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• i'll put in a vote for cheggit and www.chicksandbreasts.com kazaa was the glory hole days : shavenewok
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  It's getting later and I have enough links. PERV TEST! : http://www.lmnopc.com/perv/ I warned you : ThomW
  • ^^^ Real shacker points : loboca
  • oh shi... : Fyunch Click
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    The people clicking through all of the links in that last post are so fucked. : Ctrl-Phreak
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      You were one of them. Admit it. : action wombmate
      • I'm going to be by the end of the night... : Ctrl-Phreak
    • That's exactly what I was thinking too. haha : ThomW
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    Haha, 0% : dognose
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      I call BS. You checked them all out so you could mark them NWS : Githyanki
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        I'm also at 0%. I didn't bother to click any cause I figured ThomW was going to hit us up with some sort ... : DOOManiac
        • Yeah I 'm sorry. I tried to warn people that I was just doing something stupid. :) : ThomW
      • No I don't like porn, I just tag 'em when someone says they are NWS : dognose
  • hahaha 6% : tomservo
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    I guess it doesn't really work if you don't have your browser set to remember history & cookies and stuff : PapaBoo
    • Obviously not. : ThomW
  • LOL.. amazing.. 9% : DJ Clipdat
  • =( 1% : fletch_
  • 6% and i didn't see the thread earlier :( : skizl
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    1%, I only use a couple sites. : mechanicalgrape
    • That's where this thing fails as a true perv test. 1) The site has to be in my list 2) It doesn'... : ThomW
  • Crafty. I thought the DOM wasn't supposed to be able to interact w/ the iframe document, at all, as ... : DOOManiac
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    How are you getting that number? Cookies? But those are domain specific. : Horn
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      Ah nevermind. Javascript trickery. That's still a pretty big privacy hole though. : Horn
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        I thought so too. The guy who came up with that hack has a pretty cool concept - instead of showing 600 ... : ThomW
        • This is why I take the time to manually add sites to noscripts whitelist. : Turd Ferguson
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          Incredibly clever how it works, detecting the style of the links. With ajax it'll be a piece of cake to ... : Horn
          • I thought about that. I could have easily incorporated the script into the lol page, then used Ajax to c... : ThomW
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        It's pretty nifty actually. First it makes an invisible iframe. Don't think it really has to be an ifr... : DOOManiac
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          clever : packav
          • indeed : epit
  • Well done, sir. 1% : Goncyn
  • 4%. My halo is, as of yet, untarnished. : Matt Burris
  • Lol, that's pretty hilarious. 1%, I need to work on that... : boarder2
  • hahaha thats awesome, 1% : Melll
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    How does this work? : Geoffrois
    • I'm late, never mind. : Geoffrois
  • 7% My GF would be proud of me. : Utopia
  • How Big of a Perv Are You? 0% YOUR SCORE You visited 0 of the 65 sites in the list © 2008 ThomW : ejectorpod
  • 1%................ i FAIL : rmjackson
  • 1% : pandastrong
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    0% But I typically just jerk off to the Night Trap commercial. : icon_of_syn
    • 0% but I just jerk off to Night Court clips on YouTube. Mmmm.... Bull. : dumb.
  • 0% : noobja
  • 1% : AllYourBase
  • 0% for the win : PlanetPerfecto
  • 1%, and I think that was linked from here haha. : re4ctor
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    You guys are either lying or too smart with the browser cache clearing, etc. ;) : ThomW
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      I just realized why I was at 0%. I was on my supercomputer at first, which is untainted. Now I'm on my la... : noobja
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        i usually use IE for porn. no idea why, it's a strange habit of mine. i think it's that i don't like clea... : xsoulbrothax
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          of all the sites i'd view in IE, porn sites are not one of them. are you asking for spyware? :) : electroly
          • i've got a couple good standbys that are clean. :D and apparently nobody else mentioned. i generally k... : xsoulbrothax
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      I was thinking you were going to create a greasemonkey script that was going to raise the bar on viewing ... : icon_of_syn
      • I told you guys not to get your hopes up! I just had a stupid goofy idea last night and thought I'd try ... : ThomW
  • 3% : ( : Athlon7
  • 0%. I'm at work :D : dodob
  • 3%.... : yellowtexan
  • 0% : zen!
  • Hahaha : pigvomit
  • 6% what what : bfzzzz
  • 0% at home. I think it only works if the exact link is in the list. : dodob
  • Mine says 0%! I visited at least two of those. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    your system is FLAWED. I got 0% and I have several of those sites bookmarked, you dirty cheat. : Megara9
    • Lies, you are 0% perv. Admit it. : Ctrl-Phreak
  • 0% : RikiTiki2
  • 0% : d3tached
  • 0%. I either rock or I suck. : shyguy74
  • THIS IS NOTHING BUT A FILTHY LIE! How Big of a Perv Are You? 0% YOUR SCORE You visited 0 of the 65 sites ... : AbortedFetusChristi
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  I hope to God someone is creating something useful out of all these links (useful to the rest of us). : Thresher
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    we really need the worlds porn ranked, as per shacker advice. :( : radula
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      You can't tell me there isn't a Digg For Porn. There's a Digg for everything else. : ThomW
      • thats kinda why i like cheggit, because it has 'most popular links' part. : radula
  • like a *FAP* script that marks the good nws posts as fappable to which the posts and their contents are t... : sludge vohaul
• www.pelotka.com : Fredrik S
• Thanks for reminding me to reinstall noscript :P : packav
• I'm at 0%, but since I have to give a sample tomorrow to make sure my vasectomy took, I expect to be at 1 : zipper76
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  hey thomw, did i insipire you? http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17074454 : sikander
  • I'd had the guy's blog post about it open from Reddit or something earlier that day. It's definitely an... : ThomW
• Zero, but then I also was waiting for something grand. : breadsticks
• http://www.sextv1.tv - all streams : Rich McNinch

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  Good, that PC gaming Alliance seems to be dead in the water. : SpaecKow
  • Also steamcloud is exactly what I've been hoping for. I hate having to unlock all chapters every time I d... : SpaecKow
  • I dont think hardware manufacturers actually care about PC game sales. They produce all the parts for con... : thewindcriesmary
• good for him. : hamachi
• Good for valve. They're becoming more of platform provider than a game maker at this point. Hopefully ... : Horn
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  Man Gabe Newell is cool. I feel bad for all the fat jokes I've made about him. : datoo
  • He's not fat - he's just overstuffed with AWESOME! : dumb.
