Weekend Discussion

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• I think ten days is pretty short and three activations is too few but otherwise to me that's a reasonable... : Jonathan
• People are going to bitch about requiring an online connection to play a single player game regardless (v... : RomSteady
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  I don't see why companies go for these extravagant copy protection measures for a single player game. It'... : sanchez
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    The funny part is it will be cracked before the street date even hits. So all they've done is fuck with p... : avatar_58
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      i was considering buying it, but the only way i'd buy a single player game is if it DIDN"T make me jump t... : Demius
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        EAgames. Don't count on it. : avatar_58
        • aah yeah, forgot it was EA :( : Demius
    • that's not always true. bioshock wasn't cracked for weeks after ship date even though it was on shelves a... : mikecyb
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  hey, i'd take a check and no DVD required than checks with the disc required. this doesn't sound any w... : pyide
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    Steam doesn't deal with keys. It's attached the account. In this method if somehow a key-generator matche... : avatar_58
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      The probability of that happening is very low. (read: next to impossible) Like if the key is 15 charac... : Perturbation
      • Is that a challenge? ;) : avatar_58
      • I had it happen for StarCraft, StarCraft:BroodWars. Admitedly, this was several years after release an... : Zhaneel
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  This stuff is so f'cking ridiclous - the real pirates _ALWAYS_ find a way, name an uncrackable game which... : abrasion
  • WoW was cracked ages ago. I don't think you can get on Blizzard's servers though. : Vincent Grayson
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    Sins of a Solar Empire has it right, reward the people who purchase. : shortbuscaptain
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      How? : abrasion
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        They implemented a online system called stardock that provided extra content and features to the game for... : shortbuscaptain
        • That's a great idea. : abrasion
        • um, stardock is the name of the developer? o_O : Toraz Chryx
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        by not having horrible copy protection : thewindcriesmary
        • or any, actually. (aside from cdkey to access online matchmaking and patches). : datoo
      • they also made it run well on low-end systems so that their overall market was larger : Solar Jetman
  • I kno rite? It'll be cracked within a week. At most. : d fluke
• btw, will this game have regular fps mouse aiming? I tried playing it on my 360 and couldn't aim with the... : sanchez
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  Well it doesn't require a dvd after install. Thats a plus. : baron calamity
  • If the system was somewhere between and month to two months and ten activations I'd be more happier than ... : Jonathan
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  "Mass Effect does not require the DVD to be in the drive in order to play, it is only for installation." ... : Wombat Woo
  • Interesting! : Mondo
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    Except EAgames is the LAST one I'd trust with the lifespan of my game. I'm already putting my faith in Va... : avatar_58
    • yeah, unless they turn it into a generic, game and brand agnostic thing they'll drop support for it even... : ttyRazor
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      possibly release a final "update" when they've made all the money they'll actually make the removes the c... : fatman
      • Oh, I wouldn't be surpised at all that this is what they'd do. You guys are too cynical :) : rt702
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      As I understand it the game will only recheck once, or possibly twice if the first check (5 days in) fail... : navelskrutt
      • Except it is every ten days. : Jonathan
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  that's awfully complex for something that's going to be cracked within days : JINKY
  • Don't tell that to the corporate overlords, they don't like dissent. In other news there isn't a singl... : locater16
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  What percentage of SecuROM using games have crackes that bypass all of SecuROM the first day the game is ... : cannelbrae
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    I remember hearing that BioShock was not cracked until a while after release. : Johnny Law
    • yes, it took several weeks for a stable crack to get out there. i can't remember number of days off hand ... : dahanese
• sounds ok to me. this shit is too awesome to pirate : dantastic
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  What's next? I forget to insert my CD before playing and all of the sudden my phone rings and the chick f... : pixelat3d
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    Soon the developers employees will have to come to your house and watch you install the game. : NastyJack
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      You say this like it's a bad thing. : Jonathan
      • They're also bringing their friend Bubba, a canteloupe, and a bottle of vegetable oil : alarm cock
• The only way I can think of to provide even remotely secure access to a single player game would be to ke... : dooberzoo
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  Are a lot of you misreading this? It only activates when you install it, not every 10 days. : Vincent Grayson
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    http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=628375&forum=125&sp=16 For clarity, though, a : Jonathan
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      *EVERY* 10 days? What the fuck? The snippet I posted only said once, and then a 10 day later check. It di... : avatar_58
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        Man...I really wanted to play the game on PC, but I'm not going to buy it with a protection scheme like t... : Vincent Grayson
        • Yeah that killed it for me, i have it for 360 and was thinking of picking it up for PC. But that shit is... : adsriordan
        • But they'll blame the PC as a dying platform and rampant piracy instead of their own fucking stupidity. : Ebu
• This is the reason I didnt buy Bioshock. The demo was great but I'm not putting up with this mess for som... : Topaz
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  I'm really not seeing how this is much different from Steam. Both allow your to play without physical ... : Perturbation
  • Well steam means I don't need to keep discs on hand for installing, doesn't limit my installs and as far ... : Jonathan
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    steam has: *valve's backing!! alot more weight to it than ea imo *friend list / easy to join friends g... : Unleashed
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      oh yeah i bet securom is as annoying as fuck to uninstall completely : Unleashed
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        http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?t=4027 - nope. : GrimmyD
        • the very fact that you need a guide to remove it highlights my point : Unleashed
    • Steam also seems ready to stick around for the long haul and committed support for back catalog stuff, ev... : ttyRazor
  • Steam allows me to play offline without begging me to connect every 10 days : adsriordan
• hahahaha copy protection : shortbuscaptain
• Good luck with that. I didn't buy Bioshock because of the DRM, and I won't buy this. I'm sure the peopl... : capt tripps
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  So what happens if I want to replay it in 5 years, any they no longer have the auth server running? : theamazingrand0
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    This is the same problem most of us using Steam will face. I'm sure the games will be patched/fixed if it... : GrimmyD
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      Steam has gotten big enough where i don't think there's any way it'll be gone in 5 or 10 years. When you... : boredguy
      • And Steam has made the promise (however much thats worth) that they'll unlock everything you bought if th... : theamazingrand0
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    They could just release a patch that disables the security check. They won't even have to do any work, th... : Noobler
    • This is EA we're talking about. their answer will be to buy the sequel since they're no longer releasing... : ttyRazor
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    You move on to a new game : Tommy Toolbag
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      Story-driven RPGs are the best kind of games to replay. Just like re-reading your favorite books, or watc... : theamazingrand0
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        While true, I'd wager a *very* small percentage of people who buy a game now will still play that game in... : Vincent Grayson
