Morning Discussion

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  gnoooooooomish the video is marked as private. : lakren
  • What is this internet how do i shot it? : gnomish
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  can you post the demos somewhere? i want to see all those scouts blow up on steel point E. : pyide
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    I didn't actually witness that, but I imagine it should be in the sourcetv demos. : gnomish
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      oh, only STV demos can view other players? was there even STV / demos for our match? : pyide
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        I thought it gets taken for all matches, but I don't know how it works exactly. : gnomish
        • how does one find out? after fathers day seems tourney organization seems to have gone downhill :( i'm... : pyide
  • There was a point on steel where I managed to sneak up behind on several medics and use my backburner. i... : Maddog_Delphi97
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  I had a decent scout run on badlands last night, but that was as good as it got for me. : Audhuml4
  • And holy shit great shot! : Audhuml4
• hot air shot btw. i didn't get to see that when i was healing! : pyide
• holy crap, that one grenade shot was amazing were you killed that demo jumping up to the spire : Dschinghis Khan
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  that was me you knocked back, agrona thought I died :( : SolveChrist
  • it's true! : Agrona
• I'm glad you posted that. I remember seeing that in the game last night ... :) : taronish
• haha i remember that, that was awesome :D : electroly
• Nice mid air shot! : yosemiteclimber
• hahaha damn that was AWESOME : virus
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  Nice air shot with the follow-up grenade! Poor K1Bond007 :P. : Alco23
  • Yeah.. I for some reason made this huge arc on the jump.. but I was pretty surprised with the shot. : K1Bond007
• holy shit lol : eeeealmo
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  i *hate* custom maps. : m0rfus
  • ? badlands ain't no custom hootinany! : SolveChrist
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    badlands is a valve map. or were you commenting in general? some custom maps are fun. : pyide
    • Yeah, I kind of like cp_steel. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • lol : eeeealmo
  • =\ : virus
• oooooo that last nade kill on the demo in midair was awesome : zerog83
• Damn gnomish. That's fantastic. : A Sponge
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  fucking demoman i hope valve nerfs it next patch : kill9
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    Nah they will just keep nerf'n the soldier because that's all them seem to do. : ant_hillbilly
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      this makes me sad:( : .frame
      • :/ : re4ctor
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    Demoman is underpowered. : FlamingGimp
    • Completely. Weakest class after pyro. : omnova
• nice skills gnomish : deject
• wow holy crap. : Agrona
• I got my own air shot in about the same area but it was nowhere near as grand. :( : omnova
• Demoman for life. Nice air shot. : FlamingGimp
• how come it seems you shoot stickies faster then I can ;(* : ant_hillbilly
• If I could demo like you, I'd play demo. : bcyde
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  did you make that with fraps or is there a way to edit first person demos? I just wanna know how you mad... : ]pm[chem
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    He probably recorded a local demo, and then afterwards used Fraps to record during playback. : OverloadUT
    • you can record a demo to an avi right in the console and then edit the avi in virtualdub or whatever u u... : Dyllers
  • just fyi, Xfire does video capture now. I can't believe how awesome Xfire has become for a free program.... : deject

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  I think they might announce an expansion for World of Warcraft set in a cold location : Draugluin
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    Yeah, it looks WotLK related to me, too. : evildanish
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      Why would they do that? These mystery screens are always about new games. : Zek
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        ...maybe...just maybe... they're releasing it soon? OMG SHIT JESUS COULD IT BE? : [7]kami
        • disclaimer: probably not :( : [7]kami
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    Frozen Throne 2!? : GodZilly
    • I had heard a rumor of something along these lines : silentbobuk
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  They're announcing Diablo 3 please dear god let them announce Diablo 3 : hawkeye
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    the blue artwork isn't very diablo'ish though so i'm not holding my breath :( : flasher 907
    • not necessarily true.. : mystikal
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  announcing a Starcraft 2 release date : marmite
  • i agree : dantastic
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  It's the motherfucking Worldstone, I'm telling you. : TastyWheat
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    ^^^^^^^ : wasylm
    • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : Zek
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    The one that was shattered into tiny bits? (And was sort of reddish anyway.) : Arcanum
    • Baal had corrupted the Worldstone before players showed up and the world reforms afterwards, making infin... : A Sponge
  • I'd have to agree. : Wolfanoz
  • That Tyrael fellow is surely up to no good. : Stage
  • Yeah, thats what it appears to be to me as well. : Warmaker
  • This is what I'm hoping too. : Danny5225
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    The Worldstone was a reddish color, wasn't it? : das_runt
    • Looks red under the ice or whatever. You can even make out Diablo'esque hieroglyphics on the stone under ... : royalally
  • That's what I'd HOPE for, but.. yeah, it didn't really look like the worldstone in shape or color or anyt... : xsoulbrothax
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  Hmm maybe they are telling us hell froze over and they are coming out with a new ip after milking the sam... : baron calamity
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    HELL FREEZING OVER? SOUNDS LIKE DIABLO IS BACK!!!!!! : aeg1x
    • Diablo IV: Featuring Ice T in the Streetz of Hell. Yo. : d fluke
  • Who cares? Blizzard games are quality games. I'm STILL clicking playing Diablo 2. Go back to your Halo... : DM7
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17014431#itemanchor_17014431 : walker270
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    why wouldn't WoW be considered a new IP. It's totally different from ever other game they made before. : Fish_Bulb
    • It's a new game style, but it's still WarCraft. : valael
  • It's not "milking" if they continue to innovate and advance the IP. : Ebu
• Background image is called "ice1.jpg", I'd guess that its something to do with Wrath of the Lich King the... : Grim_Grom
• It's just an ad placeholder. They''re going to team up with Powerade to be the official drink of the Star... : Sailor of Fortune
• I think the runic penis on the left has something to do with it. Also if you look at the right the ice... : Omaha
• Looks like a dead girl to me : spiderfill
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  Kinda weird but in their CSS they have this commented out: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images... : stonedonkey
  • Need. More. Pics. Seriously. : [7]kami
  • is that The Maxx? : focusdaily
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  Im gonna go on a leap here and say its a new ip. Anyone wanna put 5 on it? :) : happynoodle
  • I'll put my five-pronged penis on your face and say that it's not. : gakera
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    Every time this happens, it's always something boring : spiderfill
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      For example? : Zek
      • I think WoW was the last announcement they made that wasn't predictable or unconventional. Everything el... : spiderfill
• They've skipped Diablo 3 & 4 and gone straight to DIABLO 5! : ChibiJosh
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  I hope it is Diablo 3 and is more dungeon based than 2 was. Diablo to me will always be fighting your wa... : Horn
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    You'd probably like Fate. : stonedonkey
    • ... Diablo 1 : gakera
  • i agree completely... : .frame
  • Agree. I loved D2, but D1's atmosphere (and random quest system) makes it my favorite. It was so much d... : David Craddock
  • Agreed. Diablo 2 had better game play but the atmosphere in diablo 1 beat the snot out of it's sequel. T... : Wombat Woo
  • I'm actually a fan of jungle-based midget battling. For my money, there is no better game than Diablo 2. ... : royalally
• It might just be the release date for Wrath of the Lich King :(( : yemeth
• Dunno why, but it looks like a frozen goatse.... : dedgecko
• Looks like it's frozen, so it's all about wratch of the lich king imo. : jingletard
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  Probably a Wrath of the Lich King release date or Collectors Edition. Maybe Diablo 3, after the destr... : walker270
  • Anyone who's read Dante's Inferno knows the inner circle of hell is cold. :) : Wolfanoz
• Rock n Roll Racing 2 3, featuring Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Wintersun, and In Flames? : SiW73
• Isn't that some WoW: Frozen Throne thingy? I doubt it's D3 : whistletits
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  Official release date of WotLK since there has not been once announced yet. They did same thing with Burn... : Iwannaacura
  • ^^^ My guess as well. I'm guessing we're see DNF before Diablo 3. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I think its Diablo 3. It looks like the shattered world crystal and i see runes. : Warmaker
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    The new Death Knight or whatever he's called uses Runes. : stonedonkey
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      your mom uses runes : sharkII
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        your mom's ASS uses runes! : dedgecko
        • your mom's a Death Knight : mmogger
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          ginger runes. : changejar419
          • "Better red than dead!" : dedgecko
• http://www.jinx.com/Content/Product/1215p_0c_1b.jpg : Chepito.
