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  Im sending mine off soon : Melll
  • me too! hopefully tonight or tomorrow. : ass-street
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  Well if its an option I'm sure many scorned folk will just reveal the deadbeat anyway. I think it should... : Iwannaacura
  • Many might choose to only find out and not reveal. I think its better than a show-all by default. : sikander
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  I think I'll volunteer to send a WE out to those poor people who signed up for a WE but never received on... : The Key
  • Well, I have roll of freezer bags and some poop : d fluke
  • Yeah this is my plan too. But is there any way to get the person's address without them knowing so it cou... : SatansFist
• WALL OF SHAME : DooBall
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  Can you update mittense? He got mine. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18799676 : hawkeye
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    You need to login to say you sent it. He needs to login to say he recieved it. : Iwannaacura
    • Righto, I'll message him. : hawkeye
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    In case you are taking update requests sikander, mine also: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18749682 : indosauros
    • * done for both : sikander
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  I'M SENDING THIS WEEKEND!!!! : Korban
  • Please clean off the anal dildo you plan to send, k thx : devnullgt
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    are you sending my gift too? : PapaBoo
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      He is sending you the Half Life Episode Pack : devnullgt
      • lol! i should gift him my HL2 & HL2 E1 : Korban
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    I got a bad feeling about this.. : g0nk
    • as well you should :) : Korban
• Canada Post sent mine back to me earlier this week =( Sent it via UPS on the 30th : spiffymc
• More like 1/15 : PoopStewart
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  Please update if you have received! : indosauros
  • Yes please. My guy made a nice post with pictures and everything, but needs to update the page still. : Zakko
  • that means you, Wasylm ;) : Agrona
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  what do i do if mine got to my guy weeks ago and he hasnt marked it received or posted or replied to my S... : opengl128
  • call him a fag : Iwannaacura
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    has he made any posts since you SM'd him/her ? Post his name here so vanity search would pick it up : sikander
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      a few yeah. I doubt he's vanity searching though. godwit : opengl128
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        You call him out like I did to get scorned by the masses. : mancide
        • I like this plan : rosewood
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        Yep, I've received it. It's in quarantine right now. Something in it didn't look safe so I'm running some... : godwit
        • lol. no idea what i sent, just as much random crap as i could fit from around the house. : opengl128
• I'll be sending mine before then so it's ok I guess :P : mikecyb
• I'll be sending mine before Monday - because of the weather and travelling I haven't been able to get to ... : MisterPhoton
• 1/31 Should be cool. Mine is going out this weekend most likely, but I let my sendee know some stuff came... : Rauol Duke
• Sent here, Making it a goal to have that sucker out before XMas next year. : zakazi
• My WE knows their package will be delayed and is okay with it. : ShekkyBoy
• Sent and received here. A+ would participate again. : pupismyname
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  wall of shame everyone by Feb 14th, valentines day : dantastic
  • Sure, 14th February sounds better. : sikander
• Yeah I'll send mine out this weekend. :( Sorry we buddy. : voodooraze
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  mine's going out tomorrow ive talked to him so it's cool. Shit's been busy here for me. I havent even rec... : -=kodiak=-
  • damn so i'm not your WE. I guess i won't be getting that rubber fist i wanted : GloriousCow
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  I am cool with whatever whenever, I am not going to complain about free stuff : dognose
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    What if it's a Crank DVD wrapped in bacon? :/ : d fluke
    • That is the chance I took when I signed up :/ : dognose
• Wups, I didn't update shackapp with my received. Doing it now. : Damodred
• I'm hoping my WE buddy got his, but I haven't seen any posts saying so and tracking isn't working :/ : ejectorpod
• sending mine today : El Tigre
• im procrastinating this year...i plan to send mine on monday! : m0rfus
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  I'm sending mine soon. With the traveling and extra expenses I've had to deal with, I'm late. But it will... : g0nk
  • update: now shipped! : g0nk
• I'm sending mine within the next 30 days. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  the best part about WE is the excuses people make for not sending. i can't see any possible valid excuse ... : lakren
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    I RAN OUT OF TAPE TO SEAL THE BOX. I SWEAR, I HAD THE BOX AND EVERYTHING ALL PACKED. I JUST RAN OUT OF : DrWaffles
    • This actually happened to me. But I just went out and bought more tape. : nurglich
