed, but its funcom, so I have zero faith : retardhumper
  • Oh God. Please don't tell me it sucks :( : Visceral Monkey
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    apparently AoC has racked up huge beta signup #s, so at least people are interested : Clay
    • STARWARSGALAXIES'D : Flynn
    • people love free betas... : empathe
  • It's to early to call it a flop or a success. It'll probably be a far shot from reaching anywhere near th... : xxx2xxx
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    It won't by any means be WoW successful since that's unrealistic for damn near ever dev and pub. However... : Wombat Woo
    • No game that wants to have really unique gameplay and features while having tons of depth will ever have ... : Bantis
• How deep is the character customization? (like, will a retard be able to have an awesome character b/c t... : goatjc
• Can I mount my enemy's head on a stake outside my fort? : painangel
• Ask when the patch to make it fun will come out, beat everyone else to it! : spaceyme
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16619854#itemanchor_16619854 : IncursionZ
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    Your posts depresses me. I have a 3800+, 2GB Ram, and a 7900GT. No way I'll be able to play the game. : wykd
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      it will be a slideshow as soon as you hit the first city. : IncursionZ
      • Ah well, they just lost out on _tons_ of potential customers because of that. Maybe upgrading to a 8800G... : wykd
  • I hope you know what AO release memories entail. : IncursionZ
• Is the first 20 or so levels still played offline? : wellesraphael
• hows combat? is it just a boring click fest? : deadfish
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  Alright, good list here. Anyone else? : notd665
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    The PC Req's is the big one. For me the second would be what is the time sink, are they focusing on la... : InfoBiter
    • Same here on the rec's. My GF and I are fine but we have a lot of friends with lesser PC's that want to ... : rhuntley12
  • I asked earlier but still haven't heard, can I explore solo like AO, which allowed careful but rewarding ... : Lightzout
  • Will there be copious amounts of blood when I hack off body parts? : stump
  • Will the game world be cross-platform allowing xbox and pc gamers into the same server? : painangel
• what is the meat of AoC? is it kill x enemies, instances or something else? : Klebold
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  I remember playing Anarchy Online Beta and loving it, along with many from EQ guild I was in. We all boug... : rhuntley12
  • Also, the starting area where you level up by yourself. I play with my girlfriend and we always play MMO'... : rhuntley12
• why is it so gay? : duncandun

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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16502384#itemanchor_16502384 : InfoBiter
  • It's too late for an argument tonight. :( : omnova
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  Saleswise? Orange Box sold a shitload : EvilDolemite
  • I think he's talking overall player base. : Begawkiness
• It's big enough. We have no trouble getting a full server or two every day, and that's good enough for m... : omnova
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  http://www.onlinegamingzeitgeist.com/games/ pretty big drop over the last few months. I love the game ... : aeg1x
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    ?? i don't even see tf2 on that plot : anhero
    • oh,scroll down : anhero
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      scroll way down, it's #19 : Mansmells
      • I'm surprised Halo PC is on top of TF2 : RikiTiki2
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    CS went UP in the past year??? : RikiTiki2
    • I think it's time they just declared CS a sport. : Boxelder
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    Wow, way further down than I expected. : crummynz
    • i'm not sure how accurate that chart is. regardless every time i look for a pub there are plenty to pick ... : Mansmells
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  You can only play the same maps for so long it got stale for me. : hashd
  • i played some of the custom maps last night, pretty good fun, skill wise, until the 12 year old boys star... : radula
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    The stats from CS disagree : rosewood
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      The game dynamic is not really comparable though. Those few CS maps aren't really played out the same way... : ieGod
      • Again I don't think this is a problem with the game as much as it's a problem of map design. : dkrulz
• Needs more good new maps. The new stuff this month will help. : Mmmmmoo
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  I still love talking about it, but I never play. I think it's a combo of map fatigue combined with the "G... : ZombieAcademy
  • Same. I have a similar relationship with WoW. I have barely played WoW since February of last year yet I'... : Shai-Tan
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  people realzing how shallow it really is compared to the original? I never really understood the appeal,... : dilutedq
  • I don't find it any more shallow than the original TF : chazums
• it gets boring quick, very repetitive shallow almost every game feels the same... its fun while it lasts ... : neodoom
• Is anyone still playing TFC in comparison? : kramweil
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  There just isn't enough depth. There are few unlockables, the classes have no advanced tactics, the custo... : Modica Sol Solis
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    And that's why Battlefield is not TF2, TF2 is not Battlefield, an Orange is not an Apple, A plank of wood... : Drewus
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      That's true, Battlefield isn't TF2. But there's a reason why Battlefield and other shooters of the same i... : Modica Sol Solis
      • Agreed. TF2's been off of my playlist for a few months now. Been playing CoH and Call of Duty (again)... : dedgecko
• You can't balance your game into oblivion, it really does hurt the gameplay, it's ok to make people work ... : SpaecKow
• I went apeshit on the game but now I haven't played in the last 2 weeks. : monkeygone
• yeah I'd say it has ..but what game doesn't? For a game you can just jump into at any time and have fun i... : IcomeINpeace
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  I loved the game but too many stalemates and the same maps. It needs some spice. : handofthrawn
  • Yeh I like the maps with a definite outcome. Dustbowl and Gravel have a winner and a loser every time, w... : Bonestormm
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  I found it inferior to the original which I played a ton of (as TF and TFC) so it really did not hold my ... : Evil Benius
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    TF had a ton more maps though which helped it a lot. My issue is the maps are getting stale after playin... : Horn
