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  Christian Bale. : sigpro
  • WTF really? Thought he was Canadian for some reason. : spazzium
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  pretty much all the cast of Band of Brothers, notable ones are... Damian Lewis - winters Ross McCall ... : grifter
  • damn, didn't see this post. I love when Lewis switches to the heavily affected British accent in Dreamcat... : c0bra
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    Don't forget Donnie Walburg too. : plunkymeadows
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      Do you even know what this thread is about? : SockMonkeh
      • Sorry couldn't resist...off to the loo : plunkymeadows
• What's the big deal? All they've got to do is pronounce words correctly. : cerealSAM2
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  House is British? :O News to me. : lplasmatron
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    Yup long standing British comedian, one of my favorite actually. I was shocked as hell to see him in hous... : Toth21
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      He was absolutely amazing in Black Adder. : Duffman8369
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        Yes, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie is good too. :) : nevicata
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          Jeeves and Wooster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUAxwpMJv8&feature=related : lyme
          • Well, of course that as well! : nevicata
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3arfPGysRQ&feature=related : festivalman
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  Sean Pegg : Sailor of Fortune
  • do you mean simon pegg? : deathofrats
  • Oops, Simon Pegg, I started out saying Sean Connery to be funny but I changed my mind midway. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Stringer Bell and McNulty on The Wire. : sgtsanity
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    Stringer Bell is a Brit? : Haku-Jin
    • From IMDB: Date of Birth: 6 September 1972, Hackney, London, England, UK : sgtsanity
    • Yeah apparently he'll use his American accent around fans to avoid spoiling the illusion : spiderfill
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    Holy fuck Stringer being a brit blows my mind if true. : NastyJack
    • yeah, he's from Brixton, saaaaath london : 60days
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  Damian Lewis : c0bra
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    I'm kind of gay for him... or maybe Major Winters. I want to watch an episode now. : carnivore
    • same guy... : c0bra
  • The way he talks on Life is fucking great. : phokz
• John Barrowman. : eldersveld
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  Jonny Lee Miller : Rich McNinch
  • Also from Trainspotting, Kevin McKidd (this assumes journeyman had an american accent, but i only ever wa... : Rich McNinch
• A lot of British actors can do a pretty decent job I figure. : carnivore
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  Daniel Day-Lewis : lodit
  • seriously : alarm cock
• Ricky Gervais : rosewood
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  Dexter Flechter, also on Band of Brothers, he Played Johnny Marten, and he was Soap in Lock, Stock and Tw... : Dschinghis Khan
  • oh ,and Ewen McGregor in Big Fish. and the entire cast of Monty Python, and Hugo Weaving : Dschinghis Khan
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  Adrien Brody : spiderfill
  • he's from New York City : Dschinghis Khan
• Pretty much all of them because if they can't they'll be stuck doing faggy British movies their whole liv... : SockMonkeh
• Sarah from Chuck has a pretty thick Australian accent : sparkly
• Why do people say this about Hugh Laurie? I think his American accent is laughable. I speak as an Engl... : SiW73

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  Buy a DS because you like games? : jasonepowell
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    What are some must have DS titles? : Ureval
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      Super Mario; Brain Age series (1 for the BA part; both for SUDOKU!); Age of Empires; Advance Wars: Days o... : Sailor of Fortune
      • im getting sick of rts on the DS. i cant see enough units on the screen :( : dantastic
  • im really fucking bored with my DS. i got heroes of mana because i LOVED sword of mana for gba and was s... : dantastic
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    really because they are all pretty mediocre? : dilutedq
    • yeah i used to love my DS but at some point i got sick of all the mediocre minigames. same goes for wii ... : dantastic
• How about buying both? : semaphore
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  Do you really need a portable gaming device, or do you not own a laptop/smartphone/console/PC to play eno... : sinner0423
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    Well, I work by myself a lot so it would be nice to have something to do. I just cant think of anything I... : Ureval
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      I'd say the PSP has a better selection of games and a more rich feature set, just get youself a Pandora b... : sinner0423
