Evening Reading

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  Sweet! Can't wait to watch it.... : jimmy_legs
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    Don't wait. Watch it now. Do it. DO IT. DO IT!!!! : RomSteady
    • But I am in the middle of episode 4! : jimmy_legs
  • Watched it, loved it. Thanks for the laughs guys. Keep it up! : jimmy_legs
• i found this one to be hilarious. the quakecon bit is a classic. Thanks William and Hisham : wtf242
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  iphone ad is brilliant. : pieman
  • Whole thing was brilliant. : pieman
• A+++ : eeeealmo
• You guys should do an on location filming in Florida. So I can punch you in the FACE. : laurgasms
• haha how awesome : dael
• Bravo! : getfrisky
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  How many vaginas did you see that night? Some of those chicks looked decent. P.S. Spicy has a cock. : pancake humper
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    Surprisingly there were quite a few half decent looking women this year. Consequently, Socksta earne : DrillBit
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      Socksta is so hot! : GoodBoy
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        Ok seriously. I loved the rock band in a car bit :) The quakecon interviews were good too. You had me... : GoodBoy
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          Hey glad ya finally joined us here! We met at RogCon. : dognose
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            Yeah I've even posted in a few of the weekly chats. Guess I am offical shackie now :) : GoodBoy
            • Not until you sucked a cock, unfortunately :( : pancake humper
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              Oh hi GoodBoy!!!! : fleabug
              • ut oh is there something I should know? I thought shackies were supposed to be obnoxious but funny and... : GoodBoy
• That was awesome!!! Excellent dramatic reading at the end. The man-on-the-street stuff is always gold : Home Nugget
• Aww, hell yeah. : Rice-Rocketeer
• haha nice, first girl you talked to at quakecon was cute, lol at the rapper : fletch_
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  Great job! Did you end up having an orgy at Quakecon? p.s. What is Rogcon? : Snuffles-
  • Rogson is a new lan event sponsored by ASUS. It was a week after qcon. : GoodBoy
• That was fantastic. Well done. : mittense
• Fucking.Awesome. : h o s t i l e
• Haha, holy shit, easily the best episode you've all done so far, that was awesome : boarder2
• the ajax post read was excellent. can't believe i missed that here! rest was good too! : pyide
• Watched this went it went up in the wee hours of the morning. Fucking hilarious, and the QuakeCon "interv... : Vincent Grayson
• Awesome! : ZeroSignal
• Great episode, Loved the bit with the single girls, and the Iphone ad. : ant_hillbilly
• haha awesome : dantastic
• lol awesome. my favourite so far, good stuff. : re4ctor
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  Hilarity at 6:30. Great show as always! : Rag and Bone Man
  • err 11:45 : Rag and Bone Man
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  Haha, I liked the Rock Band in the car segment. : CrustaR
  • yep that was awesome ^^ : humbleone
• That was awesome, great job. : lplasmatron
• I loved every singl bit of this episode. The deal or no dealing becoming a "here's a prize" line was, fo : Lionhart32935
• fucking awesome as always gentleman : graceofdragons
• Yay! : afty
• i somehow missed that you released ep4 : feek
• ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUBEXtWLdE : DrWaffles
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  I'm just now watching Episode 4 and holyshit guys. So fucking epic. The little nuances and bits that ar... : Phil
  • haha i just saw that too. i had to rewind and do a doubletake. shit's hilarious. RANDOMREMO : feek
• Wow, that was awesome. : TroZ
• Great episode. The Quakecon part was hilarious. : freshyk
• Haha, that was awesome you guys! Look at this, I'm not even going to slip in a backhanded insult this tim... : Bean
• Release the iPhone video alone on YouTube. : Fred Garvin
• Nice work guys! : Wheatloaf
• pterodactyl porn phone call to mom lmao : Phil
• was Remo in this one? Didn't catch it this time : kelerian
• BEST EPISODE EVER Thanks. You guys kick ass. : baconisgod
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  The entire thing was just AWESOME. How did you get Asus involved with you guys? That's pretty random. : xsoulbrothax
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    We were the only 2 people unable to properly pronounce their name so I have no clue. : socksta
    • the guys working at their Fremont hq were pronouncing it more or less like you did (eh-suss), so i don't ... : xsoulbrothax
• I miss Dgriffin04. : Fred Garvin
• So what happened with all the 'off camera' talk girls. : DrZettl
• That was fantastic. Great job. : A Sponge
• William Zilliox, I like your show and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. : deject
• This is awesome. Great job as always guys. :) : ThomW
• The best part were the Quakecon interviews, awesome job guys. : itsjeff9
• When I heard my name I thought it was going to be my post defending hoverboards http://www.shacknews.... : Slowtreme
• The iPhone skit and "Achievement: Wang Zen" were fan-fucking-tastic. : Ride-My-Rocket
• nice. I'm surprised at how many pretty girls go to QCon. : windowpane
• Hay guys why is this on page five? : fleabug
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  Just so I'm the record here...this was the best one yet. So many good segments. : mrwolf710
  • *on* the record : mrwolf710
• Well done, again. Don't stop, don't ever stop. : Duffman8369
• Awesome as always. :D Glad to see you decided to make another one. : DOOManiac
• LOL @ dramatic reading... great video :) : bad_fish
• Excellente! Keep up the good work dudes : sanchez
• nice work guys. : mmaster_pw
• As always, \m/\m/ : Wolfanoz
• goddamn this is a long one : RikiTiki2
• bwahaha! brilliant! : Trips
• Hahahaha thanks Socksta / everyone involved. btw you need to get on IRC more. I miss you :( : ateam311
• I'm really diggin the interview segments you guys have been doing at the cons for the last couple. Keep u... : WhiteHatVeteran
• awesome : Mr.Fusion
• Awesome. <3 this little show! : Orange Pylon
• fucking awesome, many thanks! : moshman
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  This is only up to 5? I remember watching the first one forever ago and loving it. At least its still goi... : aznboysix
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    only 5? considering the amount of content and that it's basically one guy doing it, what do you expect? : moshman
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      Hey, I didn't know you were helping out with the music, good job! : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • haha, thanks. there's some small clips here and there. I will be contributing more as I make it. : moshman
• Keep it up! : Sebastian-TEC
• lol the last part with the quakecon interviews was awesome : oHnOES
• That was AWESOME! : razorblade79
• Wait, is this dognose reading his own post? Kinda sounds like him. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Has anyone ever gotten laid at QuakeCon? Not including people with girlfriends? : two50six
  • I can say yes to that. CPL too (not me). A girl and guy that met at CPL and both were sleeping in same... : GoodBoy
  • Yes. I have no definitive proof, but I do know that it happens much more than you would think. I wo... : fleabug
• I really lothed this in the past, but quite enjoyed that. Good work guys! Consider me tuned in :) You ... : bagelcc
• Really good episode :D, keep up the awesome work! : grayscale
• MUCHO AWESOMO once again guys! : trOmblyj
• hahaha, the quakecon segment is fucking gold : chazums
• wow..that was fucking awesome..really excellent job guys..fucking great : agentlead
• That was incredible. You guys are my heroes. : Lightzout
• I have to chime in with my approval for this episode as well. And I almost forgot about that hoverboard ... : DinK
• I didn't see the Random Remo :( : pancake humper
• Great episode as always! can't wait for the DVD : eforce98
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  Who did the dramatic reading of a dognose post? : Rag and Bone Man
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    It was me. : fleabug
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      I did it. : fleabug
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        I did the dramatic reading of a dognose post. : fleabug
        • hahahahaha : slickdoody
        • you should use this music. at the beginning i cant think of the title. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v : oHnOES
        • lol : Phil
  • It was gegtik : dognose
  • It does sound a lot like he himself. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • ^^^^ I didn't care before but know I want to know :( WHO WAS EEEEEEEEETTT : razorblade79
  • Robert Downey Jr. fleabug : socksta
  • Sounded like Kevin Michael Richardson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXm557QJNw : Snuffles-
  • My sources tell me that fleabug did the dramatic reading. : CrustaR
• Great job guys! : slickdoody
• you guys should get some RSS feeds or something, and put it in the zune marketplace so i can watch it : feek
• as always, very enjoyable. pls keep it up guys! : greydog
• fucking awesome as always. never stop <3 : strider_
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  We need an iPhone Shackvideo player, STATTTTTTT : stuka
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    I am going to encode all of the episodes in an iphone friendly format this week. : socksta
    • awesomeness. : Phil
    • The line of people who will be blowing you forms behind me : trOmblyj
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  This video is fantastic, thanks socksta, fleabug! : Audhuml4
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    and drillbit too. the pterodactyl porn thing had me rollin. : Phil
    • Oh yeah, and I met him there no less. : Audhuml4
• Excellent. Please keep on making these! They are so enjoyable to watch. : kahuuna
• ahhaah : ninjase
• Mentioning this on the show later. Nice job dudes. : MurrayTheSkull
• Impressive. Quality stuff. : ann thracks
• Awesome as always. : K1Bond007
• i believe someone needs to supply a link to the said bacon eroticism : thebroccoli
• New video, great. I need to check this later!! : doomed
• So where can I download this? : cjcharv
• I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats! : tunis5000
• Great as usually. I teared up from laughter at the dramatic reading of a dognose post :) : Reavers!