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          I honestly don't care how many other people might want to replay it. If the game is good, I probably will... : theamazingrand0
          • Technically, that's always been the case. Sure, you owned the physical media on which the game resided... : Vincent Grayson
        • Who's fault is that? Personally I'm still playing Wolfenstein 3D. I just recently replayed some oldschool... : avatar_58
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      Let's delete and burn every copy of Doom, Deus Ex, System Shock, Full Throttle - let's just scour them fr... : abrasion
      • Whoah, calm down, man. Its not like I suggested using Windex on a monitor. : Tommy Toolbag
  • Haven't they already addressed this? I seem to remember reading somewhere that it wouldn't be as big a d... : action wombmate
  • in the thread linked that question is asked, and the bioware guy states that they will release a patch re... : sharpie
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  Just like how the copy protection in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts has fucked me out of a game I own... : Dechter
  • What happened? : datoo
• Wasn't Bioshock going to have its online activation disabled after so many months, or something like that... : thane
• What a waste, its only going to hurt the people who actually bought the game. They are failing to realize... : headbone
• I'm gonna go ahead and say that this is a short term solution, and that a patch that removes most of the ... : sharpie
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  Hey...Steam games check in every time you play them don't they? : mrwolf710
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    The main difference being that you can go into offline mode in steam and still play your games after 10 d... : sharpie
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      And who goes offline these days? : mrwolf710
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        People that are traveling or having ISP problems. : phate81
        • Who can't find a connection when they are traveling these days? : Pettytheft
• I'm sad to hear this... I had hoped to buy this game for PC to give the publishers/studio somethin to kee... : Q-ball
• Seems like almost everyone is pissed with the pc market right now. I'd be too, still this "protection" ju... : razorblade79
• As long as i can install it and it works, I really don't care. : baron calamity
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  hahahaha. let's kill the pc market one release at a time. : erotic sock
  • Hold me :( : d fluke
• GODDAMNIT. GODDAMNIT. Put it on steam, please. Or release a patch to remove this shit, I'm not buying ... : d fluke
• they should be very clear on the box that the game requires an internet connection to play. Marketing co... : Luminair
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  And people wonder why sales for PC games are stagnating? It's shit like this. Oh well, I just got a 360 s... : phate81
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    I can't believe they'll put this into Spore. Thats fucking mind blowing. Will Wright Sims games sell like... : avatar_58
    • :( I have been actively trying to avoid buying games with this kind of protection : Goncyn
    • Will Wright games tend to be the games I played most without an internet connection outside of Civ and Ga... : Jonathan
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    I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. 99.99999% of people don't give a flying fuck about this, only angry nerds... : navelskrutt
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      Answer this question - SecuRom will: a) Stop Piracy b) Slow Piracy c) Cause more people to pirate th... : avatar_58
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        A and B. It will hopefully slow piracy enough that some people will just buy it instead, so in other word... : navelskrutt
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          I'd much prefer that they just put the game on Steam, which is an online activation service I'm already f... : Goncyn
          • But then you have to give money to your competition, basically. I wish MS came out with a nice solution f... : navelskrutt
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      IAWTP, and those who say they won't buy it merely complete the circle that is the death of PC gaming. It ... : Tommy Toolbag
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        Except the people not buying them are doing so directly BECAUSE of this prevention method. : avatar_58
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          I'd wager that most people who say they wouldn't buy it because of this, wouldn't buy it anyway. Are you ... : navelskrutt
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            Personally I'm buying the game because I'm not sure I'd ever replay it anyway, but I find it easy to side... : avatar_58
            • What does replay have to do with it? : navelskrutt
        • That doesnt matter. What matters is the bottom line. If companies can't make money on the PC they'll simp... : Tommy Toolbag
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      What about the casual user who buys the game but can't get it to work due to the intrusive DRM so they re... : phate81
      • Put "requires sporadic internet connection" on the box. Problem solved. Do you really think that the inte... : navelskrutt
• *sigh, another game I'll crack. Thanks a lot :( : geneshifter
• lol no chance in hell i'll buy this now. nice shooting fucktards @ bioware : NeoMoose
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  I see no problem with internet activation, especially if it means no CD in the drive (that makes SENSE). ... : SpaecKow
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    The problem is the same problem that happened with Bioshock. The servers got slammed the first day with p... : phate81
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      In this case they have a "soft" activation after five days to prevent that. Also, why get angry about ... : navelskrutt
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        Actually if everyone buys it day one / two then that means everyone will be activating every 10 days........ : avatar_58
        • The point is that they have a "soft" activation where perhaps 50% will succeed, and also lets the IT guys... : navelskrutt
    • That is really a minor quibble, I mean yes okay its an inconvenience but not one that should be a deal br... : SpaecKow

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  WTF? This is madness! I'm starting to think Trent must be back on drugs :/ : daedraug
  • It took him about 5 years to make an album on drugs. I think he's cloned himself. ...Maybe we'll be gi... : nudel
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  Sweet. Unexpected. Was this on anyone's radar or did it just pop up out of the blue? : PlanetPerfecto
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    they did just announce a big american tour. and i guess they need something to tour with : CoRDS
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      I was thinking the same thing, although i don't have my finger on the pulse of Trent's releases. Also, he... : PlanetPerfecto
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        i cant imagine a ghosts i-iv concert being all that awesome, so yeh you tour with new material. so this o... : CoRDS
        • d00nloading now! grabbing both FLAC and MP3 because I'm a freak like that, yo. : PlanetPerfecto
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    The two singles they released both had "check nin.com on May 5th" or something like that in their comment... : nudel
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      he will make so much money from concerts that selling cd's isnt really even worth it anymore : CoRDS
      • He's releasing this on CD later though, so we'll get a chance to give him money! : daedraug
      • Yeah. It's pretty much why he asks for your email to DL the album, so he can spam you with tour dates. : ventro
      • Didn't Ghosts make millions of dollars (or a million at least), though? Doesn't seem like money to say no... : nudel
• kick ass. thanks : CoRDS
• Good lord, again? : Vincent Grayson
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  Trent is going through a huge creativity boom right now it seems. : rossimo
  • Yeah. He went like 5-6 years between albums before, and now we're getting like 2-3 albums per year. Aweso... : ventro
• Kick ass. Thanks for the heads up! : Zips
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  hooray for 22k/s :/ : sparkly
  • Yep :'( : -sk-
  • I get around 1000k/sec : xlarti
  • i just got it at 1800kbps : marmite
• dude must be on speed : reverend~heresy
• sweet! : ninjase
• sweet! : ninjase
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  So..any good? : Visceral Monkey
  • only 4 new tracks in so far ... but yes = ) : pixelat3d
• very very cool. thanks for the link. and downloading at 950 k/sec not too bad! : strider_
• awesome stuff, trent rules. : flipoit
• im liking this whole "i have no record label so its all free lol" business hes doing : ninjase
