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• Gotta say that the ads looked really bad. At first, it seemed like they were going for the comedy angle.... : Thresher
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  will smith hasnt made a good movie since men in black. : mindshot
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    no way, Pursuit of Happyness and I am legend were good I thought. : oatmela
    • never saw pursuit, but everything else has been seriously meh. : mindshot
    • agreed. I loved I am legend : bluewagon
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    i am legend? : jenisthebest
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      it had a lot potential for like 2/3 of the film, but then it took a giant shit on everything. : mindshot
      • This. The first two thirds of the movie was pretty awesome but after (big spoiler) Sam died it went stra... : Horn
    • was ass. : judasen
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    will smith hasnt made a good movie since men in black. : CoRDS
    • Thanks for getting that! : Githyanki
    • ^^ this : randomposter
    • Oh god the Inf button is daring me to click it, oh jesu : Rauol Duke
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    will smith hasn't made a good movie since Six Degrees of Separation : mista mista
    • No. Deliverance : ra1n
  • BAD BOYS 2 MOTHERFUCKER : ninjase
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  I got drunk and enjoyed it. Then again, I'm not as smart as the shack film critics, which really works o... : ra1n
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16356177#itemanchor_16356177 : SenorSpine
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      Yep. But that's the fun kind of masturbating, not the slef-absorbed ego masturbating film critics do. : ra1n
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        I bet I could win the special olympics. : SenorSpine
        • Like pretty much every event. : SenorSpine
    • When I was younger, doctors thought I was retarded.* Turned out to be mild autism, but I wonder how that : MKCluney
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  That's too bad. I thought it was enjoyable. : Ajax
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    I'm not saying it was so bad I was going to walk out or anything like A.I. or something, but still it see... : oatmela
    • I never really felt that way. I thought that it was a fun flick all the way around. : Ajax
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      Yes you did, you said it sucked worse than you could have ever imagined!! : Mad Jack McMad
      • it was worse than I thought it would be, but not as bad as movies that sucked so bad I walked out of them... : oatmela
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  after watching 'The Fountain' from a shack recommendation i no longer listen to the shack critics in rega... : boomdeath
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    You couldn't have picked a better example. I don't want to make a sweeping generalization about the shac : ra1n
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      I don't buy that. I loved independence day, rambo, etc...i love being entertained and not being all criti... : oatmela
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        Maybe you're the exception to the rule, but I would have put this one on par with Independance Day for : ra1n
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          the shack hated the happening. I don't know about the fountain though. : oatmela
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            no, everyone hated the happening... : dedgecko
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              lol, that is what I said. : oatmela
              • no, you said the shack, i said EV-VERY-ONE!!!! ---- just like Gary Oldman clearing out the building in Le : dedgecko
        • You heard it here first gentlemen, anything thought-provoking is pretentious and not worth your time. St... : dkrulz
    • Not out of touch with the idea that movies are entertainment. In touch with the idea that it is a flexib... : ^rec
    • I totally agree. The majority of the Shack seems to have a rather large stick up it's ass when it comes t... : thetangent
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    haha, the fountain was a horrible movie to follow the shacks opinion on, i love the movie, but its not fo... : snowwolf
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      You sir, are an uninspired, soulless redneck for not liking the fountain! : buzzbat
      • Re-read that! I said I love the fountain, I've cried during the fountain damnit! You're a illiterate r... : snowwolf
      • he just said he did like it. : dopefish
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    it was donnie darko for me. what a stupid fucking movie. : ashkie
    • This and Boondock Saints proved to me that the shack collective has consciously chosen to like horrible m... : bipolar
  • Honestly, the Shack's general feelings on a most movies tends to go with the general internet feeling on ... : Vincent Grayson
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  Like all Will Smith movies I turned off my brain and enjoyed it. After the movie finished I turned it on : jayares
  • "Like all Will Smith movies I turned off my brain and enjoyed it." Ha-ha! :D Comment of the night! : Sylvanus
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  can you spoil the WTF storyline for me please? I want to know if its worth spending the money on tonight : hobosapien
  • just click, i kept it mild : oatmela
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    yes but i want to know what the bullshit part of the story is : hobosapien
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      if you want to know....obvious major spoilers. Don't read unless you have no plans to see the movie since : oatmela
      • this is the same part where you turn your brain off in Wanted when they start curving bullets - the rest ... : dedgecko
