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  Thanks for voting it down. Jerks. : SwiftyPants
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    I can't tell if I voted it a 1 or a 5. I clicked on the far right star :/ : sharkII
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      That's a 5. And thank you. I guess one person was continually voting 1 star, because the votes were go... : SwiftyPants
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        Well I tried to offset that a bit by continually voting 5 stars. Hopefully it helped a bit. : the city
        • Ha ha, same. I put in enough from various IPs here at school to bring it back to what it was when I voted... : SwiftyPants
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  pics/divx are needed for us to vote for the ladies. you should know this. : FormerHPB
  • Pics... of my mum? : / I'll see what I can find. : p : SwiftyPants
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  Check out my painting. I think it came out pretty good. One dog is looking this way, the other dog is l... : FormerHPB
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    Forgot the link: http://formerhpb.shackspace.com/painting.jpg : FormerHPB
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      are those dogs from baskerville : boring gegtik
      • It's actually from the movie Goodfella's. Tommy's mother painted it and they all get a laugh about how t... : FormerHPB
  • Don't paint any more religious pictures, Ma! : Dave-A
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  I voted 5 :( : changejar419
  • Thanks. : D : SwiftyPants
• i voted 5. : ass-street
• 5 star'd : virus
• Done. : atom519
• I read that as "dongs" :( if your mum had entered a painting of some dongs I would certainly have given h... : jcupitt
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  Photoshopped. : CRasterImage
  • Nice dog, BTW. I like Labs. : CRasterImage
• fake : Mr.SEX
• Bigger Picture http://shackpics.com/files/Kaospainting_szmmvmxca5lszgwxg12t.jpg Thanks everybody for ... : SwiftyPants
• voted (a couple of times). : mtgDoofy
• voted 5 for ya : Jayx77
• I accidentally LOL'ed this post. Five'd the painting twice. : DrWaffles
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  Voted. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • I'll also vote from all of the servers I have access to tomorrow. : Ride-My-Rocket

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  C# has the nicest functionality for this that I've used, but that doesn't help you. Scheme's threading i... : electroly
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    yeah, my presentation is on C# and the new parallel stuff (Task Parallel Library and PLINQ) and I was loo... : derelict515
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      I think what Microsoft is doing with this asynchronous stuff is genuinely unique, or at least not in very... : electroly
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        Don't over look all the awesome stuff in robotics studio. Look up CCR (concurrent and coordination runtim... : astonish
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          I haven't looked into CCR much (besides knowing it was introduced with the robotics studio but can be mor... : derelict515
          • I think the CCR is one step up in how general you can get with the parallelism tho I haven't used TPL. Th... : astonish
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  Haskell is unparalleled for all things concurrency/parallelism IMO. Erlang is pretty good too, but does n... : navelskrutt
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    C# doesn't solve that synchronisation issue either, btw, nor does it ensure that functions which need to ... : navelskrutt
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      right, that's where F# comes in (there's an STM library for it already). C# is still imperative its just ... : derelict515
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        What's so hard to understand? No harder to understand than objects, for example. LINQ is a monad for pete... : navelskrutt
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          I wish I knew what monads were. I've read at least 10 different "THIS IS WHAT A MONAD IS" articles on th... : electroly
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            Haskell seems extremely complicated to me. I've tried to understand it and at least be able to read a has... : wtf242
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              i bought a haskell book years ago and i only made it through the first 50-60 pages :/ : electroly
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                exactly, its just difficult. And I know you're an above average programmer which further refutes navelskr... : derelict515
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                  Most of the ideas of functional programming aren't particular complicated. The reasons I think people get... : taronish
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                    I sort of agree in terms of monads. I saw lots of 'demystifying monads' type articles which were very poo... : derelict515
                    • Here, I'll summarise monads in one sentence for you: First class statements, where side effects are visib... : navelskrutt
                  • Exactly. It's at eaching problem, rather than an actual problem. Haskell is no more difficult to use than... : navelskrutt
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            monads are going to be on my exam friday. :( I'm scared : gigaduck
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              a programming languages class? : derelict515