• Brilliant as always! : Damodred

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• ok : GloriousCow
• shocker : derelict515
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  68,000 simultaneous users is pretty good. : Arcanum
  • True, but the point is it shouldn't sum to 15 million active users. If each of those people only spend 1 ... : zehh
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  Do you have a point of comparison? What is WoW's simultaneous user count? I have no idea how to tak... : InfoBiter
  • WoW has exceeded 1 mil I believe. BC launch day in China. : ZombieAcademy
  • Probably millions. : Robotic Puppy Eater
  • ffxi (way smaller than wow) gets like 2-3k people on simultaneously per server now * 32 servers = 64-96 t... : CalibanX
  • WoW only counts active accounts in their tallies, not every account ever created. So when they say 11 mil... : EvilDolemite
• Thats still a hellava lot of furries. : coyoterys
• well that's a relief : das_runt
• What we really need is the number logging in at least once a week. : Lone Swordsman
• didn't think there were that many furries and pedos out there? : dooberzoo
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  Thats twice the number in Eve Online, and I have a feeling the ACTUAL number of users will be a lot close... : CasbahBoy
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    EvE isn't some crappy furry pseudo-MMO. : Robotic Puppy Eater
    • speaking as a guy who has been playing it for two and a half years it is certainly pretty crappy, but you... : CasbahBoy
• Great business model: Convince investors / advertisers that 10's of millions of people use your service w... : slickdoody
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  I knew the 15,000,000 figure was a load of hooey but man, 68,000 logged in at once is a heck of a lot mor... : A Sponge
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    i'm not sure what the story is since the number of people logged into the grid has always been displayed ... : GloriousCow
    • I didn't know the numbers so it's interesting to me but yup, Kotaku. : A Sponge
• If they count like where I work it's anyone who ever created an account ever.. : stonedonkey
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  Why SecondLife doesn't completely suck: Ok so you've heard SecondLife is basically a MMO with no poin : GloriousCow
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    Wow, why don't you and Second Life get a room... : snuff
    • i've got linden labs' cock so far down my throat they can piss in my socks : GloriousCow
  • Fantastic post. Thanks. : pupismyname
  • after reading this I won't think "what a bunch of faggots" the next time I read about some major corporat... : veras
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    Since there is no way in hell I will ever read that much about second life ever, I will just assume your ... : .sticks.
    • Oh please read all of this. : dognose
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    I've got a friend that actually makes money off of SL. I have no idea, but it has something to do with ow... : ConfusedUs
    • i still make about $75 US a month selling furniture and shit i made almost a year ago. once you set your ... : GloriousCow
  • second life is good because you can make a fat character that is covered in bile and then fly through the... : Luminair
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    please, do not EVER compare SL to Neuromancer.. EVER. fag. : g0nk
    • Nerd Rage! : RikiTiki2
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    That is the main thing that makes Second Life interesting to me. The fact that you can make whatever you ... : ColoradoCNC
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      if there's one thing I hope SL pushes the MMO genre toward its user generated content. SL has shown it is : GloriousCow
      • your first paragraph there is something i said to my friends about two years ago. i tried to present the... : biskits
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    wow so it can run any CLI-compliant language, including stuff like IronRuby or IronPython? awesome : Mr.Fusion
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      thats what they've been promising, but 'soon' in Linden Labs time may be another year or so. I really hop... : GloriousCow
      • I'd have such a boner if it supported ironruby : Bumpmapped
  • This makes me want to check it out. I won't because I highly dislike being 10 years late to the party. He... : davantalus
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    I've heard some that architects also use Second Life as a way to showcase their work to others, as well a... : aldraek
    • i think that was a marketing vision presented by LL when they rolled SL out. i don't know if any company... : biskits
  • Legos are tiny prisons for my soul =( : losder5000
  • dude, you forgot the furry dongs. Furry dongs. For sale! : deathofrats
  • you are the only person on this forum that could possibly provide an intelligent, coherent discussion on ... : biskits
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    Ryzom is an editable MMO. : IndigoAK
    • cool, i'll check that out : GloriousCow
  • yeah, the concept is cool but it's still no Metaverse : das_runt
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    oh, and watch this, its cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA : GloriousCow
    • holy damn that is awesome : silentsunder
    • incredible : 69gooch69
    • wow : sKetchflow
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA&fmt=18 and fullscreen : dognose
    • That's actually pretty fucking awesome. : boarder2
    • wow - beautiful : Mr.Fusion
    • wow : duderonomy
    • that's pretty amazing : Mmmmmoo
    • This video alone just justified the entire existence of Second Life. : disposition
    • Beautiful. : jamesray
    • awesome. Wish there were some more 'artistic' MMORPGs available that drew on modern visual arts styles, s... : Wilhuf
  • freaking sweet. to bad i can't code typing with a ps3 controller suck =( : Malku
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    The thing that bums me out about Second Life is that the whole thing is run by a privately-owned company.... : Home Nugget
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      How is this different from Blizzard or any other company's MMO? : Ride-My-Rocket
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        some of those companies are publicly-owned? : RikiTiki2
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          But they've made capital and material investments in a private company, so they know the risks they're ta... : Ride-My-Rocket
          • The investments you make in a game like WoW are designed to be limited by the constraints of the game env : Home Nugget
      • Because WoW doesn't contain hundreds of thousands of creative expressions that could vanish overnight if ... : Vincent Grayson
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      there's no assurance the real world in its current form will continue to exist. we could nuke ourselves ... : biskits
      • ...or scientists could create a black hole, fulfilling the Mayans' prophecy... : AxeMan808
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      They have been embracing open source stuff lately. The whole Second Life client software is open source, ... : GloriousCow
      • Oh cool! Now that is promising! : Home Nugget
  • The comparison with Snow Crash is interesting. I have always seen the actual internet to already be that ... : razorblade79
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    Has anyone made an FPS or RTS with it? A game within a game of that complexity? : retarded talking dinosaur
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      There are plenty of FPS combat areas in the game. You can't really 'die' but get kicked out of the zone i... : GloriousCow
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        why did they ban gambling? that seems fairly restricted for a world that seems to pride itself on accepti... : Mr.Fusion
        • laws, I'd wager : Marauder IIC
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          unfortunately the world if sl still exists inside the world of possible litigation : Draugluin
          • oh duh - yeah i forgot that the virtual money could be exhanged for real money : Mr.Fusion
  • It's evil. CSI: NY showed me how evil it can be. : surround
  • Very sophisticated ILTC : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • There's a lot of reasons with SL can be considered nice/revolutionary/etc. I have absolutely nothing agai... : zehh
  • And here's why Second Life actually rules: "Ok so you've heard SecondLife is basically a MMO with no poi... : pillzer
  • Just to be contrary, while all this technology is neat, and it all seems very cool, it seems perpetually ... : Finestaut
• Second Life is a strange, strange beast. It's the only 'MMO' with an actual Gross Domestic Product. I thi... : Perturbation
• I like There.com better : Melll
• that's just one of the numbers. another one (reading the comments) is 400k spending 1 dollar in august. s... : dahanese