  • He gets less shit from here than some of the hottest women alive, so he can't complain too much. : Turd Ferguson
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    He's like a rich ThomW. : Wolfanoz
    • :*( : ThomW
• gabe leaving microsoft to start a game company was the best thing to happen to PC gaming ever? : XchumpoX
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  oh Steamcloud sounds like the shit. I just wish I could add my retail keys for other games I have boug... : Jayx77
  • i'd pay $5 per game to do that :( : Demius
  • i would too... email valve this subthread :p : great-white
  • Sweet fuck would their servers get hack attacks on a minutely basis : Nighteyes
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  The PC Gaming Alliance should merge with Windows Live for maximum lols : oatmela
  • The Windows PC Gaming Alliance Live! : Matt Burris
  • I think I'd stick to consoles after that : Postal
• Not that I like the idea of one company speaking for the entire industry, but if one has to do it I'd rat... : DOOManiac
• So is the next valve engine the big thing for them? if they could produce an engine that was widely used ... : thewindcriesmary
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  Yeah man Steamcloud is so fucking cool, I wish it was implemented before my hard drive crash so I wouldn'... : ovrlrd
  • i know, i was just replaying stalker and my HD crashed.... Now i really dont want to restart :( : great-white
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  WOAH...for those that cant read the whole thing check this part out: 15.11. Valve are announcing Steamcl... : gyokuro
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    Poor Xen never gets any love. : djkenohki
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      Well, it was imo the worst part of the game : peetabix01
      • At least they put it at the end, when dinner was ready. : dognose
    • I remember reading somewhere that Gabe's two biggest disappointments in his career were HL2 on the Xbox a... : djkenohki
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  Valve is strapping it on their backs : Mondo
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    seriously. i don't think i'm being too bold when i say valve is the only company actually innovating in t... : erotic sock
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      yea...the way they pay off teams who make mods from their games is truly innovating. : judasen
      • i'm not talking about game content... i'm talking about the actual platform. : erotic sock
      • Yes because thats ALL Valve does. : Nighteyes
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        uh yeah, it's called hiring talent. you know, what companies try to do. what the fuck? : Sapiens
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          No, it's called waiting for someone to make something of your product that you can capitalize on. Valve ... : judasen
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            What happened to you, to make you so bitter? :( : dognose
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              time. : judasen
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                Ride that Timehorse like we do; laughing at it. Laugh with us. : dognose
                • it gives me a glare with an odd odd look in its eye. Then I must punch it. Metaphorically of course. ... : judasen
          • And this is malpractice since when? : [7]kami
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            So, who was it that made Steam? I think that's their biggest innovation to PC gaming. : Nali4Freedom
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              Personally I think Half Life was their biggest innovation to PC gaming, but that's quite the past tense. : judasen
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                Developing the standard-setter in online content delivery for AAA games on ANY platform is a very large i... : SpaecKow
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                  Well it seems I disagree....fancy that. : judasen
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                    Maybe you should outline some reasons for that, show some evidence of this or that claim, offer some poin... : SpaecKow
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                      Maybe you should make an essay post about a game that you have actually put some time into and not just f... : judasen
                      • lol this post is so fucking catty : SpaecKow
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            Right, because successful companies never buy smaller companies that produce good products that they want... : Serpico74
            • it's not called innovation though, that's all he's saying. : synapse19
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            Valve release titles on a regular basis, it's not like they made Half-Life and now they grow fat of the f... : SpaecKow
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              O rly? And what are those games they produce on a regular basis? And not the mods that it produced an... : judasen
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                Well obviously they have for Half Life releases now, TF2 was developed completely in house, Portal might ... : SpaecKow
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                  So Valve grew the artistic talent for a game that has like three textures and plucked an awesome idea fro... : judasen
                  • News flash here people: art in video games involves more than textures. I should get paid for this shit... : Begawkiness
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                  the original qwtf guys got hired by valve and help make tf2 and no, portal isn't as different as you're p... : synapse19
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                    So since Robin Walker made that one mod ten years ago what he learned in Valve, and what the other people... : SpaecKow
                    • no. not at all, but feel free to continue trying to twist words around to feed your fanatic rage. it's... : synapse19
            • what have they done other than half life? : Klebold
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            I bet those teams were so pissed off to have their idea stolen from them. And have jobs. And have moneyha... : jbury
            • Who needs food on the table when you have freedom!? : DarkWolf5
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              Yea I said they were stolen. That's exactly what I said. : judasen
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                Well you're implying that there is something wrong with Valve buying up a talented group of individuals, ... : jbury
                • Also as for your stating it isn't very innovating, basically you don't think Steamcloud is innovating? Is... : jbury
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            it's kinda funny how so many people completely ignore this. not that i don't agree with what they've done... : synapse19
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              Valve is not a person, it is a group of people that is constantly changing. The fact that they have cons... : Begawkiness
              • no one is denying this. but people need to realize they're doing the same thing people completely shit on... : synapse19
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        Yeah... Fuck those assholes for putting the money into making one of the best game engines on the planet ... : Danny5225
        • [claps heartily] While judasen may have a point that there is just as much to Valve being smart abou... : PlanetPerfecto
        • releasing content on steam isn't free. you're basically using valve as your publisher since you still nee... : synapse19
    • Innovation is a subjective concept. I can without hesitation say that Blizzard is doing the same thing. E... : Charmplus
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      oh god what have i done : erotic sock
      • You just stated the truth. Everyone else is a twat. : jbury
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  I still can't believe the turn around. I hated steam for the first years of its life. It made the Half Li... : baron calamity
  • I've been on board with steam from right at the start. I guess I was lucky not to have a single issue wit... : marmite
  • I actually thought that Halflife 2 was the turning point for Steam. When it first came out years ago it ... : Rag and Bone Man
• MEET THE SNIIIIIPEEERRRRRRRRR : Arctic Fox

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  What was the name that Kate said the funeral was for? I missed that :( : cookblaze
  • jeremy something, I didn't recognize it : opengl128
  • Jeremy Benson][o .. we dont know who that is yet : devnullgt
• boom : opengl128
• i can't believe jack use to be a girl, didn't see that twist coming : shavenewok
• jesus : opengl128
• Fucking episode started STRONG : trOmblyj
• What I dont get is when, in the previous episode, Kearns (or whatever dude's name is) had a gun pointed a : devnullgt