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  'On a sidenote, http://www.diablo3.com/ was changed and doesn't redirect to http://www.diablofans.com/' ... : Guybrushed
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    If D3 is an MMO I'll mail Blizzard a bag of dead kittens. : Dynotaku
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      I doubt it would be an mmo. A D3 mmo would be very similar to WoW but minus the factions. : Horn
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        My guess is that Diablo 3 will have Guild Wars elements, i.e. towns instead of battle.net chat, but other... : Zek
        • I wouldn't be too opposed to that. I tried guild wars a while ago but I got stuck early on and couldn't ... : Horn
        • Just make it what Hellgate London should have been. : walker270
    • Oh nice, you'll have the quest completed then! : zakazi
    • Post of the day right here folks. : Danny5225
  • Also, there hasn't been a release of the Diablo II and LoD expansion on the Online Store yet, even if you... : Wolfanoz
  • holy crap!!! : fathertime
• World of Diablocraft. : Durandal07
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  could be warcraft4? or pro rock 'n roll racing! : Iwannaacura
  • I would fucking explode into a gooey mess if it was Rock N Roll Racing : stelth
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  Solved http://www.worldofwar.net/n/414868/blizzard-image-solved : disposition
  • Hullabaloo... : stelth
  • boooooooo : pimpium
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    http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4277/ice11ti3.jpg : Wolfanoz
    • Is that Rick Astley? : Mrc32
    • artist may have been lazy and used symbols from WotLK... oh pleezz!! : Jiven
  • I wouldn't call that solves. While a WotLK is the most likely reference, Blizzard tends to have an odd s... : walker270
  • that is what I figured. :( Boooooooo : baronzemo78
  • yeah, not surprised at all. : electroly
  • I can't send that url to a friend on MSN, filtering wtf? : dael
  • I can't believe this was ever in question. : Ebu
  • forgot this wasnt out yet. i change my vote from SC release date to wrath's : dantastic
  • Interest lost. Everyone knows the expansion is coming out. Don't tease us with that. Tease us with som... : valael
  • Ugh, bummer. Didn't that expansion already come out? Why the big deal anyway, WoW sucks : Magus
  • ... s-so no diablo 3? ;[ : lightly inclined
• its peter pipers gnome killers! fuckin gnomes! : AMikaboshi
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  LOST VIKINGS: LETS GET VIKINGER! : jackomack
  • HELL YES!!!! THEY NEED TO BRING THIS BACK BIG TIME! It'd be a great game to have on the Wii... just cl... : Grumbeld
• I really have to get to level 70 now : justsayno
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  I love how the shack works into a diablo 3 frenzy every single blizzard teaser they put out : kelerian
  • Of course. We want it that bad. : pimpium
  • oo yeah d2 is one of the best games every made. Also it doesnt help that diablo.com is redirecting to th... : fathertime
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    I still think it would be awesome if Blizzard would just announce it as "Hey guys, Diablo 3 will be in st... : walker270
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      "Surprise customers with a release" is usually not good marketing. : Lunaran
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        Blizzard could fly the entire D3 staff out to everyone in America's house to take a diarrhetic shit on th... : walker270
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          "I got the limited edition diarrhea shit! It had nuts!" : RomSteady
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            Let's be honest.. How many people would let someone else shit in their face if they could have Diablo : walker270
            • /raises two hands : [7]kami
            • sadly i could come to terms with this : handofthrawn
    • This is how I expect DNF to be announced. : changejar419
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    You know, what... I'm going to say it. Diablo SUCKS! It's never been fun. Click click click. : mace
    • You just lost 10,000 pimp points I'm afraid. : Chod
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      oh ok, like WoW is any different? Click click click *8000 hours later* click DKP click gay click : kainen1
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        Yup. Thank god there's no clickerdyclicking or frantic button pressing in Quake... O wait. : [7]kami
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          at least you play short sessions of gaming 'aerobics' and high action fighting vs. farming bullshit for ... : kainen1
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            Yea. Except there is Arena. Which is basicly FPS gaming minus direct aim, but including shit-tons of opti... : [7]kami
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              yeah, like what you are describing is absolutely bullshit compared to what it really is. PVP is one thin... : kainen1
              • You played arena? : [7]kami
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                Heh, so far from the truth. To be competitive in arena you don't need to do anything but pvp. Yes gear ... : dmaownsyou
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                  Even pve progression is skill. Sure, you can drag along any random d-bag once prefab strats are availabl... : walker270
                  • Yep. Especially with the amount of measures in place to track your output. I would say PvE isn't as hard... : dmaownsyou
            • and that's not fun. Give me a huge, open zone where huge, random groups of more than two teams can be ro... : valael
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          Whoa - slow down. You get what you pay for immediately in something like Quake/BF (unlocks aside - fuc... : dedgecko
          • True. But that doesn't mean there is not skill involved in playing MMO's like WoW. There's so much bullsh... : [7]kami
      • only newbs click in wow. hotkeyforlife : Iwannaacura
    • seconded : Dravenport
    • I dunno, sounds a lot like mace gameplay: stab, stab, stab. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • diablo1 maybe but diablo2 was click and hold. with the necro i just walk around and occasionally cast am... : handofthrawn
  • dognose has DNF. the rest of us have Diablo 3. : das_runt
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    yeah man we're really in a frenzy here : lakren
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      lakren I mean if they posted a teaser pic of a rainbow, dinosaur, and a cupcake we'd find a way to link i... : kelerian
      • Awesome! Diablo 3 has dinosaurs! Thing fucking rocks! : lolpatrol
      • Diablo 3 is going to have the King of the Cosmos as the final boss! He a 1% chance of dropping his uniqu... : Grumbeld
  • I'm worried sick about this game coming out. Diablo 2 is the only game I ever played obsessively, endless... : sonicdeathwalrus
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  more fuel for speculation, this guy does some of Blizzard's artwork http://www.peterconcept.com/ people f... : Chod
  • Perhaps. His main page also has under contruction until the same date. Neat. : pimpium
  • Back up on the 28th wtf : TastyWheat
  • Underwater Diablo. You heard it here first. It'll be like Trial of Atlantis for DAoC! : jingletard
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    Wow, I hadn't seen his stuff before ... http://www.peterconcept.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=113 .... t... : InfoBiter
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      spellstrike and some ugly ass shoulders? : AllYourBase
      • glass cannon noob! : [7]kami
      • That quest reward from SMV. Don't remember what they were called, nor do I care to look it up =\ : InfoBiter
  • hydra likely means hydralisk : mr.sleepy
  • requires a login to see? =( : Agrona
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  It's just WOTLK http://www.worldofwar.net/n/414868/blizzard-image-solved : node
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    Except I'm too slow. Anyway, come on, it's fucking ice, what did you expect? : node
    • Hell freezing over? : stelth
  • Laaaaaame : locater16
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  http://www.sc2pod.com/news/Countdown_to_Diablo_3/ This is such a stretch. I can't imagine blizzard wo... : Horn
  • umm blizzard puts tons of effort into numerous things. Remember Panderan Express? Panderan in war3 , Taur... : Iwannaacura
  • That sounds a lot like something Blizzard would do, actually. The problem is could also do that just to : walker270
  • I am motherfucking DUMBFOUNDED by all this work and theory. Holy crap... : stelth
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    Interesting find. But man, that picture looks so cartoony (flat/simple shading) to be some cool ass diabl... : Jiven
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      its too cartoony. it has tobe something wow related sadly : AMikaboshi
      • Not really. http://www.blizzard.com/us/diablo2exp/wallpapers/wall11.html http://www.blizzard.com/us... : valael
      • This is what I'm thinking too. I realize we don't have much to go on, other than these ridiculous images, : Danny5225
  • in conclusion jews did 9/11 : JINKY
  • This will last until tomorrow when a new image does not appear : Omaha
  • that's hilarious : das_runt
  • diablo/wow universe crossover expansion pack in 2010. It's obvious, and you heard it here! : .sticks.
