Afternoon Discussion

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• it's pretty crappy imo : mwasher
• haha, i totally agree with you. well said. : pandastrong
• lol, this is great : qwpeoriu
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpP_BKPa5Oc : Karnov
  • haha thats fucking hilarious wow, well done. "We dont need 8 fun levels, just have them all attack h... : Jackass1233
  • that's really funny! : TroZ
  • Hell yeah! Dr. Wiley does it himself : theargent
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  I can't even finish that trial level : TheFatMom
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    I can't even finish one level out of eight yet, I just keep rotating around the boss grid imagining that ... : merpaholic
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      galaxy man's level wasnt too bad. im on splash woman right now and those god damn jump puzzles make me wa... : ninjase
      • Galaxy's was super-easy after going through Splash and Concrete. : Deathlove
      • i feel the same way about the fucking spinny platforms in tornado man's level : merpaholic
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    you cant finish the trial level cus as soon as the boss health meter fills they cut to the "buy now" scre... : ozfactor
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      I didnt make it to the boss : TheFatMom
      • same lol made it to the room with the 2 things running on the floor. couldn't beat that after 10 minutes... : the rizzo
• Bravo! lol : TrptJim
• Haha, beautiful post. : crummynz
• go back and play MM1 to get back into the gaming rhythm : geneshifter
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  i just decided to not buy this game : FrayLo
  • way to make exactly the wrong decision : lja83
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  "This time I won't jump straight into some fucking spikes eight times in a row!" HELLO JEWEL MAN STAGE... : Deathlove
  • that said, this is a great post and exactly correct : Deathlove
  • then you IMMEDIATELY get raped by some rock dude and have to leap into the spikes 8 more times. : yAak
• haha this is great, I totally agree : Yanks
• i don't play games for the difficulty anymore, but i do like this game, even though i also hate it at tim... : EvilDolemite
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  I havent played it but Im pretty sure its not as hard as you make it out to be : Luminair
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    It's much, much harder than any NES Mega Man. : EvilDolemite
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      The first one might be harder, but other wise this is a pretty accurate statement. Mega Man 2 was easy... : slax0r
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        how about compared to the x games, or compared to contra, or compared to the new ninja gaiden : Luminair
        • Mega Man X was a pretty easy game as well, and 2 was a little more difficult. 3 was pretty up there in c... : slax0r
      • To get myself into the mood I just replayed MM2 yesterday, and it wasn't nearly as hard as I rembembered. : pillzer
  • its pretty fucking hard : pandastrong
  • i promise you it's really really hard, this game makes N+ look easy and I breezed through that : merpaholic
  • It is about a gazillion times harder than Mega Man 2 or 3, and yes, Mega Man 1. : Serpico74
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  I've heard it's hard, but haven't checked it out. As a fan of side-scrollers I think I'd rather play a ge... : Vangoghs Ear
  • yea I would love to see a megaman game in the style of BC:Rearmed : merpaholic
  • I don't actually think Bionic Commando Rearmed has any visual charm. It's a very soulless-looking game to : Chris Remo
• i think the problem with the game is we all get to cocky and think that we are better than this 8-bit gam... : chodog
• lol this is exactly how I felt in the Hades levels of God of War... I guess I should give this game a try... : cap n KRUNCH
• i bet at least a dozen asians have mastered it by now : aurealis
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  Damn, Star Wars got hit by some shrapnel in that review : Lawgiver
  • right in the cock. : windowpane
• so is this game supposed to be hard or something : halophoenix
• Me too... but a little time on it has shows me that the game is merely "hard", and mercifully not "imposs... : kallanta
• Well said. What gets me is how often I die, yet how seldom my health bar actually runs out. I never die... : jeffcox111
• "Megaman 9 has broken me so completely I just sit and whimper quietly on my couch while loathing my very ... : lausai

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  Try www.tonikhealth.com, depending on where you live they may have affordable health plans in your area. : acidnynex
  • I live in Seattle, they don't seem to cover that area. : naios
• I went through ehealthinsurance.com when unemployed finishing grad school. It wasn't that bad for a high ... : judge
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  Take that pile of money you've saved up from living rent free for 5 years and get you some health insuran... : Phil
  • I was going to school for a while, then I moved out on my own. I'm still on my dad's health insurance, b... : naios
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  afaik, most part times jobs do not come with a health care plan so i'm not sure how well #2 would work. : dromo5
  • I know H&M does, and I know people who work there. So I could try to get into that. : naios
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  Since I doubt you make any money, I'm sure there are some state agencies that can help you out. Other... : rosewood
  • But if he gets help from a state agency, he'll never need to earn any money and he'll just get fat and la... : adpalumbo
• 5. take advantage of your age and dont get sick. : j0nchan
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  1. Find a broker. 2. Get a high deductible plan to cover broken arms and cancer. 3. Don't just go to th... : adpalumbo
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    why do i want a high-deductible plan? is it because the monthly fees will be lower? : naios
    • high deductible plans are usually the cheapest. : mindmann
    • Yes much lower. : Phil
