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  And i really miss those resto shammies now i'm on the alliance side. :( : [7]kami
  • Alliance just don't have many people rolling shaman, or spec'd resto? : acidnynex
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  When is the real world first that members of that guild get to kiss a girl? : baronzemo78
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    yes because all 10 million people that play wow are nerds. ive run across more "normal" people, even raid... : maulla
    • Key point of his post being "of that guild". : GodZilly
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      In order to be successful and score 'world firsts' I highly doubt the guild would be filled with your ave... : jingletard
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        The thing is once those people get their world first they are basically down to farming which takes a few... : Evil Benius
        • Even in your scenario where all the instances are farmed in a few hours, that leaves the people with abso... : jingletard
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          Also: it doesn't really matter. Let them be huge nerds for all i care. I like to watch stuff like this an : [7]kami
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            I'll go with dickhead :) : baronzemo78
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              Already assumed you would :) : [7]kami
              • LOL, I played WOW for about a year. I loved the story and the setting, I just couldn't get into the endga... : baronzemo78
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        ^^^ Not all WOW players are social losers, but I'm willing to bet a lot of $$$ that hardcore raiding guil... : baronzemo78
        • Pretty much right on the money. : jingletard
        • No the difference is it's like a job. If you're a fuckup because you keep standing in the fire, there's s... : ghost in my shell
  • I was waiting for the first LOL VIRGINS! post. : Evil Benius
  • wow, only took 2 posts : action roommate
  • haha i get it : Mr.SEX
  • ^^^troll alert. : Iwannaacura
  • Don't make me post your vagina on the internet. : DooBall
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  the epilogue after the fight is pretty slick : maulla
  • The music and the voice-overs go pretty well in that video. : zebosausamite
  • The amounts of pollish that went into the Sunwell thingy is insane. The 5 man is awesome too with mini Ka... : [7]kami
  • So... Did Velen just "re-spark" the Sunwell with the heart of that Naruu? This would be cool if : zebosausamite
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  Looks like Ragnaros with dragons : packav
  • In other words: win and awesome. : [7]kami
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  how does WoW work ? If this is the final boss and these dozen players have defeated it, will other player... : sikander
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    every dungeon is instanced, so a new dungeon is created every time a group enters it. : maulla
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      so the same player can keep fighting the same boss over and over again ? : sikander
      • Yes, but typically there's a delay between when he can be fought again, ranges for a week to a few days. : stonedonkey
      • 25 man raidinstances work with a weekly timer. Meaning you have a week time to kill every boss inside. On... : [7]kami
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        Yes. The reason for re-doing the fight is that the end bosses drop the best loot, usually 3 or 4 really ... : Phil
        • ahahaha : action roommate
        • hahaha so awesome : Crw22
        • Never change Phil, never change. : Entity
        • this is the best summary of wow end-game content ever. : mindfk
        • Hahahaa. Love it. : stump
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          This is why I stopped raiding after molten core, some dickhead actually spent dkp on the pants of prophec... : skitzo
          • In theory, raiding is a fun and interesting activity that involves cooperating with peers towards a commo... : FlatlineDixay
        • As if I needed a reason to Shack; but still, there is Phil. : dognose
        • yeah, that sounds about right. : .sticks.
        • ahhh the memories. : azenmaster
        • sigh... yep. :( : das_runt
        • hahaha bravo!!!! : grabbie
        • ahahaha awesome : [7]kami
        • Holy crap! phil, you never fail to entertain. Stay gold pony boy! : FormerHPB
        • fucking lol : moshman
        • Holy crap, is there anyway I can sponsor this guy for the lightning bolt? He fuckin deserves it. : AgentPothead
        • this man is a wow player : biskits
        • Phil, you can ninja loot my shit any time : egg5hen
        • LOL. Phil I enjoyed playing with you in WoW for that brief time...Good times... I rerolled on another : ImageOmega
        • Perfect description of MMOs. Power lol'd : hawkeye
        • ive never even played WoW and i fucking died. holy shit. A++++ : siknsyko
        • Oh look, Phil wrote an essay entitled "Why Rotten Deadite Doesn't Raid." How nice. : Rotten Deadite
        • Lol'd! So much for me ever trying WoW : Malku
        • bwhahahahaha.... Totally awesome : Scotty22
        • [Phil Post] : DapperDan
        • this is what has ruined MMOs. UO had it best before trammel : oHnOES
        • Perfect. Exactly why I stopped playing. : deathofrats
        • Oh god, oh god, can't stop laughing. A+! : silentw
        • LOLOLOLOL : mrvandelay
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          ain't it the fucking truth? I raided with my guild for 2 years, started with them in fucking UBRS when... : pukerat
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            Sup, Misty and I got cut too after we killed KT on a regular basis, but that was pretty much due to flask... : ghost in my shell
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              it really did turn into a full time job after awhile, I should be happy i got boned :D : pukerat
              • Being on B-team wasn't bad, but Misty was A-team. Yeah after we killed KT interest in doing that shit dro... : ghost in my shell
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          Aaaaand this is why I don't play this stupid ass game. : Dynotaku
          • Well you know it's not just about the raiding, but I understand that MMO's are not for all folks. : action wombmate
        • Jesus, that is the best explanation of WoW raiding ever. : pigvomit
        • HAHA, man phil, you always brighten up my day. have you switched over to PVP? much more rewarding than ge... : reverend~heresy
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          That is my exact expierience with WoW and why I refuse to ever play another mmo again. That is how it alw... : bozer
          • certain mmos that are coming out later will be better : oHnOES
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          That's a lot of bitching for someone who got the Staff of the Ruins before I did. : reign27
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            Haha man I enjoyed those AQ20 runs. That tornado infested end boss was a pain in the ass though (along w... : Phil
            • I loved AQ20 this and Zul'Gurub where my favorite instances back then. Too bad the loot sucked once you m... : razlebol
