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  More impressions: It's goofy as hell, though. You have to realize that there is no longer any semblanc... : ConfusedUs
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    i liked the 2nd edition. how did they get to 4 already? : ibrokn
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      Fuck thac0 : uglysad
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        THAC0 > * I mean, shit, math is good, hitting shit with swords is good, how could it not be good to co... : Ebu
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          Yeah, 2nd ed is the best, but it's just too much effort finding a group willing to still play it. : Grumbeld
          • Too much effort? Try impossible. :( : Ebu
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    Sounds to me like they are trying to turn it into pen and paper World of Warcraft. : SockMonkeh
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      I hear that in every single 4e discussion, but I disagree. I've been playing D&D since 2nd and every ... : ConfusedUs
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        I'm just basing that on "more defined class roles" and $15 a month subscription based computer-aided game... : SockMonkeh
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          The fee is an optional content thing that isn't necessary in the slightest. The more defined class rol... : ConfusedUs
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            That's cool, then. I still think they should be offering their $15 service for something less. Or at leas... : SockMonkeh
            • I think it's too expensive for what it is, definitely. : ConfusedUs
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    bears walk up to this shit? : hirez
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      and whats with the $15/month fee? : hirez
      • that's for some kind of online content thing. It's basically the old Dungeon magazine. Or maybe Dragon. O... : ConfusedUs
  • I hear it's just like a tabletop MMO. I'm disappointed in you, WotC. Not that I wasn't before now, but... : felicia
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    how exactly does that come into a campaign? Your character needs a bear pelt and he's not allowed to look... : GloriousCow
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      It's more like "What does my character know about bears" and you roll the applicable knowledge skill. If ... : ConfusedUs
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        What's the DC on whether Schrodinger's cat is alive? : indosauros
        • Depends on if you ask the DM or not. : SockMonkeh
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        Assuming that the DM actually enforces that roll. Which I have to think (for the sake of my faith in huma... : Ebu
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          Hopefully the DM would realize that kind of common sense thing and would use the knowledge roll for more ... : Psigun
          • Of course, if it weren't for Yogi Bear and the Discovery channel, most people now wouldn't know the nesti... : Ebu
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          The bear roll is simple for any person trained in wilderness lore. But it's almost impossible for anyone ... : ConfusedUs
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            Well, to be fair, D&D has always assumed that the PCs aren't just everyday run of the mill people. That's... : Ebu
            • Yeah, but the gulf now is much wider. Like I said there's no longer even the attempt to hide it. : ConfusedUs
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        Are 'Surprise Bears' an actual type of monster in DnD? If not, why? : Psigun
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          I agree. Surprise Bears are a grand idea for a monster. : ConfusedUs
          • Surprise Bears Surprise Bears suprise bears Surprise Bears. : cerealSAM2
      • does the bear gain an advantage because your guy is a high functioning mentally handicapped elf? : .sticks.
      • I hope surprise bear isn't pedo bear : acheron
• Just in case someone wants to get a quick look at what 4th edition is bringing to the table: http://www.s : Ebu
• Remember all that fun you had with 2nd and 3rd Editions? Fuck that, it's old and busted now. Time to buy ... : dirge23
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  Monsters There's some fucking awesome monsters in the Monster Manual. There's sample tactics for every... : ConfusedUs
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    Kobolds get the most awesome ability. Shifty Minor, At-Will You shift one square Basically, ... : ConfusedUs
    • Yea, I saw that in the quickstart stuff. I'm really excited about 80% of what I'm seen, and cautiousl... : Ebu
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    Seriously, if we do not get a PC (or console, or both) game of a high fucking caliber with this new syste... : Vincent Grayson
    • I wish. Oddly enough, the Dark Alliance games' mechanics are quite similar to some of the stuff in 4e. : ConfusedUs
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  I would be tempted to constantly ask the DM, 'Do bears walk up to this? How about this?' and have to roll... : Frozen Pixel
  • "You are walking through the woods. You set off a trap and step in a pile of shit?" "Do bears walk up ... : SockMonkeh
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    I think, at one point, I would make a bear walk up to you. : felicia
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      Well, then the dance would truly begin. I would probably save asking that question for pivotal moments in... : Frozen Pixel
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        I rarely hate any of my players, and how could I ever hate you? One guy, oh man. He minmaxed himself o... : felicia
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          Nothing will ever beat Jessi, the Apocalyptic Treewhore. Jessi, the apocolyptic treewhore and fledglin... : ConfusedUs
          • I had to roll a D20 to stop myself from getting a boner half-way through. I failed. : SockMonkeh
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          I tend to get fairly silly when playing strict campaigns. If the DM doesn't bother to have a sense of hum... : Frozen Pixel
          • Baaaaah. : felicia
        • I remember before we used a shifter prestige class in 3.0e, which let you shift into inanimate creatures ... : xsoulbrothax
