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• what : JINKY
• you're just a pussy. 68º is perfect sleeping temperature : Korban
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  its awesome, stop complaining, you aren't paying for it. : conandan
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    If I'm a guest in this house they better start treating me like one ;) : melt_core
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      and you better be happy with what you get : conandan
      • You're a bad host :( : melt_core
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  damn dude, a good sleeping temperature for me is like 62. i turn my air conditioner on full blast with t... : electroly
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    except for like two months out of the year, i sleep with all my windows open and the ceiling fan on full ... : JINKY
    • I think you all live in an ice cream store. : InflatoMonkey
• im with you, thats too damn cold. : QMS|superdave
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  My roommate did that this weekend to impress some girl. We never have it that low otherwise. It was reall... : InflatoMonkey
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    How does this impress a girl? : KxRook
    • she was amish. : sharpie
    • Hard nipples. : GodZilly
  • Cold does not promote clothing removal. : Halen
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  Depends on where you live, I guess. To a Texan that'd be pretty cold, not to mention completely insane as... : systatic
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    Yup, it was 68 when I first moved here from California, now it's 74 : dognose
    • I had a friend back in VA who always had his set at 68. I'd wear jeans over to his house in the summer t... : riptyde
  • yeah it really blows my mind that people run ac 24/7. Such a waste of energy. : aeg1x
• I turn mine off at night and do windows + window fans. I can get away with that because of the low humid... : riptyde
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  I have mine set to 78 and I live in Maryland you fucking psychos. : SockMonkeh
  • We have ceiling fans in every room, though. : SockMonkeh
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  70 is freezing. I keep my AC at 85 and I'm perfectly fine, in FL. : Trips
  • And this is why your state has its own tag on fark. : rosewood
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    those are both pretty ridiculous temps. 76-79 are the only temps worth considering. anything else is just... : feek
    • iawtt : kronetic
• 65-68 is my ideal temp indoors, I have a hard time sleeping when it's over 74 : randomnull
• Just more of a reason to sleep with a comforter... I hate sleeping with just sheets. I keep mine at 70 o... : TheNiXXeD
• It's simple, really. You can always put more clothing on, while there is a very real limit to how much y... : mafu5150
• I turn it off at night because I am poor. :( : nevicata
• Don't your vents have a way to close them partial or all the way? : Reavers!
• Price for electicity seems to bee too little still. : MatzL.E.
• Shit, I thought you were talking Celsius for a brief moment there. : Bonestormm
• 74 @ night , any warmer and I can't sleep well. 76 during the day, sometimes cooler depending. : rmjackson
• I loved living in NJ cuz I could crank the AC to 68 ALL DAY, EVERY DAY... it kind of made me feel like a ... : heartsauce

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  Why did you go see it? : freshyk
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    my dad, aunt, and uncle all wanted to see it. I wanted to see Dark Knight but they didn't :[ : wtf242
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      Your family is lame. : lplasmatron
      • second. : itsjeff9
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        I wonder if they went out for dinner beforehand, and if so, where? : focusdaily
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          Applebees. : heartsauce
          • Yeah. : focusdaily
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      so, you STILL have not seen dark knight? ... :( : Demius
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        nope not yet : wtf242
        • Oh man, what a waste of a day : Serpico74
        • It will be out on DVD : dognose
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          me either :| : Sapiens
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            wait for the broadcast television premier! : qu1nton
            • oh man, imagine watching it with commercials? : Chandler55
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      Why the hell did they not want to see it, but want to view Mummy?? : EvilDolemite
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        Maybe they saw it already? : dognose
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          I'm thinking a 2nd viewing of TDK > Mummy still... : TheNiXXeD
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            Or they could just see Wanted a 3rd time : dognose
            • The is the correct choice. : Halen
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  first one was pretty decent, second one was very meh. : Dschinghis Khan
  • ^^^ this : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  the new one is missing the one thing that made the others watchable. : Degenerate
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    An ex-wrestler with an oily chest? : melt_core
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      I believe he's talking about Rachel Weis or however you spell her name. Still, I found The Mummy to be f... : Grumbeld
      • Still missing The Rock though, the badass motherfucker he is. : focusdaily
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  The first was fun and cheesy. The second was slightly less so, but still not bad. The third was terrible.... : pupismyname
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    The Mummy is the Jaws of the 21st century. : the archvile
    • I think understand the point you were trying to make, but please don't compare The Mummy to Jaws anymore. : pupismyname
• Never having seen them myself until recently, I rented the first two in hopes of having a marathon a whil... : ieGod
• yeah my friend fell asleep during the first one. i wished i had at the end : kill9
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  i knew it would, the polar bear line in all the tv spots confirmed that. : mindshot
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    those are not polar bears. they are yetis : wtf242
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      hahah abominal snowman rather : mindshot
      • same thing : papaskot
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  First one was good mindless fun. Second wasn't as good but had it's moments. I refuse to watch this one... : riptyde
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    and Rachel Weisz is so adorable in it, I just wanna spoon her naked while putting her in a headlock. : edgewise
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      haha what the hell :D : jbury
      • you got a boner from that too? : Mikuya
• Jet Li strikes again. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I saw the second movie first and it was terrible. I went with my nephews and for about a year they kept ... : ThomW
  • "pretty decent" is the best thing you could say about the high points of this franchise : dopefish
  • The only part in the second one I got a kick out of was the undead midgets. The wife and I looked at eac... : genom
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  I love both 1 and 2, although I'm pretty alone with 2 it seems. I saw 3 in the cinema and want my money &... : razorblade79
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    I loved 1 and 2, haven't seen 3 yet though (and I didn't think much of the Scorpion King) : jbury
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      They replaced Rachel Weisz with some random woman, took me like half the movie to adjust my brain to that... : razorblade79
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        Main reason I'm not too interested in the third is it's a mummy film without Arnold Vosloo.... I mean he ... : jbury
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          Yeah, I liked how he wasn't as one-dimensional as you'd expect from a mummy. I'd be pissed too after spen... : razorblade79
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            Yeah I was the same at the end of part 2 - you almost forgot he was the bad guy. I really don't know i... : jbury
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              Watch it on DVD and thank me later : razorblade79
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                Is there.... extra footage? : jbury
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                  No, I just ment, don't bother spending the money on the ticket. If you really want to see it, rent it lat... : razorblade79
                  • ^^ I guess a couple ,,, are pretty random up there : razorblade79
  • I also liked 2. It was really stupid but pretty fun right up until the end of the film. I havn't seen ... : Sexpansion Pack
• Mummy 2, Van Helsing, and I Am Legend are the three worst movies I've ever seen in a theater. : Poor Yurik
• The first one is awful and I still hate everyone for saying it was good and causing me to buy the DVD whi... : nudel
• You know I like the first one. I like movies where there's a narration about EPIC THINGS HAPPENING eithe... : SpaecKow

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• The demo is awesome. I plan on getting this at some point. : K1Bond007
• I love it and hate it . It's not a game I can plow through in a few hours. This is one game that I'll hat... : Pettytheft
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  Great, but the later puzzles make me feel completely retarded. : Serpico74
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    Strangely, I found the later puzzles easier. I really struggled on the first 2 worlds. Something must hav... : nodebug
    • That makes sense. I only played for two hours one day and I finally stopped because some of the world 4 a... : Serpico74
    • The only world I struggled on was the one where you have to use the ghost of yourself to do stuff. Wrappi... : Drewus
• great : locater16
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  It's pretty damn good. I wish there were more games like this on XBL (good quality, original platformers) : Drewus
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    While I think Braid is good, I'd like to see something similar with more platforming and less puzzle. : Halen
    • I loved Braid.. but I hear you.. we need more 2D platforming goodness. : cause&effect
    • Yeah I don't mind a straight platfomer, just as long as it's awesome, it's original, and it looks as good... : Drewus
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      There are millions of those games though. It was lovely to have something which tested thinking instead o... : nudel
      • I guess I should have clarified, but by similar I meant of a similar quality level. Of the millions of t... : Halen
• Belongs to a XBLA collection of every respectable gamer. : MatzL.E.
