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  Diablo down. I'm so glad I picked up Static Field early, that's the only way I can even hope to kill a b... : nurglich
  • Yea I'm a bit afraid to tackle the big D at Lvl 23/24. I'm giving it a try tonight, non-the-less. Are you... : Lionel2b

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  FF3 works ok for me on the PC (SUCKS on the Mac)... did you try the latest Opera? : stuka
  • I may have to :(. I don't want to, I like FF, but this is real BS. The knowledgebase article says "Firefo... : steelsamurai
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    wut? FF3 is awesome on macs : jackalope
    • It's terrible on my MBP. Way slower than Safari and takes forever to start up and become usable. : ooiiioo
• Do you say, "yarr, it's driving me nuts!"? : mojo the helpr monke
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  That behavior happens to me on OS X as well, although I can still shut down and restart FF and then it is... : Johnny Law
  • Absolutely. I can barely use it. Lag, problems with flash, and constant CPU usage when idling. : stuka
• firefox could be the new norton... megabloat w/ bugs and scope creep :( : Downforce
• how's your uvulopalatopharyngoplasty? : hirez
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  Hey guys, I'm having a great time over here with Opera 9.5. lol. : thecray
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    You and the other .000002 percent of the world : Phreakin
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      (.000002%) * 6 602 224 175 = 132.044484 :( : sirkne
      • I know four other people who use opera. Jesus, I'm part of a secret society! : windowpane
    • OMG it's not popular therefore it sucks!! Am I going to lose MySpace friends over this? : stuka
  • Opera shackers reprazent : smegmar
• mine constantly exits by itself. especially when uploading photos to certain sites, it's driving me nuts.... : vov1n

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• The northern lights are pretty there. : trOmblyj
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  fgt you hit 50? also imageshack :( : moe6
  • I have 2 chars at 34 :( : trOmblyj
  • shackpics is down :( : MurrayTheSkull
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  I just reactivated my account. IS the shack guild still alive? : whistletits
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    Yes, and we have a Kinship house now. We are on Silverlode. : trOmblyj
    • What happened to the players on Firefoot? : whistletits
• Congrats on 50, thats awesome. : re-verse

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• Shake it baby! : Matt Burris
• Happy Burfday! : helvetica
• happy birthday! i turn 23 tomorrow :) : Mikuya

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• good on ya, mate : industro
• congrats! : moshman
• Hi2u gramps, grats! : lightly inclined
• holy nice, congrats! Hopefully it's been a mostly happy quarter century! : Joseph
• congratulations! : Nitrium
• lucky bastard! congratulations man! : AMikaboshi
• Congrats to you. : DM7
• Her name wouldn't happen to be Balaam, would it? Seriously, congrats! : Matt Burris
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  impressive! you are longer married than most people posting on this site have lived. : Hoax
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    Same amount of time spent without sex though. : GodZilly
    • you might be missing the irony of that statement when considering the target audience of this particular : Hoax
• You better have something better than this planned, or she'll be kicking balaams_ass ! And, Congratulati... : Githyanki
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  What's your secret? : Ryno
  • I dunno we had some rough times like everyone does. I think that she puts me above herself most of the t... : balaams_ass
• very cool. congratulations to you and your better half! : Fredrik S
• Congratulations. And respect. : [7]kami
• niiice! : MatzL.E.
• Tons of respect to you. congrats. : re-verse
• Nice job, congrats! : Merconium

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  relax. it's a great mouse. : xxiv
  • yeah it better with that price point. although i hear people are complaining about the coating coming off... : Hoax
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  It is my favorite mouse ever! : lacker
  • yeah the shape reminded me distantly of my old favorite the logitech "gaming mouse"/"mouseman 96". : Hoax

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• no one likes the new littlebigplanet trailer? = ( : Break

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  In the future, even your toaster will have an IPv6 addy. ;-P : Altanar
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    Until I can ping my toilet, the future hasn't arrived. : re-verse
    • I hear they have some crappy latency, though. : Altanar

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• 15 innings, though? : Altanar