    • DM: There is a large, quadruped brown animal with six-toed, clawed feet ambling up the mountain path. ... : ConfusedUs
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  Bears live in palaces of stone deep below the Earth's crust! : c0bra
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    Actually it's probably just so druids and rangers don't whinge about their knowledge abilities. : c0bra
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      My druid's animal companion is a bear. Since I'm playing a gnome, the bear is 2 size categories larger th... : scottv7
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        There are no animal companions in 4e. For that matter, there are no druids in the core book either. : ConfusedUs
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          Or gnomes either. You picked the only possible combination of race, class, and features that is 100% ... : ConfusedUs
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            Why no druids? Did the reduce classes or replace it with something else? : c0bra
            • I'm not sure, but it's something to do with druids not having an easily-defined role that didn't require ... : ConfusedUs
  • Yeah, but the average joe isn't going to know that. : SockMonkeh
• D&D: Bears verily walk up to this shite : Wolfanoz
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  probably in medieval times 75% of people, at least those who weren't nomadic hunters, had no clue what a... : alexthegreat2
  • seriously, It's probably easier to know about some cult of evil guys that hang out in alot of cities than... : duncandun
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  Shit, fuck. I'm curious as shit about the new initiative system / alignment system / AOO's, ETC ! HOOK A ... : duncandun
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17059325 : Ebu
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    I'll have to go look at initiative specifically, but here's alignment. There are only five alignments.... : ConfusedUs
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      ok, one more for you Paladins: Still LG ONLY? : duncandun
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        Nope. THANK GOD. You're the champion of a certain diety and you share their alignment. : ConfusedUs
        • holy shit fucking WINRAR! : duncandun
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      Initiative hasn't changed much. You roll 1d20 + 1/2 your level + Dex modifier +/- any bonuses or pena... : ConfusedUs
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        any more cool shit? I remember I was kind of worried about the racial 'bonuses' that the different ra... : duncandun
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          The races are all completely different from each other now. It no longer feels like you're playing a shor... : ConfusedUs
          • Hot damn, I may have to play a dwarf (for the first time ever) : Ebu
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    Attacks of Opportunity have be renamed to Opportunity Attacks Moving provokes: If an enemy leaves a sq... : ConfusedUs
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      ok one more: I remember reading that they took out all ... ability type feats, feats that give you new... : duncandun
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        Those are all Powers now. Every class has a couple of at-will powers, a handful of per-encounter powers,... : ConfusedUs
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          Wizards are the same way. Gone are annoying spells per day. They get a couple of at-will spells that h... : ConfusedUs
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            all at first level? or are their still spell tiers? : duncandun
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              Every spell has a level requirement. You don't get fireball at first level, no. Every level or two yo... : ConfusedUs
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                hmmm , not sure if I like what they've done with wizards. : duncandun
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                  I hated spells per day so I think it's an improvement. : ConfusedUs
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                    Absofuckinglutely. : Ebu
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                      To expand: It was a stupid fucking idea to even limit wizards in such a way. I mean, yes, they're su... : Ebu
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                        Fireball is Level 5 encounter. Lightning Bolt is Level 7 per-encounter. I don't even see Haste. : ConfusedUs
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                          its lame that they turned wizards, which their most powerful abilities were utility... not damage, into j... : duncandun
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                            There's plenty of utility spells. Mordikanian's Mansion, Fly (and Mass fly), Stoneskin, Invisibility a... : ConfusedUs
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                              thats it? wth : duncandun
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                                What, specifically, were you looking for? Some of the other utility spells got moved to other classes.... : ConfusedUs
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                                  I don't know, there used to be hundreds of spells for wizards, majority of them utility. Just kind of ... : duncandun
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                                    There were also DOZENS of 3.5 books. There were not hundreds of spells in the base PHB. And most of the P... : ConfusedUs
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                                      I guess i'm just saddened that the wizards powerbase has shifted from utility spells to blastin spells ... : duncandun
                                      • Powers are mostly Blastin' spells. There's Rituals for out-of-combat stuff. Divinations, Raise Dead, a... : ConfusedUs
                • They basically removed Wizard and replaced it with Sorc, but buffed sorc up at the endgame. Which is ... : Ebu
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  Holy crap, who sold it to you? Seriously, was it Amazon? It couldn't have been. was it? I swear to god : Ebu