• I was about to ask if Lost was supposed to be on Thursdays, but I just realized that it *is* Thursday. ... : Vincent Grayson
• Motherfucking Sayid, owning bitches left and right. <3 : Modica Sol Solis
• I also love that there are almost no commercials in this episode...it's like two 30 second spots every 10... : devnullgt
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  So it makes sense now why they had to get Walt off the island... he grew up and that would be hard to exp : trOmblyj
  • And cause MIchael be one crazy mo'fucka. Walt is huuuge : Modica Sol Solis
• damn walt is huge. And his voice is crazy : Horn
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  Seriously...Ben is becoming my favorite character on this show : devnullgt
  • f'real : opengl128
  • There really aren't any characters I like aside from Desmond and Jin. Everyone else is kind of toolish. : Horn
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    Yeah, Ben is awesome. I really like Miles, too. Desmond and Jin kick ass as well. : Modica Sol Solis
    • I love when Miles said, "What am I talking about?" : Fred Garvin
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  God damn it, can somebody please spoil the first 20 minutes for me in some detail? My stupid DVR was mes... : DinK
  • Ok...basically the following happened The episode started out where the previous season ended...with J : devnullgt
  • Okay so Ben does his surrender thing to Keamy and the gang, and then Kate, Sayid, Richard, and a bunch of : Modica Sol Solis
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  how the FUCK did this dude survive : devnullgt
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    HOLY SHIT : Modica Sol Solis
    • The COLD COLD "so", by Ben is fucking WICKED : devnullgt
• so : FushigiDenki
• So. damn. : opengl128
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  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... : duncandun
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    DUNCANDON'T DO THAT : Modica Sol Solis
    • It's too late! : CrustaR
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  Oh shit, Charlotte is Annie : Modica Sol Solis
  • My thoughts too : Horn
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    who : opengl128
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      Ben's friend when he was younger. The girl who gave him a doll : Horn
      • ohhh right : opengl128
    • She's the girl that Ben was crushin' on back in the day. : Modica Sol Solis
  • If this was true, I'm betting that Ben wouldn't have, you know, shot her. : dirge23
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  WTF Sawyer not Hurley? : Horn
  • Yea, I know..they said a few hundred pounds...not ~200 : devnullgt
  • I think if Hurley hit the water at that height, he'd probably cause a tsunami and kill everyone anyway : Modica Sol Solis
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    such a bs plot device. like that weight would make any difference when that much fuel was pouring out : opengl128
    • Well, Sawyer has no reason to go back, anyway. I think the only reason he'd go back is to be with Kate, b : Modica Sol Solis
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  Who else is betting that Jeremy Benson is Walt? Obviously this is someone we know : Horn
  • Nah, because walt said that Jeremy visited him : devnullgt
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    I wonder if it's Desmond :( : Modica Sol Solis
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      But why would he be tied to them getting back to the island? The way Jack and Kate reacted it has to be : Horn
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        Because Desmond knows Penelope. Penelope knows where the island is. Widmore knows where the island is. If : Modica Sol Solis
        • Though I guess that doesn't make much sense, since Penelope would have definitely shown up to the funeral : Modica Sol Solis
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  oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. : devnullgt
  • Jin :{b'}b( : Horn
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    yah.. BIG BADDA BOOM! : Shadowdane
    • multipass : devnullgt
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  Not the only ones who left the island. Interesting. : Horn
  • I think she meant Ben, and perhaps she is the one who gave Ben up and caused his death. : FushigiDenki
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  OK what did whitmore just say to sun as she walked away? F'n digital blipped just for those words. : Rich McNinch
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    he said "why would you want to help me" : devnullgt
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      to which I think the answer is :well because the others suck and let Jin die...so fuck em : devnullgt
      • I think the answer already is yes, and the reason is because Ben is the one responsible for Jin's death. : FushigiDenki
    • THANKS! : Rich McNinch
  • "Why would you help me?" : FushigiDenki
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  if your not an 815 regular, you get *red shirt'd* every week nowadays. : grabbie
  • If you noticed, especially the episode when New Otherton gets attacked the 815 peeps who died was wearing : Sailor of Fortune
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  Watching this show convinces me that the series finale will be mind blowingly awesome. : Horn
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    Oh what the fuck. : Modica Sol Solis
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      see? I have 100% faith in this show now. Before it was around 80 but now, like BSG, I'm sure there is p... : Horn
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        FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK : Modica Sol Solis
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          this too. Mind = blown. They said 7 made it off the plane, 1 died. Is that 1 desmond or the pilot? : Horn
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            Maybe they both died. Also, I think it's gotta Ben that's Jeremy. It makes the most sense. Especially : Modica Sol Solis
            • Ditto. Either way I'm willing to bet shackbucks that the person in the coffin is the last thing revealed... : Horn
• HOLY MOFO SHIT : devnullgt
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  I just realized that Desmond was on the chopper, and he's not one of the final 6 :( ... :( ... :( : trOmblyj
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    Same+1: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17076402#itemanchor_17076402 : Horn
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      no no no no fuck no : Modica Sol Solis
      • YES : Modica Sol Solis
  • yeah and they were shouting at him to get his vest on :-( : opengl128
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    desmond wasn't on the plane, so he can't be one of the "oceanic 6" : flagg209
    • no, I understand that, but I thought they were going to kill him and the pilot in the crash : trOmblyj
• lold : duncandun
• And like that....... IT'S GONE! Sweet. : K1Bond007
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  subthread, this wipeout show that's a direct rip of mxc is gonna be lame without the original commentator... : Modica Sol Solis
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    yeah : duncandun
    • and this mole show looks like the stupidest shit 've ever heard of : Modica Sol Solis
  • Right you are, Kenny : kingdok
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  HAI KATE BOUNCY BOOBS!!! : trOmblyj
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    unf. How was she sleeping alone? : Horn
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      Jack got kicked the fuck out for having a beard. : Modica Sol Solis
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        OH SHIT WHAT IF THIS IS PENELOPE'S BOAT FROM SIBERIA OMG : Modica Sol Solis
        • Thats probably how desmond doesn't get accounted for since he wasn't on the boat. and the pilot too. : Horn
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  fuck i just lost it : trOmblyj
  • i just filled the cup and shat bricks at the same time : Modica Sol Solis
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  the island is apparently either a or a ... : Luminair
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    JESUS JUMPING SHIT : mechanicalgrape
    • oops, meant for main : mechanicalgrape
• ooo yeah it is nice tonight aww yeah ... unf unf hurley? : fathertime
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  Is it me, or does the commercial for Octagon Global Recruiting look like a Dharma recruiting/viral market... : devnullgt
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    Same here. Slow as hell http://octagonglobalrecruiting.com/ : Horn
    • Also no google hits for it. This has to be a Lost related thing. : Horn
  • I submitted my email address...we'll see what kind of cool shit they have going on : devnullgt
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  Jack likes the pixies. Sweet. : Horn
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    What the fuuuck WHAT THE FUCK : Modica Sol Solis