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  Cover art and Foobar 2000: Here's a zip file with the extracted cover-art for each track and instructi... : nudel
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    Thank you sir. I will be using these covers, but not in foobar. MEDIAMONKEY FTMFW :) : PlanetPerfecto
    • Glad they're useful! : nudel
  • Thanks for this! I just realized over the weekend how to turn on that view the covers for individual trac... : smoove
• Awesome, gonna download this later after work. He even has 24/96 tracks for audiophiles. : Lightbulb
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  Lyrics: http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=1406997#1406997 : nudel
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    that was fast : RikiTiki2
    • They're embedded in the files as well, WMP shows them below the art :) : daedraug
• This is pretty fucking great. Some good "real" songs, and some kickass instrumentals. : Vincent Grayson
• I want to hear Head Down live. Come to Europe soon Mr. Reznor, please! : daedraug
• Wow, 2.63mb/sec using the Downloadthemall plugin for Firefox. : Phreakin
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  Anyone planning on going to either the Aug 27th (NJ) or 29th (Philly) concert dates? Presale for it is t... : grayscale
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    I'll be at the August 29th show! I have a membership to The Spiral so I can get preorder tickets, but ... : zerog83
    • Well the membership is free now, so come Wednesday I'll be getting two tickets also :D The last show was... : grayscale
• Cool School, I love "Head Down" but the album is actually really strong, very happy about that! : snowwolf
• Fuck yeah! Also ticket pre-sale on Wednesday. :D : yoonix
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  some songs come across as a love child between TDS and fragile. Others sound like they belong on WT and ... : mrsparil
  • universe? I dunno, Ive been listening ot NIN since 89. This new album sounds like left over b-sides fr... : two50six
• wow that is random and unexpected. : arizona bay
• holy shit!! : silent prophet
• god bless that millionaire and his important, important work <3 : Deathlove
• Insane. He's gonna burn himself out making so much music. : stelth
• Im really enjoying this album. : ant_hillbilly

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  Hahaha. Wolfenstein 3D is now old enough to drive. : Arcanum
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    Holy shit. That makes me feel old. : lplasmatron
    • Oh and might I had that I always had a big interest in games, but Wolf3d is the one that cemented the fac... : lplasmatron
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  I just found a flash Wolf3D, and played it, remembering all of the secrets in the first level. :) : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Its disturbing when that happens huh? : thewindcriesmary
    • like the way I can remember the words to all of the first albums I bought, but can't remember what I was ... : Arctic Fox
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  http://www.aptgetupdate.de/index.php/2008/04/23/games-voxelstein-3d/ ignore the pictures on the walls. : Hoax
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    wtf : trOmblyj
    • Holocaust picture. The fact that the site is hosted in Germany makes it doubly strange. : Lone Swordsman
  • The pictures on the wall really turned me off of the this thing. And the fact that the voxel shooting is ... : freshyk
  • what the fuck? : judge
  • wtf picture : jackalope
  • username + .... oh, nevermind : retardhumper
• It's doom's 15'th birthday this year too, good times. : abrasion
• this was the first video game I ever played :D : deadfish
• My dad got the shareware episode for me when I was 9 years old... I thought it was SO scary! We had a 38... : CyCo_PL
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  This makes me reminisce about all the games I played. Anyone play Gobliiins? : felicia
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    Adventure/puzzle game? : ImageOmega
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      Yeah. :( And Woodruff and the Schnibble. :( : felicia
      • Such a fun game...I still have the original box in like perfect condition. : ImageOmega
  • Gobliins 1/2/3 were so awesome :( I want to play those again! : daedraug
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    Gobliiins 4 is scheduled for release in 2008 according to Wikipedia. Loved those games. The graphics we... : stump
    • whaaaaaaaaaaaat! : felicia
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      Haha, holy shit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduD4XZ5xq4 : daedraug
      • Gobliiins 4 trailer ^^^^ : daedraug
      • I only played the first one. It was great. I doubt I would play this one though. : razlebol
  • X-com for life bitches! : deadfish
  • OMG they were great! : abrasion
• So, is it inappropriate to celebrate this games birth with drinking of margaritas? : ImageOmega
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C00n4rDUMNo I think the music is what makes it fun. It's not the only ... : Maddog_Delphi97
  • I forgot how badass that game was. It had the satisfying one shot/one kill element nailed (except for the... : rustified
  • Totally, and Spear of Destiny had even better music! : d fluke
  • MIDI FTW! : Arctic Fox
• huh. May 5 usually means mexican food and margaritas for me.... : RikiTiki2
• my dad bought this after seeing it in a store! I was 10 and my brother was 13 and we played that shit all... : dfz0r
• Ahh, memories. : thejm4n
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  What was one of the main difference graphically between Wolf 3d and Doom? Doom had true ceilings and f... : mrwolf710
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    Ha. Doom also had elevating platforms, far more advanced lighting, realtime lighting effects (the room wo... : rustified
    • and doom came out 1 year later? damn : Chandler55
    • Yeah, true. I just meant if you fire up Wolf and then go fire up Doom it's one of the most obvious diffe... : mrwolf710
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  What about Spear of Destiny? I totally played that one first. : dopeman
  • well, it was supposed to be a prequel so that's alright : RikiTiki2
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    also, i totally played it on a 33MHz 386. i got it from a friend in elementary school in the 5th grade. ... : dopeman
    • UR THE SAME AGE AS ME AND I'LL BE 21 FOREVER : packav
• I remember playing Wolf 3D all summer long in 92. Good times, good times. : baron calamity
• oh man i think I have a copy of that around here on floppy. lol. : metalremains
• TURBO BUTTON for the win : Sanct1mon1a
• I remember playing the first level over and over. Good times. : helvetica
• I got this game via shareware and at the time had a 486 DX2. We also had a 21" CRT touchscreen monitor. ... : spazzium
• Always scrolling left while hitting the space bar. : Totenjaeger
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  I played it on my Packard Bell 386/sx. : Ziz
  • Packard bell!! I never owned one but all my friends did. It was so sad. : baron calamity
• Happy Wolf 3-D day! Ahh the memories of playing that. Good times it was :) : humbleone
• I just played through it recently. <3 Wolf3D : David Craddock

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• me no speak english : Mmmmmoo
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  I don't understand, is she saying it's not? I am confused : abrasion
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    we don't have an official language. also: official. : dahanese
    • you mean offical. : pyide
    • got it - LOL : abrasion
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  I am amused they even underlined (twice) the misspelled word. : Entity
  • yeah :( : jessipoo
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  Sign looks too clean to not be photochopped. : c0bra
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    hick protesters are never that stupid in real life am i rite? : jenisthebest
    • is that what I said? : c0bra
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    definitely photoshopped. : thechunder
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      except for the part where it's a houston chronicle, credited picture: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ob... : jessipoo
      • I'd still contend its photoshopped, based on analysis of the image itself and the telltale artifacts. New... : thechunder
• HAHAHAHAHA!!! : Megara9
• lol, nice. see me after class : goatjc
• It's so awesome, but it also makes me a little sad :( : Ctrl-Phreak
• She just means in all cases that don't involve using iCal : Dave-A
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  Someone please find that other famous protest sign... I can't remember what exactly it is but I think it'... : NastyJack
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    http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/moran-7512.jpg : Ctrl-Phreak
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      Hahahahahahaha. The best part of that picture is the "GO USA". :D : Rice-Rocketeer
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        I submit that that is in fact the worst part of the picture. : Ctrl-Phreak