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    local store had the books out on the floor. : ConfusedUs
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      /rage : Ebu
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        I have volunteered to help you out and have sent you a shackmessage stating my intent. : ConfusedUs
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          How many of the books were there? All three? Just PHB? : famine101
          • all three : duncandun
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  this is why GURPS is better than D&D : biskits
  • GURPS is a great system. Mysteries is one of the best books, but Black Ops is absolutely stellar. I'd ... : ConfusedUs
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  this whole thread reaks of virgins : oHnOES
  • Ok : Ebu
  • well now it does! : sludge vohaul
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    smells like opportunity to me : spaceless
    • Opportunity Attacks. : action wombmate
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    Everyone in my D&D group in high school was having sex by age 16...I never understood the stigma (and non... : Vincent Grayson
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      Putting a wig on under your viking hat and rolling a Barbarian named Susie does not a girl friend make. : losder5000
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        You're not allowed to talk like Yoda when you are insinuating someone is a virgin. : SockMonkeh
        • please, Yoda's green puppet wang was getting all the muppet poontang. more than kermit : RikiTiki2
        • siiiiiiiiigh. HE was SUSIE. For the boys. Fucking cheeto dick, what are you doing in here. : losder5000
      • Actually, two of them have gone on to marry those women. Although we did eventually find that one of them... : Vincent Grayson
• i just started a few weeks ago. i think my group is going to stick with v3.5, as most of us don't have th... : mindmann
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  So Bards and Monks are out, correct? Aren't Druids gone too? : Modica Sol Solis
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    in the phb2 which will release with the dmg2, and mm2 : duncandun
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      mark my words : duncandun
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        You're right. Although Druids are still up in the air. No one's sure what's gonna happen to them. Barb... : ConfusedUs
        • They took out my three favorite classes. How lame. But the Warlord sounds awesome as all hell. : Modica Sol Solis
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  Whoa, from what you are explaining...I dunno if I want to switch. I kind of like how complicated 3.5E ... : Rice-Rocketeer
  • There's some really awesome things and some really retarded things. Overall I think I like it. I'll s... : ConfusedUs
• what's the deal with the whole online play thing? : derelict515
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  Is there going to be some online shack D&D group starting? If there is I want in. : classicfork
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    So do I but I don't want to buy anything. : Modica Sol Solis
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      Life... finds a way. : SockMonkeh
      • You have to log into their online service. :( : Ebu

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  Do it now : Reeves
  • Oh come on, if any post ever called for an Arnold's "Do it! Do it now!" type accent, this was it. : DerHuhnTeufel
• The power of christ compels you! : KxRook
• yes please! : lonepie
• Kvatch needs your help! : AltZero
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  Wtf man you had time to post about it all day why cant you take 5 minutes and just log in for christ sake... : hashd
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    You are holding us back we cant get a town people changed their mains to alts like myself and cant invite... : hashd
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      you have a really fucking awesome attitude! : Bantis
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        I don't have an attitude and I am not the only one who feels the same way it would appear I am the only o... : hashd
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          And you had to wait till I got home from work. Heaven forbid! : Bantis
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            and its done, gave it to shortbus, and left the guild : Bantis
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              wow, that's a lot of guild drama for a game that's been out for... a week? wtf is wrong with this picture... : slickdoody
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                there's no drama : Bantis
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                  I thought you were going to continue playing? Why gquit? : AltZero
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                    Well, for one I'm not using that character anymore (I made an alt ranger and have stuck with that). Two, ... : Bantis
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                      and if this is the kind of attitude of the guild, i'm not really interested anyhow : Bantis
                      • Ninja THEN gquit Bantis.. too soon... too soon. :( : devi| dog
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                        Attitude cause we want to progress? You hadn't been on in 5 days and we had all been waiting on you. : hashd
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                          No, I was on yesterday, and talked to short. Once again, you didn't have to stay in my guild; I didn't ma... : Bantis
                          • I think that's where the confusion came from. You made the original guild for your friends and also made : Wombat Woo
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                            Sorry I cant keep track of all your alts. You as Bantis the leader had not been on in days and our leader... : hashd
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                              I can't believe how hard you are seriously riding Bantis over this. That's just amazing, and I feel so so... : geedeck
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                                How 'bout that fresh chatty to sweep away the tears : Slowtreme