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  How long did it take for Starcraft 2? Like ten years? We probably won't see Diablo 3 for another few year... : mossman85
  • you're assuming they only have one team working at a time. I'm sure they've been working on Diablo 3 for ... : edgewise
• The Blizzard frenzy is taking over!! I need information uuggggooo~! :D :D : DM7
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  I HAVE cracked the code!!! It has to be a town portal! : whistletits
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    Jumping into that town portal would not be advised. : FlatlineDixay
    • well, then where's the O ? : dedgecko
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  Anyone NOT want another god damn sequel and want an awesome new game? Looks like it's just wotlk, but we'... : node
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    I've no problem with "god damn sequel"s if they're well made. : TPSReport
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      Sure. But imagine how exciting a totally new game concept from Blizzard would be. Amazing like the first ... : node
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        What difference does it make? If it's another RTS game, then it'll play like a Starcraft or Warcraft 3. ... : walker270
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          To continue... I can't think of a single post-WC2 game Blizzard has put out that hasn't been a signifi... : walker270
          • What? Bioware are doing an MMO, have done action games, and Blizzard practicaly fucking INVENTED the acti... : node
        • I want to see a MMOFPS much like in the mind of Planetside but done much better. I loved Planetside and ... : Scotty22
    • Indeed, see Diablo 2. : dravalen
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    No, I pretty much just want Diablo 3 : bipolar
    • Agreed. I want to play Diablo in widescreen and at high resolutions...and *no* TQ is not a good enough re... : Vincent Grayson
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    I want people to stop bitching about Blizzard making sequels. If you have such a problem with Blizzard m... : walker270
    • Well, I am a fan of all Blizzard games. As the poster said, it sure would be nice to see something new. D... : jane911
  • From anybody else, yes. From Blizzard, no. Their franchises are very much worthy of continuation. Serious : royalally
  • Two Diablos. One Starcraft. One WoW. Three Warcrafts. That's not exactly a sequel factory like Ubisof... : EvilDolemite
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  you would think there would be leaks :( Blizzard has either dedicated employee's or the people live in f... : Iwannaacura
  • I'd say dedicated employees... either that or they lock them in cages... :( : stelth
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    I wish I could find the article that talked about it specifically but it basically said that Blizzard tak... : Phreakin
    • Their CG team is top of the line, they should be treated like kings. :D : DM7
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      But there's always someone in a group, especially when it grows as quickly as it has that always feels le... : dedgecko
      • And as soon as the source of the leak is found they are without a job and possibly a lawsuit for breaking... : dravalen
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      I've heard the exact opposite from ex-Blizzard employees. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        They could spit on me everyday before I got in and I'd still love to work there. : DM7
        • Heh, have you seen the housing prices in Irvine? No thanks. : dravalen
  • Wasn't there a PA about this? : rosewood
  • well they do leak. Everyone knew they were working on SC2 just like everyone knows they're working on Dia... : aeg1x
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  I am guessing they will premiere the intro cinematic (or teaser) for WOTLK : grendel
  • yeah the ice just screams wotlk cause doesn't the lichking sit on like a throne of ice or some shit? been... : RetroRedEyeJr
• unrelated, but haha, jinx has starcraft shirts now. I like this one http://www.jinx.com/starcraft/men/sta... : Medium Heavy

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  Someday, we will look at people that build such things in space as blue collar workers. At least, I hope... : pigvomit
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    Git 'er done is zero g!! : Fred Garvin
    • I can already envision helmets with #3 on them. : pigvomit
    • you leave me out of this : zerog83
  • "Tighter than yer'mama's... *Ghhssss* : Jiven
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  Science and Technology fucking owns! : SilverSnake
  • Praise Darwin! : Jiven
• good thing it doesn't run on oil : drucifer
• turn down the fukken bloom : JINKY
• my ultimate goal in life is to kick back with a beer and some weed in some sort of space vehicle (well at... : pukerat
• lame. : vigilante
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  It's a shame our government spends more money studying ketchup than we do on our space program. : jingletard
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    We do? : rosewood
    • Ketchup is a very important food group : drucifer
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    It is a real shame that our space program wastes their money pointlessly putting humans in space. : vigilante
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      Pointless? : pigvomit
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        Well I wasn't counting national masturbatory ego stroking, and promotion of geek fantasies, or the value ... : vigilante
        • vaginalante is your new name. : ArB
        • Well I hate you now. : ejectorpod
        • What. : Danny5225
    • Well when it's a choice between humans in space and ketchup : EvilDolemite
    • My comment was more towards the money we spend on frivolous expenditures rather than putting more people ... : jingletard
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      I think you're overlooking all of the technology we have as a direct result of the space program. And the... : ColoradoCNC
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        No I'm not overlooking that stuff. Putting humans in space used to make total sense, and it still does s... : vigilante
        • We send up a lot of robots and remotely controlled machines too. They just aren't very highly publicized.... : deveus1
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          If you look at a lot of the stuff we are doing in space, though, the majority of the work is being done b... : ColoradoCNC
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            Well I happen to think that the ISS was created mostly just to give astronauts something to do, and to ju... : vigilante
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              Well that's just like, your opinion man. : deveus1
              • I'm know I'm like insulting geek religion but saying humans are in space to build humans a place to live ... : vigilante
    • ^^^wants to stay on Earth forever hahaha : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • perhaps, but the results are delicious. : das_runt
• When you see it, you will shit bricks. : rosewood
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  AWESOME! btw i wonder how many watts of electricity all those solar panels produce : gyokuro
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    They need to make them cheaper and more productive so we can all use them down here on Earth. : metalremains
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      just think if all shingles for houses were solar cells. I know thats impossible right now but that would ... : gyokuro
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        yea totally, I've been looking into getting solar panels. it will be around 18K installed according to ev... : metalremains
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          I think Obama is gonna win and give big tax credits to solar panel purchases : gyokuro
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            whoever wins should give a tax break on solar panel purchases. My state does but there's a shit ton of ho... : metalremains
            • Definitely. I have done quite a bit of cost analysis on solar panels. Pretty much the only way it pays of... : DarkWolf5
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  why do all pictures from space see no stars? is it because the light from the sun and reflecting off ear... : acidravelamp
  • Basically yeah. You're taking a picture of something in sunlight, so you use a fast exposure = no stars.... : Johnny Law
  • laughably i've seen this posted as evidence against the moon landing. : dromo5
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    because they're fake : skizl
    • lego technics. : acidravelamp
  • look at the sky at night with a really bright object in the foreground and you should see the same effect : mrtony
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    jews did the moon landing : crummynz
    • hahahahaha damn : virus
  • It doesn't soften it out so much, as that the proper exposure for those bright surfaces is not sufficient... : DinK
  • The light coming off the earth is fucking bright. If you wanted to see stars then the exposure of it woul... : Serpico74
• that thing's going to fall and hurt somebody : mrtony
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  how do they keep space debris from tearing that thing apart? even something small moving fast enough wou... : kill9
  • the lazer beams on it shoot anything approaching. : Iwannaacura
  • made me curious, so: http://www.google.com/search?site=search.php&q=space+station+debris first two... : yAak
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    Not much debris is up there and anything larger than like a softbal/ (maybe smaller) is tracked by NORAD.... : Sailor of Fortune
    • http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/08/02/space.junk/ : zakk
• pretty amazing. definitely gonna get that discovery special on blu ray when it comes out : maulla
• Christ that is so awesome. Astounding. : rossimo
• damn, amazing. : rmjackson
• Go mankind! : ColoradoCNC
• thats no moon : malloc
• ISS' got nothin on the MIR : proclone1
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  I still want the rotating doughnut shaped space stations from the 50's and 60's science fiction I read in... : Colleton
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    It's a first step though. You can't expect us to just bust out some amazing space station that people co... : ejectorpod
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      I understand that. Unfortunately, I have the sneaking suspicion that that's all it is ever likely to b... : Colleton
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        Of the many hurdles to get shit like that the biggest and most immediate is getting shit out of our atmos... : Crimsonbeak
        • We had it in the early/mid 90's with the DC-X. SSTO. It could have scaled into a real manned space progra... : Colleton
• that's no moon... : jackalope

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  Is this online and running now? : hatelull
  • it's in closed beta : dromo5
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  wait wut? I thought only Team Arena had Prox. mines. Go on... : judasen
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    oh... der...TA map. So you can play Quake Live on TA maps? That is friggin sweet. : judasen
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      Oh dear, did I say that?. Hmm. : Visceral Monkey
      • Yes! \m/ I was hoping they'd include TA! :D : mn3m0n1c
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  The important question is will there be a RA3 Live? : Dynotaku
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    more importantly: will there be ztn3tourney1? :) : blindi0815
    • hub3aeroq3 pls : synapse19
    • Indeed - a map of legends. It had an amazing flow to it, and allowed for comebacks. Although in tourney m... : Lionel2b
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  Why do you tease me like this VM? You know how much I love quake :( : darkT
  • play cpm with me :( : synapse19
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  I was given an invite Saturday but no email yet :( : EvilDolemite
  • it might take several weeks : dromo5
  • Same. : sigpro
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  I hate you :( : mwasher
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    Why haven't you got us invites yet!? : Audhuml4
    • I have gotten an invite, just not the email yet. :( : mwasher
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    I've signed you up, what more can I do :( : Visceral Monkey
    • <3 : mwasher
• I want an invite :( signed up so long ago and nothing yet. : twifosp
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  omg rub it in :( : disposition
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    No, rub it out :( : pilgrimage
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      back it up back it in... : .ka`boom.zZz.