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  who is panel 2 and 3 sposed to be : CoRDS
  • 2 nintendo 3 sony cmon CorDs!! : Chandler55
  • Nintendo then Sony. : sigpro
  • Nintendo and Sony : GodZilly
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    blues news and stomped.com : hirez
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      hahhahahah : CoRDS
      • the greenone is polycount : CoRDS
    • hahaha harsh : ThomW
    • hahaha. RIP Stomped. I'll mourn you until I join you :( : tomservo
  • I thought it was funny because it kindof makes sense either way. : fleabug
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    sony is always blue. the nintendo guy has his hand on his dick and his wiimote is alcohol. OBVIOUSLY : radula
    • #2 couldve been apple if cords didnt know the context : Chandler55
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      But the Wii hath taken over the blue since their little blue shiny light of death started illuminating li... : changejar419
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        the second panel is obviously reggie also the blue light on wii's is not "of death", it means you have... : MoreVespeneGas
        • Lol I know it means I have a message but anything that wakes me up in the middle of the night claims the ... : changejar419
  • 2 is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Fils-Aime I don't know who three is, but it's Sony I'd assume : hawkeye
• Hammer, meet head of nail. : snagger
• fuck yes, and he likes BFBC multi :D : xsoulbrothax
• Haha, I lol'd : razorblade79
• hahaha, awesome. : chazums
• nice one : [7]kami
• Oh god. I haven't had a PA bring me lol tears in a very long time. : tomservo

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  wouldn't bother with C++ for a mud : filthysock
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    that is what the mud I currently play on is coded in. : Galadriel07
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      so are windows and OSX but you don't see me jumping to write an operating system : askedrelic
      • Um... okay. : Altanar
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  hahahahahaha now that I'm done, I would not recommend C++. For a MUD, all you are doing is text input/... : askedrelic
  • the coders that i am working with already know C++ and the mud that I currently play also uses it so I th... : Galadriel07
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  LPC might be a better starting place if you're looking into MUD coding. But um, if you really want to ... : Agrona
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    no experience with programming at all. My husband and my best friend are into coding and stuff like that... : Galadriel07
    • I've used "Teach Yourself in 21 days" as a refresher and it was decent, but I have no idea how good it is... : Agrona
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    I think LPC is out due to the fact that the mud she plays/wants to work on is some sort of 1-off custom t... : zakk
    • I was going to do this and even Ratalon said that would be a good way to learn but when we compiled the c... : Galadriel07
• i recomend learning .bat files : ninjase
• Wish I could recommend something to you. I'm sure you can learn it as well, but I'm not sure what good bo... : taronish
• i like the book C++ How to Program by Deitel and Deitel. : electroly
• Google "C++ tutorials" and run through some of those. But really, if you've no programming experienc... : randomjgj
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  Since you said you are totally new to coding, I would recommend Stephen Prata's C++ Primer Plus, which is... : ahlee
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    I also recommend this book. Probably the best beginner C++ book that I can think of. The largest hurd... : Jabby
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      Pointers? Maybe until you get to multiple inheritance, and then only that until you get to advanced templ... : navelskrutt
      • Yeah, pointers. The pointer is probably the most complex tool in C and C++, and easily the hardest concep... : Jabby
    • I think the hardest part of C++ is remembering the quirks and dealing with the error puke compilers gener... : vigilante
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    awesome. Thank you guys so much. I will be showing this to Ratalon tomorrow. He knows how I learn thin... : Galadriel07
    • I also recommend getting a good IDE to work in, and learning how to use a debugger early on. Having the p... : Jabby
• Another option would be to learn Python or Ruby. Both are more net oriented and have big followings. They... : cannelbrae
• Btw I would not recommend C++ even if you're an expert. It's like 10% coding and 90% dealing with book-ke... : navelskrutt