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  I wish it would appear on Steam... or the PS3, either one. : five_percent
  • It's coming to PC, but probably not on Steam. : rock elf
• Every time I get to a new world I just say WOW. : DarkWolf5
• Just finished it yesterday. Added to my imaginary "favourite games of all time" list. : nodebug
• The latest 1UP Show videocast has them talking about this. Sounds like a really cool puzzle game. : mrwolf710
• is this a serious post? : paravis
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  Definitely. it's as if it's based on the emotional lives of shackers! <- actual spoiler : woddemandred
  • yeah, I too felt an emotional connection to the narrative to a certain degree. call me emo :( : Goblin au
  • I like the way you move : focusdaily
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  Bought it off the strength of all the positive reviews. I highly suggest trying the demo first. Personal... : AgentPothead
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    Out of interest, what didn't you like? : marmite
    • I just didn't dig it. I ran through all the levels, picked up maybe 1/2 the puzzle pieces. Then I realize... : AgentPothead
  • Well you suck then! : Drewus
• It's awesome. Well worth $15 even if you only play through it once and don't do the speed runs or hunt th... : nudel
• It's great and also rage inducingly difficult in some parts. BUT you dont really have to do all the parts... : Rauol Duke
• I got it, and it's very tough. If you want a mind-bending challenge, get it. : ThomW
• If you enjoy the demo, the full game will not disappoint. : Dan[WSB]
• I don't like it. Most people are raving about it, I find it very disappointing. I bought it thinking it w... : baron calamity
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  overhyped IMO. It was a fun game but the praise it's getting here is a little over the top. : pancake humper
  • It was good, but yeah it's not amazing. Same with Portal :) : Drewus
• I loved it. : lplasmatron

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  I actually fixed the IE thing this morning... \m/ Had to decipher how to get the Windows mobile emulato... : stonedonkey
  • Awesome. I was actually expecting a bunch of replies to the effect of I FIXED THAT LAST NIGHT U BUMBACLOT... : Dave-A
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  lol what did pancake humper do? : Flying h4x0r
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17615202 : SilverSnake
    • fuckin LOL!! : g0nk
    • ahahah that's awesome. : Flying h4x0r
    • THAT BASTARD! Who cares about that slut? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • MOTHERFUCKER WILL PAY : jingletard
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  lol you guys are a bunch of nerds. : ThomW
  • Oh you'll always be the king, Captain LOLlypants! : Dave-A
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    Still waiting on the lol page api. :) : stonedonkey
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      I'm curious about this, too. I definitely want to add LOL button support to the command line app. : electroly
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        Check your Shackmessages : ThomW
        • Got it. Should be pretty easy to implement, I think. : electroly
        • I would like this information as well good sir. : stonedonkey
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  My ShackAlerts application will hopefully be launched today! : podman405
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    hmm, maybe more like tomorrow. had too much to do today. : podman405
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      You've heard of Shackrss, right? PS Fix it. I can't figure out what they're doing to prevent me fro : ThomW
      • Shackrss by Scksta and fleabg? : Dave-A
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      Actually, nevermind. It's kind of finished. I'll make a post once it's online. : podman405
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        crap. dns propagation takes a long time. : podman405
        • I want to see it. What's the URL? : ThomW
• Too bad about the LC.app :( : packav
• You missed one! http://www.shacknews.com/latestchatty.x :-) : nudel
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  How do I actually download the iPhone thingy? : pgharavi
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    It hasnt been approved by Apple yet. : nodebug
    • ok tks. : pgharavi
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  It's not my fault FPSDavid works at Apple :( : pancake humper
  • Don't you have to be 18 to work there though? : mrvandelay
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    what'd you do? :( : Thomas Hace
    • It's been posted in this thread already, but here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17615202#iteman... : pancake humper
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  why are you booing the cake humper? he showed you massive juggs that ya'll would have begged for. just be... : MoreVespeneGas
  • your rationality has no place here : Thomas Hace
  • they were photoshopped or fake or something, so it wasnt worth it :( : Morgin
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  I thought it was Stone Donkey :( : meesterbill
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    I always read it as Stoned Donkey for some reason. :/ : hoov1185
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      Stone Donkey damn yous! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16626505#itemanchor_16626505 : stonedonkey
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        Ya coulda just gone with RockDonkey : Dave-A
        • Or HeavyDonkey : hoov1185
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  I still work on http://jsphar.com/shack/reader/ on occasion; next up is to make the full OP expand on cli... : jan0r pants
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    hey that's a nice summary! : Dave-A
    • Thanks; now clicking the preview will expand it into the full post with double-click re-collapsing it; ju... : jan0r pants
• thanks for the WinMo app! : prime8
• I like stoned donkeys page in mobile ie but you can't see any threading, it makes it hard to use, but its... : snowwolf
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  I wish I could mod posts from LatestChatty App. : brickmatt
  • that actually wouldn't be too hard... : Dave-A
• Shackin' from a Q9C. And it doesn't take a bajillion minutes to load one thread! woo! god I hope this : draconic
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  someone please ban pancake : ErneX
  • also: stupid Apple, it is OK to see porn on MobileSafari but not on Latestchatty.app? sigh : ErneX
• We need to write a Firefox plugin that combines lol, inf, shackmarks, preview, shacktags and post colorin... : Clay
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  What about Symbian? : sr71photo
  • I think you can use the web-based ones mentioned above if you don't have WM or an iPhone : Dave-A
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  I can't wait for LC.X reader to be more advanced. My Blackberry needs shack love :( : Poor Yurik
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    tomorrow should bring good things : fletch_
    • i'm not gonna wake up in mexico missing my kidneys, am i? :( : Poor Yurik

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• You've making me want to try this game again. I have tried three times to play this game and every time I... : OverloadUT
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  Thanks for the link. BTW you put a period on the end of it. http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-so... : ShoCon
  • Thanks for this. I'm playing Stalker again atm. Guess this gives me reason for a 3rd play thru. :) : coyoterys
• those fire effects were awesome : Thomas Hace
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  Does this work w/ the steam version? : PoopStewart
  • I'd like to know this too! : dewdman
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  the game is scary enough without the pitch black.. fuck me! : malloc
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    Yes. I don't venture out at night, one of the requirements with OL is that you must sleep or else over 3... : RyDogg1
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      I can't image going into a few of those towns that are full of those fucking invisible monster things whi... : d0gbert
      • Try a courtyard of them slowly taking out the military. I didn't waste a single bullet. : RyDogg1
