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  Beta 3 just launched yesterday or the day before. Game is really crappy even in the new beta. So much pot... : pancake humper
  • I wish I could elaborate on the beta. All we are allowed to say is: Yes, there is a beta. Yes, I... : Derringer
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  Unfortunately, there is only one formula to make a successful MMO today: Make your game as much like W... : Salad Sammich
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    I disagree. There's no room in the market for another game like WoW. They have some good tenets -- ease o... : Modica Sol Solis
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      But all you see are games that try to reach that niche but fail. Making a game today costs a shitload mo... : Salad Sammich
      • I guess what I mean is, it's not like we're talking about First-person Shooters. I have room for 20 FPS ... : Salad Sammich
      • Well, what games have come out for their respective niches in the past few years? Pirates of the Burning ... : Modica Sol Solis
      • It's fairly simple business practice that this is exactly what you don't do. The MMO market is dominated ... : spdon
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  To succeed? First recognize that gaining WoW subscriber numbers is impossible. Second don't copy WoW o... : Wombat Woo
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    I disagree with every point you have made. WoW numbers where impossible till WoW did it. WoW numbers make... : massdev
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      WoW, and Blizzard, are an anomaly. Their IP, their global market penetration, these are things that no ot... : Modica Sol Solis
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        You can't say something is a fact just because its your opinion. The future is not ours to see, and the m... : massdev
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          That proves what in particular? That WoW is an anomaly? There are games out that are as balanced and poli... : Modica Sol Solis
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            which is exactly my point, to say that WoW can't be done again is disqualified by WoW's creation and comm... : massdev
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              There is no company on the market like Blizzard except maybe Valve. That's why I don't think that WoW can... : Modica Sol Solis
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                yet "maybe" and "I don't think" is a pretty big step down from "impossible" and "fact". Other than that c... : massdev
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                  Pretty lame convo because i agree with him. I dont think WoW numbers will be repeated for a very long tim... : thewindcriesmary
                  • I guess I thought Square-Enix had just as big name recognition as Blizzard : CalibanX
        • While I would not go as far as saying his statement is fact, it is very much grounded in reality. Blizzar... : Evil Benius
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  Warhammer 40k will rule them all. : massdev
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    unless world of starcraft comes out first right? : Jayx77
    • it's murky, but "signs point to yes" : massdev
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  age of conan flopped? really? what's your definition of success, then? : Medium Heavy
  • "fun to play" : alarm cock
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    Age of Conan cost a lot to make and was shooting for a large, large number of subscribers to be chalked u... : Modica Sol Solis
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      How do you know they did not hit their numbers or that there is a huge dropoff? The "free" month is not a... : byorn
      • Every single report I've read, every single time I've hopped on the game on my friend's computer, the gam... : Modica Sol Solis
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      They've sold 700,000 copies and without a doubt, returned their investment. They'll probably have far mor... : Wisp!
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        Actually read the letter to their shareholders here: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/189401... : r_picmip 5
        • aoc is still selling like hotcakes. : italiano3d
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    WoW killer. : Pneum0
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      The only WoW killer that will ever present itself is an eventual decline in the interest of WoW players i... : Modica Sol Solis
      • exactly : grifter
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        Yup. Nothing can beat it because everyone is invested in it. The only people who switch are the more hard... : byorn
        • Exactly, i've got a 70 rogue that I did get bored of and quit playing, but instead of getting AoC or LotR... : dysfunctional
    • That is a stupid standard to rate MMO success by. WoW is an anomaly in the MMO world and not something to... : Evil Benius
  • WoW would be the definition of success at least when it comes to VC funding. : massdev
• Blizzard owns fantasy MMORPGs. RPG isn't the only genre than can be an MMO. Fantasy isn't the only ty... : walker270
• With the exception of WoW its the most together I've ever seen an MMO be in the beta phase. I'm not sure ... : aeg1x
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  I think something like Darkfall is about the only MMO (or type of MMO) that can compete at this point. W... : DianeOfTheMoon
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    Darkfall is still going? man I thought this was vapour. : massdev
    • it is : Bantis
  • I love people clinging to Darkfall when every rational thought about the source of the game, what's been ... : Bantis
• I'm going to guess the next Blizzard MMO will be the only half-decent one :\ Nothing has caught my attent... : hohoh0
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  It hasnt really seen a huge reduction in content, and the game is not in mediocre shape from a technical ... : Tommy Toolbag
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    They didn't remove any races, just four of the planned six capital cities. : Modica Sol Solis
    • Right. 2 of the racial pairings, 4 races, now have no capitals to fight over. : Tommy Toolbag
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    maybe I misunderstand part of your statement but you say Mythic realized 3 separate fronts wouldn't work.... : gendail
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      3 realms but all fighting against each other. In Warhammer, there are 6 factions, paired off, and each pa... : Tommy Toolbag
      • Ahhh ok, thanks for explaining it :) : gendail
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  Someone should make a dinosaur MMO.. I want to be a huge dinosaur and fuck up other dinosaurs : jaga
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    http://www.gamestooge.com/2008/06/05/free-dinosaur-hunting-mmorpg/ : gendail
    • mmm can I be a brontosaurus and stop cavemen? : jaga
    • Not nearly as awesome as one would've thought. : Rotten Deadite
  • Giants and Ramage, throw in some 10000 BC, and EUREKA! : massdev
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  Guild Wars 2 is the main other MMO that will "challenge" WoW seeming GW is one of the top ranked corpgs a... : thewindcriesmary
  • GW2 should be good simply because it will fix Guild Wars' flaws. Namely, too many skills and UAX in PvP. ... : Wisp!
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  warhammer will fail. that major loss of content was a SERIOUS blow : oHnOES
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    i was all for this game. but after what ive seen with this i will NOT be getting this game. they ruined... : oHnOES
    • i am in the beta, and thats all i can say about that. : oHnOES
  • I don't get this. Content wasnt really lost. RvR territory was lost. Thats the real problem, imho. We ... : Tommy Toolbag
• It took a loooong ass time to come up with an Everquest killer. The main gripes with EQ would have been t : Werkin
• age of conan is selling more games then any other mmo in the north american region except for wow. Thats ... : italiano3d

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  CGA shareware, Centipede with ASCII art and Budokan or something like that. Also Bouncing Babies : dael
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    Probably Alley Cat or Tapper - those are the ones I remember distinctly playing anyway. : hoov1185
    • Dammit didn't mean to reply to this thread. : hoov1185
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  Ernie's Big Splash. I don't remember the year. : OverloadUT
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    And my sister, who is 5 years younger than me, learned to use a mouse playing Putt Putt games. : OverloadUT
    • She used to sit on our laps pointing at the screen and telling us where to click when she was super young... : OverloadUT
  • Hey Ernie's Big Splash buddy! It was probably around 1986 for me, I was three. We even have a picture of ... : wasylm
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  F-19 Stealth Fighter, i played it on an 8088 at home, but would take it into my moms work to play it on C... : WadeMcLain
  • F-19 was my first game aswell! I played it on a Pentium 1 in 1996... I was a bit late to the party, but b... : Cliffzorz
  • ohhhhhhhh man ... this might be mine too. either this, tetris, or test drive on the ol' 8088... : smalakar
• Beats the hell out of me, I can barely remember what I played yesterday! : Goncyn
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  Prince of Persia? Who knows when, but it definitely wasn't 1989 (I didn't even realize it was that old un... : CrazyPants
  • Doom II : cyclonebee
• Leisure Suit Larry. : Thresher
• King's Quest around '88 or '89 : eforce98
• I assume you mean PC as in IBM PC. I think it was either Empire or an Infocom game. If you mean computers... : baron calamity
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  Does commodore count? Naw, so mine was either stealth fighter or x-wing. : twifosp
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    of course the commodore was a PC : dignan
    • Yea, but I always looked at it as a game device that just happened to be a pretty great pc secondary. ... : twifosp
• Rex Nebular. Costco (then price club) had it on a PC that I would play for a few moments before my paren... : smacknca
• Duke Nukem side-scroller. No kidding. : rigg5kthx
• BIGGETY BAM! mine too : sludge vohaul
• space quest 3! : mindshot
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  Artillery on the TRS-80. how many bags of gun powder? what angle? : dignan
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    first game purchased with my own money... Forbidden Forrest on the C64, tape version. such a badass game : dignan
    • Heh... Learning w/ Leaper was the first I remember, followed by Forbidden Forest a few hours later. I lea... : GMRiggs
• Company of Heroes in 2006 : spiderfill
• Too long ago for me to remember :( : action wombmate
• must be xwing or wolfenstein 3d : blindi0815
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  Wolf 3D on 5 1/4" floppy. : metalremains
  • 2nd'd : deadfish
  • Same : Head Rush
  • this. : gia-
  • Yup, me too : alnya
  • ditto : WhiteHatVeteran
• Zeliard, whenever that came out. Awesome music. : Priest77
• Something on the TI-99\4A . Myst was one of the first games that was bought for our next computer. Altho... : helvetica
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  /\ Logo. 1982/3. Does that count as a game? : dumb.