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• awesome, i shall attend! : Dschinghis Khan
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  hirez i have to complete online traffic school for a speeding ticket i got in january tonight :( i only ... : dopeman
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    ouch. you better get crackin. : hirez
    • omg, i just extended it to august. lol judicial system. : dopeman
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  w00t, if I remember I'll be there. And when are you gonna add me to your friends list on the PS3? Eh?!... : SatansFist
  • OH, I'll do that tonight. : hirez
• I'll not be there! : ]pm[chem
• ohyeah. ip is in my profile. usual shackwest pw. message me if you dont have it. : hirez
• I'll show up if I can. Thanks for hosting, as always. : taronish
• starting up in 15 minutes. : hirez
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  great games everyone. that was some awesome TF2. thanks for reminding me why I like this game so much. : hirez
  • seriously, those were some awesome games, first time ever captaining twice in a row, lost the first, won ... : Dschinghis Khan
  • I agree, they were fun. Good games! : taronish
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    I'm glad after my brief rest from TF2 that I could come back to playing on a ShackWest night. ggs all. : bcyde
    • Same here! It was a nice way to return. ggs! : Fayk
  • yep, ggs hirez and everyone else :) : terath
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  awww I missed it : c0bra
  • so did I :( : spazzium
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  zat was fun, especially when I couldn't figure out how to rebind my spectator key :) : PlanetPerfecto
  • that was damn funny. you almost made yourself captain. : hirez
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  Sad i missed it. : Vangoghs Ear
  • Same here. It's just for east coast, starting at midnight is really hard to do. :( : kainen1

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  *gives everybody a terrorist fist jab* : xsoulbrothax
  • Is that like the black panther fist? : Phreakin
• yeah ive been most impressed with shack's coverage of E3, even more than sites like kotaku and joystiq ou... : kainen1

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• its suppressed but not gone. think of it as herpes simplex. : Hoax
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  He has the Batman insignia engraved in to his wedding ring. I think he is still a fan. : Crimsonbeak
  • if he were a real fan, he'd have engraved his wife's face on his batring. : edgewise
• Yep although I'm not seeing a midnight showing or anything, i can't enjoy those anymore i'm just too tire... : Silent Wolf

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• Etrian Odyssey II. Only get it if you love oldschool hardcore rpgs. I've been loving it. : mechanicalgrape
• I was playing Contact last night but one of the bosses made me so upset I took it out and threw the game.... : DM7
• You haven't played Meteos? That's a good one. Also, Phantom Hourglass. : ieGod
• And some NWS to appease the shack gods to aid me in my quest for DS games: a delightfully well-endowed... : Supine

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  you would either have to roll it yourself or take it to a Coinstar machine : redfive
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    where would I find one of these newfangled machines? I can't recall seeing one anywhere. : derelict515
    • Usually they're in grocery stores. I've seen them in all the shaws I've gone into. : Horn
    • I've also seen coin counting machines that'll count your cash for free and convert it into an amazon.com ... : Arctic Fox
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    Fuck coinstar. They charge way to high a fee. Just roll the shit yourself. It ain't hard. And yes, i... : riptyde
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      I would but its like 10 years of coins and that's a pain in my ass : derelict515
      • Betty will help... http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/view/Royal%20Sovereign/RSICO1000.html?source=fr... : balaams_ass
      • I had to roll one of those giant water jugs full of pennies that my mom had been collecting since I was e... : justsayno
• little kids are great for this, find a cusin or nephew and tell them they can keep some of the money if t... : papaskot
• My bank does this. They dont take a cut. Call and ask. : Githyanki
• Usually if you are a member of a bank they do this for free. : Totenjaeger
• Chevy Chase bank does it for free.. I brought about $400 in coins to them and they handed me cash. I ... : Shadowdane
• Most banks wont charge you as long as you are a customer : phate81
• you can buy a coin sorter for $50 and have it forever. I keep mine on my dresser like a piggy bank excep... : kek

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  Doesn't your cell phone have a clock? Get a new phone you hippy! : GodZilly
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    I've never owned a watch, I always just use my phone as I always have it with me *Shrug* : jbury
    • dito. : MatzL.E.
• I like my Seiko. : moe6
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  seiko is good for that type of watch. : xxiv
  • Yeah, expensive, but they last forever. : Matt Burris
• I've owned two Seiko watches. The first I got tired of and stopped wearing after about 10 years. The se... : asylumn
• Doesn't sound like this is what you're looking for, but I just bought this last week and it is pretty dam... : skinlab133
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  Wait till Apple comes out with the iWatch. : Ziz
  • Or better yet, superglue the iPhone to your wrist. : Matt Burris
• I'd go with Seiko : -Zero-
• I've always wanted a watch that connects to my mobi so I don't have to pull it out to see who's ringing, ... : pieman
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  I love my Citizen (http://www.princetonwatches.com/shop/AT0100-51A.asp) and I love my Seiko (it's a littl... : ateam311
  • Sorry, here's a repost on the Seiko: http://i7.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/a6/41/932f_1.JPG : ateam311
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  HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE YOUR USERNAME. I AM CONFUSED. : redfive
  • "Bentley hood" : Omaha
• I'd get a Seiko, personally. : nomaad

