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• I'd do it but I don't use cash all that much.. plus, I like using my singles! : lakren
• Those singles will help many girls pay for "college." : Prozium
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  I'd be down, but I only use cash like 5 times a month. : thekidd
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    I don't use it that often either, which is why I was interested in testing it out. This isn't about quant... : haiku
    • Well my concern in rarely using cash isn't that I wouldn't come up with $864, it's that I'd forget. I'... : thekidd
  • Same here. the only places I use cash are mom and pop sub shops. Anything else gets charged. : Horn
• but who will help feed the strippers? : spigot
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  I will do this with Loonies! : jenisthebest
  • No shortage here...oh, you mean Canadian currency. : RomSteady
  • I need loonies for laundry. : / : SwiftyPants
  • crap i only saw your post now, I posted my own loonie thing farther down but yea! I'll do it too! : SlingBlaze
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  Strip club NOW! : ant_hillbilly
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    make it rainnnnnnnn : FrayLo
    • I can't stand the rain : conandan
• Fuck charity, start a shack lotto. : skitzo
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  It doesn't seem the same with coins. On a side note, there is a bank here that does a neat thing where an... : Dave-A
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    I signed up for this- it's an amazingly small amount of money. I'd say it adds up to maybe $40 a year. : tashtego
    • You must not use your card too much. I opened an account in August and I already have over 100 dollars in... : DonkleyPunch
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      nothing wrong with an extra $40. : Borzoi
      • It's not extra- it just moved the money from checking to savings. : tashtego
• I'm doing this, except with quarters...$90 since I moved this summer! : ConsFEARacy
• Neal Boortz included a thing about this in his books. I just now have to start using cash more. : vov1n
• I actually need my money, sorry. : jingletard
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  Would you be open to modifying the rules for those of us who are pretty well set in being cashless? (I.E.... : mancide
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    Well, no. It is pretty beautiful and simple as I have it set. No need to modify anything. If your lifesty... : haiku
    • Okey dokey pokey. : mancide
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  I can't wait to see how the Shack ruins this with arcane rules and weirdness! : tashtego
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    On a positive note I will totally try it next year. I'll add it to "read everything Herman Melville ever ... : tashtego
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      It starts today! Any singles you get just keep in a safe place in a stack. For the sake of my OCD, please... : haiku
      • Oh you will hate my stacks because I use a money clip, so the bills don't lay flat. I need one of those t... : tashtego
  • ahahah, motherfucking signed. The shack overwatch would drive this into the ground. : action roommate
• This is a neat idea. If only I used cash... : Scrimbo Obeer
• I like this idea in theory, but I sort of need my money and I already have a use for my singles, they pay... : brickmatt
• This is kinda cool. I might try it out. : midgetherder
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  hmm i might do this with all my coins. it would cut down on me getting drinks from vending machines(the o... : re4ctor
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    Tons of people do coins. I mean sure go ahead and do coins, but it wouldn't count toward the participatio... : haiku
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      I'm in canada though, smallest note is $5 : re4ctor
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        oh fucking canada having to make everything complicated : haiku
        • But they have toonies. : mancide
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          you have no idea :( : re4ctor
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            Going coins for $2 and $5 was a bad call. : ieGod
            • $5 $1 : ieGod
  • Funny enough, I usually turn in all my coins a few days before thanksgiving. Going to do this tonight or ... : djkenohki
  • Bank of America does this for you if you just use your debit. : D45hiz
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  i'll do this with you haiku. how often do you "pull" your singles though? for instance if i'm out and ... : mindfk
  • also, i'm fucked if i end up drunk at a strip club one night huh? : mindfk
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    no sorry I guess I wasn't clear. You NEVER spend singles. Any single you get goes into the stacks. Once y... : haiku
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      got it. my stack is currently $3 and the bills are all facing the same way. : mindfk
      • You are $3 ahead of me!! : haiku
    • How do you use vending machines!? : Pacalon
• I'm down, but probably won't follow through : indosauros
• Dood, you didn't have those in the bank? Don't you know about compounding interest? YOU LOST MONEY!!!!!!!... : mancide
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  Oh I'll do this, but rather than donate to a charity (since I do this on my own anyways) I'm going to spe... : ejectorpod
  • Yeah the charity thing won't happen that was a bad idea and wishful thinking. I think too many people nee... : haiku
• I'm doing this right now with all the change I bring home (Toonies all the way down to pennies). I don't... : stump
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  oh yeah i did this too for the past year and i got about 815-820 or so! : Mr.SEX
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    Yes, Mr.SEX and I had a bit of a competition going. At one point he was way ahead by $60 but my frivolous... : haiku
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      what a true american hero you are haiku. the only thing that could make it better would be if you were $2... : mindfk
      • Don't worry! I've got a good half mil or so of debt! : haiku
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  I used to use my singles to pay for the bus but I finally got a card thingy so I guess I will participate... : mikecyb
  • hey I have $2 in my pocket! : mikecyb
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    How hard is something like this to remember? You get a single dollar bill and then you save it. I serious... : haiku
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      I dunno I usually use them for tips at a restaurant or something. I'll remember to collect them at the e... : mikecyb
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        Tips are kind of an exception because that can get complicated and it usually only means one or two. Basi... : haiku
        • okay sweet I'm glad that's sorted out : mikecyb
• I do that, but with 1 000$ bills. : Utopia
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  God I would have so damn many singles after a year. Pack a cigarette a day usually yields 3 or 4 bux by i... : bling1bling
  • imagine how much you would have if you didn't smoke! : kaddar0
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  school lunches eat up alot of my singles nowadays. : edgewise