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              I loved our weekly AQ20 / ZG runs. : Scotty22
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                ZG was kickass. EVERYBODY GET IN THE POISON CLOUD, FFS. : Phil
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                  Indeed, very awesome instance. I hear Zul'aman is sexy like that. : [7]kami
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                    Zul'aman was the most fun I ever had in WoW : fishbone
                    • I thought ZA was terrible myself. I only went like 3 times total I think. Then again I was running MH/BT ... : reign27
        • <3 : acidnynex
        • I've never played WoW in my life but I just have to give phil props for this post : mattfl
        • haha, thats some funny shit dude. : whistletits
        • hahaha you rule. : edgewise
        • so informative! : bakanoodle
        • thank you, that was perfect. And yet people like is keep going back for more . . . : jedi_27
        • this is... the gospel of wow loot. : Downforce
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          this sounds like my attempt at getting a purple robe. : Clay
          • By this you mean Tier2 gloves. FUCKING DRAKES! : Scotty22
        • outstanding : jonin
        • Hahaha amazing description of Blizzard's business model. : disposition
        • Amazing description of my college roommates - all 4 of them. Two of them became problem drinkers thanks ... : snagger
        • Hahaha this is great. : TrptJim
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          "rosewood your monitor out the window"??? I'm guessing rosewood is used to mean throw? What is that a re... : jccalhoun
          • Rosewood likes to punch stuff when The Spirit grabs hold of him. : Ride-My-Rocket
        • That's fucking awesome. lol : ThomW
        • Hahahahaha, awesome. This is one of the primary reasons I hate MMO's. : thetangent
        • Even having never played WoW, this post was 100% hilarious. <3 : Ride-My-Rocket
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        Once you hit the level cap that's the entire point of WoW it seems. Just to get better gear people run th... : AgentPothead
        • I have seven level 70's and I'm working on a hunter. Yeah, sometimes I feel ashamed. : FlatlineDixay
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    when you do something, the game pretty much treats it like you are the first person to do it and doesn't ... : Mr.SEX
    • Much like a high priced hooker. : skitzo
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  well that was fast ... i'd be awesome to have a boss stand for months before he gets ganked :( : GloriousCow
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    when you raid 12 hours a day you get lots of practice very quickly : AllYourBase
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      it's also prob would be a lot harder if you couldn't use mods for these battles : grabbie
      • it looks like you could control the fucking starship enterprise from some of these ui mods : GloriousCow
      • It would be fucking impossible if you couldn't use UI mods. : evildanish
      • Most mostly display information now. Mods don't execute any logic like they used to. No more pounding one... : OverloadUT
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    Plus, I think they had some practice from the Sunwell beta? : ImageOmega
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      I think the last two bosses or something were not available on the test realm. : FlatlineDixay
      • You are right. : [7]kami
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    I think Vaelastrasz was up for a while before anyone killed him =P : action roommate
    • Vaelastrasz was broken when BWL first came out. He would despawn and disappear until the instance reset ... : pukerat
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    Not really because it means the content is broken as fuck *coughs* C'Thun *coughs* : ghost in my shell
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      Good lord what an awesome fight. : Scotty22
      • I never did get the chance to do that fight :( I bet it was awesome : dixieboi
  • SK-Gaming is one of the most hardcore, professional e-sports groups around, and WoW isn't the only game t... : acidnynex
  • c'thun :P : Downforce
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    That's really the thing about these large raid encounters, though. The only fights that ever really seem ... : FlatlineDixay
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      Well well thought out and informative post. Thanks! : OverloadUT
      • I try! It's also a topic that comes up once in awhile in WoW :| : FlatlineDixay
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      good post... I guess what I had in mind was the desire to see it take a while to figure out the right str... : GloriousCow
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        It's not all numbers, there's definitely room for interesting fights with unconventional strategies. But ... : FlatlineDixay
        • Also, I get the impression that this "world first" overkill mentality is fairly recent. It didn't seem th... : FlatlineDixay
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          something that comes to mind is the teron gorefiend fight where he turns you into a ghost with a set of n... : GloriousCow
          • I think those things are really great. Probably the hardest solo event in the game right now (not includi... : FlatlineDixay
    • Good post. I agree with both you and Phil, which is why I quit WOW. : baronzemo78
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      I wonder how they'll fix the horsemen for 10 and 25 m raiding in WotLK : [7]kami
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        Maybe you just fight two of them at once or something, with no tanking swapping requirements. : FlatlineDixay
        • I didn't actually do the encounter, so I don't know much about the specifics. I'm just guessing that the ... : FlatlineDixay
• BTW, seen the new leeroy jenkins move? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY5SCHZHj7Y : [7]kami
• Jesus, according to wowwiki he's untankable. Looks like a raid encounter custom-made for healers. : Rotten Deadite
• holy shit @ victory cry, bricks = shatted : My Documents
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  I did a 25 man raid last night for the first time in months. About 20 minutes into the 4 hour session I ... : jlavrenz
  • Agreed. I used to do it and now the very though make me wretch. Just fit my lifestyle @ the time, I gue... : action roommate
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    They need to get raid sessions down to a three hour maximum sort of deal. I don't know or really care how... : FlatlineDixay
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      GCR's second raid group started with a more casual raid schedule in mind. I'd been playing for years, but... : Entity
      • That's great and everything, but with the current length expectations these raids seem to have, that's re... : FlatlineDixay
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      Its funny to see these comments now. I spent a lot of time in DAoC and broke away from WoW very early on ... : Tommy Toolbag