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  Would it make more sense to use ZRP the first time? Sounds like there are some story changes with OL. : zanzares
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    No, all the events can still be triggered etc, but the major change the blowouts that happen at Chernobyl : RyDogg1
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      Do you at least get the ending cinematic assuming there is one? : zanzares
      • No the game does not end the last portal of the real ending takes you back to the courtyard in Pripyat. : RyDogg1
  • Yes, use ZRP for your fist playthrough. OL is a complete overhaul with many many changes. : datoo
• stalker is a goty-class game. and when I compare it to mass effect pc it doesnt look so buggy anymore. : Luminair
• Me too. I've been playing STALKER with Oblivion Lost. It's fucking AWESOME. : Rice-Rocketeer
• I never heard of this mod... its about time to return to the zone. Thanks for the post! : stygian_whisper
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  Is this a good mod for the fist time you play or will it mess up the story? : baronzemo78
  • No, I'd probably save this for the second run through, the mod maker says to play it on the hardest diffi... : RyDogg1
• God, I hope these mods get ported to Clear Sky. : zehh
• don't do mission at night before having night vision, or you will shit bricks. : TheFatMom
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  I stopped playing after about a week of playing STALKER since it was fairly buggy and I didn't find the s : Bamtan
  • With this mod you can go anywhere in the game. The loads between maps are there but the maps themselves ... : RyDogg1
• Wow that looks awesome I'm going to have to try this mod out : dilutedq
• This mod is fucking awesome. Everything feels way more dangerous, including yourself. Lots of cool stuf... : filtersweep
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  Back to the Zone: Night Three http://www.xfire.com/video/19a1f/ After sleeping the rest of the nig... : RyDogg1
  • does this game add something to the graphics? It looks a lot better than I remember. : dilutedq
  • I love this thread :) : tomservo
  • Eh, but the AI still sees you even in the pitch dark. I think this would be way too frustrating, although... : Damodred
• this mod reminds me of the AMK mod, which added in all sorts of cool features, like NPCs looting corpses.... : ballystix
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  This game looks and sounds cool as hell. Is there any reason not to buy it? : hoov1185
  • Not really. It's a great game if you like the sandbox style with RPG elements. It's an FPS at its core th... : tomservo
• This might call for a replay : Mondo
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  Back to Zone: Night Four I slept in Strelok's hideout in the sewers. After hearing a mutant chomp in... : RyDogg1
  • nice, i like the rats.. : deathofrats
  • That guy scared the living shit out of me. : sanchez
  • Damn, that looked cool. I may have to buy this! And a computer to play it on.... : Dave-A
  • when I played this mod, it was on hell difficulty, and there was 2 of thoses fuckers in that place ... : TheFatMom
  • That guy scared the hell out of me the first time I ran into him. : CrustaR
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    Christ I hate those assholes : tomservo
    • PS Please keep posting these :) : tomservo
  • My buddy told me about that monster when I went to his place to check the game out and he sat me down in ... : Poor Yurik
• god damn you. : Degenerate
• I'm not sure if thats the mod I installed but I couldn't even get out of the first camp and get halfway u... : cell9song

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  so the azns should lobby for computer making events so they can dominate those right : FrayLo
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    and then the mexicans should be great at the biking events because they are used to stealing peoples bike... : FrayLo
    • http://niggastolemybike.ytmnd.com/ Nigga stole my bike! : coraldayton
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    don't forget piano! : Prozium
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      Piano playing? I doubt it would work. That probably would require judges to score and we know those type ... : yellowtexan
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        i understand why people dislike the 'subjective' events, but i just don't agree - i think diving is a pre... : FrayLo
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          The first country to genetically engineer coneheads will dominate at diving. : Prozium
          • i'm sure china is working on this now : FrayLo
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  Do the americans let some of their Military sharpshooters compete? : buzzbat
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/sports/olympics/10marksmen.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss : FrayLo
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      A world-record holder in skeet shooting, Hancock, 19, knew he would probably never take aim at an enemy t : FrayLo
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        they need to put that kid on a lp/op to empty some brains out. kids obviously an amazing shot. : xxiv
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          Did you see the story the other day about the female Air Force sniper who was protecting a section of roa... : riptyde
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            hrmm...an air force sniper? not so sure about that one... : papaskot
            • female at that. nothing against women, there just arn't any u.s qualified snipers that are chicks. no... : xxiv
      • Handcock lol : FPSDavid
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  bad at basketball? I just watched them demolish China....did they lose before that or something? : skunk_ape
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    to be fair, china's not a big basketball powerhouse. maybe in another 10 years,. : vassili_zaitsev
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      Why? Are they breeding a taller Asian generation or something? : cetra00
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        Let's just say they've been throwing nubile women at Kobe Bryant for the last few years. : acheron
        • Hey, if it worked for Magic Johnson ... : Matt Burris
    • Well, they had a pretty good first half but you can only dominate a game with 3 point-sharpshooters for s... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  AND SWIMMING. : DrZettl
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    I don't know anyone on the U.S. team that's good at swimming.... : DM7
    • the US has a swim team? : zerog83
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  just send that guy who can shot a coin in the air : TheFatMom
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    this guy? http://glarp.atk.com/press/press_release/hi_res/Tom_Knapp.jpg i saw him on the history chann... : smax
    • Didn't he shoot an asprin with a 22 in that episode.... : fry975
  • how can I shot coin? : drucifer
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  Olympic shooting events have a stationary target and the shooter can only shoot one bullet at a time. : Degenerate
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    they should make 'Drive-by' an event : drucifer
    • OGpimpics? : massdev
    • bonus points for holding your rifle sideways : synapse19
• prisoners cannot compete : Enigme
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  heh.. Why is it that for Basketball the NBA sends some good to great players, but for Baseball, our "nat... : K1Bond007
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    Because it's the middle of the baseball season right now and no team is going to send it's best players a... : sigpro
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      Well duh, but that's pretty lame they couldn't take a timeout or something to represent their country wit... : K1Bond007
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        It would be stupid to stop the season right now and risk one of the players getting an injury. : sigpro
        • Also, the Olympics is dropping baseball anyways. : riptyde
      • Except a good number of MLB's best players are not American. The Dominican Republic would be the ones wi... : riptyde
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    because most of our good MLB players are not American...kidding kidding...well mostly kidding : sm00v3d
    • I picture a large number of cubans playing for the American team. : .sticks.
