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• are you using the verizon router? i just use my own tomato WRT54GL inside the verizon router and i have n... : dirge23
• erm, that's highly vague. There are several variables involved w/ bittorrent speeds. I'm sure you know ... : paravis

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• yeah that apartment fucking wins : FrayLo
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  on a corner too. i got three of em. : acidravelamp
  • corners? : podman405
• wow, I hate him : prime8
• I WANT TO PEE IN HIS LEMONADE : reverend~heresy
• That's not a home, that's an art gallery. : the moon and antarctica
• rock on man, rock on. lets raise his taxes : Theos
• This is too funny. I can see me from your friends pad! http://thepouya.com/test/me.jpg Is he looki... : pgharavi
• WALL STREET'D i suck at tags so whatever : baconisgod
• FUCK ME that is ridiculous : feek
• Yeah... I'm friggin jealous. I wish I had metric fucktons of money so I could have an apartment like tha... : Ormsbee
• That's pretty fucking sweet, yes. : Begawkiness
• Fuck all those lamps and shit, I'd just turn off all my lights and let the city soak in while I do everyd... : Zolneirz
• In that last photo... boy, has Batman really let himself go... : Dechter
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  is he just renting that? its not a condo? well maybe he made so much it doesn't even matter : jackalope
  • He owns it. He's got some other apartments too I think. : podman405
• That's like my dream place : mnok
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  He must entertain. I can't figure out why else you'd have so many chairs. : Conan
  • maybe he just likes chairs? : usedillusion
  • Yeah, it was movie night. We saw Never Back Down. It was good, but probably only because everyone was was... : podman405
• Very cool apartment, so jealous. : lightly inclined
• i bet he's ugly though. jealous! : xxiv
• you could lose hours looking at that view, seeing everything going on. : dooberzoo
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  How old is he? : Ryno
  • 32 or 33 i think. : podman405

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  I have 2 x 8800GTs and mine are freakin' loud even idle. I like the sound of hacking the fan speed, and I... : dasampla
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    really? my 8800GT is completely silent and besides, you can change the fan speed manually in the nvidia d... : moshman
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      I made the mistake of getting very cheap ones. Now I know why some cards of the same model are a lot chea... : dasampla
      • you can still turn down the fan speed manually : moshman
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  My 8800GTS temps drop some 20c when I max out the fan. But the noise is too much=( Regarding your idl... : paravis
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    80-85c would probably kill anyone you know. : Longinus00
    • Them Hispanic's are tough mofo's ya know. : Githyanki
    • yea, 80C is over 176F, the hottest place on the planet hasn't recorded temps of over 140F. He needs to qu... : Joseph
  • 80c is a standard idle temp for a 4870. : dirge23
• I tried doing that when I got mine and it was loud as fuck. I put it back to the default. AMD says it's p... : feek
• I keep my 8800 GTS 512 at about 70% when I game, just below the threshold of actually making noise. It ne... : Zolneirz

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  why? : conandan
  • dude.. BOOBIES! : beastrabban
  • cause she's so fucking hot : Flying h4x0r
• I don't get it. : heartsauce
• If this were a car, it would be the DSL-R : eforce98
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  http://www.ihaveabadfeelingaboutthis.com/b/sh.avi pleased to be identifying? : XchumpoX
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    silent hill movie? : radula
    • a crappy home movie rip of the skin ripping scene. Very dark and grainy. : capt tripps
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    Yea, that's from Silent Hill. Looks like it was recorded on a cell phone, haha. : aggressor
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      ahhahahh i wonder how many giga/tera bytes of shit like this is out there pluggin' up the tubes of the in... : XchumpoX
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        It has a FEW good moments, but otherwise.....not really : aggressor
        • Kind of slow and plodding. : heartsauce
  • Silent Hill? : aethyr
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  I love her. : edlin
  • here, here. : dahanese