  • If you're gonna be selfish and put your kids before a shacker activity then I don't know what to tell you... : haiku
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  Nice lamp : persuxe
  • It is, but the cable's a bit untidy (for haiku). : rock elf
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    Thanks, it's the Brazo Task Lamp, by Pardo Designs. It's all LED and you can choose between warm light or... : haiku
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      It's $400. For a lamp. Wut : persuxe
      • true story, some people spend $2500 on bed frames, OH MY : FrayLo
    • That's pimp : action roommate
• I just dont use much cash at all anymore... : .Jayson
• My grandma has done that with loonies (haha i know funny our money has funny names) for about 5 years now... : SlingBlaze
• I'm down. : pancake humper
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  So, do not spend any $1 bills. Okay, I'm down--are we marking today as the beginning? : thief
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    probably Jan. 1st. also from my understanding you can spent $1 bills just at the end of the day you ta... : SlingBlaze
    • To seek clarification is silly, but: If I spend $10 to get a $6 long island -- $5 + $1 tip -- I am going... : thief
    • not Slings Singles! : doomed
• I already do this with singles and silver change. I keep pennies separate. I start on the first of the ... : virus
• I heard of doing this with $5, : mindshot
• So does that mean you're hitting up the titty bar tonight or what : ninjase
• I'd have zero, I never use cash : Slowtreme
• Forget shackwest, take those to the titty bar! : kainen1
• Hard for me to save $1 bills as I pay for parking a lot. : Sailor of Fortune
• I'm sorry I use my ones to light my stogies : acheron
• you know the time you spent sorting and counting that? that's my job, two hours a day, five days a week. ... : Deathlove
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  Wouldn't you save the same amount of money just by actually using the singles... maybe I'm missing someth... : mnok
  • probably only works as a spending limiter for people who already have cash built into their budget. for i... : mindfk
• i agree with the charity part send the 800 usd to this african man who is in dire need :( maybe i c : doomed
• Here's the part where I say, "Who's the administrator of all that (potential) money?" So we start a co... : Xin Jing Client 1a
• I would hope that you were taking all those singles and putting them in a money market account or the lik... : Borzoi
• unfortunately, I NEVER use cash. I've had $50 in my wallet for 2 weeks. today I have $48 (yea, had to bre... : epit
• Wow I was wondering what happened with this, that is pretty cool. I really should do this. : not work safe
• I would have like $20 by the end of the year. I never use cash. : OverloadUT
• When do you deposit the singles on your desk? End of day? : not work safe
• there are bank accounts here that will round up your debit purchases to the nearst 5 dollars whatever and... : dantastic
• How about a stripper named Charity? Would that count? : phil_mckraken
• I would end up with like $50, because I never use cash. : SqueegyTBS
• Make it rain haiku, make it rain : Antilles_Prime
• i have over 30 1's in my wallet right now :*( : reverend~heresy
• Sounds like a fun idea. I just don't use cash hardly at all anymore though. : trevis

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  looks pretty good on youtube, and god damn are you ever lost on that level in the first few minutes. I ma... : sigpro
  • Yea, I recorded my initial attempts. I figured that would be more realistic than me doing a level over an... : mancide
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  No one has confirmed that you can embed the HQ videos yet. : notd665
  • Hrmm, I thought lightbox might do it anyway, but it appears it doesn't just yet. That sucks. : mancide
  • the youtube blog update last night detailed how to do it, along with a bunch of other stuff, but it has s... : Luminair
  • Look how silly this post looks now! : aaarrrgh
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  Updated YouTube Embedinator http://lmnopc.com/greasemonkey/shack2007/youtubeembedinator.user.js This ... : ThomW
  • thanks man : niceguynick
  • Thank you ThomW! : alnya
  • Thanks a lot, ThomW. : Nitrium
  • beautiful! thanks : smax
  • thank you sir! : onji
  • Nice, thanks. I just installed greasemonkey and a bunch of your scripts yesterday. Very nice. : Bull
  • I heart you. +INF'd : ImageOmega
  • awesome, thanks thom : dopefish
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    Nice, thanks. Who's the shacker with all the shack GM scripts in his profile? : rudds
    • dodob : OverloadUT
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    One other note -- the script also adds fmt=18 to Youtube links people post here, so if you click on the t... : ThomW
    • Shouldnt that be fmt=22 now? : SqueegyTBS
  • You're the bestest. Evar. : virus
  • Danke ThomW : Marauder IIC
  • thanks! : soapland
  • For those of you using my 'ShackChan 2' Greasemonkey script to embed images and videos, I've updated it t : TroZ
  • can you make this do videos from theonion? : retarded talking dinosaur
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    I don't really know what this does, but I trust your genius computer skills. : Jobos
    • OH DAMN! Nevermind. I see now what that does. That's freakin' great! : Jobos
• Motherfucker. Why is that elecard crawl at the bottom of that video now? Fuck, I guess I'm going to have ... : mancide
• About fucking time they support widescreen! : nukewinter
• Looks great. I'd stick with YouTube. : Bull
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  &fmt=22 is for 720p sources. : SlamDunk
  • Yeah. I was just about to correct this. : -sk-
• This video kinda made me want Mirror's Edge... : Gwyndion
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  Yea, no reason to host your own videos with the fmt=22 flag now. : mwasher
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    But how do I get it to embed with the HQ format? Everything I've tried so far just goes back to the Flash... : mancide
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      //{ <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/z... : mwasher
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        try again <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtu : mwasher
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          one more time <object width=”425″ height=”344″> <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.y : mwasher
          • success! : mwasher

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• Fax machines. Pagers. : airmaus
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  Nintendo DS. The graphics of an 8-bit NES plus the faggotry of a PDA stylus? No. : Ride-My-Rocket
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    What? : DOOManiac
    • Who's rocket has HE been riding? : heartsauce
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    ...GBA maybe... but I'm pretty sure the DS is 16-bit and more akin to a SNES. : dedgecko
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      no, it's right about on par with the N64. Actually, one of the launch games was a port of Mario64. : Prozium
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        Yeah, most of the well made 3d titles look like they'd fit in on the N64. : Vincent Grayson
        • yep... I was pretty impressed with the 3D Engine's on the DS considering what it is : Shadowdane
      • errr- yea, meant that, my bad. I went back one gen too far. : dedgecko