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        A better selection of games? What??? : jasonepowell
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          The psp's library had been a weak point but I think it has definitely strengthened. Look at the last cou... : semaphore
          • Both are good now. It's a good choice either way, just depends on what games you want. : avatar_58
        • GTA series, God of War, Patapon, Crisis Core, Metal Gear Solid, etc. : sinner0423
        • at this point theres just as many if not more good games on the psp as there are on the ds. : klearlyunseen
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          I think the PSP has a better selection. Lots of shovelware on every Nintendo platform, DS included. : Tommy Toolbag
          • the PSP has tons of sloppy ports and shovelware, too. : Fayk
• Ace Attorney 1-4, Perfect Prosecutor, Proffessor Layton, Final Fantasy IV DS Thread over. : avatar_58
• Buy a PSP and Disgaea and be occupied for years. : Ebu
• It'll make your penis look insignificant and useless : sKetchflow
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  I think Im gunna go with the PSP. Im gunna miss out on Zelda DS, but the PSP has a lot of great features.... : Ureval
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    http://www.abunchofnothing.com/disgaea.jpg Actually another 5 hours now. :) : Ebu
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      Im getting at Walmart after work and unfortunately they dont carry Disgaea. : Ureval
      • Yea, it's hard to find :( : Ebu
  • zelda ds is fun but it's forgettable so youre not really missing much : dantastic
  • god of war is fun as hell patapon is a strange game about keeping the beat with drums, so don't play it ... : Break
  • fail : onji
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  DS has a much larger library of worth playing games and is very innovative, and unique to play. The PSP h... : MoreVespeneGas
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    innovative = aggravating stylus controls in 90% of games :\ : dantastic
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      Correct. Biggest issue with the DS is that most games that have a stylus element shouldn't. : Ebu
      • Mario Hoops 3 on 3 :( : Tommy Toolbag
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  you're in a recession. : j0nchan
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    but you only get out of recessions by spending : AssGoblin
    • that's what got us in a recession to begin with. : j0nchan
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  PATA PATA PATA PON! : nevicata
  • PON PON CHAKKA CHAKKA : eeeealmo
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  Both are nice. Ultimately, my PSP doesn't get nearly as much play for a couple reasons: it drains so much... : Fayk
  • What I mean about the PSP's battery life is that whenever I'm in the mood to actually play it, the batter... : Fayk
• Get a PSP if you can play with headphones on, because you'll need them to hear wtf with any PSP games. Ge... : Magus
• I have been waffling between a PSP and a DS for a while too...I finally decided to get the Star Wars Batt... : Waverider

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• Add one more year onto that, and knock about $150 of that price off... and.... MAYBE. : kallanta
• 64gb+, <$200. Thats what I'm waiting for. : re4ctor
• What would overall system performance be like if you were to run your operating system and all base appli... : Danny5225
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  What are the advantages over HDDs? Not being facetious I actually don't know. No moving parts, so more ... : ZombieAcademy
  • AFAIK, they're operating under a curve more akin to Moore's law, while there doesn't look to be a hot new... : sgtsanity
  • effectively instant access time + no moving parts. : Toraz Chryx
  • No moving parts, less power usage (great for laptops), much faster read/write and access times. : Prozium
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    Definitely the no-moving-parts is good for impact shock... these things can take 1500G shoot-me-out-of-a-... : biofrog
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      you just dropped some fucking knowledge, son!! : burning eye
      • Researched em for work >:( But after some reading, started thinking "Next gaming PC, WANT!" : biofrog
    • That's misleading. Modern operating systems have sophisticated IO scheduling systems to reorder the reads... : asdf
  • speed. : anhero
  • IIRC an SSD drive won't outright die either. It should be more like "Hey, I'm not doing too well, yo... : Wombat Woo
• Hell yes. The only reason I don't already use one is the price. : electroly
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  Hell ya. Give me one that is between 50-60gb for $150-$200 so that I can put the operating system and my ... : ant_hillbilly
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    my steam directory won't fit on that :( : Toraz Chryx
    • uninstall the games you aren't playing at the time, you can always reinstall them. : ant_hillbilly