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      There were more maps, but that was not the issue for me. I usually play an Engineer and the loss of grena... : Evil Benius
      • It's the opposite for me - I don't miss the grenades at all but I do miss the variety in maps that TF had... : Horn
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  Well, a half a year after release and Valve has only put out one new map (I don't count ctf_well) and alm... : mrwolf710
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    Also those charts on online gaming zeitgeist make me sad. More people play the original Day of Defeat th... : mrwolf710
    • graphics aren't everything. the gameplay in the original DoD is considered by many (including myself) to... : kill9
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  But what terms do you quantify tanking? : geedeck
  • He isn't playing it, ergo tanking. : rosewood
• I still have fun with it. But I can see how most people would get tired of the same maps over and over. L... : hirosushima
• I enjoy TF2, but only in doses now. I'm just not good enough to hang with the big boys, and I'm more inc... : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I'd not play were it not for the tf2 shack stuff. : thief
  • this is me : RikiTiki2
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    This is very true. I don't play anywhere else except with shackers. : ieGod
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      That reminds me. Who do i have to asked to be allowed on the Shacks TF2 server? : baron calamity
      • Talk to maarten : rosewood
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  I think Valve should more directly support custom maps. Identify the quality ones, assist the authors in ... : Sze Ior
  • agreed.. it seems crazy that in 6 months we've had 1 new official map with just the one more still to com... : Arsenal
  • that would be pretty cool : feek
• I'm finding that I'm just not good enough. I played for an hour last night and it seems like everyone wa... : baron calamity
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  Ok, I'm gonna be totally honest here. I pretty much stopped playing because of shackers. 1) The tourn... : action roommate
  • Pretty much sums up my feelings : Grimmadog
  • Haha the tournament being "too competitive" For most it was still mostly just for fun and I think the maj... : dkrulz

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• Yeah. Bored 12 year old boy playing FF6 who just discovered the internet. : moogle
• i was drunk : shavenewok
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  momentary lapse in good judgment. : laurgasms
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    How often does this happen? : ejectorpod
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      As often as the female orgasm. : Sze Ior
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        At least 2 or 3 times a night? : ArtilleryMarker
        • night year : pnkrckjoe
• oogachoogabananawackasmackabunchacrunchaishkabibble : ConfusedUs
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  I just suck at making up names. : DrWaffles
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    Seconding this. : CrazyPants
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      3rd'd : disembodied potato
      • 4th'd : Rich McNinch
  • 5th'd : funnynamehere
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    Sup? : xxx2xxx
    • so far you're winning this war : sexninja!!!!
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  My uncle (who lives with us) would get drunk and come into my room at night and say "Hey buddy, who wants... : SockMonkeh
  • ....there are so many follow-up questions running through my head... : kallanta
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  My Shackname is also my real life nickname that was given to me by an Atari 8-bit users group when I was ... : RomSteady
  • Only cool nickname in this thread. : windowpane
• I'm a settlement in Minnesota... : Jonathan
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  ...Nah, I don't think so. : Sacred Sperm
  • God is still irate about this one escaping. : RomSteady
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  I AM THE WRITER YOU FUCKING IDIOTS : thewriter
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    The writer must learn punctuation, proper casing, proper means of emphasizing text within an all-caps sen... : RomSteady
    • Nice. : ifallible
    • No that's the editor... The write just spits out incoherent babble that fewer than 1% of the population ... : dedgecko
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  I used to start tangential topics in the middle of a thread when I used my old shackname, so when I made ... : thetangent
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    what? you can change your name? I was a kid when I picked this name, and uh, well you get the idea... : dixieboi
    • you can change your name by creating a new account..... : thetangent
• I have no idea. : Matt Burris
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  1) I was multisync's roommate 2) I played on his xbox and kicked all you guys' asses at PGR2 3) You col : action roommate
  • those were some good times, that pgr2 game : FrayLo
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    who's wombmate again then your brother? : thewriter
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      twin brother : FrayLo
      • which is a freaking great name : zakazi
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  simply my last name translated into english : theWhite
  • See I always assumed it was a DS9 reference. : moogle
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    Matt LeBlanc?!?!? : sludge vohaul
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      so close : theWhite
      • Blanco. : Thresher
• Mine is from a Dilbert comic strip where Dogbert becomes an MTV correspondent and interviews a rapper nam... : freshyk
• I'm a guy who is often bored. : boredguy
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=8293945 : Caboose
• I was Mars for ever . .. then had to quit the shack (was keeping me from working) so i changed the pass... : fuzzydamnit
• Shark was taken *shrug* : sharkII
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  Terry Pratchett nut. What can I say. : deathofrats
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    More than once I've considered changing my name to Monkey Librarian. : kallanta
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      But... you don't want to call him a monkey... : Jonathan
      • But he's allowed to call himself a monkey. He also gets to scratch himself in public. : kallanta
• Quake 1 shareware comes out, I get online, and need to come up with a teenage-awesome handle that isn't t... : reign27
• This one time there was a basket. It had kittens in it. : basketofkittens
• dudeman was taken I'LL FIND YOU YOU FUCKER!!!!!!!!! : dewdman
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  not sure : whore
  • the rest of us are wink wink nudge nudge ''you know what I mean" : fuzzydamnit
• electrolyte : electroly