  • I wish my 8-bit NES could run Mario 64 : OverloadUT
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole : scottythejock
    • Worst example of hyperbole ever (THAT is hyperbole) : heartsauce
  • lol @ 8bit : OmegaRed59
• Phonograph. : deadhorse
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  blackberry storm : bozer
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    not good? :( : OverBurN
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      it is just like the iphone! so disappointing : pointyelbows
      • not really at all : Yanks
• automobiles, the abacus, toasters : spigot
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  compared to VHS, DVDs were fucking amazing. the first one i saw totally blew me away and it was on my PC ... : pyide
  • Not having to rewind was amazing. I would have bought DVDs just for that alone. : aethyr
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  LCD goggles that make it seem like you had a tv right in front of you. : sigpro
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    have you since liked such a product more? : Thomas Hace
    • Haven't tried any in 10 years or so. I had the Phillips Scuba ones and they weren't that great. : sigpro
• genital mit : XchumpoX
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  Apple Macs - not at all like BMWs : nrgXs
  • Hey, at least you still got your smug superiority with Apple *and* BMWs! : antareus
• The Wii. Tried it in a mall at a demo kiosk and while it was fun, I expected a lot more. I did eventual... : jingletard
• Airplanes. What's the big deal? : yoonix
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  HD Porn : massdev
  • It was better when you couldn't see their awful teeth. : Zolneirz
• Hi-def tv. Maybe it's because I've been doing audio/video stuff on my PC since uh, forever. : Damodred
• Virtual Boy. : DOOManiac
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  PC gaming. My Nintendo blew it away. Ironically, I now am a PC gamer who does not care for consoles. : dognose
  • You got the Wii in 1992 when it was barely beating a 386SX? : guigr
• What DVD software were you using? The early software for PCs was absolutely terrible. I remember when I s... : owtwerd
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  The Wii : mroizo40
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    Ditto - and a win-mobile phone - such a waste of money. : dedgecko
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      omg yes,my wm phone was awful in every way. : filthysock
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        yea, I was all excited to get something that would potentially rival an iphone from verizon... yea, my i7... : dedgecko
        • My winmo phone puts people on hold and calls other people at random in the middle of calls :( : dognose
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  Microsoft Windows 3.0. For some reason I insisted on getting this even though I was only 14. : tashtego
  • 3.1 FTMFW : capt tripps
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  The Wii. I hoped for the controller to be revolutionary, but it's of no benefit to core/ambitious/serious... : tcs
  • ^^^ this : Vincent Grayson
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    Seemed to benefit Metroid Prime 3 just fine. : Conan
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      Don't care much for the 3D metroid games, but looks like many people like it so I'll bite. Sure, maybe so... : tcs
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        All I can say is that after MP3 and a few FPS games since then on Wii, I prefer that control method to th... : Conan
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          Maybe in some scenarios the controller actually performs great and might be preferable to what's availabl... : tcs
          • Okay. : Conan
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        Metroid Prime is the 2nd best Metroid game I've played. : DOOManiac
        • eer... 3. : DOOManiac
  • So much wasted potential, it seems. When it comes to how well it detects movement, it still feels like a ... : antareus
• The wheel. : Utopia
• Blu-Ray and iPod for me, I guess. High definition video doesn't do much for me. With a couple of excep... : nudel
• The Wii, Apple products. Except the iPhone, which is great so far. : Dave-A
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  All 3D graphics accelerators before the Voodoo series. My friend got one and it had some awful S3 chip on... : antareus
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    Haha, I had an old card, I think it was the S3 Rendition VirGE or something... it would only work with se... : nukewinter
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      S3 VIRGE, Matrox Mistique, Voodoo Banshee - I had all the failed 3D cards, yay, those were days... : tcs
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        dont forget the ati rage 2c i had copies of mechwarrior 2 for that card, my voodoo card, and a couple ... : -=kodiak=-
        • And the Rendition Veriete (sp) boards! I also remember the day of 3D patches. I was so excited when playi... : tcs
  • The Verite was pretty impressive running vquake the first time. : Conan
• LCD monitors : thejm4n
• Fleshlight : Pilmar Khin-Kari
• macbook pros : pointyelbows
• Shacknews. : Fayk
• VR headsets that were all the rage in 93-94 : -=kodiak=-
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  AT&T Tilt - awful. : newek
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    let me guess, still running stock firmware? go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=397... : hirez
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      Jeez, I'm tempted to put this on my work phone. : scottythejock
      • I have it on mine. works awesome. MisterPhoton runs it on his Tilt as well, also loves it. : hirez
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  The Atari Jaguar - the dawning of the 64-bit era! But had a telephone for a controller and the game I pla... : A Sponge
  • I remember renting the system just to play that Aliens v. Predator game. That was the only fun game on th... : DM7
• OSX : yAak
• Analmaster 9000 : locater16
• Oh I had some Motion tracking helmet that I tried to play Quake with, the thing was awful. : sammyl
• I was pretty fucking underwhelmed with the Power Glove the first time I experienced it. : icon_of_syn

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  Hmm, can I apply if I want the game for a friend? :P P.S. Why did you get 3 copies? : Damodred
  • probably for LAN play. They have a 4 pack for this reason. : pancake humper
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    One for my fiancee and one for an old friend who I owed a favor to. : re-verse
    • why do i get one, i already have it? :-P : arcane_
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  I nominate Mr. SEX : pancake humper
  • this : moogle
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  I would like the copy because I been unemployed and can't afford to buy any new games :( : runnerct
  • i like this guy for it. if you get it he should make you promise not to stay home and play instead of lo... : dantastic
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  Please be to giving to someone who will actually play. Check their post history if they talked about want... : Iwannaacura
  • Oh trust me, I will do some heavy vetting. Also! Personal posts will be given more weight than nominat... : re-verse
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  I nominate Dr. Waffles! : Chepito.