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  i think will smith makes any movie better so i will go see this for sure. i have not missed a will smi... : Modica Sol Solis
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    me too, this was the first one that let me down. : oatmela
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      then you've never seen the legend of bagger vance : dedgecko
      • lmao, okay I did not see that movie but he was comin' up, cut him some slack. I heard it sucked. : oatmela
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  Is it still the he is an old god or something storyline that I read about a few months back that sounded ... : fleabug
  • basically yes to your spoiler, and definitely yes to retarded : veras
• Is it just my perception or is this the norm these days? Lots of newer movies start out really strong and... : Fred Garvin
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  You didn't expect that after viewing the official Hancock spoiler trailer? The entire movie was there, -- : DooBall
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    the trailer was the first half of the movie, the good part the second part of bullshit was not shown i : oatmela
    • lol, that bad huh? I may have to come up with a bad reason to go watch it this weekend then! : DooBall
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      The 2nd half really wasn't all that bad. There was the big reveal, the explanation of who he was, what th : Ajax
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        Ajax, you and I enjoyed it. Let these people with their high standards of movies and how great they shou... : dedgecko
        • whatever, promote Scientology as much as you want. : oatmela
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        Wait Ajax you liked it? I haven't read any of the spoilers, but the trailer looks OK. Dynotaku wants to... : dognose
        • I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was THE killer blockbuster of the summer or anything, but I think oatmela : Ajax
• Well I thought it was pretty sweet so neener on you. : nukewinter
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  Shack movie opinions are fucked. You all think Transformers sucked but that was an awesome movie. I Am Le... : Magus
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    wtf? Transformers ruled. : dognose
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      You going to watch Die Hard 4 with me on Friday? : rosewood
      • Sure! : dognose
    • IAWDN : thetangent
  • I think Transformers was widely accepted as a good, fun movie around here...? If you weren't still a Tran... : razorblade79
  • I thought it was pretty cool looking throw away fun. : node
  • Agreed - Transformers was fucking great. It was two times better than anything to do with transformers th... : seven
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    it depends on who you read, dognose loves awesome movies yet he hated shoot em up which was more awesome ... : CoRDS
    • * C A R R O T ' D * : seven
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      Your opinion is wrong. : [7]kami
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        thats the thing. ive never been wrong. ive been incorrect, but never wrong : CoRDS
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          This time you are both incorrect and wrong. Shoot em up was a piece of shit. Rambo was awesome. Same g... : [7]kami
          • no i am correct. i may or may not be retarded, but im still right. : CoRDS
    • No, dognose was right on pretty much all counts there. : Helter Skelter
  • Transformers sucked, and was an awesome movie. : fleabug
  • Transformers was a car engine in a washing machine and I Am Legend was a crime against humanity. I lik... : randomposter
  • Transformers was awesome : matthaeus
  • No, the Shack was correct, Transformers did suck, bad. : Matt Burris
• just returned from it, annnnnd I liked it :D : packav
• Will Smith - When will you do something to top your performance in Six Degrees of Separation ? I challeng... : PlanetPerfecto
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  I saw it last night. It had a lot of laughs, some cool action and I thought the twist was pretty good. To... : marmite
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    I called it the moment she first looked at him :( If you go in knowing there will be a twist I thought... : aeg1x
    • yeah I had no idea there was a twist. I picked up on her noticing him at the start, but didn't expect the... : marmite
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    Saw it last night too and have to agree with you marmite, it was a cool fun action flick. I did see the t... : scottythejock
    • I had an idea about that but didn't get it quite right. I just wish they had ended it just before The on : chazums
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  You're crazy. The movie is great, the fact they tried to do more with it than just a superhero movie is ... : chazums
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    What is these "themes" you speak of? Get out of my action movie go boom boom!! : nodebug
    • It'd be rather spoiler heavy so surfice it to say there is more than the trailer shows. Then only thing ... : chazums
• Why do people continue to give money to the MPAA in the first place? : Lord Grey

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• There is no quicksave or quickload. Automap is your map. Put it on Full Screen and fade. You can't.... : Modica Sol Solis
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  1 - You can't. 2 - It's a map. Press TAB to activate/disable it. It overlays the whole screen so you m... : SockMonkeh
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    So if I die I'm screwed? Bummer :( : MagicWishMonkey
    • only in hardcore mode. if you die in a regular game, you lose some gold and have to run back to your corp... : pyide
    • The waypoints are your save points, or your progress points, or whatever. You start a game and any waypoi... : Daggoth