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  I'm named after the character in the Cantina in Star Wars Ep. IV. : dognose
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    You were Greedo?!?!? : RomSteady
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      Hey, my parents named me. I had nothing to do with it. : dognose
      • I've tried that excuse and everyone laughed at me :( : Jonathan
  • i thought you were named after a chinese food menu item. : davislovestacobell
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  meh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest : sludge vohaul
  • that remains to this day one of my fondest gaming memories. Hell the voicemail password on my cell is 685... : strider_
• Some bitch had Jumper taken. So I added the -us in the spirit of good Roman names. Maximus? Pssh. Jumperu... : Jumperus
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  Spanish teacher messed up my real name in high school. : Geoffrois
  • And now, The severe beating of a high-school spanish teacher... : dedgecko
• This thread explains most of the ded - (dom deluise's spelling of it from mel brook's robin hood) part: ... : dedgecko
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkpol Thought Police in Newspeak from 1984 by George Orwell : thinkp0l
• I'm a linux geek with a mustang GT : devnullgt
• Rigor Mortis was too mainstream for me. : Rigor Morts
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  The story goes when I was in college we'd get bored and go snag lawn ornaments... looking back it sounds ... : stonedonkey
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    Yeah. I thought it had something to do with weed. : thetangent
    • I thought it referenced the donkey in Worms games :( : Lightbulb
• First part is my DJ alias, numbers are from back in the High School AIM days when Sirus was already taken... : Sirus2400
• since I know everyone is so curious... (right?) I was in a biology class in 10th grade. We were given ... : sparkly
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  It means happy. : felicia
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    No, that's fellatio. : Thresher
    • Cut the crop : Omaha
• "Mad" Jack McMad, winner of last year's Mr. Madman competition. : Mad Jack McMad
• I didn't put too much thought into mine. :( Used an old university login name. :( I hate myself. :( : pap26
• Name I made up for a rogue character in D&D when I was like 13. I actually use the alias "spozik" on the... : skizl
• it means I picked it when I was 12 and wanted to be a barbarian warlord,.........ok I still want to be a ... : Yabrodan
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  Ever watch the Wing Commander movie? For some reason they actually label the ejectorpods on the ships in... : ejectorpod
  • I weep for you. I have seen that movie as well. I was offered a refund when I returned it. No question... : Sylvanus
• I wanted a name that didn't remotely sound like a girl's. Something boring and humorless, like a 14 yr ol... : Borzoi
• Indosauros, a minor character from Fred Saberhagen's Books of the Swords series. http://en.wikipedia.org... : indosauros
• I thought a DBZ reference would be tacky so I went with an SNK character. : genjuro
• nickname at work....it some how fits : mitzimouse
• someone already had nova : n0v4
• My dick is so big I use it as a third leg. and i find internet speak funny. : cockoftehwalk
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  by jaga! : jaga
  • Thundercats HO! : gyokuro
• ryuu: dragon seki: stone Dragonstone, or A Stone Dragon. : ryuuseki
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  =P : EqualsP
  • haha, that's actually very funny and clever I'd say. : -efx-
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14298383 : Ajax
  • That made me laugh. : kallanta
  • I thought it was for the Greek hero - you know, the one who fell on his sword to kill himself! : Postal
• Was reading Beowulf at the time quake 1 came out, thane = warrior/soldier, it fit, now I'm stuck. At... : thane
• http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=home+nugget : Home Nugget
• I rode a special services bus to school during the sixth grade, good times. : shortbuscaptain
• dave was already taken :( : Dave-A
• Most people already have Avatar registered, so I tack on my initials, and it stuck since then. : DHAvatar
• Amatsu Mikaboshi >:) Mikaboshi is not a physical god ... but a dark Force that existed before the univ : AMikaboshi
• pretty sure i've explained this before. i wanted something unique so i picked two words which wouldn't no... : erotic sock
• Mine's from a Frank Zappy song called Punky's Whips. It's called plunkymeadows b/c that was my beer die ... : plunkymeadows
• Smacked a guy in the forehead with the Cueball... it seemed like a good idea at the time. : Q-ball
• I wanted a cool name when I joined up with TEN. I tried several shark names, Hammerhead, Mako, etc. Thr... : Thresher
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  It's a long story..... : reelbk
  • Then quick, proceed! : RevRaven
• "dirge" i picked arbitrarily as a nickname for quake games when i was 16 or 17, because i liked the overt... : dirge23
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  Do I really NEED to? -----------> : Dookeyfingers
  • your name's synonymous with awesome, anyways : Postal
• wanted to be anonymous instead of using my real name as I use to so I picked a name of a website I was th... : giantshift
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  playing starcraft in high school, my buddy was MrSinister, so i came up with the similar-sounding/rhyming... : NastyNorman
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    ...I think I knew MrSinister actually... Ever play with Lonekatz, Bazokifier, or Monkyfnd? : kallanta
    • no, thats definitely just a coincidence he had the same username, different people : NastyNorman
• Chosen for some arbitrary RPG type game. It has no meaning and was a poor choice since I have trouble rec... : terath
• A nickname I got from some friends because my first name starts with "b" and I'm into hip hop so b-side b... : bcyde
• My Quake name of Cleetus was usually taken so when Tribes came out I thought I'd completely make somethin... : Kaerof
• my first character in Everquest back in 1999. It was randomly generated. : gendail
• Initials of old usernames. : NFXFSX
• 1723, from assumed L. pl. Ovates, from Gk. Ouateis "soothsayers, prophets," mentioned by Strabo as a thir : Ovate
• Omnipotent + supernova + 6 letter max = omnova. : omnova
• I chose Overload years ago because I'm not very creative, but that name was always taken so I added UT be... : OverloadUT
• what? : Degenerate
• From Diablo, a mini-boss monster namedPukerat the Unclean. I used that for awhile but shortened it to ju... : pukerat
• my name just is a kindof green tea...my favorite kind. : gyokuro
• Just letting you know that "I am fallible." When I'm really not. : ifallible
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  I wanted to be mittens but the name was taken and so, as is my habit of doing, e always seemed to be the ... : mittense
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    i always thought it had to do with mitten sex, ie mittense.cx : sexninja!!!!