  • That was awesome. But i don't think it counts as a game. : hrdwregk
• Commander Keen - 1996, cause that's when I had my first PC, a 386. : SpaecKow
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipes : manero
  • actually i take it back. it was some sort of skiing or space-landing game on a "laptop" PC my dad would h... : manero
• Dark Forces (Demo) from AOL : AMikaboshi
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  Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on my aunt's old Apple computer. : lyme
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    the apple is not a pc! If we're talking Apples then my first was Lode Runner. I still love that fucking g... : AMikaboshi
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      Fine. Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? on a 386 in 1990 maybe? : lyme
      • i'm just giving ya shit for no good reason. : AMikaboshi
    • The Apple is a PC - especially the older ones before they dropped the 'IBM' from the term IBM PC. : dumb.
  • Oh, and this was...1987 perhaps? : lyme
  • I used to play this at slumber parties! : helvetica
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  Alley Cat : donkey99
  • i think that was my first one as well. or maybe digdug : CoRDS
• PC? how about Apple? When did spy hunter for Apple II come out...? 1984 I guess. : ]pm[chem
• Oregon Trail when I was in the third grade.. which would be around 1991. : Mmmmmoo
• Impossible Mission, 1983 : Joseph
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  PC? Sopwith 2... around 1987/88? : guido anchovy
  • http://sopwith.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sop2.htm : guido anchovy
• If we skip edutainment stuff like Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and the Super Solvers Mystery thing, etc... : Agrona
• Space Invader, something like 1985. : razlebol
• Pretty sure it was either Rogue or Zork, some time in the late '80s. The first game I remember my dad buy... : Helter Skelter
• Leisure suit larry, but I didn't own a pc until mid-late 90's, I just stayed with a friend for a few mont... : Guybrushed
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  Alley Cat and Prince of persia on school computers. My first PC game on my own computer was The Lion K... : r3ckless
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    Back then I used to think the pc speaker was the 'Sound Blaster' i had gotten installed... I was in fo... : r3ckless
    • my first sound card experience was Syndicate, that shotgun cocking, holy shit my smile went from ear to e... : dignan
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    <3 alley cat. Other old games I used to play. Jumpman, joust and lode runner. : razlebol
    • alley cat sitll works just fine in XP. Crazy. : GloriousCow
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  Wizard's Castle 1980 or so (I would have been 4 or 5, played it on a Xerox PC) http://www.youtube.com/... : Zakko
  • oh, this is pretty much how I learned to read btw. : Zakko
• Me some terrible double dragon port on a Tandy Laptop. To this day i still can't figure out why only som... : burning eye
• 1st Computer game: Missile Command on the Atari 400. 1982 1st PC game: Some flight sim I don't remember ... : Colleton
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  Alone In The Dark, 1993. :D : DOOManiac
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    Wait, that's first 486 architecture PC. If we count Apple 2's then we played a bunch in grade school b... : DOOManiac
    • my cousin stole my little copy protection book, that sucked so bad - had to call him when i wanted to pla... : dignan
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  miner 2049er pc port mid/late 90s... or maybe the c64 ghostbusters game around the same time. : j0nchan
  • 80s... i meants 80s. : j0nchan
  • That was such a fun game on the Atari 800 in the mid-80's. :) : Colleton
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  Half Life. : randomposter
  • my first FPS. update: still playing : PapaBoo
• Probably Carmen Sandiego of some sort in the late eighties. : Vincent Grayson
• An educational game where you would dig underground for precious metals and minerals. I think it was on a... : buzzbat
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  Space Quest 1 motherfucker (I had to cheat SO MUCH). Can't remember what year.. maybe around 88 or 89. : pilgrimage
  • sych a tough game, it would be impossible without any help : Smellsy
• Putt Putt Parade or some Submarine game where you had to add or subtract to do things. : Ratalon
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  Duke Nukem Not sure when it was - I think summer of 92. : rosewood
  • WAIT A GOD DAMNED SECOND Oregon Trail on an Apple II back in 1988 if I'm doing my math right. : rosewood
• Kings Quest on my friends dads computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Quest : Fredrik S
• Akalabeth or Choplifter. Around 1980-1. : Fyunch Click
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  Frogger or some cheap clone in 1994. That or a fairy tale game that I think was called Mother Goose. Then... : renegade732
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    Mixed up Mother Goose? Sierra : dignan
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      That's the one. Googling screenshots brought back nostalgia and confusion as to how I loved that game so ... : renegade732
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        i think there are 3 versions, i own 2 boxed copies. : dignan
        • http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=183 I had this computer as a kid and all the games ... : renegade732
• Flight Simulator, back in 88 or 89. But I played plenty of computer games before that on the Apple ][ : cerealSAM2
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  PC game = Prince Of Persia in whatever year it came out First game ever = Le Mans on the C64 Second... : Drewus
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    Also, the first CD game I ever played was Journeyman Project : Drewus
    • The first CD game I played was Loom : WadeMcLain
• Kings Quest 2 ... long time ago. : InfoBiter
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  Doom 91-92 ish : capt tripps
  • 93 apparently. : capt tripps
• Drowned Gods, 1996, a Myst clone, I didn't like it. First GOOD game: Duke Nukem 3D. In between: Myst, ... : dognose
• some kinda tron ripoff on whatever came before 8086's : eggnoodles
• Unreal 1999. : serenj
• Oh geez. Something on the Commadore 64c i think. : Ziz
• Some game with a duck in a red boat dodging hippos on C64, '87-88 I would guess? : painangel
• Leather Godesses of Phoebos back in the day. I need to play that again sometime. : Borzoi
• King's Quest 1, '85ish. I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work on a monochrome monitor until dad bro... : DasCracky
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  Some wack Star-Trek based game on a CoCo 2, back in... early 80's. Torpedoes were the # and phasers... ca... : carrioN luggagE
  • If IBM-PC was the qualifier, then it was stupid amounts Test Drive 2, with the European car and Supercar ... : carrioN luggagE
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  Quest for Glory V on a single-speed Sony CD-ROM in a 486 SX-25, 8MB RAM, 200MB HD. It had a turbo button... : Sapiens
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    What the fuck, I meant to type King's Quest. Fuck. : Sapiens
    • Heh. It definitely wasn't my first game but I remember KQV fondly. I think it came in some multi-pack o... : DinK
• Adventure, on a DEC PDP-10 in the late 1970s. : DrWaffles
• Kings Quest : kramweil
• JET on a IBM 8088, circa 1985 i think.. : g0nk
• chuck yeager air combat 2.0... wow. it changed how i looked at pc's forever.. : dextius
• oh gosh...Space Invaders on the 5th grade math teacher's PET in '83... We got to play if we scored an 'A'... : cap n KRUNCH
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  Star Raiders/Way Out/etc. on my old school Atari 800XL : stelth
  • Erf... I'd say about 1985 : stelth
• You guys are too young if you can actually remember this. :( : Nixx2004
• Commander Keen - 1990 (probably not the first, but the first I remember) : lonepie
• Wolf3d - 92 : adsriordan
• I think it was the original Doom way back in the day. Hard to remember. 1992,93,94? : Malaketh
• Fall out 2 on my 333 celeron : packav
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  Hellbender ... either late '96 or early '97 : te[R]ror
  • haha i remember this and Fury3. Fun games. : adsriordan
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  "Bananas". It was a q-basic game with two gorrilas on top of sky scrapers, holding explosive bananas. It ... : boughton supreme
  • Gorillas.bas man! : AgentPothead
  • The memories, though. Blake Stone, , Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Wolf 3D, Capture the Flag for Wi... : boughton supreme
  • I played that endlessly.....by myself : socksta
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  While we had an atari, I never got to play it. So my official game was Super Mario Brothers in '88. M... : mobab
  • PC games were in like '93 : mobab
• Adventureland for the VIC-20. If you want "PC" as in, an actual Intel-based machine, I think it would ... : MR 9000
• I think it was Prince of Persia in 1989. Leisure Suit Larry at the same time. I still can't belibe how ha... : Bamii
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  Commercial game, Kings Quest I. But there were a lot of random BASIC programs I played with before that.... : GloriousCow
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    ohh, i forgot about Flightmare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightmare : GloriousCow
    • and motherfucking Big Top http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/big-top by the awesome Michael Abrash ... : GloriousCow
• Limonade Stand. It must have sometime after 85. Maybe something between 85 and 87. : Marauder IIC
• Pod on the BBC Micro in 1989. : A Sponge
• I'm not even sure because I started playing them at such an early age. If the Amiga counts, then it's pr... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• I think it was Ninja on Commodore 64. : Kentor