      • The funny thing about me is that my play time hasn't really decreased much. I just pvp or do random 5 ma... : jlavrenz
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      i say get rid of 90% of trash mobs to save time... make 'em all like Magtheridon's Lair (without the box ... : das_runt
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        I don't think that really makes sense. The trash actually does add a lot of flavor to zones, and it would... : FlatlineDixay
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          it also doesn't make sense that you can murder people as long as you're 15 feet away from their compatrio... : GloriousCow
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            I'm not talking about from a lorelol perspective, I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense for Blizzard... : FlatlineDixay
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              well i understand why its in there as a game mechanic, but it does somewhat distract you from the intrica... : GloriousCow
              • Or split every pull into a new room. : TreMetal
              • That's kind of just how things seem to work in MMO's. It's their combat system, not unlike how turn-based... : FlatlineDixay
          • when you think about it, it DOES make sense though : Downforce
          • so you'd prefer the entire raid instance gunning you down, as soon as you kill the first mob at the entra... : TPSReport
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          its not a big loot parade when it can be weeks between getting another item upgrade (out of 13 slots). : handofthrawn
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            BWL was a loot parade, assuming GCR could get past firemaw : Downforce
            • all i can remember was issues with forced upgrades and that shit. nothing like paying 10 hours of gaming... : handofthrawn
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  so did they fight kil'jaeden or what? that looked like a corrupetd narru or somthing : duncandun
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    Like many characters in WoW and it's lore (Prince Melchezzar, Archimonde, the draenei), Kil'Jaeden is an ... : action roommate
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      I thought he was a blood elf : duncandun
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        are you thinking of kael'thas? : GloriousCow
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          yeah i think so, I thought he was hanging out at the sunwell in the mini expansion lol : duncandun
          • He hangs out in the Magister's Terrace which is a 5 man instance. : hohoh0
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  All that video, and they didnt even show the o{loot}o? : SqueegyTBS
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    http://s.sk-gaming.com/image/album/354005/4b8dc802bfa8d4f4_large.jpg : Crw22
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      Isn't a boss that prolific supposed to drop oranges? : SqueegyTBS
      • I believe he does, namely the Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury, but just like the Warglaives they don't drop on... : SilverSnake
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  haha, just poking around video sites now, Onyxia got soloed o_O : Deathlove
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    http://files.filefront.com/OnyxiaSolowmv/;10314458;/fileinfo.html : Deathlove
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      Has anybody solo'd MC yet? : Rotten Deadite
      • people have solo'd trash pulls, but probably never a boss yet. I am betting magmadar, golemagg would be ... : AllYourBase
      • That place can still be a pain in the ass with 5 people due to the way some of the debuffs work. : Evil Benius
      • Maybe when lvl 80's start hitting it. : action wombmate
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    A Hunter has soloed Azuregos as well: http://youtube.com/watch?v=i_-_3tfmU-o I love the ending. :D : SilverSnake
    • that was the video that made blizzard remove +healing benefit from mend pet. : NexusOne
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      tauren soloing ... gnomes? http://youtube.com/watch?v=sR5k8S4hLCg&feature=related : GloriousCow
      • ok, tahts pretty awesome : SqueegyTBS
      • lol its like Godzilla and he can heal. : Iwannaacura
      • Haha... I love it! :D : SilverSnake
      • that bear is in cow-heaven. all the gnomes you can punt... no words.... they should have sent a poet.... : eskimo spy
      • lol awesome : das_runt
      • awesome :) that guy is a keyboard turner :( : electroly
      • hilarious : shred.
    • My wife and a friend of hers (beefy paladin from one of the uber high-end guilds) two-manned Azuregos a w... : kungfusquirrel
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      We used to kite those emerald dragon mobs back to Orgrimmar and watch them AOE root & rape everyone for h... : jingletard
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        yeah that ruled. we did that to them and azuregos also. we also trained thunderaan to org which was fucki... : Ziggurat
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          That's quit a trip... Silithus -> Ungoro -> Tanaris -> Thousand Needles -> elevator (this bit must have s... : SilverSnake
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            I don't think you have to up the elevator, you could go up through Feralas, although it would take even l... : FlatlineDixay
            • Yeah, Feralas -> Desolace -> Stonetalon -> Barrens. Azuregos at least lives like next-zone to Org. Pullin... : SilverSnake
          • anachranos got pulled all the way to org once, as did a devilsaur from ungoro by chain sheeping it : AllYourBase
        • pics: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~vulture/WoW/thunderaan-xr.jpg thunderaan at crossroads http://www.cs.i... : Ziggurat
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        Have you ever seen the DEVILSAURE attacks the xroads??? Oh god those pictures were so funny They tried ... : Iwannaacura
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          i love the part where he pops out of sheep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZglyCXVdjfg : GloriousCow
          • Oh right, you can go through the valleys by RFD, thus avoiding the elevators. I completely forgot about t... : SilverSnake
      • Man it sucks that Conan is instanced. : deathofrats
  • Probably my favorite WoW video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFR6pz4HUI Fun with exploding sheep... : stonedonkey
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  awesome video of a boss that i'll never, ever see :( : electroly
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    what you just said is really the main reason behind blizzard changing how they do raids in the new expans... : Ziggurat
    • i'm all for that. i don't care if the loot is crappier, i just want to be able to see the content at all : electroly
    • Yeah, this is a great feature. : action wombmate

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  During my Quake 2 days, I would intentionally miss with the railgun those I regularly kill and give them ... : Matt Burris
  • Yeah that's the one type of person I never hesitate to dominate. Seeing them repeatedly call me a 'fag ni... : dumb.