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    Well, it is a busy time of the year. However, not sending one out by end of January is just too much : sikander
    • They all spent many hours on the shack during the busy time of year. They can get off their fat asses for... : steelsamurai
  • yep. i never know if ill have trouble getting around to it so i *gasp* don't fucking sign up it bums ... : the city
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  maybe WE is getting too blown out of proportion. Some people are sending some seriously high dollar eleph... : GloriousCow
  • No shit. It's random shit from your desk. It takes 10 minutes to put in a box, and a few more minutes to ... : mancide
  • no. shack WE is known to be expensive good shit as well as shit. you should know this when you sign up fo... : lakren
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    one person's junk is another's treasure! : Iwannaacura
    • Yea, shackers just have expensive ass junk : askedrelic
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    This is exactly why I didnt participate. People have gone way above what WE is supposed to be. : Tommy Toolbag
    • I think what happens is that a lot of people have a lot of "junk" that is of extreme value to others (esp... : Vincent Grayson
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      This makes no sense. Everyone is expecting random funny stuff, and every now and then the box has some ex... : pupismyname
      • Exactly. I don't want any restrictions or guidelines. Send a dollar bill you wiped your ass with, or send... : mmogger
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        Is that why the follow through rate is so high? Every year it gets worse and worse. : Tommy Toolbag
        • and every year more and more people sign up. Correlation != Causation. : halophoenix
    • this is bs - no one's expecting gold bricks in their box - the only people who seem to have a problem are... : halophoenix
    • Take a look at the package i sent wtf242. At least I didn't forget. : MurrayTheSkull
    • well, i just sent out my package today, and well, there's probably about $600 worth of stuff in it. to me... : g0nk
  • Who got a PSP this year? I got mine last year. CPT. KEN IS AWESOME : Deathlove
  • Whoever has me, don't listen to above post. Send me money and lots of expensive gadgets. : hirosushima
  • If you don't want it anymore, whats the diff? : Slowtreme
  • That's not what the WE description says, you can't be faulted really if you send "cheap" stuff. Some peo... : dael
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    I sent stuff I don't want. Stuff I don't want is effectively "junk" that just takes up space. White Ele... : omnova
    • ^^ bingo. It's a great way to get rid of stuff that has enough value you don't want to throw it away, but... : Megara9
    • ^^ me too. I send games I don't want, or whatever. It may be worth something, but if it's just sitting ar... : DOOManiac
  • I try to send at least a few possibly usable items, a box full of complete junk pretty much negates the p... : acidnynex
  • I didn't overthink it, but I did feel like I had too *little* to send (quantity not quality), so I did pu... : d fluke
  • I dunno. Maybe next year YOU'LL be the person who opens an awesome WE with an Atari 2600 and lots of game... : AxeMan808
  • For me, the most important thing is actually receiving something. It could be a broken toaster (which wou... : Mmmmmoo
  • I sent a bunch of junk, plus an item I had fun making and knew my WE would really dig. I think it's a lo : nurglich
  • If I don't want my PSP anymore I don't see the problem in passing it on to some shacker. I got rid of som... : zakazi
  • Maybe for some. None of the ones I saw seemed pricey at all. I sent %100 just - it just happens that than... : node
• I've both sent and received mine (and I noticed mine has been received), but my WE sender's name doesn't ... : Vincent Grayson
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  Mine's being sent out today. I meant to do it the week before Xmas but i got busy and then i got lazy. : boredguy
  • It's sent and.... i'm spent. : boredguy
• option to reveal the person? f that, show them all on 3-1 or something. : onji
• I have mine packed up but hasn't sent it yet. Probably won't be able to until around the 15th sadly. : uglysad
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  According to the tracking number on the package I sent. It was received on X-mas day. USPS is amazing. : aggro crag
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    usps does not show tracking once it hits the facility. : Iwannaacura
    • one does not simply view tracking into mordor : proclone1
    • I'm dumb. : aggro crag
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  i'd give people another 15-20 days. : dahanese
  • lol are you fuckin kidding? how long have people had again? : the city
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  Still waiting on mine, or for my buddy to acknowledge that he received his (UPS states it was delivered o... : Ely
  • Yesh :P I'll do it now : chungathebunga
• I saw that I was going to be linked up with someone that was on the same level as me (I sent one out, but... : goatjc
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  I forgot! I'm sending my '07 one out next week, I'll try to get the '08 one out as well. I just cle... : fleabug
  • ha holy shit better late than never : MurrayTheSkull
• I must ship on a day when it might not freeze before reaching Florida. : Rich McNinch
• 31st sounds good to me - I've not sent mine yet as I had to wait on some things that arrives yesterday so... : jbury