      • back to life back to reality... : lolpatrol
• any talk of release date? : eeeealmo
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  I signed months ago and I have no invite. I am sad. : bRAINsick
  • Seriously, and I probably logged easily over a thousand hours into the game. : Lionel2b
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  If anyone from id is reading, you should all know the shackers are all neckbeards who will test the heck ... : liqker
  • What's a neckbeard? : Maddog_Delphi97
• Glad you're having fun =) : deveus1
• will give head for beta invite : maulla
• I would like to try this quake live game... : FormerHPB
• This is some realtime seismology game? Sounds boring. : Johnny Law
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  Hay guys, I might have some invites. : RyDogg1
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    Hay rydogg I really want one :( : nomaad
    • one down, four left. SM me your First/Last Name, valid email. : RyDogg1
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    So, RyDogg1, the best person here, I think it would be really good if you were to share on your invites m... : rustified
    • I feel unloved. : rustified
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    Hiya! :) : warcrow
    • Two down. Three left. : RyDogg1
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    oh hell yeah. : lplasmatron
    • :( No signed Fallout for you. *teardrops* : lplasmatron
  • RYDOGG MY HOME SLICE!!! : soggybagel
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    plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz : pancake humper
    • plz : pancake humper
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      Haven't I done enough for you already? Where's the payoff? : RyDogg1
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        :( I used to play pro q3 :( PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ : pancake humper
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          Okay. Let me know if Maddog hooks you up otherwise I'll save one. : RyDogg1
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            <3 : pancake humper
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              think maddogs are going to be taken : pancake humper
              • first name last name email address I need this from you in a shackmessage so I can send you an invit... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Hi RyDogg you have always been my favorite person to post in this thread offering invites : OverloadUT
    • You are such a tease skipping over me like that >:[ : OverloadUT
  • memememememe : kevp
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    An invite for me is an invite not for one of these godless heathens. : A Sponge
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      One to the lovely lass, two left! Course I haven't heard from nomaad. : RyDogg1
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        I always said you were the best RyDogg. Thanks ever so! : A Sponge
        • Lies. All Lies. You're a TF2 server hater :( : RyDogg1
  • !!! : eeeealmo
  • I have no desire to play Q3 but I'd just like to point out I can ban people : zakk
  • Eeep! <3 : disposition
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    hey : feek
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      feek, you must now play in all the ET:QW shackbattles. : RyDogg1
      • i am! when i do : feek
  • please for the love of god I will hump you : conandan
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  Anybody want an invite? : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Pls me : wykd
    • send me a shackmessage with your email. :) : Maddog_Delphi97
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    yes :) : yosemiteclimber
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      send me a shackmessage with your email. :) :) : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Sent. Thanks maddog <3 j00! : yosemiteclimber
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    If you have anymore then I would sure appreciate one. Let me know if I should PM you or not. : freshyk
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      send me a shackmessage with your email. :) :) :) : Maddog_Delphi97
      • Sweet. Thanks! : freshyk
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17268325#itemanchor_17268325 : pancake humper
    • First name, last name and email... send that to me in a shackmessage, please. :) : Maddog_Delphi97
  • me me too! me me! : giantshift
  • I'd love one. : ConfusedUs
  • yes please! : trebarg
  • yes please! : Prototype
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    yes ye sye syes yes :D : d0gbert
    • d0gbert, you know I got you. Send me you info. : RyDogg1
  • If any are left. : omnova
  • I too would be pleased with an invite. : baffula
  • :`( : synapse19
  • Yes, please : dmason
  • please! : tangles
  • I'm sure you're all out - but 'me too!' anyway. : dumb.
  • I would take an invite :P : crewmaac
  • oh god yes : thekidd
  • yes please : midgetherder
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    Dude, please. : re-verse
    • 5th and LAST invite goes to... First name, last name and email... send that to me in a shackmessage, p... : Maddog_Delphi97
    • Lucky! : baffula
  • If you've still got, I'd love one. : CA Flynn
  • maddog u know i love you : feek
  • Yes please me I am on your TF2 team does that help my chances : OverloadUT
  • GOOD GOD PLEASE YES!!!! : conandan
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    I don't think maddog has 50 invites guys, but just in case he does, ohhh me too please! : sanchez
    • lol : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Count me in on this invite begging. : pyrogen
  • are we still sucking Maddog off for an invite? or are they all gone : Break
  • please me please me please me : dearjamie
  • i do : industro
  • /raises hand : punchdog
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    There aren't any left are there? : locater16
    • I'm saving the last one for re-verse. : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Hell yes, need an invite here. : Chod
• Asking, nay, begging for an invite. I have a bunch of friends that want in and I'll make them all happy w... : crummynz
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  somebody give me an invite please i am popular and iconic : [fry]
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    give me an invite or i'll post pictures macro lens photos of my asshole : [fry]
    • All the more reaseon to not give you an invite! : DrFlammable
• Anyone have an invite for a retired one line comedian? :( : Wolfanoz
• i would like an invite if anyone has any left... : .frame
• Send me an invite faggots please. : hoov1185
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  How does id decide who can give out invites? Does anybody that gets invited also get to pass out five? : fishbone
  • Yes. Many thanks to deveus1 for my initial invite. Took a couple of weeks for me to get in. : RyDogg1

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• First Blood : NFXFSX
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  reservoir dogs, easily. then maybe 28 weeks later. : dromo5
  • ^^^This! : AxeMan808
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  Roman Holiday. I love me some Audrey Hepburn. : mechanicalgrape
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    i love her so much. Charade was my last hep movie : Korban
    • Yeah that's a great one too. : mechanicalgrape
  • seconded - see a classic! : Postal
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  Reservoir Dogs : vigilante
  • ^^^This! : AxeMan808
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  original TCA or remake? if original I say go with that : SolveChrist
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    Pierce Brosnan one : Korban
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      that one is allright, but steve mcqueen > pierce brosnan. Plus the the style of the classic is one of my... : SolveChrist
      • "I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke o : Korban
    • That's not bad either. Go with that or Juno. : jasonepowell
• reservoir dogs : Foxhawk
• 28 weeks later : Jayx77
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  I vote against Juno. Worst movie I saw last year, at least the half I could stand before I walked. : critch
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    Bah, don't listen to that. Juno was awesome. : Altanar
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      I counter both of you. Juno was average. : pigvomit
      • I agree with this average, cute and clever, but trying to be too cute and too clever. Also hipster music ... : randomposter
    • overrated x10 : feek
    • I enjoyed watching it, but it wasn't amazing. It was something fun to watch with my wife. : DinK
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  <---- waiting for weeds season 3 disk 3 right now.. its agonizing and juno fucking blew, it wasn't funny ... : RetroRedEyeJr
  • Why are you pointing to my RSS feeds? : notd665
• How the hell have you not seen Reservoir Dogs yet?!?!?! It's great. : FormerHPB
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  JUNO when have I ever led you astray : PapaBoo
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    asstray in my opinon Juno is massively overrated. : deject
    • agreed. an annoying and unfunny movie. : edgewise
• Reservoir Dogs. I just watched it again last night myself, good fun! : randomjgj
• REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. NOW NO WNO WNOW NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW : Deathlove
• Juno if you want a more drama-ish mostly-feelgood movie. Reservoir Dogs if you want something a LOT more ... : OverloadUT
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  Just delete Juno. Seriously, it's useless. : industro
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    Yeah a critically acclaimed movie definitely has no appeal to anybody. You couldn't possibly like it. : OverloadUT
    • Sometimes, everyone else is just wrong. : crummynz
    • it's only critically acclaimed because the critics wanted a lap dance from the stripper director-wanna-be : industro
  • You're useless! >:( : sanchez
• No Robocop? : Sailor of Fortune
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  First Blood, 28 Weeks Later, Reservoir Dogs Delete Juno : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Reservoir Dogs, First Blood, 28 Weeks Later Delete Juno : elwood00