        • No, no. The best! : Rice-Rocketeer
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        no, the best part is that they're a Cardinals fan : Deathlove
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          at least their team knows something about baserunning >:( : Caboose
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            i don't know what you're talking about outside of the cedeno-holding-up-at-third thing : Deathlove
            • also: no they don't : Deathlove
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    http://pages.prodigy.net/pizzabagel/MisspelledSigns_002.htm bunch here : AllYourBase
    • check out this a-hole who mispelled prosciutto : JINKY
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      Whoever wrote the captions on the write is almost as bad as the people who misspelled the signs. : felicia
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        ... I can't tell if you did this on purpose or not. Either way, it's awesome. : Ctrl-Phreak
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          wtf are you talking about, I see nothing wrong with what I sad. : felicia
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            your write their was nothing wrong : randomnull
            • :D : ImageOmega
            • srsly what did I due wrong : felicia
    • lol he spelled "maintenance" incorrectly after pointing it out in the sign (which was also incorrect). : dopeman
• How offal. : cerealSAM2
• get a brain morans : gyokuro
• Is that "offical" to rhyme with "fecal"? : nevicata
• i like this sign: http://media.commercialappeal.com/mca/content/img/photos/2008/02/16/s17tig2.jpeg : FrayLo

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  you feed him/her/it sea stars?! :\ : thief
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    they're called brite somethings, and are supposed to help her teeth and doggy breath. she's weird about t... : dahanese
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      got one of those in last dog food bag, guess even dogs like toys. : Ziz
      • of course they do! spoiled brats, the lot of em. : dahanese
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      I bet you'll find a giant stack of them secreted away somewhere in your house, rotting and moldy. : famine101
      • that would suck. i only bought her two and i remember seeing her eat the first one and being like FUCKING... : dahanese
• Supahstar! : cerealSAM2
• aww cute doggy . Sirius : CoRDS
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  All I see is your crotch :) : trOmblyj
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    i bet you'd be so sad if i said that was mike. : dahanese
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      did I say crotch? I meant adorable puppy :) : trOmblyj
      • If you're going to make posts like that at least look at the rest of the gallery to confirm before postin : Jonathan
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      Actually, I'd feel sad for mike : action roommate
      • yeah when tomblyj seemed to have believed me i went back and was like "man that would be sad. either that... : dahanese
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  Hijack! I uploaded some pics from a few years ago of my girl - when there was another Jack Russell here. ... : trOmblyj
  • :D awesome. no hijack here, post more. : dahanese
  • Sure looks good all buckled up in the back seat. : Githyanki
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  How many stars she have now? She close to Bowser? : freakord
  • also, that's the cutest dog ever. gotta get me a poopy doog. : freakord
• It seems you have huge boobs : mnok
• 2 more days until I bring one of my kitties home! The other should be ready in about a week or so. : goatjc
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  Here are all the rad animals I hung out with today... Little creatures: http://www.sfgov.org/site/upl... : jessipoo
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    super cute. i like princess. : dahanese
    • princess is soooo tiny and cute. she's been at the shelter since 1/9, though :( why can't someone nice ad... : jessipoo
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  http://dahanese.com/img/gallery/pa5408/img_0020sm.jpg http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/02/... : oatmela
  • http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/genericv2/359/17/01AwcAX1bLhx8AAAABAAAAAAAAAAA:.jpg : oatmela
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  fuck you dude my friend just got an awesome australian mini shepherd that retrieves corn on the cob. htt... : mega man
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    Don't let the dog eat the corn on the cob tho. The cob can cause a blockage - my girl was sick this summ... : trOmblyj
    • he feeds it chicken bones so thats the least of my worries. one day im gonna steal it : mega man
  • that's damned adorable. : dahanese
• So does that mean your dog's invincible? : kallanta
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  Picture of my lil pooch when she was a wee puppy. http://shackpics.com/files/Picture024JPG_fbifjd21fkw... : u sir name
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    oh man, how old? : dahanese
    • Well, she's 1.5 years old now, and a whole lot bigger now! 65 pounds bigger, but man, she's still a cutey... : u sir name
• My roommate and I shared the house for 5 years, so I got to know his two dogs REALLY well. All things ... : kallanta
• http://shackpics.com/files/muddynose_ldk3flf25l3f6930fcwx.jpg this was after playing at the dog park, ... : mo13
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  Introducing Mesa Black: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/whippedcracker/CIMG3366.jpg she's stripey... : whippedcracker
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    oh god that's a dapple short hair doxie right? my god look at that short snoot! : dahanese
    • sure is. shes a bit bigger now. I got another short dapple thats a mini. : whippedcracker
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  http://megarust32.shackspace.com/2242206649_70d15bbfbc_o.jpg : megarust32
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    i always try and put a kitty or two in my sunday updates. because i love them too. i lost all my kitte... : dahanese
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      your cats get along with the new pup? : megarust32
      • no. they both bop her, and i swear the orange one comes out so he can get chased and tease her, and she's... : dahanese
  • http://www.scalzi.com/athenahammer.jpg : bfzzzz
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowbs/2458496594/ : cowbs
• Aren't dogs great? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/2374997833_1de5af7825.jpg?v=0 : radicus
• my 7 yr old reptilian friend 'lizzy' http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=3406 sorry for the blurry pic : jane911
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  One more week. Next Saturday. I shall finally have a pet to post pictures of. But don't tell my kids. ... : mrwolf710
  • eee a black and tan eee post tons of pictures please? : dahanese
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/67903044@N00/257239052/ : nudelphi
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  pet video! this should be the most boring video you have ever seen. but i love it! http://www.youtube.... : radula
  • Cichlids are so cheeky. He seems to be saying "Soon, I shall have this area walled off so you can't spy o... : PlanetPerfecto
  • :((( i wish i hadnt euthanised mine now : mega man
• http://amikaboshi.shackspace.com/Photo0000_0216.jpg my cat sundae on the left and her son bear, my mom... : AMikaboshi
• http://www.jenandcraig.com/Alexandra/set3/target26.html http://www.jenandcraig.com/Alexandra/set4/targ... : riptyde
• http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/2466842905_fbb21e2275.jpg : balaams_ass

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  You're favourite console is bad and you should feel bad. : avatar_58
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    also, your favorite band sucks : elwood00
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      I hate his clothes too. : avatar_58
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        the car he drives is slow, overpriced, and will burst into flames any minute : elwood00
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          ...and his watch is ugly. : Colleton
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            and he tips less than 15% : sroylance
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              Needs a better diet. : azenmaster
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                he likes fat chicks : TheFatMom
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                  hee's a computer : spiderfill
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                    he wears $15 dollar jeans : dopefish
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                      his woman has pointy elbows : ThomW
                      • Thats not a woman : mwhr1986
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                        he is a shacker : conandan