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    they dont even have baseball in the olympics this time for some reason. the cubans especially are pi... : smax
    • No, it will take effect in the next one in London. This Olympic has baseball and softball. : yellowtexan
  • Because they already have their own "olympics" with the WBC now : Phreakin
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  I hope we get more gold medals. China is off to a big lead even though we have more total medals. : Nighteyes
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    There was a story during the opening ceremonies about how China specifically picked out obscure events th... : riptyde
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      obscure or not, they're legit events that we should be training people for too. : edgewise
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        Dude, 98% of the people in the US haven't even heard of badmitton : Phreakin
        • I hear David Ortiz rocks a mean shuttlecock. : rosewood
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          Give me a training center and a partner I'll fucking train for 2012 Badminton!!!!!!! : H@rvester
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            2012 would be winter :( 2016!! : mlev
            • No, they alternate every 2 years now. so 2010 will be winter, then 2012 will be summer. (London) : zakk
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          huh? Who the fuck has never heard of badmitton? That's like saying 98% of the people in the US have neve... : icon_of_syn
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            I've never heard of "badmitton", is that like a naughty glove? : moshman
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              are you 'in the US'? : papaskot
              • no. But in this case, that makes no difference : moshman
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          Christ, you didn't even spell it properly. : ShekkyBoy
          • see : Phreakin
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      actually i don't think the focus was on 'obscure' events, but they are focusing on multiple medal opportu... : FrayLo
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          short legs will kill them in track and field and swimming. : edgewise
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            what about that one chinese hurdler? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiang he won gold in the hu... : FrayLo
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              one... it took them 1.3 billion tries to make that guy. : edgewise
              • with their cloning technology it's only a matter of time before 5000 liu xiangs dominate track and field : FrayLo
      • and probably focusing on events that do not require real athleticism, like shooting, archery, equestiran ... : edgewise
      • badminton is a huge sport in asia as well. : aeg1x
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  Unfortunately the shooting here is done outside of a car; hence our problems.... : Dimmona
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    We'd sweep the medals in the carjacking and mobile meth lab competitions. The English and French would d... : riptyde
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      The Italians would destroy everyone else in pickpocketing. : edgewise
      • haha, we need a parody video of this, i can already hear the commentary and interviews... : snowwolf
• why does everyone still think the US should automatically dominate? Plenty of countries are quite capabl... : EvilDolemite
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  I'm surprised we suck so badly at weightlifting. : edgewise
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    Which part of you is saying "we" here? : rosewood
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      I'd ask you the same thing if Redneckistan was a country. :p : edgewise
      • One day ... some day. : rosewood
      • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Texas : mechanicalgrape
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    We're not allowed in, something about steroids being unethical psh. : itsjeff9
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      why isn't Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling for the US of A?!?!? : edgewise
      • No ring ropes or turnbuckles. : cerealSAM2
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    Olympic weightlifting is a joke. The cheating is so rampant there is almost no point. Might as well be w... : Pettytheft
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      yeah, but there's plenty of weight classes that someone who's strong but small could fit right in. Our ro... : edgewise
      • That's pretty much it. I doubt you have the government aided roid programs here. Another point is that po... : Pettytheft
    • You know what would get me watching the olympics? Train pulling, or throwing kegs over a 10m fence, or an... : thecray
    • lol don't be ridiculous. Your post almost sounds bitter that the US lost its weightlifting lead to the Ea... : ShekkyBoy
• Because they're not shooting from a moving Lowrider? : bigdaddyone
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  • lol, we went to afghanistan (still there). : paravis
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  Because you lack all gun control - ZING! : gakera
  • 1 shot, 1 kill! :O : radula
• i get it, because basketball players like guns so they shoot them : oHnOES
• This post officially includes Canada in the thread. How many medals?! 0 :( : focusdaily

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  I hate any game that starts of normal and then introduces and sort of undead, possessed, aids bearing, fu... : fry975
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    Indigo was so intriguing up until... I really did like the game though, at least for a one time play-thr... : 69gooch69
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      I think it was totally overrated. I liked it some at first until I realized it was just a pretty Simon Sa... : WaterSign
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        I liked it. You're right that it's got a lot of Simon Says moments, but it worked toward giving you some... : Tawler
        • the best part was when you were the chick in underwear : aeg1x
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    Tomb Raider was one of the first to do so, and honestly, it makes sense given that it's very much an Indi... : Vincent Grayson
    • I had to turn all the lights on after playing that game just to get back to my bedroom. The giant muscled... : focusdaily
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    IAWTP. Far Cry, Stalker would be so much better with mercenaries only. : MatzL.E.
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      You know I agree mostly. The best parts of FarCry was fighting mercenaries. When the monkey looking mutan... : kodt
      • Yes, FarCry had a redeeming quality in fighting the monsters, as it was still maintaining the open enviro... : leaked
  • fucking Far Cry : CasbahBoy
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    This is why I hated RTCW. It went from "pretty cool" to "WTF this is so fucking stupid" in a single level... : Serpico74
    • But Wolfenstein was ALWAYS about the supernatural elements. : freak!
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      I liked that because it went from the cliched WW2 setting to the Zombies+WW2 setting which is a refreshin... : nudel
      • I'm hoping the adventure-horror combination is spread thick like cheese dip on the Wolfenstein re-re-boot : focusdaily
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    Indigo Prophecy = The worst game everyone seemed to love. Seriously, that game was such a pile of shit... : Drewus
    • Absolutely. I couldn't bring myself to finish it because of the awful "gameplay," and I was still interes... : nudel
  • The curse of the Zombie Level. I fucking hate the Zombie level. : alnya
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    Don't forget Thief, I think it was Thief 2 that introduced undead? Fuck. : Matt Burris
    • Thief actually had more supernatural stuff in it than Thief 2, from memory. : Arceihn
  • I love it when that happens, personally. Indigo Prophecy did get pretty horrible, though. That game we... : Arceihn
• That scene disappointed me, but it's probably because I was a big fan of how it was handled in the origin... : RomSteady
• Anything ordinary that has been slightly warped or twisted. Too little and it isn't scary, too much and i... : Splinebastard
• The silent and sneaky kind. Bonus points for invisibility. : Marauder IIC
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  Facehuggers in H-L; that little hand in Blood. Spiders. Little stuff that if you don't kill it quick, y... : dognose
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    I hated the facehuggers in AvP though. Getting killed in one hit by tiny ass things is kind of lame. I ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • AvP facehuggers scared the shit out of me - the one-hit-kill combined with no quick saves made it a blast... : henrikb
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  those creepy "rattlesnake" sounding headcrabs in HL2 freaked me out : gyokuro
  • Those didn't get me as much as the zombies that were covered in them : CasbahBoy
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  The black facehuggers in HL2 are the worst. Also, most of the "special" enemies in RE4. : Serpico74
  • Yeah the chainsaw dudes in RE4 were scary. : datoo
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  I would've been the only teenager to die of a heart attack if I died of one when I first played the game ... : Matt Burris
  • I'm about 2/3 of the way through the game (anniv) and it's starting to wear me out a bit. I just want to... : windowpane
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  is Tomb Raider Anniversary edition based on the first Tomb Raider? Because that was my favourite of the s... : Goblin au
  • It is, and it's a fucking awesome game. : nudel
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  • Anniversary felt pretty empty : packav
• Sharks, swimming around in the ocean with sharks. : thewindcriesmary

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  • I added some backend stuff that loads the initial feed asynchronously. As a result, your loading screen ... : SqueegyTBS
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  this might seem like a stupid question, but is this giving the Identifier out a security threat at all? : SeanJuan04
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    I bet it's something like a hash of your actual serial number. : ventro
    • Yeah, this is why the serial number is a completely different number. : ovrlrd
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    Don't think so, unless someone sends you a malicious app from somebody who already provisioned you. You w... : ovrlrd
    • But if I don't do those things how am I going to give them my bank account information to accept the mone... : dmason
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  063a5d1c3b2388e955c38a1ac21760ee9b6f1688 : Clay
  • p.s. as somebody who can't shack from work, you sir are my hero : Clay
• f760162257476eb1355ea0b4e85dadac3efbbb00 : TheNiXXeD
• 4ec01329cc99c5a957324183a394466ce6d3fbd2 In-app browsing looks really damn nice. Good job. : Geoffrois
• 11a4fcc2240f3100945c3167ba1146ab52fb0a5e : ErikTehRed
• 53742386af7d6f2067d68ba8eb4b0468989da6c9 : fletch_
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• 798abaebb4cfa84e20a749089a8083d3a7a88c24 : gendail
• This update is so awesome. Great great work. THANKS. : freshyk