  • yeah that sounds like something a n****r f****t would say : boring gegtik
  • I would never intentionally miss with the railgun even against my best friend. He would whoop my ass regu... : zerog83
  • in wow i would corpse camp people then eventually let them kill me so they felt better. : Iwannaacura
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  i've gone easy on people in games and then had them tell me I suck for not killing them more. Fuck them... : GloriousCow
  • Haha yeah, and all you can do is bite your tongue because if you said "I was just taking it easy on you" ... : dumb.
• Back when we played Vegas 2 regularly that kind of ownage would happen for hours on end. Matches would at... : Evil Benius
• You're doing it wrong. You turn it up a few notches and go for the ultimate win, getting them to ragequit... : xjdrake32
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  I've never played down. People won't get better if you go easy on them. : Trips
  • This is the correct answer. : Xanthos
  • If you're still better than them 90% of the time, they'll still have an incentive to improve. As opposed ... : FlatlineDixay
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    But sometimes you end up on the server all alone, because everyone else ragequit : Slowtreme
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      Then you've won the game! : Trips
      • But I still want to keep playing :( : Slowtreme
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  Yeah, I was playing BF yesterday and there was this guy I sniped who was revived by a team mate, so i pro... : Master Tonberry
  • That is some hilarious comedy right there. How could they have been so clueless? : dumb.
• i purposely suck all the time so others feel better about themselves. it's my gift to the online gaming ... : Korban
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  mwasher will see no such sympathy from me! : Audhuml4
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    you suck at Quake 2 anyway. : zerog83
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      I remember an old clan match where we got mauled on dm8 yet somehow I went 40-0 by whoring the power armo... : Audhuml4
      • Yeah, our team might have stood a better chance if you had maybe allowed others to grab the power armor :... : zerog83
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    I knew you would have already posted in this thread. as for me... Jayx. I feel sorry for what I did t... : mwasher
    • :( : Jayx77
• Nope. I'll quit before I'll do that. However, when I'm on the other side (getting my ass handed to me... : InfoBiter
• I do this exact same thing, but sometimes I just have to remind myself that I'm not making them play the ... : KxRook
• I've been doing this for years because my brother is a sore loser and we got tired of replacing paddles. : changejar419
• Never, otherwise how will anyone get better? I don't want people to go easy on me, either. : EvilDolemite
• in tfc, ogl at one time had a 1on1 soldier league in sq1 or mulch_dm, i forget i was #1 until i quit a... : Enraged Pineapple
• I will knock someone down and then kick their face into the ground if I'm playing seriously. : DrFlammable
• All the time on the shack TF2 servers. : Horn
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  I routinely invert my mouse axis's to give the competition a chance : kgargonmagrix79
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    inverted is the only way to play : thetangent
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      thats just backwards : oHnOES
      • the idea is making me flip out : RikiTiki2
    • Word up, my fellow invertee. I wonder if more people invert than not - feels so retarded to me. : dumb.