• SL got me through a week of the flu. I basically flew around with a whole bunch of guns on my charcter a... : newek

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  Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy! : FiReaNG3L
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    Already read 10 times : sumo-hacker
    • go for 11th : SlamDunk
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  Jurassic Park! : SockMonkeh
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    I've read this book like 5 times. LOVED IT. : Super Sparker
    • I really enjoyed the Lost World too, not at all like the movie abomination. : Head Rush
• Pterodactyl : drucifer
• The Android's Sheep - John Scalzi : sikander
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  The Ender series? : magistersmax
  • HELL YES ... i'm currently going through these ... on book 6, Shadow of the Hegemon ..... so good : smalakar
  • Just the first one. Read part of Speaker for the Dead and it's terrible. I think Card went clinically ... : locater16
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  The Bible : Korban
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    that one's just too far-fetched : skryte
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      but that shit'll blow your MIND : Korban
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        Spoiler: he dies. : Super Sparker
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          Yeah, but the writers just bring him back, so cliche. : nurglich
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            The ending was just way too ambiguous..I mean, is it supposed to be open to a sequel or what? : Gojirah
            • Jesus was dead the whole time. : SockMonkeh
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  Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds : DonkeyPopsicle
  • ^^-- This! Actually, read all of his books, cause they're amazing. : ysbreker
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  Armor by Shenkley : Scrimbo Obeer
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    John Steakley, you mean? I just finished this book and enjoyed it. : Ride-My-Rocket
    • HELL YEAH!! That book is in my top 3 for sure. : CrustaR
    • iPhone changed it?! Goddamn it. : Scrimbo Obeer
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    Didn't really dig this book either :( : Zero|DPX
    • Now you are dead to me, Zero. >:| : CrustaR
    • same here : miasma(&)
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  Altered Carbon. or Snowcrash. : Phil
  • Or ?? : rms
• The Diamond Age : indosauros
• The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton, the first in a fantastic trilogy. : nomaad
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  Ender's Game. : yoonix
  • I second this choice. : mallfouf
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  Hyperion : Grumbeld
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    Seconded. This book is amazing. : ConfusedUs
    • brilliant, even. : Marauder IIC
  • Yes. : Sebastian-TEC
• The Left Hand of Darkness. : ShekkyBoy
• Has anyone read Elom? My niece had it suggested to her and is suggesting it to me. http://www.amazon.... : tsuba
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  Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency : Dschinghis Khan
  • Seconded. : WaterSign
  • This book was a lot of fun. : Sailor of Fortune
• Armor by John Steakley : Poor Yurik
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  A Fire Upon the Deep + A Deepness in the Sky : Lightbulb
  • A Fire Upon The Deep is awesome, great read. : Zero|DPX
  • Rainbows End is also very cool : gigaduck
• Red Mars : kevp
• Altered Carbon for a sci-fi detective story. Spares for a dystopian sci-fi Max Payne. Forge of Gods for... : Marauder IIC
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  World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. : Juno
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    That was a good book, but I think he could have left some of the political stuff out of it. : CrustaR
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      I thought that gave it more of a feel of realism than just "OMG THERE WER ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE DEY TUK UR J... : Juno
      • Yeah, but he went into way too much detail at some points. : CrustaR
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    I didn't really dig this book. : Zero|DPX
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      Some parts of it were badass, but you had to dig through a lot of muck to get to 'em. : CrustaR
      • Yeah I got bored at certain parts that went into crazy detail about the political changes but the parts a : h o s t i l e
  • I like zombies but was somewhat underwhelmed by this. : afrochops
  • fun concept, bad writing. Also, the really good parts weren't long enough >:( : aaarrrgh
• If you can find it, Brain Wave by Poul Anderson : Colleton
• Any of the books by Richard K. Morgan. Phil listed one above (Altered Carbon). Pretty much anything by D... : Colleton
• The Founding by Dan Abnett. Also, Eisenhorn by Abnett is great too. : Poor Yurik
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  for a quick read? Day of the Triffids or The Chrysalids [called The Re-Birth in the states] : captfarrell
  • day of the triffids was one of my favorite movies growing up as a kid. : Joseph
• mindscan or calculating god : itsjames
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  Swan Song - Robert R McCammon http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html : btyyue
  • ^^^ very good book : dognose
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  ALTERED CARBON by Richard K. Morgan is a good pulpy sci-fi action detective story FOUNDATION (and sequel : rgoer
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    I've read both Altered Carbon and Neuromancer and they are excellent. I've read the whole Takeshi Kovacs ... : ErikTehRed
    • I'd say Thirteen is better than his previous stuff; it feels like he is finally hitting on all cylinders ... : Johnny Law
• Chung Kuo : Stoned Gargoyle
• I decided to go with a Vince Flynn book. They are like 24 in book form. : sumo-hacker
• Nothing Lasts Forever AKA Die Hard by Roderick Thorp : dognose
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  Earth by David Brin has a lot of action and is pretty cool. : Enkidu
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    EARTH also features some wonderful pop-culture relevance apropos of the LHC : rgoer
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      Ooh, yeah! The book is also interesting from a modern standpoint due to it's prescient predictions of th : Enkidu
      • I used to think that predictions of the web were astonishing. But after Snow Crash, Neuromancer, Enders G... : locater16
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  1984 by George Orwell. This is one of the most important books you will ever read in your entire life. ... : evildanish
  • ^^^ indeed : Dschinghis Khan
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    It's one of those books that everyone thinks they know without having read it. Yeah, it should be a must... : Lone Swordsman
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      I have to go order this damn book now. I think I'm one of these people. : DinK
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        Hint: Government surveillance is not the focus. : Lone Swordsman
        • Bullshit. I know this book! : DinK
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    This is in fact a must : dognose
    • And, people don't always understand this, it's not only important, it's also REALLY GOOD : dognose
  • You should read this book twice. : ucanbfuzzy
  • It is on the queue. I watched the movie this summer and then read Animal Farm for the first time. : lacker
• another vote for Altered Carbon : smax
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  Ubik by Philip K. Dick Easy to read, fairly easy to follow and understand, really good story. : verbatim
  • Dick and Robert E. Howard are my favorite authors. : ShoCon
• Vurt by Jeff Noon for some really cool cyberpunk noir. : Borzoi
• Treason : Mael'Koth
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  Heinlein's Starship Troopers : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I read this after seeing the movie on opening night -- Casper Van Dien was in the lobby handing out signe... : LeapingFool
• Rendezvous with Rama : Flying h4x0r
• Two that I read recently and liked: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (the follow up, Axis isn't quite as go... : crimrOw
• On Basilisk Station by David Weber. Sorry about everyone else giving the wrong suggestions :( : geedeck
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Consider Plebas by Iain Banks The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook... : lightly inclined
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  DUNE. : Majuju
  • seconded : the_burd
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    At least the first three, maybe more if you want, but at least 1-3 : Ebu