                                • The Gibson hasn't been online enough to make new chatties the past few days, so we're reforming the Shack... : disposition
                                • Capital notion, give me a few : geedeck
                              • serious business : disposition
                              • I know it's not like he is talking about something serious like WoW : kanix
                              • They are being rather harsh, but he did set himself up for it. : changejar419
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                              Out of curiosity, What stopped you impatient people from gquitting, forming a new guild with your desired... : Hizzow
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                                They failed their initiative rolls. : enyakk
                                • well some of us were under the impression that bantis was going to transfer eladership over to shortbus. ... : italiano3d
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                            No offense dude, but with your Conan posts, you really made the impression that you wanted shackers to pl... : changejar419
                            • No, I'm going to exactly act like people's feelings were unwarranted. Any time I mentioned the guild and ... : Bantis
        • dude, did you read your two posts above? You copped a serious attitude. : slickdoody
        • Or you could tone down a noth or ten and just relax till Bantis comes online. And then you could ask him ... : [7]kami
  • Serious business : AltZero
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    probably cause I was at work. I'm sorry that's so inconvenient to you : Bantis
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      OH NO WORK. CMON DUDE GOTTA ACCOMPLISH MMO THINGS FIRST. : [7]kami
      • yea no shit : Bantis
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      This is really none of my business, but if you work a job that prevents you from playing a mmo, you reall... : AgentPothead
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        now that is funny. : boring gegtik
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          Its like shackers are doing all your lol work for you : geedeck
          • Someone has to do it :) : Hizzow
      • Uhm, I don't have Conan installed on my PC at work, so I shouldn't start a guild? I started the guild for... : Bantis
• yes yes yes hurry up! : bfzzzz
• lol : pancake humper
• Look... its the Hero(es) of Kvatch! : Toth21
• lol......... : jackalope
• my priest needs invite to the shack... i like her more than my guardian! : inc77
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  Too late to join the Shacker PVP server? lol : Lionel2b
  • Never. :) : nevicata

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  Films don't seek to capture the same simple level of grandeur anymore. I know that sounds like an oxymoro... : randomposter
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    Do you think Indy 4 would have been better if the special effects had not been so special? I saw the fil... : RyDogg1
    • I haven't seen Indy IV yet, can't comment. : randomposter
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      the shitty effects just stick out due to the fact that the story sucked. : -=kodiak=-
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        Do you think that if Lucas had the tech back in the '80s that he wouldn't have changed the truck scene in... : RyDogg1
        • i can sit here and play the what if game till the damn cows come home... fact is i really dont care about... : -=kodiak=-
        • The truck scene in Raiders needs no changing. I really can't see how it could be improved upon. : riptyde
      • ^^ i think i would've been able to forgive the effects if the story was actually interesting : FrayLo
    • It cracks me up to hear posts like this, because you clearly know little about how films are made. Yeah, : action wombmate
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  that movie never gets old. everytime i watch it i pick up something new. : fsck
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    That's what I love about it too. There is SO much attention to detail and just plain love of the movie t... : Lionhart32935
    • That was all Bob Zemeckis, man is an attention to detail whore. : RyDogg1
    • I was watching this the other night, the entire shot of the time machine heading at them the first time, ... : stonedonkey
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  I watched The Goonies the other night and I can see movies have gotten really tame these days. : Sailor of Fortune
  • Yeah, we used to hit kids with a lot of edgy nerve-wracking shit, I love being a kid of the 80s. : randomposter
  • Yeah I was sort of surprised what all was in this "PG" movie - like the dead cop and so forth : Schnapple
  • yeah.. I watched Adventures in Babysitting yesterday and you hear "Fuck" a few times in there. You never ... : bozer
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  sup old man : RikiTiki2
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    werd. 30 in less than two months. It's fucking depressing. : RyDogg1
    • Being 30+ doesn't depress me so much as the graying does : SolrFlare
    • Hehe, only two months to go in your 30th year, huh? Tick, tock. : LeapingFool
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  Goddamn Lea Thompson was so fucking hot in 1955 : RyDogg1
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    if you knew she was your mom, would you still fuck her? i bet you would you dirty bastard : busdriver3030
    • Maybe you were supposed to. : Sailor of Fortune
    • Lessons in causality from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa. : brickmatt
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    And alternate 1985! : Mondo
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      jesus yikes, lol : randomposter
      • But they're so... so big : Mondo
  • People that Lea Thompson almost slept with: her son, Howard the Duck : spiderfill
• I love the fact that the actor that played Biff still gets asked if it was real manure :-) : furiouscrak
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  I've pretty much given up on waiting for a really good, inspired movie like that one to come along again.... : Begawkiness
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    Never fear. An upcoming generation of directors and new actors will eventually fill the void with somethi... : PlanetPerfecto