    • That's a common conception. : mittense
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  Like the Skaven dude from Warhammer, only misspelled. Also my high school band nickname. : nurglich
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    A band geek AND a roleplayer, you must have been beating the ladies back with a stick! i wasn't in ban : slickdoody
    • Warhammer ain't D&D. It's far more time consuming and expensive. : Moonbase Commander
    • The band ladies actually liked me. Not that I did much about it at the time because I was even more dens... : nurglich
• poop jokes are funny : slickdoody
• thought it would be cool in 1993, used it for awhile, stuck ever since : Postal
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  I really liked DOOM and wasn't very creative when I was 13. : DOOManiac
  • http://www.doomaniac.com/ : SockMonkeh
• Well, my lust for purple energy pools knows no bounds so my choice in life was clear. : Moonbase Commander
• I'm not always right, but I am never wrong. : infallible
• persephone + stephanie = my username. : perstephanie
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  cause nobody else would have it, it's always available to register and i'm gay for dragons--------------... : graceofdragons
  • gayfordragons? : zakazi
• I am the ninja master! : jonin
• i love lamp : acidravelamp
• oops i plappered my pants! haha. : Plapper
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  first initial + last name :( i wouldn't have picked this 4 years ago had I known I'd wind up posting a ... : mwasher
  • Same here, but I added a Super. Everyone on XBL thinks it's a pothead reference. :( : Super Sparker
  • I'm right there with you dude :/ : jbury
• Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. Jeff Trombly : trOmblyj
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  round 96-ish, I was using MSChat and one of the avatars is a tiki, so I used RikiTiki as a username for a... : RikiTiki2
  • haha i used this too.....the alien was cooler. : Rigor Morts
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    You always reminded me of a guy named TikiTikiRevenge in an old Smash Brothers Melee parody fan fiction '... : Malku
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      fanfic cult? scariest thing I've heard in weeks : RikiTiki2
      • Well. Most fanfiction is that gay action/romance/angst/godkillmenow. Me and a buddy in real life did pa... : Malku
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  I like cunnilingus and alcohol : liqker
  • excellent, i love it. : plunkymeadows
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  Super stoned on some weed called the 'romulan' when I registered. I changed it a bit later. I got perma... : romulan
  • I would have guessed it was the obvious Star Trek reference. : Sebastian-TEC
• no clue can't remember : buzzbat
• ILTC : DonkeyPopsicle
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  LESS THAN JAKE SONG. : dopeman
  • here is the song.. or a variant of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIHTiblafps : dopeman
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    Damn they were so good back in the day. : hirosushima
    • you know it! : dopeman
• ugh, everquest random name generator, added a letter to it, just stuck to online friends who know me : kelerian
• Kevin 1. It doesn't get any more clever than that. :( : K1Bond007
• pretty self explanatory.. digital + analog squished together : digitanalog
• Had to think of a cool moniker from when finally abandoned the old AOL FLastn2882-style handle. I've alwa... : RevRaven
• Spaceman Spiff : spiffymc
• First D&D character name (2nd ed Dwarven Cleric) : Grumbeld
• im a dork : kill9
• Sylvanus - Played off the Roman god of forests, groves and wild fields. in LotRO - Tarasil - Tolkien Ref... : Sylvanus
• i chose this in 8th grade. at that time, i was mainly good at academics, so i wanted a name that would re... : mindmann
• uhhhhhhhhh : Clay
• my name is davis and I FUCKING LOVE TACO BELL!!! : davislovestacobell
• I got pregnant when I was 16... no really though, it's a Canadian thing, "Juno" was the primarily Canadia... : Juno
• I've got an audio clue http://uglysad.shackspace.com/uglysad.mp3 : uglysad
• I'm a perpetual noob. :D : Noobler
• I went away to camp one summer and when I got back it was all 'hax0r' this and 'crax0r' that. So, I made... : slax0r
• I'm blind, I'm a prophet, and I also live in the underworld where I give out advice to whoever passes by.... : Teiresias
• Warning long post I love Zelda. But the world seems to have ruined it (Damn you highschool!). In... : Malku
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  Yosemitclimber and I had just built my desktop, couldn't think of a name, looked at the beer label and we... : racer5
  • At least we didn't spill any on it while we were putting it together! Or did we... : yosemiteclimber
• Hey, the lowercase L looks like another i. Yeah thats right, It really is Limpossible. Screw you guys >:( : limpossible
• wow, mine is my main wow characters name which was arrived at after clicking the wow randomizer a number ... : zebrigazi
• "Snowfall" in Italian. Italian is pretty, as is falling snow. : nevicata
• my eye was itching and burning due to allergies at the time. : burning eye
• My last name is white, and back in highschool a friend started calling me great white. : great-white
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  well, you see, when two ninjas love eachother very very much, they get married and make a baby : sexninja!!!!
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    Is there such a thing as the mailmanninja? : Wombat Woo
    • Yes, and this is what happened the last time our paths crossed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjaWn-p... : sexninja!!!!