• 18b7bb3dc343411722a6355942de19fb314ff342 : pyrogen
• 2e9e0590d7e118143e5c40da538588411bd1f541 : sergeon
• ac03b56405563b9829461c728ada4d09ed6394b3 : djkenohki
• Many, this really sucks for you. Of all the things to get hung up on...a NWS post with bad timing. Hopefu... : Dave-A
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    Are you going review it and tell it's elbows are too pointy? : SqueegyTBS
    • lol wut : FPSDavid
• 3abf4356de6dc88f623c5ef377c631af63fe5e4c and let me add my thanks; it's really cool that you're doing ... : qaldar
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  • ty if i get it :) : supermonkeyballz
• 1caa9b1df0e3a1ae4d8aac5404f1954eb2025887 - Hoping for top 100 :) : Jonathan
• 736bec3b752777999658759a691175beea2e154b : manero
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  This is so cool. I'm so jealous of iPhone owners. I wish the code wasn't NDA'd -- I'd love to take a lo... : ThomW
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    why is the code NDA'd? : Mr.Fusion
    • Dems da rules : rosewood
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      i think the SDK is NDA'd for the time being, i heard they were going to remove it eventually : manero
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        The iPhone one or the Shack one? : nudel
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          There is no Shack SDK... : Jonathan
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            I thought the web part of this app talked to the shack via some kind of XML thing? Maybe not an SDK but t... : nudel
            • Squeegy made that to support his iPhone app and shared it with us here for anyone interested in making th... : ThomW
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      To download and use the SDK, developers must accept a nondisclosure agreement that prohibits discussion o : jingletard
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        Oh, wow. What the fuck control freak cunt of a company NDAs the SDK for a fucking released platform!? Tha... : nudel
        • I think it's just a masquerade technique to perhaps stop people from figuring out ways around the DRM and... : ovrlrd
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          (Having said that, man I wish Microsoft would NDA the Windows CE SDK because I am sick to fuck of that fu... : nudel
          • amen. : Agrona
        • here is the possible reason why: http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/iphone_nda_patents : ventro
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          I think it's both, I know the SDK doesn't have direct access to the radio on the phone, but there is pote... : jingletard
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            Why do you think they're retarded? They'd have to be incredibly naive and stupid to think they could sto... : vigilante
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              I don't think it's retarded, but I don't believe it's right that the SDK has been released, yet nobody ca... : jingletard
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                I think Apple is still locking down the best practices and frameworks. The SDK and iPhone firmware was o... : SqueegyTBS
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                  What's your impression so far about developing for the iPhone? Do you agree with most of their policies ... : jingletard
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                    Once you learn the quirks, the UIKit framework in holy fucking fantastic. I added that browser view that : SqueegyTBS
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                      i thought objective C 2.0 or whatever was GC'd : manero
                      • It is on the mac, but it's unsupported on the iPhone. No idea why. Maybe garbage collection creates a l... : SqueegyTBS
              • Obviously It bothers every developer. What I said is why do you think they are retarded? They being App... : vigilante
  • I'd really like to dig in and play with some of this stuff, but between the SDK being OSX only and the ND... : Clay
• c3dd17f7789cac48ad399e0fa68a0cfcd63f7887 : dilutedq
• ad41a037991fef94a9f27a87a05c7d3e9ce30a1f : Bamtan
• 38a9a29433b15994c15755ad8f8013c036f89b6f : Thomas Hace
• 02ee84a3f4e4cc59e9ce7e95bcba78288484ce7e Thanks dude. : festivalman
• a850ea38e22183badbba1777fd4cc6d7e69daa8f : jra101
• 9b6eab22e21013b2cfea61644478243ae9d31b8d : CoRDS
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  Squeegy - so what do we all do now? Wait for you to post something or can we drag & drop that app in to ... : jingletard
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    You have to wait for another file before you can install it. : freshyk
    • Okay, cool. Thanks. : jingletard
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    I use my developer prgram membership to create a provision that includes all of these. I post it here. ... : SqueegyTBS
    • Ahh, I got confused when you were talking about the provisions & using the link in the post. Okay, thank... : jingletard
• not getting mine til next week : two50six
• 7425ff39c61849d0212bf752b6a298585df0d652 : Morgin
• 7f16d53fac67700e67f6371235e5f8568a9f8b18 : giantshift
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  lol : spazzium
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    The new app work for you? : SqueegyTBS
    • I'm in the middle of trying to jailbreak it with the new firmware. So haven't tested yet. : spazzium
• a55ef6304efb747746e7d37da303c3073b0d28a6 Thank you so much! I've been refreshing the app store 4 times ... : ArtilleryMarker
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  hey Squeegy is there Landscape support? I didn't think we'd need it before but now that you have in-app w... : giantshift
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    No, I had it in at one point, but it was doing some odd things after it transitioned. Hopefully this wil... : SqueegyTBS
    • awesome, thanks : giantshift
• e01f499454441d1b05ca427b5c3ebfa128530098 : handofthrawn
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  Squeegy, can you post the link to your donation page again? : eXcess
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    Donations: http://rubyurl.com/HKNh Thank you for reminding me to be a money grubbing whore :( Don't... : SqueegyTBS
    • Link doesn't work, I'm loading up my paypal on Friday and I wanna donate to your cause. We're sorry, b : jingletard
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      UPDATED DONATION LINK: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=ebay%40beautifulp... : SqueegyTBS
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        a recipient of ten dollah is you! :D : Dave-A
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          Thanks, and original shackname, BTW. : SqueegyTBS
          • Thanks! I'm very proud of it. : Dave-A
• 0bb5bc98683ffa4e183b32cb9b46bb70337c42f6 this is awesome that you are doing this Squeegy : dopefish
• d7222c5dc85a752999f6b6ba159888f2735cc59e : re4ctor
• 87299c1cb5b339906e0022c0060dcae2939f78ce WOOOOOO!!! : g0nk
• 30a78b1dcf9922020b4f8787fabbac2a9b93be6c : bording
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  4d53ee209ba8e3dad9f3520f5e03a7c96b7e91d3 You are so awesome. : valael
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    We can't actually install anything until you post the provision file, right? : valael
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      i think what's going to happen is we have to copy the .mobileprovision file into the app, and then drag/d... : manero
      • Corecto. And since I don't want to have to post multiple provision files, I'm waiting a bit until everyo... : SqueegyTBS
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  lots of iPhone having mens on the shack o_O : RikiTiki2
  • or touch, I suppose : crummynz
  • Yes, all brainwashed by the Jobs RDF! : Serpico74
• just watched the flash video, thats fuckin badass. nice work! : yAak
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  Just watched the video and wow, that is really slick. Can't wait to download this from the app store. : Serpico74
  • The version that is currently "in review" does not have this feature :( : SqueegyTBS
• 438fd50b6badad9c897c41c975dea6f3c47249e7 : greydog
• 9b3a72c72afdd9a1a206a5d14d88d2350a08023d : owly
• f0f3dd3850533c3179224f3842039d0c8cb85fec This app looks awesome! Thanks : joesnizzle
• f3d6aa1327518a7f4247c095a40a96c5f497b15c you're a motherfucking legend squeegy. : erotic sock
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  How many users does ad hoc support? 100? Maybe you should switch to ad hoc permanently. you will be able ... : ventro
  • I get 100 device ids registered with my account. But I really don't want to manually make a new provisio... : SqueegyTBS
• cc546f9f9341a3288c82e4842c72317647448b09 : brickmatt
• 3a7d1525921557f513e06d8774a65b34830fd225 : Mmmmmoo
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• c10cc2c053af6104a6c00d5c05e39f5281f674e1 :D : DOOManiac
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    Hmm... I dunno about this one. You got me in the doghouse once already. : SqueegyTBS
    • :( : pancake humper
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      LOL owned. : FPSDavid
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        HOLY SHIT HE GOT ME GOOD DIDNT HE FPSDAVID?!?!?!?!?! : pancake humper
        • RIGHT IN THE POOPER! : fatman
        • you got phone-pwn'd, son!! pwn-sabered! pwncake-humped! : Dave-A
        • Hahahaahha : ateam311
        • Yes, he did, pancake humper. : FPSDavid
        • This is too funny not to lol. : spazzium
        • hahahahaha you're like his slave now, he owned you so good! : voodooraze
        • ahaha : abubu
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• 283f373e36d295579ce3fcdaec16a1bf2d21dba9 OH GOD I hope I am not too late. : cornchak
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  I'm generating the provision at 5PM PST. That's in 20 minutes. Get your ids in soon. : SqueegyTBS
  • You still have mine, I'm not sure if I'll need a new provision or not. : spazzium
  • Thanks again! : dmason
  • well? :D i bought the airport express today, its pretty slick. gonna hook up my printer and nas to it ... : re4ctor
  • *grabs lube* : giantshift
• 7230af91c6d18f16aec76cbada1d7d90883dfef3 I hope I'm not too late! : malevolence
• f6024b42ad341c7227dd829cb2a003edaf852baf : quix
• d770a7b68463ad2e484c7cb731eb47b6830d11f9 :( : TastyWheat
• 0800bdff5abc1676519764ce8392bcf7c89f838e : DMac20
• caec008a28e5c982ff5a33d9151ddf0b548483f3 : synack
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• holy shit thats alot of iphones : gyokuro
• ecc0c2443dd1c48725d091ea28428f254f89fbd1 am I too late? Donation coming your way anyhoo... : nodebug
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  • D: I appear to be a day late : Ctrl-Phreak
• 1ea471e40912b858220638f41dad5370d5f37140 just in case you come back to this thread :) : Wiley Animagus

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  the scene where Someone pulls a gun on Harvey in the courtroom was very off as well. It seemed like the : YamatoTwinkie
  • yeah, the crowd reactions and everything. kinda poorly scripted and acted. : randomposter
  • Yeah, that had a strong scent of Dent staging it to gain public popularity, but nothing ever came of that... : sgtsanity
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    It was a nod to how dent became two-face in the comics, replace gun with acid filled flower. : Demius
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      Acid filled vile. : lodit
      • no it didn't >:( : vile
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  The reason The Joker stopped the hunt at the party is because he thought Batman was dent. : Wisp!