• 31st is good, mine is going out today and it has a x-men popup book! : shortbuscaptain
• i click on all your google ads teehee : packav
• Just updated my info, I've received and sent my WE. : acidnynex
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  I sent mine BEFORE christmas at least! : mesabo
  • I sent mine before 2009! : deject
• I sent mine out over 2 weeks ago - my WE hasn't marked it as received or posted about it, and this makes ... : alnya
• To my white elephanter, I'm in New Zealand till Jan 9th. It's being delivered to my aunt+uncle's place, w... : crummynz
• To my WE: been away from my apt., gonna send when I return next week. : pandasrus
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  Not sending it before christmas is kinda weak : node
  • yeah I don't really see participating until they back the whole thing up a month : Downforce
• Ratalon and I have both shipped ours. Ratalon's got to [fry] safely but mine hasn't marked it as received... : Galadriel07

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  sounds like you need a Mac. : g0nk
  • Dammit! My girlfriend's laptop doesn't have shacklol installed... : heartsauce
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  The ability to turn the quicklaunch bar into a mini menu. Instead of having 2 icons for games, have a sin... : Dynotaku
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    you can fake this by resizing the quick launch bar so it has no icons showing, then just use the >> chevr... : electroly
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      But I want a big pretty icon. :( : Dynotaku
      • there's always the start button :P : electroly
      • ugh theres some third party tool for this that my friend uses so it looks like a mac quicklaunch thing. ... : dantastic
      • Baby, you already have one :-) : HighSpeedChase
  • you can do that natively. If you add a folder to the toolbar and fill that folder with shortcuts, and th... : Halen
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  i dont understand what you mean by 3. it always installed drivers for my stuff, then goes online to see ... : ibrokn
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    When you are installing a fresh copy of windows XP? : risimage
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      yes, when i install a fresh copy of windows. which i've done quite a few times. if it has the driver on... : ibrokn
      • Cdkey check / Windows registration. : doomed
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  VIRTUAL DESKTOPS DAMN IT. : DrWaffles
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    has been available in the windows powertoys for years and years : electroly
    • Available and Effective are two different things. I think he meant Effective Virtual Desktops. : esecasco
  • enjoy http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx nvidia had it built into their dri... : sigpro
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    what's a virtual desktop? : edgewise
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      I mean, isn't your PC already a virtual desktop? : edgewise
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        the ability to have multiple desktops each with different backgrounds, icons and stuff like that. : sigpro
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          can't you just make different user accounts on a single machine? : edgewise
          • the whole point is you can quickly switch between them, so you can have each virtual desktop have your wi... : electroly
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            Here's an example - it's easier to see it to understand what it is - http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ : mroizo40
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              I see. Does that program work well in emulating it? : edgewise
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                VirtuaWin is ugly, but it works well. The bigger point is about having a quad-monitor setup, without h... : Dan[WSB]
                • Id rather just have the 4 monitors. Oh wait, I do. : rosewood
  • Isn't this coming w/ Windows 7? I probably am wrong but I for some reason am thinking I heard this som... : DOOManiac
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  Don't worry, Windows 7 will have all those... not : davidc02
  • PARTY ON DAVIDC02! : SockMonkeh
  • PSYCHE! : ermac
• Drag and drop things in the taskbar without a third party app. : freshyk
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  Handle slashes correctly. A complete rewrite of cmd.exe so it was worth a damn. Remove the need to ins... : ZombieAcademy
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    what do you mean by #1? you mean for path separators? i think you'll find that / has always worked, sin... : electroly
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      I've had situations where it doesn't always handle them correctly, mostly in file dialogues where it says... : ZombieAcademy
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        Oh yeah, Windows that aren't resizable for no good reason. Like the Environment Variables window. WTF? : ZombieAcademy
        • completely agreed on that one, and the browse for folder dialog : electroly
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    Powershell is the complete rewrite of CMD.EXE. It is way better than the bare cmd.exe. Should be standard... : mroizo40
    • It's installed by default on the GUI Server 08 and Vista but not on Server Core because it needs .Net to ... : melkore
    • still can't ctrl+v in powershell iirc :( : gokart.