• Discordian saint. took it on a lark on one board and it stuck. been meaning to rebrand myself, but never ... : stgulik
• Cause when I was 14 I thought that a burning angel was badass : FiReaNG3L
• the explanation is buried somewhere in my post history : biskits
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  Ever since I was kid I've liked birds, and flying. After reading My Side of the Mountain I got hooked on ... : gyrfalcon
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    I think that they nicknamed the F-16XL (the experimental plane that competed against the Strike Eagle for... : coldfusioncs
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      Pilot training so T-6 Texan first, hopefully T-38 Talon later, who knows after that. : gyrfalcon
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        Neat! How much say do you have in what you get to fly once you're out of the Talon? What would you like t... : coldfusioncs
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          You put in a "dream sheet". Whether you get your preference depends on what's available at the time, your... : gyrfalcon
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            No F-22 or F-35? I would be drooling to fly those planes. : coldfusioncs
            • i highly doubt they put new pilots into f22's. : xxiv
• in star wars, luke skywalker is in rogue squadron with Antilles Wedge. I always thought Antilles was a co : Antilles_Prime
• Royal = Middle name, Ally = from 2v2 Red Alert days, I was your ally. I played the brits, royal, it all s... : royalally
• I'm a 3 toothed hillbilly. : BanjoBoy
• My name is Luke and I'm fat. Hence Big Luke : Big Luke
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  im black : xsoulbrothax
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    I wanted xcrackax but it was taken :( : dognose
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      damn I would love to have been xbeigebrotha : sesmaster
      • -x : sesmaster
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        Sorry, but only cracka jokes are funny :( : dognose
        • Dognose is putting on the ritz : azenmaster
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  Back in the Quake days I was known as Zalazo*. Wrote some stuff that got into Sujoy (and on the shack too... : zakazi
  • whenever I read you name I instantly associate it with zaraki, as in zaraki kenpachi. : AbortedFetusChristi
• went by "aragorn" for a long time back in the quake1 days, that was taken when i made my account here in ... : strider_
• a good shit is the best thing on earth : jessipoo
• I'm sorry, mine just works on so many levels, it would deserve its own wikipedia entry. can't type that a... : AbortedFetusChristi
• Back in college friends found it amusing to say "cereal" instead of "serious." Like, "Are you cereal?" ... : cerealSAM2
• The crab from The Little Mermaid. A few friends called me that when I first met them. I still don't reall... : Sebastian-TEC
• My first name starts with the letter M and I like the number 5. I also have sex with cows. : Mmmmmoo
• I have no idea... : dumb.
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  No reason at all. Nothing to see here. Go about your business. : retardhumper
  • Oh no! : Malku
• Mine's a reference to an episode of Pete and Pete. : GonzoRookie
• I can't pronounce it how could I be able to explain it. : Audhuml4
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  My Doom name (on Dwango and EFnet #deathmatch) was Nightowl. Nightowl was taken on here. Someone I know... : owly
  • Old school. : CrustaR
• I used my name b/c I have no imagination left; fucking video games. : wellesraphael
• It was a moment of genius when playing Soldier of Fortune II and watching GI Joe episode centered on Ship... : Sailor of Fortune
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  in the game startopia, where you build a space station and different races do different jobs, the dahanes... : dahanese
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    That was a great game : notd665
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      it was a fucking spectacular game! : dahanese
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        I have never heard of this game. Here's where you reply with details about what platform it's on and if i... : OverloadUT
        • It's on PC and is still very much playable and works on XP and Vista. It's superb. Think Dungeon Keeper i... : marmite
• means Cabbage in arabic. : mallfouf
• Because my usual gamer name of Lildude was already taken. so I just used my job title : sesmaster
• German for Genghis Khan, also it was when i was really into YTMND, and plus its pretty goddamn original : Dschinghis Khan
• I used to go by Parmesan, as it was my favorite food (condiment?) and I'm from Wisconsin. I switched to d... : disposition
• You have a girl's name. Just sayin' :( : Ebu
• I'm a wetback on the run. : Kaiser
• I used to do a lot of online roleplaying community work, always under the moniker of Endless Moon. And th... : Modica Sol Solis
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  I started out as Icedfusion on shack - that was just a random name I thought sounded cool (lol) at the ti... : Mr.Fusion
  • What's your PhD in mate? : Arctic Fox
• I am rendered with a lot of pixels. : hirez
• I've always loved irony. And uhm, 10? years ago when I picked this nick I was short/small so to call myse : GodZilly
• I used "Galadriel" for the MUD I was playing because LOTR was my favorite book and I am not creative with... : Galadriel07
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=9652959 : InfoBiter
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  "Tal" wasn't allowed because of the damned 4-char minimum back in '99. So I picked my favorite villain. N : Magus
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    Magus from Chrono Trigger? I don't really put him in the villain category. He was kind of on your side, y... : Sebastian-TEC
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      No. He was a villain the entire time. Up until the point where Frog slices his stupid head off. : famine101
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        I am pretty sure he joined my party and is now helping me to kill Lavos. (In the game I started just a we : Sebastian-TEC
        • Same here when I played it 10+ years ago. : kallanta
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    So how did cot and moz etc register? Tal is *my* gaming handle, damnit! : Vantage
    • Hahahaha really? That's funny. cot and moz registered years later after they changed the rules. >:( : Magus
• My name was taken so I had to add an extra 'm'. : Bonestormm
• I'm not nearly as creative as I am tall. : sixfoot6
• drunk. : losder5000
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  unfortunate typo : alarm cock
  • lolz : Sebastian-TEC
  • Mourning wood? : coldfusioncs
• I like waffles : Waffles!