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    And all of his minions were incapacitated and the cops were on the way thanks to the gunshots. : brickmatt
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      Cops? He fucking brought a cop WITH HIM to the party. I mean, this doesn't even begin to go towards the s... : randomposter
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        The Joker was about not getting nabbed while doing the job. He would've bailed after distracting Batman w... : brickmatt
        • This is also how I interpreted the scene. It leaves a bit to wonder, but considering more awesome situat... : itsjeff9
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    If this is seriously the case it was very poorly delivered... yes, I recognise that the Joker says "I alm... : randomposter
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      I think the point was that he flared his wings at the last second to slow himself : Thomas Hace
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        He is the god damned bat man. What more do you want? : rosewood
        • this. : Clay
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          Consistency? He falls 1/6th that distance later and it almost kills him. : KxRook
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            1) He wasn't using his cape to slow himself. 2) He didn't have a car to break his fall. 3) I can't beli... : mechanicalgrape
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              Lets not fight, its a movie and all that. But cmon, how exactly does a car break your fall from that heig... : KxRook
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                By absorbing and distributing your kinetic energy? Sure it's not going to absorb all of it, but it's a lo... : mechanicalgrape
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                    Also, at the end when he falls he is already thrashed. He just got through fighting the police and Joker : Grumbeld
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                      Right, but when someone falls with you and they die(?), I guess it can make the fall seem deadly? I'm pro... : KxRook
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                        Dent was wearing a half burnt to shit suit. Batman is wearing a $300,000+ suit of awesomeness. : Ctrl-Phreak
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                          Also, Dent fell the whole way head first, Bats was hanging on and landed feet first. : scottythejock
                          • I just figured that Batman landed on top of him. Cushioned fall! : Megara9
            • a wizard did it. : itsjeff9
      • Yeah that's what i thought was happening too. : Ziz
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      His cape was shown to be able to slow him down alot/protect him in the first film. : lodit
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        Was there something about his original suit, too, that allowed him to survive long falls? If so, this mi : walker270
        • nice idea, but I think you're looking into it too much. : Goblin au
  • what happened is that the reset of the scene is on the cutting room floor and will be in the special edit... : steelsamurai
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  Yup, second viewing was great. Got over all the expectations I had as far as the Joker's performance, and : loboca
  • I loved the ending, I really enjoyed "2-faces" screen time. While it felt rushed with the variety of plo... : itsjeff9
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  Frankly, the more this movie sits with me, my only problem with it is the sonar bullshit. It was useless : K1Bond007
  • It was useless other than it was crucial to his success twice. I don't think useless is the word you wer : rosewood
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    How would he know where to look to find the Joker in the first place? They used the sonar to triangulate : mechanicalgrape
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      Well triangulating the position and the solar, while coming from the same device, were different from wha : K1Bond007
      • ahh solar = sonar. : K1Bond007
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  okay, I got bored and rewrote the movie, in terms of events in acts, into a shorter 2hr+ flick minus subp : randomposter
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    you, sir, have too much free time. : mechanicalgrape
    • It's been bugging me since my second viewing and since I'm thinking about almost all movies in a deconstr... : randomposter
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        That happens in the Dark Knight Returns, not The Killing Joke : scythide
        • ok i dont know comics : randomposter
  • I agree with you completely. It's actually very well thought out. : systatic
  • an improvement. You dealt with most everything that bothered me. : steelsamurai
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    But wouldn't people/media figure out Dent is still alive and killing cops? I mean, it's not that hard.... : Scoots06
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      All of the people he let go were either criminals, or crooked cops. They probably lack the credibility to : Ctrl-Phreak
      • I suppose. It's still slightly flawed like the movie imo. : Scoots06
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  Can you ever just actually appreciate anything or do you have to over analyse it? : shavenewok
  • I loved the movie unapologetically the first time and thought it was the best movie I'd seen in a long ti... : randomposter
  • Can't you enjoy something AND take it apart? Can't you dissect something thoroughly BECAUSE you liked it ... : systatic
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    what's wrong with thinking about something? : steelsamurai
    • Frankly, I find the very idea of a person that thinks offensive. : Hello Kitty
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  I watched it for a second time last night. No complaints, the only thing that stuck out to me was the ma... : Poor Yurik
  • every single bit of film/TV that he's done, he looks like he's wearing eyeliner : captfarrell

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  That dude is fucking BALLIN' : crazywigga
  • It's Ballertron 2000. : Fred Garvin
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  lol wow. How did he get the chain/gears to work that direction? : sixfoot6
  • I'm more impressed with the hax0r wiring job on that speaker setup he's got going. : Phil
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    he just swapped sides, installed the chain rings and rear wheel in reverse. : ibrokn
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      He didn't swap sides, the fucking frame is upside down. That's insane. : Head Rush
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        I can't figure out why it is like that though. : sharkII
        • I like how the second frame is welded to the first...I'd love to see that beast up close. : Head Rush
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          he put the front wheel fork through backwards and flipped the bike over : dopefish
          • I know... I want to know... why? : sharkII
  • It's a woman's bicycle frame and the front wheel/fork is installed upside-down. : action roommate
  • looks like the frame is just upside down.. and put the fork / handlebars on upside down. : dopeman
• best bike ever : Degenerate
• do you think he knows his frame is upside down? : ibrokn
• There aren't a lot of black people in Lubbock, are there? : rosewood
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  I'm sorry Phil, but this story sucks. : SockMonkeh
  • Whoa holy shit, the pic makes up for it. : SockMonkeh
• omg thats fucking awesome : mindshot
• fucking lols at the upside-down frame on that bike. Are those speakers he has mounted to it? : hax3d
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  Wonder what song was blasting from his speakers : spiderfill
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    yakkity sax : deathofrats
    • I love this image :) : mafu5150
• Was he selling $10.00 concert shirts? : metldude
• *slip* : ifallible
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  That photo is nuts. What the hell is with that bike. : lplasmatron
  • haha i don't know man, but it cracked me up. the first thing i said was kids, gimme the camera quick. : Phil
• I hope that's more comfortable than it looks. : c0bra
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  Did he rape you? Looks like he could've raped you. : jamesray
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    I think I was next on his list. But I gtfo quick. That wackass bike was no match for my wackass Chevro... : Phil
    • "next on his list" lol : ThomW
• staind and seether goddamn that would have been brutal in perfect weather : JINKY
• The best part is that it's a girls bike. Extreme measures taken to not look like a pussy? : cetra00
• I. Uh. ... LOL : boarder2
• Did you get home early? Also, WHERE ARE THE PICS OF THE HOTTIES AT WORK? : Ride-My-Rocket
• that would suck to sit down and wrap your nutsack around in the gear. : mindshot
• I'll at least grant that it is quite unlikely that anyone will steal his bike.... : Kniggit