    • yeah his acting did get a little shaky : oHnOES
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      You really believe so? I'm less and less convinced that people with genuine talent are ever going to rise... : randomposter
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        I totally understand that sentiment, but I still think eventually stuff gets made that is special. Someti... : PlanetPerfecto
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          I'm just of the opinion that even the movie industry of the mid-90s was more open than the one today. The... : randomposter
          • I suppose I'm saying WHERE ARE THE BRIGHT NEW CREATIVE FORCES OF TODAY? JJ Abrams? Jesus Christ, give ... : randomposter
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            It's an interesting thought....I think they are sitting at a computer screen like you and I are, still ma... : PlanetPerfecto
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              I honestly don't see any rising stars in any genre. It seems TV is truly where most bright new people are... : randomposter
              • Stuff pops almost out of the blue though, don't you think? A few years ago for instance, Christian Bal... : PlanetPerfecto
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        I think it will happen just like before -- upstart mavericks come in to challenge the "system" because th... : LeapingFool
        • Youtube? Christ, just shoot me now and tee up Lynch's comments on iphone by extension. : randomposter
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        nowadays it's more of a case of 'I'm related to so and so' or 'by extension of knowing this guy who's rea : Serpico74
        • That's why my assumption has always been to just try and get something very personal made, a character pi... : PlanetPerfecto
        • Fair enough, I'll defer to someone in the biz. I'm just referring to the vast amounts of "sons and daught... : randomposter
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        You're wrong. You are completely ignoring the cyclical nature of hollywood. You act like Lucas/Speilber... : soggybagel
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          I said they didn't break it, because those people who got in "through knowing people" still got in that w... : randomposter
          • Hollywood cares most about money always. There will always be talented new people who will make studios ... : soggybagel
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    I think The Prestige ranks in the same league. : sgtsanity
    • Are you stoned? I like The Prestige enough that I bought it, but what the hell? : Ctrl-Phreak
  • because TV is created in...in...? : Deathlove
• I would have hated Crystal Skull a lot less if the script was good :( : mikecyb
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  If BttF came out today it would get slaughtered : EvilDolemite
  • ^^^^ I firmly believe this as well. : Home Nugget
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  I find the second movie's perspective of the future fascinating. It's almost like a completely different ... : K1Bond007
  • 7 more years until 2015 : fsck
  • Really well put. I concur. It's like this awesome off-shoot alternate reality where certain futuristic de... : PlanetPerfecto
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  It's nostalgia talking, dude. : nomaad
  • That's it. BACK IN THE HOSTS FILE. : losder5000
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    This is one of the more sensible posts in this thread. I think overall the movie industry is as good as i... : -efx-
    • i don't think so judging by the rate that movies are released and then sent to DVD so fastly. Just seems ... : bozer

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  what is this dropbox? : ConfusedUs
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    http://getdropbox.com/ : mechanicalgrape
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      holy fucking shit invite me please : ConfusedUs
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        just need your email (sm me) : Sirus2400
        • Sent! : ConfusedUs
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      earthdawn2k @ gmail . com : oHnOES
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        i replied to the wrong thread! : oHnOES
        • im using gmail as a 'drop box' right now :( : oHnOES
    • wow thats awesome. can i get an invite too please? : bozer
• I would love you till the end of this evening for an invite, if you can manage please. Thanks. : breadsticks
• Just SM me your email addresses and i'll send out the invites : Sirus2400
• 5 left : Sirus2400
• sent :) : judasen
• please!?!?!?! : Break
• sent : ant_hillbilly
• Oh jesus please. : KxRook
• Please?? : freak!
• if theres any left id like one! : choppp
• Once I get back to Texas, I'll have 10 invites... so watch the evening discussion on Thursday and/or Frid... : coraldayton
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  i'm not sure i get this dropbox thing - when i drag and drop a file into my drop box, it deletes it from ... : FrayLo
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    It doesnt delete anything. The dropbox folder on your machine is a local version. When a file is changed ... : Tommy Toolbag
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      okay, so basically if i put a file in my dropbox though, it now resides there instead of "where I want it... : FrayLo
      • Yup, it resides in the dropbox. I read they are working on adding custom directories though. : Tommy Toolbag
• If anyone else has one, I'm interested. My username at gmail. plsthx! : stratedge
• if anyone else has an invite, also my username at google mail. : aethyr
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  i've got 6 to give away. SM me if you want an invite : Mmmmmoo
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    messaged : aethyr
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      sent! : Mmmmmoo
      • thanks : aethyr
      • thank you! : shavenewok
  • sent :) : someWayne
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    no more invites left : Mmmmmoo
    • Thanks! : someWayne
• just watch when they start charging and shut everyone that was in the beta off from accessing their data : oHnOES
• If anybody happens to have one of these lying around, hit me up at fatwhitehonkey at lemurpants dot com p... : Bean