  • I second your notion. : kainen1
  • and all this time, I thought he already owned a copy. : Mmmmmoo
  • THIRDED. : lakren
  • yes : .frame
  • Bingo. : gnomish
  • ^^^^ THIS GUY RIGHT HERE : DrFlammable
  • HEY SEXY PEOPLE (I've got a Shack posse?). I suppose I would have replied to this thread sooner, but I w : DrWaffles
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  I sadly do already have the game but am looking to buy it for my girlfriend. Which would then be a Chris... : SlingBlaze
  • O yea, and I played with you on Saturday in L4D wth hirez and...someone else. : SlingBlaze
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  I'd love it! My sister has it and she wants to play with me, but I'm really broke right now. : CapnChaos
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    haha your sister has a zombie video game that you want to play we truly are in a new age : Luminair
    • Well I helped raise her on Counterstrike and Unreal Tournament :P : CapnChaos
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  I've got an extra copy of gta vice city I'd like to give-away too, first response gets it. : lolbotomy
  • Yes fucking please!! : Solstice
  • it's on steam btw, after response send me a SM with your steam id and it's yours. : lolbotomy
• re-verse, you are one dope shacker. : midgetherder
• I would totally be down with this but frankly do not think my PC could run it :( : ejectorpod
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  I am poor and can't afford games, please put me on the list of people who depend on welfare! : thekidd
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    thekidd you can have my spare copy of Half-Life 2. : A Sponge
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      I'll even throw in Episode 1. : Arctic Fox
      • all of your generosity is overwhelming *cries* : thekidd
    • Sponge, you are too kind! : CrustaR
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  I would say I want one, but my PC sucks right now (saving to upgrade in January). I have to pick it up f... : Ormsbee
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    Don't pick it up for 360, you'll miss out on all the extra content that a) Valve releases (new bosses etc... : Arctic Fox
    • Yeah... but then I'd have to wait till I build a new PC to play. I might just re-buy it in January for P... : Ormsbee
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      lol I played with you last night. Can't remember who it was, but somebody asked for someone to kill them... : Cihte
      • yeah i asked you to kill me, then you shot Alco in the face right after he got done healing. : Dschinghis Khan
      • Yep, that was me, and it was truly funny :) : Arctic Fox
• Throw me in the running. Stupid locked demo didn't give me a chance to try it while I was finishing other... : derelict515
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  I nominate dognose. He needs L4D because he likes zombies. : CrustaR
  • Thank you CrustaR but I would prefer to defer to someone who isn't working :< : dognose
• I'm a CS college student. So I'm poor and probably will continue to be poor. I just upgraded my pc a ... : dilutedq
• Me. I'm a brokeass college student studying my ass off for finals. I graduate this semester (depending on... : boomstickah
• I nominate my wife Miresse even though she only has 200 posts because we want to play together but could ... : OverloadUT
• Totally applying. I am poor college student. : aggressor
• I would just like to note that is really awesome of valve. And you're awesome for your raffle. I have it... : unjustend
• I would like one good sir : GloriousCow
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  can I suggest Mr Eli Bowman? I would love to play this with him! : sesmaster
  • What kind of name is that? He sounds like a douche. : voodooraze
• Pull me : loke662
• I have a new PC coming tomorrow and would LOVE l4D for it. sign me up! : maulla
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  I nominate A-Dude aka AlexXdude because he pulled his prior preorder due to lack of funds. :[ : CrustaR
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    thank you crustar! that is very kind! : AlexXdude
    • wow really you don't have this game? i nominate AlexXDude also : kill9
• I was going to buy this game, but then my gf's car got stolen. Now I'm trying to help her buy a used car ... : pun][sher
• I'd love to play L4D with Shackers! Pick me, pick me! : jasonepowell
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  me! : Mr.SEX
  • This gentleperson would play L4D in a prim and kingly manner. I would put a kind and beguiled behestment ... : ArB
• The copy wouldn't be for me but for a friend who needs to experience the zombie goodness and complete our... : Begawkiness
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  i dont believe most of these sob stories : feek
  • Way to feek this thread! : CrustaR
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    Definitely should post pics of how poor they are. The definition of poor varies wildly around here. : jingletard
    • Example - this was my christmas present for myself last year : http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUplo... : jingletard
• I would like to be considered. :) : rezombie
• OH OH OH HOLY SHIT PLEASE!!!! : sKetchflow
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  Dear Sir, Please to be considered me in this giveaway. As you know I thoroughly enjoy the team multip : Omaha
  • HARD GAME CLUB unite! L4D on expert is maximum fun. : CrustaR
• 351 : Flynn
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  I've been unemployed for three months and my old work fought my unemployment claim, so I'm not even colle... : Enkidu
  • I was there recently dude. I feel your pain :(. : pancake humper
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    story time ? : doomed
    • Too depressing. Maybe another time, like when I have a job again and am a happy person. : Enkidu
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  Dude I've been telling my buddy at work that if he gives me 25 bucks I'd buy that game and play with him.... : Malku
  • (Buddies a shacker too *cough cough*) : Malku
• I would Love to have L4D. My friends all pre-ordered it, but I got married this past summer so my game-bu... : digital_d
• I would love this game. I've not bought it yet because I've been in the US since it came out with only my... : marmite
• 3 of my friends picked it up and have been asking me to follow suit, would LOVE to play with them! great ... : GBeer11
• I'll throw my name into the ring. I'm definitely an avid PC gamer, so I meet at least one of the three c... : TShandy
• *raises fin* I'd like it! : sharkII
• Wee, guess I'll get in on this. : lightly inclined
• I'd love to get a copy. I played a bunch in beta but can't see spending the 40 bucks on it right now. :( : Pacalon
• I spend all my money on whores because I am too fat and ugly to sleep with a girl I didn't pay for. Plea... : Crimsonbeak
• Me, because I have a zombie plan. I live near (3 miles) Moffet field, the local military base. They h... : Cottc Cid
• ooo ooo pick me! : prime8
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  I love it. Mainly because I live in New York City... and when the real zombie apocalypse happens, I'm sc... : noknyc
  • *I'd love it. : noknyc
• i'll take one off your hands if possible : X-GOUKI
• I needz brainz! I am in my last semester of law school and during the last three years i have lost what l... : lythe
• I'm interested in this, and here's my sob story as to why I don't own a copy already. After my arena p... : fuell
• I'd love it, but just can't swing it right now, especially with the holidays coming up. : carrioN luggagE
• what ever happened to ^^seawolf^^? i want to nominate him : feek
• me please : anthonybean
• I never win these but here goes. I was going to purchase the game but my close friend called me and cried... : chuck577
• Dear Sirs, I have a most generous business proposition for you. You see, I am the heir to the throne ... : phate81
• Dear Re-verse. I would really like to play Left 4 Dead. I would love you a long time if you made it so.... : DrZettl
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  Jesus. I didn't expect this any entries. Doing a dice roll on this will take a bit. Here is how I'm going... : re-verse
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    Just give it to Dr.Waffles, no one else matters. : Chepito.