    • Absolutely. I made it to 5, but I never made it to 6 or the prequels. Definitely go to 3, and if you wa... : smegmar
  • fucking signed, the first 2 are incredible. : mnok
  • it is a really great book, but it is...POLITICS IN SPACE! : byorn
  • No doubt about it, Dune belongs on this list. : aldraek
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  The Algebraist by Iain Banks : mechanicalgrape
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    ^^this is fantastic, very deep universe even though it's a one-off. : nomaad
    • The Wasp by the same author is also awesome. It was his first book and not quite sci fi, but very good m... : plunkymeadows
• The Forever War and Starship Troopers : miasma(&)
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  Lords of Light : wtf242
  • sorry sumo-hacker but it's actually called "Lord of Light". no "s" : wtf242
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  "fgt" it's your autobiography : jackalope
  • Dare I say it? Well, okay. 0wned! : CrustaR
• The Foundation series by Asimov : balaams_ass
• what the fuck no Gene Wolfe recommendations? He's like the fucking pinnacle... of everything! : aeg1x
• Idlewild and Edenborn by Nick Sagan : Gojirah
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein : kallanta
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  The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester is a classic, and arguably one of the best sci-fi books ever wr... : Dave-A
  • You mis-spelled "The Demolished Man" : AxeMan808
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  This Alien Shore, and Madness Season by C.S. Friedman Dune series Foundation series Robot series Ende... : doozer667
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    Somehow I've never read This Alien Shore or Madness Season by Friedman. The blurbs on the back never caug : ConfusedUs
    • Believe it or not I haven't read the Coldfire books but yes, Madness Season and Alien Shore are great. E... : doozer667
• "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie : ADSliv
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  Singularity Sky - Charles Stross : mmogger
  • unf... hard sci-fi makes me...well... hard : PhoenixArisen
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  Alastair Reynolds. If you like a good dose of science this is the guy for you. He has a PhD and just puts... : byorn
  • I can't second this enough. Very very awesome books. : terath
  • I've read a book or two. Good stuff! : MacemanInTW
• Have spacesuit, will travel : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Almost anything by Stephen Baxter. A lot of what he writes is "hard" science fiction. I would especially ... : thetangent
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    Ring is the best book about the life on a slow ship with a voyage that spans generations that I've read s... : Marauder IIC
    • The Dark Beyond the Stars, Frank M. Robinson : yourGarbageMan
• anything by Greg Egan : ghost hacker
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  Otherland by Tad Williams. Four books. Very steam punky, has a really cool virtual reality twist on eve... : IndigoAK
  • ^^ glad someone else mentioned it.. loved these books! : cause&effect
  • The first two books are great, but the third and fourth could have easily been compressed into a single v... : ConfusedUs
• enders game. Sci-fi, not much action, but excellent book : returnofthepanda
• Matthew Woodring Stover - "Heroes Die" and then "The Blade Of Tyshalle" - awesome sci-fi / fantasy Not... : cause&effect
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  The Night's Dawn Trilogy (actually split into six books) by Peter F. Hamilton : shyguy74
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    • I have the original trilogy. Good read, even if it actually (lol) ends too quick. : aaarrrgh
• Dan Simmons Hyperion + Endymion. EOT. : Nihil ME
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  Forever War : hobosapien
  • I'm reading that right now. It's pretty cool so far. : CrustaR
  • i always rec that to the shack. i liked it a lot! : papaskot
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    ^^^^ was great. also check out "Armor" : proclone1
    • indeed. vvvvvvvVVVVVvvvvvv : AxeMan808
• Kiln People - David Brin. Armor - John Steakley. Hammers Slammers (Rolling Hot, The Sharp End, etc) - Dav... : AxeMan808
• Canticle for Leibowitz : loboVT
• Anybody read Anathem yet? How is it? : aaarrrgh
• gonna have to keep an eye on this thread... : proclone1
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  Diaspora - Greg Egan (is that right? I can't remember) : TheTick
  • That's right... and Egan is excellent, just as long as you can avoid having your head explode while readi... : five_percent
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. Its more of a fantasy really but there is sci-fi elements i... : Dschinghis Khan
• Right now I'm reading Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg. It's a pretty good alternate history novel. : Xin Jing Client 1a
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  I've really been enjoying the "The Oregon Files" series from Clive Cussler. Lots of badassery going on. : digital_d
  • i haven't tryed those, but his dirk pitt series has all kinds of awesomeness going on : gibbo
• Hyperion : locater16
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  Friday by Robert Heinlein Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke : ColoradoCNC
  • Childhood's End F'in rules. I might have read Friday back when I was in middle school, title sounds fami... : proclone1
• The Faded Sun Trilogy - C. J. Cherryh Its been a while since I've read it, but good stuff. : MacemanInTW
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  WORLD WAR Z by max brooks : ninjase
  • it's about god damned zombies i mean cmon : ninjase

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• you should buy the club. : ibrokn
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  Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (I think the best game on the system) Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Dest... : jimmy_legs
  • Oh yeah, and there's some shooters you could enjoy. Army of Two I liked. : jimmy_legs
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    MGS3 worth picking up? I have an 80gb PS3 so it should be backcompatible with most PS2 games. : randomposter
    • MGS3 was the best in the series (until MGS4 came out, I presume; haven't played it). : zerog83
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      It's a lot better than 2, and probably dirt cheap by now. I'd say buy that (subsistence version) and rent... : pyide
      • I'm pretty sure... not that it matters much. I'm only really looking to play games occasionally. : randomposter
    • Yeah I think so. much more detailed inventory management and stealth system. I liked it. : jimmy_legs
    • Are you kidding it's the best in the series (in my opinion). It's pretty much universally agreed that 2 i... : ieGod
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      Careful, 80gb PS3 in Australia is just the 40gb with an 80gb hard drive ie. no backwards compatibility. : sethmarc
      • ouch... oh well. : randomposter
  • I agree with both Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (and Quest for Booty!) and Uncharted: Drak... : IndigoAK
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  your definition of PS3 exclusive is strange, and even stranger when you consider gta4 is coming out in PC... : qwpeoriu
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    GTA was always meant to be played on the PSs and plays better on a console imo. : randomposter
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      I think he was referring to the fact that GTA4 and Burnout Paradise are also available on teh 360 and GTA... : FormerHPB
      • Ah right, I only have a PS3 though. I meant console exclusive. : randomposter
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      how do you qualify that statement (meant to be played on a PS, not plays better on console)? : zerog83
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        That it was their flagship game? I don't want to get sidetracked into semantics here but I think it was a... : randomposter
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          You would be...wrong. : Evil Benius
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            OKAY THEN I'M WRONG I REALLY DON'T CARE JUST GIVE ME THE NAMES OF PS3 GAMES FOR FUCKS SAKE :D : randomposter
            • randomposter has spoken. : Fred Garvin
      • In my experience, I've found the PlayStation controls to be superior than any other platform. With GTAIV... : IndigoAK
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      Except the series started out on the PC so that's entirely not true! And the 3D games control a lot be... : pyide
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        I'm only speaking from personal experience, I hated trying to control GTA3/VC on PC versus PS2. : randomposter
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          It was so much better because the controls made sense. And you could shoot stuff by aiming with the mouse... : pyide