• 1. There isn't any 2. Hit tab to show a map of your area. It's overlaid on top of your normal view 3. N... : mroizo40
• 2. switch it to minimap in the options, much better. : pyide
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  if you have an nvidia card you may want to use the built in scaler instead of your lcd monitor if you wan... : shotgun1
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    Do I need to do that if I'm running in windowed mode? There's no way I can play this fullscreen, it makes... : MagicWishMonkey
    • no just for fullscreen when your lcd stretches it to 16:10 instead of 4:3 (or 16:9 as your case might be.... : shotgun1
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      What does a common HD resolution like 1280x720p look like? Even in a window 800x600 will take up more... : pyide
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        Here's my monitor: http://www.westinghousedigital.com/details.aspx?itemnum=56 It looks like like ass i... : MagicWishMonkey
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          weird. never seen an a HD display that couldn't display the most common HD resolution (720p) well. gu... : pyide
          • heh, yea I got a pretty good deal on this thing so I don't mind that my options are limited, I don't do t... : MagicWishMonkey
• The way points are pretty much the save points. : soapland
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  man, I bought this game and having to play at 800x600 on a 24" display is bullshit. I am very intrigued b... : oatmela
  • I think it looks like ass the first 5 minutes then after that i am lost in the game. : erebus
  • Just stretch it to fill screen while maintaining aspect ratio, it looks good. : bipolar
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  Next Question I bought the $5 Diablo 2 & Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction expansion set through g2buy.co : MagicWishMonkey
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    the expansion isn't a separate game, it just adds an act 5 to the end of diablo 2's 4 acts, 2 new classes... : pyide
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      Sweeeeeet, I'll do that then. Thanky! : MagicWishMonkey
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        u still have to go through the first 4 acts though : arizona bay
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          Can I use one of the new classes (assuming they are totally badass)? : MagicWishMonkey
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            yes you can : arizona bay
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              and yes they are. assassin is the best class in the game. : Modica Sol Solis
              • no : Nighteyes
  • When you install LoD, it just replaces Diablo 2. It adds a new Act to the end of the game, 2 new classes,... : SockMonkeh
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    I don't mean to pick on you but it blows my mind how many people never really played Diablo 2 in the wake... : Modica Sol Solis
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      i bought the original when it first came out and never made it out of the first act. : arizona bay
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        I've never liked the First Act. No cool abilities, terrain's pretty uninteresting. Act II is okay but the... : Modica Sol Solis
        • yeah the first act sucks, got bored with it and prob why i didnt even finish the quests. i think i did l... : arizona bay
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      I was broke as shit all through college (plenty of times I had to scrounge for change under a friends cou : MagicWishMonkey
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        It's so weird to hear that you were in college when it came out old man : Modica Sol Solis
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          :P I was broke as shit through college, back in those days you had to upgrade your machine ever 3 mon... : MagicWishMonkey
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            Yeah, ram prices really shot up after the 9/21 quake. : MacemanInTW
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              NEVER FORGET! : MagicWishMonkey
              • lol they just do the silly number thing with everything here. I've been around long enough that its just... : MacemanInTW
    • Diablo is the one Blizzard franchise I completely passed on. Something about it based on the pictures and... : Serpico74
  • Yes, LoD adds stuff to the main game and adds another chapter to the end. You loose out on character cla... : capt tripps
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    Further G2buy.com menz Dear valued customer, Thank for your choosing us for your Diablo II items need : xsoulbrothax
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      ok hell, an hour and nothing :( going out for a booty call but i'll check in the morning : xsoulbrothax
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        I'd take it, if Blizzard would accept my old diablo 2 key :( The page lets me choose the language and say... : Lightbulb
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          Where does it give you invalid key? In the web installer? Make sure to use the 26 character key they gene... : razlebol
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            No, it gives me the error when I input the 16-char key it in the store, I know I need the 26-char key for... : Lightbulb
            • And as I try it for the about thousandth time, my key finally works! Thanks for the LoD key, xsoulbrothax : Lightbulb
    • I'll take it if the offer's still fresh. : yossapw
• no yes no : capt tripps
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  which ya think is better playing it single player or on battlenet? for loot etc. : Ziz
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    bnet for loot but then you have to contend with all the idiots and the people who are very adamant that y... : Modica Sol Solis