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                yeah... : gigaduck
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                  fun, I wish I'd taken mine later when I understood programming better : derelict515
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                    it's really interesting, but I'm really glad I'm taking it in my last term with a bunch of easier courses... : gigaduck
                    • it was quite difficult for me at the time, though I'd do a lot better now. Just keeping everything straig... : derelict515
          • You don't need to understand them to use them. The trouble is that most monad tutorials are from the prog... : navelskrutt
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          I didn't say I can't understand it, but it simply is harder for the average programmer to understand. The... : derelict515
          • The reasons language X took off rather than Y (e.g. C over Modula III), is almost always due to historica... : navelskrutt
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    if Haskell were really unparalleled (sweet pun) I think it might've gained more adoption ;p The problem w... : derelict515
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      Uhm, so something which hasn't yet taken off can't be good? Well okay. And here I thought you were lookin... : navelskrutt
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        don't get all pissy about. It's not like Haskell is new anyway. It could've taken off a long time ago. I ... : derelict515
        • I'm not pissy, it's just curious that you ask for comparisons, and then you say "well it's not popular so... : navelskrutt
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  how about things like CSP/CCS? occam is the programming language that came out of CSP http://en.wikipe... : jcupitt
  • interesting, I'll look into that. Probably too complicated to actually deal with in my presentation but I... : derelict515
• Erlang : wtf242
• io - http://www.iolanguage.com/ : gameagog
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  VHDL !! : gmd
  • Heretic! : yonderboy
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  fortran + mpi. : ]pm[chem
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    Or fortran + openmp : smellslikefish
    • yeah I'm going to mention OpenMP via C++. The C# TPL does some similar stuff but with better implicit loa... : derelict515
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    I don't know if mpi is any better with fortran, but if it's anything like their C/C++ implementation, avo... : itsjames
    • in terms of syntax its about equal I believe. And yeah I didn't have fun trying to do simple stuff with M... : derelict515
    • lol you sort of need it in my (HPC) world. I wish UPC would catch on. : Trepex
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  erlang was built for this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830318882717959520 : afrochops
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    yeah, Erlang is interesting. But it's hard to compare to C# and others because its a very different parad... : derelict515
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      I don't think it is that hard to understand or use - the model is different, but I think the hardest thin... : taronish
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        true, I suppose I should specify that when I say 'hard' I mean 'hard to describe meaningfully in 10 minut... : derelict515
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          I don't agree - processes are like functions, and no access to shared data is something like not accessin... : taronish
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            I wasn't really verbose enough to actually address what you were saying, but what I was trying to do is m... : taronish
            • right, I could explain it at that level for sure (and most will probably already get that as we've used M... : derelict515
          • I'm not disagreeing on the usefulness of Erlang. However, to make a meaningful comparison between some co... : derelict515
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  LabVIEW: www.ni.com/labview : biskits
  • since you're comparing it to .NET, you'll want to account for the GOOP toolkit, too: http://zone.ni.com/d... : biskits

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  Also, I think alltalk is on. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Also, Xevo and Zaun are here... telling each other yourmom jokes and stuff. :) : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Ugh alltalk. It's okay for small parties but it ruins real games. : Horn
    • lol, I think it's awesome when Zaun or Xevo is online. But it's a wee bit annoying when Tripps starts ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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  You've done it. You just talked me into uninstalling TF2. : socksta
  • :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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  I can't play this game sober anymore :(. Give me an hour. : pieman
  • :| : Maddog_Delphi97
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  sk is here... said something about beta 1 being out. : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Also Maddog, check if you have cp_fastlane_b1.bsp in your maps folder? : -sk-
    • Yeah, I got it... just making small talk. ;) : Maddog_Delphi97
• i'm still at work :( : r3dn3ck
• my carpal tunnel is feeling pretty good..but I still have a ton of dishes to wash..I would tell my gf to ... : IcomeINpeace
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  It does nothing when I click the options. : dumb.
