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  2yrs ago, like this. 5yrs ago, like this. 10yrs ago, sorta kinda like this. : reverend~heresy
  • oh ja, and during the shugashack/quakeholio days, steve would get bored and post funny 'blog' type shit. ... : reverend~heresy
• we would tell you but there's no proof. steve destroyed it. : ejectorpod
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  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shacknews.com prl is bullshit >:( : Horn
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    Whatever happened to GTA: Sin City? http://web.archive.org/web/20030404092037/www.shacknews.com/oneart... : Horn
    • lol. Look at the date of that post. : TwiLyght
  • or even further back: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shugashack.com : mtgDoofy
• pretty much the same... : nolram
• It was chaos, man. LEFT WAS RIGHT! UP WAS DOWN! CATS AND DOGS WERE FROLICKING TOGETHER IN THE STREET ALL ... : Bean
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  The same just uglier. : NastyJack
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    i disagree, the old look has a timeless appeal : RikiTiki2
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      The interesting post were a lot easier to find, nowadays they just get lost near the bottom. : grabbie
      • This is true, I would like to see more emphasis on the INF'd posts. : lookitzpancakes
• back in the day, the men were men... now this place is all emosync. lol : -=kodiak=-
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  was 2 years ago when sleepy was banned? : Foxhawk
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    lol I don't even remember the shack when sleepy was banned, because I'm pretty sure that's when I left an... : laurgasms
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      girls like it rough : mr.sleepy
      • Oh yes, oh yes. : laurgasms
  • More than that I think. He was definitely here shortly after I showed up a couple of years ago. : perstephanie
  • lolo jcunter was still around : askedrelic
• The same, I guess? There has been some name changes in the process and before dthread was the default (on... : zehh
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  it was www.shugashack.com before that, a quake website (before my time) : fluke
  • I am pretty sure anyone who ran a Q2 server qualifies as an old-timer, fluke. es-spec aka Spec[V2] says : ]pm[chem
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  exactly the same except we could post mp3s for people to download :( : wtf242
  • A lot more NWS and NES stuff too : elosorojo
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    and instead of wtf242 i was named draed : wtf242
    • Learn something new everyday : .sticks.
• Used to be a lot stricter as far as getting banned for stupid posts. Either that or I just wised up over ... : bozer
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  Man, back then, flat mode reigned supreme. Vicious debates raged about the merits and demerits of flat v... : elosorojo
  • DThread was perfect though as evidenced by the fact that the current shack is pretty much a touched up dt... : ieGod
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    there was no debate, flat was fucking horrible and DThread was always better : derelict515
    • Exactly. Flat mode was like having a version of latestchatty where every poster had Alzheimer. : zehh
  • I was flat mode because I didn't get why dthread was awesome. then i just tried it and fell in love. fl... : ejectorpod
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    Vantage even made some ridiculous long post about how flat-moders were like users of the Matrix who could... : DonkeyPopsicle
    • and by thread I mean chatty/article/whatever : DonkeyPopsicle
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      I can't believe you remember those posts. I made them nearly 8 years ago! http://www.shacknews.com/la... : Vantage
      • I remember those posts too :D : Lightbulb
  • I used Flat mode till it disappeared with the latest layout change. It worked for me because I almost nev... : Lightbulb
• It was greener. : DrWaffles
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  FLAT MODE : Slowtreme
  • :`( : Flynn
• Less news content, but otherwise pretty much the same crowd. Not as political, but thats only due to thi... : skitzo
• we all used to play games and talk about that (mostly) Seems to be more bullshit now. : Rigor Morts
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  BRING BACK "STUFF THAT SUCKS"! : Majuju
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    that was like 10 years ago : xxiv
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      what, so a decade has caused everything everywhere to completely cease sucking? : Majuju
      • yep, in the year two thouuuusssaaaaanddd. : xxiv
      • Nothing is stopping you from starting your own blog and calling it "stuff that sucks". Go for it. : Maddog_Delphi97
    • NEVAR FORGET! : Tissen
  • We need ”We're All Gonna Die、” back also. : doozer667
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  lots of anons, babe hunts, and 50 people whose name was a variant of "lex lethal". : DonkeyPopsicle
  • OMG babe hunts. now those were classics and need to be brought back! : med1c
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  It was more informative and filled with many more zingers than this cesspool of decay. : noobja
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    Character accounts as in, say, when Hudson posts? : graincloud
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      damn wrong subthread :( : graincloud
      • lol i was about to get all emo on yo ass and yell: IM REAL THOUGH! : noobja
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  I remember when character accounts was popular. Not sure how well it they would work today; maybe that... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    The character accounts were awesome. They were banned as the Shack became more professional and while th... : TwiLyght
    • Just like all good things, chatty posters drive them into the ground. : Fyunch Click