• A game on the Commodore 64. Either Transformers, Ghostbusters, some tank game, or a motorcycle racing ga... : thejm4n
• If the C64 counts, Jumpman. If it has to be a "PC, then Castles. : zipper76
• Mixed up Mother Goose ~1988. : aethyr
• Budokon on my friend's (rip) PC. : cygnus
• Kings quest on my tandy for sure. : ryuuseki
• rise of the triad I think. : Pneum0
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  I played a bunch of games on the Apple IIe before we had a computer, but the first game I remember and wa... : BlackCat9
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    Oh yeah. I remember my dad buying me Sim City and Sim Ant and telling me I can't open the second game unt... : BlackCat9
    • So you've never played simant? : MKCluney
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  PC game? I personally played? Either the modified Oregon trail (Indiana Trail) at the Children's museum, ... : zakazi
  • I watched a lot of Chuck Yeager and King of Chicago though : zakazi
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    Indiana Trail? What kind of abortion was that? : Grumbeld
    • It was basically the exact same thing as Oregon trail but made for the museum so it said Indiana (since t... : zakazi
• Not sure I remember. I think it was Boulder Dash on PC. : AltZero
• Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven in 1998. : Atma Weapon
• Does the Commodore VIC-20 count as a PC? Or are we talking strictly 80x86 derivatives? : Arcanum
• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders in 1993......maybe. : Kaerof
• atari 800 - Star Raiders "PC" - X-Wing : beastrabban
• GATO for MS-DOS. It was a WWII submarine game, all polygons IIRC. : shyguy74
• Trains on Commodore 64 in 1983 : Tommy Toolbag
• Fuck I think it was Blockout -- A 3D tetris sort of game... I have no idea what year, I might be able ... : davidc02
• I wanna say Moon Patrol on the C64 Tape drive. : jonin
• Alley Cat maybe, altho I bought Frogger and Styx on 180k 5 1/4" floppy. Although I used to type in my ... : biofrog
• First played was Adventure (MUD) around 1976 at Stanford on a teletext printer as a 'display'. The first... : Lightzout
• Hey I think Spacequest might be my first too. There was also an old adventure floppy game I remember. I w... : djkenohki
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole on my uncle's 386 that did not run Windows, but GEOS. http... : fleabug
• Commander Keen motherfuckers : deject
• Stone of Sisyphus on my brother's CP/M system in about 1982 : retardhumper
• Dr. Sbaitso :D some time in the early 90s : n0v4
• Darkseed, came with my first 486SX/25. It was purty. : Deathlove
• First game I bought was Blake Stone Aliens of Gold. : Optimus Prime
• I'm not quite sure... I might have to say Skate or Die or it might have been Hard Ball or Mean 18. I kno... : Grumbeld
• Hunt the Wumpus on somethingorother. : jason bergman
• Sim City 2000 in 1993 on my cousins computer. : locater16
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  commodore 64 annnnnd.... don't remember :/ : reverend~heresy
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    damnit, had so many games, FIRST game can't be remembered. : reverend~heresy
    • Seriously. : Nixx2004
• Another World on a 286 : deviantpaul
• Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero( before it was quest for glory) 1989 God damn Baba Yaga!! : kelbane
• oregon trail probably : RikiTiki2
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  The first game I purchased was Final Fantasy XI. But before that I played a turn based strategy game call... : Wisp!
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    o_O how old are you? : RikiTiki2
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      15 years old. : Wisp!
      • i found the shack when i was your age :*( : reverend~heresy
      • I saw goatse.cx at your age! : SpaecKow
      • I was playing quake2 at your age. : rosewood
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        I was 15 at your age. : Lightbulb
        • c wut u did : jackalope
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        I was too busy lifting weights and having sex at your age to play games : PapaBoo
        • LIAR! : digital_d
      • I was doing lines of blow off of a hooker's tits at your age : ColoradoCNC
• Pitstop on C64 I think. For x86 PC, leisure suit larry 1 or something - was on an XT in monochrome. : dooberzoo
• Lemonade Stand on the Commodore PET in the early 80s.. on an actual 8086 it was some dungeon game that i ... : crust
• swashbuckler on apple 2c 1983 or 1984 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnER7vX7yn0 : greydog
• I change mine (Ultima III Atari 400) 1983 : capt tripps
• Math Blaster on an Apple Macintosh (?) : drbriefs
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  Oregon Trail, or Odell Lake. : ant_hillbilly
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    Every time I drive past Odell Lake I want to pull over and shoot all the osprey I see in order to exact r... : Grumbeld
    • lol : jimmy_legs
    • I always wanted to be a fish big enough to eat the osprey. Wouldn't that have been a surprise, fucker! : nurglich
• Dec-Man and Advent in 1978(-ish). Mom programmed on a D.E.C. system with 8" floppy drives. Dec-Man was a ... : AxeMan808
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  Sim-City for DOS, probably 1992 or 1993. : bRAINsick
  • actually no, Oregon Trail probably 89 or 90. Sim-City is the first PC game I played on my home PC. We h... : bRAINsick
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  Lemmings on my parents 486 or at least that was the first game I had ever bought and played. Think I h... : carbontree
  • Oh wait....totally forgot about Oregon Trail But that was in school, so it only partially counts ; ) : carbontree
• something on a TRS-80 iirc. i don't remember what though. : stgulik
• I really can't remember. Must be sometime around 1982. Probably a Texas Instruments CP/M PC of some sort. : stuka
• Zork. No graphics FTW : Daggoth
• Wolfenstein 3D in about '93, if you're not counting the Apple II as a PC. : stratedge
• Doom, didn't know about PC games always did consoles and picked up the shareware for $5 because someone a... : devi| dog
• The black cauldron, by Sierra. After that, it was things like Dig Dugg, Table hockey and then Oregon Tra... : Q-ball
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text game. : Altanar
• Captain Comic. : TastyWheat
• Tetris, Block3D and the usual stuff. Prince of Persia for the more hardcore. : MrGrindy
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  Original Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. : mem
  • Year -88 or -89. : mem
• When my parents finally purchased a computer, Prince of Persia : ctlaltl33t
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  Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide. A long time ago. : Conan
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    I'm tempted to find my Infocom game collection and start playing again. ;-) : Altanar
    • You can get interpreters for pretty much any platform ever; they still make a fun diversion for planes an... : Conan
• Depends on what you consider "PC"... Earliest game I remember playing is some maze game where you play as... : CyCo_PL
• some crap on a BBC Microcomputer : Klebold
• f-15 strike eagle for my tandy. it was a 386 w/a turbo button. cant remember what year tho : mrsparil
• I had a commodore 64 when I was about 3 and I played the hell out of it. I think that counts as a PC. If ... : socksta
• Starglider (some form of wireframe 3d space sim game gone wrong) on my IBM PC with an 8088 cpu in the mid... : Mysig
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  Probably Digger og Tapper or something in 86 or 87. I was 3 or 4 at the time, I can't honestly remembe... : evildanish
  • Same here. I remember playing Digger, which would've been a couple of years old by the time I was physica... : dpgagnon
• wofl3d and blake stone in the same day. dont remember what year. : maulla
• Tapper? The beer game that you slid beers down the bar to people. I played it on an old AT&T 8088, I be... : jingletard
• Civilisation or Syndicate back in the late 90's and just prior to when that computer decided to catch on ... : gimpness
• Codename: Iceman : themaestro2657
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  C:\DOS : voodooraze
  • load "*" ,8,1 : Joseph
• Actual PC-based would be Ultima III in 1983, but I had a C64 and a Timex Sinclair before that. : Salad Sammich
• Wolfenstein 3-D, like 1992 or whatever, and it was in - I'm not making this up - the technology departmen... : Schnapple
• Original Civ / wolfenstein. I tried to play mech warrior but that was too complicated for my tiny brain. : goatjc
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  Super Mario Brothers, 1985. : jimmy_legs
  • goddamnit please delete this (: computah game would be Oregon Trail 86 : jimmy_legs
• I think it was Zork..but I don't know. : DerHuhnTeufel
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  X-Wing I think. Around 1991? : razorblade79
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    God that game was so good... The little things like dumping power from shields and lasers to squeak out ... : lefthighkick
    • It had way more details than most games these days, too. Like that guy shouting at you at the login, or t... : razorblade79
• Microsoft Decathlon, 1982 http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/microsoft-decathlon : Scrimbo Obeer
• Technically some ASCII game but I can't remember its name. The first game whose name I remember playing w... : freshyk
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  Family had a computer back in the 80's and I have no idea what it was or the games I was playing on it. ... : breadsticks
  • Well, I forget that I used to play Quest for Glory over at a friends house, so that series may actually b... : breadsticks
• GATO on PC in '84. Before that tons of games on Atari 800 and some apple. : bombay
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  King's Quest VI, Windows version, 1992 I think? Found it at Sam's Club for $20 when it was new, I think t... : rudds
  • Yeah I found Kings Quest 1 2 and 3 bundles together in the discount bin. Dude! My favorite Kings quest w... : RubinLando