  • Press F4 first. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Did the server just crash? :( : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Yas :(( : -sk-
    • :( : Maddog_Delphi97
    • 14 shackers playing redstone now. : Maddog_Delphi97
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    did you broke moron? : devnullgt
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      :( : Maddog_Delphi97
      • so I take that as a yes? What map did it crash on? : devnullgt
    • We're playing on Rydogg1's now. Also: :( : Maddog_Delphi97
• Redstone on Dallas now, going in! : -sk-
• your y/n buttons are broken : xsoulbrothax
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  Fastlane coming up soon! : -sk-
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    I am looking forward to it!! :D : Maddog_Delphi97
    • It's on now!! >:D : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Good fun, -sk-'s maps added a new lease of life to TF2, I didn't have to get completely drunk to play, re... : pieman
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    I agree. Redstone always has epic battles. It's not stalemate happy at all, just a lot of back and fort... : twifosp
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      sk says you CAN have half-life 2 physics in a Team Fortress 2 map... wonder what kind of stuff you can do... : Maddog_Delphi97
      • yeah there are special entities that can have physics applied to them, but they end up being server-side.... : manero
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        Well I have an idea. Some kind of CTF, but with a huge ball that you have to pass back and forth with th... : twifosp
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          I remember playing a version of that when I was playing Quake 2 ten years ago... err.. wait maybe not. : Maddog_Delphi97
          • qsoccer for quake 1? the shambler was a ref. : manero
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            Qpong? I did some art for that mod. But I was thinking something smaller, more sport like with more p... : twifosp
            • QPong!! That's what I trying to remember... :D I really don't remember playing it too recently, tho. : Maddog_Delphi97
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          UT2004 had bombing run that was like this, and then the Deathball mod that was even more sport-like (and ... : Nali4Freedom
          • I definitely remember the UT2004 bombing run... good times. : Maddog_Delphi97
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    -sk- needs to look into middle capture point ctf maps like vantage I believe was working on. : ant_hillbilly
    • What was I working on, ant_hillbilly ? : Vantage
  • This warms my heart :) : -sk-
• yayayay Goodtimes : mmaster_pw

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• welcome to Valvetime : bipolar
• it's not 11:59pm PST yet. : zerog83
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  They have to simulate shipping time too, so you will get it later today ot tomorrow. : Vash108
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    The game was out yesterday in retail stores... : glio1337
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      Then it's simple -- they don't want you to buy it off of Steam. They are hoping that their lack of punct... : CrustaR
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        Haha it's a brilliant plan! : glio1337
        • I wish I had thought of it. :[ Those Steam guys know what's up, I guess. : CrustaR
    • Now simulating late shipment : Vash108
• they're doing you a favor : Bantis
• buying an Ubisoft port on release day is just askin for trouble. wait until they patch it a few times. : smax
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  Don't buy this. : razlebol
  • ^^seriously : virus
  • Is it really that bad? : project13
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    Check this out. http://www.hookedgamers.com/articles/review/507/assassins_creed : Pneum0
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      Looked like a positive review to me. : Sylvanus
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        It's impressive at first but the gameplay and story really sucks. There is a reason why there is no demo.... : razlebol
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          I've got Thief DS to play through. ;) : Sylvanus
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            You mean Thief: Deadly Shadows. I thought you meant Thief for Nintendo DS. DON'T TOY WITH ME MAN : jason bergman
            • Yeah, that got me too. :| : xsoulbrothax
        • I'd likely rent it anyway. :) : Sylvanus
• That bites. I'm hoping that I'll get to play it tonight after work. : baron calamity
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  I heard it's the minimum requirements are quite high, hopefully it will be playable with my X2 4400 and 7... : shortbuscaptain
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    The way I see it, if I can run Crysis at max res and high details and play comfortably, I can play this o... : glio1337
    • I can only play on medium and it chugs :( : shortbuscaptain
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      obviously you have never played a Ubisoft pc port : RetroRedEyeJr
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        I expect it to -Not have widescreen support for 16:10 (16:9 will be supported, but who the fuck has a ... : avatar_58
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          Is it a game for windows? If it is, it has to support the gamepad from the xbox controller without having... : razlebol
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            ... looks like it ain't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_for_Windows_titles : razlebol
            • No surprise, that would require them to adhere to standards. : avatar_58
    • That really has nothing to do with it. Poorly optimized code will run like crap even if you can run a gam... : SilverSnake
