Morning Discussion

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• I had many an awesome time playing Secret of Mana coop. : NexusOne
• SoM was great, the best RPG for the SNES available here (no FFVI for the SNES in germany for whatever fuc... : razorblade79
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  Tales of Symphonia and I think Vesperia and Symphonia 2 have this. Eternal Soniata has this too I thi... : MoreVespeneGas
  • I played 40 hours through ToS with my sister. I don't know why, considering she never seems to like vide... : Blucklesworth
  • The big difference is, SoM let the extra 1/2 players play all the time, whereas in Tales you just sit the... : Vincent Grayson
• eternal sonata... but the game is boring as fuck : -=kodiak=-
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  more games need coop period.. but you're thinking of the action RPG genre, not the JRPG genre. : boring gegtik
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    debatable technicalities : MoreVespeneGas
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      just because a game is japanese doesn't mean it's got realtime action gameplay that's retarded : boring gegtik
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        did someone claim this? let's go beat them up if so. : MoreVespeneGas
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          "I wish more JRPGs would have a coop mode." Maybe a coop mode where you take turns choosing menu option... : boring gegtik
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            What about taking turns hammering the action button in town to find hidden items? That's some quality co... : omnova
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              You mean Diablo? : avatar_58
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                No? : omnova
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                  Yeah Diablo isn't japanese, so it's okay right? : avatar_58
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                    No. You seem to be attending the Antilles_Prime school of illogical comparisons and you're not allowed t... : omnova
                    • Oh yeah well I slept with your wife. : avatar_58
    • ^^ I really thought it was an unorthodox RPG when compared to, say, the FF series. But it's still what I... : zehh
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  the DS remake was really awesome...GF and i beat it together. : m0rfus
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    A DS remake of SoM? O_o when? where? Do you maybe mean part 1 of that series, which was Final Fantasy Adv... : razorblade79
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      is he talking about Children of Mana? : Modulus
      • that game was booooooooorrrring. : grabbie
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        That's what I thought... I didn't like it as much as the original version though, even if everything look... : razorblade79
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          Erm, the original is cartoony too. All of Square's games are anime-cartoony. : avatar_58
          • The original didn't really have enough detail to call it cartoony IMO. It's like the old Final Fantasys, ... : razorblade79
    • I liked Part 3, I only ever played it as a translated ROM though. : digital_d
    • it was Children of Mana and we both enjoyed it you bunch of snobby bitches : m0rfus
• it truly was a great game, it was like zelda and ff combined, the music wasnt so bad either, doot doot do... : Chandler55
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  insert x genre here doesn't need more co-op. we need more genre-defining co-op. SP games whose co-op is a... : cpt_gloval
  • I hope games like COD5 / Red Alert 3 / Left4Dead set a trend that others will follow... : razorblade79
• All of the more modern Tales games support this feature. And Vesperia is really, really good. : Entity
• Is there any game that is NOT made better with coop? I think it is a universal good and I don't understa... : jlavrenz
• i played through that whole game 3 player. so fucking awesome and underrated : JINKY
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  knew someone that worked at Square long ago. he worked as some CSR guy ... anyhow. to that day (i'm s... : sukabljat
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    so wtf are they waiting for : Jstroh
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      Isn't Crystal Chronicles pretty much the same thing? They also have mana games for different systems, suc... : avatar_58
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        no. Crystal Chronicles is ass. : Jstroh
        • also coated, dipped, rolled, and over-baked in ass. : SkeezPimp
• I loved and beat that game and never knew it had co-op. That was one of the only JPRG's I've ever played. : bozer
• pics of sister? : sanchez

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  Try uninstall + reinstall? : terath
  • Tried it already. It's just the damn mobile device support that fails to install. Is there a way to look ... : ErikTehRed
• On my current PC I have only ONE USB port that my ipod works with. The others have fucked drivers and do ... : avatar_58
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  I am getting really fucking tired of updating itunes every other week. : hirosushima
  • This is the first update in like three months... : IndigoAK
• That sucks, I'm sorry. I think if I were still a Windows user I would hate iTunes with a passion. As it i... : perstephanie
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  I have this problem too. What you have to do is manually install the driver, which will be copied over b... : jasonepowell
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    Tried that. The real problem is that the Apple Mobile Device Support service didn't even install and iTun... : ErikTehRed
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      You've changed USB ports to get the install dialog again? : jasonepowell
      • I fail to see how that's going to make the service install : ErikTehRed
      • I don't even have a C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support right now because the msi i... : ErikTehRed
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  Using itunes 7.7 with 2.0.1 firmware on a 1st gen iphone. Everything is working, so why update? Why risk... : doomed
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    2.01 has some known text delay issues. 2.1 fixes this. : adsriordan
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      Where is this delay? While typing or while opening the Sms app? I do feel the Sms is slow opening and sc... : doomed
      • you would know it when you see it. The typing delay is real bad. like example hit the letter t and it w... : Iwannaacura
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        It's really bad when putting passwords into fields. You can actually see the letter in plain text before ... : sigpro
        • i think thats on purpose ? it's the only way of making sure you are typing the right letters. it wa... : doomed
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          That is a feature, not a bug. It's on purpose. : electroly
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            I don't remember it being that way on the old 1.x firmware. : sigpro
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              yep, it worked perfectly before. in 1.4 then once 2.0 came it would appear. : Iwannaacura
              • it's actually caused me to put my PW in wrong because I wouldn't see a * show up right away so I didn't t... : sigpro