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    What do I install to keep my windows on top? This bugs the shit out of me. : elwood00
    • powermenu : d fluke
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  There are tools to pretty much do the first item on your list....the second makes no sense, the third is ... : devnullgt
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    all unixes will do #4, if I understand what he means : jcupitt
    • (erm, ie. root can su to any user without needing their passwd) : jcupitt
• Wait, so for your base image you don't reinstall the OS, you just trust the uninstallers to clean out the... : umcpwintermute
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  The first 3 are nice and easy in Ubuntu. As for the 4th You should be able to batch create users thr... : melkore
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    I just reread #4. Do you have floating profiles? If you don't then that's your solution. I can log on ... : melkore
    • Read again. That's not what he meant. : doomed
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  How 'bout something simple like LET ME SET THE DETAILS VIEW COLUMNS I WANT FOR ALL FOLDERS without me hav... : mn3m0n1c
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    Ah, had this with Vista, but there is a registry fix to *actually* reset it, so it remembers the new stuf... : d fluke
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      PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT IS. This drives me nuts. : skinlab133
      • http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html : d fluke
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      I'd just like to be able to open a folder, choose the details columns I want (NAME, TYPE, SIZE, DATE CREA : mn3m0n1c
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        Apply to all folder is there, it just fucks up sometimes and you need THIS to reset it all once: http://b... : d fluke
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          In XP Pro at least, "Apply to all folders" DOES NOT APPLY CUSTOM COLUMN LAYOUTS in Details view - it only... : mn3m0n1c
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            O wait! Your post prompted me to search again - apparently I have a Group Policy problem which is prevent... : mn3m0n1c
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              This is the cool part of troubleshooting whatever; When you figure out what the problem *actually* is, th... : d fluke
              • Yeah. Also, FIXED! It was a GP setting - I copied it from the admin account to mine et voila' :D : mn3m0n1c
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    That takes 3 seconds to set globally... but it is annoying when you set a couple thousand to thumbnails, ... : KxRook
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      Not in XP unless I'm missing something - I can set up a folder just how I want it (see above), but even T : mn3m0n1c
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        Hmm, well I cant verify this as I'd lose my thousands of Thumbs presets so I'll take your word for it. ... : KxRook
        • No, turns out it's supposed to - my login has a permissions/group policy problem, maybe. Just logged in a... : mn3m0n1c
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  4: Log on as the user, or have proper logon scripts in place, you never need to log on as a user for init... : d fluke
  • ^^^ risimage is just doing it wrong : nadasurf2
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  I would like dual wallpaper support for dual monitors natively. : IgnoramusSA
  • I wouldn't mind this either! : RevRaven
  • You can fake it by making a wallpaper 2x as wide and setting position to Tile. Requires some work in P... : DOOManiac
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  That bullshit startup page when you install or run IE7 for the first time needs to go. You know the one ... : treefingers1
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    You can script that out for a domain easily. This is the reg settings I use. I hope it doesn't shackta : rosewood
    • These are or the reg file I use Damn subject verb agreement : rosewood
    • Grammatical fuckups aside, that is incredibly handy. Thanks! : treefingers1
    • It needs to go away from home installs too though. I hate it as well. : DOOManiac
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  1) Clean master images restored with acronis are your best friend. You could also script the uninstallers... : rosewood
  • 1) We just moved to Microsoft's SCCM and OS deployment. So far it's been pretty nifty, and the ability to... : mmogger
• If Windows had Expose and Spaces that were as smooth as those on my macbook pro, I might go back. I miss ... : ConfusedUs
• 5. Give me a blowjob 6. Cook me a steak : ColoradoCNC

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  i thought everyone knew it was a marketing thing. : CoRDS
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    The giant "STRIDE GUM" logo is what tipped me off. : deject
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      yeh and the new ones are all master card or visa or something. who really cares the dude got paid to do a... : CoRDS
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        I'm totally jealous of him, I know I'll never go to a tenth of the places he's been to. : deject
        • Exactly. I don't care how he got the funding for the subsequent videos after the first one, I'm just jeal... : ColoradoCNC
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          He says in the above video that he didn't go anywhere. It's allegedly all green-screen. : action roommate
          • Did you watch the whole thing? : boredguy
          • AR, your sarcasm detector is utterly broken. It is lying in a smoldering pile of plastic and toxic fumes... : deject
    • i never noticed a logo : Slowtreme
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    It wasn't. I know someone that filmed the first one in Vietnam. It started as an off the cuff thing and g... : Fred Garvin
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      Oh Fred. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        What? That's the way it happened. It got to the point where he ran out of money and got a sponsor. He sta... : Fred Garvin
        • Never mind my post. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  har har the video is 13:37 long. Seriously though, that video would be incredibly hard to fake. : deject