• was your wife banging your neighbor when you got home? : grendel
• Phil I will have to show this picture to my bicycle message board friends. : thekidd
• See? Never listen to your wife. wtf I thought I knew you... : virus
• what about the titty bar? :( : PapaBoo

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  3:10 to Yuma : Megara9
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    I just watched this about 2 weeks ago... Man, it was fantastic. : sharkII
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      agreed.. it completely blew me away. My local vid store has it for sale for $10 too... : Megara9
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        the original or the new one? : lakren
        • the one for sale is the new one. I haven't seen the original yet, but it is SO on my list. : Megara9
  • This movie was so fun, it was like a good ol' adventure. : Sailor of Fortune
  • That was a pretty awesome movie and I'm not really one for Westerns either. : K1Bond007
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  Bad Day at Black Rock; anything with John Wayne or Clint Eastwoof : dognose
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047849/ Also, "Eastwoof" is a pretty cool typo if you *have* to make one : dognose
• Silverado is a good one. : sigpro
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  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Tombstone / Open Range / Dances with Wolves / Unforgiven / : PlanetPerfecto
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    Going to agree on here Dances with Wolves and especially Tombstone , the rest I haven't seen. : shirif
    • on here with : shirif
  • Unforgiven is such an incredible movie : jbury
  • Open Range spoiler: The gunfight at the end is just all kinds of awesome. : Marauder IIC
  • Damn PP, could you have picked a more perfect list of Westerns? It's missing The Assassination of Jesse J : abubu
• Once Upon A Time in the West : cygnus
• For a fist full of dollars and For a few dollars more : shavenewok
• Everything listed here plus The Wild Bunch : drbriefs
• Have Honda, Will Drive If anyone gets this, hahaha : Sailor of Fortune
• Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful of Dynamite) The Professionals The Searchers : MKCluney
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  For those who have seen The Assassination of Jesse James, is it good? : shirif
  • its an awesome movie, definitely try to see it. : ant_hillbilly
  • it is very long, but very, very good. : PlanetPerfecto
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    ... if you like black and white trees : dognose
    • Yeah, it is pretty awesome! : CrimsonHandHiro
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    This is in my netflix queue. I have yet to see any Jim Jarmusch movies but I've heard good things about ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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      from stoners, right? : dognose
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        From people with good taste ZING! : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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          LOL I ducked; your zing missed. : dognose
          • he used a zingarang, DUCK AGAIN : PlanetPerfecto
      • dognose lay off the hatorade, dead man is one of my favorite movies. so what if i smoke pot every once an : datoo
      • Bill Groundhog-Day, Ghostbustin'-ass Murray. : focusdaily
    • Ghost Dog, my man, Ghost Dog. And Mystery Train. : Lone Swordsman
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  Shane. The source for so many other westerns... : jake
  • I loved the book. Man, what an awesome read that was. : abubu
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  • ^^^ These : Mad Brahmin Disease
• If you can, grab yourself a copy of the Lonesome Dove miniseries. : abubu

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  Holy shit that was intense, smashed the world record too. : mechanicalgrape
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    what was the old WR again? : buzzbat
    • before the Olympics it was 3:14.54 THe USA b-team beat that record earlier with 3:12 then just not th... : AllYourBase
• that was bananas : manero
• WEEEEE what an awesome fucking finish... : conandan
• woOT!!!!!! : Visceral Monkey
• i can't believe he caught him : kill9
• That was fucking awesome! : Havoc1c4
• that was crazy he just got mad speed boost that last 15 feet : gmd
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  there's your box of wheaties cover right ther : manero
  • I'd fucking eat those pieces of shit for breakfast. : Matt Burris
• HOLY SHIT that was amazing! : zerog83
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  What exactly did they say? : zehh
  • they said, we're going to smash the americans. thats what we came here for. : porp
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    “The Americans? We’re going to smash them. That’s what we came here for,” Bernard said. : AllYourBase
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      Oh, I hadn't heard about it. Pretty deserved then. : zehh
      • USA won literally in the last 5 feet.. they were behind until then. Also, both USA and France DESTROYED t... : jaga
  • They said they were going to smash the Americans and that that's the reason why they were there. : mechanicalgrape
  • They said they came for the egg-rolls : jaga
  • Hi2u, pls dun attack us : conandan
  • They said "Americans? Their mothers are hamsters and their fathers smell of elderberries" : Lightbulb
• HOLY SHIT : porp
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  i wish you would spoiler that stuff. : hirez
  • Spoiler Olympic Games results? Why? : [7]kami
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  THAT IS HOW WE ROLL : indosauros
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    seriously, I don't think anything on TV has ever made me jump up and down and yell out before : indosauros
    • me too.. I hope I wasn't too loud! rofl : jaga
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  fuck this nbc tape delay :( : FrayLo
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    i mean seriously it's 2008, nbc. i appreciate your online streaming but don't fuck the entire west coast... : FrayLo
    • no kidding, it sucks for us. :( : thetangent
  • same boat I can always count on shack to predict the future for me. : massdev
• that was AMAZING : jaga
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  it's incredible, no one here gives 2 shits about swimming but when the olympics come around I'm yelling a... : AllYourBase
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    seriously, last week I could give a shit less about anything except basketball and now I'm friggin hooked... : buzzbat
    • Couldn't agree more man : cstamas
• man that was crazy : plat2on1
• That was amazing ! : Cashh
• goddamn, that was a hell of a pull-away in the last few seconds! fuckin awesome! : anthonybean
• hot damn that was crazy : Mansmells
• I can't believe he won...that was awesome...I also can't believe I care... : holinka
• That was fartknockers. : Hello Kitty
• well now phelps has to win all 7 : mindshot
• that was some movie shit. all the build up and then a seemingly insurmountable lead by the dirty french a... : infiltrator`
• online replay of said event? : ashkie
• that was absolutely incredible : Thomas Hace
• very awesome : [fry]
• that was neat : wtf242
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  french guy snuck a look right at the end and lost it for them. If he kept his head straight he would have... : aeg1x
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    they don't count that as the 100m world record though, do they? : jaga
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      I think they do. It's not like there's any advantage or disadvantage to a normal race. : aeg1x
      • http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/SW/C73B1/SWM411101.shtml#SWM411101 listed as WR there : aeg1x
      • cool! I didn't know that : jaga
    • it sounded like they do, when they were talking about it : indosauros
    • why wouldn't they? : snowwolf
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      I believe if you are the first leg, then it counts as a WR since they have exact start + end timing. For... : riptyde
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        I think they have electronic systems to detect jumps before the touch anyway. Brazil got disqualified in ... : aeg1x
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          Yeah but afaik you can still start your jumping motion so long as your feet don't leave the pad before th... : riptyde
          • ah ok, makes sense : aeg1x
          • i was trying to figure this out after i looked closer, it makes sense, the time he set was a quarter seco... : snowwolf
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        In fact, that appears to be the case as 2 Americans and 3 Frenchman swam legs faster than that WR in legs... : riptyde
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          yeah I just saw that. I guess it's easier to swim through disturbed water or something. : aeg1x
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            Speaking of disturbed water, has anyone else noticed in the diving events that there is always this littl... : riptyde