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  Jade's got to get those mouth muscles rested and ready. : Visceral Monkey
  • don't talk about her like that. : edgewise
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  Is there a demo out? I want to see if it'll run okay first. : Trips
  • It wont : Robotic Puppy Eater
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    Wait for a demo. THe game is a demo. It's a demo that played on repeat. : FormerHPB
    • if hey did make a demo it would only be like he training missions or like 15 minutes in the open world ca... : RetroRedEyeJr
• Please don't buy this game!! I regret it... : ihya
• Ignore the hate. It's an okay game. Just repetitive. And the story is dreadful. : jason bergman
• Update It finally unlocked around 8pm EST. Haven't encountered any bugs yet and the controls aren't ba... : glio1337

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  Basil. You will need a grow light though : wtf242
  • why not some oregano? : ucanbfuzzy
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  White Rhino : Chuck Walrus
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    White Widow is much better smoke. : pancake humper
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      you are correct, and i will be proving you correct in a few hours time :D : busdriver3030
      • I am ripping some Hashberry right now. It smells like fruit loops had sex with fruity pebbles and shit ou... : pancake humper
• San Pedro Cactus : ryuuseki
• Hemp : drucifer
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  I hate you guys. : c0bra
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    I was being serious. : ryuuseki
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      oh ok. no cacti : c0bra
      • But, but, this particular cacti could help pass the time when there is nothing to do. : Stoned Gargoyle
  • I was gonna say 'Plastic' :( : drucifer
• Venus Fly Trap : Drewus
• blonde : not work safe
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  Spider plants are really, really easy to take care of. They don't usually flower, and when they do the f... : Arcanum
  • I have very little space as I'm sharing a one person cube with this other guy. Spider plants seem like th... : c0bra
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  Jade plant : .NeK
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    Seconding this, I have one at work. It looks nice, and it's really hard to kill, as evidenced by the plan... : CrazyPants
    • I like this one. Might try and pick one up later this week. : c0bra
• japanese peace lily : Dravenport
• Nothing attracts ladies in an office building like a nice full fern. : great-white
• peyote : busdriver3030
• get one of the carnivorous plants. : sukabljat
• Aloe, Venus fly trap, : Iwannaacura
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  Bonzai? : yellowtexan
  • Bonsai's are pretty neat. I would go with that. : Miresse
• pot plant : feek
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/84b2/ : Nali4Freedom
• rock garden : mechanicalgrape
• You should get some Canary Reed Grass : ryuuseki
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  Japanese Peace Lily. : NFXFSX
  • really? : Dravenport
• chia pet : flipoit
• bamboo is rediculously easy to grow...put in water, done. or maybe a cactus? cacti has kick-ass flowers : papaskot
• Get some bamboo flower or some coco flower : Melll
• Cactus. You can pin notes to it. : Psigun
• Miniature pine tree : matrix
• Trumpet vine : IcomeINpeace
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  http://cgi.amazing.com/images/members/6/65/595_n.jpeg : jane911
  • http://scienceblogs.com/bushwells/upload/2007/07/penis_cactus.jpg : jane911
• Audrey Jr. : stgulik
• I have several bamboo sticks. : Waverider
• a cylon! : Dave-A
• japanese peace lily : duncandun

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• ahhaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw5Ilrt8M6E&feature=related : podizzle
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  Still one of the greatest moments in tv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Vk015kel4 : eldiablo01
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    Oh yeah!! I wonder every time how they can pull this off with the limited TV budget. This looks better... : MrGrindy
    • Probably because they did something ridiculous like sink half the season's budget into those three minute... : nurglich
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      Is this the Adama Maneuver? If so, the action sequence that started off Season 4 was up there, and suppo... : walker270
      • the series finale will be an epic battle with the USS Enterprise and Galactica vs the Cylons and Borg. : gmd
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        these scenes MUST be getting cheaper/easier to make. They have all the models and light effects, and the ... : filthysock
        • nothing ever gets cheaper. easier? maybe. cheaper? never. : Tommy Toolbag
  • would have been better if the idiot posting that didn't fuck with the music : Waffles!
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    That was so awesome, I'm glad it was never spoiled for me going into season 3. My jaw was wide open duri... : pigvomit
    • Same here. My wife and I just looked at each other like "omg are they doing what I think they are doing?... : riptyde
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    It's sad how awesome scenes like this is what ruins BSG. First they blow all their budget on it and then... : Edges
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      I have no clue how that scene ruins jack or squat. You just got off the crazy bus? Or are you posting fro... : geedeck
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        I think he means that they use up a disproportionate amount of their budget per season on "big" effects e... : ttyRazor
        • Yeah, I understand that, but it would be an entirely different show. They are running the whole time, th... : pigvomit