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    Yeah but what if you used photoshop : crummynz
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      then we could tell by the pixels : GloriousCow
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        But what if you didnt use any pixels huh?!?!?!? : alphablu
        • The shadows hurrrr : rosewood
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  I hadn't seen the most recent one, that's just awesome. Those videos are always incredibly uplifting for ... : ColoradoCNC
  • also, lol at the little kid doing the 1880s prospector dance in Sydney : ColoradoCNC
• Ellen DeGeneres is also gay. I know, I was stunned too. : Godhatesfatpeople
• He sounds really pissed off at the talk, but the end was cool. : zehh
• Cool you can buy the song on itunes now. : ShekkyBoy
• sure it's a nice video and everything, but boy is he really milking it. : trelain
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  I want to dance too :( : dognose
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    i'll dance with you, dognose. : Korban
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      Are you coming to QuakeCon? We can dance then maybe and I bet mr.sleepy would dance with us :( : dognose
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        i'll dance with any shackers who ask. =( : mindmann
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          Let's organize something :( : dognose
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            what kind of dancing do you do, dognose? : mindmann
            • http://www.wattsdigital.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/snoopy_dance.jpg : dognose
      • as of now, i plan on coming down for QCon, so yes, we can dance then. : Korban
• FYI, the song is praan by garry schyman. good tune. : gdestiny
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  I only saw the original video a long time ago and I thought it was real :( The internet saddens me somet... : sammyjojo
  • Did you watch the video or just read his comment? : neokolonial
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  Yeah Im pretty sure this was known for a while. Though his take on it is pretty funny. : two50six
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    What was known? : Fred Garvin
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      that it was viral marketing. Its about as real as the Blair Witch. : two50six
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        and by real as in He traveled around at his own volition, for nothing other than to dance, which is not t : two50six
        • He wasn't paid at the start, he eventually got a sponsor which is different then viral marketing because ... : Fred Garvin
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  Viral marketing for what? : Jiven
  • for travel and dance lessons : Sixcos
  • Flu shots : Zzap
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  That is so sad : sikander
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    Did you watch the video? : Fred Garvin
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      spoil it for me Fred, I don't have 13+ minutes. : edgewise
      • The video is real. He is making fun of youtube commenters saying it was fake : asylumn
• Either this thread (and the internet as a whole) is full of confused people or the sarcasm is going throu... : SilverSnake
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  It's sarcasm guys. Watch the whole video. : persecutor
  • Or read the whole OP : rosewood
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  this whole thread is a clusterfuck of confusion. I blame you fred for the misleading thread title. : ventro
  • lol'd at clusterfuck usage. : XchumpoX

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  I didn't make one, but my current gaming resolution is *lamejokeremoved* to buy most of my games on steam... : avatar_58
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    I went a little nuts with the steam sale. I bought a few things I probably won't ever play (Multiwania I... : Horn
    • Well see games like Psychonauts and Painkiller I rebought because I know damn well the amount of discs an... : avatar_58
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  I completely destroyed my resolution by beating 5 games this year. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id... : Evil Benius
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    That is 45 bleh. : Evil Benius
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      I was wondering how going for 5 destroyed 20. : Horn
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        yea, 5 is way too low.. Have you see his xbox gamer score lately? I swear he finishes a game a day. : metalremains
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          Well have you seen the games he's been playing lately? They aren't the hardest ones ever. : sigpro
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            A whopping two games were not that hard. : Evil Benius
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              3, lego star wars isn't that hard along with your other two games. Good news for me is You'll be ahead o... : sigpro
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                True, but it still takes longer to get everything compared to the other two. : Evil Benius
                • This is true. Batman is pretty easy so far to get everything. I could probably finish all the achievement... : sigpro
• I plan on playing more WoW. : g0nk
• it needs to be done: i increased my resolution from 1440x900 to 1920x1200 with no regrets. samsung 24... : dantastic
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  I went from 1360x768 to 1680x1050 and never looked back. : jingletard
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    Yeah i've been using 1680x1050. It's my desktop res etc. Going from 1024x768 was hard at first, was wtf a... : Ziz
    • 1680x1050 eftydubb : CyCo_PL
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    1680x1050 to 1920x1200 here. Definitely don't want to go back. : electroly
    • I miss using my 32" HDTV as my monitor, and this new 22" I got is a shitty TN panel, but I actually need... : jingletard
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    1440x900 is my resolution of choice. Because it's non-native to my monitor it offers a kind of natural AA... : dumb.
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      hahahaha : Vantage
      • Yeah it's sad :( I need to get a 4870. Time to start selling my body again. : dumb.