    • no you don't, just lock yourself away in private games for your run through normal. then when you are rea... : SockMonkeh
    • it's possible to play with just friends. : Medium Heavy
• Since no one really said it, I'll throw it out there that the game is constantly automatically saving you... : JarEme
• Quik question if i buy the CD Keys from G2buy.com and im in the UK will this cause any conflict? Or am i... : Vincenoir

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• That is funny actually. : soggybagel
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  what about her other hand? : dodob
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    /doll hands : Borzoi
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      lol : dodob
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        Ugh. Will some FBI agent please skirt the law and take these guys in? : ifallible
        • imagine having sex with a child. YOU JUST IMAGINED IT NOW YOU'RE A PAEDOPHILE : aeg1x
• Lol, ok. : thejm4n
• haahahaa cheap hands free kit there : Jayx77
• loophole'd : stump
• I wonder if the daughter is over 50 pounds, otherwise he'd be in violation of a child safety seat law. : hadronflux
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  the 405. Silly southern California, using a pronoun for highways. ;) : nevicata
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    hella : dearjamie
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      Hella is Northern I think. Never heard it until I moved there from Central California : dognose
      • well nor cal is hella white trash too : chaosbot
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        yep hella is def northern cali : med1c
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          What? Norcal? No way. At my work, my boss called one of our SoCal employees out on being from LA when the... : Fayk
          • (just today) : Fayk
          • LA is hella far away from norcal... your boss must be mistaken : Demius
          • No. Hella is definitely a bay area thing. : Jabby
          • no hella is very norcal : dearjamie
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            everyone here (bay area) says hella. outsiders make fun of me when i say it sometimes but they're hella g... : JINKY
            • haha it's so bay area : askedrelic
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            I'm with you. I live down in the south bay, and I *never* hear that damn word... thankfully. I don't ... : sicko
            • sometimes i listen to the morning show on live 105 when i wake up and those dudes say hella now. they're ... : JINKY
            • Yeah I first heard it when I lived in Fremont. A LOT. Not so much in Silicon Valley : dognose
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            yea "that word" does not exist in Santa Cruz. I believe it occurs just over the mountains, starting arou... : SolveChrist
            • The Internet is changing that; I see Australians saying it here :/ : dognose
            • While I'm in Santa Cruz, I also grew up (at points) in Los Gatos, Saratoga, and have worked in Silicon Va... : Fayk
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            Bullshit - the only people around here that use that word are norcal natives who have moved here for work... : thetangent
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              I hated that word when I first moved there and heard it; I eventually started saying it. I say "y'all" n... : dognose
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                thats hella awesome y'all : chaosbot
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                  I also bark, which the Californians ignored but confuses the hell out of the Texans : dognose
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                    don't get shot :( : chaosbot
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                      I ain't worried; Southerners are polite and will ask first before they shoot you : dognose
                      • while 911 is on the line, am i rite? : chaosbot
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        I always thought hella was a Colorado thing, no one i've met out here uses it. : ColoradoCNC
        • its used a lot in San Francisco / Santa Rosa area, norCal : Demius
        • i only started hearing it after the southpark episode : dantastic
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    Seriously. It's not the 405, because there is one up here too. : Nixx2004
    • No, that's just a 405 THE 405 is down here. The one that more or less defines bumper to bumper traffic... : carbontree
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    No, it's the 405. I doesn't make any sense without the. : Jabby
    • its either "the 405" or "i405" or "highway 405". in the first case, 'freeway' is dropped from "the 405 fr... : epit
    • Try out "I" or "interstate." : KxRook
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      You could apply this logic to any highway: I-35, Route 90, Route 1..."I'm driving the 90"..sounds fucked... : EvilDolemite
      • That's not how we use it here though We don't say "I'm driving the 210 to Pasadena" We say "I'm dri : carbontree
    • Why, is there another? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
    • It does make sense, apparently everywhere else but here. I've been here near a year now and I'm still ge... : action wombmate
  • It's odd, I'm from northern california, and my wife is from so-cal, so I use a mixture of the two. I'll ... : YamatoTwinkie
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    Wrong. It's the 405. Also in NorCal, it's the 101, and the 880. Also, the 5, or the i5. : stuka
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      The I-5. I feel dumb just typing it. ;) : Nixx2004
      • It's just the 5 down here and in my circles...the 5, 405, 55 and 73. What makes it really strange is tha... : DianeOfTheMoon
      • it sounds like something a tv reporter would say. a jacknifed truck on the I-5.... nobody else says... : smax