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  They're getting pretty hostile welcomes all around, this is a first I think. : gakera
  • Oh right. 90% of them are getting hostile welcomes because their posts suck. There are some noobs who act... : FrayLo
• boy have you missed some fun! : shavenewok
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  half of them just changed their names and the rest are apple/iphone users that hardly know wtf is going o... : Hoax
  • that's not true : valael
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    why are people changing their names? : filthysock
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      nobody knows, thief even changed his name back due to pressure. : nomaad
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        now we just need to lean on bamtan harder : GloriousCow
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          i dont know, i kind of like that one. I'M BAMTAN : nomaad
          • i'm piderman : GloriousCow
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      I am gonna change my name to Poshman : moshman
      • hosh posh. : xxiv
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        You are my favorite Spice Girl! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          Tell me what you want, what you really really want! : moshman
          • The real question is, How is David Beckham in bed? : mlev
    • They dared speak the truth about the hoverboard consipracy. The world just isn't ready to hear that, yet... : smegmar
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    Wait, you can change names on shack now? How? : batkiwi
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      By creating a new account. : Horn
      • I lol'd. : heartsauce
• who are you? : maulla
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  do you remember jono181? : jono181
  • no. : dantastic
• I was wondering the same thing. : lightly inclined
• hi filthy, I'm new! This is my first post. I have never posted here before, but I registered just to gree... : aaarrrgh
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  hey guys, i decided to shorten my name to : fsck
  • lol : moshman
  • This is pretty good. : ieGod
• That's the spirit! Welcome all newcomers! Just watch out: this yard is littered with rakes :-\ : Home Nugget

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  it does this automatically I think.. if I go into task manager and just kill the firefox.exe process, whe... : indosauros
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    But I usually use multiple windows for Firefox, and it only seems to restore one. Will I be forced to use... : GodZilly
    • What? : Nixx2004
    • ~_O : indosauros
    • This is like saying "Oh god, I have to fly first class?" : Nali4Freedom
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      Tab Mix Plus's session saving feature supports multiple windows. You can also manually save sessions when... : GreatGooglyMoogly
      • Also, I've had Firefox's built-in session thingy corrupting my sessions (so I had to copy the old session... : GreatGooglyMoogly
    • oh hey its 2008 look how time flies : nomaad
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      don't listen to these clowns. Real ninja's use separate application instances, so when the shitty browser... : OMGzImBurning
      • But if it crashes you have restore from previous session. : hirosushima
      • that's the whole reason behind restoring your session though : redfive
      • Actually, if Firefox crashed in one window, they all went down. : GodZilly
    • God that is just zilly : gakera
    • Well this fucking sucks. They had service my kia spectra and they gave me a fucking ferrari f430 as a loa... : Flying h4x0r
• That wasn't a feature so much as a convenient bug. Firefox 2 didn't handle the "Windows is shutting down,... : Goncyn

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• That is such a great game. I don't have an xbox though:(. I have a ps3 with GT5 Prologue, and while t... : 69gooch69

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  I don't think there's a fixed release date yet. : enyakk
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    ah, well that's a little different. but still, 280 fucking euros? fuck me : moshman
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      You can wait that bit longer until release I think. :) : enyakk
      • i don't play wow, but I might have a beta key :) : moshman
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  i generally try to be non judgemental but you're a fucking idiot if you pay 400 bucks for a beta account.... : xxiv
  • True, but you know where lots of things are and can formulate a leveling strategy etc. While I would neve... : Evil Benius
• November : GodZilly
• there's conflicting reports on the release date. Some people in blizzard saying by the end of the year, o... : captfarrell

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• source control much? : filthysock
• oh my, that's not a good start to the day : chazums
• It probably wasn't very good anyway. Just start again. : losimagic
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  probably will be a restore from the previous night i would imagine. did you store it on a network drive? : xxiv
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    yeah it was stored on a network drive, they have a backup from last night, so all is good. It's taken the... : marmite
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      haha all day? All they have to do is go to the backup software, find the folder and click restore.Should ... : hirosushima
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        oh and maybe find the tape they used which if they are organized at all it should be a snap to find it. : hirosushima
        • I'm sure it's more to do with the fact that they have higher priority tickets. : marmite
    • it's hard to find if it's anything like the shared drive restore i have to use from time to time. the pat... : xxiv
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  At least you know what happened to it. I've had users come to me not knowing wtf, insisting that their da : blearey
  • Oh, and; Have you tried searching for it? Yes!, it turns out is usually a lie. : blearey
  • If I have learned anything from doing IT work is that the user will never, ever take the blame for stuff ... : hirosushima
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  is it on a windows server? you might be able to use shadowcopy, right click on the parent folder and go... : dantastic
  • sadly not, this is the first thing I looked for :( : marmite