• Yes, no one in my friends circle can eat me in Smash Bros. Brawl so I end up feeling bad for them. :( ... : DM7
• I used to play as Hwang in Soul Caliber so I didn't wail on people with Cervantes or Siegfried. They w... : hawkeye
• I'll go easy on people when i notice i'm owning them left and right. I always feel bad when I kill someb... : pukerat
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  No way. I play the same way every time. I'm not going to pretend I'm bad just so someone who I don't kn... : stump
  • Paging shrinks on the Shack ... : Matt Burris
• I think about it all the time, but I never do... their dieing only makes my pwn harder! : duncandun
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  i used to pwn CrustaR at all costs : kingfish
  • Yeah, right, kingfish! I got you and AlexXdude all the time. You guys were such n00bs. : CrustaR
• i am a born griefer starting in UO. blood in blood out : oHnOES
• I felt like this back in the days of BF1942. GhostinmyShell used to play on Ashkies server at the same ti... : thetangent
• Depends on the game and person I suppose. : timaste
• yes - but I only tea bag fucking spawn campers : flagg209
• Yes, because it gets boring and sometimes you can teach them something. : Visceral Monkey
• I've done that. : thejm4n
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  nope.. i once learned a valuable lesson in the 'mercy' rule in the arcades a long long time ago... i give... : -=kodiak=-
  • I probably only got burned on 1% of mercies, if you don't dangle the carrot you don't get to beat them wi... : boring gegtik
• Yeah I do this often when playing against Jackass. : sanchez

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• I'm glad I read mace's how-to guide because someone at Valve is getting a present tonight! : EvilDolemite
• Holy crap that's awesome. : A Sponge
• very cool, Steam rules : veras
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  Yay! That's awesome. I wish XBL did this too. : pigvomit
  • I'd be able to retrieve my Viva Pinata save game. :( : locash
  • Given the file size of savegames, Microsoft probably wouldn't want to try. : hardfl1p
  • Too bad XBL doesn't do this, being a pay for service, while Steam is free. It'd give a reason for single... : slickdoody
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  Meet the sniper! : pieman
  • yes plz : Foxhawk
• I.... I...... I'm gonna go buy some games I'll never play, because configuration issues are absolutely my... : Chunks
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  Holy crap. Did anyone just go from seeing Steam as a file distribution to actually challenging Xbox Live.... : geedeck
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    the only thing xbox live is doing better than steam is being on my hdtv, steam has had it bent over the b : VuduChild
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      I don't know if that's fair. XBL did a lot of things first, like the friends list, meta-data sharing, onl... : geedeck
      • You probably get all the video, music content via your xbox live - denied over here, which may affect my ... : VuduChild
• I am loving this, this will certainly take out the hassle of reconfiguring games after every OS reinstall... : Lionhart32935
• Sweet, I can finally uninstall some games to make room for future ones. : Matt Burris
• damn i wish ff7 had this , i lost my saved game with level 70 cloud,tifa,barret etc im so sad : Chandler55
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  Interesting quote from RPS: Valve, Newell states, are seeing a 200% growth in alternative ways of rea : pieman
  • Oh the old retail channels are dying, luckily people are figuring new and better ways to reach us. : phil_mckraken
  • No one is saying it's dying. The market is just changing and Valve is embracing that change. For all we k... : DarkWolf5
  • That sentence is so vague that I don't understand it all. "alternative ways of reaching gamers" could ... : deveus1
• This stuff comes out of the blue to me, but it indicates the amount of back-end work Valve is doing with ... : focusdaily
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  Man, I WORK here and I didn't even know about it! : kallanta
  • what a nub! : Iwannaacura
  • you just started : RikiTiki2
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  I wonder at what point Valve are gonna turn to retailers and say "well we are selling it at this price, i... : marmite
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    if they did that, the retailers would just stop selling their stuff. i'm sure valve doesn't want to give... : electroly
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      But at some point so many games will be on steam that it would be detrimental for the retailers to not st... : marmite
      • Also at some point the number of extra people buying games through steam due to lower prices will outdo t... : marmite
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  :/ Will there at least be an option to keep them local if we want? This is all starting to get invasiv : speon
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    are you seriously worried about big brother seeing your savegames? : electroly
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      That was my reaction. Who the fuck cares that Valve can see your saves? Why would Valve care enough to ... : Arcanum
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        Savegames are not the issue...it's the constant push to turn a private, personal, peaceful hobby into som... : speon
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          This is video gaming, not collecting child pornography. : A Sponge
          • Right. Video gaming to me is private down time. Much like reading a book, painting or watching a film. : speon
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          you and i do not see eye to eye on what games are supposed to be, apparently. publicly connected, cheap,... : electroly
          • That's a great way to put it. For this gamer, a great game is an entirely off-line, lengthy, introspec... : speon
    • He never made it past the hazards course. : DarkWolf5
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      I don't care if it's just a savegame. I want to game privately, on my own time,at my own pace, without ha : speon
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        I like to feel like I actually own the game, the finished complete game, and that I can just grab a lapto : Serpico74
        • I love you. High-five. : speon
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        man speon they're just talking about saving your savegames so you don't lose them when you switch compute... : electroly
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          Fine, I'm a freak. If Steam, episodic, digitally distributed casual games make people happy...rock on. I ... : speon
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            What does anything in this article or thread have to do with episodic, digitally distributed casual games... : SockMonkeh
            • Steam, the nature of VALVe's newer and upcoming content, and modern gaming culture. : speon
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        whaaaaaaaaat : Maarten Goldstein
        • IAWTwhaaaaaaaaat : Arcanum
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          yeah. I'll never understand this mindset : hamachi
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            It's an introvert, I don't understand...kill it! : speon
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              you really make no sense. : hamachi
              • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17075737#itemanchor_17075737 : speon
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              It's interesting that as an introvert you are responding to almost every post in this subthread. : sammyl
              • introvert attention whore! : hamachi
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                This particular derail seems is my fault, so why not. At least I can post with people willing to give thi... : speon
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                  You know what would have been great? If /you]/ had given this viewpoint some time and thought before you ... : SockMonkeh
                  • Now that's funny. Good one. : speon
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              Dude, I'm an introvert. This has nothing to do with being an introvert. You just seem to have some weir... : Arcanum
              • I respectfully disagree...the impression I get is that VALVe is reinforcing that modern gaming is purely ... : speon
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        Jesus, what the fuck are you talking about? : SockMonkeh
        • Don't worry about it. : speon
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        Are you the gaming unabomber? : ColoradoCNC
        • Colorful illustration is nice, no? Pure literal text can be kinda drab. : speon
      • You can't get away. Valve owns your ass motherfucker. When you disconnect your laptop in the woods they s... : K1Bond007
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        My favorite part is the whole "I became a gamer to get away from all of that" part. Like you were at some... : haiku
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          ▲ Not a crossroads, a slow dawning. "Became" operating over a period of years. Oh, and not really. : speon
          • TRIANGLE SIGHTING! : SockMonkeh
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            ^^^9 months? : .frame
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              that's a good block of time to spend in the woods with a laptop : veras
              • i guess being banned for triangle use won't be so bad then:) : .frame
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        Are you high? : Zips
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          It's cool...just give it a bit of time. It'll come. : speon
          • That's what she said. : Ebu
          • What will? Unless you're joking or being sarcastic in the above comment. : Zips
      • this is the most AMAZING post I have ever read : mikecyb
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        I know what you mean, and I'm with you. : SwiftyPants
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          Why would you admit that? : SockMonkeh
          • Solidarity? : SwiftyPants
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  This is another interesting quote: Digital sales do NOT harm retail sales say Valve. When they have a : deveus1
  • I wonder how much of that is due to sales on the retail end. Steam seems to have more consistent (read: h... : DapperDan
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  "You can uninstall Half-Life, then come back to it two years later and finally finish Xen." I love how... : DOOManiac
  • I played through the entire story in a single sitting and didn't finish Xen. And still haven't. : hoov1185
• so two years later you can fire it up and go "fuck this xen bullshit" for the second time? Nice. : oatmela
• You know, this could well be the first steps to a general back end storage system for steam ...You could ... : bombay

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• I'm simultaneously filled with hope and dread. : dumb.