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      What's up with Waffles? I must've missed the story here. : Bold
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        I too would like to know what the story is : OverloadUT
        • yeah he seems to have a lot of support to get this, why is that? : voodooraze
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    here's what you are going to do: give it to dr. waffles. : lakren
    • Waffles waffles waffles. Also: waffles. : gnomish
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    waffles. : hirez
    • ^^^^ : yosemiteclimber
    • Yay I nominate Dr. Waffles : H@rvester
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    Waffles would have a better change if he responded here. As it is, I can only give him one number :( : re-verse
    • he's snoozing on steam, i already sent him a message but he's probably in class or something. : DrFlammable
    • He is way too modest. : Chepito.
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      haha re-verse what kind of dumb system is this, everyone is saying dr waffles because he's cool and actua... : lakren
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        why shouldn't everyone else get a chance? : virus
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          because everyone else is dumb : lakren
          • ur dumb : virus
    • He's responded above. : Arctic Fox
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    http://www.random.org/integers/ I should get an extra number for this : OverloadUT
    • If you're going to do it randomly, this is what you want. : Arctic Fox
    • You actually got 2 extra for this :) Thanks very much. : re-verse
  • WAFFLEZ : feek
• Me plz! I'm supposed to be saving up -- for a down-payment or babby -- and I've been doing my best to ec... : Ride-My-Rocket
• I'm posting so that I can gift this to my brother who's birthday is coming up and he wants to get this ga... : Sailor of Fortune
• I might get laid off on the 1st of December so all game purchases have stopped for me :( : mrwolf710
• Fuck yes. I'm this close to breaking down and buying it even though I can't afford to. : Vincent Grayson
• I would love this game. Only reason I don't have it yet is I'm changing jobs and money is tight. : rmjackson
• Please please please me me me! : vaniah
• dude, i live in the 3rd world, are you giving me the code to download thru steam or an hardcopy? : doomed
• I'm a poor student nearly 50k in debt right now. 1.5 years until graduation : digweed014
• My cousins and I just bought a copy for our other cousin (WHO IS A FAG! YEAH, MIKE: YOU). : Rice-Rocketeer
• Throw me in there too! :E : disposition
• Please put my name in there : xpogox
• I would love a copy of this game. Please choose me from your hat :D : focusdaily
• I'd like to nominate myself : ass-street
• Submissions are now closing. I an almost done numbering the current nominations, and will be drawing shor... : re-verse
• did you get my vote for AlexXDude because here it is : kill9
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  The winner is.... fuell Fuell was put in the hat 3 times, by far the most used number. The highest : re-verse
  • Congrats fuell. Enjoy you lucky bastard :D : Solstice
  • congrats fuell : ass-street
  • Really awesome for you to give this away. Hooray for more Shackers playing on the Shack L4D servers. : bashildy@speakeasy.net
  • you won you crummy bastard. see you inside...eventually. : focusdaily
• I would love to have a shot at this. I've been saving for a new computer just to play this game. I don't ... : sm00v3d
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  I'll apply. Reasons why I should get picked: 1. Some of my posts are good, sometimes I make stupid one... : coraldayton
  • Doh. Fail on responding late :( : coraldayton

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  Many times in Fallout 3 I've done the old "forget to manually save" trick and relied on the autosave. ... : Dave-A
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    DOH. speaking of FO3... I was at Angela's and Diego's wedding in Rivet and decided to see what would happ... : hirez
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      How do you go to that event? The in-game clock only gives the time, not the date, IIRC, so there's no way... : Attica Blue
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        I think it does give you the day... Maybe in the wait/sleep menu thing? : WaterSign
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          Yeah, that's where I looked. I'll have to check again, but I could have sworn it only gave you the time, ... : Attica Blue
          • i think the date is "tomorrow" : kenmis
  • Yeah, I got to instinctively pressing F5 just before trying anything risky or potentially stupid. : ChibiJosh
  • When I accidentally Megaton : leaked
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  We were doing Hex Lord Malacrass in Zul'Aman and we were getting owned by the spirit bolts. A bunch of p : electroly
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    Speaking of WoW, we we're doing Akil'zon (also in ZA). Fight was going pretty good, till he used electric... : Hyrenguy
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      I don't understand, why did everyone die? : Omaha
      • Forgive me I've only done ZA a few times, but as I understand it the boss selects one raid member at rand... : Hyrenguy
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  Every damn time I sit down to play ANY game something stupid happens. : PapaBoo
  • Hahaha this is definitely me. It happens so often that I don't even make note of it, I just start getting... : antareus
• Man I was so good at letting the Kryll kill me in the first game. : Begawkiness
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  I flipped a warthog accidentally in Halo2. the internet exploded. : Downforce
  • nope still works : japoneez
• I don't make mistakes. : mwasher
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  you really shouted that wow : japoneez
  • Yeah I get into games :( : Omaha
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  In Duke3D, Hollywood Holocaust, I was in a restroom, and decided to look in one of the stalls to see if I... : dognose
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    You couldn't wait for him to finish his business? That's just rude. : Begawkiness
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      I guess I could have closed the stall door : dognose
      • and then shot him through the door. : Borzoi
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  one of the levels in HL2 with the water valve. I thought you had to use the gravity thing to stack the d... : AssGoblin
  • oh man, I did the same exact thing. : IncursionZ
  • been there... done that... : Gwyndion
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  Hitting F6 in FPS to quicksave instead of F9 to quickload. Oh, this happens just as you fall of a ledge. : focusdaily
  • ha i hate this. : cstamas