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• Yes. That is a great fucking movie. : smegmar
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  Russell Crowe should play Superman. : dodob
  • only if its something like http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog... : Hoax
• yeah, it was a great movie. Also, just watched the new rambo movie. It was pretty FUCKING AWESOME. : windowpane
• oh, and I convinced the wifey to watch too by showing her it was rated higher then the new batman on Rott... : sharkII

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• Also free iPhone VNC client (opens in iTunes Store): http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa... : Matt Burris

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  i did the same as you. i bought a fuckload of NiMH AA batteries and chargers and can use them for my xbo... : dantastic
  • I'm about to do this cause my play and charge kit's battery lasts like 2 minutes : vov1n
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  It seems like my xbox charger kit lasts about twice as long as the AAs I used in my controller. My energi... : Joseph
  • youre not using NiCads are you? : dantastic
• A lot of people have been complaining that their play-n-charge kit couldn't hold a charge for very long a... : razlebol

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  Return of the Joker is an excellent movie, and if you've only ever seen that ten minute youtube clip you ... : fleabug
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    On the other hand, Gotham Knight is a travesty. : dodob
    • On the other hand wait a 3rd hand? The Dark Knight kicked all kinds of ass. : sigpro
    • Ohhh really? I was thinking of picking it up. : fleabug
  • Return of the Joker was all kinds of awesome. The recent Batman animated feature (Gotham Knight, I think)... : lightly inclined
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  lol I love harley quinn : SpaecKow
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    Me too. I think that she could work well into the new Batman mythos that they've been working up. I... : fleabug
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      The Joker can just be like Manson and have all these kooks around him, and Harley Quinn can be his number... : SpaecKow
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        Mila Kunis for Harley? : shavenewok
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          eww no. Despite always looking like a dirty little girl, I don't think she would be proper for Harley. : fleabug
          • Yeah, I can't see her as a serious psychiatrist working at Arkham. It's too much like Tara Reid as a worl... : Totenjaeger
  • If I were a cartoon, the first thing I would do is setup a 3 way with Harley and Erin Esurance. : smegmar
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  Whatever you do, don't watch the animated Batman 2030 or whatever the hell it is, where Bruce Wayne plays... : the moon and antarctica
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    LOL. The clip posted above was from Batman Beyond. : sigpro
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      Jesus, this doesn't resemble the trash I watched on the airplane -- this is TAS that I remember. : the moon and antarctica
      • It's a special sequence from BB rendered in the TAS style. There's this and then the rest of the movie is... : SpaecKow
      • For reference, this is the episode I watched that was fucking AWFUL: Season 2, Episode 22: April Moon ... : the moon and antarctica
      • It's a flashback to tell part of the story about what happened during the last fight between Bruce Wayne'... : sigpro
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    Batman Beyond had a really rough start, but it picked up later on. The clip from the OP was from the B... : fleabug
    • Beyond was horribly animated imho but story wise it did get interesting. Honestly, the best parts though : SolrFlare
    • i agree. i liked it. : AMikaboshi
  • WRONG. You probably watched 1 episode. : boomstickah
• That was kind of fucked up... : Sebastian-TEC
• That was great. TAS & movies were very well done. : senseimoron
• i really miss that style of Batman and Superman. the newer "The Batman" animation and character design i... : Korban
• The entire batman/superman dini verse series is available to watch on joost. : stgdz

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• He looks like she's got a finger in his butt. : MatzL.E.
• He's being diplomatic by trying to make himself look as freaky as she does. : windowpane
• I bet his business cards are made out of Bone : pancake humper
• "The kids will love this! An actual black person!" : Fyunch Click