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  http://gmd.shackspace.com/Shacknews%20Users%20vs%20Time.jpg : gmd
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    I'm pretty sure we have more than 8 users. : skitzo
    • hahaha : FPSDavid
    • lol : braaains
    • it took them some time to come out : pharoah mike
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  First posting used to be cool. : Geoffrois
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    Im pretty sure first posting was never cool. : Jenings
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      It was once, back even before character accounts were cool. : dognose
      • I do remember migrating to the shack around the time that voodooextreme became a sad shell of its former ... : Jenings
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  http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=dra_vogjfvedvwy1f011fe22.jpg http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?fi... : sikander
  • Bring back HDR Shack! : FPSDavid
• Like this, except the posters liked games. : Vangoghs Ear
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  I've always wanted to know how many members this site has........anyone know? : niceguynick
  • 5 million, I think. : Wisp!
  • well there's me and you.. the mods.. and the rest are my character accounts. : aurealis
  • PLEASE TELL ME, JUST A ROUGH GUESS OMG : niceguynick
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  2 years ago: same, mod rules got a little retarded 5 years ago: comment system wasnt that old, communi... : Antilles_Prime
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    and Clay, Jack Matthews, and some guy named Marcus Yam were contributors. : DonkeyPopsicle
    • yeah, but that stuff has fluxed so much I couldnt keep track. things are a lot more "serious" in tone now... : Antilles_Prime
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    The rules have changed since 2 years ago? I beg to differ. : dilutedq
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      at some point they reset things and unbanned a bunch of people. i dont remember the dates, somewhere betw... : Antilles_Prime
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        Well, when the site changed over to the new comment system, everyone got unbanned, IIRC. That's how we go... : Vincent Grayson
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          hey i was even let out of my cave! : -=kodiak=-
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            i wish they'd put you back : biskits
            • they see me rollin! they hatin! : -=kodiak=-
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      Remember when you could get nuked for linking to a video with copyrighted music in it? That changed... along with some other things I think, I thought UMax posted about it but I can't find it searching his post history.

      Sep 24, 2008 8:25pm PDT
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      Remember when you could get nuked for linking to a video with copyrighted music in it? That changed... al... : crummynz
      • Shit, remember when you had to pretend piracy didn't exist, and even discussing the ramifications of it w... : Vincent Grayson
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    Remember when The Gibson used to post in the comments regularly? Too bad. : airrob
    • who? never heard of him. : Antilles_Prime
  • this whole subthread goes back to what one mod said before. when the natives start to go wild the mods h... : Draugluin
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  10yrs ago..zero console, mostly FPS : flasher 907
  • 11 years ago. Zero anything but Quake. : doozer667
• way more exciting. the anon posting kept it interesting : mega man
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  Stuff That Sucks, Babe Hunt, RIP, both of you. ;[ : lightly inclined
  • ...the random pic of a guy shooting diarrhea out his ass and nose. : Hello Kitty
• babe hunts, post #s, and a bunch of talk about doing buffy in the pooper : retardhumper
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  A lot less people posting while taking a shit/riding the bus, I can tell you that much. : lplasmatron
  • I remember the early "posting from crapper" posts, what with wifi getting popular and all : Juno
• This post reminds me of Harkov :( : Wheatloaf
• Lots of orgies. : soggybagel
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  SHACK STORE! and no console news. I still like the name Shugashack better :( : gibolas1234
  • There was also esshack or something. Electronic Sports. LOfuckingL. : Super Sparker
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  There was the Shack Messageboard. : kramweil
  • Full of retarded ogres. There was a reason why Steve SHUT IT DOWN. SHUT IT DOWN FOREVA. : Super Sparker
  • yeah holy shit that was the weirdest part of this site. : nomaad
• Character accounts. :*( : Super Sparker
• At QuakeCon '98, in the tournament won by RiX, sTeve got pretty pissed when, after making the final round : woddemandred
• In 2003? I talked a lot more about things I can't talk about, that is for sure. I was still living on ca... : rosewood
• the same, only with more yelling hooligans : Megara9
• it would go hours without anyone posting : drucifer
• 2 years ago: More poo jokes. 5 years ago: Even more poo jokes. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• 10 years ago: Steve had an unusual poopchute fetish. i don't know if anything really has changed since th... : Tissen
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  http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack00.jpg http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack01.jpg http://www.shac... : Maarten Goldstein
  • for some reason I really think this needs to be put together in animated form with the intro from 2001: A... : PlanetPerfecto
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    2005 > * : deviantpaul
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      One thing I miss about that design is how prominent the interesting comments were. : Horn
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        Yep. I never read them since the redesign because they're somewhat hidden betwenn all the other repeated ... : MatzL.E.