          • The controls in GTA4 are much improved though, but they still have some annoying quirks that bug the shit... : pyide
    • The first part of your statement makes no sense, but I agree with the second part. : ColoradoCNC
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  If you hated MGS2, you won't enjoy MGS4. : freakynipples69
  • i hate mgs2 and i liked mgs4 : Break
  • MGS2 was one of the worst games I've ever played. MGS4 was fantastic in comparison. : pyide
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    That is not necessarily so. The control system in 4 is much better than 2. 2 was teh suck IMO control wis... : Fred Garvin
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      I hated the game being 5 minutes bursts of gaming around 20 minute cutscenes more than anything else. : randomposter
      • Oh boy. You haven't heard much about MGS4, have you? : A Sponge
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        I hated that too and this one has even more cutscenes. The story starts kinda slow and gets crazy (not MG... : pyide
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          Ah, okay, fuck that then. : randomposter
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            Well if you don't care about story you can skip all of them, but like I said, they look incredible for be... : pyide
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              Yeah, might go the rental route for console games. Replay value is practically non existent for me outsid... : randomposter
              • I rent/borrow most games. I mostly buy stuff off the Playstation Store check out demos of Pixeljunk Mo... : Shai-Tan
      • 4 is the same and I really disliked the characters as well as the dialogue. that said I thought the game ... : Shai-Tan
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  you need to make sure you're ready to buy some games off the PSN store... some of the good games are on t... : Break
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    WIPEOUT HD in 4 days! : pyide
    • THIS GODDAMNIT, THIS : ieGod
    • BONER STATUS: >>> turbo padded : Daggoth
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      ARE YOU SERIOUS DON'T JOKE ABOUT THIS : d fluke
      • T-MINUS 3 DAYS This Thursday, September 25th! : pyide
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      this has multiplayer right? i wanna see all you fags online and racing on thursday : Break
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        yes and AFAIK it's only been confirmed in the US. it had better come out in europe as well :< : Daggoth
        • im sure it will.. i mean the developer is based in the UK : Break
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  Just an FYI: Burnout Paradise and GTA4 are not PS3 exclusives. They're both out for the Xbox 360 as well... : ThomW
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    my use of "exclusive" is wrong... I meant "console exclusive" or "console preferred" or something : randomposter
    • They are both coming out on the PC pretty soon, too. Though paradise is nothing like previous Burnout ... : Beady
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  Coming soon are WipeOut HD, Fallout 3, Dead Space, Little Big Planet and Mirror's Edge. Out already: He... : ieGod
  • Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, & Dead Space are all coming to PC (I would assume from his post that he prefers... : jimmy_legs
• personal favorites for me are pretty much the same as everyone else Uncharted -for a PC player aiming... : Shai-Tan
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  You should look out for Bioshock then, comes soon to PS3 AFAIK : razorblade79
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    teeeheeeeheeeee : randomposter
    • didn't think about it before posting. I thought if I didn't say anything noone would notice : razorblade79

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  Splash Woman? : elwood00
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    she's a squirter. : Prozium
    • oh shit lol : jamesray
    • ahaha : jimmy_legs
    • hawt : sanchez
    • hahaha : r3dn3ck
    • but only if ya hurt 'er : Turd Ferguson
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    BEGIN COUNTDOWN TO EROTIC FANFIC : gmd
    • Countdown? It's already begun.... : grayscale
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    I'm more concerned about "Plug Man"... : lyme
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      Plug Man + Splash Woman fanfic = inevitable. : kallanta
      • Autoerotic Electrocution. : RomSteady
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    so after you defeat her do you have the ability to become a tranny? : ninjase
    • MegaSheMan : gmd
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  http://chud.com/articles/articles/16389/1/MCP-MEGA-MAN-9-BOX--COOLEST-SHWAG-EVER/Page1.html : Super Sparker
  • Holy shit, that's so kickass! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Jewel man : zehh
  • hahaha yeah : SockMonkeh
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  Where's "Day Man", fighter of the "Night Man"? : Super Sparker
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-fFOnAz3I : Fred Garvin
• Galaxy Man is cool. :D : DM7
• I think I'll have to buy this simply because of this boss selection screen! :O : SilverSnake
• I didnt know this was coming for 360 : TheFatMom
• http://megabush.ytmnd.com/ : the archvile
• For some reason, I read "plug man" as "butt plug man" lol : Maddog_Delphi97

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  Haha, brilliance! Stormare: Oh snap! : Bamtan
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    No one does crazy like Stormare : Thresher
    • All made in Taiwan !! : gmd
    • OH SNAP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxpbhM0DaA&feature=related : slickdoody
    • He made Constantine about 6x as awesome as it would have been otherwise. : Ride-My-Rocket
• that was pretty awesome : Dschinghis Khan
• oh my god.. that was actually really cool. i kinda wish we could throw EA's marketing people behind s... : xsoulbrothax
• What the... wow! : five_percent
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  They should all be shot for ruining Hell March. >:( So I guess Japan is a 3rd faction in RA3 or someth... : DOOManiac
  • Have you been living under a rock? Yes that is Tanya and yes Japan is the 3rd faction. : Chod
• that was great, i hope that game turns out good. had so many fun times playing ra2 : strider_
• After watching I had to fire up Hell March from the original RA OST : randomnull
• PRE-ORDER'D what can i say, im a sucker for red alert : X-GOUKI
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  Ha, EA has released official materials nearly as cool as an ytmnd link :) : GeorgeB3DR
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    omg link it. : xsoulbrothax
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      ... : sharpie
      • maybe i read that wrong. i took it as 'they've also released some stuff in ytmnd that's almost as cool.' : xsoulbrothax
• What a badass cast. It even had Mikhail Bakunin! : notd665
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  Is it weird that the video has sold me on the game? : dodob
  • No all the RA3 stuff has been great. I remember the talk for the C&C 3 FMV was favorable but this stuff b... : Tincan
  • Yeah me too. : mrwolf710
  • I'm in the same boat. i am in the beta, I wasn't too thrilled with it but this video sold the game to me. : baron calamity
• That was pretty great. Very excited about RA3 : wanker67
• That was freaking BRILLIANT! I'm crying laughing here, fantastic. : slickdoody
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  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Was that the Wishmaster at the end! Okay, I can go to bed amused... : freakynipples69
  • haha oh snap was the best part about this video : Yanks
• Haha, great video. I agree completely with the last line in your post, too. : DinK
• hahahahaha Gotta love Peter Stormare. : NFXFSX
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  Did they mix up chicks for the role of Tanya and the Russian chick? : Sailor of Fortune
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    i dont understand why they needed to give her blond hair :[ : Mmmmmoo
    • have you looked at pictures of jenny mccarthy in the past 10 years? : RikiTiki2
• Buying now. Fantastic remix, made utterly perfect by Peter Stormare. : cptn.peachfuzz
• Holy shit, Tim Curry. : omnova
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  Possibly the worst thing in the world. Genocide looks like sunshine and kittens compared to this :| : A Sponge
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    Do you mean the video or the game, as I seem to remember you getting in a beta or something? : thief
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      The video is. I decided not to play the beta because I didn't want to ruin the awesome surprise of the... : A Sponge
      • Beta ends on the 26th too. : xsoulbrothax
• Kelly hu is hot. : soggybagel