• Self fulfilling prophecy. : Chunks
• 'Cause my name's Josh and I'm fuckin' adorable. : ChibiJosh
• reverend for a holy title, heresy for the nin song : reverend~heresy
• im a tcp/ip nerd : synack
• MST 3K of course. : Flint Ironstag
• Bulma's father on Dragon Ball....and I do have a Ph.D. in male underwear! : drbriefs
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=9653137 : carrioN luggagE
• Jbury: My name is J Bury Not very original but... :( : jbury
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  i like marmite. An ex-gf once put marmite on her boobs for me. : marmite
  • Oh... I thought you where saying you where a pot of some sort. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?... : Sebastian-TEC
  • Nice! I once had a girlfriend who threw my Marmite away. She thought it had gone bad :( We don't have Ma... : knepus
• too much NWS!, jk, I was really high one day as a lurker and some post made me register and I was all, th... : shackwack
• I typically go by 'cracky' but it was taken. I played as 'DasCracky' in Wolf: ET so there. : DasCracky
• My birth state and initials : ColoradoCNC
• Ever seen the mighty boosh? : Vincenoir
• I'm sad to say this but my "shackname" is lifted from Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time. I read up to like boo... : Shai-Tan
• a, it wasn't taken. b, I'm just a random guy... : randomjgj
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  My favorite Pixies song, especially live. I used monkeygonetoheaven in CSS and decided to use it in TF... : monkeygone
  • Oh yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRrTl2J2w8 : monkeygone
• When I woke up in the woods it was tattooed on my arm. : algernoN8
• Couldn't think of anything, so I opened a dictionary and grabbed the first word I saw. Later switched th... : riptyde
• some else had iggy : eyegeegeewhy
• well my real name starts with an capital T ... being somewhat international in my work and talking to man... : BigT
• sekrets : TheFatMom
• an attempt at saying my real names initials. I don't like it anymore :( : jayares
• an attempt at saying my real names initials. I don't like it anymore :( : jayares
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  bill hicks reference : arizona bay
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    whoa, I thought it was from the Tools song Aenema. After research I see that they got the idea from him. ... : Sebastian-TEC
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      yeah i get that a lot but i dont really like tool, i think they are a stupid band. : arizona bay
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        Different strokes for different folks. : Sebastian-TEC
        • true that : arizona bay
• Simpsons reference obviously. I like keeping all my tags and handles etc. the same so I used the same one... : Duffman8369
• 'industro gar(b)age beats' off of aphex twin - joyrex j9 : industro
• My name is Drew. Drewus was a nickname I had in college. : Drewus
• Scott is my name. Jock is a term for scottish people in the military, hence, scottythejock. : scottythejock
• I like kids on Xbox Live calling me Evil Penis every night. : Evil Benius
• my original nick is BlindGuardian, which is also the name of a great german heavy metal band. sometimes i... : blindi0815
• music : dael
• kami refers to my godcomplex, [7] was added because some fucktard had a bigger complex : [7]kami
• A Master of Zen : azenmaster
• i like donuts : donuthead
• loopy@hotmail.com was already taken : hiloopy
• Got drunk one night in college, mistyped "newk" on a CS server, liked it, kept it. : newek
• This is a nickname I've had since I was a kid. : Tissen
• This is just a character account. My normal one is Drucifer : Optimus Prime
• Between my first and second year of college I worked at a camp for kids with speech and hearing disabilit... : MisterPhoton
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  These folks: http://www.twoloneswordsmen.com/ I really don't listen to them much, but the concept is a... : Lone Swordsman
  • i always wondered if you were a fan of them, they're fucking amazing : disembodied potato
• sadly I created this moniker for everquest but I liked + kept it well beyond : boring gegtik
• Back in '95 I just chose a combination of letters and consonants that sounded, uh, "cool". Some years la... : Nitrium
• I'm a little dinosaur. I have no children and my wife and I are leaving for work. Smallwood does not re : DinK
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  24 was my high school sports number, and also just something of a lucky number. i couldn't think of anyth... : xxiv
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    I've always just pronounced it x-ziv : marmite
    • i've been called "14" in tf2. it's actually somewhat of a joke now. i just roll with it, whatever i k... : xxiv
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    I always have a hard time converting this in the heat of battle in TF2 :P : Arctic Fox
    • yeah it doesn't really roll off the tongue when trying to yell it out. twenty-four! or X-X-I-V! : xxiv
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    strangely enough, it's never even dawned on me that this might be a roman numeral. i always just pronoun... : riptyde
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      I did ziziv : c0bra
      • weirdos! : xxiv
• im a nut for street fighter and AKUMA (gouki in japan) was my favorite character since they introduced hi... : X-GOUKI
• Typeface of terror! : helvetica
• Started as slight rearrange of "sinistra" since I'm left handed. Didn't like the "stra" ending, so chang... : SinistarX
• I used to be malkav13 (Vampire: The Masquerade reference) but there were a hell of a lot of malkavs in an : Arctic Fox
• In Quake 1, when you killed somebody with the rocket launcher it would say "[Killed] rode's [killer's] ro : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I'm an old SOB who used to play games on dialup and had a high ping. : FormerHPB
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    greetings, fellow high-ping-bastard : Arctic Fox
    • no games, but I used to dial up at 300 baud on my Commodore 64 to the BBS'. Nothing like being able to r... : FormerHPB
• minnesota + snow = minnesnota : mnsnota
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  I chose it 10 years ago. I was an idiot back then. : c0bra
  • I seem to say that about myself every decade. But not NOW. NOW, I'm pretty cool. : kek
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=9654987#itemanchor_9654987 : SlamDunk
• I got trapped in an invisible box and ran out of air back in 93' at a pantomime school. In order to get ... : skitzo
• When i joined the shack in 99, I was working at Ocharleys at night "ochux" and was a bouncer "goon" : ochuxgoon
• duncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncanduncandun... : duncandun
• these are my initials and my alter ego : sjpeters79

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  I can see all the druids taking to the air until the worst is over. Then the battle of furry will begin. : Wombat Woo
  • Begun the druid war has. It would never fucking end either. : moogle
• Oh you mean DAoC! : RogerDandy
• this sounds like the worst idea ever : shred.