• Chip's Challenge : dmason
• quite a few games on the Commodore 64; can't remember the exact first as I was 3 or 4 at the time. : jan0r pants
• Duke 3D, I figured out how to run it on a pc that was in a sears it had the shareware version on it. I w... : fry975
• Prince of Persia in 1991. I remember getting to the last boss, and not being able to kill him. GODS i... : mallfouf
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  Battle Chess, then Price of Persia, PGA Golf, and F19 Stealth Fighter... No idea of the year : cncpun
  • Wait throw Wolf 3d in there and and f15 strike fighter before f19 : cncpun
• A text based Star Trek game on a Wang, somewhere back in 79-81. http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/wang_t... : romulan
• Some typing game that I sucked at on my brothers computer, I think it was a tandy probably 86 or so. : Turd Ferguson
• Hard to say for sure. I think it was this game called Spirit of Excalibur, or Wordtris. After that I qu... : nukewinter
• King's Quest I on the IBM PC Jr. : ChibiJosh
• Some camel across the desert game where I had to type everything in from a book for an hour before I coul... : Pettytheft
• Starcraft 1999 : flagg209
• my PC was an Atari ST around 1986, was probably playing Arkanoid or Bubble Bobble : Enigme
• Jump Joe! http://www.download-full-games.com/pc/arcade_action/janitor_joe.html : ZombieAcademy
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  My memory is pretty fuzzy in this area... but I would guess it is something like King's Quest for the PCj... : Maddog_Delphi97
  • And of course, I was playing games on other systems like the Commodore 64, Vic-20 and the Atari 2600 prio... : Maddog_Delphi97
• Bards Tale : johnny rotten
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  I think it was called Captain Goodnight and I guess maybe 84? : sixfoot6
  • looks like 85 http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/arcade_action/captain_goodnight_and_the_islands_of_fear.... : sixfoot6
• World Class Leaderbord on an IBM XT : -=kodiak=-
• I think the first one I ever played was One Must Fall. Because my dad thought a fighting game would be th... : great-white
• Kingdom of Kroz! : Blackdawgg
• I think mine was Mixed Up Mother Goose in 1990 I think? Could be others though I'm not entirely sure. : focusdaily
• Syndicate, I think. Followed closely by Daggerfall and Diablo. I also played a lot of shareware games end... : das_runt
• M1A1 Tank Platoon. Unless you count that Begin game. : Gonzo
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  I think it would have been Wheel of Fortune for the 286 computer my parents bought. We had WoF and Pirat... : Waverider
  • I retract my previous statement. It was WoF for me too. : focusdaily
• Alley Cat, 1989 or sometime like that. : spdon
• Peppers adventures in time.. No idea when :(. I was really young. : Malku
• Star Raiders ~ Atari 800 : RookieCAF
• on a "PC" ? on my 486dx: Megarace! before that, I cant even remember, there were so many on the vi... : Jayx77
• Arctic Fox on my parents' Tandy 1000. 1987? : smegmar
• hunt the wumpus on a TI-99/4A in i think '82. : skryte
• King Quest IV : The perils of Rosella I'm sure there were some before that too but I don't remember : mnok
• Alley Cat on my XT. : Nitrium
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  Quake 1 on PC. We had a Macintosh Performa 757 before then and my first game on there was Wolfenstein ... : baffula
  • Don't remember the year though :( : baffula
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  ULTIMA III for my Atari 800XL back in 1983. $50 back then was like...$1,500 today or something :D : freezejeans
  • Woot Ultima III ! I bought mine at K-Mart. : Salad Sammich
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  Dig Dug. The old DOS version not the NES one. 1992 : Sebastian-TEC
  • i had that. it was hard to find games that supported my monochrome hercules card. : skryte
• Something on the Apple IIc around 1987... probably Aztec Adventure or Dig Dug : tomservo
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  atari 2600, missle command...don't remember the year : ass-street
  • PC? : PapaBoo
• Flight Simulator 1.0 on my Dad's 8088 back in 1982. I still have the 5 1/4 floppy! : ndrew
• some shit IBM from the late 80s early 90s that we got from another family, and the first game on it was J... : Dschinghis Khan
• Some TI learning game back in 85 or 86 : ColoradoCNC

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  I have my iPhone 2g doing push email and calendars from Exchange right now and it works flawlessly. : kbaxter1
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    is there cut and paste yet? : Morgin
    • pretty sure nope : derelict515
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  if you do a lot of emailing, the blackberry has got to be the better option. the iPhone is so damned slic... : Trepex
  • we'll see i guess : Morgin
  • The problem I have is that I don't like writing emails on any phone. A short sentence or two isn't so bad... : ovrlrd
  • My problem swith BB is that you have to have a stupid special server, pay a stupid special fee per year p... : fatalsync
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  I've got an iPhone, but 8 or so people in the office have BlackBerries that we support and so I've worked... : DOOManiac
  • I don't know what weird BBs you've seen, but my BB Curve most definitely has a QWERTY keyboard. : MaxPete82
  • Yeah I noticed that about deletes and marked as read. Not so bad though since Contacts, Calendar, and Boo... : ovrlrd
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    ^^^^ This man is iphone crazy and his opinion on BBs should not be trusted. Listen, BBs won't win any UI ... : stuka
    • IAWTP. BBs are the best enterprise gizmo out there. Not pretty, but functional, and pretty well bulletp... : Waverider
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      You had me until this: A physical keyboard is undeniably superior, there's just no arguing it. Everybody : Serpico74
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        Tactile feedback is a huge thing for me, I've used coworker's iPhones and a touchless keyboard is just no... : dravalen
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          "Not for me" is a better argument than "it is a fact". Again, I fly on that touchscreen keyboard and woul... : Serpico74
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            No, sorry, I really don't think it's a matter of opinion. It's a physical fact. A physical keybaord allow... : stuka
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              I type faster on an iPhone touch keyboard than I did on my Blackberry or Palm keyboards, period. The thin... : Serpico74
              • it should say "while getting the spelling mostly correct" : Serpico74
              • First, yeah, I really think you're doing something wrong if you can type faster, more accurately and effi... : stuka
    • Oh yeah for the calendar support and all that, I use Google Sync. It syncs my blackberry calendar with m... : Galadriel07
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    My blackberry pearl has a QWERTY keyboard. Also, I use Opera Mini on my blackberry which works flawlessl... : Galadriel07
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      GMail can do Push? Or is it some special GMail app or something? : DOOManiac
      • I use this, don't know if it supports blackberry though. http://community.seven.com/main.php : DarkWolf5
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      well the email thing is a bit different now since apple licensed exchange activesync. I was talking to th... : Morgin
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        If your mail server is exchange 2003 (sp2 I think) you are golden. You can also use IMAP and pop3. : rosewood
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          I will never be able to find out what it is. I'm pretty sure our IT person doesn't like me. Oh well. I pr... : Morgin
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            Do you use outlook for email? : rosewood
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              If yes, click Tools->Email accounts and see if it is an exchange account. : rosewood
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                Its an exchange account for sure, I just don't know if we are using exchange 2000 or 2003 : Morgin
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                  Do you have Exchange web access (Outlook Web)? If so it should tell you when you login. Or just find ... : rosewood
                  • yeah i'll give that a shot. honestly there is a pretty good chance it is 2003SP2 and the it person just d... : Morgin
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                    is there a default install point or access point for web access? i haven't been told we have it, but im s... : Morgin
                    • http://<servername>/exchange or http://<servername>/oma : alnya
    • Pearl is two letters per key, Curve has a full QWERTY keyboard. : AlexXdude
  • Every BB I've seen has a QWERTY or, in the case of the Pearl, a half-QWERTY; occasionally I type my BB sh... : jan0r pants
• I just turned it on on this phone and it is stunning. : spazzium
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  If you're going to do a lot of e-mail with attachments, you'll blow through your $50/month wireless credi... : Waverider
  • rogers is doing their 30/bucks for 6 gigs thing right now. : Morgin
• Exchange Activesync beats the fuck out of RIM devices in terms of efficiency. RIM devices require everyt... : rosewood
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  Go with the Bold. It's actually possible to type and do things easily. It may not be as pretty, but from ... : ColoradoCNC
  • We'll have to see how it looks when it comes out. My biggest concern is the lack of business-orientated i... : Morgin

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• just do it, you know you want to. some of you dudes on mal'ganis should send me some bags and some gol... : Modica Sol Solis
• No don't do it! Nah I'm fuckin' with ya. Join up! DO IT NOW! : .sticks.