• All gone, sorry tsuba jimmy_legs KxRook barichnikov ImageOmega Maybe some of those who did get invites c... : Sirus2400
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  I don't understand how dropbox works. So it basically acts as an online backup. Why wouldn't this have be... : Jackass1233
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    It has been invented before and failed almost every time. This whole "OMG SEND ME AN INVITE!@!@" thing is... : Phreakin
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      i mean i get the concept, and its pretty cool, i just don't understand how this could ever possibly work ... : Jackass1233
      • yeah I also don't get it. How do they make money off of something like this? You can't serve advertising.... : aeg1x
  • i already use iDisk with .mac, but this seems to be a lot faster. : Mmmmmoo
• i have 5 to give away if anyone still needs one just sm me your email and first 5 will get emailed = )... : Break
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  Yes plz, Can I have one? : Smellsy
  • oh right, i'll sm someone my email : ) : Smellsy
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  should I bother asking? I still remember hogwire : RikiTiki2
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    well, i'm not sure if its name was hogwire, though. it was probably something else, but it was that pig l... : RikiTiki2
    • oooh, it was Wirehog. doh. that shows how well it lasted : RikiTiki2
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  I have a few invites left and would be happy to pass them on. Jou know what to do, peoples. : PlanetPerfecto
  • sm'd : Jenings

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• I'm a fan of Henry Weinhard's. : kallanta
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  weihenstephaner, julius echter, paulaner, franziskaner, tucher, erdinger prolly some order like that : wetard
  • oh i've been meaning to pick up a julius echter, i'll try that next : Mansmells
• Not tried UFO or Circus boy, local place does not carry. But the other you mention are nice. I like to s... : xZanU
• i do. but i dont really care what kind, just as long as its nice and cold : gyokuro
• Never had magic hat, but I like Harpoon's. I also like Schlafly's. : mancide
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  Ayinger, Hacker Pshorr ... basically most of the ones from, you know, Germany : IncursionZ
  • Hacker-Pschorr is my favourite. I first had it at the Hackerhaus restaurant in Munich and was pleasantly... : timmie
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  rogue! theirs is delicious and has old people on the label. : khaosman
  • i don't think i've ever seen theirs anywhere, i didn't know they made one : Mansmells
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  Franziskaner by far : opengl128
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    frazniskaner dunkelweiss is one of my favorite beers :D : busdriver3030
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      plus "dunkelweiss" is just a hilarious sounding word : Mansmells
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        it's the german word for "blumpkin" : busdriver3030
        • lol : moshman
    • i like the edelweiss :) : pointyelbows
  • Bah you beat me to it. Had it on my first trip to Germany so it holds a special place. http://www.franz... : fishbone
• Live Oak Hefeweizen http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/383/1062 they don't sell bottles yet :[ on ... : wtf242
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  Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier is by far the best hefeweizen I have ever had ever, and I've had a lot : ninjase
  • it is so delicious and caramely, i wish i had one right now : Mansmells
• Me. Paulaner and the Belgian whitbier Hoegaadren. : monkeygone
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  Erdinger ,Franziskaner and Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen. Erdinger would be my first pick. : Hoax
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    Ack. ProTip: if you have to drive - nonalcoholic Hefeweizen tastes much better than nonalcoholic Pils. : MatzL.E.
    • Yep Erdinger alcohol free is the only nonalcoholic brew i would drink although Becks is somewhat drinkabl... : Hoax
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  Sunshine is New Belgian Brewing Co.'s wheat beer, it's quite good. : MaxPete82
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    Yeah, until about the last quarter of the bottle when Freddy Krueger shows up. : nurglich
    • I don't know why, but I laughed out loud at work for the spoiler. lol : vov1n
  • ^^ One of my favorites as well, also Boulevard is great. : devi| dog
• Schneider Weisse fo sho. Frankziskaner is not far off, and Erdinger : moshman
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  Tangent Question: Do you drink your hefeweizen with a slice of lemon in it? Or is that kind of girly? ... : Perturbation
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    it's an abomination, it should never be done. Any bavarians head would explode and then kill you : moshman
    • Talking of Bavarians, do they really think Becks is nice? Really? That's what I heard but, you know, I've... : rock elf
  • Germans mix it with all kinds of stuff: Coke, lemonade (Sprite), bananas juice, cherry juice (or both, ca... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Erdinger no doubt. : Toth21
• Franziskaner or Paulaner. Also, I had one from Humperdinks during Quakecon 2005 that remains the best non... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• New Glarus Imperial Hefeweizen. The best I've ever had anywhere. : MisterClaw
• Abita Wheat is pretty tasty, to me. : pimpium

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  this multi-touch technology looks like it's really going somewhere. sure, it's still extremely new and i... : Korban
  • Touch pron.... : jonin
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  I'm not really sure what the point is unless they're implying that all gazillion machines will have a tou... : festivalman
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    i think the exact opposite. the iphone lets you use 2 fingers (maybe more, but that's all you can fit on... : Korban
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      sure, but i can get all my work done by moving only 1-3 inches square on the table top. why would i do my... : festivalman