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  I'm still awestruck by how fucking shitacular London 2012 is. : notd665
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    No kidding. They are really betting hard that the '80s retro craze hits and stays until 2012. : ra1n
    • Snap wrists 4 ever! : Crimsonbeak
    • it just sticks out, it is so terrible. : gmd
  • I was about to post this. Seriously? A weird 80's design is the best you can do London? : Danny5225
  • How can anyone not see Lisa Simpson giving head? : cerealSAM2
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  Berlin 36 is amazing, Although Tokyo 64 is my favorite. Simple clean elegant, spells out exactly what it... : Crimsonbeak
  • haha I was just laughing at tokyo 64, I love minimal design but that is beyond minimal its like sub-minim... : hirosushima
  • I like the berlin one too : hamachi
• Paris 1924. lol : pigvomit
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  why the gap between 36 and 48? did something big happened during that time frame? : gmd
  • everybody was too tired : GloriousCow
  • There was a big party and everyone had too much punch. : Crimsonbeak
  • * L O L * : Githyanki
  • Look carefully at the 36 one and you will see why : FiReaNG3L
  • They lacked sponsorship. It wasn't until Coca Cola, Geritol and Lucky Strike came to it's rescue that the... : edgewise
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  1936 is awesome. 1968 hurts my head :( : GloriousCow
  • Who even knew Mexico hosted the Olympics.. : hawke
  • 1936 is definitely awesome. A good mix of old and new. : bad_fish
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  the mexico one gives me a headache. : pyide
  • I like the Mexico 68 one. Sorta embarrassed by ATL's...At least they didn't have Whatizit on there (I lik... : AxeMan808
• I like Tokyo '64 : bRAINsick
• I like Los Angeles '84 and Athens 2004. The Los Angeles one would be better if it was less 'busy', but I ... : Danny5225
• i like how the beijing poster is in a chinked-out pretend chinese font, but it's actually made by chinese... : jackalope
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  lol tokyo really gave a fuck didn't they : proclone1
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    oh and beijing is the chalk outline of the typical collapsed athlete. : proclone1
    • and london fucking sucks what kind of graffiti shit is that that's fuckin wank : proclone1
• i really like tokyo and berlin, i hope they shot the guy that did mexico's : fletch_
• Link won't load for me, but I found this http://www.olymperial.com/indexb_v4e6.htm?mode_exec=norm : doctorbfunk
• I'm digging Tokyo 1964 and Moscow 1980, Mexico 1968 is pretty badass tho. : nomaad
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  London 2012 still looks like someone getting a blow job : alnya
  • its the worst poster i've ever seen. : zebrigazi
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    from Lisa Simpson...which makes it so much worse. : hawke
    • Yeardley Smith designed that poster? : elwood00
• Heh.. Moscow. Ballsy... See what I did there? : K1Bond007
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  1972 is pretty badass with it's pastel colours and futuristic landscapes : ryuuseki
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    yeah, i bet that olympics turned out great with a poster like that : elwood00
    • If everyone had been doing lsd instead of just the poster designer, none of that would have ever happened... : ryuuseki
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  I don't think the Melbourne '56 one is getting enough hate. That thing is hideous. : treefingers1
  • Sure sure.. but then you scroll down and London 2012 makes you forget about all the shitty ones above. A ... : K1Bond007
• Those are almost all dreadful. : Waverider
• favorite: Seoul '88 least favorite: London 2012 : the archvile

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  Is cp_steel_b4 on there? May be the best custom map I've played. : dumb.
  • I agree : crummynz
  • Yeah, I agree. Can't wait for the final version to come out. I hope Valve include it in their next update... : hardfl1p
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    I like it a lot, but holy shit it needs optimization, or something. My fps went to complete and utter shi... : mmogger
    • definitely needs some work. : pyide
  • It is on there, I don't know if it is in the playing rotation, but it is definitely rcon'able. : Arctic Fox
  • my favorite is science2 but this is gaining steam with me. good map. : kainen1
  • It's too much spammy winding hallways. If it had a little more variety, I could really like it, I think. : Fayk
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    I just don't like the scout rush to E : hamachi
    • not very hard to deal with : hardfl1p
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      easy to cover that with a sentry, and going straight for E takes a looong time to cap, even with a bunch ... : pyide
      • I believe capture times are already at their fastest with four people - two scouts - on the point so you ... : A Sponge
      • yeah, we had like 6-7 scouts on it and it got to maybe 40% capped with enough time for someone to spawn, ... : Agrona
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    I would like it it point E was more secure. that's really my only problem with it. : mikecyb
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      I'd be happy for that if it had a shorter cap time (it's absurdly long) but was more defensible. In fact,... : Fayk
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        doesn't it get shorter as you cap the other points? i think it works well the way it is. it should be... : pyide
        • and if it was too easy to defend, then it would be impossible to win, even after getting ABC&D. : pyide
  • Yes. Added. : RyDogg1
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  Can we get some ctf_mach4 love on one of the servers? : ant_hillbilly
  • Yes! Even though it ends up being a deathmatch clusterfuck it's actually really fun and fast. : dumb.
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    12v12 is way more than that map can handle, sadly. : omnova
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      I play on a 32 player server with Mach4 and it's actually a lot of fun and never really a stalemate. : synapse19
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        I guess it could be fun if you really enjoy claustrophobic spamfests under the guise of accomplishing tea... : omnova
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          I enjoy the constant action. TF2 is slow enough as it is without servers full of people being afraid to d... : synapse19
          • I'm with you. I enjoy mach4 and I enjoy 32-player servers. : ]pm[chem
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            Yes, but in place of this ADD action is teamwork and strategy that isn't just some random dude yelling "g... : omnova
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              I don't think they're mutually exclusive. You can have both teamwork and fast paced action without it tur... : synapse19
              • ...used to pushing the pace, not getting gibbed every couple seconds :P : synapse19
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  Did you remove the old fastlane? : K1Bond007
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    Are you still updating the tournament stats? : xjdrake32
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      All of the matches from Round 3 haven't been played yet :( : dkrulz
      • slack detected : xjdrake32
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        Although the stats are going to be skewed no matter what if you think about it. I mean your last game was... : xjdrake32
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          The most useful stat you can take from it drake is kills/points per hour from the matches. Or kills per ... : FlamingGimp
          • We need a spreadsheet that lists all the relevant ratios. : dkrulz
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      Round 3 was essentially a bust because of a couple matches that didn't get played. Round 4 has not been s... : K1Bond007
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        two of the R4 matches were played on my server, and I have no idea what to send you or if I logged the ri... : ]pm[chem
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          We tried to get every admin to understand what to send in. You'll have to talk to hirez. I honestly don't... : K1Bond007
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            they are the .log files in the log directory... : .frame
            • I think hirez may have renamed the folder in the config file or something. I don't remember. That's why I... : K1Bond007
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            yeah, I see the logs now, what a pain in the ass, I'll have to figure out which you need. later... : ]pm[chem
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              As I said, just zip them all and send them. Unless there's a ton of them.. then you may need to narrow it... : K1Bond007
              • shackmsg me your email that these need to be sent to : ]pm[chem
  • Yes. Done. : RyDogg1
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  remove rtv : datoo
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    goldrush dustbowl goldrush dustbowl 1 round of any other map and RTV GOLDRUSH DUSTBOWL... : .frame
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      thats not dallas specifically btw, that seems like any server with RTV... : .frame
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        yeah, it gets annoying, but i say let the people play what they want to play, or at least add everything ... : pyide
        • this is true...I guess i'd rather play round number 234234532 on goldrush with shackers than go to a pub.... : .frame
        • yah they really need to increase the map choices, 4-5 isn't enough. I wouldn't mind a list of 9, give so... : ant_hillbilly
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      Well honestly I'd rather the majority stay and play then everybody leave when 2fort pops up. : hirosushima
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        No, fuck the majority. People need to expand their horizons and figure out that there are a ton of other... : omnova
        • It would be nice if RTV only showed goldbowl if it hasn't been played in the last two map changes. : dumb.