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  They must've been all :O when Justice's album came out, thinking >:( we finally need to produce some good... : hardfl1p
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    The title track in Human After All was cool. : Omaha
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      ...other than that, yes, forgettable stuff : Omaha
      • I don't have the album, but I can spot several great tracks on there - Robot Rock, The Prime of Your Life... : Lone Swordsman
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    daft punk and justice are nothing alike other than being pairs of DJs that play (different kinds of) danc... : grifter
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      yeah ok there's no similarity at all : boring gegtik
      • well he was implying that Justice out-did them at their own thing. example... Kanye West must've be... : grifter
      • i guess justice is daft punk after they've drank about 2 gallons of draino? : Mr.SEX
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      and i don't think Daft Punk were worried since they had the biggest event tour going for like 2 years. : grifter
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        not worried as such, but amazed that some other french electro house peeps could also produce awesome shi... : hardfl1p
        • i didn't take it like that. i like both groups. : grifter
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      so they're pretty similar, and plenty of people find them alike, but you don't. : hardfl1p
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        Justice has always rolled their eyes at the comparison to Daft Punk. Pretty much every interview where it... : grifter
        • I didn't care when Oasis hated being compared to the Blur either : hardfl1p
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          there technically nothing alike other than the fact they are a duo, and they are from paris. And they mak... : disembodied potato
          • pretty much what i've been trying to say this entire time. : grifter
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            neither of them are techno in the first place : Mansmells
            • i use techno in the broadest terms in the sense the same can be said for the genre of rock. And to be hon... : disembodied potato
• very cool. /fingers_crossed : ass-street
• Awesome, plz to be taking longer than 6 months this time! : Jiven
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  Lets hope they spend more than 2 weeks on this one. Human After All made me lose almost all respect I ha... : deathofrats
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    i almost killed myself : Mr.SEX
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      i didn't talk to my family for 6 months after listening to it : Mr.SEX
      • I didn't talk to your family for 6 months either. : deathofrats
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    I buy everything daft punk and even I skipped that album because I only liked two songs on it and that wa... : Lionhart32935
    • Apparently they felt that Human was one of their best albums to date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human... : deathofrats
• I wouldn't argue with another Human After All. But I pretty much listen to everything they make : geedeck
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  Wrong: Daft Punk is playing at my house. My house! : pyros
  • all the furniture... is in the garage : Postal
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  I'm still waiting for them to release a live DVD of their Alive Tour. : MaxPete82
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    needs more blu-ray : pyide
    • Yeah, I would buy a blu-ray player for this : MaxPete82
• I wonder if I could get more pussy if I wore a robot helmet... : coldfusioncs
• So how cool would Daft Punk action figures be? : TenaciousPimple
• They only had one good song. It was one hell of a song, but...it stands alone. At least I haven't hea : Ebu

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  gonna see em live next weekend. \m/ last time they played the entire master of puppets (20th anniversary... : moshman
  • I'm gonna see them at Bonnaroo. Pumped! : yoonix
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  I'm gonna set my expectations around St. Anger level soo if it's even half decent I'll be happy : grabbie
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    that few second clip sounded kind of cool. Maybe they've finally gone back to their roots. : oatmela
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      at least the snare doesn't sounds like a dustbin anymore : moshman
      • i've posted this before but whatever http://badstanger.ytmnd.com/ : oatmela
      • http://busdriver3030.shackspace.com/music/Matt%20Smith%20-%20St.%20Anger%20Tribute.mp3 : busdriver3030
• i can't wait : AMikaboshi
• gracious : Sexpansion Pack
• i just can't see them bringing anything remotely interesting or original ever again that said, the new... : JINKY
• dammit i need to listen to some metallica now : industro
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  Any estimated release date for this new album? : melt_core
  • Early September is the last I heard. : cousinrocky
  • fall I think http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/metallica-and-w.html : oatmela
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  god I hate the new youtube player : OrkO
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    Why? It's the same thing except the edges are sharper. : razlebol
    • it's missing 2 useful buttons, the 'back to beginning' button, and the resize button (fullscreen is still... : OrkO
• I want to hear it so bad. Gah. : Danny5225
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  Sounds like they are moving away from that horrible St Anger sound. : SqueegyTBS
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    MY LUNCHTIME DETERMINES MY DINNERTIME : erotic sock
    • Man if I could multi-lol this I would : melt_core
    • lolling : ninjase
    • haha damn you : ifallible
• you can hear a bit more than that at http://www.missionmetallica.com/ i like the riffs, but james's ly... : re4ctor
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  Sounds like it might not suck as much cock as their previous couple attempts. : boarder2
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    I have little faith though: http://metfan.hit.bg/images/bandwcliff.jpg http://z.about.com/d/classicro... : boarder2
    • :| :( >:( :( >:| X) :D :O :) : onji