            • Correct, but it is an intentional change. Apple got a lot of complaints from people who, when they first... : SolrFlare
  • 2.1 is very very much worth it, fixes a bunch of bugs, improves battery life and gives better signal read... : sharpie
• stopped at itunes, didn't need the rest of the post. : sukabljat
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  Slightly related (on a fuck iTunes tangent): The whole being unable to put crap on your iPhone without iT... : MrAdults
  • just an iphone thing : FrayLo
• Well I looked through the logs and found this part that looks to be the culprit: DIFXAPP: ENTER: Insta... : ErikTehRed
• but it just works :( : deject
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  HIJACK iTunes 8: How the fuck do I disable the "genre" column? I swear there used to be an option. Do... : manero
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    Right click on the header of the genre column and uncheck genre to turn it off. : SolrFlare
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      oh dear god thank you : manero
      • errr no, in the file browser.. up top. you used to be able to turn off genre and only have artist/albu... : manero
  • http://www.shackpics.com/files/instructions_26d45w433u2ajvyi3r2a.png : one baby to another
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  anyone figure out how to get itunes to autoplay a song when opening them for the first time ever? itunes... : Break
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    it does it for me. : Iwannaacura
    • damnit wtf =/ : Break

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  Greatest American Hero Look at what's happened to me, I can't believe it myself... : malevolence
  • Forgot about this one. Definitely a favorite as well. : Phreakin
  • I'm not ashamed to admit I watched GAH, that show was fucking awesome : Home Nugget
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    This show was not cheesy when I was 10 and it is AWESOME! I have all 3 seasons on DVD thank you very muc... : FormerHPB
    • I think everyone else thinks it's cheesy, but I think it is awesome. : malevolence
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  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century for me. Also Wonder Woman : Jonathan
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17332629 : Degenerate
    • Yeah pretty much explains both my choices... : Jonathan
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  2 Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. : ejectorpod
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    Berg was hilaruous. Also, the exact title was "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place" Shame on you. Pete ... : orgcaptainnemo
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      Oh wtf, whatever, I used the number instead, go punch your pregnant girlfriend in the stomach. : ejectorpod
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        You also added a comma. Cleanliness is next Godliness. : orgcaptainnemo
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          I'm a fan of the Oxford comma and insert it even when it's not part of a proper noun. : ejectorpod
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            WHO GIVE A FUCK ABOUT AN OXFORD COMMA? : taylorwp2
            • OBVIOUSLY I DO MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT? : ejectorpod
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          GRAMMAR NAZI FAIL : whodares
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            YOU FAIL. THE ACTUAL TITLE OF THE SHOW DOESN'T HAVE THE SECOND COMMA. : orgcaptainnemo
            • BUT IT SHOULD YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING THE DEMISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOM NOM NOM EATING MY OWN DICK WITH... : ejectorpod
            • "Cleanliness is next Godliness" Please reread your fail kthx. : whodares
• AirWolf, Greatest American Hero, Dukes of Hazzard. Pretty much all the cool 80's shows I loved as a kid. : sigpro
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  I love Airwolf. Especially the episode where they get rid of a computer virus by Flying very high : Finestaut
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    Hahaha...FREEZE IT!!! : Phreakin
    • Also, the episode where they fly circles around the historic casino on Catalina and BLOW IT UP WITH FUCKI... : Finestaut
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  I am watching Lexx now. This show is awful, yet engrossing. : dirge23
  • I have no idea why but I loved Lexx : hawkeye
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  Friends? : OverloadUT
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    I guess that's not really oldschool yet : OverloadUT
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      I think a good rule of thumb is anything that was on air this decade is nowhere near old school... : Jonathan
      • For some reason I thought it ended in the 90s. My sense of time is way off I think : OverloadUT
  • thats cheesy like a bunch of gay dudes jizzing on nacho's and eating them together while giggling to some... : mindshot
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  Magnum PI : hashd
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    Fuckin' A. I had those set to record on WGN, I think, and was heartbroken when they started repeating af... : mafu5150
    • I cant believe there isn't more love for this maybe all the youngsters haven't seen it. : hashd
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  Saved by the Bell : Shadowdane
  • ^^ this classifies and cheesy and is my vote too. : Skoal^Fyfan
  • definitely this, and Full House : SolveChrist
• Airwolf? Cheesy? Airwolf was amazing back in the day. : Skoal^Fyfan
• I just watched Season one of Golden Girls on DVD the other night with my girlfriend. : not work safe
• Remington Steele : Marauder IIC
• I watched Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place from start to finish and I loved every bit. : invisible_kid
• Party of Five : eldersveld
• Alf! : afty
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  Parker Lewis Can't Lose : Skoal^Fyfan
  • I loved that show as a kid. Synchronize Swatches! : obiquatro
• MacGuyver, Saved by the Bell, The Dinosaurs : Dschinghis Khan
• Airwolf Theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlR011XAgJo YOU'RE WELCOME : PoopStewart
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  ... ... ... ...growing pains : zerog83
  • i knew you liked boner. : orgcaptainnemo
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  Am I the only one that liked Blue thunder better than airwolf? : skunk_ape
  • Yes, yes you are. : Finestaut
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    I watched a lot of tv as a kid and have no idea wtf you're talking about. : Skoal^Fyfan
    • you haven't watched enough http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086671/ : skunk_ape
  • Blue Thunder was the shit. It had awesome tech, and I believe there was also a scene of them indulging t... : mafu5150
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    I enjoyed the movie but never really got into the TV show. : malevolence
    • Power rangers and I was too old at the time but was still loving is secretly : handofthrawn
  • Better than? No, but it was cool. : Phreakin
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  90210 religiously until its final season : ozfactor
  • I watched the entirety of Dawson's Creek... last year. : davantalus
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  The Wonder Years, Cheers, Nightcourt. The last two were well before my time, but they were funny as he... : sukabljat