      • it's not going to be the main interface for the pc obviously its just the surface engine intergrated into... : RetroRedEyeJr
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      i don't want to interact with the screen on a full sized laptop/PC. I want to use a mouse. fuck this touc... : g0nk
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        I can see thinking that if you only think of computers as they currently are. But if you think of it a... : Ebu
        • gee, and i'll get scoliosis in my neck from looking down at the desk all the time.. no thanks. :) : g0nk
      • lol!!! it's still early in the life of this tech. i'm sure over the years, improvements will be made ... : Korban
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      ipod touch can handle up to 5 inputs (or fingers) at once : CoRDS
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        i know i'm going to regret asking this but... what can you do with 5 fingers? : Korban
        • Use the 3 seashells : SolrFlare
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          salute : Frozen Pixel
          • also see 'discounts' : Frozen Pixel
        • drum machine. : CoRDS
        • finger paint : feek
    • I don't really see it happening with desktops any time soon. Besides having to purchase new equipment, y... : Wombat Woo
    • When I put a finger on my screen, it becomes dirty. Doesn't that happen to touch screens too??? : mnok
  • I do think this next generation touch(iPhone, MS surface, etc) is going to finally cause the tablet compu... : SolrFlare
• whoever designs windows interfaces needed to be fired a long time ago (ugh) : timaste
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  I'm not an industry expert or anything, but I just get the overall feeling that Microsoft has lost it's f... : owly
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    they need to scrap everything they've ever done, and start from scratch. They've said that Win7 isn't goi... : g0nk
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      That's the problem. MS has been in a catch 22 situation for over a decade. What keeps their primary cus... : SolrFlare
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        see but, here's the thing, Apple did just that when they went from OS 9 to OS X, nothing was compatible r... : g0nk
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          I won't argue that it is doable. Its just very difficult, and Microsoft has always been very conservativ... : SolrFlare
          • yeah, i agree. I think the ace in the hole that Apple had with the complete OS redo is the hardware is al... : g0nk
        • Aaaaaaand back to reality. : AscorSix
        • Apple was on the brink of extinction at that point. Media and their small home user base were all that th : Serpico74
        • aren't computer powerful enough to just emulate most of the older software? and for the newer games they ... : quadalupeupe
        • Apple didn't have the market lead to lose : derelict515
        • nope it'd be pretty stupid : boomstickah
        • I agree. Dump it and start over. If they do it right emulation should solve all their backward compatibil... : K1Bond007
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          Why start over with tech from the seventies? Why not, say, start a new OS based on Singularity. I.e. r... : navelskrutt
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            but that isn't really feasible unless your legacy apps can perform with single digit performance hits (an... : derelict515
            • I don't know, 99% of your time is probably spent using the same five apps (browser, email, word processor... : navelskrutt
  • They lost. The network did indeed become the killer app. : PlanetPerfecto
• Nice to see touch in 7, but considering the entire market is moving in that direction, it's nothing speci... : SolrFlare
• That looks nice, if i had a touch screen : jonin
• paint is a pile of shit why haven't they replaced it with paint.net ? :( : GloriousCow
• There's some other shots in another post on gizmodo... but I just don't get it. This dosen't look like an... : jayares
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  They've got some video now. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:8700c7... : festivalman
  • haha, figures, won't load on Safari. : SolrFlare
  • That website is so awful. Let's load the page with a thousand thumbnails and put the actual video up in t... : Geoffrois
  • that actually looks pretty sweet : gmd
• That looks really freaking cool, b ut I can't see how it's practical. Seems like everything would take l... : nukewinter
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  That's a joke right? I can't tell. The multi touch stuff would be cool for a kiosk in a mall, but kee... : Dynotaku
  • But think of the porn game implications! : owly
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  I think it would be cool as a ... phone : bozer
  • That's brilliant! Lets call it wPhone. : yoonix
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  They're in a hurry to get past Vista-Me. : Cygnus X-1
  • Yes I'm sure that's it, since Vista is horrible and tanking, right? : Sapiens
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    yes because vista is the new ME. : boomstickah
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      it really is : [fry]
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        You're wrong buddy. : boomstickah
        • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17059628 : Cygnus X-1
• Less art, more matter. Comes to mind. : stonedonkey
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  so is windows 7 a touch interface version of vista thats less buggy? : maulla
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    fixed "so is windows 7 a touch interface version of vista thats less buggy?" It's still using the same k... : SolrFlare
    • vista is not buggy for me. You just say this because you use a mac. So how the hell would you know? : paravis
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  Someone at Microsoft has been watching way too much Minority Report. : tomservo
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    ..or they have an iPhone? lol : Cygnus X-1
    • Someone at Apple has been watching way too much Minority Report. : tomservo
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  looks like windows vista with a touch screen interface : Mmmmmoo