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          A-fucking-men. Endlessly playing the two maps where the enemies literally line up to get killed is retar... : gnomish
          • But...but...what about my stats?! : MisterPhoton
        • yesyesyes. It also results in a lot of people never having played/seen a lot of the custom maps because p... : Fayk
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          it would be nice but counter-strike pretty much proves this will never happen : mikecyb
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            we should just make a second copy of gravel_pit and rename it de_dust. : Fayk
            • cp_dust remae as atk/defend map, please. keke. : ]pm[chem
        • I could not agree more with what you just said. : taronish
  • I agree with this. Especially because there are SO MANY maps in the tourney that we never ever play on sh... : taronish
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    No. I removed Dustbowl and Goldrush from the vote list. : RyDogg1
    • Thank you : dmason
    • I support this decision and respectfully laugh at those upset about it. : omnova
    • Bravo. : FlamingGimp
    • Rydogg1 for president! : Fayk
    • uggggh that's even worse :( : datoo
• egypt2! : c0bra
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  Could we try to get some well, especially ctf_well into the rotation since they were updated? That or ... : Fayk
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    that new version of well is neat : hamachi
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      I like it as well. : ant_hillbilly
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        it is a well done map... : .frame
        • well I don't know about that : IcomeINpeace
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      I haven't even gotten to play it ONCE due to how much the shack plays the same two maps. I played the CP ... : Fayk
      • we played the new ctf_well on some shack server a few days after the update, but it never showed up in vo... : pyide
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  I just changed some firewall settings on shack st. louis, if someone could please test: 128.252.127.44:2... : ]pm[chem
  • ^^^ really, it just takes a minute to hop on and off ! : ]pm[chem
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    works fine... : .frame
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      you got on it? cool, thanks. : ]pm[chem
      • my understanding is that .frame gets on anything ooooh buuuuurrnnn : SolveChrist
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  what's the password? and what's the server IP? : Intaglio5
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    The first rule about Fight Club is... : Arctic Fox
    • no shirts? : c0bra
• PL_Dustbowl Please its awesome good fun : Dyllers
• Warpath_2 is a balanced map. : Merconium
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  Bunch of custom maps here: http://base.sta-league.org/tf2/ : yosemiteclimber
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    Note that the actual maps are at the "files" page linked in the left sidebar. : Felraiser
    • Yeah that helps ;) : yosemiteclimber

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  Yes, because OS X never crashes. : Ebu
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    Obligatory http://youtube.com/watch?v=axC-7O4Yq-w : Hoax
    • lol that was great : chuck577
    • nice : jonin
    • "like a jack-russel f*ckin terrier" ahha : sodomy
    • haha, the will ferrell one in the related videos is awesome http://youtube.com/watch?v=nNC1UyVEOic&fea... : lokdown
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  My impression is that XP (and I assume Vista, although I have no direct experience) are very stable. I... : taronish
  • I leave my PC on for weeks on end with little to no problems... I typically reboot after installs or powe... : jackomack
  • 99% or so of all BSOD crashes are due to drivers fucking up... If you control what hardware the user can ... : navelskrutt
• i have a lot of complaints about vista but none about the stability. it's been pretty much rock solid fo... : electroly
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  I like how the last few of these commercials have advertised OSX features that even XP has had for ages, ... : avatar_58
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    i haven't seen the ads in question, but "installing" office for mac is just dragging the folder from the ... : electroly
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      I don't care - you installed a program that didn't come with your boxed O/S. According to Mr. pompus mac ... : avatar_58
      • i haven't seen the ad so i can't comment i guess. i have no idea what they said. : electroly
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      So, how does the OS know to associate Office docs with the application? At some point there has to be som... : Fred Garvin
      • when you first run one of the office applications, it registers the file association. : electroly
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        When you run an application for the first time it writes some text files within the Library folder. This ... : Serpico74
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          It may (not sure) handle it even without launching, or at least put it in the list of contenders. Apps ca... : Fayk
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            you know you can just mash all of the modifier keys when dragging a file to a dock icon to force it to ac... : electroly
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              not all, just cmd-option. I was basically saying I edited the plist so it'd allow the new type to be d... : Fayk
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                where is that plist file by the way? it'd be nice to not have to mash the modifier keys (i never remembe... : electroly
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                  Inside the VLC.app app bundle, the Info.plist CFBundleDocumentTypes, look for a category you want to add... : Fayk
                  • Take this with a grain of salt, haven't done it in a long time. : Fayk
  • Completely agree with this. : ezanga
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    "Well PC, I'm going to look at pictures, read email, and view a DVD movie on my new iMac." : jingletard
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      You can do all that without installing anything on Vista. (DVD playback might require a version with Medi... : nudel
      • Correct. Vista basic can't play dvd's without installing a codec but home premium and ultimate can. : sigpro
      • Irony of it, is that you can do that, in LOTS more ways in Vista/XP, than osx. : paravis
  • yeah my favorite was how one of the very first commercials was like "HEY MAC'S ARE FUN AND AWESOME YOU... : mikecyb
  • its simply important that Apple advertise that you can use all the PC programs you're used to on your Mac... : derelict515
• http://www.ayanev.com/wp-content/uploads/mac-unix-vista.jpg - i still giggle : gdestiny
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  I've had Win2K running for over a year straight without a single reboot (I couldn't be assed to install s... : MrAdults
  • On the other side, most of the daily use Macs in my office here need to be rebooted daily or they begin t... : dumb.
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  BSOD are almost always caused by drivers. I don't think I've had one on Vista that wasn't either caused b... : nudel
  • ^This or hardware failures, even on XP Home/Pro. I've had apps crash occasionally, but BSODs are very rar... : mn3m0n1c
  • reminds me of their commercial about how it's good not to have choices in hardware. getting all differ... : dantastic
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    How do I check to see what caused it? : coyoterys
    • The event log, just as you would with XP. : avatar_58
    • Easiest is to copy the error message and Google it - you'll often find at least an explanation in the top... : mn3m0n1c
    • if it's an actual BSOD, it will list the driver that caused the kernel panic. if the first two letters o... : electroly
    • If you catch the BSOD itself see if you can spot a filename, usually ending in .sys. That often (but not ... : nudel
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    but OS design affects the ability of drivers to cause system wide crashes (not speaking about XP, Vista, ... : derelict515
    • I suspect that any OS which fully protected itself from driver crashes would run pretty slowly or not all... : nudel
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  i like the inaccuracy of the latest one where they talk about how PCs have no data recovery options even... : dantastic
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    that's not really a backup utility though. you lose your system drive and you're hosed. in terms of sem... : Postal
    • Vista also has built in backup utilities where you can back up an entire drive or specific files. : sigpro
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      shadowcopy touches the letter that you wrote to grandma a month ago though : dantastic
      • shadowcopy is just plain awesome. restore folders and files from several automatic save points in time : dantastic
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        but that copy isn't guaranteed to still be there a month later, because shadow copy has a fixed maximum %... : electroly
        • time machine will delete your data if your backup drive fills up, it'll notify you that the drive is full... : derelict515
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  I've been running Vista for over a year, and it hasn't crashed on me once. : evildanish
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    hasn't crashed for me either : OmegaRed59
    • I run it at work and home and its never crashed.. : swoopx
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  The ads are for the already converted and people who don't know better. No I'm not saying Mac users don't : d fluke
  • Yeah, they're not targeted at us. Their problem is that the smugness and FUD in them puts off people like... : nudel
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  i think Mac is all about its PERCEPTION as being a better computer/OS : gyokuro
  • You nailed it. My industry is full of Mac users and the large majority of them never hesitate to fellate ... : dumb.