  • This is the worst! hahaha : tangles
  • 'Twas the day before headcrabs invaded our world, the space-time continuum had not yet unfurled, the tr... : fechols
  • this : randomposter
  • The opposite is pretty bad too : sasoi
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    Ah haha hah hahaha... I did exactly that in the original half-life. Numerous times too.... You'd think y... : Hyrenguy
    • Yeah its actually the specific game I was thinking about when I posted. That or Dark Forces. : focusdaily
  • Yeah I've been there. : dpgagnon
  • oh snap! been a while since I did that... but it sucks : Gwyndion
• In L4D, everytime I shoot a Boomer before I push it away. Doh everytime. : dasampla
• Traveled many many miles in WoW. Got to the place where I wanted to be..Forgot I was out of arrows :( : pun][sher
• I was playing Far Cry 2 at a friend's last week, his game. I did a Weapon Shop mission, cleared a couple ... : AxeMan808
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  I've not really experienced this phenomenon because I mainly play PC games which avoid the retareded chec... : wytefang
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    Wow, so you chose to deprive yourself of some awesome gaming because you don't like the save system? I'm ... : voodooraze
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      No, forcing yourself to undergo tedious replaying of game elements because the developers wanted to force... : wytefang
      • friends also don't let friends read retarded posts, ignore this one : qwpeoriu
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        You're just against consoles in general. : UselessHack
        • This has to be one of my favorite anti-console rants ever though. He may want to avoid playing HL2, as... : antareus
    • Yup that sounds pretty dead-on for this guy. : bam87
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GotNTtt1NNQ : Bingo
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  Quicksaved in a game (maybe HL1) right as I was falling to my death. :( : voodooraze
  • Ahahaha! This right here is the winning post so far because it's the funniest. : Attica Blue
• Formatted my data drive. That was quite a while back. I lost about 100 hours I'd spent in Baldur's Gate... : schnitz76
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  Zelda: Ocarina of Time Water Temple No more need to be said. : ateam311
  • pretty much : mrseldowski
  • Man I know exactly what you're talking about :( : Begawkiness
  • dude... : pgharavi
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    I spent more time figuring that temple out for the first time then I did with the rest of the game. And t... : unholydonuts
    • Wow, I thought I got stuck in there but it was only about an hour or two of wandering around. Are you : antareus
    • I get stuck every time I replay that game. :( No matter how many times I go through the fucking wat... : MacemanInTW
  • this is why i did not play through a second time : manero
  • I don't remember the frustration (but, I do remember it was a Thanksgiving weekend this game came out). ... : ImageOmega
• when a column of tanks and apcs were driving past my infantry ambush on either side of the road in the tr... : Luminair
• I was playing Dragonball Origins on my DS (shutup, it's a good game!) and I was on a level that was kind... : m0nkz
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  I played this. http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html I'll leave it at that. : CyCo_PL
  • what the hell...... best record 2 meters. : SkeezPimp
• It was a part on Star Fox Adventures that I never want to speak of :(. (I had to beat it for my friend a... : Malku
• Just today. I was playing Gears of War campaign on hard and had a hard time trying to get past one part. ... : razlebol
• I spent hours in Fallout 2 trying to break into Vault City by force of arms. : Finestaut
• Searching a large area for a door into a building or something and find out that it's right next to the s... : deadhorse
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  I thought Portal ended in the firepit after the last level :( but then I was like wtf that can't be th... : Flying h4x0r
  • how many times did you willingly jump into the fire? : j0nchan
• 1]Saving up cash but never using it at all, and completing the game with a lot of unused money. 2] Break... : vikramwillrock
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  I'm sure anyone who has played WoW has a story or ten that falls into that category. : Ellissd
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    Fact: the jump down the elevator shaft in SSC is longer than your 12 second pally bubble. Learned that t... : electroly
    • I learned that one the hard way as well :( : MacemanInTW
  • I have put blessing of protection on the tank : holinka
• Yeah, this would definitely get front page bubble a week after L4D is out. : ElArabDeMagnifico
• In games where two function keys right next to eachother are mapped to quicksave and quickload. I've ofte... : Splinebastard
• played wow and realized it was the same thing over and over again...I felt like a dumbass after a few mon... : Bumpmapped
• I made a thread asking how to save a Pheonix Wright game. :( : Koral06
• I'm one of those people that will plow through games then get REALLY STUCK at a certain part and I don't ... : antareus
• Didn't know bottle caps were currency in Fallout 3 until about 3 or 4 hours into the game. I was walking ... : antareus
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  fallout 3: spending about 20 minutes outside moria's crater side supply for the time to change. yeah ... : oHnOES
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    more people got stuck with this issue come on lets hear it : oHnOES
    • Yeah, me too. : Finestaut
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    ...wait...what? you're joking. you have to be. I won't believe you. Is there one on the PC version? : SkeezPimp
    • T button : oHnOES
    • Haha nice. : bam87
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    same here. I haven't had my character sleep yet; I should probably try it sometime. Is it possible for ... : the archvile
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      no, doesnt let you sleep with enemies around, also it revives all your health, so if you are low on healt... : papaskot
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        And it heals your limbs. Mine are always broken because everyone carries heavy artillery now. : antareus
        • and if you sleep for 8 hours you get "Well Rested" which is 10% more XP! : kenmis
• I tossed stuff into the lake in Zork. Worse yet: I had to load from an old save - on a Commodore 64. : Schnapple
• I got all the way to the end of the first disc of the Dreamcast version of Resident Evil: Code Veronica a... : Schnapple
• There are those sections in Metroid with giant parallel pillars and lava pits between them and you simply... : Schnapple