  • Ah, the Wonder Years. I basically was Kevin when I was younger so I really identified with that character... : malevolence
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    Night Court was awesome : Toraz Chryx
    • To this day, when some internet form comes along that tries to guess characters from TVs and movies (stat... : sukabljat
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  Quantum Leap probably, but I haven't watched it in a long time. I just think it'd be kind of cheesy watch... : lyme
  • it's just as enjoyable now as it was then. : j0nchan
  • Not cheesy at all. You fail. Quantum Leap still holds up well today btw. I watched the first 3 seasons ag... : fuell
• Captain N! http://www.andysartwork.com/gallery/CaptainN.jpg : helvetica
• Dukes of Hazzard and MacGyver. : Wyvern
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  Knight Rider. : BrodieMan
  • Cheesy? It was 60 minutes of pure awesome. : DrWaffles
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  Thunder in Paradise! This show was awesome when I was young and starting to like girls in bikinis : ShekkyBoy
  • The flashbacks are hilarious as both actors didn't have any make up to make them look younger and it was ... : Sailor of Fortune
• Jackie Chan Adventures. I absolutely LOVE that show. : NeoMoose
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  One Tree Hill Ive watched it since the first season. : suicidemachine
  • Bah, need to learn how to read. OK, replace that with The Golden Girls. : suicidemachine
• Forever Knight. : Fayk
• The Hills : pun][sher
• Sliders...that is old enough I think. 1995-2000 : h o s t i l e
• Thunderbirds are GO! : mem
• Get Smart : adsriordan
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  Dukes of Hazzard or Will and Grace. : Rauol Duke
  • Also Moonlighting and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. : Rauol Duke
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  Sledge Hammer : ann thracks
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    Why would anyone be embarrassed to admit liking Sledge Hammer! It's great. : A Sponge
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      seriously, that show was fantastic : flagg209
      • Oh, OK. Thanks for the affirmation, guys. I can quit my S.H. Anonymous meetings now. : ann thracks
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  Perfect Strangers was always pretty cool. Then there's always 21 Jumpstreet : eforce98
  • I had the biggest crush on Holly Robinson back then... : flagg209
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  Captain Power & the Soldiers of the Future, My Secret Identity, AirWolf, Knight Rider, MacGuyver, Small W... : ninjamoo
  • Never be embarrased about Captain Power, that show as way ahead of it's time. : Mondo
• Hey Dude : jingletard
• Greatest American Hero. : Zakko
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  CHiPs haha, I loved that stupid show. : tfboc
  • that show ruled. Ponch and John! : hirez

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• Good. Thanks for asking! : Mrc32
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  Good. How is yours? : freshyk
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    I wish I can Download it I'm in Hawaii I won't be home For A Couple Weeks I'm Dying To know if There Any ... : iSurFHi
    • What's going on here. : -sk-
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      easy fella... stop with the enter key yea? : Demius
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        poor guy gets jumped every time they post. haha : Slowtreme
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          actually I think iSurFHi is a welcomed addition to the shack... not all LatestChatty people i could say t... : Demius
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            The other day he was going nuts with full color posts. : Slowtreme
            • must have been on one of my "im at school all day and work all night" days :( i missed that. : Demius
    • wat. : manero
    • yep. it teaches you how to use the shack and stop trying so hard. also is kills baby seals at an even g... : smacknca
    • /]6) Fixed issue with newlines being inserted during text entry.]/ : mrtony
    • It's about .1.8 better. : magistersmax
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  So are all firmware updates cross-compatible between the Touch and iPhone. I ordered the new 32Gb Touch ... : IndigoAK
  • Has it really improved though : iSurFHi
  • Any apps that use GPS won't work with the touch, there aren't any differences in the API that I've seen. ... : boarder2
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    > So are all firmware updates cross-compatible between the Touch and iPhone. No, there are different f... : DOOManiac
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      Hmm, that's sounds little confusing to keep track off. One important thing: does the LC app work on the ... : IndigoAK
      • Yes. While the firmware images for the phones vs touch are slightly different (you can see this if you ch... : Fayk
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  Works well, exept that lc.app doesn't put the keyboard away after I hit post anymore... :( I have to qui... : Hiro
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    Hmm. Test. : boarder2
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      Works in 1.2ish. Hopefully that'll fix it for you. Ifthey ever freakin approve it. : boarder2
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        I don't understand how it can be an Apple employee pick, and then not get approved! : Hiro
        • When they tried the new version shackpics was having problems and didn't work. So when they tried the ne... : boarder2
  • Is that right regarding the Apps? : iSurFHi
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    Confirmed with the 3g iPhone. : BlackCat9
    • Wait. Didn't happen that time. : BlackCat9
  • Doesn't happen every post : Slowtreme
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  Crashy! I'm still on the old one because I'm awaiting a 2.1 jailbreak. : DOOManiac
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    I wish they could of come up with copy and paste? : iSurFHi
    • Do you. : DOOManiac
  • i think i'm going to forgo the usual wait for the jailbreak (and also not bother with the semi-jailbreak ... : Arsenal
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  YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME : DooBall
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    I need it LOL : iSurFHi
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      I'm wondering how the battery life will be? : iSurFHi
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        My battery life is much improved on my touch. : Slowtreme
        • really? my battery life on my touch was great to begin with.... it really improves it? : Demius
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  How do you have no fucking post history. I KNOW I've seen you post before. mind = blown. : Flying h4x0r
  • It's the LHC. : FPSDavid
• I just had my first dropped call :( : afrochops
• So far so good. I think it's improved my 3G's battery life, but I haven't been using the 3G long enough t... : jason bergman
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  is the nike+ipod support for iTouch/iPhone part of this firmware update or is that a sep application that... : mankeroo
  • Only the new iTouches have it : Bamtan
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    there is no nike+ support for existing iPhone/iPod Touches.. only the new iPod Touches (which ship with 2... : Arsenal
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      that is so fucking retarded and lame. There is no reason why it should not be supported. : mankeroo