    • use junction points to put just the games you care about on the ssd. be creative toraz : electroly
• It's about damn time. : windowpane
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  i have one in my Air, and its alright. Not a huge increase in performance, but SUPER quiet and runs cool... : virus
  • How's your second mortgage? : Horn
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  intel is also commited to cheap/fast/big. if they apply as much preassure as they are talking it should ... : smacknca
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    It should be VERY achievable to get ~32GB of SSD and a 160GB 1.8" optical disk into the form factor of a ... : Toraz Chryx
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      Isn't that what Intel's proposal for using flash as power-saving super-RAM on laptops basically boils dow... : sgtsanity
      • yeah, but they're talking about lameass quantities of flash, 256MB or so on a 200GB disk I'm talking a... : Toraz Chryx
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  bit hdds are cool cause they have spinning disks : CoRDS
  • And if they break you still have some sweet-ass magnets to play with! : Perturbation
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  i've got a 4gb RocketDrive and the speeds are horrible. : dignan
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    really? i thought those were supposed to be badadss : electroly
    • i can't spell : electroly
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      it might if used in the special laptop ports but the PCI card i have just routes back out to a USB port a... : dignan
      • that's stupid. i thought the point of the PCI card was that it used the PCI bus and not a crappy connect... : electroly
      • ? ew? they're supposed to hook up to SATA at least... : Toraz Chryx
• I think I'll skip flash and wait for micro-wire hard drives. : Conan
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  I'm looking forward to it all but eliminating "hitching" in MMOs that load a shitload of terrain, etc. : Visceral Monkey
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    Do you think that will still be a problem? RAM is very inexpensive. People are taken aback when they se... : Wombat Woo
    • It's always going to be a problem when you have games with gigs and gigs of textures. : Visceral Monkey
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  question - will this eliminate the need for RAM? : DrFlammable
  • no, DRAM is much, much faster than flash, and so is the bus that RAM uses compared to SATA. Although the... : electroly
• I'd love to use SSD for my work PCs and a fanless video card/CPU so I'd have a perfectly silent PC. : Fred Garvin
• I would use if the price of ioDrive PCI-E NAND flash drives comes down... WAY down. http://www.fusioni... : SlamDunk
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  Mechanical HDD's are dead, they just don't know it yet. Economies of scale for flash ram manufacturing w : Hiro
  • well d'uh :) : moshman
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  SSD will eventually take over, but from everything I've seen so far they're actually quite a bit slower t... : tcs
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    also, slowest compontent by far in any computer :( : moshman
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      What does that even mean? HDD tech is amazing. They're dirt cheap, double capacity all the time and are a... : tcs
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        what does it mean? the bottleneck is clearly the transfer of data from and to the HDD when needed. if the... : moshman
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          You know how slow modern DRAM access is? Can stall a CPU for hundreds of clocks. CPU manufacturers have t... : tcs
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            it's hardly slow compared to HDD access is it. :) : moshman
            • I give up. : tcs
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    HDD tech is anything but amazing. HDD's slow down and bottleneck the entire system. HDD is ancient tech a... : SlamDunk
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      That is incredibly ignorant. So far this tech has survived decades for a reason. We haven't found anythin... : tcs
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        Yes, I really do understand how unimpressive "modern" HDDs are ;) : SlamDunk
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          I really don't know why I bother arguing with completely tech illiterate strangers on the internet, but h... : tcs
          • Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, if harddisks didn't exist, the economies of scale on SSD's would be... : Toraz Chryx
• I will use them as they become more popular but probably not for the next 5 years. I am waiting for them ... : Sebastian-TEC
• The fast SSD drives will continue to be expensive for a while :( : sanchez
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  The world is flat. I can't accept storage memory that doesn't spin. : jayacheess
  • My SSDs electrons are riding spinnaz. They don't just flip-flop to lose wait. : loboca