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                          he's queefed? : dixieboi
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                            he looks at disney underwear : drbriefs
                            • Your life decisions are all appalling, and in the multitude of parallel dimensions in this one you suck t... : ihya
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  Yeah, I don't know if it's the mods doing such a great job or just the general chivalrousness of shack po... : gakera
  • Definitely the mods. : Sarcastro
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    If you've ever spent more than five minutes on any unmoderated shacker-related thing, you know it's the m... : SiW73
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      What? I never even notice the mods... : melt_core
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        they're ninjas in black who melt into the background : Megara9
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          Oh shit I think I just saw one /ducks : Topaz
          • They hunt trolls then take warm showers together. Its in their blood. : ihya
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        That's because you don't have the script that turns their names green. There fucking everywhere man. : Nali4Freedom
        • I do have it. I never notice their deletion of post. : melt_core
• yeah dude the shack is like the lincoln douglass debate version of the console wars. : mindfk
• apparently we need to start calling you gay more : Megara9
• It's because we like to debate, and with this generation of consoles you're a winner no matter what conso... : jbury
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  I think a lot of the arguments here are extremely convoluted and ultimately end up with a lot misinformat... : sinner0423
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    Why would I want your pos PS3? : Topaz
    • oh i don't know. : xxiv
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  fag : buzzbat
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    Yeah, well your mom's a fag. : Fred Garvin
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      !!! : buzzbat
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        That's soo Metal Gear, dude. ;) : Sylvanus
        • I feel asleep : synaptic revolt
• console war = you arguing with dilutedq : maulla
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  It's all about the games. We don't buy consoles to own consoles; we buy consoles to play games. As soon a... : rock elf
  • I have all three + a decent system because of that. I want to play games. That's it. (I do prefer the ... : Sylvanus
• FWIW: Kudos to you when you reply to my posts. :) : Sylvanus
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  I wonder how many shackers own all 3 consoles. That also helps in drowning out a console war if the audi... : Grumbeld
  • I nearly got a PS3 last week... I might actually pick one up in a few days anyway. I've got a pretty g... : MacemanInTW
  • I owned all 3 at one point, but ditched my 360 and Wii before I moved (I wasn't putting enough time into ... : Vincent Grayson
  • /hands up/ : abrasion
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    As soon as MGS4 comes out I'll be a member of that club. : ieGod
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      i never liked mgs. surprised that this would be a console selling game : dantastic
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        The ridiculous number of copies each iteration has sold didn't clue you in? : Vincent Grayson
        • he didn't like it, so nobody must! : Bantis
  • Right here but I don't know if I will do it again. Exclusives are far and few between and it's difficult... : Wombat Woo
  • I do. : dopeman
  • I wish I did. If I had the money, I'd definitely get them all. I would love to be able to experience th : DrWaffles
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    The Wii is more of a bookend. : pancake humper
    • except for when you play your stupid little smg game : dantastic
  • not yet, but might as well buy a PS3 for BlueRay when I get into that. : metalremains
  • I do. I also tend to defend ps3 in ps3 flaming threads or the 360 in the 360 flaming threads. : Edges
  • I have all 3, but even when I only had one (the 360) I was never inclined to go on about how this one con... : Entity
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    I do. the wii only ever gets used when I have friends over, and even then it's bowling 99% of the time. ... : moshman
    • actually, I played the fuck out of the wii when metroid prime 3 and mario came out, But mario didn't real... : moshman
  • I do, don't play the Wii unless I have company though.. : randomnull
  • I do, rarely use my Wii though : Bantis
  • Our roommate just got a PS3, which completes the trifecta, but so far, I haven't touched it. Was planning... : BlackCat9
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    I have all 3, I think ratio of use wise it's 50/20/15/5 for games on the 360/Wii/PS3. And this is before ... : Sailor of Fortune
    • Oh, 20% is PC. : Sailor of Fortune
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    I do. And I don't have a girlfriend. Go figure. :P : GodZilly
    • I have to add this: I have 3 Xbox 360. It's just that good. Don't ask why. : GodZilly
  • I used to... sold the Wii though : MikkleThePickle
  • I have all 3 and I am probably still close to being a rabid 360 fanboy because it's given me so much more... : nudel
  • All 3 here as well. : Kentor
  • Last time around I had all 3 (Xbox, PS2, GC), but I don't have nearly as much time to game nowadays so I ... : riptyde
  • i own both a ps3 and a 360. no wii though but i am tempted. : xxiv
  • I have a 360, a PC, a DSLite and I have had a PSP and a Wii both of which I sold because I never used the... : marmite
  • I do and love them all except my FUCKING 360 IS BROKEN THE CUNT : TastyWheat
  • Have all three and I still play WoW more than any of them combined. (I'm new to the game still) The PS3 i... : Pettytheft
• Absolutely, even the worst threads on the shack are 10x better than every other site I've seen. : aethyr
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  Oh really?! Your mom dated Hitler! : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Well, he did give me money for candy so he couldn't have been all bad. : Fred Garvin
• stfu you faggy fag doughnut eater : dantastic
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  The basic argument was that the 360 has peaked and it's a niche console that only sells to hardcore gamer... : Fred Garvin
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    360 gamers are so hard core they buy PS3s as well. : bostrov
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      but don't buy any games for it. : metalremains
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        Of course not. The whole point is to be able to say "I'm no 360 fan, I have a PS3 too.." : bostrov
        • LoL. I've used that argument. : Pettytheft
  • Yeah I mean the xbox 1 seemed a little niche to me as well. Everyone I knew was buying ps2's or gamecubes... : hirosushima

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• you play way too many video games is the reason : oHnOES
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  this game REALLY is GTA 3 + 1. It has little to do with the 'advancements' they made in the other GTA gam... : metalremains
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    Personally I view those supposed "advancements" as a clusterfuck of pointless layered features which I ne... : Drewus
    • I agree with this. The "less is more" approach to the series worked out fucking spectacularly. : mittense
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  I don't know man, maybe this type of game isn't for you. It's like criticizing a FPS because all you do ... : fishbone
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    Also, now that Rockstar has a solid engine and their design tools developed, a huge junk of the developme... : fishbone
    • Yeah, if GTA4 is the new foundation and they take steps forward like they did last time around with VC an... : DinK
    • and those sequels will hopefully, if they are smart, be in the form of DLC for all platforms now that wou... : RetroRedEyeJr
• yeah, a lot of it is the same, at least the way some missions play out. but they changed the driving and ... : pyide
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  Nah, you're kind of right. What made it easy for me to go through without any issue was the amount of ch... : grayscale
  • I agree, the characters and dialogue add a lot to the game. I wouldn't mind grinding in other games so mu... : Serpico74
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  whats driving me nuts are all the accents. i have no idea wtf the jamaican guy says and can barely under... : dantastic
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    Most of the time I find myself reading the log so I can understand what people say. Part of it is that I... : Karnov
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      aren't there subtitles? : sumo-hacker
      • Yeah there is I have them on just in case, I try not to look at them unless I'm really confused. :P : DM7