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    1280x1024, bitches!! : datoo
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      datoo this is the resolution of choice for cool dudes. you and i are both cool dudes. : DrFlammable
      • Spectating you in TF2 would make my eyes bleed. : Cliffzorz
      • high five!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : datoo
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      Also the native resolution of my monitor, I don't want to spend the money for a monitor + video card that... : aethyr
      • er, that a super-high res would require. : aethyr
  • I stayed the same, from 1920x1200 to 1920x1200. The true differences happened on the inside though, I we... : esecasco
  • 1280x960 to 1920x1080 here. : TrptJim
  • I went 24" so it's 1920x1200 for me now. L4D looks so nice. : RogerDandy
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  Buy fewer, better games that are more tailored towards my interests. Success. I bought very few new g : omnova
  • Ok I didn't really buy fewer games but they were mostly all good games so close enough. : omnova
• Not well at all. I still bought a few games even though I haven't finished the ones I own. Problem (good ... : lacker
• While I didn't make any resolutions, I did only get 4 games this year and I finished all 4 of them. : Dante
• i need to stop buying so many games, and actually finish the ones i DO buy. : maulla
• haha I did exactly what I said. :( : tomservo
• I was to beat no more than one new game every three months. "New game" is defined as a game that I had n... : Medieval Barber
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  How 'bout something simple like LET ME SET THE DETAILS VIEW COLUMNS I WANT FOR ALL FOLDERS without me hav... : mn3m0n1c
  • How did this get here? dammit... : mn3m0n1c
• "Build a computer capable of playing the games I want to play/find a 360 FPS that doesn't make me think e... : Deathlove
• I finally finished through Ocarina of Time... so I win. : Tawler
• My goal was to finish 30 games in '08, but I only finished 11. I blame that on deployment. My new goal... : Magus
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  16x10 here : FPSDavid
  • Funny and original! : Horn
• I did receive my copy of Gears of War (thx geedeck!) but couldn't get it working :( : Dave-A
• 1920X1200 4 lyfe! : jimvolk
• "gaming resolutions"? : the city
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15900890#itemanchor_15900890 terrible. i did beat mass effect, but... : re4ctor
• Good thing I didn't make any, as I would have failed miserably. : dopeman

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• Wait you're blaming your failure on other people? I'm confused. You live and you learn, that's progres... : kpxkrnjc
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  not looking up info about a fight you've never seen is ignorant. : NexusOne
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    ^^^ Nothing is more frustrating than having someone who says "how was I supposed to know that?" There ar... : SenorSpine
    • Unofficial resources available outside of the game. From a raider prospective I completely understand th : Wombat Woo
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      This is what I don't like about MMO's. You can quest around all you want but there's always some best wa... : Lunaran
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        Plus if you come in at the last second in a PUG, you may not have a chance to do internet research. I'm... : Phil
        • pug raids are generally fail anyway. if it were a guild run of something important and not yesterday's g... : electroly
        • Because 90% of people completely ignore them. Seriously, if you haven't lead a raid you don't understand ... : SenorSpine
    • I think the inverse is true, refusing to share info and tips just because it's elsewhere on the internet ... : Richese
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    this subthread is one reason why i don't play anymore : dantastic
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      is it so hard to google "prince strategy" and skim the first result for a few minutes before doing the fi... : electroly
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        i wouldnt even know there is a prince in wherever you said. i used to play for fun. i was in a guild th... : dantastic
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          i don't see what's serious business about saying "i don't know this fight, can someone explain it?" or br... : electroly
          • Especially in a 5man, because any given boss's abilities can be summarized in 30 words or less. : Entity
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            how do you scan the wiki page if someone asks you to come roll the instance with them spontaneously? i a... : dantastic
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              is alt-tab broken on your computer? it takes literally seconds to pull up the wowwiki page : electroly
              • and nobody who matters is going to knock you if you say "brb, reading the strat" : electroly
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                ive found since switching to vista 64 that alt tabbing out of games has bad results :( : dantastic
                • I run Vista64 and can't say I've had any issues. Works way better than trying to alt-tab out of a Source... : electroly
                • Run the game in windowed mode but set the resolution to the max resolution of your display, you loose the... : Richese
            • if you're not sure what you're getting into you shouldn't waste other people's time. : tcxsnoop
      • It's a double edged sword for sure. I'm open about my ignorance on first attempts. But that's often met w... : Entity
    • Me too pretty much. Elitists who treat the game like a job. Ooh, lets memorize every encounter and never... : nukewinter
    • I've played MMOs for a very long time, and I've learned to just play it as a game. I don't let idiots rui : Frozen Pixel
  • Any game I have to hit wikipedia on should DIAF. : Rauol Duke
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  lol ret : Downforce
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    I assume you haven't played in a while? : kpxkrnjc
    • He logs in and sexually harasses me in guild chat, but no ones ever seen him play. He's like a leprechau... : Phil
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  why did your raid have 5 pally's wtf. : Iwannaacura
  • This is what I was thinking. : Phil
  • the other 5 were DKs : Downforce
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    And why are you in Kara? : Slowtreme
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      I miss Kara :( By the end of BC we weren't even trying any more, you just pick a random group of 10 peop... : electroly
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        yes but at 80, nothing in there is worthwhile (is there) and if you aren't 80 yet, go level. : Slowtreme