• For a primary drive? Definitely, although the prices need to come down more... you can get terrabyte driv... : ieGod
• I'd totally get one for speed if they were that price. : afrochops

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• She's pretty, and I bet she saves a ton of airfare by using those ears of hers. : mechanicalgrape
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  wow. I want a Chinese girl. Too bad there's not enough to go around :( : vile
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    Yeah, there are only a billion or so of them. : shyguy74
    • Actually there are about 30 million Chinese men who will not be able to marry a chinese girl because of C... : Magus
• her face looks like a cardboard cutout. which it literally is, with all the photoshopping and all. : dodob
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  I never really understood why some guys were so into Asian women... Now I do : missylu
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    I never liked asian women (still prefer American/European features) but I've warmed up over the past seve... : Magus
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      My theory on Asian women is they look like they are in there 20's until they hit a certain point, then th... : Sirus2400
      • I think this is true. We were once introduced to a thirty five year old asian woman who looked 19. Hot as... : randomposter
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        I dunno, that may be true for some, but I've met a couple that had to be mid 40s and they were definitely... : Magus
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          The point where they turn into yoda is individual. : randomposter
          • ^^^^ This is true, and there are a LOT of mid-40`s that you would barely think are 30 and would DESTROY!!... : Sirus2400
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            Well, in their defense, any race will eventually look like Yoda. Depends on skin care/health in general. : the city
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              Yeah, but the surprising thing about Asians, the the rapid degradation from bonable to... well... Yoda : Sirus2400
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                As opposed to the women in my heritage that generally go from bonable to Jabba, I'll take Yoda. : xsoulbrothax
                • fucking LOL : Sirus2400
                • hahaha : Magus
      • That's Polish women, actually. : focusdaily
      • So true. You rarely see middle-aged asian women. They are either hot as fuck and look like 20, or look ... : riptyde
      • Sounds like Carl Pilkinton's theory on Asians if you ask me... : MrBig0
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    http://fletchstudios.com/jesustapdancingchristthisgirlishot/ : fletch_
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      who the fuck is that?!? : vile
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        pretty cool huh : fletch_
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          dude... who is it? :( are you the photographer for that? : vile
          • holy cow! She really is amazing! : terath
    • win win win win win win win : Ajax
    • http://fletchstudios.com/jesustapdancingchristthisgirlishot/hwang_36.jpg Pretty much sums up my reaction... : daedraug
    • Can she be delivered? I have someone here demanding she be delivered immediately. : Halen
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      saving these for reference. : sparkly
      • reference my alone time. : Sebastian-TEC
    • http://fletchstudios.com/jesustapdancingchristthisgirlishot/hwang_29.jpg that cracks me up every time : tashtego
    • these are super-great. : Sebastian-TEC
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    You know what they say about a girl with big ears... : cerealSAM2
    • deep vagina? : erotic sock
    • she never forgets? : ArB
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    You're awesome covered in awesome sauce. : ejectorpod
    • Oh come on dude, thats just gross. : glio1337
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    It's really not that hard to figure out... :) : edlin
    • ajax doesn't have to know about us : mr.sleepy
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    all female asians remind me of my mom, so no asian fetishes here :( : reverend~heresy
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      your part asian? : terath
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        and part caucus! : reverend~heresy
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          nice! That tends to work out well. : terath
          • ^^^ loves the caucus : Home Nugget
  • missylu post <3 : thetangent
  • lol : ColoradoCNC
  • small vaginas? : hobosapien
  • I know a lot of guys that only date Asian women. As some of them are attractive I never understood the ex... : two50six
  • HEY EVERYONE MISSYLU POSTED QUICK POST A RESPONSE OKAY BYE OMG!! : Drewus
  • It's because our mediocre dicks look like pipe fittings in their dainty hands. : riptyde
• looks like a real doll : sharpie
• I'm confused, is this a human being or are these stills from the next CGI Final Fantasy movie? : Caboose