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          But then why are the characters all so incredibly dull and unlikable... and why do they bend all the conc... : Toth21
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            Their society went from tends of billions to less than 40,000 in about an hour. Any structure left in th... : walker270
            • Is that why they were willing to risk the whole fleet to go save starbuck in season 1/2 or whenever it wa... : Toth21
      • It ruins it for me because we go from scenes that are absolutely fantastic in episodes that are fantastic... : Tommy Toolbag
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      Ruins it? I don't think they ever intended the show to have a space battle in every episode. I like the... : pigvomit
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        He's saying people see this and expect it every single episode, and then bitch when it doesn't happen. : walker270
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          That doesn't mean the show is ruined, just jackasses who expect lots of space action every week. : nurglich
          • I honestly don't know how the budgets compare, but B5 did pretty alright for its time without blowing its... : Toth21
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          Well fuck those people. Their bitching doesn't ruin the show. : pigvomit
          • Yeah, exactly. If the show is ruined for them, my answer can be summed up as: OK. If anything, the sho... : geedeck
    • Hahah, all space battles would get old actually... And they seem to have a space battle once every three... : FushigiDenki
  • Yeah, that was pretty awesome. I wish there was 100x more of the huge space battles and a lot less of so... : valael
  • CHILLS : indosauros
  • Babylon 5 did it but their hyperspace jumps are different than BSG. That was an awesome episode too th... : Sailor of Fortune
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    Wouldn't their shit and everyone inside that ship be plastered to the ceiling? I guess they don't really ... : Porkasaurus
    • Yeah, artificial gravity and how it's attained in that show is overlooked. At least in Babylon 5 Human... : Sailor of Fortune
    • they'd be in freefall, sure, but if they've got artificial gravity in space, why not in the atmosphere to... : DonkeyPopsicle
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  whoa, it hadn't clicked 'til you mentioned it that three of the "final five" were behind the insurgency o : ttyRazor
  • Maybe most people didn't catch that, but yes, that's what I was talking about! : aggressor
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    Out of however many billion people, the final five also all managed to end up in the only surviving fleet : walker270
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      I don't really understand this. I understand the final five to be the final five models, not a final five... : zebrigazi
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        We don't know yet. We've never seen any duplicates, and they're not wandering around the basestars or th... : nurglich
        • Exactly, at the very least we know that there are no copies on the resurrection ships which would plainly : pharoah mike
      • well its pretty obvious that bsg survived on purpose.. so it wasnt coincidence : jaga
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        Didn't they say the final five are unique in that there's only one of each copy? : walker270
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          Not yet, but basically whoever they are, the Cylons don't like to talk about it and the final five at som : Sailor of Fortune
          • Oh, right.. I found it -- it was from an interview that called them unique/different from the other model : walker270
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      As far as I know, it was pretty much between Roslin and Starbuck. : nurglich
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        Neither of them are it. : FushigiDenki
        • If you are going because of what Moore said over the last supper pic, remember he also said up and down r : pharoah mike
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  Why can't tomorrow be Friday? Let's just skip this Thursday bullshit. : Kaerof
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    I can't wait to watch it before class on Scifi.com :) : NFXFSX
    • I'll be waiting till its broadcast on SciFi, which of course gives me a heightened sense of elitism that ... : Kaerof
• An extremely brave episode. Brilliantly done with the overt references to iraq and guantanamo bay : filthysock
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  Wow, wikipedia has synopsis' for the first 15 episodes of the new season. : stump
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    Really? Where? I'm not seeing it. : walker270
    • the battlestar wiki has a few brief lines about most of the upcoming episodes, i haven't looked at wikipe... : pharoah mike
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      There's spoilers. You probably don't want to see it. :( : stump
      • I'm a spoiler junkie. I just want to see if they line up with what I've already read. : walker270
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  One of my favorite scenes since the final five reveal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16wPdgRS2BQ (the en... : pharoah mike
  • Haha, "I'm a cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings!" : hardfl1p

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  How many shackers work in wall street companies? : Kenshin_
  • /me slowly raises his hand : mroizo40
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    i work for bear... : agentlead
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      /slides back under his desk... : agentlead
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        Did you get to see the $2 bill on the door before it was taken down? : mroizo40