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      WHAT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT : Modica Sol Solis
      • Damn son. I second that WTF and I'd like to amend a WTF WE HOW MANY MONTHS DO WE HAVE TO WAIT. : Horn
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    what pixies song was it? : renegade732
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      gouge away : burgertime
      • that's funny. the first time he was driving that jeep in the daylight, he was playing nirvana : liquidlies
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  Whoa whoa whoa! What?!? : cookblaze
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    fucking Locke?!?!! did NOT see that one coming. I would have said that at the end of last season, but aft... : devnullgt
    • When Ben says that whomever moves the island can never return, I immediately thought that Locke would hav : Rice-Rocketeer
• HOLY SHIT! O_O : Shadowdane
• DUDE WAIT WHAT? : trOmblyj
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  Did not expect that!!!! : grabbie
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    I bet he'll come back to life when they get him to the island. : mechanicalgrape
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      he will become jacob : jenisthebest
      • Not Jacob per say, but he'll be a messenger like jacks dad. : Horn
      • Yup. He takes Christians place. : K1Bond007
• oh what the fuck : pimpium
• Oh man :( : FushigiDenki
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  PENNY AND DESMOND!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS : jenisthebest
  • IAWTYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! : trOmblyj
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    did you cry? : feek
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      My girlfriend did. : Horn
      • mine too : feek
    • no, I was like "YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." : jenisthebest
  • I started crying at that. Straight up, bawling like a baby. God damnit I LOVE IT. : kikilupo
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  HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT : Ellissd
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    CHOP OFF MY DICK : conandan
    • if I can get you to sign an affidavit saying that this is ok...I shall do that for you. I will, however,... : devnullgt
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  It begins. http://www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com/ : byorn
  • Get more servers abc. This site won't be up till tomorrow. : Horn
  • Hmm, San Diego? I bet they're going to do something at ComicCon. : BlackCat9
• January is a long time to wait for. :( : pimpium
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  WHATS CRAZIER IS THAT Ben wants Penelope dead. That's gonna be an awesome stand-off. : Modica Sol Solis
  • whats weird about that is that he even asked the fuck head if W wanted him to kill his daughter : conandan
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    How do we know this? What did I miss?!?! : Horn
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      He told it to Witmoore several episodes back. : FushigiDenki
      • Oh shit, you're right : Horn
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      The episode where Ben sneaks into Widmore's place and tells him that he changed the rules and that now he : mechanicalgrape
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        To clarify because Widmore was responsible for Alex's death, Ben wants the life of his daughter. : Modica Sol Solis
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          please read above... didnt Ben ask Keany (whatever his name was) if it was Widmore's plan to kill his dau... : conandan
          • I doubt Widmore did ask him. Widmore knew the consequences. : Modica Sol Solis
  • I'm glad Desmond is still in the mix. Next year he can be like the character he played in 24. Him and Say : mossman85
• BEST.SHOW.EVER. : klearlyunseen
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  I think was probably the best season of the entire show thus far. The others had their moments, but this ... : K1Bond007
  • happened. And practically every non-regular got killed off. : K1Bond007
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  Does anyone else think that somehow Jin is alive? : mossman85
  • you're alone on that one : FushigiDenki
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    Well, Michael is alive, according to Walt's meeting with Hurley. Which means that Jin is probably alive. : Modica Sol Solis
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      I don't think that's what he meant. All he said was his dad didn't come back. He's probably dead. : mechanicalgrape
      • plus how would hurley know, they never saw who was and who wasnt on the island because they got rescued : dantastic
      • Oh wait, yeah. Cause he said didn't come back, not still on the island. And then Hurley paused...aw fuck : Modica Sol Solis
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      but what's his name, jack's father, came and said something like "you can go now" right before the blast. : feek
      • agreed with this give how many times he tried to kill himself before : AllYourBase
  • unfortunately, no :( Unless he comes back in ghost form, but he wasn't on the island when/if he died. : mechanicalgrape
  • I do. : klearlyunseen
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    You know.. I thought maybe, but then... the island got moved so.. you have to think that if he was alive : K1Bond007
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      I really don't think Locke is done on the show. : mechanicalgrape
      • I think Locke will serve the same role as Christian does now. the conduit through which those speak to Ja : Modica Sol Solis
      • Most definitely not. Get him back to the island and he'll become another Jacob/Christian ghost walker : Bruzilla
      • they at least have to show how he got there, which could take all next season : feek
      • i agree I mean the show features ghosts regularly, at the very least Locke will be on it until the end, a : thebigbeefsandwhich
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        I didn't say he was done on the show, but clearly he is dead. Bringing back to life. Existing like Christ : K1Bond007
        • he ISNT dead. he WILL be dead i think. that's all we know. we also knwo that it's been 3 (was it 5) years... : barichnikov
    • What show have you been watching for the last few years? no one dies unless you watch them take their l : tree8
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    he could be you know it never showed what happened to the dudes that were on their way to the boat (danie : dantastic
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      ^truth, but don't you think he would try to find Sun? : aethyr
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        Did they move with the island, or are they floating out in the middle of the ocean do you suppose? : Bruzilla
        • There were waves, they moved it. : FushigiDenki
  • If they don't die on screen,...anything goes : holinka
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  Interesting about Locke's alias Jeremy Benthem, another philosopher. And both philosophers shared differ : Bruzilla
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    guess he must have eventually had some issue with being the leader of the others : devnullgt
    • i think jacob sent him to bring the others back and locke wasn't being a bad ass enough about it so the i : dantastic
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  Best scene: the fight between Keamy and Sayid : dirge23
  • yeah i thought that was really well done : feek
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    No the best scene was Ben stabbing Keamy in the fucking throat, so hardcore : Modica Sol Solis
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      ^^ seconded. : stonedonkey
      • thirded. I wasn't expecting that hardcorness : bozer
    • this was also pretty awesome : dirge23
    • Ben is just awesome. I love the scene where he looks up and says "So". So well acted. The guy needs an Em... : K1Bond007
  • It kind of had a Batman Beginitis going with the camera. : Sailor of Fortune
• 170 posts, wow. can't wait until it starts in half an hour : liquidlies
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  so who noticed the chicks red thong when she was loading up the inflatable boat? : Patch-e
  • Everyone i was watching the show with. Thong th-thong thong thong : holinka
  • hahaha yeah that was kinda funny : opengl128
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    So Daniel Faraday, what happened to that bloke eh? Eh? When the Island moved, he suffered the same fate a : Modica Sol Solis
    • whoops, meant for root : Modica Sol Solis
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  Yay I predicted Sawyer ditching the chopper http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16974292#itemanchor_1... : holinka
  • you totally time traveled....nice try : johngloid
  • Wow, dead on. : Rich McNinch
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  how many more seasons of Lost do we have now? Two more? : slambast