      • It's a physical difference between the original touch and new touch. Would be nice to have on phones, tho... : Fayk
• you should throw your iphone in the ocean to see if it still works afterwards. : maulla

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  It's hard, especially when playing with random people. I got lucky last night with some randoms doing som... : hirosushima
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    Also i would like to add that a lot of players hate playing healers because of the pressure you have to m... : hirosushima
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      Exactly why I'm thinking as much as I enjoy the shammy I may not do it. Nothing worse than getting bitche... : zakazi
      • When I had my pally in WoW, anyone who bitched about heals stopped receiving them. If they asked where t... : Derringer
    • It's also dull to level a healer. : pauk111
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    That was me. I kept trying to get your attention but then you'd run headlong into a group of order ;) I w... : InfoBiter
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      How is the healing UI? Is it difficult to quickly see who is low on health near you? Do you have to wat... : electroly
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        Actually it's pretty good, other then UGLY Unit Frames, and click recognition. Health bars only show when... : graceofdragons
        • Agreed. Though the click recognition is awfull and I have trouble targetting myself sometimes as well. : InfoBiter
      • if you are in a group it's easy, but as a solo it's a bitch. I'm sure there will be UI stuff for it late... : hamachi
• this is why i love being a healer. people LOVE YOU even though all you did was press a button to make th... : electroly
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  I've noticed something similar with Order. Instead of lack of healers (There's quite a few Warrior Pries... : valael
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    do you think this points to an inherent class imbalance in the game? or is it just emergent behavior fro... : electroly
    • Aesthetics I'm guessing. : graah
    • I think people are going for the cool looking stuff first. Remember, most have only been playing for 3 da... : Damodred
  • you'll notice that sometimes it depends on where you are. If you are going into the tier one empire scen... : gendail
• I have yet to have a problem finding a healer in any pug I get into. Usually it's a Shaman and about hal... : gendail
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  My hypothesis is that not enough women play WAR. Women love playing healers, so we need to offer Mascara... : jingletard
  • hypothesis theory : jingletard
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    They need to provide more female versions of classes. WAR is a sausage fest. Healers are supposed to be... : electroly
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      I can't roll a male Healing class. All my healers (and primary toons) in all games, are chicks. : graceofdragons
      • Mine too, I've got a girl paladin and a girl priest in WoW. I'll roll a male healer in WAR, but I won't ... : electroly
• This is the first mmo that I'll be rolling a healer in. My little greenskin shaman is pretty fucking kick... : ateam311
• I play a healer but man i get spurned all the damn time. Also random people are annoying, they will let ... : smacknca
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  how do the pqs account for healing? : zakazi
  • crap i was about to type how certain i was your get rep points for it but now I cant remember. RvR you g... : smacknca
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    just like BGs. While you're in the PQ zone, you're essentially in a mini instance thats tracking everyone... : graceofdragons
    • It is. I'm consistantly fiirst or second in pq rolls on my zealot and all I do is heal and span a few dot... : InfoBiter
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    Pretty poorly, you still get your points, but you get no credit on the loot rolls :( : Slowtreme
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      thats not true, i'm often number 1 on pure healing. : graceofdragons
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        Yeah, you can be top for rolls.. but you do not get any experience for mob kills (unless you are in group... : TreMetal
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          oh, I always do my best to Invite Everyone I see in a PQ to avoid exactly that, i figured out real quick ... : graceofdragons
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            people are freakin bitches about grouping. no one ever wants to join up, i think they dont get the whole... : smacknca
            • Yeah, we have 10 years or so of bad behavior to unlearn. Thanks MMO makers :p : Damodred
      • In a full PUG I would usually heal whoever was tanking, but then let them die after 40 seconds, and let i... : Slowtreme
• I try to heal but I'm playing a DoK so i'm kind of in the middle and don't heal nearly as well as a Zealo... : melkore
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  In elder I played healers most of the time. And healing never felt like I was really able to get good hea... : Slowtreme
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    Seems like if you have shamans, two of them can stack the same HOTs. Not 100% sure though. : chungathebunga
    • I think my issue was that there was hardly ever a second healer around. : Slowtreme
• i'll be a healer for you, but i seem to have joined the wrong server : ibrokn
• i traditional always play support and more than likely will at launch. : m0rfus
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  Nobody wants to play a healer because people give them hell about it. : jonin
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    OMFG WHERE ARE ALL THE HEALERS! OMFG HEALER HEAL ME, YOU SUCK! I've heard it all... now I just let peo... : graceofdragons
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      I tried healer one time, I quickly quit and never tried it again. I never bitch about healing. Those gu... : jonin
      • I was a healer in DaoC and let me tell you, that's a tough fucking job keeping the group alive. If you wi... : Visceral Monkey
    • ^^ is what i do. i am a snobby healer. dont play by my rules and you dont get a heal. : m0rfus
    • Yup. Let people bitch. When it comes right down to it, *I'M* the fucking healer and *I* decide whether ... : electroly
    • I was in a PQ and some caster was running circles around us tanks with a mob on his tale and he was shout... : gendail
    • I was a Cleric in EQ. People fucking respected healers back then. And I earned it. I was a damn fine h... : Ebu
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    Yep. I started a DoK and even at only rank 2 I was top in the last instanced RvR I played (in terms of he... : Vincent Grayson
    • A DoK's role if off healing. Your main goal is to keep yourself healed so you can DPS more. You should on... : Visceral Monkey
• Sorry. I'm rolling both a DoK and a Zealot. :) : Damodred
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  Hijack: Zealot vs Shaman? Those who played elder (or just know wtf) how do the two main Destro heale... : InfoBiter
  • While I have never played a healer myself, I can tell you that no matter what tier I have played in ( I a... : gendail
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    Zealot is the best pure healer in the game and much better at healing on the move than Shaman. One of the... : Link.