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  Now, I have yellow fever. But she looks manufactured. : great-white
  • Made in China man, just like everything else we love. : ryuuseki
  • Looks very Westernized. : rudds
• Replicant. : wozzeck
• Holy hell that girl is amazingly hot! : thetangent
• NOSE JOB but a good nosejob. theres alot of bad ones out there. : gyokuro
• Wow... now SHE is cute! : kallanta
• she's gorgeous. : xxiv
• She looks CG, and creepy. : tree8

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  LOTRO! : moogle
  • Beta was enough for me. It's fun, but I don't need the monthly fee or the addiction. : Nixx2004
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  The Witcher 0wns. Play that. : CrustaR
  • Waiting for the updated version. May I guess. : Nixx2004
• I usually do something creative when I get in a mood like that. Usually it ends up being something in Fl... : capt tripps
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  I'm going through a similar gaming deadzone myself. Quitting WoW really opened up a ton of time for m : InfoBiter
  • The Witcher is your friend. : Toth21
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    Make the Shack play more CS please. :( : TrptJim
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      I've tried, no one wants to play with me =( : InfoBiter
      • I will play this game with you. : focusdaily
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    Update: So, after a few hours into the 3 day Tabula Rasa trial ... I think I've found a winner. T... : InfoBiter
    • I played it at launch for about 3 months. At first I loved it, once I hit about level 20 and moved onto o... : jbury
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  That's easy to fix with this: http://daedraug.shackspace.com/TQCaravanFix.rar : daedraug
  • "Assuming you have just copied all of your files over, run this tool and it should fix the path names and... : daedraug
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    Hm, thanks. Can't seem to get it to work though. Tried following directions from here: http://www.titanqu... : Nixx2004
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      Should be enough to copy the backup and immediately running that program. If you run TQ before the fix it... : daedraug
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        Tried doing each characters winsys.dxg and winsys.dxb files then running it, no dice. Tried just copying ... : Nixx2004
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          Are you going from xp to vista? I actually renamed the vista user to the same username I had on the xp... : daedraug
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            Yeah. Tried editing the paths in the files then running the fix, still not working. Blah. : Nixx2004
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              Yeah, editing them doesn't work, the fix is supposed to do all that. Try the defiler? http://tq.demortex.... : daedraug
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                This is what I used when I transferred my characters, and it works perfectly. : Rice-Rocketeer
                • Keep in mind you MUST have the original copies of the file, or they will have already been overwritten. : Rice-Rocketeer
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                Nope. Tried the newer .NET version, didn't work. Tried the older VB6 version, gives some error when tryin... : Nixx2004
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                  Finally! The two winsys files for each character were set to read-only, so I had to take that off then... : Nixx2004
                  • Doh! Yay. : daedraug
  • I think TQ Defiler can also fix this. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Start practicing shock combos in UT. *hint hint* : omnova
• The only answer is Second Life : Malku
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  yep. PC gaming is dead right now. hateme all you want but im not playing anything on my PC. so wheres the... : chilln
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    If you think PC gaming is dead right now you don't like games. FACT. : SockMonkeh
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      Apparently, if we go 3 weeks without a AAA PC game being released, PC gaming is declared dead. : PenicillinX57
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        I think the PC twitchy shooter scene is dead, but there are so many good games. Sins, CoH:OF, Witcher, Ci... : BingusLargus
        • The PC twitchy shooter is only dead because the market is so supersaturated with generic FPS games. Give ... : SockMonkeh
  • You should go back and play some older games you had a intrest in but enver got around to or ones you rea... : happynoodle
• Buy Jade Empire or Arcanum for $8 at gogamer.com : Mondo
• Just install this: http://titanquestvault.ign.com/View.php?view=titanmap.detail&id=108 And go grab ... : riptyde
• I always go back to KOTOR when I'm bored with the PC games I've got. And it never disappoints. KOTOR 2 is... : thetangent

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  These people do not just watch but ADORE Heroes - are you really surprised? : SpaecKow