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• If it asked you to sign in blood, you probably don't want the job. : Totenjaeger
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  is this your first job? anyway... If you asked for something or they promised you something, get it in... : Slowtreme
  • it did for me...only i was under probation for the first 3 months. they promised a signifigant raise aft... : vassili_zaitsev

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• McCains daughter looks like a skank, not that there's anything wrong with that http://www.365edge.com... : cptstern
• i saw tha tlast night. she's smoking. his wife is hot too : vassili_zaitsev

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• Epic Movie lasted less than two distracted minutes before I almost dry heaved. : Totenjaeger
• I haven't seen any of those three movies, but still could have warned you against them without any doubt ... : fishbone
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  heh, I got Chuck & Larry on HD-DVD for £3, terrible movie, but Jessica Biels HD ass made up for it all ;... : losimagic
  • Jessica Biel in that movie reminded me of a girl I dated a few years back. Easily the hottest girl I almo... : Tissen
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  Check and Larry had a couple lol moments if I remember. : Slowtreme
  • ruined by some really stupid scenes ..sandler wasnt good in it either, not believeable as a ladies man : cptstern
• Shortcut to Happiness. I couldn't believe a film could be this shit with such a stellar cast. Anthony Hop... : ShekkyBoy

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• sadly not : JohnnyDanger
• frontpage. if its not there or informatived its not real. : Hoax
• A pretty good prank if it's not. : Mystery0000
• new and improved blue crowbar! : valael
• no, its some artwork with a crowbar photoshopped onto it. : spaceless
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  Fakes always have to go a liiiittle too far and make the crowbar blue. Just keep it red and people wouldn... : Hello Kitty
  • People wouldn't know that it was fake if it was red? : humbleone
  • It's probably a geniune HL3 discussion forum under development, with some fan art to elicit PR. : ShekkyBoy
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  looks like shit for a game that wont come out for another 5 years : maulla
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    5 years + the number of years episode 3 is away... multiplied by valve-factor : razorblade79
    • equals what??? I WANNA KNOW!!!! : ifallible

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  wtf flying gargoyles : sanchez
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    It's a dream sequence. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • i love these subthreads : Fish_Bulb
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  That actually does look pretty fucking cool. What Manson song is that? It doesn't sound familiar, but ... : Vincent Grayson
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    His last big studio album was barely over a year ago. I think the song in the trailer is "If I was your v... : Hello Kitty
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      I'll be damned, I had no idea. Is it any good? : Vincent Grayson
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        Yeah I thought it was all right if you like Manson. : Hello Kitty
        • I love that this post is coming from someone named Hello Kitty. : disposition
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  certainly looks better than the last trailer that came out : losimagic
  • Also, whenever Mona talks I keep expecting Stewie to jump out from somewhere :( : losimagic
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  that looks like it could be pretty decent. Has Marky Mark been in any bad movies recently? Seems like e... : contentious roy
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    The Happening! : soggybagel
    • so much for that theory! : contentious roy
• That actually might not suck : chazums
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  Its going to suck abandon all hope. : Hoax
  • I think so too : JohnnyDanger
  • Never had any hope to begin with. : avatar_58
• This is very exciting! : dognose
• This trailer reminds me of Constantine a little, but I think it might be deceiving as to how the plot unf... : focusdaily
• Looks great. Here's hoping the full movie doesn't disappoint. : humbleone
• Sick! : hoov1185
• awesome. Plus chick in red dress O_O. : steelsamurai
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  I came a little when Mila was firing the machine gun.. Damn. : krebster
  • Miss Kunis Lingus? : ifallible
• That looks pretty fucking awesome. : deject
• awesome trailer. Fuck yahoo though. To make somebody sit through a 30 second commercial for a toothbrush ... : weaselmeister