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  Of course then someone would run into an instance and wait. : hirosushima
  • Not if they were closed. : FPSDavid
  • shattrath would be pretty packed : yAak
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  Rogues would roam the world untouched. : ashkie
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    I can see a Subtlety rogue from 15 yards, we'd get em all ev entually : graceofdragons
    • Epic goggles FTW. : mystifier
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  It would be awesome if an MMO came out where you had to get another player to res you in order to come ba... : SockMonkeh
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    I'd still like to see perma death implemented in mmo's. At least some variation of it such as the one yo... : Wombat Woo
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      no it doesn't. D2 and Hellgate do it because getting a character up to max level doesn't take 100s of hou... : derelict515
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        *100s of hours of work : derelict515
        • s/hours/days for some people. : slax0r
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          There is nothing that says a good MMO has to require 100 hours of "work" to build your character. I think... : SockMonkeh
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            If "losing it all" doesn't matter, why have permadeath to begin with? It not mattering implies there's l... : Arcanum
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              I didn't say it wouldn't affect you, I just said it wouldn't matter. You could lose all your shit and the... : SockMonkeh
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                The reason people use WoW is because WoW is the best example of the only MMO style that has been really w : Arcanum
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                  How about combat that involves player skill more and not just character skill? More active combat. The co... : SockMonkeh
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                    because if its all skill and no stats then there's effectively no advancement... : derelict515
                    • Not to mention that a significant (if not majority) of the player base for all MMO's don't and wouldn't h... : InfoBiter
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                      Bingo, and no in-game advancement means that "permanent death" is effectively meaningless. You're just p... : Arcanum
                      • although an MMOFPS might be fun, I dunno. : electroly
                    • Okay but that's not what I said. Look at Mount & Blade. That's skill and stats. : SockMonkeh
    • Perma-death is not going to be fun for the vast majority of players, especially if there's any vaguely op... : Arcanum
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      I'm not sure how that would work in an MMO context. PVP? Raiding? World PVE? Is perm death... "allowe... : action roommate
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        You guys have a really narrow view of what an MMO can be. : SockMonkeh
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          thanks for explaining it. : action roommate
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            You're so closed minded that you can't even see the explanation! : omnova
            • It could be the pints of guinness I had an hour ago : action roommate
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          Indeed. However all of there arguments are 100% correct when they apply perma-death to the typical mmo ... : Wombat Woo
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            I'd argue that it's essentially correct in most games in general, simply because people don't like losing... : Arcanum
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              I'd pay $50 a month for an mmo with a dynamic world. Kingdoms built and burned. Land masses split in tw... : Wombat Woo
              • that's a lot different from taking away a player's personal investment though. Having a kingdom conquered... : derelict515
              • This is what I want to see. In a game like this, death would be a non-issue. What's more important is pre... : Modica Sol Solis
    • I don't like the idea of permadeath. I like the idea of meaningful death. My favorite model, I think, is ... : Modica Sol Solis
  • Could be interesting if there was a developed enough ghost game. : ZombieAcademy
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  it was interesting when they had that plague bug, a disease that was supposed to be kept in a certain are... : Chandler55
  • it killed all the level 1 bank alts in Ironforge. thats about it. The griefers actually hard to work very... : Slowtreme
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  Poor poor poooor hillsbrad :( : Nighteyes
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    oh man, i remember when pvp ranking first came out and there was this eternal shifting line-battle in hil... : yAak
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      Ranks depending on honor. Divided the server up by best to worst. Everyone wanted GM gear. : pigvomit
      • I just joined the fray because I liked using my heavy frost build on groups of people : RikiTiki2
    • I remember completing a quest there that raised some lich right outside of the Alliance town. He would ru... : ZombieAcademy
• I think it would be pretty cool but not on every server, just make a few new servers with it on - I'd cer... : jbury

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• I remember being annoyed by this in Battlefield. Made me want to rip up furniture. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  How many playtests have you watched? I've seen people forget what buttons do what going between ROOMS. : RomSteady
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    well, I would think a playtester would show that considering that most people are playing something for t... : dedgecko
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      We even had REPEAT playtesters forget. : RomSteady
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        well that's unfortunate. any particular age group or did was did it span several generations? : dedgecko
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          Depending on the game, between 30% and 60% of our repeat playtesters forgot the controls after one week, ... : RomSteady
          • I think everyone suffers from some sort of readjustment time though. But prompts have always been in con... : dedgecko
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        Do you know if PC gamers also have this problem? I don't know anything about playtesting, so I'm curious... : Matt Burris
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          yes, and it can be even worse. : dopefish
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            Any sensible dev would make F the default key for acting upon an object. : riptyde
            • I always use e as activate and f as flashlight (half life) : klearlyunseen
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        When they play for the first time, can you at least force them to play a "training map" similar to what V... : Maddog_Delphi97
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          I tell ya, kids today are stupider than when I was a kid. On the Atari and NES, we didn't have training : Matt Burris
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            Not defending today's youth, but Atari and NES were pretty straightforward compared to today's games. : Maddog_Delphi97
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              And only had 2 buttons. : theamazingrand0
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                Four if you counted START and SELECT, eight if you counted the cardinal directions on the D-Pad. : RomSteady
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                  counting the same, how many are on the xbox? 20? : theamazingrand0