  • In some cases they are better. In others, they aren't. I don't know why fanatics on either side think s... : EvilDolemite
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    Advertising in general is about PERCEPTION. I guess you haven't perceived this ? : taronish
    • Life in general is about PERCEPTION, but thats just my perception, perhaps you perceive it differently? : gyokuro
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  Those ads have never made much sense to me. Games are fun. There are very few games for macs. Surfing t... : itsjames
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    the "macs are more fun" thing is hilarious to me given the difference between the number of games on the ... : lja83
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      Most people play their games on gaming systems because they bought a 300$ eMachine that could barely run ... : hawkeye
      • sure, games aren't a selling point for computers, i guess that's why the graphics card market is doing so... : lja83
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    Games are fun for you and me (btw, there are a lot of games for mac these days). But grandma wants to pl... : hawkeye
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      are these tasks actually any easier for a noob on a mac than on a pc? : nrgXs
      • if you're talking WMM vs. iMovie, it is orders of magnitude easier on the mac end. WMM is a steaming pile... : cpt_gloval
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      You can do all of those things just as easily on Vista. : ColoradoCNC
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        while i agree 99%, windows movie maker is complete garbage compared to imovie. : electroly
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          This is true. It's still usable though, if not quite as intuitive and streamlined. : ColoradoCNC
          • i believe that fails the "just as easily on vista" test : electroly
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      "a lot of games" hahahahaha : OmegaRed59
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        photoshop : cpt_gloval
        • superbreakout : itsjames
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  Vista clean installs on appropriate hardware seem to be great in my experience. I have never seen a BS... : Downforce
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    I've seen it. Caused by a dying HD and from problems resulting from having the incorrect OpenAL/Drive ver... : avatar_58
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      But that comes down to the dying hard drive and the bad driver version, not Vista : zerog83
      • Oh I know. Changing my drivers and removing the offending HD fixed it right up. I'm just saying that BSOD... : avatar_58
      • Which comes down the fact that Apple only has support THEIR hardware in the OS. Whether thats good or ba... : Saman
  • i BSOD'd coming out of a 6 hour CIV4 session last night :( isolated occurrence though. : cpt_gloval
• I always enjoy this: http://synapse.redphive.org/other/mac.mpeg (it's 50mb) : synapse19
• I haven't had a BSOD in years. : Fred Garvin
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  I use both and I could care less which one I'm on, needs less arbitrary holy wars. : Audhuml4
  • n't : Audhuml4
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  Vista is bloated, slow and incompatible with many programs. I can deal with incompatibilities and chalk t... : Pettytheft
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    remember the memory footprint is to speed up performance. unused memory is wasted memory so vista doesn'... : handofthrawn
    • XP works the same way with recently used programs, hangs around cached in memory for a bit. vista's impro... : cpt_gloval
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      No, it has a bigger memory footprint period. I couldn't max out 2 gigs of ram in XP for nothing. In Vista... : Pettytheft
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        Wtf are you doing? I have never once seen on on any computer. Must be some really memory intensive apps. : DarkWolf5
        • The problem comes from having multiple users on my system. I would have my wife logged in, a firefox ses... : Pettytheft
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        Are you running 32bit apps on a 64bit OS? : Judicus
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          Yes, just like everyone else. : Pettytheft
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            When using 32bit apps in a 64bit environment, you're pretty much playing on a system with half its memory... : Judicus
            • Ahh. Well that is new information and it makes sense now. Also makes sense why 4 gigs felt so much smooth... : Pettytheft
      • What? I have 2 gigs and I've never seen that error message.. What the hell are you doing? Maybe some prog... : navelskrutt
      • XP probably just started using swap space while Vista actually told you at that point. : crummynz
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    Can't say I have the same experience. Vista is incredibly fast for me, much faster than XP ever was. : zerog83
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      vista typically uses about a half gig for me, just like XP does. not counting the superfetch. : cpt_gloval
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        Total: 4093 Cached: 2589 Free: 24 : zerog83
        • Total: 4093 Cached: 2819 Free: 40 : Merconium
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  really a BSOD? Your comp must be shitty. I have a basic C2D rig and I have not had 1 BSOD since I went to... : sesmaster
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    Well I have Nvidia Mobo and Video card, so maybe the new hardward still has issues. : coyoterys
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      there was a huge article just recently about how nVidia was to blame for a large percentage of BSOD's. : sesmaster
      • Well I guess thats kinda encouraging. Unless Nvidia is not on the ball with fixes. : coyoterys
• I have not had a BSOD caused by the OS (outside of during installation) in about 6 or 7 years. I've had m... : OverloadUT
• I haven't had a single BSOD outside of installation (darned chipset + 4GB RAM bug) in 1.5 years of runnin... : Colleton
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  my wife bsod'd the vista64 media center last night. : CoRDS
  • i wish my shitty old hardware would play nice with x64 :( : cpt_gloval
• most of the Vista BSOD issues are related to third party video drivers not working correctly with the Vis... : metalremains
• Last time I got a BSOD on vista, was 8 months ago when I tried to change my SATA mode from IDE to AHCI an... : paravis

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• DrButt : ]pm[chem
• Kikindiknballs : lakren
• Dr_Buttsecx : AMikaboshi
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  Skelloshots : GloriousCow
  • I like this one... : zipper76
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  jdhel_nhjkges : A Sponge
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    What is this? : DrFlammable
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      The name of your Diablo II summoner necro. Or jfhsuqpsmlki_sj if that is already taken. : A Sponge
      • Man, those are probably the best names I have ever seen. I'm going to delete my guy and remake him with b... : DrFlammable
• USWest > USEast : dravalen
• Wert's Gay Brother Bert : whistletits
• Dr Vouhaul Cockburn McGillicutty : Ride-My-Rocket
• TitanCock : Foxhawk
• Boner : DHAvatar
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  SOMEONE FIND MY FUCKING DIABLO 2 CD'S GODDAMNIT : zerog83
  • Too many characters... : zipper76
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    This sucks, I have 2 out of 3 D2 CD's and my LOD CD, and cases and CD Keys for both :( : zerog83
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      http://www.blizzard.com/store/ Make an account log in, type in your CD-Keys download the games. : Crimsonbeak
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        You can't for diablo :( : skitzo
        • you should be able to soon, since they just did the no-CD patch : Medium Heavy
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  IHeartLakren : kill9
  • EOT!! : zerog83
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  Are you gonna play HARDCORE ???? Add me to your friends *DM7 What's yours? : DM7
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    softcore ladder DrFlammable : DrFlammable
    • Then I want no part of your pansy ways. :( : DM7
• Juiceygoose. : ra1n
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  Diablowillownme : Crimsonbeak
  • I read that as Dia blow ill own me : krym3
• Lifeooze : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Spawnboy : Fyunch Click
• MaggotMuncher : deviantpaul
• gaaaaaa-aaaaaay : DrWaffles
• IndianaBones : bcyde
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  have you started yet i'll play with you! : fry975
  • message me my account is fry975 : fry975
  • yeah, sorry I didn't see your post. We're level 11-12 now. : DrFlammable
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  Summoner is probably the easiest class ever, and still you won't play hardcore :p : re4ctor
  • I don't like losing all of my shit after getting to level 80. >:( : DrFlammable
• Should I reinstall this? Its been ages since I've played. : hoov1185
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  using this bnet thread to talk about the fact that i'm playing war3 on useast.... come on up ! : barichnikov
  • barichnikov in channel shacknews BTW : barichnikov
• Bones Jackson : smax
• Hero of Kvatch : aeg1x
• found mah disc! leveled up a new Mace Barbarian to lvl 5; gonna get into it hardcore tomorrow night methi... : zerog83

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  That is so dumb. I use Vista on my laptop (Home Premium), my work desktop (Business), and my home deskto... : wykd
  • I now how it working on all of my studio machines, and have no issues with it at all. Cutting video, phot... : AroundTheFur1380
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    I've had nothing but problems (probably mostly due to driver issues), and regret ever switching over. ... : kevp
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      How new is the hardware? The driver issue isn't Microsoft's fault. : wykd
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        nvidia 680i LT SLI mobo nvidia 8800GTX vidcard intel core2 duo 4 gig ram 2 seagate harddrives onboa... : kevp
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          also, it will occassionaly crash in Lightroom (legit, full version) and lately Firefox3 will occassionall... : kevp
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            This sounds like overheating or a ram / motherboard problem to me. Might as well run a memtest for a bit... : itsjames
            • believe me, I have. Memtest86 passes (running from the Ultimate Bootdisk). I just won't put any more time... : kevp
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    Your personal testimony is valid. However I dont get how folks then make the transition to assuming that ... : Cygnus X-1
    • We use Vista at our company (55~ people). About 10 have Vista Business installed, some of which are deve... : wykd
  • i think it boils down to how much small, semi-proprietary specialized apps you use. christ, half the s : gokart.