        • im not at that building... : agentlead
        • what is this about? : historyinthemaking
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    automated trading desk.. (we did it first, and we do it the best :-) : dextius
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      (oh and, we're hiring, and we're in Charleston SC, which is totally awesome). : dextius
      • Shackmessage'd : Odoyle
  • Does 5th Ave count? My company does hiring for hedge funds and banks. : askedrelic
  • yep : ckj
  • Better question, how much do you people do (average). Please tell me you're shitting money as I'm studyin... : Utopia
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  Aaaahg you beat me by fifteen minutes. Such a great great great great interviewee. : sgtsanity
  • indeed. : itsjames
  • He's incredible. He connects all the different driving forces, including psychological ones as you mentio... : eldersveld
• I for one welcome our computer trading masters. Well done. : nurglich
• thank you this is fascinating : boring gegtik
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  Excellent, I may have to poke around with term searches to follow everything he says. : Audhuml4
  • Yeah, the original interview made me take a Wikipedia odyssey and eventually led to me reading Liar's Pok : sgtsanity
  • I love that he described himself as solipsistic. That's so awesome. : askedrelic
• Again, a very absorbing interview. I must admit that I have become very interested in finance over the re : rock elf
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  reading the 2nd interview, very interesting. its actually pretty sensible even not being familiar with th... : yAak
  • The guy has a great ability to describe it in terms of the psychology of stock brokers. : sgtsanity
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  why isn't this +inf'd yet? : Dravenport
  • I definitely found it informative! : yAak
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  i bet that fucker is a MASTER OF STATISTICS. : burning eye
  • Actually he mentions that he prefers statisticians to educated finance nerds. : twifosp
• I'll read this later, my brother tells of fighting those black boxes all the time. : Chunks
• I don't know how much of this is true, but Michael Greenberger scared the hell out of me in this intervie... : aethyr
• Awesome link, thanks : Serpico74
• And I think one of the things that every officer of a public company is very sensitive to, post-Enron, is : biskits
• Wow, those interviews were both great, thanks. : Zero|DPX
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  I really need a better grasp of finances and the vocabulary involved. Parts of these interviews are nigh... : omnova
  • wikipedia had almost all of the terminology i didn't know : biskits
• Took me all day to read and absorb this. Holy FUCK that was interesting! : kallanta

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• grats man \m/ awaiting blog post! : Deathlove
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  i've recently played through HL, HL2 , Ep1 and am now almost done with EP3.....its soooooo fun playing th... : Rigor Morts
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    WOAHHHH EP2 that is.....i'm not from the future. : Rigor Morts
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      OH NO, we saw what you posted! So how is it in 2019? Do we have flying cars yet!?!? : Normality
      • nope, but we got a new DNF teaser. Oh, and dognoses' funeral was nice. : Rigor Morts
      • Is "Meet the Scout" out? : lechuck59
• Nice! : FormerHPB
• Just so you know, I only read 3 blogs and yours is one of them. Keep it up! Enjoy reading your entries. :... : Psigun
• Woo congrats. : sigpro
• Yeehaw! : Johnny Law
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  I'm sad that the giant evil fish thing and the behemoth stomper charger guy aren't in HL-2 :( : Nighteyes
  • he didn't get that far yet damnit : zerog83
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    yeah that fish thing can suck balls...i remember being scared to jump in the water :p : Rigor Morts
    • I know, thats what I loved about the game. I have a natural fear of deep murky water and HL1 was great t... : Nighteyes
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    But the evil giant fish thing does make an appearance! : buzzbat
    • Yeah it does, but I want to be horrified of water again :( : Nighteyes
• * TEST FIRE'D * : the archvile
• holy shit it's about fkn time : zerog83
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  Didn't you feel all "FUCK YOU BITCH" when you hit the button? : theargent
  • I know I did - that bit had me on edge the entire time : Postal
  • I know I did. I was like "burn in hell you fucking thousand ear piece of shit banging on the ground tenta... : oatmela
  • God yes. It was so great pressing that button. : alarm cock
  • I remember that moment. I bet PB felt it. : Dante
• hooray! I keep up with your blog and try to leave tips as much as I can. Sometimes there's just no tip th... : Dante
• Congrats PapaB! Yea, that one was really difficult the first time around. : famine101
• Congrats, dude! Now you know how all the puzzles in HL work, and you've also discovered that Gordon is ba : mn3m0n1c
• booyah! : ejectorpod
• congrats! :) : itsjames
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  POWER UP BITCHES! : PapaBoo
  • the music at the beginning of that is awesome :D : oatmela
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  what the fuck is this! http://www.easyscreens.info/index.php?v=3251&fullsize=1 : PapaBoo
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    you'll find out.....eventually.... : oatmela
    • oh and also, just like before, if you come across say a person who is dying and he gives you instructions... : oatmela
  • Haha, I loved that part. Tough as nails the first time, but awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
• You really licked his ass papaboo. : Kaiser