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    honestly... not really. but still, i figured id be in for a half decent movie, instead i saw the same ... : -=kodiak=-
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      Did that make it all the more satisfying when they shot ur in the head? : mrseldowski
      • her.... : mrseldowski
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  Oooh oooh, watch Sunshine next! : alarm cock
  • Don't forget The Fountain! : Perturbation
  • i saw shunshine... it was meh. Certainly didnt leave a pissed off feeling in my anus like watching the mi... : -=kodiak=-
  • i liked sunshine.. : agentlead
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    LoL. God what the hell happened to that movie. What idiot decided the last 45 minutes of that movie was a... : Pettytheft
    • this is what ruined it for me. : xxiv
    • EVENT HORIZON'D : agentlead
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  I missed that one. : drucifer
  • dont bother. You've already seen it before. : -=kodiak=-
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  I always read your posts, clinging to the edge of my seat, wondering if you'll get through one without sw... : hardfl1p
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    aint going to happen. : -=kodiak=-
    • fuck :( : drucifer
    • Guess it just fucking did. : ifallible
  • He always seems so angry - I imagine him in real life just F5'ing the shack, his face red, seething with ... : jbury
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  I don't understand how you didn't pick that up from the trailer. My powers of perception revealed the wh... : ifallible
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    i never really saw the trailers after the original ones that aired on tv last year.. i just didnt really ... : -=kodiak=-
    • the dvd ones spoilered it a bit more and allowed me to avoid watching the movie as of yet. : anhero
• wrong! I absolutely love that movie so :P : klearlyunseen
• If I have my doubts about shitty trailers that have shackhype, I wait for the second generation of shack ... : anhero
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  "i felt like i was watching a somewhat gory 2 hour episode of the xfiles" BEST RECOMMENDATION EVER : dodob
  • not really. parts of it reminded me of something out of xfiles but that's about it. : -=kodiak=-
  • seriously, how is this a bad thing? : scottythejock
• Sucks to be you and not enjoy movies for what they are. : randomposter
• Hey! I know you're mad, but don't invoke Uwe Boll!!!! Oh, and you have no one to blame but yourself. ITS... : FS|Archangel
• The Mist was... ok at best. I didn't realize it had a great following here though. That said, why would... : .sticks.
• It was ok. Not super great but ok. : razlebol
• i liked it. : xxiv
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  did it suck as bad as 1408? : MagicWishMonkey
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    No not at all. : Bonestormm
    • ok good, I'll leave it in my netflix queue then. : MagicWishMonkey
• I liked it a lot. : phate81
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  When it comes to the Mist, I expected something a bit more subtle (letting the atmosphere and setting wor... : lightly inclined
  • they should never have shown the monsters, maybe the small spiders and the strider types hidden in the mi : .sticks.
• I completely agree, that movie is just bad. : ieGod
• It's a horror movie. Even a good horror movie is usually "bad" by regular movie standards. If you don't l... : dirge23
• I really really wanted to like it... my problem was, I was so into the monsters/creatures ect... that was... : happynoodle

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• Brilliant, thank you! : drbriefs
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  lolz - i loved the $240 worth of pudding sketch. : FrayLo
  • We cook... : Rich McNinch
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  oh man, that's a good find. Any list that puts Ass Pennies at 49, though...I dunno. I haven't heard of al... : Deathlove
  • Yeah this is a pretty good list, but I think it's best to try not to think of them in order. I think they... : ovrlrd
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  Good to see some Mr. Show on there, Pre-Taped Call-In Show is a great sketch. : BrodieMan
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    I think "The Audition" and "Fuzz The Musical" are better sketches though. : snuff
    • I'm really fond of "The Story of Everest" myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyrM7GxyzGg : BrodieMan
    • Mustardayonnaise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OuPEubf-UY Bag Hutch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v : speon
• lots of great sketches there. : re4ctor
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  Also I don't know if I've seen it too many times, or what, but I love Monty Python, and I think Argument ... : BrodieMan
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    yeah, I agree. Bicycle repair man should be up there too. : moshman