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  I went through the airport's metal detector in Left 4 Dead to see if it would trigger the horde. : yourGarbageMan
  • I didn't even think that the metal detector would go off and ran through it during a firefight. :-( : Aragoat
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  I keep shooting boomers that are right next to me or my teammates. Repeatedly. Without pushing them away.... : SatansFist
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    i do this too, and if there is a witch around i usually end up shining my flashlight into her haunted eye... : Dave-A
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      LOL I saw a couple shackers do this... I call out "witch" and they're like "gee, let me walk right up to ... : SatansFist
      • "Where's the witch? I can't see her! *click* Oh - wait why is she getting up? : crummynz
• WoW: Prayer of Mending - in arenas, i'd not notice that a priest has PoM on himself or a teammate in aren... : reverend~heresy
• I bought warcraft gold :-( : dysfunctional
• mistaking Gaz in CoD4 for an Ultranationalist. : the archvile
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  Pretty much any time I play a coop game with armybob I feel stupider. The guy _just_can't_not_die_. : tsuba
  • haha die in a fire : armybob
• Buying Far Cry 2 :( : spiderfill
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  I always screw up when people are watching me play a game for the first time. I feel like I'm being judge... : David Craddock
  • I get that to a T. In fact, I pretty much universally suck at games as long as I'm being watched. Doesn't... : Hyrenguy

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  yeah, they hyundai placement was terrible. : FormerHPB
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    I'm gonna need a Hyundai! : Prozium
    • hahaha, that's like Alias's "Vaughn! The F150!" : zakazi
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      haha no way that was said. : nomaad
      • It wasn't, thank God. : cyclonebee
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  i'm pretty underwhelmed by the 2 hour start of the season, i feel like they there's no more extremes that... : snicker-snack 2
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    except it wasn't a 2 hour start of the season, it was a stand-alone thing. : skunk_ape
    • ok that changes everything : snicker-snack 2
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  Wow what a fucking ugly dude : Trips
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    He's great though. The Full Monty FTW! : FormerHPB
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      looks like Begsby ! : kgargonmagrix79
      • It is! : Rich McNinch
• The framerate on that cisco telepresence was awful in the show. In all the commercials they show it very ... : sanchez
• Unfortunately I think this is going to be the future of television. As more people skip through ads with ... : Flying h4x0r
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  OH MY GOD HIS PHONE HAS A BRAND NAME ON IT : SockMonkeh
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    OH MY GOD MY MONITOR HAS PRODUCT PLACEMENT ON IT : SockMonkeh
    • OH GOD SO DO MY SPEAKERS... AND MY MOUSE AND KEYBOARD OH NO WHAT WILL I DO : SockMonkeh
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      WAKE UP WAKE UP, THERES A LOGO ON YOUR PENIS. : Zolneirz
      • WELCOMETOJAMAICAHAVEANICEDAY'd : scapin
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  I can get over that it's a Nextel phone, but the fact that they're blatantly shilling for Microsoft by ha... : BlackCat9
  • lol : cyclonebee
  • lolita : doomed
  • this needs more love : mrvandelay
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  On chuck this last week, he outright says "Take the Matrix, it's all wheel drive and good gas mileage wil... : festivalman
  • I didn't think much of that... he's a nerd and she'd need good gas mileage to get away. : Dobbs
  • wow... : derelict515
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    lol, yeah, he mentioned NAV and everything. I was like "WTF?!" but it kinda made sense because he was ner... : pun][sher
    • plus, i think they also drive minis, so it made sense that he was recommending a better car : Flynn
  • Chuck is extremely blatant with their product placement. I think it works too. It always gets a laugh fro... : Ellissd
• Is that the moron from 28 weeks later? : Sailor of Fortune
• Is it any surprise given the political affiliations of the show? : Lone Swordsman
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  i think the worst product placement was Cisco. i remember in one season it was in the middle of the nigh... : dantastic
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    That lame ass phones with web cams from Season 5 or 6 was fucking annoying as hell. : Sailor of Fortune
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      yeah thats what im talking about : dantastic
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        also i wasnt sure why they needed cameras on their phones when you could see the person at their desk in ... : dantastic
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          IIRC, those phones cost like $300, each. : Sailor of Fortune
          • 797X's are more than that. : mrvandelay
• Still not as bad as the first season of Heroes. Nissan Versa!!! Ya-ta!!! Or how about the iPod Ando wa... : SatansFist
• Product Placement CISCO...what do you mean HYUNDAI product placement NEXTEL? : whodares

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• It guessed Scottie Pippen and I was thinking of Michael Jordan >:( : Flying h4x0r
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  It got mine - Woody from Toy Story. holy crap. : marmite
  • and Kratos from God of War. : marmite
• This game crashed my internet. :( : Koral06
• took 21 questions to guess Barry Bonds, when I was thinking Tony Gwynn. : Slowtreme
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  It got mine, Kirby and it somehow got Niko Bellic from GTA 4. : AgentPothead
  • It got Doom Marine (I was actually thinking Quake Guy but I'll give it that one) : Slowtreme
• Guessed Duke, Buddy Guy and Obama. : GrimmyD
• It couldn't guess Bill Brasky. : melkore
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  Got mine too - Samus Aran. Even had my desktop wallpaper as a pic! 18 questions. : DOOManiac
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    Whoa, and it correctly guessed Shodan in 16 questions! : DOOManiac
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      And Solid Snake in 16... : DOOManiac
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        And GLaDOS too... : DOOManiac
        • Even Durandal from Marathon is in there. Pretty impressive. : crummynz
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  wasn't there a much better one of these from a long time ago? i wish i could remember the URL : kill9
  • http://www.20q.net/ is the one that was even turned into a hand held game. : AgentPothead