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    yes : mechanicalgrape
    • how many total episodes left? 32 or 44? : liquidlies
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  Absolutely amazing. My only qualm is the first boatload of people that took the raft to the freighter wer : silent prophet
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    He probably assumed that they were getting on the life rafts with the rest of the crew. : mechanicalgrape
    • speaking of why didn't they tell Penny to at least TRY to find them and pick them up? : deathofrats
  • it's like some fucked up high school clique : feek
• So nobody yell at me please, but I watched LOST for the first time ever tonight. I kinda really did en... : notd665
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  Unreleased video of orchid station : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gERdALb5vQ Sorry if this is a ... : mnok
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    Where did this come from? Is it from the websites that pop up and allow you to unlock videos? : devi| dog
    • yeah this was from a while ago : two50six
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    See all the frames stuck in there? What does the one about Jacob say? : Fred Garvin
    • God loves you as he loves jacob : mnok
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  can't wait to watch this in 3 months :( : fsck
  • Hurry up, only 7 months until the Season premiere :( : deathofrats
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    3 months? More like 6 or 7 before the DVDs come out : Vincent Grayson
    • i mean they just started showing season 4 on television at where i am : fsck
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  I was so afraid when Desmond found Penny, he was going to jump to the next body. : Sailor of Fortune
  • Oh boy... : nurglich
• god damnit i clicked on one of the spoilers by accident. I only saw 3 episodes of this season : wtf242
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  So, are the alternate endings up anywhere? : Fred Garvin
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    I'm guessing they just showed different people in the coffin. : Totenjaeger
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      They were on Good Morning America this morning. Exactly that. Two other people in the coffin. Same s : trebarg
      • I suspected it was Locke in there all along, with Ben also being a possibility. Just based on the fact t : dirge23
• amazing season finale. I can't believe my neighbors in the appartment building chose to have sex (rather ... : Flynn
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  One really loose end at the end of this season for is with with Daniel and his Zodiac group being out sti : Sailor of Fortune
  • i dunno mang, some of the CG was really low budget...like bad Sci-Fi channel bad : johngloid
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  About the moving island: I don't think it actually "moves". I think it travels through time. : EvilDolemite
  • I agree. The dude in the video was saying that the rabbit jumped ahead in time 100ms or something, and it : Ctrl-Phreak
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    right Actually sort of. I think the room that Ben crawled into exist in a different space/time, probably : two50six
    • btw here is the audio of the Phone call to Kate. The audio was backwards but someone nabbed it and revere : two50six
• best show that ever was or ever will be : filtersweep
• Holy crap, I never saw this alternate opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBf3hzHL9tY : Fred Garvin
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  heh, I love Lost. the only show where they can get away with having the same cliffhanger for 2 seasons in : lowpoly
  • This season was basically all the stuff that happened in between 'Yay we're gonna be rescued!' and 'We ha : ventro
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  What did Sawyer say to Kate before he jumped ? He should've just pushed hurley off :P : sikander
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    I really did like how the camera panned to Hurley once Frank said 200 pounds. : djkenohki
    • Why not? We were all thinking it. : judasen
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    Probably something about his daughter he had with the woman and the money he got doing the sting for the : Sailor of Fortune
    • Sounds right to me : holinka
  • seemed like it was lost in translation : bozer
• damn you ppl! I had to work tonight so I won't be watching it until tomorrow night... :( : tunis5000
• Such an awesome episode. Nothing to add to this thread really. : boomstickah
• The amount of cleavage in this episode was staggering. : Psigun
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  I lied I do have a question: What did the asian guy mean when he was talking to charlotte. He hinted a : boomstickah
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    He said "Why would you want to leave, after you worked so hard to get back here?" and then later she ment : Rich McNinch
    • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17076118#itemanchor_17076118 A possibility? : Mikuya
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  • I sort of agree. It was awesome for advancing plot, not so much answering questions (although I do agree... : Rasnowl
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  So when ... the island "moved" it pretty much did the same thing that it did at the end of Season 2 with : K1Bond007
  • I wonder if the event at the end of season 2 is what transported the polar bear Charlotte found to Tunisi : smax
• Wow, greatest season finale ever. : dmaownsyou
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  What happened to Faraday?! : Kaerof
  • He was still on the Zodiac when the island went poof. : Chepito.
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    I'm guessing he got fucked up in the blast which is how we saw him the first time he was introduced. That... : Totenjaeger
    • Nah I'm pretty sure he zapped himself with his brain ray before he came to the Island. : dirge23
• WHAT THE FUCK . WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK WTF : CoRDS
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  HOLY SHIT!!! o{You can go now Michael. BEN IS A COLD ASS MOTHERFUCKER! I had it pegged for Locke... : fleabug
  • =( bad!!!! : fleabug
  • Please either correct this or nuke it. : Totenjaeger
• I hope this means we're done with michael : holinka

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  every now and then there will be free gamer pics up online, or they will come w/ a code in a special edit... : -=kodiak=-
  • GTA IV pics were free for everyone. At least one pack was. : judasen
• There are many free gamerpics available. Usually if a movie is being promoted there are free gamerpics an... : Prozium
• I'm surprised that people pay for themes, considering 99% of them are fucking ugly. : Big Luke
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  I just browsed the free pics and chose one that was the least hideous/annoying : PlanetPerfecto
  • I've got a Pacman ghost goin' on over here! oh yeah! : Toraz Chryx
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    I like how you can hardly ever preview them : hamachi
    • you can always preview the gamerpics. For themes you have to hope the xbox website puts them up so you ca... : sigpro
  • portal cake theme off an OXM disc :D i wanted something fairly uncommon, figured that was good enough : xsoulbrothax
  • i think the free ones must differ between the US and australia. i don't have a lot of these: http://www.x... : erotic sock
• I've bought like one pack for some star wars legos one because I wanted a Boba Fett gamerpic. I've downlo... : sigpro
• I refuse to pay for gamer pics, or themes. : EvilDolemite
• I've bought one gamerpic pack - COD baby. : hoov1185
• I got the free Psychonauts pack when it hit XBLA. \m/ : Deathlove
• Rez HD installed first and last form gamer pics- all I need. I did splash out for a Katamari theme with t... : Borzoi
• I was drunk, and Brock Samson was so awesome. :( : Amadan
• If I come across something that I deem "Perfect!", I *MIGHT* shell out for it. It also depends on where ... : kallanta
• there's a gazillion free ones, you just gotta browse through them in the marketplace. Often movie trailer... : edgewise
• Paul Giamatti from Shoot Em Up is free : spiderfill
• I bought one of the SotN packs because Ayami Kojima's Death artwork is badass: http://castlevania.classic... : pyide
• sometimes companies/games will give away free pics for certain reasons. contests, perks, etc. : dahanese
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    Best part is due to DRM you can't import your own pictures instead of paying. Thanks microsoft! : crazywigga
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      i thought you could use that xbox camera to take photos : Mmmmmoo
      • You can. But only people on your friends list can see it. : judasen
      • you can i took a picture of Zool on my computer monitor, it looks perfect! : marmite
• I still use the same one I started at launch. : Sailor of Fortune