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  Do I have to trot out my "WoW ruined my life" story AGAIN?! : kallanta
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    did wow ruin your life or did you ruin your own life and play wow while doing it : JINKY
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      In fairness, the end of it worked out well: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17337385#itemanchor_17337... : kallanta
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        wait so what is the deal with the celibacy thing, did you have a girlfriend and not have sex with her : JINKY
        • We broke at the beginning of 2006. We fucked until the day before the breakup. I didn't take the brea... : kallanta
• I've been debating it too. I'm doing my best to wait until the fall though. : Thresher
• I'm glad I got to the point where I could happily stop playing and not miss it at all. I hope most people... : Ellissd
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  Ya know, this really bugs me that WoW always turns out to be this way for people (including myself). It g : pancake humper
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    yeah I need a good dick punch right now : jackalope
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      Every once in awhile I get the urge to resub. The best thing to do is just walk away from the PC for a fe... : pancake humper
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        lol u nub everyone idles in Shat now : moogle
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          WTH is up with everyone saying "nub" for "noob" now ? That makes even less sense. Were 4 characters too m... : Lightbulb
          • WoW promotes illiteracy. : evildanish
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            thats not a new thing... : Turd Ferguson
            • No? Guess I'm a nub then :( : Lightbulb
  • That's the problem with making a game that has such quick progression D: : Modica Sol Solis
  • You can never go back to that sense of wonder you had the first time you explored and did those quests...... : Goncyn
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    First time running through Scarlet Monastery and getting that PIMP STAFF was awesome! :( : Skoal^Fyfan
    • my warrior ninjaed that staff and actually used it for almost ten levels. : fleabug
  • As long as you are comfortable with never having the best gear it can be lots of fun. : ZombieAcademy
• Join Netflix or Blockbuster with the money you save from WOW. I've caught up on alot of movies I missed ... : metldude
• Just wait until the expansion. : five_percent
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  do it. pvp fuckin rules. : reverend~heresy
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    Aren't you usless in the PvP arenas unless you have good raiding gear? : Horn
    • no. good pvp gear is gotten from pvp, good pve gear is gotten from pve : jackalope
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  Just do it and play until the gear high finally wears off like the drugs to a heroin junky. You do it ... : zebosausamite
  • you don't get anything out of any video game then : JINKY
• ya, same a little. I mainly miss ganking people in stv on my lvl35 rogue. bwahahahahaa : AMikaboshi
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  Man since I quit I've never once had any urge to go back to that game. : NastyJack
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    I only played it for about 3 months... not years like some people so there's still a lot I didn't do/see : jackalope
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      I played it until level 40 on one character. I spent all this time trying to get a mount and then ran aro... : NastyJack
      • lol. I know what you mean. : jackalope
  • same here, but recently hearing about the wotlk alpha/beta has gotten me sort of interested. i really ... : pyide
  • that's just a lie... the urge to WOW isn't something you "never once had", sure you can stop it(which you... : TPSReport
• I just restarted and its a blast. I think I'm on my 7th copy of the game... hehe : ghost in my shell
• I've thought about resubbing to WoW a bunch of times, but I always end up asking myself, what's the point... : evildanish
• One time I had a nightmare I had resubscribed. All I could think about was how weak I was. : dooberzoo
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  self control. I play it casually, a kara or a gruuls or two a week and some BGs and thats about all I do... : Turd Ferguson
  • 3 days a week my guild raids for 3 hours. We smashed t5 in 6 weeks and are starting bt/hyjal after being ... : godm0de

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  your column is a little confusing to me... you spend the first half talking about finding out your ultra- : GloriousCow
  • The column was walking you through my thought process. I was using one of those ultra-portable cheap PCs,... : Gonzo
  • holy shit that video is crazy. AMD is bringing back the voxels baby!!! : deject
• Thank you for posting this, I really like the subject matter and am eager to read the thread : dognose
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  Im all for good graphics and all, but I would rather have dx 8 level graphics on a game that played well ... : Jayx77
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    I also imagine it would sell better seeing how you wouldnt need a crysis level rig to run it. : Jayx77
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      Yeah, I didn't have room to get into gameplay vs. graphics, but Call of Duty pretty well illustrates that... : Gonzo
      • I would disagree, Call of Duty 4 is by no means hands down better than Crysis. : Wisp!
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      its interesting that some of the most popular and enduring PC games like Counterstrike and World of Warcr... : GloriousCow
      • well I guess one would say that they end up having lower system requirements BECAUSE they have endured an... : Jayx77
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  i loved you in wild wild west : Medium Heavy
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk : warcrow
• I'd settle for medium grade onboard 3D. Something has to improve soon :( : drucifer
• mojothemagician here is thinking about running triple SLI and I think it's just damn crazy to be spending... : redfive
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  I don't think the concept of diminishing returns really works for graphics. The closer we get to realism ... : aeg1x
  • And there's *so much* we can do with increased power in terms of rendering any given "world" beyond "does... : Vincent Grayson
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    Good thought. There's a point where the realism actually kills your suspension of disbelief. Once you get... : freqq28
    • Yeah, but along with that, I wonder if it's worth the extra effort it takes to make that jump for stuff t : Gonzo
• I think that Crysis already proved that making more advanced graphics for the sake of making more advance... : the archvile
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  There is still room to grow. Real time Rendering with the horsepower to run it in large scale environmen... : SolrFlare
  • Well, but depending on the game, the amount of time required to create the art that a player will enjoy f... : Gonzo
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  I think its kind of true for current methods of increasing realism in games (texture rez, polygon count),... : 60days
  • heres some from 2006 http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=12643669 and 2007 http://trowley.org/sig2007.ht... : 60days
  • I think we've probably reached the limits of triangle-based rendering. In order to make incremental impro... : Gonzo
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  facial expressions...Valve has gone a long way to increase the realism by attempting realistic facial exp... : filthysock
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    crysis did this well... it's something it doesn't get a lot of recognition for. : aeg1x
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      I thought alot of the Crysis facial animations were square into the uncanny valley, while the Valve stuff... : Gonzo
      • To be perfectly clear, what I mean is that some of the models were really good, while some of them were u... : Gonzo
• I don't know how I feel about this issue. I thought Q2 graphics on a voodoo2 were amazing and enough. I a... : lacker
• I think we're currently at an important graphics plateau, the one of basically unlimited draw distance. ... : DinK
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  I think that we aren't quite there yet in graphics, but we are way WAY WAYYYY the fuck far away in physic... : rosewood
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    Yep. But no doubt that it will improve rapidly in the reasonably near future. : humbleone
    • The physics stuff that the physics middleware vendors were showing at GDC this year was much more impress... : Gonzo
• So, the contrast gets me too. On one hand, we have this powermiser mini that does almost all your routine... : freqq28
• I watched the Operation Flashpoint 2 back-to-back with the nVidia GTX280 graphics demo, and walked away s : biofrog

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  360 version because.... I don't own any other consoles :) : jbury
  • I'm a new member of the sucker all-of-em crowd. : Borzoi
• PS3 - Vader definitely sells it for me. : Wolfanoz
• 360, and its a good guess that most shackers will be on live. : adsriordan
• PS3 for vader : gmd
• Neither, not a big SC fan. WTB SF4. : acidnynex
• 360 : NFXFSX
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  Why would you get it on PS3? There's like 20 Shackers online gaming on a PS3 and then you add in the odd : Lunatic Angelic
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    The power of the Dark Side is strong. : Borzoi
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      You know he's just gonna be released on X360 for like $5 later right? : Lunatic Angelic
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        Is it really? : Ellissd
        • You really think they're gonna make it so Yoda and Vader can't meet each other on either platform? : Lunatic Angelic
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        yeah i'd like to think that might be the solution. : Borzoi
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          but there's no proof....i'm assuming they would do something like that, but not for at least a month or t... : Borzoi
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            The 'proof' is all those renders of Vader fighting Yoda, they gonna advertise that and then say to everyo : Lunatic Angelic
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              I think you should only use green question marks forever- they are cute. : Borzoi
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                You do know about his green thing, right? : SiW73
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                  I hope "thing" is not a euphemism here.... : Borzoi
                  • Every post has a green element. I think he missed it once. : SiW73
            • I've never seen those renders or screenshots.. You got any links? : razlebol
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    Online is free on PS3. I like that. :P : DM7