    • I forgot to say that no matter which healer you pick in WAR, you'll be sufficient enough to keep up your ... : Link.
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  The whole RvR thing is starting to worry me. The trend I see in all the games is thus: 4 Bright wizar... : Visceral Monkey
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    Feels the same on Order side except we're being nuked by Sorceresses. Just need to FF with some counter... : graah
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      Honestly, I don't think this problem will ever be solved until a MMO does just melee classes. There's a r... : Visceral Monkey
      • See, that's what an army of stealthers are for. I've always consider rogues caster killers, they're dead... : jingletard
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  healers are the most popular archetype : aeg1x
  • Because healing is totally over powered at the low levels right now. It's stupid how hard my Shaman is to... : skinlab133
  • Yeah. There was a crazy amount of Shaman, once open beta started. : Link.

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• you should do me because i am quite curious and i sent you malazan books : lakren
• But you won't do mine so I cry. :( : perstephanie
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  you should do me because i am quite curious and you haven't sent me malazan books : Deathlove
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    fuck i knew i forgot something. They are even still in a box in my garage all ready to be sent : wtf242
    • Hurry! I'm almost done with Dark Tower VII, and at the rate I'm going, I'll need something new to read in... : Deathlove
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  also programmers can anyone think of a clever way to handle plural words? I've noticed in a lot of tag cl... : wtf242
  • http://rubyforge.org/projects/stemmer/ : electroly
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    :( You see, I want to learn how to program, but seriously, wtf is this? w =~ /^\d+$/, I look at this ... : skitzo
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      "if this word is just a number" : wtf242
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        See, i was thinking "Deity Anubis will consume your soul during the solar eclipse". : skitzo
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          You would have to add an "&" in there to make it mean that : OverloadUT
          • That does not surprise me. : Damodred
    • that is a roundabout way of checking if w only contains digits. i'm kind of disappointed in the amount o... : electroly
    • regex. learn it, love it. Scream at it when you don't know what the fuck you're doing (in my case) : captfarrell
    • That's a "regular expression", and they are easily one of the more bizarre-looking constructs in programm... : action roommate
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    if( string.characterAtIndex( string.length() - 1 ) == 's' ){ string = string.substring( 0, string.lengt... : Yanks
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      also, lol this suggestion sucks : Yanks
      • Also, the stemmer thing up top looks really cool. Homepage for actual project: http://tartarus.org/~mart... : Yanks
  • porter stemming algorithm? : action roommate
• if you get a chance at some point, do mine. im curious to see it. : pandastrong
• Mace's defiantly wins. Mine would be like fuck, achievements, beer and who knows what else. : sigpro
• I would love it if you did mine at some point. Please. : Fyunch Click
• Darn. I was going to try to find the last big absurd political thread on the shack and wordle it, but sea... : perstephanie
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  Haha @ GMD. He's obsessed with feek. : twifosp
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    most of these are only based on the latest 1500-3000 posts. : wtf242
    • only? : disembodied potato
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    hm. : feek
    • Everytime GMD lifts weights, feek, he is pretending it is you. : twifosp
  • hahah oh wow you weren't kidding! : terath
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  Do me wtf242, DO ME :( : Phil
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    I am actually doing you right now. Your last 5000 posts. It's cranking away! : wtf242
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      so hot. : Phil
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        haha yours is pretty awesome: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182463/Phil : wtf242
        • LOOKS LIKE POO! : Slowtreme
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          The picture isn't showing up for me. :( : FormerHPB
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            You need java installed : Horn
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              I have java. :( : FormerHPB
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                you need to update java : action roommate
                • Work laptop, I can't update SQUAT! :( : FormerHPB
        • I love reading adjacent words, they are such telling stories of romance and drama. OLD GAY. KIDS HOT : Audhuml4
        • PHIL THREAD RATARDED WOW PICS : indosauros
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          lol why do you say 'Black' soo much? : sesmaster
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            I didn't even see black in there. : Slowtreme
            • that's good. You are the realization of the good Doctor's dream : sesmaster
        • thats rather good, actually : epit
        • FUCKING SHIT LOL FUCK : jenisthebest
        • phil loves to say "fucking lol" alot : askedrelic
        • {[Fucking kids, hot love night]/ : mem
        • I saw HOT MAN LOVE. : ImageOmega
        • haha nice. : Phil
        • I did a search for "phil" and this shows the top 500 words pulled from the 3000 most recent previews: ... : ThomW
        • KIDS HOT LOVE hahahahahaha : ejectorpod
• do me do me! : marmite
• repost http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/181644/lolcats_from_the_bong RE: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.... : Slowtreme
• Think you could do one for me? : ColoradoCNC
• can you do me? I'm more curious than anything.. thx : beastrabban
• sweet, very sweet indeed. : devnullgt
• I don't have many posts because I lurk a lot, feel free to do me; it probably won't take very long. : kaddar0
• please do mine! : grandmasterlee
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  do me ok :( : mr.sleepy
  • or at least show me how to do it : mr.sleepy
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  Isn't this time intensive? : Ratalon
  • I AM very curious how big "My Husband" shows up in Galadriels cloud :-p : Ratalon
• i would love to see mine : dirge23