• The Ford Sync theme is actually pretty cool. And free. I think it's by the guy who draws Gorillaz. : Albemuth
• When Toy R Us was selling the Webcam and 1600points and 2 games, another corded heatset and a 12 month su : Ratalon
• I've bought a couple. You got a problem with that? : rasputinreborn
• I bought the Fallout 3 pack. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  i wish they show what they look like before you purchase them because the vast majority of them suck. : Mmmmmoo
  • http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/gamecontent.htm You can browse most of them there, although... : hoov1185
• lol, I have some bioshock gamer pics, but I don't even have an xbox. I meant to give it away here, but I ... : Nali4Freedom
• I paid for Penny Arcade pics :/ : jbury

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• I liked KOTOR because of its d20 roots. D&D nerd reporting in : obiquatro
• So what you're saying is that there's a popular game that some people don't like? That's some crazy sh... : MagicWishMonkey
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    christ this post is stupid. why couldn't it have been a real time rpg? because it wasn't? why couldn't gr... : JINKY
    • You can set it to pause between turns much like Baldur's Gate. It is turn-based but is in real-time by d... : obiquatro
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      angry much? IMO the game would have been better with real time combat like in other games. Sorry if you d... : thewindcriesmary
      • i am not angry, also i don't think you're very sorry at all. also good to know : JINKY
• Ehh... I agree with you but I think I just don't like RPGs much. I like hybrid games like STALKER or Zeld... : datoo
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  lol ya gon get banded holmes. making me actually block and wield my lightsaber with skill rather than : SpaecKow
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    yeah i know, i just felt in kotor it would have been better to be realtime. Its ok for to voice my opinio... : thewindcriesmary
    • Yeah I would have liked to see a real time combat RPG as well much like KOTOR, as well. already ive go : SpaecKow
    • so then... mass effect. I realize this isn't a star wars game but it is basically KOTOR 2.0 and features... : Rich McNinch
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  so you attack the game because it does EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS IT WILL? it's an RPG! go play something els... : hamachi
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  The combat was intended to be more about strategy making it more of a true RPG. I agree that the combat c... : gibolas1234
  • True, i didnt play it when it came out so i guess my opinion of it is somewhat distorted. The reason i po... : thewindcriesmary
• real time RPGs is not what some people want they like to plan out strategies rather than going in guns bl... : byorn
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  I GOT BANNED SO LET ME POST THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN EXCEPT ANGRIER : jenisthebest
  • more like, i got banned, so let me make a real post instead of the one line comment i made last time. : thewindcriesmary
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  Man, Tie Fighter would have been so awesome if they took out all the space sim / shooting and made it an : Lunatic Angelic
  • newsletter. subscribe. <3 : loboca
• What the hell does Mass Effect have to do with jedi? Who even tries to make this comparison? This game ma... : ieGod
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  I also thought KOTOR was an awful game, mainly because of the combat system. But I'm not as angry as you. : Modica Sol Solis
  • its not really an angry post, its just forcefull....theres a slight difference : thewindcriesmary
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  I love turn based combat so much >:( : Goncyn
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    What is the most turn based game of all time Goncyn? : SpaecKow
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      Well, SpaecKow, what do you mean? A game is either turn-based or it isn't! : Goncyn
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        But Goncyn of all the turn based games which is the turnbasiest!? (I'm asking for some reccomendations I ... : SpaecKow
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          Wizardry 8 (maybe the best old school CRPG ever) Civilization IV (the best of its kind) Master of Magic... : Goncyn
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            Fire Emblem? : dumb.
            • Good call, I have never actually played these games, never knew where to start. Also the reviews I read n... : Goncyn
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            One of my favourite turn based (or semi turn based for that matter) games was always Jagged Alliance and ... : yemeth
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              I bought JA2 at some point but I never played it much... I like hybrid real-time/turn-based systems even ... : Goncyn
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                it's not really a hybrid at all, it just doesn't bog you down with the turn based system while you're exp... : JINKY
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                  I probably didn't give it enough of a chance. I wonder if I still have it somewhere. : Goncyn
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                    JA2 is AWESOME. : Fayk
                    • I play through it every year. That is my #1 game and I don't think it will ever be surpassed. : xlarti
        • Me too - god I love turn based games. : dumb.
        • Disgaea. Just don't kill Suzanna :( : Ebu
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          jagged alliance 2 is the best turn based game : JINKY
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            you spelled Heroes of Might and Magic III wrong : wtf242
            • Oh, yes, good call, the HoMM series is great, too. HoMM V is on Steam now for $20 : Goncyn
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          Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics : datoo
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            fuck the haters fallout tactics was a really good game : JINKY
            • yeah. it was pretty clear that it was never intended as a continuation of the series but as a spinoff and... : SockMonkeh
            • I enjoyed it. I remember being blown away by the artwork. : datoo
        • Why, why, why hasn't anyone mentioned Planescape: Torment yet? : Tissen
      • The Fallout's had turn-based combat, and they were fun. : focusdaily
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      X-Com games. : Fred Garvin
      • As a long time and huge fan of all things X-com, I must say, fuck time units so very much. : uglysad
      • hellz yea!!!!!!!!!!!! : deadfish
  • Dont get me wrong, i enjoy them too. FF7 is probably my all time fav rpg and possibly all time fav game. ... : thewindcriesmary
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  The problem isnt with the game, its with your dislike of the genre. I dont like racing sims, but Im sure ... : klearlyunseen
  • my boss hates black and white movies and foreign films. YOUR OPINIONS ARE WRONG AND KOTOR BLOWS : handofthrawn
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    Well I love RPGs. They're really all I play. And I thought KOTOR was horrible. Same for Oblivion. So. : Modica Sol Solis
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      Did you like BG2 or Fallout? : xsoulbrothax
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        BG/BG2 are alright. 7/10, 8/10. I like either of the NWN games much more. Haven't played Fallout. : Modica Sol Solis
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          Whoa, you liked the SP in NWN more than BG or BG2? heh.. I'm trying to get a handle on your RPG tastes :D : xsoulbrothax
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            I personally loved SP in NWN, and got bored with BG and BG2 pretty quickly. I love Morrowind and Oblivio... : Arcanum
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              Bioware is the greatest rpg make in history, but then I like dialogue. Don't see how that's a problem wit... : locater16
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                I agree with you on Bethesda. I think they make poor games now -- Daggerfall was great -- but the fact th... : Modica Sol Solis
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                  I don't mind bad combat, I think the have the best writers and are the best at making you feel like you a... : locater16
                  • They have great writers. There are some sore spots (their dialogue is often very wooden), but compared to... : Modica Sol Solis
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                  I too liked Arena/Daggerfall better than Morrowind/Oblivion, but to say they're better games is just..sil... : daedraug
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                    Well, Daggerfall was great for its time. Very innovative, very new and fresh and exciting. Those aspects ... : Modica Sol Solis