  • Get off our back. We're serious about commuting here. : great-white
• if you had taken a picture with your phone, while driving, you'd probably be ticketed too... : TPSReport
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  is it a secondary offense in ca like it is in wa? : cpt_gloval
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    meaning they need to find something else to pull you over THEN give you a ticket for that too? Nope, t... : Demius
    • under 18 cant talk on the cell phone AT ALL.. not even with a headset : sludge vohaul
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      It's only a $25 fine for the first offense, not really a big deal. I actually just got my degree in psych... : acidnynex
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        its $91 first offense, $207 for the 2nd in san diego. : shackwack
        • most of CA its $70+ for first offense. $20 is not the end pricetag. there are fees and taxes and other sh... : epit
      • Wow, that's pretty fucking depressing. Still can't beat the lobbyists I suppose. : dkrulz
  • no, in CA its a primary. : epit
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  Can 6 year olds ride front seat in CA? In Kansas "Children over age four but under age 8 must ride in ... : rosewood
  • I think the only requirement is weight and I doubt its enforced. : FPSDavid

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• Or as I like to call it, SOULLLLL-*schpling* : Lone Swordsman
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  Just played the demo. It gets my blood going for SC4 in a few weeks. Just wish Link was on the xbox ver... : tsuba
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    That's SC2 that had Link/Heihachi/Whatever McFarlane Shit : Fayk
    • We were playing Necrid vs. Spawn bouts this weekend for a laugh. Such awful shit. : Borzoi
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  i don't understand, why would you buy this? The new one is coming out so soon... and it's virtually the s... : TPSReport
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    This is my exact same question on Super SF2 HD vs SF4 and the already released SF2:Turbo... : DOOManiac
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      fucking SF2:Turbo on XBLA is a fucking joke, it just looks so bad, even the SNES games looked better.... ... : TPSReport
      • SotN looks pixel perfect when you turn the 'enhanced' graphics aka blur filter off. : pyide
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    soul calibur 1 is regarded as the pinnacle of fighting games by many. : anthonybean
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      what ? this is a joke, right ? : qwpeoriu
      • It's definitely mine - the original Dreamcast version. Played the crap out of that. : TabsAZ
    • The reason its regarded as such is because IT FUCKING IS. : socksta
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      no fighting game is a pinnacle unless it has counter combos like DOA had. : Skoal^Fyfan
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        DOA, is that the game where the first one to juggle wins? Sorry dude SF3 third strike > soul calibur > ... : shirif
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          Pretty much any fighters are > DOA. : razlebol
          • Lol, so true man. : shirif
        • kinda like the first one to juggle in Mortal Kombat 2 won a good DOA player wont do a damn thing but c : -=kodiak=-
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        haha, DOA should not be used as an example of great fighters : derelict515
        • When you compare them to Time Killers they really are :) : ghost in my shell
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          DOA4 is actually really good (much to my surprise) but everything before it is pretty meh. *Also a big... : Fayk
          • The first DOA was actually kind of fun as a novelty for a while. Actually if we're making comparisons, th... : qwpeoriu
          • I'm not saying they aren't fun, but they're not particularly well balanced and good for really competitiv... : derelict515
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        Actually, Soul Calibur did have a counter system, or at least a parrying system. Blocking and pushing for... : Shivawn
        • a parry doesn't guarantee another hit on the other player though. You can go back and forth with parries... : Fish_Bulb
    • It's my favorite. : K1Bond007
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      Guilty Gear ftw you fags : Nighteyes
      • guilty gear is pretty awesome and all, but i think we all need to realize street fighter 3: third strike ... : JINKY
    • Controls got improved A LOT in 2 and again in 3... I wonder if they can hold to that standard in 4. : razorblade79
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      You misspelled Mortal Kombat 3 : bipolar
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        Three was plain shit, just hated it. That series peaked at two, the new series with its floaty controls a... : node
        • ultimate 3 was my favorite. : razlebol
    • And my soul still burns ... the game told me so! : cap n KRUNCH
  • 10 bucks versus 60 bucks? ... that's a lot of beer : boarder2
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  Well the demo is underwhelming. It's still 4:3 for some reason, and the sounds are mixed WAY too high, a... : EvilDolemite
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    I haven't seen a port that actually went from 4:3 to 16:9 yet : boarder2
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      Rez? : deveus1
      • Rez HD was such a great port. : pyide
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  Soul Calibur HD my ass. I didn't think it was going to be HD, but I went and downloaded it because of thi... : K1Bond007
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    HD is the new "EXTREME!" : ovrlrd
    • Super Soul Calibur : razorblade79
• I just realized there is something ironic about paying to download dreamcast games. RIP DREAMCAST I LOVE ... : ryuuseki