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      At 23 and in generally good health, a high-monthly-fee, low-deductible plan will probably cost you more p... : adpalumbo
      • ^^ right on. I'm on a high-deductible plan at the moment (22, graduated, continuing on the family's plan ... : jipey
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  what does it mean when it says 'office visit co-pay: deductible and co-insurance' ??? : fletch_
  • It means there isn't really a co-pay. when you go to the doctor, you must meet your deductible, then you... : Phil
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  3 seems to be the best option... move to Marseilles or some awesometastic place like that on the Med. : Juno
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    I have family in Montpellier, which would be awesome. Except it's on the other side of the Atlantic, a... : naios
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      Yeah, I "kind of like" Seattle, too. That doesn't mean I couldn't love living somewhere else. : Juno
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        experience tells me otherwise (haven't liked most of the places I've lived), but moving to France and wor... : naios
        • still say it's your best option... just run away from the lease! : Juno
• I've heard things about Assurant. I myself will be in a similar situation student teaching next year (no... : invisible_kid
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  you're 23, be healthy and not pay any health insurance until you're on your feet : reverend~heresy
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    That won't help if he gets hit by an uninsured driver or gets in a sporting accident or gets pneumonia. ... : adpalumbo
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      agreed. going without health insurance is horrible advice. : electroly
      • LIFE IS AN ADVENTURE!!!! : reverend~heresy
  • I was without insurance the whole time I was 23 to 27. It can be a gamble if any accidents do happen, bu... : cryptical
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  I don't understand the American health care system, it seems like you guys worry about it so much : jayares
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    There is no fucking system, and thus we worry. : orgcaptainnemo
    • agreed :( : reverend~heresy
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    Because if you dont have it, 1 night in the hospital on average is 5000 bucks. If you dont have it and ge... : historyinthemaking
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      How can anyone pay for that? Its not possible for a regular person to pay for that and regular life stuff... : jayares
      • they don't. guess what the cause of nearly half of bankruptcies in the united states is. : electroly
    • And if you have it, you still pay out the ying-yang, unless you have an HMO such as California's Kaiser P... : dognose
  • it's because you have to get health insurance before anything bad happens. if you get cancer while unins... : electroly
  • imagine if every time you went to a doctor or the ER or a hospital visit that they made you pay for it. a... : Dave-A
• Move on up to Canada. : Milleh
• I'm on the roll-the-dice plan untill I get a job. My dad's coverage on me ran out at 22 :( : buzzbat
• you failed to mention here that you have AIDS from having sex with a porn star : AllYourBase
• I think my healthcare was like 80 bucks a month when I had it a couple years ago @23. You wont get ver... : chilln
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  get a part time job at UPS : spaceless
  • they have great health benefits : spaceless
• if you do, give it to Burning Eye. : Degenerate
• I paid $30/month for my insurance a few years ago, but it was catastrophic insurance only. : helvetica
• I don't have any insurance right now, either. Mostly I just try to be careful, knock on wood, and use a f... : Ely
• Trader Joe's is pretty cool. They'll give you benefits for part-time work. : randomjgj

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  give it to me now : Yanks
  • my thoughts exactly :| : SlamDunk
• New Alan Wake screenshot shows Alan Wake, other character : dirge23
• I hope his nemesis is called Alan Sleep : pieman
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  Loud hawaiian shirt, check. Yup, definitely a remedy game. : sammyl
  • lol! : yosemiteclimber
• OH GOOD A TRAILER!!! GAME TRAILERS ARE FUN AS FUCK! : sKetchflow
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  so is Alan Wake going to be the 'new' Max Payne? : f3ynm
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    It's a new game from Remedy and that should say enough. : SlamDunk
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      haha... besides Max Payne, Remedy's only other game is Death Rally ( "Over 20 megabytes of action packed ... : f3ynm
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        ...and? : SlamDunk
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          ...and that should say enough. : f3ynm
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            about what? : SlamDunk
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              Alan Wake being the 'new' Max Payne : f3ynm
              • Guys, stop, you're making me retarded. : SockMonkeh
      • I'll have you know those were 20 of the best megabytes of gaming history! maybe : itsjames
      • Death Rally is a fantastic game. : FlamingGimp
• I think I'm going to explode in excitement. I've been waiting years for just new footage on Alan Wake. : choppp
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  I just get a "pelaaja" logo on the second link : OrkO
  • same shot : Maarten Goldstein
  • me too : Iwannaacura
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    DRAG. AND. DROP. It's a fundamental rule of the Internet/image hotlinking. : DrWaffles
    • Both pictures are identical anyway! : DrWaffles
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      I wish this worked on new tabs in IE...DnD always bashes the current tab. in before obligatory USE FF! : speon
      • IE7 trick! Click on SlamDunk's link to open a new tab with 'no hotlink' logo, hit tab to highlight the UR... : mn3m0n1c
    • still does not work for me. : byorn
    • It still didn't work. : FPSDavid