                    • And yet I would say Oblivion is the best game of them all. Not my favorite, but a much better game overal... : daedraug
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                Baldur's Gate (and BG2) just didn't grab me after the first couple hours. From what I remember, I hit a ... : Arcanum
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                  Yet developers somehow manage to make games like GTA, Mercenaries, and Saints Row more polished and more ... : locater16
                  • The scope isn't even close to similar. Yes, GTA and Mercenaries have large worlds, but the stuff that ha... : Arcanum
        • bg2 8/10 ahahahhahahhahahahhaha get out : JINKY
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          wait, what? On what planet does NWN even hold a candle to the single player campaign of BG2? : YamatoTwinkie
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            I don't think I ever played the campaign of NWN, but I definitely played a lot of modules. Helped put one... : Modica Sol Solis
            • AH! gotcha.. having skipped the SP campaign of NWN makes a lot more sense. i think you'd flat-out dislike... : xsoulbrothax
        • If you haven't played Fallout then you don't like RPGs. FACT. : SockMonkeh
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          ...WHAT. You liked the NWN SP campaign more than BG2?!?! THIS IS INCONCEIVABLE. What in the flying ... : Rice-Rocketeer
          • Oh, wait. Disregard this. Fuck, now I wanna play BGII. : Rice-Rocketeer
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      Are you sure you love RPGs? You just said two of the most well-liked and well-reviewed titles in the genr... : Vincent Grayson
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        Final Fantasy Tactics is probably my all time favorite. Disgaea is up there. Shadow Hearts. Diablo/Diablo... : Modica Sol Solis
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          Ok, that makes more sense then. There's definitely some substantial differences in style between the two. : Vincent Grayson
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            To be fair, I do enjoy Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale quite a bit. A 7/10 or 8/10 for me is pretty good. ... : Modica Sol Solis
            • Do you plan on playing Fallout soon? Because you really should. : datoo
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          FFT and Disgaea are tactical RPGs, which are a different type of game. : aethyr
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            Disagree. The heart of RPGs is story and character first. Whether it's turn-based, real-time, dice-roll, ... : Modica Sol Solis
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              If the battles in FFT were like KotOR would you still love it? : pupismyname
              • Hmm. Probably. I could have looked past KOTOR's combat system if I found the story at all compelling, but... : Modica Sol Solis
        • "..." : woddemandred
    • You mean JRPGs : EvilDolemite
• I don't think it's a very fun game either. I've played it AND i've seen someone go through the entire gam... : wtf242
• Well, look at a first person controllable RPG like ... Mount and Blade... By the fact you are a cogni : Lunatic Angelic
• /]What the hell is the point to turn based combat?]/ I stopped reading after that. : shred.
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  Sounds like you just had the wrong expectations when you went in to play it, and that overall the genre j... : action wombmate
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    Pretty much. I'm not an RPG fan at all, but I gave it a shot after seeing the hype. I'm just not into d20... : yosemiteclimber
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      Then why are you comparing it to first-person shooters? You didn't like RPGS; you played it; you didn't ... : EvilDolemite
      • I'm not comparing it to an fps, where in my post is there a comparison? I merely said i wasn't a fan of r... : yosemiteclimber
• This is like complaining GT5 isn't Burnout : derelict515
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  I though KotOR was pretty asstastic too - so did half of my mates. The other half of my mates called us c : seven
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    I have similar complaints about the game. I think the one thing that I couldn't stand was how similar th... : Rag and Bone Man
    • I must admit - after gathering my bearings in my quarters and wandering out - I was anything but impresse... : seven
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    Ok you pretty much voiced my opinion, except better than how i sad it lol but yeah i agree completely, i ... : thewindcriesmary
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      See, RPGs (at least RPGs that aren't Diablo) are not all about combat. Combat is a large part of it yes,... : deject
      • lies. That's just seems to be what dice-apologists throw out there to stop people wanting more from th... : seven
    • and some of the writing was ... awkward, then infuriating. One of my mates still says "ENCLAAAAAVE" on oc... : seven
  • Preference dictates that some disagree and I am one of those. : Fred Garvin
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    Seven, not all of us need to be constantly killing something or pressing a button I pretty much disagr... : EvilDolemite
    • If I'm not pressing a button regularly - I'm watching a movie. : seven
• I thought it was good, but yeah i agree, it never felt like a star wars game, more like a game with star ... : chilln
• It seems like you just don't like RPGs. I've played JK1 and JK2, and I enjoyed them, but I found them ... : Vincent Grayson
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  Troll Nuke it Only insane people don't like KOTOR, duh : locater16
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    I seem to remember when it came out - there was expectations/hype due to the developer? I guess I didn... : seven
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      Bioware made Baldur's Gate 1/2/Throne of Bhaal, which are very widely regarded as the most epic, kickass ... : Vincent Grayson
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        I figured it was going to be NWN, BG, or Morrowind. The only BG I played was BG:DA on the PS2/Xbox - c... : seven
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          baldur's gate is KOTOR except way better in every way except that it's 2d : JINKY
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            what i'm saying is KOTOR ran on the d&d rules in the same way that BG does~ : JINKY
            • While true, KOTOR ran on rules that'd been updated significantly (and was based on the Star Wars roleplay... : Vincent Grayson
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              D&D rules can be ok in RPGs for like - +/- a small bit to your attacks and defence. "ok". I can cope with... : seven
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                that is ridiculous. that's like saying there is no place for chess because it would be more fun to just s... : JINKY
                • ^^^^^^^^^ : thetangent
                • lol, too right : deject
                • I agree with this. amazing that people just don't get a certain game style. it's ok not to like somethi... : hamachi
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                  Except you don't play chess with a wireless rumblepack controller. It's a board game. Entirely diff... : seven
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                    I think you're picking on RPGs too much based on the mediocre ones. The games with a solid set of rule... : Vincent Grayson
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                      not picking on RPGs at all - the RPG element of a game coupled with loot is like crack to me. I'm crit... : seven
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                        real time combat is not inherently better or more "skillful" than turn based though. It's just different... : EvilDolemite
                        • not more skillful - just far less boring :) : seven
              • It's the idea of learning and improving the character's skills instead of your own. if you directly cont... : deject
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                It's just a different skillset. In an FPS, most of the skills that we use are physical ones. How fast ... : Vincent Grayson
                • Exactly, it's all problem-solving. One method requires straight reflexes and reactionary ability; anothe... : EvilDolemite
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                  If you're not using the same amount of, or more mental effort with planning and strategy while you play a... : seven
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                    What about gamers that love twitch shooters as well as turn-based RPGs and strategy games? : EvilDolemite
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                      well my point is - unless you're playing duck hunt - there's no such thing as a twitch shooter. As I'v... : seven