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      Yeah, that $3 a month is breaking my balls. I have to sacrifice a whole half gallon of gas out of the no : Lunatic Angelic
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        That's a partial gallon of gas, so every little bit helps. : DM7
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          If you need to save $3 a month, you got problems, like, maybe you shouldn't be buying games or systems or : Lunatic Angelic
          • He never did say that he needs to save $3 a month. He just said he likes that the PS3 online is free. ... : OmegaRed59
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            If they started charging $3 a month for anything else that's already free, would you roll over and pay th... : Medium Heavy
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              Should be free? Is that in the Constitution or something? : Fred Garvin
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                Good point! They should just charge you to do anything online on a console. Why not? lol it's not in the ... : Medium Heavy
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                  You mean they charge me to stream videos from my PC? They charge me to download demos? Don't think for a ... : Fred Garvin
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                    are you really arguing that because they CAN monetize it they should? do you have a money spending fetish... : Medium Heavy
                    • As a developer I would look for as many sources of potential revenue as possible, especially a PC dev. As... : Fred Garvin
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                  considering developers are having to jump onto consoles instead of or in addition to the PC because there... : derelict515
                  • I don't have a problem with some forms of monetizing, charging a fee for content is fine. Charging me to ... : Medium Heavy
    • Besides Vader, my friend's got a nifty arcade stick with a USB adaptor that could easily be used on PS3, ... : Borzoi
• Weren't they going to release the other character as DLC? (eg. Vader to 360) : whistler
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  PS3. Granted, it's unlikely I'll play online. : Vincent Grayson
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    but would you let my Voldo crawl onto your face over PSN? : Borzoi
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      I might give it a shot, but I don't know if I can get into fighting with people that aren't in the same r... : Vincent Grayson
      • that's what voice chat is for : derelict515
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  neither version, because I have feeling its going to lose its novelty really, really, quick. : Jackass1233
  • I'm going to Gamefly it, fighting games are interesting for about a week before people move on. : Head Rush
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    since when was Soul Calibur a novelty? : derelict515
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      Since they put Star Wars characters in it : pancake humper
      • yeah because that makes the whole game a novelty. Durr. Its not like SC2 had platform specific characters... : derelict515
      • oh come on, sc2 had link and spawn. this is just taking it to the next level : JINKY
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    I imagine it'll be just as much fun as the previous titles. Which is to say, more fun than any other figh... : Vincent Grayson
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      marvel vs capcom 2 would like to have a word with you. : Modica Sol Solis
      • And I'd like to have a word with it. If the ports weren't shit, and it was actually available on a modern... : Vincent Grayson
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      I'm used to 2D fighter purists scoffing, but I still think SC is the best implementation of a 3D fighting... : Borzoi
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        SC is ok, but it's not even Namco's best fighting game. : lefthighkick
        • (I'll still buy it for PS3 though.) : lefthighkick
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        I agree. I love that most combos DO NOT require 15 buttons and that you can string them together to make ... : Fred Garvin
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          For me it's that you can really run around your opponent and attack from the sides- not even Tekken reall... : Borzoi
          • yeah, I was blown away when I first played it and found that moving sideways was actually a viable way to... : derelict515
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      Samurai Showdown 3, anyone? HAOHMARU MOTHERFUCKERS : Juno
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        SS4! VICTOLY : Cliffzorz
        • CONCRUSION : Juno
  • online for this game is going to turn out just like DOA4 online: button mashers will rule. : -=kodiak=-
• Getting the 360 version : bigblack
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  I'm going to get it for the PS3 when it gets cheap. Vader > Yoda, and was that Kratos thing a rumor or ... : ThomW
  • Well photoshop'd rumor as far as I know. : Toth21
  • doesn't seem like it was real : derelict515
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    It's been debunked. Kratos is not coming for the ps3 version :( : razlebol
    • I guess I'm not getting it unless it gets *real* cheap then. : ThomW
• PS3, getting it for sure : Ebu
• I am going to gamefly the PS3 version. fuck yoda : Jayx77
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  PS3 for Kratos. : jayares
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    wait what, he is in the ps3 version? : CoRDS
    • No, he isn't. : node
• 360 fo sho : maulla
• ps3. : xxiv
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  PS3, since that's all I have. As long as the core gameplay is there like SC1/2, then I'll be happy, despi... : shyguy74
  • Ivy is great what are you talking about. ( Y ... : DM7
• I'll probably rent it. PS3. : tomservo
• Don't think I'll buy it until it's 20$ or less. I'm waiting for Street Fighter 4 and Blazeblue. : razlebol
• PS3, cause its the only system I have. And Vader! : the_burd
• 360, and I'll probably buy Vader as DLC since I'm sure he will be released soon, or immediately. : razorblade79
• 360 because that is what I own. I bet Darth Vader will be available as DLC for 5 extra dollas in a few w... : c_man_tmt
• PS3, I want Vader and not Yoda. Plus I hate playing fighting games on-line so no live is ok. : WadeMcLain
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  360, and the bonus characters don't factor in to it. I never played with the bonus characters in SC2, so ... : thecray
  • SC3 sucked. : razlebol
  • I'm kinda looking forward to the Star Wars guys because they actually have their own thing going on with ... : Vincent Grayson
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  360 because my wife thinks Yoda is way cooler than Vader. : ChibiJosh
  • P U S S Y W H I P P ' D : Sailor of Fortune
• Probably PS3. DPAD + Vader. The 360 DPAD is pretty much useless for fighters/anything : Judecca

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  Park Ranger? : theghostofsmdever
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    I don't know why but this is like ... my dream job. I'm sure it sucks in reality but god damn if it doesn... : strider_
    • pay is retarded low : deadfish
    • strider...a ranger? : YamatoTwinkie
  • i actually thought of doing this. I'd love this job. : AMikaboshi
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  http://www.shackvideo.com/?id=12330 It's challenging work, out of doors.... : Arcanum
  • I'm more of a demoman guy myself. Blowing stuff up and drinking lots of booze D: : NodTerrorist
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  S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The radiation is a bitch, as well as the wildlife... : zanzares
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    I would go for that job RIGHT NOW. : windowpane
    • Get out of here... : DM7
• Join an oil drilling team in the arctic circle. You go there for 3 months straight, and you come back a ... : dumb.
• Drive a tow truck. : dognose
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  What is your degree in? : ejectorpod
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    • Bounty Hunter? : zanzares
    • work as a security contractor for Power Plants. My friend's brother does that and make beaucoup dinero : drucifer
    • maybe take another look at being a cop? after 4 years of school and that internship you were probably bur... : re4ctor
    • I'd say consider another look at being a cop but if you're sure that's not for you, think about related f... : ejectorpod
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      Have you considered becoming batman? : skitzo
      • This would be my pick. : Bamii
    • start a private security firm, hire people with the knowledge and skills, sit back and collect the cash! : .sticks.
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      curious, but what turned you off from law enforcement? : proclone1
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        Life was good. A house on the Jersey side across the river. The smell of freshly cut lawns. The sounds of... : hardfl1p
        • hahahaha : dearjamie
        • hahah 10/10 : AlexXdude
        • Haha, A+ : dravalen
        • This is exactly what happened. I wish I were Max Payne :( : NodTerrorist
    • So are you not interested in that whole field, or just in being a cop? There's gotta be other related st... : DinK
    • If you have a clean past go check out the DoJ, ATF, and DoD positions. Most of the other branches are jus... : shortbuscaptain
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      What about the FBI? Still a lot of paperwork, though... I'd suggest looking into something involving trav... : Magus
      • they pay stupid low compared to other govt agencies (they start you out at like 1/2 the pay grade as anot... : deadfish
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      you and I are one and the same dude. same degree, dont want to be a cop. Firefighting appeals to me but n... : mindshot
      • That pretty much sums it up for me. I thought my current job would appeal to me but it turns out that ... : NodTerrorist
      • oh btw, u live in Illinois too : mindshot
      • Firefighting has it's shitty times too. A buddy of mine went to do it and quit after 6 months. He got sic... : Magus
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  Airborne Ranger : drucifer
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    Can't do military. I was found unfit to serve at MEPS because of medical issues. : NodTerrorist
    • ???? unfit at MEPS yet you were (assumedly) able to do law enforcement? Must have been some specific th... : proclone1
    • o.0 but... but... they'll take ANYONE?!?? : deadfish
• My brother-in-law works in the ambulance service. You can start out as just a driver, then do paramedic c... : jcupitt
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  Get a trucking job in Iraq. : 5150Joker
  • If you can take the risk, i.e. no family/kids/long term responsibilities, there's some phenomenal $$ in t... : rmjackson
  • my boss drove trucks in vietnam. He tells me stories of driving through sniper fire with sandbagged windo... : .sticks.