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          of course. but it's still fun, and a nice diversion from the serious business in Naxx/Malygos. plus, i'... : electroly
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            o_O not exalted? : Slowtreme
            • nah I started my pally late in the game, so Wrath was already on the horizon when I started running Kara ... : electroly
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          Achievements be in them thar dungeons! : Frozen Pixel
          • Achievements are cool for those that care about them, but it's so frustrating to have people say they'll ... : Derringer
  • I ran it with 8 druids in it's prime. Good times. : Entity
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    Honestly I don't like this new trend in n00b classes. I've been playing this Paladin since the first pat... : Rotten Deadite
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      there's nothing wrong with paladins; everybody loves pally buffs! it's just excessive to have 5 of them.... : electroly
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        Yeah it was pretty embarassing. I'm proud to say I was the only one of the four ret paladins that was ke... : Rotten Deadite
        • Paladins kick serious ass. I even gave up my TBC epic'ed rogue (some T6, one Warglaive) when WLK came out... : code-e255
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      Uh... what the fuck are you talking about? Paladins are part of the top tier that one would need. Repl... : Shivawn
      • Heh, I honestly didn't know what to think when he said raids didn't want pally's and hunters. Hunters ... : InfoBiter
    • Paladins are very much needed. In fact I can't think of a single other class that we've needed more in sp... : royalally
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  Did you tell everyone in the raid that you'd never done the fight before? Whenever I face something new ... : action wombmate
  • ^^^. I always let the raid know I'm a noob If i've never done it. : g0nk
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    Yeah never be afraid to speak up. There will sometimes be the dickhead that gives you shit, because 1 ou : Phil
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      Yeah, I mean I know sometimes nerds aren't exactly the most social group in the world, but talk to your f... : action wombmate
      • No one should be giving you shit anyway besides your raid leader. He/she is responsible for the actions ... : kpxkrnjc
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    Yup. I was quite forthcoming with my ignorance. But nobody mentioned anything. I don't know why I wa... : Rotten Deadite
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      sounds like they were just assholes, or (and this is equally likely) they too didn't know any better. : electroly
      • Possibly. Most retnoobs throw on SoCommand and hope for the best. SoBlood's the way to go for DPS and (... : Rotten Deadite
  • Yep, when I started leveling the DK and going to instances I just said. 'This is my first time in here... : pancake humper
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  i guarantee everyone else assumed you were an alt and knew the fights. kara is ancient history now. : electroly
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    sup 'troly. Did your FigurePrint survive the new year? Or did she get jammed into some orifice? : action wombmate
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      She bubble hearthed on me when I tried to get freaky. : electroly
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        "Come on baby, I got Blessing of Protection" : kpxkrnjc
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          It's "Hand of Protection" now. : action wombmate
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            was a quote :| but yeah (illegal danish) : kpxkrnjc
            • http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37467 : gia-
• if you don't know wtf you need to ask before the fight starts. : x4nth3
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  why was this bad? : sludge vohaul
  • ae+SoBlood = dead paladin. : rmjackson
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    The Prince uses a debuff that knocks most of the players in melee range (excepting the MT) down to 1 heal... : Rotten Deadite
    • Oh and I should mention that Seal of Blood deals a percentage of damage done back to the Paladin. So I d... : Rotten Deadite
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  YOU FACE NOT MALCHEZAAR ALONE... : atom519
  • BUT THE LEGIONS I COMMAND! : das_runt
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  I have no idea how the most popular MMO can be so unfriendly to casual players. : Jonathan
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    should all bosses just be tank and spank then? prince has a really obvious and easy-to-understand mechan... : electroly
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      It's the whole culture. I mean the LFG/LFM interface looks great but no one seems to use it instead yelli... : Jonathan
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        are we playing the same game? everybody uses LFG, it's always packed with people. i've never seen anyon... : electroly
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          Are we playing the same game? No I must be very dumb. Thanks for making my point. : Jonathan
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            that's not at all what i said dude. i'm just saying LFG does seem to be pretty alive and well from my ex... : electroly
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              Possibly it depends on the server. On Uldaman it's about 50/50. : Rotten Deadite
              • Same on Thrall. When I look for members I check LFG interface first, then go to LFG channel. : Simulacrum
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            haha welcome to the internet. : SenorSpine
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              Oh thanks - is the a goodies bag? : Jonathan
              • It's frustrating but it is in no way specific to world of warcraft. Play any game (or do basically anythi... : SenorSpine
        • are we playing the same game because my experience is the opposite except that people often just use gene... : Richese
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        Myself and everyone else that I know uses it regularly. : atom519
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          Maybe Mal'ganis is just dead then below 25. I gave up using it for group quests after level 20. : Jonathan
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            this explains it. i assumed we were talking about level 60+ or whatever. you get through those first 30... : electroly