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• not bad. I want to watch the film again now :( : chazums

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• i usually defend XKCD to the haters but this one was a phone-in : indosauros
• I think you just caused a resonance cascade on the lol page. : pigvomit
• I laughed at the fourth frame. :( : SeaLlama
• sorry, one of the worst I've read :( : MikkleThePickle
• Nope that fucking sucks dude. : ghost in my shell
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  Haha you guys are predictable :/ 2,4,5 & 8 are FUNNAY or at least mildly entertaining : razorblade79
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    List of the funny panels in reply: : boredguy
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      2,4,5 & 8 : razorblade79
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        This is more shacklike: http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicdreamweaver1.png : razorblade79
        • No that fucking sucks too : ghost in my shell
  • they are insultingly not funny : kill9
• oh god why did I click that. : contentious roy
• The worst XKCD I've ever read. Just awful, and usually I'm a fan of XKCD. : Marauder IIC
• It's just too forced. : ieGod
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  Why do people who actually like XKCD keep posting bad ones on the shack? You already know the shack ha... : Duffman8369
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    ^^^ this. Although humour is a personal thing, at the very least go for something cool like http://xkcd.c... : Arctic Fox
    • Well I know my humor is fucked up most of the time. I thought this one was more like it though: http://i... : razorblade79

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  4 years. : enyakk
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    Yep that's what the rumor is. I'm just wondering.. what will happen to the various DLC things that you... : humbleone
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      I bet all the digital stuff will transfer. It's the little stuff like that MS will need to do in order to... : MagicWishMonkey
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        Yea, but I mean - I'd like to have it on discs for the by that time old 360. (So its still possible to u : humbleone
        • Yea, I really hate dealing with discs so I like the idea of having digital downloads available. I see whe... : MagicWishMonkey
• Three at the max. : Evil Benius
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  id say announcement in 2 yrs, new hardware in 3. the 360 came out in 05, i cant imagine it hanging around... : maulla
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    I wish it would though. The 8+ years I've gotten out of my PS2 have been stellar. : ieGod
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      I'm sure that they'll try to keep it alive as a budget platform : chazums
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        You know what though, seeing as how the Wii was so successful on so little hardware power in comparison, ... : ieGod
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          I really wouldn't be surprised to see a x720 that has another core, blu-ray and a slightly improved GPU.... : chazums
          • That would be an interesting way to go. In any case, I'm sure they will have 100% backwards compatibility... : nomaad
• 3-4 years something like that. Of course they'll anounce the new one in 2-3 : chazums
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  consensus seems to be 3 on average, i was asking because i'm going to pick up one of the 'jasper' units w... : xxiv
  • You'll probably have swapped X360 hardware 2-3 times in that year anyway. : bostrov
  • I bought a PS2 at the end of it's run and found it highly rewarding. Consoles are really best when they'r... : SpaecKow
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  i hope not long. 360 graphics are already pretty meh : feek
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    3/10 : creep
    • I must admit that he did not do a good job at feeking this thread. : CrustaR
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  I don't want to ruin your thread, but it makes me wonder how much time we have left on PS3, since Sony al... : Nitrium
  • They've said several times that they're aiming for 10years with the ps3 : chazums
  • I'm thinking close to 6-8 years... if MS pushes out a new console around 2011. I don't think Sony woul... : Shadowdane
• Christmas 2010 is my bet : Dave-A
• announced 2011, out christmas 2012 is my guess. I don't think they will kill the 360, MS will try and pul... : nomaad

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  They made spectating a much more fun thing to do this time around. There is some movies where its shown. : humbleone
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    "Cameras in the multiplayer modes have also been improved significantly. Rather than static views from di : humbleone
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      Wow, another moment in "PC gaming has been doing this for years", but it will be praised for how revoluti... : hirosushima
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        Other console games have done the same thing before... : Evil Benius
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          I never said they have not done it before. I was simply stating that they will advertise this as a cool n... : hirosushima
          • And it is a cool new feature for Gears... : Evil Benius
      • QQ : judasen
      • Okay but nobody was saying that. : nomaad
• You can take screenshots on battlefeild bad company (Iv got a PS3). : Vincenoir