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  Wow, that's amazing. That's...wow. : lookitzpancakes
  • Hmmm.....didn't get Paul Rudd. : lookitzpancakes
• it got Adrian Shephard when i was thinking of one doomed space marine : delataur
• It got Dexter in 14, heh : pwnage1232
• If it doesn't guess your guy, then click More Questions. : crummynz
• Hahah stumped it with Lanny McDonald, tho I will give it points for guessing a hockey player. (It guessed... : Solstice
• 20 questions to guess Ellen Ripley? pffht : Degenerate
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  hahaha it worked, got bob barker : Yanks
  • cloud strife in 12 : Yanks
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  Took him a while to get John Conner but after asking me his age about 5 times and finally realizing the n... : SockMonkeh
  • Hah! He stumped him on Kyle Reese! : DOOManiac
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  He guessed duke nukem fairly easily and the picture he shows of duke is awesome. : twifosp
  • haha the questions leading up were awesome.. like i thought he already had it (fight aliens, american, bl... : xsoulbrothax
• I was thinking of Maui from The Wire and it guessed Mr Big from Sex and the City : spiderfill
• It guessed Tony Romo instead of Aaron Rodgers : pharoah mike
• Haha, i just got asked this question: Is your character famous thanks to watersports? : boredguy
• Stumped it. Enric from Die By The Sword. :D It guessed a character from Age of Mythology. : xsoulbrothax
• Haha, guess Goku from Dragonball right. : Optimus Prime
• I was thinking of Yogi Bear. This is what it guessed: http://www.shackpics.com/files/notyogi_ze3f4t0j... : DOOManiac
• It got Dave Thomas and Green Lantern easy enough. Curiosity compelled me to choose the Monolith from 2001... : djkenohki
• it's missed 4 in a row. Screw this. : Megara9

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  I have a hard time believing that hop harvest can be that dirty : Horn
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    at this point, the 'Dirty' in Dirty Jobs just means manual labor : porp
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      Or Mike Rowe's jokes : Omaha
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        that's enough for me. The jobs aren't as great as Mike acting goofy. : valael
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          + what heterosexual male wouldn't want to have sex w/ Mike Rowe? Seriously. : goatjc
          • i'd make a dirty job of his dirt box : valael
          • I want to know how he's not People's "Sexiest Man Alive" for the last three years running. Seriously, ... : ConfusedUs
          • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=14770260#itemanchor_14770260 : Omaha
          • I wish I was Mike Rowe. Hes got everything. : Thisispol
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      Most of the time you're right. The sheep testicle show however was pretty gross. : Horn
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        And the one where they ground up animal parts to make into dog food. Actually that one wasn't so much ... : Schnapple
        • those places are really, really horrible. i've had to visit a couple as part of my job. they smell like d : mindmann
      • The leather tannery episode almost had me gagging when they showed the aftermath of separating the fat fr... : HojuSimpson
      • The one where they harvest those slimy sea eels made me want to gag. : Delaric
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      id love to see Rowe do what i did for a few months for manual labour: worked on a mushroom farm. that ... : -=kodiak=-
      • He's already done that. : Horn
      • i visited one of those places for work. pretty crazy. pretty interesting process. a lot of straw involved... : mindmann
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  I'm bottling mine 1st homebrew 2nite!!! I hope everything came out alright. : goatjc
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    It probably will. Brewing beer is pretty easy and so long as you keep things pretty clean you'll do fine... : Horn
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      But does it ever turn out as good as going to the store and buying one of those awesome craft brews? Ser... : valael
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        Yes. Homebrew beer isn't some 2nd class drink. With a little practice you can make brews that rival any... : Horn
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          So I'm guessing you brew eh? I'm going to start another batch probably this weekend. Any ideas for good... : goatjc
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            (Specifically, any IPA recipes?) : goatjc
            • I haven't made a good IPA yet (it's next on my list). Degenerate or filtersweep will probably be able to... : Horn
            • here's firmbuttstones rye IPA http://klutzbrau.com/brews.php?brewid=20 : Degenerate
            • Here. pretty simple with a bit of a grain steep (can you do partial mash?) Extract version. 7lbs l... : FirmButtstone
          • Heres a Scottish Ale recipe I concoted last year that turned out pretty good. :D 6.0 lb Pale LME 2.0 ... : Degenerate
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        Yes it can be as good, It takes a bit of practice and the better the equipment the better the results. Y... : FirmButtstone
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          Have you ever made a gruit? : Horn
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            Not yet, had a few of them and they are very interesting. I might try one at some point for the hell of ... : FirmButtstone
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              Same here. It's not something I'd ever keg but since it's such a hard style to track down I'd like to ha... : Horn
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                I should start to play more and just do small quick batches. experiment first using extract, maybe 1 gal... : FirmButtstone
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                  I have 5 1 gallon jugs that I use for stuff like this (mostly ciders and meads so far). Working with 1 g... : Horn
                  • Yeah, I have a couple of them that I'll pull off some of my full batch to dry hop, add brett, or oak age ... : FirmButtstone
• YES!! TiVo ACTIVATE! : m0rfus
• thanks for the tip : c0bra
• more like don't forget the shield finale tonight am i rite : synaptic revolt
• Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe is still awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Could someone recommend a good starters home brewing kit? Not a Fischer-Price model that I'll want to re... : fishbone
  • http://pivo.northernbrewer.com/nbstore/action/search-do?searchTerm=7601&x=27&y=11 : Horn
  • This is great setup for the price, and if you want to keg instead they make a version of the kit with all... : FirmButtstone
• Ooh! what time? : action roommate
• HOPS : porp