  • Visually, that's really all it is. They haven't even changed the UI yet. : K1Bond007
• so nothing that really blows Vista out of the water. so i'll be safe making my next PC Vista based (if an... : RikiTiki2
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  You guys realize this isn't aimed at you or me, its aimed at the average consumer who probably isn't anyw... : boomstickah
  • Their hardware partners really need to be on board with this, more now than ever. Compatibility and drive... : Serpico74
• seems like more effort and time having to use computer touching the screen like that : quadalupeupe
• So another OS that nerds won't buy? Awesome ; / : Phreakin
• A lot of people might be missing the fact that multi-touch isn't going to replace everything. There will ... : ovrlrd
• Windows 7 Requirement: a touch screen : byorn
• id love to play me some supcom with that : RetroRedEyeJr
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  A dock? why would you have a dock? you have the taskbar, that's your dock, if anything it's fucking BETTE... : SpaecKow
  • lol, maybe you've never used windows before win95. taskbar? : RikiTiki2
• LOL That is all. : SlamDunk
• /sigh meh : rmjackson

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  I believe it should be "laid" : IncursionZ
  • I believe this is correct. : randomjgj
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    I too am thinking laid since the rest of the stories sentences are using past tense. : Nighteyes
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      What is this from? What are you trying to do? : Modica Sol Solis
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        Give me an answer! If you're grading papers, fully correct his sentence and style issues. It's a very poo... : Modica Sol Solis
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          It's from the textbook they use. :( : Nighteyes
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            Are they supposed to correct the sentences? Buy every one of these kids a copy of The Elements of Style, ... : Modica Sol Solis
            • Junior High School. Japanese school. : Nighteyes
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  The next morning, the wolf lay unmoving on the road. A farmer, atop his cart, paused by the fallen creatu... : Modica Sol Solis
  • creative writing FTW : ejectorpod
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    The wolf, raised in captivity by circus folk, was of course only playing dead. "A farmer, eh? Perhaps it ... : Rich McNinch
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      "Oh, shit," gasped the farmer, "it's alive!" He put his dick away. : SockMonkeh
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        "No," the wolf said, "Keep it out." "You can talk?" the farmer asked. "I can talk...and I can love." Th... : Modica Sol Solis
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          Not knowing what to do, the farmer extended his finger forward with his mouth partially open. : j0nchan
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            "Haha, fag!" howled the wolf, "you were totally gonna' do it, weren't you?" The farmer stood, perplexe... : SockMonkeh
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              Later that day, the farmer hung himself. Even later that day, the wolf and his fratmates returned and ... : Modica Sol Solis
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                Even later that day they pooped it all out. : SockMonkeh
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                  A young boy stumbled upon the wolf droppings two evenings later. A glint of gold caught his eye and the o... : Modica Sol Solis
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                    Camera pans out to the landscape shot of the path leading to the market. Queue Final Fantasy music. : j0nchan
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                      Let's pitch this. We've got a winner on our hands guys. : Modica Sol Solis
                      • Sounds perfect for a NWN module : Wombat Woo
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                The wolf resting from a big meal sat at home watching questionable porn. A sensation suddenly overcame hi... : j0nchan
                • and this is for the chose your own adventure edition. : j0nchan
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    I've just lolled all these posts. Thank you gentlemen! : sonicdeathwalrus
    • Agreed. I wish this sort of thing happened more often. : Vincent Grayson
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  improper use of lay? use lie -> lied down on the road. : dodob
  • or the wolf lay its weary body down on the road : dodob
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    look how stupid i am. lay is correct. : dodob
    • but as the past tense of lie. and my suggestion, "lied down", is completely wrong. my second suggestion i : dodob
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  unintuitive though it is, lay is correct. : snagger
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    I don't know man, everything else in this dumb story is in past tense, so why this one verb? The JTE agr... : Nighteyes
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      In present tense, a wolf lies dead on the road. If a wolf lays dead on the road, that means the wolf is ... : snagger
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        -20 reading comprehension. its laid DOWN not dead. : Nighteyes
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          -60 a) i'm right b) you're wrong AND shit-talking about it c) i learned the proper tense from my pulitzer... : snagger
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            -100 you still can't read! : Nighteyes
            • PS - do you still have stomach aids? or whatever it was : Nighteyes
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      lay is the past tense of lie as in "to recline". I lie on the ground / I lay on the ground. Lay is als... : aeg1x
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        That sounds awkward though. What did you do last night? I lay down. : Nighteyes
        • Look at it this way. To lay something down typically requires a direct object to be laid down in the f... : Modica Sol Solis
        • Damn, ask oxford said that lay is the correct past tense. Fuck English : Nighteyes
• Just get rid of 'down' imo, changes the tense while using the same word. : dooberzoo