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      did you ACTUALLY TRY THAT? It just links to a logo : two50six
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        hit refresh after you've dragged and dropped : industro
        • Also, it's just the same picture again. : famine101
• Source: http://pelaajalehti.com/2008/10/03/ensimmainen-uusi-kuva-alan-wake-pelista-vuosiin-on-taalla/ : SlamDunk
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  looks fucking gorgeous, can't wait for this game : snowwolf
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    It's from a cinematic trailer :*( : liqker
    • that looks like an in-game cinematic, engine appears to be less impressive than crysis - which is a good ... : dedgecko
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  looks fantastic, i bet it will come out before DNF even.. : deathofrats
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    Everyone on the shack will have come out before then. Or is that not saying much? : thief
    • What is that saying about you! : AlexXdude
• It's alive! : Mondo
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  That looks a whole lot like the cinematics in Crysis... Exactly how huge of a graphics card are we goi... : Toraz Chryx
  • Haha I was thinking the same thing. I'm gonna have to build a monster machine for this! : yosemiteclimber
  • Everything else I've seen suggests it's not *that* advanced in geometry, just very realistic looking and ... : avatar_58
  • probably 512 card min : Iwannaacura
• Remedy: We specialize in angsty white males. : Lone Swordsman
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  Shack! Why are we excited about this game? : mwasher
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    because Max Payne 1 & 2 were really good : Maarten Goldstein
    • So very true. : yosemiteclimber
  • Because Remedy = quality >>>>>>>> quantity. : SlamDunk
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    I am because I fucking like to play games. : SockMonkeh
    • SockMonkeh, I agree! : CrustaR
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      http://positech.co.uk/kudos2/demo.html : A Sponge
      • What the ... what is this? : CrustaR
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        Whoa, that game is badass! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuA_iTTu3YI : CrustaR
        • sup I'm helping. : A Sponge
        • Haha what the hell?! : yosemiteclimber
        • WHAT IS THIS SHIT?! : mwasher
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          Why is related video section first vid looks like dildo entering a dirtbox? Then it said i needed to be 1... : Iwannaacura
          • it's actually slightly funny : Dave-A
          • I am not sure if I want to know. :| : CrustaR
        • wow that looks boring as shit. : atom519
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          This was the related video that came up for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=29bYopROrY... : podman405
          • HAHAHA! The preview makes it look much worse. : CrustaR
      • Ah, this is that one independent maker of crappy games. : spazzium
      • I'm holding off for Uwe Boll's adaptation : ColoradoCNC
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    Because he's A. Wake, and he can't sleep. : rock elf
    • *golf clap* : spazzium
  • Because it was so very pretty a few years ago at E3! : nevicata
• I really wish they would divulge any kind of information on the gameplay. It has been REALLY vague thus f... : retarded talking dinosaur
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  I REALLY hope we get to see or find out about the gameplay at some point. : byorn
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    Action Thriller!! : papaskot
    • so will I be scavenging for ammo while I attack/run from different horrors? : byorn
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  I yearn for the day that we can have characters in video games who don't look like they're wearing giant ... : Dynotaku
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    Actually his clothing is what impresses me about that image most. It takes place up north, way up north,... : deathofrats
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      uhm - it's based on a small, po-dunk town in Washington state - I'm wearing a polo and some jeans. When ... : dedgecko
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        Well that's true, I often go out in a tank top and shorts in 3 feet of snow, because im a badass. : deathofrats
        • Here in winter that makes you a dumbass. : phil_mckraken
• Remedy is cool , they didnt mlik Max Payne .If this was EA will be looking forward to Max Payne 7.IM A PC... : Cashh

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  How do I find out if an actual release update exists? : alias
  • What does "actual release update" mean? You mean, update to the Beta channel? Same way, you open that d... : Zero|DPX
• i am really enjoying Chrome. also i meant to call you last night but there was a minor disaster : kbnerd
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  Can you pray tell again that command to allow updates if UAC is disabled (which mine is)? If I recall, th... : carrioN luggagE
  • Never mind, was easier to find than I thought. BTW, Chrome f'ing rocks. :D http://www.shacknews.com/lar... : carrioN luggagE
  • BTW, you don't need to do this anymore. We fixed that in a previous dev channel release (assuming you're... : Zero|DPX
• It's still saying mine is up to date. : Ziz
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  Weird. I'm on the dev channel, I opened the About Google Chrome, it had an Update button, I clicked it, t... : hax3d
  • I just did it again and the same exact thing happened : ( : hax3d
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    Hmm. Can you try the crazy hack I posted a while back to temporarily turn UAC on and do this? If that m... : Zero|DPX
    • I came back from lunch and saw http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18092262#itemanchor_18092262 and tried... : hax3d
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  update server not available? damn this is the fix i'm waiting for : graceofdragons
  • don't supposed there is a .zip somewhere of new dev build? : graceofdragons
• Thx, this is way smoother thatn the first release! : MatzL.E.