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  Declaration of Independence: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182548/Declaration_of_Independence : Porkasaurus
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    I am surprised to see grapefruit was so important to your founding fathers. : A Sponge
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      Sarah Palin's RNC Speech: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182566/Sarah_Palin%27s_RNC_Speech : Porkasaurus
      • do it again and set all words to lowercase : Slowtreme
• Mine would just consist of "actually," "fuck[ing]," "really," and "want." : mittense
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  Why does this page need Java to display a picture? : Dynotaku
  • that's the cool thing about it actually. It pushes off all the heavy processing to the client. I don't th... : wtf242
• What about if you did my posts, 242? : CrustaR
• I would pay you a dollar via paypal to do mine. :/ : cerealSAM2
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  Here's a science one I did last night based on a paper about a gene called "hamlet": http://wordle.net/ga... : nevicata
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    Oh, and here's one from Baldur's Gate: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182723/Baldur%27s_Gate_Faq : nevicata
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      Ah THAC0. Good times, good times. : Haxim
      • i miss THAC0 : skryte
• http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182706/Proteus_VX_Manual : DrillBit
• I would find a wordle of my posts humorous . . . though i doubt anyone else would : fuzzydamnit
• http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=&cs_user=Chris%20Remo Do it. : mittense
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  lol, that is awesome. I just noticed I'm on the list. Thanks for this wtf242! : Bean
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    Lucky. :( : nevicata
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      shut up noob!!!!!!1 :) : moshman
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        The happy face does not lessen the pain. :( : nevicata
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          don't worry, you probably have nothing interesting to say anyway :) : moshman
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            Yeah, thanks.. :( : nevicata
            • i'm kidding. sorry : moshman
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    also - yes, mace's still wins. Holy crap. : Bean
    • I really want to print that out too and hang it in the loo, but I think my wife wouldn't like it. : moshman
  • Wait, I want to see yours. Missed the link I think. I really want to see mine, but I'm a little scared o... : perstephanie
• oooh,neat! do me! do me! : hirez
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  How do you get the .PDF that can get massive out of this? : FPSDavid
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    Print -> Print to PDF : boring gegtik
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      Where? http://kodiak.24quotes.com/print.jpg : FPSDavid
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        You have to get a program that simulates a PDF printer. I use http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcr... : ThomW
        • Sweet, thanks. : FPSDavid
• Where exactly are you culling this text from, and how? Also gmd's is hilarious. : action wombmate
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  If you don't do me I am going to write my own >:[ : OverloadUT
  • Write your own and then use it to do mine. : perstephanie
  • it takes hours for each person.. can't do it instantly : wtf242
  • Think of the load on the servers if everyone makes one and uses it to search their entire search history ... : Flying h4x0r
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  Lakren: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182828/Lakren I'm thinking i need to filter out the word "prett... : wtf242
  • Every shacker's top 10 contains: lol pretty fucking awesome : Slowtreme
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    I filtered on all these words (includes pretty): http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/l/kelk-about.... : rock elf
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      excuse me what is this http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/176979/boring_gegtik : boring gegtik
      • It's a poem about you. I think I really captured your essence. : rock elf
      • Dry stuffy AIDS. : Phil
      • Aw, an Ode to Gegtik. : perstephanie
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      I almost used that list. I think some of those shouldn't be filtered though. I am removing pretty now tho... : wtf242
      • forthyou??? : perstephanie
      • That list would be a good start, but I wouldn't filter so many nouns. : ThomW
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    WOW mine's really boring, oh well. : lakren
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      I just redid yours with my new noise filter. i added about 2,000 more words. I am wondering if i should f... : wtf242
      • I like how haha > hahaha > hahahaha : OverloadUT
      • combining them might be a good idea... fuck and fucking and uhh... shit and shitting? : mikecyb
      • Jesus WTF HAIKU : Slowtreme
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  Chris Remo : http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/182974/Chris_Remo : wtf242
  • I had to search his post history to figure out that you added that. : OverloadUT
  • ahahaha perfect : nomaad
  • Great point, obviously, fucking Halo shit : Bamtan
  • Ahaha, that's awesome! : ImageOmega
  • lol I hope he sees that. : ThomW
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    i dont get the Judas bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat ? : yAak
    • I AM DUMB, PLZ IGNORE : yAak
    • whoa dude. lolz : pilgrimage
• please pick me :( : thief
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  make mine please :) (with as many words as you can make yourself do :D) : virus
  • and with a black background please? :D : virus
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  Someone needs to come up with a better way to do this. I want to see mine :( : laurgasms
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    there is no better way to do it. you have to scrape every post individually which takes a lot of time. ... : mikecyb
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      is there no way to pull from the individual RSS comment things that ThomW had at one point? : laurgasms
      • Those just use the preview text. : OverloadUT
      • sadly those just scrape from the search page. someone is going to have to do some scraping here, laura : mikecyb