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  A) George Takei is fucking AWESOME B) Red Alert 3 is going to be even more AWESOME C) I wish they'd lea... : thetangent
  • I still have the Red Alert soundtrack CD from back in the day! : Ellissd
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY&fmt=18 and fullscreen. Holy crap. : dognose
  • Where can I buy just a DVD of this video? : dognose
  • seriously, that is just all kinds of awesome. : Joseph
  • I think I will be playing the Soviet Campaign first (for the first time) just for the hot Russian Chick. : Sailor of Fortune
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  That's... a surprisingly recognizable cast in that. Part of me wonders whether it was the paycheck, or j... : kallanta
  • probably a little of both : Dschinghis Khan
  • Completing a project in a couple of days solid and being able to slot it anywhere in a schedule since the... : 60days
• man, I can't stand C&C gameplay, but I want the game just for the FMV now. : DonkeyPopsicle
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  fantastic. also, who is the guy playing the Allied general? : Mmmmmoo
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    Jonathan Pryce, who's Elizabeth's father in Pirates of the Caribbean. : cptn.peachfuzz
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      He'll always be the Lexus commercial guy the Engineer in Miss Saigon to me. : Lunatic Angelic
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        Come on, it's Sam Lowry from Brazil! : Lone Swordsman
        • I'm not that old. Yes, he was also Juan Peron and in Ronin : Lunatic Angelic
        • Wasn't he in the second Ninja Turtles movie too? : MurrayTheSkull
        • Sorry, I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. Where would we be if we didn't follow the correct procedure... : NexusOne
        • ^^^^ This is the ONLY answer. : Fred Garvin
        • Fuckin' A! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          Also played Mr. Dark in "Something Wicked This Way Comes" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/ one of Dis... : two50six
          • written by Ray Bradbury : two50six
        • Seriously. : Damodred
    • oh right : Mmmmmoo
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      NO HE'S THE BAD GUY IN RONIN STOP IT : sgtsanity
      • SEAMUS! : Sailor of Fortune
• Haha, that was great : megarust32
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  Jenny McCarthy is still so hot. : Ellissd
  • I have to agree. I remember when I was like 14 and she was on MTV. She's pretty much been bangin for over... : WildDanimal
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    totally agreed. though i must say i find that russian chick hotter, when she's doing that "i just fucked ... : strider_
    • She is definately smokin hot. The brit kinda gets me goin too ("pervert"). : fr0x
• Holy fucking shit. That was amazing. : mittense
• That makes me want to buy the game. Seriously though, any ad for the game should just be that video. : Vincent Grayson
• hahaha, wow. just wow. :) : delataur
• now my "will buy" has become "will preorder and camp out for midnight release" : RikiTiki2
• Shitty refferences are shitty, but I couldn't stop looping it for Jenny McCarthy. : SpaecKow
• the remix itself is quite horrible, but I think this may be the best cast for a videogame ever. : deject
• HAHAHA... That was great! Lolz @ George Takai line. : Alco23
• wow that was pretty good. : ]pm[chem
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  Very nice... Jenny McCarthy is so smokin hot... Jim Carrey is one lucky fucker! And George is the best...... : prime8
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    jim carrey? : RikiTiki2
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      Yep.. : jamesray
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        Wow... : CrustaR
        • like 2 or 3 years now I think? : Joseph
• what the fuck just happened? : biskits
• haha... that was awesome! : Shadowdane
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  Whoa, TIM CURRY?!?! That dude is a badass. : CrustaR
  • Sierra had him first thats not impressive at all! ;) I kid. : avatar_58
  • lol this was my first response too. OMGTIMCURRYWTFAWESOME : moe6
  • Tim Curry has been cool ever since he did the voice over for the original Gabriel Knight game. (I could ... : mrwolf710
• The last time I played a C&C game was the original Red Alert. I remember playing that shit on Kali and... : doozer667
• wow i actually want to buy this game now o_o : das_runt
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  LOL, a lot of actors paying the rent. : Fred Garvin
  • true, but this has to be REALLY easy work (only a couple of days). : byorn
• there is epic, and then there is THIS : Downforce
• This game is officially awesome with Karl Hungus in it. : Wolfanoz
• They're just pushing the game's interest level through the roof. : ShoCon
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  EA marketing is kick ass Seriously. Between this Mercs, Battlefield Bad Company, Rock Band 2, and even Sp... : byorn
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    did you see the tiger woods video? : feek
    • Great videos. : byorn
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    Oh no you didn't! : DarkWolf5
    • Yeah that was pretty ballsy in a place like this! : GodZilly
  • Seriously, yeah. I don't really care about the game, but I love seeing the stuff they put out for it. : xsoulbrothax
• wow that was awesome, but then again I'm high : ErneX
• I will buy this just for the cutscenes. DAMN that's awesome actor galore! : MatzL.E.
• Wow thats actually pretty funny. Was that an actual release by EA? Im very impressed. On a side note a... : aznboysix
• Heh, that was actually pretty cool... Needed more explosions though. : nephilem
• This was very cool! : Sebastian-TEC
• That was lame. : Drewus
• sold. those bastards. : Magus
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  I have no idea who George Takai is, but that was cool. I will embrace the cheesiness. : rock elf
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei : Chepito.
  • Hand in your geekcard. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001786/ : mem
  • what : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Hiro's father in Heroes. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    PS HE"S GHEY I thought you should know : Perturbation
    • PS Everybody who posts ate the shack is gay. Shacknews has been openly gay for years. Its a freaking c... : Lightzout
  • Captain Kirk's boy toy : gmd
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    I admit, I've never seen Star Trek. I figure I'm geeky enough already, and I'm probably one Star Trek epi... : rock elf
    • Well then clearly, its time you should start conserving water. : Caoster007
    • Wait. Geeks don't bathe? : Jobos
  • What. The. FUCK. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • [lol] : Damodred
• rofl @ Stormare VW ad reference : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Oh my god, I think I might actually be in love with every woman in that video. : aaarrrgh
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDVGmXdXec&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUlvlSSKuzc... : aaarrrgh
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      haha, I love this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUbS7bqbr8 : DonkeyPopsicle
      • haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acl1HWuFZFM Are YOU a Commie Cat ? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• That was definitely well made. : humbleone
• I enjoyed that. : carnivore
• OMG SHILL! armored dolphins, lol : Turd Ferguson
• ugh that was sort of painful. Luckily all the girls are hawt. : Theos
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  Nice, they even threw Gina Carano in there. Gawd she's hot. : punchdog
  • Seriously. I'd let her kick my ass any day. : hax3d
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  I can't stop watching this video! : sanchez
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    Same. They got such a hot cast of women. :( : aaarrrgh
    • I'll take the long haired Russian girl please. : DOOManiac
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      Yeah, damn: http://www.ea.com/redalert/factions-allies.jsp?id=EvaMcKenna : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • She's probably the most boring out of all the women in that video. : sanchez
• Damn it, i'm going to install RA2. : Snuffles-
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  i totally forgot i had a ra3 beta code : oHnOES
  • Enjoy it for the last 5 days. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• holy shit - Crush from American Gladiators <3 : siknsyko
• how much did they have to pay all those celebrities to be in the game : jimmy-buffett
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  A much better version: http://www.ea.com/redalert/news-detail.jsp?id=74 Reminds me of a certain Met... : humbleone
  • ^^^^ really high quality : oHnOES
  • OK, that was pretty damned awesome. : Colleton
• God that was AMAZING!! Sold. : lookitzpancakes
• Someone make me a .gif of the Russian girl dancing. : Chepito.