    • That's not fair. Of course they'll wear nice clothes to an award ceremony. On their album covers they... : oatmela
    • their bass player looks like a hardcore version of remo : ninjase
• that little bit sounded like metallica of old : gmd
• They lost me when Load/Reload came out, and they started suing their fans. I'm not bashing anyones music : jingletard
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  Old Man Post: I am still wary of the new Metallica after st. anger but i will check it out when it's rele... : boomdeath
  • A lot of us were born in the 70's : EvilDolemite
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    haha what? so are people only allowed to listen to new music all the time? : JINKY
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      No, I just figure the average age on here is about 25 so most would be toddler age when Metallica started... : boomdeath
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        that's fucking ridiculous. why does it matter when i started listening to 80's metallica and loving it? ... : biskits
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          that's not really what i mean, anyone can say 'i love the old Metallica' but if they are going on about h... : boomdeath
          • i don't think people who weren't around in the 80s generally say 'i have loved them since the 80s' : JINKY
          • They are probably talking about the era it was created. I think you are being weird about this : aggressor
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    I am 36, and have been listening to them since their bootleg album made its rounds in the earliy eighties... : Stoned Gargoyle
    • But you are more of a fan because it was new when you first heard it, I guess. : invisible_kid
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    I'm posting this youtube comment: Hey FUCK YOU YOU FAG!!!!!!!! Metallica will always be the best metal ba... : oatmela
    • username: -jhetfield007 : EvilDolemite
• \m/ MetallicA \m/ : metalremains
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  Bow down. Sell your soul to me. I will set you free. I can predict the next few lines: In my cap... : snuff
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    Haha, I laughed when he started singing. Terrible lyrics. : hardfl1p
    • You can't really beat "my lifestyle determines my deathstyle". There's just no way they would top that... : melt_core
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  Metallica Shreds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_rsg2yvkw : gyokuro
  • Metallique - Uno : SilverSnake
  • what? : shred.
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  This video makes me sad. It puts terrible Metallica alongside good Metallica, which just lowers your conf... : DOOManiac
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    the weird part is, if that is true why the dearth of songs? Rock band has just one in the game and three ... : oatmela
    • They said most requested, not most approved. Cockteasing bitches. : DOOManiac
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  Did they ever do anything with the new base player. He was awsome when he played with Suicidal Tendencie... : capt tripps
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    Hasn't he only played one one released album track or something? Almost all of the bass on St. Anger was ... : nudel
    • All the bass on St. Anger was written by Bob Rock. Trujillo played it. : ifallible
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  i haven't watched that metallica documentary movie. is it any good? i'm not a particularly big metallic... : FrayLo
  • yeah, it's a good movie whether you like them or not. : oatmela
  • yea its worth watching : mega man
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  everything since Load has just gone steeply downhill. there's some decent songs here and there, I love t... : tunis5000
  • i didn't bother listening to load for so long, then everyone was like 'but it's a decent combination of r... : JINKY
  • They peaked with master of puppets, ajfa was the beginning of the decline (still good, just not as good a... : re4ctor

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  The Cru is doing something pretty risky that might backfire, not sure we have the backups for it. : Lunatic Angelic
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    Rubbish! Lester's passing out the coke and other "energy enhancers" just before game time. : Fyunch Click
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      I'm halfway thinking we should have the LBs focus on stopping the run (via run focus). Thoughts? : cltcprd
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        That was what I was going to set mine to, but i changed it to fit the forum post. : sigpro
        • yeah, we'll go with Degen's strat. That way if we we lose we can blame him. : cltcprd
        • I did likewise. Hopefully we can stop them this time. : radicus
      • that's what we're going to do. : azenmaster
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        How about you make these suggestions in the dedicated tactics thread or the dedicated defensive tactics t... : Degenerate
        • no one reads those! : cltcprd
        • lighten up, Francis. : Fyunch Click
        • zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz : jedi_27
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    I've been playing on my guys on Hard w/ no significant drop in playing time for the past 2 games. We nee... : cltcprd
    • I'm not even sure how many people are checking the forums for tactics either. We really need the ability... : cltcprd
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      Playing time won't take too much of a hit if you've buffered it with stamina / play time settings, it's t : Lunatic Angelic
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        I don't think the performance (besides the 20% boost versus 10% boost) on Hard vs Normal is any different... : cltcprd
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          and yes energy will decrease faster on Hard. But with enough stamina it won't matter. : cltcprd
          • I PLAY HARD EVERY GAME!!!!! I CAN MAKE A PLAY!!!! -ROLLING "FUCKING HARD" ROCK : jedi_27
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          That was my point, is a hard player at 40 energy under performing a normal player at 80? If not, then : Lunatic Angelic
          • We'll never get to 40 energy, we sub out before that :) : cltcprd
          • and I'm really not sure how much it effects everything. The recommended stamina settings are 35/65 (sub ... : cltcprd