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      man it sure would be nice if we had some API we could use to grab posts without having to scrape the shac... : electroly
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        how does squeegy's thing work anyway? is it pulling from the shack or is it also doing terrible chatty s... : mikecyb
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          according to his blog it's scraping :( : mikecyb
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            scraping the chatty I mean.... unless there's a secret way to get it to pull posts by a user that you kno... : mikecyb
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              it's not going to be any faster than scraping the page yourself, but it will be significantly less work, ... : electroly
              • maybe i'll write something tonight. i already have code for everything wtf242 is doing : electroly
      • villagers demand documentation : silent prophet
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        Does said API have access to all 40K + posts some of us have made? : sigpro
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          No - it's just scraping whatever chatty's happening right then. : ThomW
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            this is wrong thomw. you can pass in any post ID you'd like. : electroly
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              you can now. but that's article comments, not comments by user. : Slowtreme
              • you'd still have to do the comment search and ask for each post individually. that wouldn't change; not ... : electroly
            • Yes, but it has to scrape it, and it can only load the whole thread that a post is in, there's no way to ... : rock elf
      • The scraping isn't the problem. Sure, it's a pain to implement, but once you've got over that, the proble... : rock elf
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  wtf242, out of curiosity, how did you get the search page to return results to a script? : terath
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    Easy, Ruby has a library for retrieving data over HTTP, i.e. getting HTML. session = Net::HTTP.new("sh : rock elf
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      yeah.. took me awhile to figure out search only works with a valid session cookie. also because of filter... : wtf242
      • Ouch. I'm kind of glad now that I didn't try. Thanks for doing it though. Not only did you go to the effo... : rock elf
• do me, do me hard! : jayares
• where's mine :) : Korban
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  mine would be full of useless crap and garboldy goop : Rigor Morts
  • so the same as everyone elses? : khaosman
• where's Korban's :) : CrustaR
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  mr. sleepy's 5000 latest posts: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/183204/mr._sleepy i had to start filter... : wtf242
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    wait i fucked up. my noise words included "black" and "white" http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/183212/Mr._... : wtf242
    • hiyiyiyiyi? : aaarrrgh
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      genjuro and girlfriend are the same size. : Nobody Good
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        last night i was talking with my genjuro and... : skryte
        • MY GENJURO : Fayk
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17917301 It's the shack : Slowtreme
• I'm putting money down right now on mine being "Shackbattle" : RyDogg1
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  why didnt you do mine without asking? you did haikus. : not work safe
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    Yeah I guess he's going in order of popularity :( : virus
    • or gayness : not work safe
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      Doesn't everything on the shack go in that order? : ColoradoCNC
      • crap...meant this for the gayness response : ColoradoCNC
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  Do mine you synthpop loving jerk : genjuro
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    I guess you're not coming to mogwai? i hate you : wtf242
    • Motherfucker I'm waiting for my house to get buttfucked by The Apocalypse according to these way-too-exci... : genjuro
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  There has got to be some way that we can do this without crashing the shack. Because I'm pretty sure ever... : ColoradoCNC
  • I'm not so sure about that actually : FiReaNG3L

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• Brain Eater 5000 : DrZettl
• Oh my God they're in the house! : spiderfill
• Grandparents: The Game : EvilDolemite
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  necrophilia orgasm : -=kodiak=-
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    stop it : mrtony
    • stop what? : -=kodiak=-
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    equestrian necrophilia orgasm? : MaJeStu
    • Barbie's Equestrian Necrophilia Orgasm : deathofrats
• NECROPHILIA 1942 : mrtony
• Tide of Flesh : dirge23
• Brains II: More Brains : indosauros
• Re: Your Brains : Haxim
• lol I wouldn't buy any of these :( : Jstroh
• Hunny Punkin's Bunny Luvin' Candy House game : cerealSAM2
• Mother fucking zombies in my mother fucking house! : voodooraze
• The Big Lebrainski : manero
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  Z That's it. Just "Z". : Arcanum
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(computer_game) Too late. : skankcore
    • Bah, that's not a zombie game. : Arcanum
  • Beaten by bitmap brothers http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/our-games/past/z.htm : fen boi
• Doom : azenmaster
• Chainsaw Zombie Massacre : SockMonkeh
• 2Zombie2Game : DrFlammable
• Lobe Hunter : smoove
• Lobotomies By Design. : perstephanie
• Zombies ate my neighbors : breadsticks
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  Resident Hill 5. Alone in the F.E.A.R. : baronzemo78
  • pretty decent : Jstroh
• rotten brains inc : spaceless
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  Brains : mittense
  • Sins of an Undead Empire : mittense
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    Munch: The Vegan Civilian of the Undead. : mittense
    • Wait, no, Munch: The Vegan Mercenary of the Undead. I'm done now. : mittense
  • Simple, effective, great for marketing : megarust32
• Afternoon Tea of the Dead : dirge23
• Eat a Brain Moran : Lawgiver
• Crunch : pun][sher
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  Zombie Slayer : CrustaR
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    Wait a minute..what is this?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8tVFZ-X9Y&watch_response : CrustaR