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  It sounds hokey but check out a book on the subject. The most popular one is the parachute book. http:... : baconisgod
  • I started reading that. It was more of a job search helper than a 'help me find my passion' type of book... : OmegaRed59
  • Yeah, this book should be required reading for anybody who ever looks for a job. : randomjgj
• Call centers are not carrer jobs anyways, once I got out , I got the job I was looking for and was suited... : ghost hacker
• Fix PCs in people's homes/small offices. Also, teach IT to adults in community college. : nrgXs
• TS is the ass end of the IT industry. Seriously, no one wants to stay at a job like that for longer than... : jasoncrowley
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  Is there such a thing as a job that isn't repetitive? : spiderfill
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    Acting(in movies and not being type cast). : skitzo
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      except the part where you recite dialogue and scenes over and over to memorize them and then play them ou... : derelict515
      • ...ACTING!! : the archvile
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    Well I mean, sure, you will be doing the same thing day in and day out. But a change of scenery woul... : NodTerrorist
    • my job provides me with just that .. I am in my office for a couple hours,,, cleaning up system data, the... : ghost hacker
    • I've started out enjoying every job I've had but eventually gotten bored. I think we're wired that way. : spiderfill
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    Yes : Magus
    • ^^^ +inf please : spiderfill
  • All job are repetitive. You paid for a certain skill. All skill requires repetition to gain proficiency... : TheArtMan
• OFFICE SPACE'D : biskits
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  I like the book titled 48 days to the work you love by Dan Miller & the process he outlines in that book.... : Nation
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    I have read both and has it helped you in any way? (curious) : proclone1
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      yes and no Since college I have always been self-employed, so finding a traditional job for myself ...... : Nation
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        I guess reading your question again ... I should change my answer to "Yes, however not in finding a tradi... : Nation
        • ah gotcha : proclone1
• A fisherman in Tahiti. : Flying h4x0r
• - find a job doing IT consulting. You get to go to a bunch of different business, not just chained to a ... : pukerat
• Alaskan King Crab Fisherman. You'll be on TV! : skinlab133
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  My cousin works the oil fields in North Dakota. Fantastic pay and no need to travel to Alaska. Plus, he j... : ChibiJosh
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    • what few women they have would be desperate........ : deadfish
• Get a Masters in something you think you'll like. It'd be a shame to waste that bachelors. : romulan
• fluffer or bank robber. : massdev
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  Learn Cantonese, move to Hong Kong, become an internet ninja, problem solved. : Juno
  • I like this idea, however, internet cooking ninja. : focusdaily

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  Damn right it is. I like being able to roll under 5 on a d20 five times in a row focus on the combat and... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • I think figuring something out for weeknights may be our key to getting more games in. It's kinda a pain... : zebosausamite
• Yes. I'm playing in an amazingly awesome D&D 4e game over on Something Awful. It's probably the best ... : ConfusedUs
• Heh... I'm still waiting for a campaign to start, but two of the players are in retail and the other thre... : Grumbeld
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  I finally got a game lined up with some people in West Chester. One week! I hope it's fun. : Goncyn
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    Aha so that is why Korban is "busy" next weekend! : Evil Benius
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      Haha, no, some dudes I found on a local gaming shop's forum. I have no idea whether I will enjoy playing ... : Goncyn
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        Honestly I never got into live D&D so I have no idea either way. I am pretty busy for the foreseeable fut... : Evil Benius
        • Meh. I will probably play a couple times, decide I don't really like it, and go back to video games :P : Goncyn
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  I wish I had friends knew people who were playing. I ordered the rulebooks from Amazon even though I'm n... : Wadmaasi
  • The new 4E campaign through the RPGA starts in a couple months, and it's set in the Forgotten Realms (the... : Bold
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  I just got finished DMing a couple encounters with my group. It was kinda tough because we only had 3 peo... : c0bra
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    Ride-My-Rocket, loboca, Chunks, and a friend of mine started today. We went over characters, basic rules... : zebosausamite
    • I really wanna go back and finish off that fucking archer. :D : Chunks
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  is it pathetic of me to want to play at 29? :( : GloriousCow
  • No, I have friends interested in playing who are closer to 40. They are too old and crotchety for 4.0 tho... : c0bra
  • Not at all... our group of five is all late 20s/early 30s... it's fun. : zebosausamite
  • Why would it be? : Kaerof
  • no more pathetic than at 15 or 22. : biskits
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    ok where do I find someone to play with : GloriousCow
    • Check out the RPGA, as I mentioned in my other post in this thread. It's a great way to meet other gamers... : Bold
  • I'm the second youngest in our group at 32, and we have 2 college profs (from FIT) that game with us. : Joseph
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  I read the PH and the classes seem way too homogenized and MMOish. I like some of the new concepts but o... : Wyvern
  • I don't know that they're so homogenized. A lot of cruft has been removed (like the ranger's magic abilit... : c0bra
  • Yea, pretty much the opposite of that. The classes are much more streamlined and at the same time muc... : Ebu
• I like it a lot. Really easy to get into. Skills are meaningful. Everyone is useful. :D : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Yeah, just played my first game today. Unlike 3.5, pretty much everyone was always contributing all the ... : Agrona
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    I was looking to pick up the new players handbook on amazon, and it's kinda hilarious how most of the rev... : Chunks
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      The guys sitting in that back room at the store thought it was funny that we were starting 4th, but I thi... : zebosausamite
      • I still pine for the days of 2nd ed, but 4th ed is fun. It does feel more like a tactics game than old f... : Grumbeld
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  Yeah I am DMing a group through Keep on the Shadowfell and it is fun - those brutes sure take a lot of ro... : Lightbulb
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    I think it works out well. It kinda makes sense that outside of specializing, most adventurers of an equa... : Vincent Grayson
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        • Rogues had a fuckton of skill points, and then you'd often have rogues with high int on top of that, so t... : Vincent Grayson

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• Uh... : Chepito.
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  ... and like a video game where nobody actually lives there : Clay
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    http://shotgun1.shackspace.com/Doombai.jpg : shotgun1
    • awesome : SockMonkeh
    • Knee deep in Dubai? ;D : DM7
    • hah nice : dromo5
    • heh yea good one : dael
    • My god that is awesome. : crummynz
    • hahaha that's just awesome : grabbie
    • lmao this is sweet : Downforce
    • Haha awesome. : Evil Benius
    • I'd inf this if I were still a mod : Odoyle
    • ahhh that brings back memories : El Tigre
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      holy awesome! I NEED the 360 port asap. (This is the game that will finally make me install a cable so I... : humbleone
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        Isn't that a pic from Doom? Which is already on XBLA? : crummynz
        • A different reality Doom. I'm not on XBLA yet, but that is my goal : humbleone
    • nice :D : mwasher
    • Heh. : thejm4n
    • UAE written on the doors. : CoRDS
    • awesome : deject
    • Wicked. : NastyJack
    • Today was pretty good as far as days go, got my quake live invite, made this image, informative, saw The : shotgun1
    • Brilliant : tomservo
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    http://shackpics.com/files/map_57r3n68l99gcq23s47bd.jpg : Trips
    • even MORE awesome ;D : r3dn3ck
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  that place is so odd, will be interesting to see how it turns out later : kelerian
  • It'll turn out to be a bunch of empty fucking buildings. : ThomW
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  Dubai will give birth to zombies. You heard it here first, folks. : Modica Sol Solis
  • I think I might put $20 on this next time I go to vegas. (you can bet on anything!) : virus
• Looks like that one sky level in Warhawk : grayscale
• they need to expand outwards instead of making it one long strip : gmd
• that's some artists conception? : derelict515
• that look fake, : mindshot
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  That's the first picture of Dubai I've ever seen where it's not dusty as all hell. Seriously I love what ... : sonicdeathwalrus
  • not like they have much to work with : kelerian
• reminds me of the movie brazil in a weird way : ass-street
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  Looks like simcity also nice to see american dollar spent well : Flynn
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    Almost all of the owners of those buildings are Middle Eastern oil barrens. Very few Americans own anyth... : Altanar
    • That's the point. It's money they got from Americans being paid largely into the American economy, since ... : SpaecKow
• Looks like the final level of Crimson Skies for Xbox. : ChibiJosh
• 1991 vs 2005 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2007/07/dubai_changes_rapid_comparison... : theghostofsmdever
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  How do they go about getting those cranes off the top of those buildings? : cyclonebee
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    Bigger cranes : Trips
    • Either that, or the cranes stands on a platform that is always above the topmost built floor. : SilverSnake
  • rockets : datoo
  • Gravity : DrWaffles
  • King Kong. : Jumperus
  • you're all idiots. Superman has to make a living somehow. And now you know how. : .sticks.