      • With the Jamaicans the subtitles are just as fucked sa the vo. :) : acheron
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    Little Jacob isn't supposed to be super intelligible. Niko gives him a funny look in an early cutscene be... : derelict515
    • Yeah I laughed when he babbled some shit at me and I was thinking "...What?" and that's exactly what Niko... : lplasmatron
  • Not understanding Little Jacob is the entire point. Even Niko can hardly understand him, and other charac... : Drewus
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    Subtitles are a must in this game. : opengl128
    • I disagree. I have subtitles off and I get all of the text. And if the text Little Jacob sent me is any i... : mittense
  • I and I be readin wit ya brudah me seh dat : spiderfill
  • Racist Canadian bastard open your fucking ears ! : gmd
• I found myself in the same situation at first also. I was a couple hours into single player game and was... : carmainp
• Weird, I can't get into the MP in GTA4 at all. I loved the SP though and everything about it. : pancake humper
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  On the other hand, I love GTA4 SP so far. It actually feels like a "real city" so to speak. I don't reall... : DM7
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    i killed some people in a park and a guy went running down the street yelling "THERES A TERRORIST HERE" b... : oHnOES
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      hehe I only have the pistol and shotgun right now, Not that much ammo for the shotgun though, so I'm sav... : DM7
      • the pistol owns pretty hard in the beginning : oHnOES
• I've been getting really into the solo game of GTA4, it's the first single player game in many years that... : Lethal01
• I've never been able to get into the GTA games. I have a blast every few months loading it up and causin... : valael
• Changes they added that I cannot live without: auto-route mapping, waypoint placing, taxis, motorcycles, ... : spiderfill
• Yeah I'm the same. Its entertaining, but nothing super. : Maarten Goldstein
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  I have to say crackdown does that whole free-roaming thing better. GTA is basically a boring piece of shi... : navelskrutt
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    Oh, and obviously the combat was about a billion times better in crackdown too. I loved being able to sho... : navelskrutt
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      Yeah, I definitely miss the way aiming was handled in Crackdown. : Vincent Grayson
      • Yeah me to, it's far superior : armybob
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    I want Crackdown 2. : ( : Haku-Jin
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      I want it more. : tsuba
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        I want it slightly less than you, but more than Haku-Jin. : BoKnows
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          Nobody wants it more than I do. : ThomW
          • Lies! : Haku-Jin
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      hell yeah. Prototype looks like it will hold me over. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52433 i lo : marmite
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        I'm under the impression that Prototype is more linear rather than a sandbox/open city game. Am I wrong? : Haku-Jin
        • i hope so. : marmite
        • Yeah. It's an open world, just like GTA. There is also Infamous coming out for the ps3 and mercenaries 2 ... : razlebol
  • Yeah, but Grand Theft Auto isn't really about free-roaming. It's an action/adventure game in the setting ... : mittense
  • I love them both. I've spent so long just exploring Liberty City and trying to learn the roads and where ... : nudel
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    I don't get the love for this game. There's almost nothing to do in the entire game. It's so bloody shall... : lplasmatron
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      you're kidding right? theres more stuff to do in this game than most games, you've got the main story, th... : trelain
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        ah you were talking about crackdown. my bad : trelain
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          Oh. Hahaha. Yeah. I made the same mistake. I was so confused. : mittense
          • Haha, yeah, I love GTA, but Crackdown bored me quickly. : lplasmatron
    • What. : mittense
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      Crackdown is awesome. It's not that deep, but they nail so many mechanics ABSOLUTELY RIGHT that it's supe... : Rice-Rocketeer
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        I love Crackdown, but I don't get how anyone could think it was a better game than GTA4. Maybe I just enj : mittense
        • League. Or Leaugier. : mittense
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          Comparing Crackdown to GTA is like comparing Iron Man to Heat. They are both awesome for different reason... : marmite
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            I was responding to Rice-Rocketeer's original comparison. : mittense
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              huh? He wasn't comparing it to anything? He was JUST talking about Crackdown, you compared it to GTA. Thi... : marmite
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                http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16876536#itemanchor_16876536 : mittense
                • lol. : marmite
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          They're so different it's not worth comparing. I tend to think of Crackdown as primarily a platform game. : rock elf
          • I tend to think of Crackdown as an awesome game. : Haku-Jin
    • i dug this game out yesterday after a few months, and i found the last agility orb i needed. : elwood00
    • You can run down the freeway and kick cars out of the way. 'Nuff said. : navelskrutt
  • well that's the fundamental difference between the two games. none of the GTA games have ever been parti... : mikecyb
• I dunno, I am enjoying it. It definitely has this go here and do that kind of thing, but the missions all... : two50six
• I'm having just the opposite reaction, this is the first GTA game that I've ever actually played for more... : ColoradoCNC
• I was like that at first but last night something kind of clicked and I couldn't stop playing :( : mikecyb
• I guess I'm the same, I usually don't play it for hours upon hours on end. But I sill love the game. So I... : gakera
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  I was going to buy it yesterday, but my wife flipped the fuck out right there in the middle of Best Buy w... : Colleton
  • hahaha mine couldnt stop laughing when she saw me getting a handjob from a hooker this morning she said ... : Jayx77
  • Haha, seriously? She wouldn't let you buy it because the game has hookers in it? It doesn't even have any... : navelskrutt
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    how do you pick up hookers? : edgewise
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      find some chicks who look like hookers (usually they will have like, hot pants and a short top on, or a m... : mikecyb
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        i've tried this but it's never worked :( : buzzbat
        • really? I got it to work the first time I tried it. I picked up some fat hooker and got a blow job. it... : mikecyb
      • Drive around the the docks at night, the hookers-per-square mile ratio is crazy cuckoo bananas! : Dave-A
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      The only time I ever picked up a hooker was in a cat house in Germany. I didn't even have to pick one ... : Colleton
      • Oh, you meant in the game. Sry. : Colleton
      • fwding this post to your wife, nice knowing you! : mikecyb
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        was it 40 euros? my friend went while we worked there, but I was scared and had a girlfriend att : proclone1
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          IIRC, it was 90DM. This was back in 1983, quite a long time ago. : Colleton
          • Before the union days : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    That was a pivotal moment in your marriage. Now you're her bitch. : SiW73
    • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Draugluin
    • Fuck. This is not a good thing, is it... Damn. : Colleton
    • LISTEN TO THIS MAN : thetangent
    • ^^^ Wants you all to himself : ThomW
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    I let my gf play it and THE VERY FIRST THING she did was cruise round for hookers. And she got her money ... : mwhr1986
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      What I'm taking from all these threads is that a hooker/prostitute game would sell like hotcakes. Have... : semaphore
      • You and half the male Japanese population. Just look up "Sex Sim". Oh, and Leisure Larry was classic. : mwhr1986
  • I told my wife the game has hookers and strippers and she forced me to show her those parts to see what i... : phate81
  • god you fucking bitch : feek
• I am enjoying this even more than VC, which, although I never finished it, I enjoyed it quite a bit. : Thresher