    • i was a little disappointed teh hungarian phrase book didn't make it : shavenewok
    • What about the hitler in england sketch... fucking hilarious... or philospher's soccer. It seems they ... : Toth21
  • As a life-long Python fan, I too don't get the love for the parrot sketch, there are far more ingenious s... : randomposter
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    Where the hell was the Spam skit? :( : xsoulbrothax
    • they'd pretty much have to make half the chart MP sketches if they want to please everyone : Postal
• I am SO glad the 4 yorkshiremen is in there : moshman
• Oh man #48 is in my top 5 for sure. : scd73
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  For a quick laugh, look at #37, takes less than a minute. : bling1bling
  • Yeah that one was good. Took a turn I certainly wasn't expecting : Kaerof
• Taggin this shit fo sho : Modica Sol Solis
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  lol i forgot about those two kids in the hall sketches there were some insanely awesome sketches ov... : -=kodiak=-
  • More movies need zombies that go "dooodle doodle dooo, doodle dooodle doo". : wozzeck
• I was reading through the list (I'll WATCH through it over the course of the next few days!) and I kept s : thetangent
• I've seen most of those and while I agree that they are all deserving, I really disagree with their order... : Old_Fart
• awesome. very very awesome : sKetchflow
• I skipped to the top 10 to make sure this was a valid list. I saw 3 Monty Python sketches. I approve. : Duffman8369
• This list helped me realize that I just don't like sketch comedy. Obviously, there are some on there that... : pauk111
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  No Tokyo Breakfast? Sure it must be on a top50 list? : Tissen
  • I have to play that video every few months. Funny shit. : pimpium
• I'm at work but was this in there? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ZWAQnCZ-s : marmite
• some good stuff there haha : X-GOUKI
• Thank God "The State" is on that list. Still one of the best sketch comedy shows ever. Dip my balls in ... : mrwolf710
• 15. Word Association - Saturday Night Live I would put this one higher for the simple fact that - as t... : riptyde
• noooooooo nerve.com is blocked at work!! : gummijoh
• yes! : klearlyunseen
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  #11 Landshark from the SNL glory days is so great lol... remember seeing that when I was really young. : TabsAZ
  • ... candygram : riptyde
• No "HATE THE SWISS" Kids in the Hall sketch. In fact, not nearly enough Kids in the Hall OR Monty Python.... : jayacheess
• Wow very nice find! Productivity be gone! : Arctic Fox
• There was a British version of this on TV a while back, some total classics. : node
• Argument to Beethoven's Fifth fucking hilarious : AMikaboshi
• aww, blocked @ work. Maybe it's for the best. : c0bra

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  it's been on partner-net for ages, i've been playing it at my desk at work for months now : dopefish
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    ^ coolest guy on shacknews : spaceless
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      lol, sorry, i forgot the part about how this game is fucking awesome and I love it. : dopefish
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        I've had the GameCube version since it was released, but my laziness dictates that I'll play something a ... : Aaron Linde
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          i stil have it for the saturn. do i win? : ibrokn
          • (dreamcast) : Mr.SEX
      • lol :) : spaceless
  • Shut up, devkit user. :( : Aaron Linde
  • I HAD IT FIRST : papaskot
  • I keep forgetting to hook that up. : kungfusquirrel
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  I WEEP FOR DODONPACHI AND KETSUI.... : u sir name
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    are they not coming out anymore at all or what : mr.sleepy
    • They said they might go the traditional retail route. :/ : bitter ego
• never played, should i buy it : FrayLo
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  Yay we can talk about Ikaruga again! : Omaha
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    was it you that i bought my copy from? or perhaps it was RE4? I forget :( : dopeman
    • Oh no, I would never part with Ikaruga :) : Omaha
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    level 4 is fucking ridiculous. discuss. : derelict515
    • That stupid circular thing, seriously : Yanks
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      I love Chapter 4. The music, the action, the challenge... it's perfect. : Omaha
      • What is your high score in default settings (3 lives, no continues, default scores for new lives) so far? : Serpico74
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  It has Coop right? : Sailor of Fortune
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    That it does, and it adds in all sorts of interesting strategies too as one player can act as a shield fo... : SolrFlare
    • You can also push your friend into enemy fire of the opposing color. I learned this the hard way the fir... : Omaha
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=EGNSdcy-apU Video of Hard stage 5, wtf. : hirosushima