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                        I'm too tired to formulate a long post but I will say that the idea turn-based combat is lazy is very lau... : EvilDolemite
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                          Well your probably not exactly exploring the full potential of gaming as an art form if you go "look, her... : seven
                          • now you're just taking the piss : deject
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                            i love your truisms that i think are false. did you ever play final fantasy tactics? civilization? com... : electroly
                            • oh man the Civilization games are brilliant : deject
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                              dude - no way was I saying civilisation. Fuuuuck no. My hypothetical game was strictly KotOResque - in ke... : seven
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                                tl;dr: turn based games I like = good, turn based games I don't like = suck : bipolar
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                                  wow - did that actually sound clever while you typing it? That's just embarassing. : seven
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                                    not so much clever as accurate : bipolar
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                                      by all means - keep going. You can totally come out of this looking like you civilly contributed. : seven
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                                        serious business. : bipolar
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                                          ooh - clever. : seven
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                                            these replies are turn based though so it's not very fun : bipolar
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                                              you could have a forum all of your own at this rate! Just keep making up what people say. : seven
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                                                I tried it but I banned myself :( : bipolar
                                                • ok - I love you again :D : seven
                      • Using dice isn't lazy, it's born from need to represent the little bits of randomness in everyday life. ... : deject
                      • RPGs are based around dice rolls because they're based on D&D which is all dice rolls. and if you think t... : electroly
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                      He's just arguing skills. Seven loves his skills. A game doesn't have to require skills to be a good game... : daedraug
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                        not completely skills - more interactivity. I'm arguing for depth of interactivity, for control, nuanc... : seven
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                          I guess I need to cite a particular game to explain where I'm coming from here. I'll pick FFXII because i... : Vincent Grayson
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                            very well said. implicit in all of seven's posts is the idea that games dependent less on your physical ... : electroly
                            • No. I said just there - I look down my nose on the lack of interactivity, the half-assed computer decided... : seven
                  • See, but you're talking about multiplayer, whereas I was not. Yes, in multiplayer, there's plenty to t... : Vincent Grayson
• second time's a charm? : gyokuro
• KOTOR really is overrated, and you are definitely right that the combat sucks. The only thing that made t... : Get_It_Together
• I generally hate RPGs but I played though KOTOR 1 and 2. The setting, story line and the ability to fuck ... : sigpro
• I would've like to see KOTOR act like a better Jedi Knight in some instances, but I don't think the game ... : jingletard
• So....you got nuked for trolling and you come back for seconds? That aside - KOTOR is one of the best ... : thetangent
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  I disagree with you. KOTOR had a great story, and frankly I found the combat to be very enjoyable. Unle... : deject
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    Also, why the fuck are you even playing a turn based RPG if you don't like turn based RPGs? Are you one ... : deject
    • TF2 sucks because its not a turn based RPG : gyokuro
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      how awesome were the shaders on the fish people's skin? I remember them standing out as the most artis... : seven
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        Oh man, most of the environments in KOTOR were pretty awesome. The flowing grass in the fields of Dantoo... : deject
        • Yeah, I liked the KOTOR environments more than the ones in Mass Effect. The fictional Mass Effect contra... : Grimp
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          The level designs were horrible and constrictive. Bland is the word i would use. There are MMOs with bett... : thewindcriesmary
          • i agree. the environments / areas were the worst part of the game for me, though sometimes they looked ni... : pyide
          • Well, I'm not talking about the level design itself, I'm talking about the look and feel of where you go.... : deject
        • Yeah - while I didn't dig the gameplay - the scenery was more than enough to keep me going. Same as Wo... : seven
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  Ban anyone that doesn't like jolee! : Mondo
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    I didn't like going dark side because Jolee is cool. Plus his Jedi skills are pretty useful. : deject
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      If you kill Juhani at the start, Jolee goes dark side with you. : gibolas1234
      • eh, well actually I don't like playing Dark Side because good is better than evil blah blah blah : deject
• Damn, now I want to play KOTOR.. Never got much into it. : AndyGoin
• I loooooove Jedi Knight and Jedi Knight 2: the atmosphere, weapons, gameplay, story. KOTOR is the only RP... : sonicdeathwalrus
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  Why are you comparing a RPG with jedi knight? I don't think people like KOTOR because it was star wars, ... : nukewinter
  • Also, many people on the shack are just too damn picky. : nukewinter
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  mooka shaka paka. but seriously, more games need to be more like Jedi Knight : RikiTiki2
  • also, felt weird playing KOTOR when I got the uneasy feeling that characters were coming on to me : RikiTiki2
  • LOL : Mondo
  • Jeda wannah needee bobo. Kaaaah de donga! : felicia
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  KOTOR1 was good at the time, but KOTOR2 was kinda crappy. I remember getting the feeling that it was just... : aznboysix
  • thats a problem when getting a different tdev to make a sequel to the game. they are too worried about ma... : Klebold
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  I wasn't that enthralled with KoTOR either, but my issue with the game mostly comes down to the banal wri... : Ely
  • if kotor2 had actually been completed, it would totally have been better than kotor :( the characters wer... : JINKY
• KOTOR is probably my number #1 all time game. JK 2 was excellent too. You suck though. : spaceyme
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  KOTOR was a good game, but to me, its biggest problems was the fact that it simply did not allow for any ... : aaarrrgh
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    On the other hand, Mass Effect had plenty of exploration, but that was mostly sucky. They need to stri... : aaarrrgh
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      I think that's much harder to do now, because creating large, interesting areas is much more time and mon... : Vincent Grayson
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        remember a time when FPS, and third person games had more than one long corridor, with more than one door... : seven
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          half life 2 is a very linear game. I'm replaying it though and it seems almost openworld compared to toda... : Klebold
          • I liked Half Life 2 - I think it struck a better balance. You had all that time on the buggy, and fanb... : seven
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        That may be true, but to me, it does not reflect positively on the experience. : aaarrrgh
        • we have to cut game designers some slack though - it's a bit unfair to demand they release their titles n... : seven
• I think the bulk of your problem is you expect the Star Wars universe to revolve around 3 (or possibly 6)... : changejar419
• I love RPGs, it's my favourite genre, I LOVED Baldur's Gate, especially it's tactical, pausable combat sy... : razorblade79