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      they modded doom into a zombie game? wtf -- doom already is a zombie game! dumbasses. : skryte
      • :[ : CrustaR
• Golgo 13 : whistletits
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  Tea with Abe Vigoda : kelzmelzer
  • lewl : Jstroh
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  Head Trauma : DrWaffles
  • YOU KNOW, BECAUSE ZOMBIES GO FOR THE BRAINS? LOCATED IN THE HEAD? NAAMEEN? : DrWaffles
• Dead Earth : Sailor of Fortune
• Xtreme Zombie Genocide : coyoterys
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  Hot young naked zombie chicks eat more than just your brains. B========D : voodooraze
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    man you have cock on the brain 24/7 : Jstroh
    • That would be a good name. Cock Brain! : voodooraze
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    Amy Winehouse : trOmblyj
    • meant for root :( : trOmblyj
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  House of the Dead 5: Subprime Mortgage Crisis : Haxim
  • Crisis Crysis : SlingBlaze
• Chainsaw Inc. : Break
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  Zombie Samurai Massacre Maniac Cannibal Universe Dirty Zombie Mayhem All-America Zombie Galdiat... : sigpro
  • lol each one of these is great : eforce98
• zombie terrists tuk r germs : mista mista
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  Zombocom : MatthewPhillips
  • hahaha... This... is Zombocom! : stelth
• Z.O.M.B.I.E. - Zombie Only Monster Brain Ingestion Empire : retardhumper
• Shackers without Computers : mrseldowski
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  Gold, Frankincense, and Mrh? : zakazi
  • Gold, Frankincense, and "Mmmmurrrrrrrrhh" : mnsnota
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  set it in China and call it "Zombies Ate My Laborers" : SolveChrist
  • LOLOLOL : Jstroh
• Resident Evil 6 : ass-street
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  Dude, There's Fucking Zombies Everywhere, Bro : _jon
  • What about Bra? : Jstroh
  • Dude, Where's My Brain? : dirge23
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  ROMBIES: ATTACK JAPAN!!!! : hirosushima
  • hahahahaha : whistler
• Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon : K1Bond007
• left 2 die : fried rice
• NARRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH : zakk
• necrophilia : Fredrik S
• "how could they be dangerous, look at how slow they move" : AbortedFetusChristi
• Attack of the Vegan Zombies: dognose addition GRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNSSSSS : Rigor Morts
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  NBC Frightly News with Brain Williams : mnsnota
  • To Catch A Brain "Hi, I'm Zombie Chris Hansen. Why don't you take a seNOM NOM NOM NOM" : dirge23
• John Romero's ZOMBIE ATTACK : mrtony
• HaloShockField Fortress 4: Evil Effect Creed : ieGod
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  Om nom nom : genom
  • lol I wonder if people would get it? : Jstroh
• Twitchy : dedgecko
• Undead or Zombie Xtreme Beach Volleybrain : Sixcos
• 4. Itchy. Tasty. : CapnChaos
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  Max Brayne : deveus1
  • ^ this one wins, game over, everyone go home. : renoforrent
• McCain, Palin: 2008! : lolbotomy
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  BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS : jenisthebest
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    also it would have zombie dinosaurs : jenisthebest
    • i think the best game in the world would include zombies, dinosaurs, spaceships, and laser guns : Mmmmmoo
• World of Warcraft : yAak
• Rotting Horde : node
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  NOM : lyme
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    would work for sequels too... "NOM NOM" : dantastic
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      Prequel: OM : SolveChrist
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        I love this subthread : naios
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          Years later Steam will release a collector pack of all 3 games : OM NOM NOM NOM : lyme
          • OLOOOLOLOL : Jstroh
          • OLOOOLOLOL : Jstroh
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    Set in alternate universe Vietomnom, fighting the Vietzomb? : yAak
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      You would have to rescue a ZOW named John McBrain. : mnsnota
      • we need to start recruiting our dev team : yAak
  • ZOM NOM : deathofrats
• Brain Slug: The Horror of Hermes and Zoidberg Setup: Hermes: (monotonous) The flight had a stopover : royalally
• I don't understand the obsession with zombies 2: reign of terror : Mr.SEX
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  Here's some brain storming I have so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomi Passage of Darkness Re... : Jstroh
  • What is this for? Are you making a zombie game? Are you using XNA? : thecray
  • How about just straight: Dusk : Jstroh
• McCain 2012 :( : Poor Yurik
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  Shawn of the Dead: The Golden Cricket Bat : halophoenix
  • they still need to make Jay of the Dead and Dwight of the Dead. : PoopStewart
• Don't fucking DELIVER THE ZOMBIE BABY (TM) : orgcaptainnemo
• Attack Shack Wack : Dead Brains : humbleone
• Winehouse of the Dead : grandmasterlee
• Left 2 Die : mnsnota
• Fuck you you fucking zombie fuckers 2 : locater16
• Dead Rising 2...... no wait, thats taken : bakanoodle
• Zed : shortbuscaptain
• Shacknews Larynx ID #17916859 : cerealSAM2
• Bludgeoned Head-Wound : braaains
• Squishy Munch Munch : helvetica
• Zombie Girlfriend or How I met and earthy girl, and she treated me like dirt... : drucifer
• Here's a Shotgun, Now Shoot Grandma in the Head! : mindshot
• The peculiar case of the flesh eater invasion and the shotgun assasin! : aaarrrgh
• 2 Barrels 1 Zombie : melkore
• Dead Awakening : prime8
• WE'RE FUCKED : mikecyb
• Risperdal : deadhorse
• How about just straight: Dusk : Jstroh
• Boats n' Hoz! : kronetic
• Shacknews.com : pres589
• There's No More Room in Hell : skryte
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  Super Mega Zombie Killer Doki Doki. : Chod
  • Can always use more doki : Jstroh
• Um.... Left 4 Dead. : kallanta
• Zombie All Stars : [eluder]
• ZOMBOCALYPTICO : TastyWheat
• Grave... : massdev
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  Farewell to Arms : TaintedSyringe
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    AWESOME : TastyWheat
    • lol it is pretty awesome : Jstroh
    • danke : TaintedSyringe
• Death Fart 2: The Sequel to the Prequel : Vangoghs Ear
• I always liked The Dead Will Rise Oh and yes, this was thought of before the game Dead Rising came ou... : eforce98
• Zombie Fortress: Only women willing to sell their bodies to escape the apocalypse are allowed in! : Dynotaku
• Attack of the Republicans : two50six