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              I'm guessing it breaks the skin of the water incase they fuck up the dive and enter in a dangerous positi... : aeg1x
              • what? is that how it works? : edgewise
              • No, it's so they know where the surface of the water is, it adds depth. : mechanicalgrape
            • i always thought it was so the divers could tell where "down" was, but that doesn't really make sense as ... : FrayLo
    • Only the first leg of a relay can count as a WR. That is because on the other legs you can see the person... : eXcess
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  We got 3rd and totally destroyed the 100m freestyle record, good times all round. : thewindcriesmary
  • I didn't even notice who got 3rd heh : AllYourBase
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    yeah, but legs 2 and 4 of the US and legs 2,3 and 4 of France all broke that record just afterwards! (at ... : edgewise
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      oh, maybe it stands because it was a first leg and that's the only one that can be used to score a WR. : edgewise
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        yeah i da know, i guess you get better starts or something with a change over? either way pretty scary ti... : thewindcriesmary
        • seriously, the top 5 teams all broke the old WR that was just set the night before in prelims. crazy. : edgewise
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  Well, so much for watching it on tv. Thanks for the spoiler tags. : riptyde
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    it was on tv, live on NBC : AllYourBase
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      http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/NBC-withholding-live-Olympic-events : FrayLo
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        That's fucking pissing me off. : riptyde
        • yeah no shit. now i guess if i want surprises i will have to stay off the internet. so stupid. : FrayLo
      • wow that's pretty stupid, sorry west coasters :( watch the swim anyways, it's incredible! : AllYourBase
      • Man that is epically retarded. The news is all over the place. Like, on the front page of msnbc.com. : Ovate
      • i fucking hate NBC : cltcprd
    • I am on Mountain Time and it has not aired here yet. : riptyde
    • actually, I think it hasn't played on the west coast. : edgewise
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      Not on the West Coast. We spoil Lost and BSG episodes. This is no different : Flynn
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        We're talking about newsworthy events, not fictional TV shows. That alone is a substantial difference. ... : sgtsanity
        • How dare you call Lost episodes not newsworthy. : Flynn
  • no problem buddy : kill9
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    Expecting spoiler tags on a live coverage event of which North America is already a few hours behind on, ... : GrimmyD
    • yeah, I don't think we're going to enforce anything like that during these games. : edgewise
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      What does North America being a few hours behind have to do with anything if it's a live coverage event? ... : riptyde
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        its on like every major news outlet right now. if you don't want it spoiled, then don't read anything on... : kill9
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          Or don't, you know, go to any major news sites? : Ebu
          • or any sites where people might actually be talking about those news events? : kill9
      • Because it's not just the US that counts. You're going to see discussion about this from all over the wor... : GrimmyD
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        more info http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Phelps-for-all-?urn=oly,... : FrayLo
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          ugh the swimming isn't on til 11:30pm, and it's on tape. wtf why not just break into the tape delay to s... : FrayLo
          • Yeah that's what blows my mind. I can understand wanting to keep the broadcast in prime time, but that r... : riptyde
      • huh? it's like if a bomb goes off on the east coast, you want to wait 3 hours to know about it? : RikiTiki2
• thanks for the spoilers : gyokuro
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  So does anyone have a link to see this on the interwebz? : Skoal^Fyfan
  • ^^ : ventro
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  I have swam and played water polo for most of my life and that was the most amazing swimming race I have ... : eXcess
  • OBVIOUSLY NOT SO MUCH! : rosewood
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    Just got to watch it here. Holy fucking shit. Records set in this race: Phelps (USA) - American Reco... : riptyde
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      wait you got it already? oh you are probably one hour ahead of me. dammit. : FrayLo
      • Yeah I am in Mountain Time. We got slightly less jacked. The race is still worth watching, tho. : riptyde
    • OC = Oceania Record : kahuuna
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  Just saw that - what an amazing race! SUCK IT FRANCE!! :D : thetangent
  • goddamn, that last guy was fast. : edgewise
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  man the French team expressions were of total shock...and awe : gyokuro
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    that was better than watching the US celebrate. : edgewise
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      lol http://f3.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_oly_experts__2/ept_sports_oly_experts-736162441-1218426747.jpg?y... : FrayLo
      • http://www.foxnews.com/images/309377/2_61_092407_Marceau01.jpg : edgewise
      • http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/TSR/TSR2011_500.jpeg : gyokuro
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  LOL @ Canada's lack of medals. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    well it's not exactly a "summer" country. They do alot better in the winter olympics. : edgewise
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      We still kick their ass though. Woo *high five* : K1Bond007
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        I'd like to see a comparison of number of athletes, training budgets, country population, etc. Just goin... : ArB
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          New Zealand has one of the highest gold medals to population ratio, I can't remember where I read the art... : Rodeoclash
          • Yeah, I guess India has a complete lack of a sports infrastructure. : zakazi
          • all the micronations have the best per capita medal counts. Countries with a few hundred thousand people ... : aeg1x
  • LOL @ America's dollar : Juno
  • What's pathetic is the CBC's attempt to put a positive spin on things, like saying we beat previous Canad... : Lone Swordsman
• Haha, Phelp's reaction was just perfect. : spazzium
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  Video for those who missed it. http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=0811_hd_swb_hl_l01... : ant_hillbilly
  • Haha, Phelps looked like he was about to whip out his cock and jerk off right there. : Vincent Grayson
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    they want me to install a completely different plugin just to watch this? Fuck you NBC. Fuck off and Die.... : Jackass1233
    • The coverage online is so good it is worth it. : pyrogen
• Smash em like broken guitars. : Bonestormm
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  "A fingertip did the victory," said Amaury Leveaux, one of the French swimmers. "It is nothing." http:... : xil-reno
  • i think he's just saying it was very close, which it was : Mansmells
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    Can some swimming pro explain what getting "sucked off" means? Lezak From that article: "People have ... : ventro
    • lol :( he means slip streaming like in racing or cycling. If the guy in the next lane is ahead of you and... : aeg1x
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  Jesus, if it counted, Lezak would have broken the world record by like 1.5 seconds on that las leg. That ... : Ctrl-Phreak
  • yeah but as explained above you can start your jumping motion before the touch in a relay leg. In a norma... : aeg1x
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  Oooo in swimming? The US won because they gave up, right? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    I think the French would have won if the last guy didn't sneak a quick look across. It was really close. : moshman
    • yeah he totally fucked it. If he kept his head down like the American did he would have got the touch. : aeg1x
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  So much in this thread and on other boards talking about this event reminds me how international competit... : -efx-
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    It's just an American - French thing. Two countries that hate each other because they both think they're ... : aeg1x
    • Oh I know, it just sucks because I think it diminishes the feel good nature of competition in sports for ... : -efx-