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  Oh God I can't stop watching this =( : Agrona
  • the russian chick is so hot :( : oHnOES

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• I don't like the fact that it's a 9 hour driver for me, so I never go up there. If it wanted to be coole... : skitzo
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  It amazed me, all of the wide open space, when I first moved to Texas. Now, two years later, I bet if I ... : dognose
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    Do you like the more openness of the cities here dognose? : EvilDolemite
    • I do, yes. : dognose
• I'm looking forward to my visit to San Francisco this coming March. I'll be coming in for the GDC09, and ... : freakynipples69
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  I think it is ranked as the most dense major city in the USA. : phil_mckraken
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    Wait? Worse than Manhattan? : Super Sparker
    • er, NYC? : Super Sparker
    • manhattan and parts of brooklyn and queens are pretty dense but the bronx, especially north bronx, and st... : mikecyb
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      Manhattan has a lot of skyscrapers. But they aren't touching due to size and there are a lot of parks, p... : EvilDolemite
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        neighborhoods vary in density; a lot of the city is single family homes : okhelomr
        • But a lot of the ones I saw in Nob hill were literally built attached to each other : EvilDolemite
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  i liked all the activities that went on there, but i didn't really like the people when i lived there. : ibrokn
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    second'd; it's like a human safari in some parts. Over to your left you will see a grifter bicyclist, : the archvile
    • I really wish I could post a photo my buddy took of the bum who looked like a Mad Max character at the Ha... : rossimo
• San Francisco sourdough is pretty tasty. : helvetica
• I like to visit for short periods but the density actually gets to me after a bit. All i can figure is I... : smacknca
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  I just remembered that I am going there in a few weeks for 5 days. i hope they have good clubs that play ... : wtf242
  • don't pack your hair gel this time. : ibrokn
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    tons of clubs, TONS of bars so many it's ridiculous : EvilDolemite
    • That's the problem with SF. There are so many bars/nightclubs that many of them end up killing each other... : Pettytheft
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    also where are you staying? i was only able to see union square, lower mission, north beach, fisherman's... : EvilDolemite
    • i don't even have a place to stay yet. no idea! : wtf242
    • Tell us about what you saw in Chinatown! : dognose
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      are there any bikers who drive fixed-gear bikes in san francisco? : wtf242
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        Yes. Lots. We've been ridin' fixie bikes, livin' in a hipster's paradise. We've been bloggin' most... : rossimo
        • Oh, blogging! I love blogging! : SiW.
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        wtf242 stop trolling : JINKY
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          JINKY, i will arm wrestle you : wtf242
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            alright then i'll see you in a few weeks chump : JINKY
            • oh shit you're in san francisco? fuck : wtf242
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        wtf242 san francisco chicks are not as hot as austin chicks sorry it's a fact they remind me of seattle g... : EvilDolemite
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          i've noticed a LOT of san francisco transplants lately. tons are moving here. : wtf242
          • Austin is in another league when it comes to hot chicks. I've been here for 9 months and there are hottie... : pap26
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    SF Shackmeet time, we haven't had one in a while. : rudds
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      :( : EvilDolemite
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        Why didn't you suggest one! : rudds
        • I tried but to be honest, I was only in town for two nights, and one of them was spent mostly working. S... : EvilDolemite
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  Isn't a shanty in SF like $750,000 a month? : JimRune
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    Doghouse. : dognose
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      Or parking. : dognose
      • BUT NOT BOTH! : the archvile
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  What I like most about SF is the music scene. It's just awesome. Just this weekend I saw My Morning J... : rossimo
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    i saw some dub step dj from san francisco last night in austin with man-washer. was good : wtf242
    • Check out the lineup for this After Burn party I went to a few weeks back: http://getfreaky.tribe.net/... : rossimo
• I have a house with a yard, and I live on the peninsula. Pacifica is the peninsula's little foggy secret. : Gonzo
• Yeah...I love San Francisco...I would love to live there some day. : cookblaze
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  speaking of, a couple weeks back I was here: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=daly+city&um=1&ie=UTF-8&... : mikecyb
  • yeah all those pastel colored houses are pretty ugly, i rode by them on bart every day to school : JINKY
• you can get a house in the north bay or east bay, and perhaps in the outer skirts (like outer richmond, i... : dahanese
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  Love the scenery. I've been a grad student at Berkeley for 4 years, but when I walk past parts of campus ... : pap26
  • I actually only saw a couple of homeless. : EvilDolemite
• I have never and probably will never live in San Francisco proper. I grew up in San Jose, and consider my... : WildDanimal

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• hahaha. must. stop. laughing. :D : humbleone
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  I would have figured you for a dog person. : Horn
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    You missed the post I made about Ninja dog. http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3EyMPzMoo Ninja dog es... : Maddog_Delphi97
    • oh, what a coincidence. :o I just posted that today. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17980720 : humbleone
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      Clumsy ninja dog: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=y3YR_DfnYpE&feature=related Hey, he gets the job do... : nosseman
      • lolololol : Maddog_Delphi97
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        I did not see that coming : fishbone
        • I sort of saw it coming once he got rid of the floor thing down below his feet. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  Haha that's great. It doesn't move it's head! : Snuffles-
  • I know, it's a freaking ninja. It never moves it's head the whole time. : Maddog_Delphi97
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  lol @ its expression at the end. : ShekkyBoy
  • O_O I think it's an alien : Maddog_Delphi97
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  hahahah holy shit I'm dying over here! : SatansFist
  • :) : Maddog_Delphi97
  • Same. I almost fell out of my chair by the end of it! : project13
• damn 2.2 million views : sanchez
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  Why has no one put a soundtrack to this yet? That is adorable. : Miresse
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    http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=4sKqxtD-9JQ : fluke
    • Haha bless you. : Miresse
    • lol, jaws music. : Maddog_Delphi97
    • such a great idea poorly executed : Korban
  • ninjas don't need sound tracks. : ghost hacker
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  I wonder what it was going to do if the cameraman hadn't scared it off! :O : DM7
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    something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj76NXpEww8 : fluke
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      every time I see this video I have to watch it at least 10 times : sanchez
      • srsly. its that awesome :D : xsii
    • lolol : Maddog_Delphi97
    • haha this video is awesome as well : Mmmmmoo
    • haha haven't seen it with the added sound : gmd
    • http://www.shackpics.com/files/zangief_exdw13p29x9n238znikq.gif : r3dn3ck
    • nice :D : AMikaboshi
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      Best cat baby video ever. : DM7
      • I agree. So simple, so... catty. : Maddog_Delphi97
    • AH HA HA HA HA! : kallanta
    • I've never seen that with the HL sounds. Awesome. : Big Luke
    • Hahaha awesome. : aznboysix
    • why have I not seen this before. can't stop laughing : Lionel2b
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgwyQPvGKA4&feature=related can't stop laughing....hahahaha : whodares
• love this video : Mmmmmoo
• Hahaha cool. Dont really like cats either. : aznboysix
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  still a masterpiece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxhOGyrCtI&fmt=18 : SlamDunk
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    *sneak* ... *sneak* *sneak* ... *sneak* *sneak* *sneak* *rub* I love it when my cat does that :) : timmie
    • awww, how cute : Maddog_Delphi97
• Hahah that was great =D : razorblade79

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• Eternal Sonata. The ending to that game is like a fucking Disney pre-school infomercial. : IndigoAK
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  Don't say Crysis :( : Judecca
  • There has to be an actual ending for it to be bad. ;) : thejay247
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  I've always thought that Half-Life had a very unsatisfying ending. Yeah, there's Half-Life 2, but who kn... : DrWaffles