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  <price is right loser sound effect> : hirez
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    oh and that sucks. I hate when I do stuff like that. : hirez
    • There was one time I caught my mistake, and was able to smash ctrl-a, ctrl-c before the page refreshed, b... : fleabug
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  I never really understood the Time Machine feature on the Mac book pro but for those that know, could tha... : GodZilly
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    I'd say no. Time Machine in my playing around with it is more used to back up your HD in case of failure ... : sigpro
    • Hmm, ok. I watched some video of Leopard where the guy demoing used it and it looked like you could do th... : GodZilly
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  This is why I compose posts in Notepad ;) : Arctic Fox
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    arctic fox, making shacking more complicated since 2007-12-17 ;P : papaskot
    • pfffft I just hate retyping posts because I fatfingered the keyboard. : Arctic Fox
    • meh, I do that too if I had any content. : Slowtreme
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  someone should make a firefox extension to save your textareas and textfields, after page refreshes and s... : dodob
  • I think a script that added some code to the onUnload event that checks if a textarea has any text in it ... : ThomW

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  i don't think doom 3 was built around xbox 1 at all. they ported it to the xbox but iirc they had to chan... : Mansmells
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    d3 engine was built around the feature set available in xbox1 graphics cards : moshman
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      but those weren't different from pc video cards : Mansmells
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        memory thats why the textures looked kinda blurry even in the pc version. : Hoax
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          the textures were much lower res on the xbox version : Mansmells
          • and they also had to chop up the levels i know but i think romsteady mentioned that the engine was build ... : Hoax
      • they were slightly different in the pixel and vertex shader capabilities : moshman
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  tech5 is a ground up mutli-platform engine, I'm sure that Carmack has made comments on having to compromi... : chazums
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    That video on the front page doesn't look compromised! The fact the Doom4 is gonna look better than Rage ... : marmite
    • Carmack is a genius, what more is there to say? : chazums

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  Mute ? : rosewood
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    No, rosewood. : brickmatt
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      Fuck if I know. It works for me w/ FF2. I bet you have it muted. : rosewood
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        I hate you. : brickmatt
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          I came upstairs to grab a snack before bed and use my wife's laptop. I checked the front page and I thou... : rosewood
          • Was it muted? : Sebastian-TEC
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  It's happening for me too. When I open comments though, the video works fine. : Wisp!
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    That did it for me too. The problem only happens when I visit the shack, if I don't visit the shack befor... : brickmatt
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      I think it's flash being a dick. I've got the same problem here. Do you sometimes get the 'play for 2 sec... : ysbreker
      • Nope. : brickmatt
• same here, i rebooted and updated flash thinking something was wrong, still messed up : alphablu
• Use some cotton q-tips to clean inside your ears. : Poor Yurik
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  Let me guess, the video pauses after 5-10s, too? : crummynz
  • indeed it do : alphablu
  • I get the same problem. No sound on the videos, and video pauses after about 12 seconds. Everything w... : LemonJoose
• It's ok the Killzone 2 footage on the front page is laughably bad IMO so you aren't missing much there. : sigpro
• yeah its definitely messed up. : hirez
• Upgrading to flash 10 fixed this for me. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ : marmite
• wtf same here. I just even updated to flash10 and its still the same :-/ : moe6
• close firefox and restart it : bipolar
• Save your session and restart firefox. : Durandal07
• Same here. : [7]kami
• brickmatt, try playing them on your iphone. [/jealousy] : lightly inclined
• yeah, I have the same problem. and they keep pausing all the fucking time, even when they are fully buffe... : moshman
• its Flash on Firefox sucking a dick. Flash 10 will fix it : Maarten Goldstein
• Same here! No sound and pausing in Firefox. Also, opening shacknews.com in IE completely freezes and ... : moneyshot
• Happens to me with FF and Vista. Upgrading to a newer version of Flash fixed it. : riptyde
• Is anyone having problems opening shacknews.com in IE? IE can't load the page in both XP and Vista for m... : moneyshot

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• bass : smegmar
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  Guitar Hero guitars work in rockband. If your going to get it though, you NEED the drums. : marmite
  • I only own GH3 on the Wii. which I will probably own still. The DLC and stuff just is to much for me to h... : gummijoh
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    That remindes me chap, I still have your Mic at my place from our Shackmeet. : deafstarr
    • A perfect excuse for Shackmeet 2.0 : marmite