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  2 years from now - Intel switches to Vista. Like everyone else who claims they won't. Same went for XP a... : avatar_58
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    If they switch to Vista in two years, they'd be retarded since Windows 7 will be out by then.... : zipper76
    • At that point, they can thumb their noses at the newest OS, and say their not upgrading, while installing... : Githyanki
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      Pfft. Windows 7 won't be out for another 5 years. You guys slay me. Don't you remember the original relea... : avatar_58
      • yeah MS isn't going to release a new OS for 10 years... durr : derelict515
  • What? I think the idea is they'll skip Vista and wait for Windows 7 which is supposed to be out in a rela... : veras
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    you mean Windows Me? i don't recall any backlash for xp, it was pretty good to go from the get go comp... : synack
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      There was plenty of backlash against XP. Bad drivers, bloated, stupid activation. This resistance to a ... : Horn
      • I like how people assume Windows 7 would be superior to Vista or something too. Even though it would most... : avatar_58
• I love Vista. : mittense
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  Yea, that isn't going to happen since you can't get XP for new machines for much longer. Too many gr... : rosewood
  • Volume licenses are treated differently and no one says you can't do XP and W2K8. There isn't that much t... : zipper76
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    server 2008 != Vista. : filthysock
    • very similar! : synack
  • I think Intel might be able to put something together. : red2lucas
• I don't get it. Is this supposed to be news, or a scathing editorial written by a moron? : Danny5225
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  i've said it here before - there is no way i'm ever going to allow vista in our company as long as i mana... : [fry]
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    Any particular reason ? : taronish
    • He doesn't want to learn a new operating system. : skitzo
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      Generally a lack of reasons to do something is reason enough not to do something. : vigilante
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        pretty much. when you're factoring in thousands of workstations that run fantastically on XP, dozens of i... : [fry]
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          it is not even close to WinME. Vista SP1 is faster and more stable than XP in my personal experience. : cltcprd
          • LOL FASTER THAN XP? ARE YOU ON CRACK? : disposition
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          I can not understand this concept at all. There is nothing about it that isn't as good or better than win... : DarkWolf5
          • When you have to deal with their licensing scheme for Vista, you'll understand. I'm with [fry] on this. ... : supertech68
      • "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is still the one of the best reasons out there for not doing something. : randomjgj
• There is a good chance my company will wind up skipping it. We've been evaluating it for over two years ... : Thresher
• we started to look at it and people hate the idea of virtual applications so now that's a two year projec... : metalremains
• Might as well just wait till Windows 7 at this point. I don't see this as that big of a deal. : K1Bond007
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  This is The Inquirer. True? : Serpico74
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    It's the Inquirer, not the Enquirer. The former is exclusively a tech tabloid and typically a decent sou... : K1Bond007
    • except when they talk out of their butts. Which is about 55% of the time. 65% of the time for the registe... : Fyunch Click
    • I know, and they aren't known for being a completely reliable news source. : Serpico74
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      Decent source? If by decent you mean full of shit and completely biased. : Fred Garvin
      • Well it is a tabloid. Trash is built in. : K1Bond007
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  Sucks to be Intel. Vista is great. : OmegaRed59
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    no its not. Here's a simple real world example: I changed a wireless router from no encyrption to WPA. ... : filthysock
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      I think that vista is just the ultimate argument that MS has gotten too big. so many of tthe final choic... : hamachi
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        yeah, and this was on a Vista Home machine, where the user will never even know what Group Policies are,... : filthysock
        • just seems to be such a huge disconnect with what people want and how they implemented stuff. I'm ok wit... : hamachi
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        can you explain the filecopying thing to me? this used to piss me off so much, and I dont know why they d... : Unleashed
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          i just use Terracopy now, its awesome : filthysock
          • I love Teracopy. : prime8
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      This SP1? File transfer speeds are equal on SP1, I have both machines on this network and can prove it. I... : avatar_58
      • Yeah, the file copy speed thing is old news, fixed now, and only affected Explorer anyway. (i.e. It didn'... : nudel
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  The Inquirer. : Fred Garvin
  • I was thinking the same thing. I want an analysis from a decent site instead. : Sapiens
• I've had no problems with it, but I probably wouldn't roll it out at a corporate site. just not enough i... : mrtony
• * D E M E R J I A N ' D * : the archvile
• Companies skip entire versions (or more) of Windows all the time. I don't see what the big deal is. Th... : nudel

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  WHY DONT YOU SHOW US A PICTURE OF HER LUNGS NEXT AFTER SHE HAS BEEN SMOKING THOSE CANCER STICKS FOR A WHI... : yoonix
  • Her lungs shouldn't be too bad from cigar smoke. Her mouth on the other hand will be getting cancer any d... : sigpro
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  she should really wear her seatbelt. : drucifer
  • I'll make sure she does, so long as you promise to wear your lifevest when you go bridge surfing in Thail... : rossimo
  • hahaha if this is a joke about what I think it is this deserves 100x lols. : dmason
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  PRETTY SWEET PICTURE : mwasher
  • As in the actual photo, the light, the colors, contrast, etc. I don't know what you're getting at here... : rossimo
• I BET SHE THINKS IT IS ANOTHER MANS COCK : gmd
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  sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. : edgewise
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    yeah? well sometimes its a big brown dick! : Demius
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      RIP :[ : notd665
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        yeah, that sucks :( : Dschinghis Khan
        • God fucking dammit! This completely fucking blows! : randomjgj
• needs more neck-down bikini-age : zerog83
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  coming back for this depues de mi trabajo : proclone1
  • don't bother : fishbone
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  pre-op or post-op? : HojuSimpson
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    My friend's the photographer, I think he uses Aperture for post-processing. I know he doesn't have Photo... : rossimo
    • also she still has a penis. : .sticks.
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      I meant surgery. I can barely make out the adam's apple...? just kidding, cool picture ;) : HojuSimpson
      • Hahaha, oh I misunderstood. Penises, yea that too :) : rossimo
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  A few others from the pool for fun: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/36037/n202904534_33930569_1862.jpg - my c... : rossimo
  • the girls are cute, your house is bomb i hate you : ejectorpod
  • Thats better, You are forgiven :) : Githyanki
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  Do you live in the Bay Area? : justsayno
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    Yeah, I live in SF, this is at my roommate's house in Ross, CA. : rossimo
    • :( I miss SF so damned much : justsayno
• When am I supposed to start shitting bricks? : rustified
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  She looks kinda fat. : WaterSign
  • BBWs (with penises) are people too :( : rossimo
• ugh pointy knuckles : Magus
• hey that's a nice picture of YOUR GIRLFRIEND : industro
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  OMG is that a blue heeler???? : proclone1
  • blue healer crossed with border collie : bluey25
• that lady with the blue eyes in the other picture is captivating : xsoulbrothax
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  What kind of cigar is that? : DJ Clipdat
  • Also, really cool photo. : DJ Clipdat