• Thanks -- I notice already one flash player problem I was having has been fixed : indosauros
• updated'd'd'd : dael
• Woo! Yay for youtube and not having to fire up firefox anymore : geedeck
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  How do I get this new build? I'm on the build that hangs whenever I go to the about window. : NexusOne
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    That's strange. That was build 152, which was superseded over a week ago, and the updater checks at leas... : Zero|DPX
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      so it should prompt to update if i just leave it running? : NexusOne
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        I think it is supposed to automatically download the update in the background, and when you next restart ... : arhughes
        • ^^^^^ : Zero|DPX
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  I just checked again and it's saying it's still up to date, with the first dev release. : Ziz
  • me too : fletch_
• Can you add "open link in Firefox" please please please : sikander
• Hmmm... Nothing is showing up for me. Still claims "0.2.153.1" is the most recent release. Already doubl... : Kentor
• DO SOME WORK! : mrseldowski
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  It keeps telling me there is an update, but when I hit the "Update Now" button it just says "Up to date (... : arhughes
  • same here : gameagog
• any easter eggs up in that bitch? : ultramega
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  If your check said "153 is latest version", try again. We apparently only just now pushed the final co... : Zero|DPX
  • Yup, works now. : arhughes
• Nice... will check this out when I get home. : Shadowdane
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  i really miss having a search bar where i can have custom seach engines. i use google primarily but some... : dantastic
  • You can search those other sites right from the address bar. Exaple: type "youtube.com" press tab, type ... : arhughes
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    honestly i think those sites have horrible search engines. i just google for "wikipedia _________" or "y... : electroly
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      I type "w" TAB ____, or "y" TAB _______. : uncleanmonkey
      • I just type "g <terms>", "w <terms>", "d <term>", "i <terms>", "m <terms>", or "y <terms>" : Arcanum
    • well mainly i want my one search bar for downloading linux torrents Disclaimer: which i will not name or ... : dantastic
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  Is there a place to enter feature requests? Chrome is completely unusable for me until a proxy configurat... : tboomer2
  • Yeah, that's been something that bugs me.. : dmason
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    Why, because you don't have admin rights to change the Windows default? : Zero|DPX
    • I can change the Windows defaults however I don't want my entire system to run through the proxy, just th... : tboomer2
  • signed, the windows ones suck incredibly hard (the ignore lists particularly) and they change IE's too. : the_doctor
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  I'm still stuck on release 2.149 but I guess that's ok with me : Slowtreme
  • You're not on the dev channel, you're on the beta channel. See the link in the root post. : Zero|DPX
• on my laptop, when theres a flash video playing(front page for example), scrolling with the trackpad is s... : re4ctor
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  Hey did you guys not implement the middle-click-scroll thing? : nomaad
  • We picked this up on our trunk from our recent WebKit merge, so it will be in some future build. : Zero|DPX
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  Hey Zero -- what's with the text highlighting color? In Firefox and IE highlighting text on dark bac... : indosauros
  • Do you mean, when using Find (ctrl-f)? If yes, then we know about that, it's due to the way we try and h... : Zero|DPX
• Man, Chrome seems really nice. It runs very fast on my laptop. When do I get to put this in my Arch Linux... : funnynamehere