• I'm not sure I have the ability to enjoy a difficult shooter like this still. : afrochops
• ikaruga is awesome to the max. : pyide
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  To celebrate: http://www.netzwerkomaha.com/pub/soundtracks/ikaruga.tar.gz I think this includes where... : Omaha
  • For some reason I find it really amusing that this is tar.gz'd : Yanks
• anything new added to the game? : MoreVespeneGas
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  I DL'd the demo and it was fucking hard. :( : K1Bond007
  • Hahaha. This isn't your daddy's pong, boy. : Omaha
  • Yeah, you'll get used to it. : Serpico74
  • i cant even make it to the end of the demo : FrayLo
  • yes and yes I may jsut purchase the full versio n this weekend : shavenewok
  • this is like the opposite or Rez HD's release. everyone was complaining that it was too easy. now peo... : pyide
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    It's not insanely hard though. Thing is the enemies come in set patterns. So, it's more about finding a... : SolrFlare
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      I also formally request now that Ikaruga is out, that they port Radiant Silvergun, DonDonPachi, and Mars ... : SolrFlare
      • Mars Matrix, can the 360 handle that number of dots without melting? : Serpico74
      • dodonpachi dai ou jou for xbla was denied by microsoft :( http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51994 ... : pyide
• why does stage 4 have to suck so much : Fish_Bulb
• God I still suck at this game. Great to have it back though after I accidentally sold it in my Metroid 2... : devi| dog
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  So much wasted screen space. :( : rudds
  • I was hoping this wasn't the case, but was disappointed when I fired it up, doesn't take much away from t... : devi| dog
• once at the end of a game of ikaruga (i made it to stage 5) i threw the gamecube controller so hard at th... : mr.sleepy
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  Does it support horizontal mode? : ColoradoCNC
  • I didn't see it in the setup options. : Serpico74
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    apparently you can rotate the screen, but no horizontal control choice. : pyide
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      That's what I meant, I should've clarified. I just want to know if I can play it with my monitor turned t... : ColoradoCNC
      • yes then. and unlike the gamecube version which only rotates one direction this does both. and old scr... : pyide
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  High Score Subthread -- I'm up to 2mil. : Yanks
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    Also my buddy and I are top 50 in co-op :D : Yanks
    • ok, so, co-op - can't one of you just be black and one be white and then just not worry about reversing a... : Deathlove
  • *sigh* : mr.sleepy
  • 3 million on my second try, in the top 350. I'm pretty sure that is around my score ceiling for three liv... : Serpico74
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    I'm around 4M after some fiddling around; I've forgotten lots, I've almost got my chapter 1 back though. ... : zakk
    • Awesome, let us know when you get it so we can watch. : Serpico74
  • 5.6M just before bed. game over halfway through stage 2. 3.7M stage 1, 118 chain : zakk
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  You can download playbacks from the leaderboards. The #1 ranked guy with 25 million has S+ ranks in all l... : Serpico74
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    The co-op replay is also ridiculous : Yanks
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      It is my favorite new feature. Getting to watch how these amazing players do it on my own 360 is great. : Serpico74
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        welcome to my hell enjoy your stay. why do something when you can watch someone better than you do i... : boomstickah
        • Why do you watch sports? : GodZilly
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          Are you the best at everything you do among people you know, on the internet, and on television? : Serpico74
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            I frequently find myself firing up a replay/demo/video of someone doing it rather than out there doing it... : boomstickah
            • Do you ever use some of those demos to improve your own game? Watching those Ikaruga demos has definitely... : Serpico74
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  OTHER THAN THE BUGS, YES also, hardcore: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zakk23/2402899062/in/photostream... : zakk
  • wow. a jamma controller would rock : skryte
• Hm, I think I'll just keep playing it on the DC. : tcs
• Powerstone 2 now please. But yes it rocks as hard as ever. : node
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  wtf is this game : TastyWheat
  • One of the most famous Vertical SHMUPs, and also one of the top 10 of all time. It's the spiritual seque... : SolrFlare
  • HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT LOOKS AWESOME, BOUGHT'D : TastyWheat