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• you know youre gonna get rickrolled... : acidravelamp
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  aww, don't think I could swing this @ work : c0bra
  • I can't even swing the podcast at work nevermind the raw version. : Jonathan
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  This is both a wonderful idea and a terrible idea. I appreciate the behind the scenes peek, but have you ... : ryuuseki
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    haha yeah the reaction was so strong from the guys i figured it had to be worth a shot. no skype names... : Steve Gibson
    • Why don't you just post the uncut recording... Live is apparently overrated these days. Timeshifting for ... : Jonathan
  • Skype name -> Shack handle -> ban hammer, there can't be that many people willing to sacrifice their acco... : Audhuml4
  • I think this is one of the few sites it could actually work on. Can you picture this ever working on SA?... : bipolar
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  Can't you just record it and post it? : thief
  • (I don't have sky nor would probably download it and create an account to listen--I would however donwloa... : thief
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  minifridge24 : sigpro
  • Or not. Skype on OSX wants to be a dick and close on me. : sigpro
• Prepare for rickrollmania. : ashkie
• 1-800-DUTCHBOY ? : skitzo
• I think a video series of Behind the scenes of Shacknews would be far more hilarious. : shortbuscaptain
• When is this call taking place? I don't use skype at home but sure I'd listen in from work except I don't... : SockMonkeh
• coraljdayton : coraldayton
• zaun42 : Demius
• dustin.kozal : Audhuml4
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  Zaun wants in: zaun42 on Skype. : A Sponge
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    Will he give me an UberGear computer if I unban him? : Rauol Duke
    • hahaha : dmason
    • No, but he'll say "I have balls of steel" in the best Duke Nuke'em voice. :) : Maddog_Delphi97
• This will be a beautiful failure. Wish I weren't at work. : omnova
• I'd subscribe to Skype for just Faylor breathing heavily into the microphone for 8 hours. : pancake humper
• Steven this is the worst idea you've ever had. You give money to geedeck and this beats it. : Rauol Duke
• frame_jd : .frame
• Damn, I wish I wasn't at work.. : dmason
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  forcing me to signup for skype :( : thekidd
  • skypename: thekidd142 (surprise!) : thekidd
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  wait are you asking people to be quiet on the honor system? surely there's a way to mute people if you a... : mikecyb
  • yeah i'll figure that out if there is enough interest. : Steve Gibson
• shackmsged my skype name :) :) :) : ejectorpod
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  my skype is laurgasms and i want listens! : laurgasms
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    this is actually kinda frustrating. i want to call them all fags. : laurgasms
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      Quick someone start a teamspeak so we can call talk about the people on skype! : Audhuml4
      • easier still, TO THE STEAM CHAT! : ejectorpod
      • you can join our irc! irc.afternet.org #shacknews : laurgasms
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  liqker-skype : liqker
  • nm, not gonna install skype at work :( but if this is still ongoing tonight I'll wanna listen in! : liqker
• MasterJeef, and what the fuck, it took all of my address book contacts and added them in : Yanks
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  record it as an mp3 and post it, i dont have skype! :~( : sexninja!!!!
  • but it does sound interesting and i'd like to hear it. mp3 ftw! : sexninja!!!!
• I have to run. Someone please record this when/if it happens so I can listen to it later. :( thom.we... : ThomW
• I would find this interesting, am a web dev myself and would be curious to see what's going on behind the... : dael
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  HAHAHAHA : ejectorpod
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    "Steve you SON OF A BITCH! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT AND NOT TELL US?" Best line there. : ejectorpod
    • and then disconnected :( : ejectorpod
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      ahahhaa i am dying laughing. also SOMEONE said hi in a high pitched voice and then they said "HI LAURGASM... : laurgasms
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        :( I hate steve : Aaron Linde
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          tell us more about your balls pls, i am listening intently. : laurgasms
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            impacted bowel as well : ejectorpod
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              I'm working on a forthcoming feature about all of the goings-on concerning my hindquarters. : Aaron Linde
              • lol is us getting kicked out my fault :( : laurgasms
• hahahaaaaaaaaa : Yanks
• I wish I had recorded his moment of revelation. : thekidd
• how many beers have you had? : oHnOES
• Awesome idea. I'm at work :( : tomservo
• I don't look at my skype window when I'm fucking--call dropped : Audhuml4
• agentlead : agentlead
• i'm kinda confused how this differs from a podcast if it's just listening-only : electroly
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  haha that was enjoyable enough : Yanks
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    that said, it was better when you guys didn't know you were being recorded :) : Yanks
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      only aaron didnt though : Maarten Goldstein
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        This should happen once a week, someone isn't let in on the joke and we reap the humor. : ejectorpod
        • We'll fuck with Faylor when he comes back tomorrow. : Aaron Linde