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  Marvel: let the pumping out begin! : baron calamity
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    if they can dish out the quality of Iron Man, Spider-Man 1 and 2, and all 3 X-Men's I say bring it on : AllYourBase
    • Please don't include that 3rd X-Men >:| : action wombmate
    • Well... I'd rather not include X Men 3... brings down the average. : Jonathan
    • X-men 3 was such a horrible film, so much potential. : stgdz
  • I have no complaints if the movies keep being awesome. : Evil Benius
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    they said if they can't get the original actors they won't do it but who are we going to see in avengers ... : stgdz
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      lol, Captain America. Do people actually like him? And if so, why? : knepus
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        Well he fights Nazis in the modern era, what's not to love? : Jonathan
        • and Commies. : Jonathan
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        The newest series about Captain America is really good. When he's not written like a goody two shoes boys... : Rauol Duke
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          In the newest series it's not Steve Rogers anymore, is it? : Bull
          • Not currently. Steve Rogers hasn't been around for about a year now. : Rauol Duke
        • Ok. I just remember watching some cartoon with him in it when I was a kid. My impression was that he wa j... : knepus
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          is he finally shooting people? : Fyunch Click
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            The new guy is. Also stabbing. : Rauol Duke
            • Excellent. I might actually pick up the collected books later on then. : Fyunch Click
        • Ultimate Captain America is a pretty big badass too(hell he knocks the Hulk on his ass in a fight), but h... : Evil Benius
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      What's the Hulk crossover you're talking about? : Bull
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        Tony Stark has a cameo in the new Hulk movie supposedly : Degenerate
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          Really? That's hot. Did you see the cameo after the credits of Iron Man? I didn't. Found out about it aft... : Bull
          • Saw it on saturday. One the best superhero movies ever made. Seriously. The cameo was nice but I can see... : Fyunch Click
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            yup, I stayed for it both times that I saw Iron Man. :D : Degenerate
            • Nice. I really liked the movie. I thought Downey Jr. looked cheesy in all the commercials but he played t... : Bull
            • Other important question: Are you buying the Iron Man game? I'm buying the new Hulk game sight unseen.... : Bull
        • So does Nick Fury apparently. : Evil Benius
        • I heard Hurt's Gen. Thunderbolt is in the new Hulk, too. : focusdaily
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      I doubt they will have Spiderman and Wolverine in it. Probably go with Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain Amer... : Evil Benius
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        Well Wasp and Ant-Man (depending on which version) have history so I'm thinking they'll probably be in. B... : Jonathan
        • I hope there is some hot wife punching action. : Rauol Duke
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      Not sure they care that much. Besides, after Iron Man, Hulk, Cap and Wolverine, the rest are going to be ... : Fyunch Click
      • you mean youre not excited about the Hank Pym spin-off movie? Giant Ant Man! : Degenerate
    • Captain America and Thor strike me as characters that just won't work on the big screen. Even Hulk still ... : DapperDan
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  How the hell are they going to do a Thor movie :/ : nomaad
  • Easy: Man is possesed/becomes Thor when a mild mannered gay archaeologist finds the Hammer of Thor and sp... : Fyunch Click
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  Ant-Man hahahaha : MagicWishMonkey
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    lol wtf : walker270
    • I read that Edgar Wright (the guy who did Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) is making it though. It might b... : Rauol Duke
• Amazing that Comic books aren't all that popular anymore but the movies live on. : Mrc32

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  pigeons! : AlexXdude
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    they string with a piece of creepa under the dorsal guiding feathers. : sKetchflow
    • only works with swallows : peetabix01
• Escorted courier! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  elevator! : spaceless
  • space elevator? : father_crown
• UPS? : sanchez
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  original packaging/box wrapped in plastic and packed inside another larger box with alot of cushion aroun... : Jayx77
  • UPS is usually cheaper on the larger boxes : Jayx77
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  Assuming it's Canada to Canada, Canada Post will most likely be the cheapest. Canada. : boredguy
  • i think i'll go canada post. thx : Mmmmmoo
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  if video games have taught me anything then the best type of bonded courier to send stuff is the inside o... : CoRDS
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    i don't have any kittens :p : Mmmmmoo
    • well videogames should have also taught you about www.petsovernight.com : CoRDS
• teleportation. : heff
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  Catapult! : lolbotomy
  • Wiiapult : synack
• Fox it! : Grimmadog
• I need to ship something 3,280,839.9 feet and would be interested in what you find : jigstah
• Same way you ship it 10km away? : aethyr
• nooo disassemble wii5 : Demius
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  Is there an ocean involved? : kallanta
  • they don't float... : Demius
• Iron Man : delataur
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  Trebuchet : critch
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    This and delataur's answer above you are the only acceptable options. : action wombmate
    • i'll have to watch the movie first before making any final decisions : Mmmmmoo
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      iron man zooming across the ocean after being launched from a trebuchet? where do I sign up? : sludge vohaul
      • www.nevergonnafuckinghappen.com : action wombmate
• an early birthday present for me? oh you shouldn't have. c'm'ere you, you deserve a kiss : AbortedFetusChristi
• it's a wii, just swing it! : dfz0r
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  An unladen swallow : devnullgt
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    But if it's carrying a Wii then it would be laden. : action wombmate
    • but what is its air speed velocity at that point? : devnullgt
• Cannon... definitely cannon. : Q-ball
• Oh Oh... Or portals! FTW! : Q-ball
• wormhole : sanchez
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  stargate : soapland
  • licensed, needs the fargate. : Sailor of Fortune
• tear in the space time continuum : Unleashed
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  Hire a T-Rex in a fighter jet to deliver it for you. : Lightbulb
  • Note: It must be a an F-15 : d fluke
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    That's actually my desktop background on my laptop. :D : riptyde
    • That's mine in my office at work. : Rauol Duke
    • Share plz! : chiisu81
  • you r not kaflin! : moe6
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  Along the path of the beam. : tcxsnoop
  • He should just throw it into a Thinny : Lightbulb
• http://www.3ad.com/history/wwll/feature.pages/eick.pages/eick.photos/giant.cannon.1000w.jpg : PlanetPerfecto
• get those Nintendo 'Wii would like to play' guys to deliver it. : metalremains
• Sherpa! : RomSteady
• Nidus canal : ihya
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  Rainbow penis : gmd
  • The little princes lesser known "job" for the king of the universe : kanix

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  yeh but that was what they were going for. in the originals the rebels had been battling the empire for a... : CoRDS
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    100% mirror surface ships.........? : abrasion
    • people of the republic were very very vein. : CoRDS
    • Not really a new thing in sci-fi. Tons of old sci-fi novels have super shiny ships on the cover etc. Also... : Evil Benius
    • That has absolutely nothing to do with technology limitations or the artists not knowing how to "dirty th... : action wombmate
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    abrasion makes a good point though. dirtiness adds "character", and when you add in all that "shininess" ... : PlanetPerfecto
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      so your saying that dirty ships would have made up for the crappy dialog. lets be honest the first ones h... : CoRDS
      • no, I did not say that at all :) : PlanetPerfecto
• True, but there are some awful special effects in episode IV as well. The explosion from the Death Star d... : rock elf