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• That sounds pretty cool and I can see it working in an alternate universe, however, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE... : reelbk
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  Pretty solid, but it's still no baby/sheep/slapshot:) It would probably sound amazing with real orchestr... : lpearl
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    Yeah, the electric guitars just doesn't seem right... : Rice-Rocketeer
    • Yeah make it more mainstream and some generic tone, you aren't making the theme for some metal band lover... : Hello Kitty
• Not too shabby! : ZeekWatson
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  what ever happened to that hilarious SA submission? : biskits
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZMnF1VNlE : shitkatapult
    • Priceless youtube comment: "my mom said this sounds like hockey equipment smells" : Magus
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    It's still up there: http://tinyurl.com/6k5k2y : Enkidu
    • oh man, still hilarious. What an awful song. hahaha. : Magus
• Not even close to Hockey Scores, sorry. :( : pyrogen
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  Wow, most of the songs on here are really abysmal.. :/ Your roommate's song is definitely better than mo... : Vantage
  • The SA song is perfect though I'm going to vote for it again. : ieGod
• i prefer hockey scores. all the other songs just dont fit or arent upbeat enough.. the songs that are pr... : dantastic
• WELL if we're going to do this, vote for my friend's too! http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/mediadetail/31... : jenisthebest

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• The hurting will stop in a few hours : indosauros
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  So how far along are you on the second viewing? : Prozium
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    well i thought i'd go read the wikipedia article and then the official forums.... i want to watch it ... : shavenewok
    • don't read anything till you watch it twice : dignan
• I've watched that probably six times now. it's so awesome : Draugluin
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  Watch it a couple more times. : Richese
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    http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html : Richese
    • ow my head : scottythejock
    • what : [7]kami
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  That movie is such an amazing example of what it possible in film. It's the thinking man's El Mariachi. ... : midgetherder
  • i was reading about how it was made, and that's probably more of a head fuck than the movie! a budget ... : shavenewok
• Why have I not viewed this film yet? Shame on me. : PlanetPerfecto
• Such a fucking awesome movie. If it wasn't so late, I'd watch it right now. : Vincent Grayson
• Your future self has seen it 8 times before you. : biofrog
• Such a great film, the dialogue is so cleverly written that you don't think, "this is retarded, it makes : nodebug
• i thought it was pretty boring :( : ibrokn

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• iTunes dude, wtf. Turn on the miniplayer if you want it lightweight. : Bamtan
• iTunes, srsly, there's nothing else. : losimagic
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  what about the itunes widget thing? and your argument is riduculous anyways :) : moshman
  • which one? the last.fm functionality? : JohnnyDanger
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  http://cogx.org/ : zakk
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    this looks exactly like itunes : JohnnyDanger
    • that's pretty much all you get, unless you go and try to run foobar or winamp under darwine/crossover. ... : zakk
    • so really you want some skin support, it's not really itunes thats the problem? : Slowtreme
• Itunes+last.fm for os x. Also, winamp for windows xp using vmware fusion. : ryuuseki
• Itunes sucks on windows. Period. Itunes rules on mac. Period. : batkiwi
• dudes not everyone wants an mp3 player that wants to take over your entire mp3 collection : dantastic
• I use VLC but I don't have hardcore playlists setup or anything : MoreVespeneGas

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• At least get the Thriller album. Was just rereleased earlier this year too : RikiTiki2
• Yes, he really did make awesome music. It's such a shame what happened to him :( : losimagic
• Off The Wall is awesome : Serpico74
• Truly a legend. One of the most amazing [and amazingly sad] life stories I can think of. : PlanetPerfecto
• He's 50 today! Happy Birthday Space Michael! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izOySAw9TlY&feature=relat... : Borzoi
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  my friends give me crap for thinking michaels early music is awesome. it makes me sad that they have to b... : cygnus
  • I remember that as a kid my older sister took me to watch Moonwalker. Now looking back, the movie was kin... : MrGrindy