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  SolrFlare I gotta hear this lol. : SolrFlare
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    we ended our little test for now : Maarten Goldstein
    • Perhaps that's a good thing lol. : SolrFlare
• jono181 : jono181
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  heh ok then... all done. guess at least a few people were interested. we started breaking skype there ... : Steve Gibson
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    Broadcast with ShoutCast like we did with the talk shows on KOCK? : omnova
    • This is the suggestion I'd make. : Yanks
    • ^^^^^ : Zero|DPX
    • KOCKCAST FOR GREAT JUSTICE! : afrochops
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    Shoutcast would be a way better idea for this. When mr.sleepy did his radio show, he took calls over Skyp... : electroly
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      why is mr sleepy not doing a radio show? : perstephanie
      • he should because it was awesome : electroly
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      yea, I think so too...no need to worry about booting people. we have a shoutcast server already.... : devnullgt
      • With 2000 slots! : AlexXdude
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        we couldnt figure out how to get winamp to get all the skype sound : Maarten Goldstein
        • never admit your mistakes maarten : askedrelic
        • sheesh, and here I thought you were computer geeks : devnullgt
        • No...YOU figured it out, but winamp was being finnicky. : ejectorpod
  • It was like we were eavesdropping. It was exciting. : laurgasms
  • I am so so so so sad I misseed this. Someone play it on KOCK radio. :( : perstephanie
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  moesix : moe6
  • damn, I fail at reading replies :( : moe6
• i'll give this another shot tomorrow. gonna try skypecast. : Steve Gibson
• I would actually love to see kind of a mini documentary about what goes on with the site in an average da... : suicidemachine
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  so is this plan aborted or just prosponed? invite "timisamazing" for future reference. : Klebold
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    it already happened : electroly
    • timwasamazing : askedrelic
• dr.gerrylee : sergeon
• pgharavi : pgharavi
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  ONLY TO LISTEN, NO GAY STUFF : Mansmells
  • ok fine, butt stuff. : festivalman

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  139Ibs @ 5'2. NEXT : Ellissd
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    Damn you're right you wouldn't be able to see her ribs. NEXT! : Horn
    • my last 5' 3 gf was 98 lbs. I like em fat : gyokuro
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  i would like to see a picture of her brown eye. : bfzzzz
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    for all we know.. its probably not even brown colored : humbleone
    • thats fine, i dig chicks that bleach it. : bfzzzz
• to be fair, lairs are never as nice as houses : Dravenport
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  girls don't like lairs :( it's true... you can get arrested for that shit too : burning eye
  • lol : two50six
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    sometimes they tell you they're 9 and they're actually 11.. those bitches : itsjames
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      agh damn -- that was supposed to be prefaced with 'girls lie too'. Well, i ballsed that up :( : itsjames
      • please avoid all lairs : two50six
• WELCOME TO MY WEBPAGE, I KISS YOU : kill9
• It's Leela! : askedrelic
• i like fun in butt : mindshot
• So which movie does she like going to? Citizen Kane? Bourne Ultimatum? Debbie Does Dallas? Alone in t... : kallanta
• Well, evil does tend to lurk in lairs : Sirus2400
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdgwXpcGc0 : SockMonkeh
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  man, everyone i know is dating or marrying foreign chicks these days. whether its thai, russian or bulgar... : spector
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    wait, I meet that criteria. bring on the foreign chicks : metalremains
    • i know a cuban chick that will marry you AND pay you 5,000$ : spector
  • That's because women here are broken. : Ebu
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  Why hide the name. Just look for the brown haired one eyed business woman. : tboomer2
  • or just look for a giant brown eye with brown hair that avoids Lairs. : two50six
• i hate people who describe themselves as business men/women. it means absolutely nothing. : erotic sock
• Ahahaha brown eye. I laughed way more than I should at this. : Ojalo1982
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  Not to hijack, but anyone know any good contractors that build lairs? I'm looking for something that's a... : Halen
  • Just buy an old missile silo and modify the interior to your needs (ie. elevator for spy plane, garage fo... : stump
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    You should probably mention how much you would want to spend on it also : humbleone
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      I think it's all about location. I mean, Volcanos are so cliche, but also cheap land. I have a buddy t... : Halen
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        As long as it's not a former Eastern Bloc giant laser he should be fine. They were of poor quality to beg... : Sarcastro
        • The Western stuff doesn't break as easily, but it lacks power. If you are going with the Japanese produce... : humbleone
      • Volcanos may be cheap to buy, but dealing with the magma during and after construction will more than off... : Arcanum
  • http://cgi.ebay.com/Atlas-F-ICBM-Missile-Silo-Base-Ex-USAF-For-Sale_W0QQitemZ250233708451QQihZ015QQcatego... : mechanicalgrape
• Why the hell would she asterik out stuff? : Lord Grey
• ahahaha this thread is great : Kazomir