• I watched episode 3 the other night when it was on TV, what a fucking horrible movie. I actually groaned ... : thewindcriesmary
• It's the worst of the prequels, and feels the least like the original films. : SpaecKow
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  Finished it - surprisingly it's still not bad - definately a vast improvement on Ep1. I can see some poo... : abrasion
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    You'll be surprised, given time, Episode 1 is the only prequel with redeeming values beyond "tying it to ... : randomposter
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      1 < 2 < 3 < 6 < 4 < 5 : dirge23
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        I'd argue that it's more like 2<3<1<6<4<5 I discount that apart from the last hour anything of interes... : randomposter
        • And really, I'm giving 6 a bit of a pass and to be honest, TPM is just as watchable (and unwatchable) : randomposter
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          I think Ep1 is the worst because it introduces all the terrible errors that 2 and 3 cannot escape from. ... : dirge23
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            Arguably all of those are lessened and more or less moot from Ep2 onwards, instead they focus on a ridicu... : randomposter
            • (But I agree that those errors of Ep1 are pretty big ones) : randomposter
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              I agree that the acting, dialogue and character development is terrible in Ep2 and Ep3, but this is equal... : dirge23
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                While I agree with you in principle, I felt like the first movie captured something of it's own feel for ... : randomposter
                • I guess what I'm saying is, even if I'd more or less hated them (which I do anyway) I wish Lucas hadn't p... : randomposter
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                  i am scared of what he would have produced if he had just full-on followed his "artistic vision". that a... : dirge23
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                    Yeah, I'm not saying it would've been any good - but by a lot of critical estimation, the first trilogy w... : randomposter
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                      They got LOTR so it all works out. : dirge23
                      • Too true, we just lucked out with SW, Indy and BTTF. : randomposter
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  Okay the first 3 are the best nobody and can any different. But come on the second 3 i mean all the ligh... : Sanct1mon1a
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    The space battles suck in the new 3. They're too busy and chaotic and it robs them of drama. : dirge23
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      I'm pretty sure that Return of the Jedi had the most ridiculous of all the space battles, what with that ... : Slowtreme
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        "Accuracy" (whatever that means in this context) isn't important to me, so much as a conveyance of some s... : dirge23
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          And I'll argue that the (space) battles in EP1-3 fit their intentions given the size and scope of the mil... : Slowtreme
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            Jar Jar Binks was in the Battle of Naboo, he is important! : semaphore
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              SPACE! not that stupid ground offensive. I have a huge hatred for all of the ground battles. : Slowtreme
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                the ground battles are ludicrous. the only one that's any good in any of the star wars movies is the Hot... : dirge23
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                  IAWTP. and for the same reason as above. The Hoth battle had organized chaos, not Rows of perfect formati... : Slowtreme
                  • Not at all. They drop those AT-ATs and they just walk straight for the base and the base fires back; it'... : dirge23
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            This, I guess, is my point: there's nobody important in the battles, so I don't really care about them. ... : dirge23
            • It's more concise than this even: without well defined characters, no battles matter. : randomposter
  • http://cosbystrikesback.ytmnd.com/ : hirosushima
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  Starship Troopers - CG that has withstood the last 10 years. : falkan
  • Because the CG is of nonhuman things. There is no point of reference for any of the shit in Starship tro... : Crimsonbeak

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  That's just like your opinion man. : NastyJack
  • Nobahdy fucks wit deh Jesus. : DrWaffles
• lol : Mmmmmoo
• you should just go all the way and say TF2 is such a boring game to play : gyokuro
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  I played sentryless engineer earlier today and had fun, finishing near the top of the scoreboard. Set tel... : A Sponge
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    pistol is great for getting assist kills from long distances : AllYourBase
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      throwing down an offensive sentry in a place unexpected by the defense is quite entertaining too. just pl... : Demius
      • If you stay in the same spot for five seconds, engineer becomes boring. Sure, build your sentry but then ... : A Sponge
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        Yeah if it kills one or two enemies or causes them to lose 30 seconds dealing with it that can make a hug... : EvilDolemite
        • My favorite spot on 2Fort is to build offensive sentries underneath where snipers hang out.. when a soldi... : Maddog_Delphi97
• Aren't you the guy that hates TF2? : whistler
• sigh. it can be very rewarding. you arent doing it right. : hirez
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  you are a failure and should kill yourself : eeeealmo
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    eeeealmo : felicia
    • thats what you said : eeeealmo
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  Well if all you do is set up your sentry and sit behind it, wrenching it, then yeah, it will be boring. ... : sanchez
  • noway taht's retarted : alarm cock
• alias post : Bold
• stop. playing. : m0rfus
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  Let me guess: you set up a teleport entrance, then a sentry and dispenser. Generally in the same spots, ... : EvilDolemite
  • That would be the shacker way... Then posting here that engineers are too weak. No, I went out and act... : alias
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  they're the same people who build heaps of base defenses in RTS games and then get angry when the other g... : aeg1x
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    i dont play RTS games. what does that make me? : eeeealmo
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      A pro engineer of course, one of a kind. : dkrulz
      • why does everyone call me that : eeeealmo
    • failure waiting to happen! : aeg1x
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  Most of the fun comes with coming up with locations for the sentry that take people by surprise. : megarust32
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    And an aggressive placement of a teleporter is almost always a good thing, if short lived. : felicia
    • yeah, people love that shit and i love points : megarust32
• eh, it pays well. ;) : biskits
• I get high first. : FushigiDenki
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  Engineer can be pretty boring, yes. But then, so can a lot of the classes. I've said this about a hund... : datoo
  • It was fair enough back when spies couldn't cloak and instead had to rely on their skills/feign to get be... : Beady
• You're doing it wrong. : DOOManiac
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  Who's that one Shacker who plays offensively with the engineer? The guy who keeps moving the sentries up : Serpico74
  • harvester? : Mmmmmoo
  • I try to be, but I'm not good at it. :( : DOOManiac
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16781888 : thief
• i have played the engineer for 0.8 hours i can see why some people would complain but the same applies fo... : Hoax
• Valve ruined the Engineer in TF2. You have to babysit your gun, you simply cannot turn your back. And its... : Beady

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  i have seen movie theaters but you can't go in them. DLC plz : JINKY
  • how sad is it that I would be totally OK with them raping the hell out of the DLC? I love this game enoug... : cdbeckman
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  Has anyone ever seen a police car, ambulance or fire truck with sirens on besides when they are after you... : Fred Garvin
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    Yeah, I've seen ambulances driving around after someone gets hit by a car, and I've seen cops chasing peo... : Vincent Grayson
    • yeah i seen a ambulance. after they helped the guy he ran hunched over and got into the back of the ambul...<