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    Man, Half-Life 2 also had an unsatisfying ending. I really hope the third episode (or whatever comes... : DrWaffles
    • Every Half-Life game ends like an episode of Lost. : lplasmatron
  • I liked Half Life 1's ending. I got a weird Twilight Zone vibe from it. I hate all the ridiculous shit th... : systatic
  • I loved Half-Life's ending : EvilDolemite
• Medal of Honor. The End. : stump
• Fatal Frame 2's ending pissed me off. The game suddenly got ridiculously hard. Eventually I just threw my... : lplasmatron
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  Halo2. *cough* : five_percent
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    I let out a massive "WHAT!" in a tent when I beat it in Kuwait. I had gotten the game quickly after relea... : Sailor of Fortune
    • I always wondered if, when we expire, we'll get to browse through all the stats of our life. It would rea... : focusdaily
  • Yea... that was... yea. : kallanta
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  BioShock's ending was a very unsatisfying conclusion to an otherwise fairly strong game. : Bean
  • Similar to Indigo Prophecy, games that are all about atmosphere and story, but end with a big ridiculous ... : Judecca
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    Agreed. It would've been much better if the game just ended after you killed Ryan. : DOOManiac
    • Pretty much, yeah. :( : Bean
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      Actually, I thought everything up until the boss battle, which was cheesy and unnecessary was still great... : Rice-Rocketeer
      • Agreed. They should have had some kind of epic escape sequence, or chasing sequence, or something other : Drewus
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    I've said before but I think the biggest failing of Bioshock's ending is that you never get to leave rapt... : marmite
    • Yeah, this is basically what i wanted. An epic escape sequence rather than a lame-o cutscene. : Drewus
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  KOTOR 2 didn't even have an ending. They just had a point where LucasArts obviously told Obsidian to ship... : DOOManiac
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    I'm probably going to remember Darth Revan forever, but I don't remember anything at all about the KOTOR ... : Judecca
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      Nope. I don't remember anything at all about KOTOR2's story other than there's this ultra-bad sith who de... : DOOManiac
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        Yeah KOTOR II was totally inferior to 1. : virus
        • Honestly I think if LucasArts would have let Obsidian finish the game instead of rushing it out it would ... : deject
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      The KOTOR2 siths were bad ass looking dudes : Mondo
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        The sith with the mask was fucking cool, but then they never really did anything with him. : K1Bond007
        • He was more just a looming specter of evil and its inevitability or something. It's kinda sad though tha... : deject
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  Indigo Prophecy The witch doctor should have been the ONLY bad guy, the end : Mondo
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    Even then why the hell did everything start turning cold. The Indigo Child thing was introduced right ne : Judecca
    • The biggest plot twist in that game was that it completely sucked. : SockMonkeh
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      Stolen from adventure gamers forums *earlier, Carla and her partner Tyler* Carla: "This case is stran : Judecca
      • Didn't the player actually make that decision? : uncleanmonkey
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  Metal Gear Solid 2 : systatic
  • No, that ending was *AWESOME* : Vincent Grayson
• P.O.W. - Prisoners of War Congraturation! : pigvomit
• GTA4 had a pretty lame ending to an otherwise decent story : Perturbation
• The ending to Secret of Mana was sort of abrupt and nonsensical. : Agrona
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  Medieval 2 - TW. It's hard and takes an epically long time to win this game, and after you conquer most o... : Marauder IIC
  • lol. That's sad. It's a fantastic game too. A more fitting end would be going into battle simulator mode ... : PlanetPerfecto
• Monkey Island 2 and as mentioned above Crysis + HL2 (blah blah blah Mr. Freeman) : Hoax
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  Oblivion : NFXFSX
  • I actually just beat the main storyline...I think. Not bad but yeah, huzzah for imperial armor? : Nighteyes
• Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault. Awesome incredible game, then THE END. I was so blown away that all I ... : Serpico74
• Ninja Gaiden Xbox. After all the awesomness that led up to it, after all the AWESOME CGI cutscenes... th... : kallanta
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  Silent Storm >:( : Kniggit
  • That game ended when the mechanazis turned up, right? :( : gingerninja
  • That game was so good : Drewus
• I hated that game with a passion : Drewus
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  Daikatana : kramweil
  • I never got past the second level. : Goblin au
• In Search for the Most Amazing Thing Quake 1 : sergeon
• Too Human. Cheap abrupt ending. : Pettytheft

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  I am finding that people playing order seem to be better organized whereas the destruction guys just run ... : byorn
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    ive been saying for a few months now. order is the new horde : oHnOES
    • Yeah. =( : Pacalon
  • that sounds pretty fitting. : ibrokn
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  i was just given shit today because i havent played in a few days. burnt out, etc from the beta : oHnOES
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    I tried to avoid the beta because I didn't want this to happen. : moogle
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      i played for months the same shit over and over. i played the end game....i am sick of the first 20 leve... : oHnOES
      • this is why i hardly play betas : whistletits
• I can play it now! I just can't play it through the router, so I just open myself up to the naked net and... : .sticks.
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  You can't join scenarios as a warband, so it's your 5 man party and a bunch of random pubby douchebags. : snuff
  • thats to prevent STEAMROLLING : oHnOES
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  I had to search till page 3 to find a Warhammer thread. Has the hype already died? And don't give me the ... : Bamii
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    It's kinda true though. If I want to talk about WAR, I talk about it with the Shackers that're playing in... : Vincent Grayson
    • If we all did this Shacknews would be empty! I think I expected to see more of the hype on Shacknews just... : Bamii
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    I dunno, there were quite a bit of us playing online. We had a full group going and played 7-8 scenarios ... : Lionel2b
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      Nice post m8. I'm still in doubt about this game though. I played the beta for a small amount of time and... : Bamii
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        if you enjoy PVP I see no reason to pass this game up. I don't like PVP that much and I enjoy it quite a ... : Lionel2b
        • I had the exact same idea when I bought AoC. But in the end I felt like I wasted 60 bucks ;( : Bamii
        • You're not really *forced* to group. You could hit max rank just doing the regular quests and ignoring th... : Vincent Grayson
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        The combat still feels very slow compared to WoW, at least in PvE. In PvP, it tends to be a clusterfuck t... : Vincent Grayson
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          I wouldn't say it's slower, the characters just have far more survivability. You can't nuke someone to de... : aeg1x
          • No, I mean in the sense that the combat is just less responsive. Playing say, a rogue in WoW, you can be ... : Vincent Grayson
        • CLICKER : [7]kami
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    Shit load of people playing. I've barely posted here since launch. Game fucking owns. : Poor Yurik
    • Yeah, when I joined up on Badlands there were what looked like 40 Shackers playing early on a Sunday morn... : mrwolf710
  • I got mine installed and patch by about 8pm on Saturday night, I then proceeded to play until 2am, got up... : nodebug
• I can't even get the game to launch. "Critical error" every time I try. : GrimmyD
• Its stable enough to enjoy as is. By waiting a couple months youll get more polish ect.. but I'm enjoying... : happynoodle
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  Huh? Yeah, what is it good for? : soggybagel
  • Absolutely nothin'! : RatBastard
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  I'm finding it pretty dull so far. Only level 9 at the moment, but finding it difficult to get the motiva... : Sacred Sperm
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    what server are you on : aeg1x
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      I've been playing on Anlec with a couple of mates. : Sacred Sperm
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        ah you fgt. I'm on darklands with some friends but I know a bunch of guys playing on Anlec as well. They'... : aeg1x
        • Will do. : Sacred Sperm
        • i mean ironclaw, not darklands : aeg1x
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      Are you playing on an aussie server? if so whats the que time like? : thewindcriesmary
      • I haven't had to queue at all yet. : Sacred Sperm
      • darklands has quite long queues, over 30 minutes during peak hours sometimes. Ironclaw has 10-15 minutes ... : aeg1x
• WAR never changes : 60days
• People are playing instead of posting - it's awesome. : ElPopo