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      THOW ME THE FUCKING BALL!!! AND YOU WILL GET YOUR WIN!!!! - ROLLING "FUCKING" ROCK : jedi_27
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        Rex doesn't need the WR dropping any more balls. : cltcprd
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          i think i have had one drop in like 3-4 games!!!!! : jedi_27
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            face it, he likes throwing to the TE better. : Fyunch Click
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              our QB is a F4G : jedi_27
              • See what happens when we throw to Rolling Rock. He tips the ball right to a DB :( : cltcprd
• This will be difficult, for sure. Looking at the numbers, though it doesn't look like the Lampshades' opp... : woddemandred
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  Lampshades changed tactics last game and we expect it to keep working. I expect that the passing game wi... : azenmaster
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    Lampshades LINEBACKERS - recommended that you set focus to run as they are a running team with 2 good hal... : azenmaster
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      that is: Panda Strong, Top Eddie, Lovy Redboar, Cib Fatheree, Boofy Bukstein, Stone Donkey and Jon Beasto... : azenmaster
      • Done sir. : stonedonkey
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    lampshades individual tactics thread updated for defense mostly. These are guidelines and not rules (beca... : azenmaster
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      tactics: updated : Clay
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        what were you set at before? you were pretty successful. : azenmaster
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          wasn't aggressive on INTs : Clay
          • how do you feel about aggressive? I went on Nixx's ideas : azenmaster
  • I hope noone fed Vivaldi last night, we need him extra mean today. : hiloopy
• Can't wait! ~3 hours for the Cru game. : Nixx2004
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  Cyber-demons play the #1 seed which will be a tough game. : TreMetal
  • so do the lampshades. : edgewise
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    yes it will. i went ahead and just bought custom equipment for both of my main players. every little bit ... : mindfk
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      Can't hurt any. I may re-vamp the QBs custom item to go all +throwing. We'll need every complete cat... : zen2k
      • I switched Angus' item to Pass Rushing a couple games ago as I thought he had plenty of points in contain... : Psigun
• I'm excited about the game tonight! I think we'll lose but I hope we'll keep it close, and I get some Pan... : sonicdeathwalrus
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  Let's use spoilers for the scores, and post the links to watch the games. About an hour until the Cru ... : Nixx2004
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    good idea, btw are we changing tactics any more? I changed the blitz % like we talked about. : azenmaster
    • I don't know, guess we're OK with what we have it set to. Wish more people would give input, heh. : Nixx2004
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  Grand Cru game starting from the first play: http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=4712782 : Nixx2004
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    Heck yeah ... got my first sack! : Tommy Toolbag
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      I got my 2nd and 3rd. We really kicked the QBs ass today. : sigpro
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        Yeah we did. Preacher White got a couple of sacks as well. I've trained the hell out of speed and stre... : Tommy Toolbag
        • Nice. All 3 of my sacks have been right up the middle though a gap our D line has opened up. I put a lot ... : sigpro
  • Lester!!!!!! : edgewise
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    oh snap awesome game, dudes! congrats :D : mikecyb
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      best thing about it is that we beat those annoying assholes from Austin. : edgewise
      • ding! You score 12 points. I can't wait to see what they write in the forums. I really like the fact th... : Fyunch Click
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    Rex leads the league! in interceptions thrown in the playoffs... Defense really saved you. Good game. : Nixx2004
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      Here is a great Rex play - backing up, throwing across the field deep to the tight end who has 3 defender : Tommy Toolbag
      • lol, can you teach him not to do that? : edgewise
      • I caught the one that mattered. :( : Fyunch Click
      • hehe, look at Stonewall pick up that LDE twice. : Lunatic Angelic
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        if Rex would just become Bi I'm certain he could nail every receiver, every time. : Fyunch Click
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          well we know he isn't doing that. He's too busy fucking cheerleaders for that shit. : cltcprd
          • time to put him on a diet......of Wide Receiver ass. : Fyunch Click
  • great job guys. Wooo! : Fyunch Click
  • Great game gentlemen! Let's hope the other teams can pull it out : radicus
  • Wow, there were some bad series to end the first half. Nice to see us convert on turnovers (Lesters pick ... : Tommy Toolbag
  • My CB played like a rabid dog: http://goallineblitz.com/game/replay.pl?pbp_id=4714885 . He was at the 35 ... : Portax
• Cru D put up 5 sacks today. Nice game D. : sigpro
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  Lampshades game: http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=35064&mode=pbp&hide=1 : Nixx2004
  • :( : Jonathan
  • :'( : hardfl1p
  • :( : mikecyb
  • Well damn.. one of my better games too :( : stonedonkey
  • First time we got shut out this season. : Nixx2004
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  cyber-demons almost pull it off =[ http://goallineblitz.com/game/game.pl?game_id=35060 we had two k... : mindfk
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    It was a good fight. Their D was pretty suffocating, even with the extra throwing, I saw one inc after a... : zen2k
    • They're the only team that can really just shut us down and cut our average yards in both rushing and pas... : Psigun
  • I was so pumped after the first half then it went south even though we got the opportunities to score up ... : Psigun