        • I subscribed to the RSS feed, otherwise I would also never read them :( : Lightbulb
        • I look at them specifically, sometimes first. It helps knowing exactly where they are. Oh, you do already... : skankcore
      • You could always just do a search for "SlingBlaze" : SlingBlaze
  • Giants gone gold?! : DonkeyPopsicle
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    What the hell is Fingershack? : nodebug
    • .plan file updates : moshman
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      Remember .plan files? The network protocol for fetching them is called 'finger'. : rock elf
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        Ah, of course :) Also, have I really been coming here for 6 years. wtf where has almost a quarter of ... : nodebug
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          Back in the late 90s everyone spent 50% of their day hastily refreshing Carmack's .plan in the hopes of a... : riptyde
          • Yup... I think I checked that .plan file almost every day before the release of the original Quake. I ha... : Gwyndion
      • Funny eh? Those were totally blogs. : Neech
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    Fuck, I remember all of them. Think I joined around design #1, and I realise that wasn't even the first. : node
    • I think I joined around #3, its nostalgia inducing. Just gone and found my old account and a post from a ... : nodebug
    • Man, I used to visit Quakeholio and started coming here more after Bluesnews and Planetquake started suck... : vov1n
  • shugarshark! : c0bra
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    Alice movie! : dognose
    • It might still happen! http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50989 : rock elf
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    Wow, that's like looking through an old photo album, having seen each one of those designs so many times. : DinK
    • yah I know its been soo long since shugashack days... I wish I had posted back then, but I mostly lurke... : Shadowdane
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    DRM - fucking over gamers since March 30th 2001 http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack01.jpg I think I... : marmite
    • * paying gamers : marmite
  • Bring back the 01 picture design!!! : soggybagel
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    Also in pic 00, CS 1.1.0.0 released. Fuck man. I really liked Beta 7!!! : soggybagel
    • Beta 6 was my hey day. I remember LAN parties round a friends place where the power would always die and ... : node
  • DThread was where it was at back then! wooo! : vov1n
  • I miss the green :( : OverBurN
  • Hahahaha!!! I love that in this screenshot - http://www.shacknews.com/extras/shack00.jpg - the story abou... : MorrisatCNN
  • ● 1GHz+! : SlamDunk
  • I still really like the shack05 design. : Big Luke
  • way to leave out Type-R shack : fluke
  • o shi fingershack! : d fluke
  • Good god I feel old now : riptyde
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    Which version was in Doom 3? : TheArtMan
    • That would be either shack03 or shack04. : mn3m0n1c
  • Crap I think joined around '99 and I don't remember what was the design :< : pillzer
  • God the design before the huge renovation was really amazing. It just felt so good to look at. The front ... : lookitzpancakes
  • Dear Martin, We would all love if if you guys brought back the list of Interesting Comments to the top... : Landrosradick
  • It's funny... I've been around here since the Shuga Shack days... but I had kind of forgotten about that ... : Gwyndion
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  People talked about PC games...not gayness FPS on maxigamepads. : Jimbo Ro
  • Gayness FPS games are the worst FPS games. : SpaecKow
• Once upon a time it got us chicks. : voodooraze
• Who has links to thekidds(?) end of year roundups? : 60days
• less chicks with dicks : flagg209