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    Haven't you seen the news? Same way we do over here, push 'em off and let 'em land on people. : Magus
    • but they'll just get stuck in the clouds : delataur
  • bigger buildings : walker270
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    the cranes are built from sections of supporting steel that are attached to the building. as the buildin... : dromo5
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      yes, but how do they get them OFF? not on. : thecray
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        In London I saw cranes that could raise or lower themselves on the vertical scaffolding. Place a section ... : Jonathan
        • Oh... Ten seconds of research shows they put the new sections at the bottom of the crane scaffolding and ... : Jonathan
      • helicopters? : GloriousCow
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  don't forget this: http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8579/imresolt28bv6.jpg : kungfusquirrel
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    What is total madness is they are planning a building that is far taller than that one. http://forum.s... : stump
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      nearly a mile, how fucking long is the elevator going to take jesus. : gmd
      • Fast if they put rocket boosters on the bottom of the elevators. : stump
      • Wonder if you'll have to change floors too. : Githyanki
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    i can say without a shadow of a doubt that i do not have the balls to work on those cranes on top of the ... : xsoulbrothax
    • fuck ya. You need huge balls to work on one of them :x : AMikaboshi
    • even crane operation on normal ground is considered on the most stressful jobs in the world. : moshman
    • The problem is they pay peanuts to the poor east-asian men who build them. And they try sending money ba... : cncpun
  • cock. : focusdaily
  • im amazed it hasnt fallen over yet. remember watching a couple doc's about the building on discovery c... : -=kodiak=-
  • I'd shit myself just getting near the window. : NFXFSX
• and this is the building where i count my oil monies, and this is the building i run my global diet pill ... : XchumpoX
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  I wonder what their plans are for if when the growth finally slows down there an all the contractors and ... : action wombmate
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    Also pretty amazing photo right here http://www.fuerstleur.com/images/gallery-burj-dubai-tower-small.jpg : action wombmate
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      imagine having the penthouse suite, baller ! : gmd
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        Shit dude, they're still adding like another 30+ stories on top of what you see there, afaik. : action wombmate
        • jesus christ : gmd
        • http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2008/07July/BurjJuly0702.jpg http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/prog... : kungfusquirrel
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      Shiiiiit. What kind of camera took that picture? The resolution is insane. : ChibiJosh
      • It's gotta be a composite image or something. That image alone is 30MP, and of course it's a funny shape... : DinK
    • SimTower Revolution! : packav
    • small.jpg : SlamDunk
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    I think their plan is to build a lot of insane shit now while the oil money is pouring in, so that when t... : DinK
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      the nukes will destroy it before people can go there. : mindshot
      • we'll blow up the big pretty decoy buildings while they all go hide in New Dubai : DinK
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      very little of Dubais economy is from oil : aeg1x
      • Exactly. It was originally built on oil and they're going to be running out. They already have a lot of... : DinK
  • 30 years there wont be anything there but sand again... like 30 years ago. : chilln
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  That is just about the coolest picture I've seen of the place. : ColoradoCNC
  • Until the rotating skyscraper is done, at least. : ColoradoCNC
• OMG its Bespin! : Jayx77
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  I want to visit that place one day. : jayares
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    But why though? Besides all that super cool skyscrapers it really sounds like an awfully boring place to ... : Ellissd
    • Mostly just to see that. Just seeing the great pyramids made spending half a week in that fucking shithol... : lapskaus
• do you have a higher res version of that? : Dan 101
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  I like Dubai's architecture too, but let's not forget that it's still not a free-wheeling paradise: ht... : Grumbeld
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    faces four years in jail or deportation if he is found guilty. I'll take deportation, please. : lacker
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      Yeah, I was happy to see that he got that choice. The story's a bit old, but I heard it from a DJ after ... : Grumbeld
      • This really should've been obvious. If you're entering an Islamic country it's just common sense not to ... : TwiLyght
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    i wonder how much time you'd be looking it coming through a US airport with weed : GloriousCow
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      SimTower Revolution : packav
      • oops! : packav
• anyone know of a high resolution version of this shot? : ezanga
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  This was posted a while back: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6179432634249787416 It's over an... : SeaLlama
  • It's like a futuristic supercity! : Reeves
  • cool, thanks for posting : doomed
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  that picture is taken from the top of burj al dubai btw, not a helicopter : aeg1x
  • So it's a real photo? At first I thought it's CG... O_o : razorblade79
• where's the obligatory godzilla chop? : SlamDunk

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  Jesus tittyfucking christ AB. Everything you say is a constant reinforcement that you may just in fact be... : ryuuseki
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    Well were you exactly riveted by the plantation scene? It was fucking pointless. : arizona bay
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      Redux isn't a great place to start as a new viewer. The theatrical release is awesome on its' own with th... : cygnus
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        Yeah I'll probably end up getting the original cut from netflix after I return this one. There are many ... : arizona bay
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          I also never saw the original. But the French farm scene was pretty shit, in my opinion. It just didn't r... : code-e255
          • That's what made it interesting for me. There were those people living there like that, which isn't what ... : nudel
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      I don't have enough of a problem to not just wait it out instead of having to inform the internet that I ... : ryuuseki
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        Well sorry I thought this was a message board I'll make sure to point out next time you make a pointless ... : arizona bay
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          I look forward to crushing your ethnic heritage in the future race wars. : ryuuseki
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            bro you just made a pointless post, i would never sit around informing the internet that id crush anyone ... : arizona bay
            • Get a room, you two! Your sexual tension isn't interesting to the rest of us. : Bold
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              lol...did you really just write "bro" in an internet post? : ColoradoCNC
              • At least he didn't write brah : Horn
              • http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=bro&cs_user=arizona+bay&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=all : arizona bay
    • I think the plantation scene is excellent but on a first watch it may ruin the pacing of the film. Hav... : nudel
  • hahahaha, so true : Drewus
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  I didn't like the Redux either. It felt kind of indulgent, and the pacing seemed way out of whack. : MKCluney
  • Yes. Normal movie is amazing, but the Redux is just a huge helping of "ok this isn't necessary". : Audhuml4
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  the FPS is awesome, it foreshadows the entire american police action, it happened before, it will happen ... : massdev
  • Yeah I really liked that scene... I remember it made me laugh. : Toth21
• I can't image anyone doing Apocolypse Now better than it's already been done. And that's one of those mov... : CrazyPants
• You should have watched the non redux version first. : soggybagel
• i havent seen any form of that movie. or saving private ryan or most of the other war movies. i dont like... : CoRDS
• the Redux blows. Watch the original : mista mista
• That plantation scene is awful, glad they cut it. : NastyJack
• Redux is super boring IMO. :( : K1Bond007
• The original version is better. Watch that, then Redux if you want more. : Serpico74
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  The French plantation scene is important - it actually dares to address one of the international signific... : SpaecKow
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    But it detracted from the pacing of the movie. I ended up finishing it, but the Redux version, as a firs... : arizona bay
    • the pacing is intentionally different, its a respite; historically trying to teach a lesson which the ame... : massdev
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      It's a slow movie to begin with. If slow movies are an endurance test for you then you aren't getting the... : SpaecKow
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        the pretentiousness of the shack never fails to amaze me and is something i constantly strive for : arizona bay
        • arizona gay : SpaecKow
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          you find Apocalypse now pretentious? Just stop watching movies in general then. : swoopx
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            no i find shackers pretentious because they assume slow movies are an 'endurance test' for me because i d... : arizona bay
            • I agree with you, that sequence was better left out. : ZombieAcademy
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              Complaining about 20 minutes of a 3 hour film is like trying to ride a glacier and complaining that the w... : SpaecKow
              • You talk too much. : -Panther-
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                The movie is slow but interesting. The plantation scene is slow but boring, painful to watch because I ju... : NastyJack
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                  Well that's why there are two cuts. For people like you who don't care and for people like me who do. : SpaecKow
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                    Ummm what does caring have to do with it? You act like there has never been a scene cut from a movie that... : NastyJack
                    • you know what directors cut sucked? bad santa....terrible. : mindshot
                    • You just posted that the scene is boring and painful to watch because you "just don't care". Fair enough.... : SpaecKow
                  • And then there's people like me who don't watch either because they are both pretentious. : dkrulz
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                jesus christ can you shut the fuck up already : arizona bay
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                  Hey you know I was gonna post the same thing! : SpaecKow
                  • why dont you try getting the fuck out of my thread instead : arizona bay
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          I felt the same about the transformers hype, everyone thinking they're so smart because they "get it". C... : 60days
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            I don't think you understand how this works. People liked Transformers because it was a popcorn movie, no... : derelict515
            • POPCORN MOVIE : skinlab133
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              oh so now I'm stupid because I don't understand the film. This is why people make films like Transformers... : 60days
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                what the hell are you talking about. seriously what in the hell. : datoo
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                  I thought I'd illustrate a point by claiming transformers was a pretentious film, since so many people he : 60days
                  • Yeah I'm still confused, but I do agree that people saying someone is pretentious because they like good ... : datoo
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                ... you just missed the point in exactly the same way as your last post. There is nothing to 'get' ... : derelict515
                • I dont get how fuicking robots from space can transform in man made vehicals that the yhave no prior know... : mindshot
    • Yeah, I agree... it's a nifty aspect of the war, but the movie simply grinds to a halt. : five_percent
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  I can't imagine the movie without the plantation scene, all this hate for it makes me :( : daedraug
  • I agree. I like how this really plays on the political and personal aspects of imperialism. : i am the baker
• The book was better :/ : sharkII
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  I haven't seen Apocalypse Now Redux, but the original I saw in glorious 70mm in a theatre, and it is the ... : woddemandred
  • Same here. : CrabsJarrard
• Watch the original if you can. I found it a lot better than Redux. : Altanar
• Yeah, I didn't like the plantation scene either. I thought the original was just fine the way it was. : Ride-My-Rocket