                  • 17 buttons, including each direction on the D-Pad and the big Xbox button. Then you have each combo of... : SockMonkeh
            • In a sense, I was being facetious, but if I really wanted to make a point, I'd mention the Genesis and SN... : Matt Burris
  • playtests seem a whole lot like focus groups. in that they're stupid and the attitude towards them should... : JINKY
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  That shit always throws me off in Gears of War because when I see the icon pop up I think it means I can ... : SockMonkeh
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    I thought Gears did an awesome job for calling attention to the cinematic stuff with "Y" I just wished... : dedgecko
    • Yeah, that reminds me. I wish the left bumper was used for melee instead of B. It makes so much more sens... : SockMonkeh
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    I don't know hat you are talking about that never happened... infact having those icons saved this game. ... : dilutedq
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      It has happened to me many times. : SockMonkeh
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        Gears of War is a pretty damn buggy game. That's not my opinion, that's just a fact. My opinion is that d... : SockMonkeh
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          haha, what the fuck? gears of war isn't buggy. i've played through it four+ times with no issue and hou : the city
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            Maybe you're just not very observant. I really only play multiplayer these days but I am constantly, and ... : SockMonkeh
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              I'm very observant. I also haven't played multiplayer as much. I found single player to be a great ex... : the city
              • Look, you just haven't seen them. I'm not calling you stupid or anything, but you are wrong. The game has... : SockMonkeh
          • Just because YOU don't see a bug, doesn't mean there are none. I've played through numerous games that w... : Matt Burris
    • I enjoy a lot of console games, but keep in mind I just got an Xbox 360 on January 2nd of this year, so I... : Matt Burris
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  Speaking of games, your site is so great! I don't play games anymore but i like to see what's going on. O... : Utopia
  • Awesome, I'm glad the site provides that for you. Perhaps one day it'll motivate you to play? Dead Risi... : Matt Burris
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  When I tell the game I want to play on Super-Ultra-Veteran difficulty, I probably know how to play. : Trips
  • Press A to bandage your left ear. : Matt Burris
• I have to say it. Best promp in a videogame I've ever seen was the blue A button in the 64 Zelda title... : Malku
• I believe Moore's Law also inversely referred to attention span. : ifallible

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  Decode our men? What the fuck. : NFXFSX
  • bleep bloop logic bloop bleep rational thought bleep scratching balls feels good bloop : aeg1x
• lol tyra banks is fat : dodob
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  Why do these guys marry women who so very much not understand something that seems relatively important t... : jessipoo
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    pussy on the pedestal syndrome. : stgulik
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      pussy on the pedestal syndrome. : mega man
      • pussy on the pedestal syndrome. : Matt Burris
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  Who gives a shit. Seriously, gaming culture is massive, everyone plays games of some kind, even though th... : SpaecKow
  • oh 100% agreed. that video is the stupidest thing I've seen in a while : tunis5000
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    ...Unless they go on the Tyra Banks show. The opinions Tyra was getting her audience to applaud to, its p... : Jenings
    • Then just avoid those people - it's not like you can't find plenty who don't give a shit. : SpaecKow
• Pretty funny. : Porkasaurus
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  Not really degrading, just her take on it. A girl who's made a lot of success and money off gaming isn't ... : Audhuml4
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    I agree, it wasnt degrading, and she was clearly trying to speak to the women to help them understand why... : hirez
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      right she was just talking to them like if you were trying to explain something to a child or someone men... : neodoom
      • hahah. uh... thats not what I meant... really.... ok, it was. : hirez
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    I lost all respect for morgan webb based on the few things she was saying, all were ridiculous and embarr... : dilutedq
    • Didn't you know? She has a psychology degree. : Matt Burris
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  the writer of the article is retarded. how is morgan webb to blame for having such a short period of time... : dodob
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    Do you have to refer to Tyra Banks by her first name? Is it an honorific like Queen Elizabeth II? : jessipoo
    • i say tyrabanks like it's oneword :| : dodob
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  Did Morgan Webb seriously just say that people who play fps games are "fighting something in themselves?"... : weaselmeister
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    Yeah, that really threw me off too. I play multiplayer games for some light-hearted, usually social comp... : omnova
    • I'm fighting the dark demons from days past strugling to keep my anst under wraps. And to PWNZOR NUBLETS ... : buzzbat
• MY POOR BRAIN. LOL guys crying at FF7...FAGGOTS : ErikTehRed
• Tyra Banks' show is totally fucked, none of the interviews are genuine, everything is engineered - more s... : Magus
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  What the fuck kind of bullshit psychoanalogy is Morgan Webb spouting? Ugggh. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • Uh. Psychoanalysis. :( Godddamn. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    I prefer the term psychobabble and it's all crap yes. : Fred Garvin
    • Oh no, something we both agree on! : Matt Burris
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  Tyra Banks is got to be the most laughable talk show on TV. At least on Oprah you might get a car or some... : Fred Garvin
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    P.S. Tyra is a fucking cunt. : Fred Garvin
    • and pretty mean, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SuuEKztPc : Matt Burris
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  The world is unfair! Let's go band together and fight evil on counter strike guys! : shortbuscaptain
  • Like the oppressive capitalist tactical force of dev gru 6! *Loads up his AK* : ryuuseki
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  How about lets decode why my gf likes shitty movies like 27 dresses, watches soap operas, buys $400 purse... : dilutedq
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    Exactly! Where's our talk show where we can ask our gfs about their "obsession"? : ShoCon
    • That would be the Shack. They don't let us on TV. See: Mr.Longhair. : Moonbase Commander
  • $400 purses? you got off light! : rhuntley12
• I didn't think the video was as bad as the article made it out to be. But Tyra definitely doesn't seem to... : ShoCon
• It's fucked up that a former supermodel who was a professional in superficiality can parlay that into a ... : mnsnota
• That poor dude looks so whipped. This segment makes me glad my gf is a gamer. : ColoradoCNC
• what the fuck tyra. seriously. : the city
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  suck shit to be that guy, dump that bossy bitch now! : VuduChild
  • confirmed. just watched the whole thing, the only thing wrong in that segment is the guy being weak as pi... : VuduChild