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              You missed the casual part of this I guess. : Jonathan
              • level has nothing to do with how casual you're playing, just the length of time that you've played the ga... : electroly
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                The OP was about running Naxx and pugging a 10 man raid. so really it was about context. : Slowtreme
                • err Naxx kara : Slowtreme
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                  Eventually casual players end up in PUGs... : Jonathan
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                    which is why they give you eighty levels of practice before they toss you into the raids. in that time y... : electroly
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                      Yes and no. 80 levels of "practice" won't teach you how to behave in a party. For example, most Ret P... : Rotten Deadite
                      • Imagine, for example, that a player spent most of his time playing his Death Knight in Frost. Now, this ... : Rotten Deadite
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    the game itself is not unfriendly, its the people you play with. Yes a casual player may not know all of ... : maulla
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      it says right on the wowwiki page for prince "Horde Paladins must avoid using Seal of Blood during Phases... : electroly
      • (besides asshole pugs being assholes, of course. everybody fucks up their first time in a new encounter.... : electroly
    • your first line is so true it hurts. I don't know 99% of the fights in WoW but as long as you're familia... : Mr.SEX
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    i can't believe people think any part of WoW is somehow 'unfriendly' boggles the mind : Modica Sol Solis
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      Much of WoW's player base doesn't remember things like EQ1 or UO. : Rotten Deadite
      • no kidding. WHY DO I NOT HAVE QUESTS LEADING ME FROM LEVEL 1 TO 80 : Clay
      • or Asheron's Call...that game was all grinding. :) : Magus
    • There's a difference between unfriendly and easy. The fact that I can still grind my way up 80 without kn... : Jonathan
  • The problem isn't the game so much as the attitude of the players. It's the players that turn wow into a... : nukewinter
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  Why are people still doing kara? : Topaz
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    Why not? I mean it's not old content for everyone. : Jonathan
    • it's inapplicable in wotlk. : Slowtreme
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      Achievements. Funny enough, even though I died during Prince I just waited around and stared at my corps... : Rotten Deadite
      • So long as you don't release, you'll get credit for any raid boss achievement that your group is currentl... : Majuju
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  on a semi-related note, I joined a PUG last night that was actually organized! We killed all 4 leaders o... : pandastrong
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    what server are you on? : Mr.SEX
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      Llane : pandastrong
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        aw man, i'm on malganis >:( : Mr.SEX
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          I have some lowbie character (12 or so) on there that I've been thinking about leveling, since I'm practi... : pandastrong
          • oh hey my character is only level 20! quickly, level it up! : Mr.SEX
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  That is the reason why I don't play MMO anymore. The raiding game is not fun. It's all about knowing ... : razlebol
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    ^ Agreed. I will admit that when WoW first came out, doing MC and BWL was awesome. I miss those days. : pturvz
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      BWL was very tactics-heavy, though. MC allowed for a bit of zerging, but BWL really made raids something ... : code-e255
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        AQ40 made me want to kill babies. So many trash mobs :( : pancake humper
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          i wonder if gcr ever downed twin emps. : xxiv
          • lets not discuss this... : x4nth3
          • negatory : theWhite
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          You know that place had too much trash when it took 9 minutes to corpse run from the entrance to cthun - : action roommate
          • We would all mount up and put one guy on follow making a giant train. : Slowtreme
          • This is one raid i'm glad I never had an opportunity to do. I got through BWL before BC came out and ever... : InfoBiter
          • fucking rock lobster hallway : pancake humper
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    Instancing isn't that fun either because people like to plow through them so fast that I rarely know wtf ... : Richese
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      I agree completely. I like organized pulls and assists and the tank calling out targets. But then again... : Rotten Deadite
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        On the other hand; when you've done an instance two dozen times already it isn't fun to take 2 minutes fo... : InfoBiter
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          What you say makes sense for the higher level instances but I can't think of any good reason that one wou... : Richese
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            I (like most WoW players) completely and entirely discount all the non-80 (and in my case even non-heroic... : InfoBiter
            • i think the old world dungeons are fun since you can solo them. i run stratholme almost every day. that... : electroly
• This game is not worth arguing over. : hirosushima
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  I can sort of relate to that with a recent happening of my my own, in reply: : Derringer
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    I'll start by saying that I'm not a noob to WoW. Played the beta and retail from launch until about 6 mo... : Derringer
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      these threads always remind me of that dude jeht. he was a character. : xxiv
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        I'm not sure if Jeht was good or bad for raiding success, but he certainly kept things lively. : nurglich
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          yeah at times he would have me laughing and at others thinking he was a massive dbag. but he wasn't borin... : xxiv
          • If I ever met that motherfucker in public I would beat the utter shit out of him. He needs it. : Magus
    • Lol, half our raid di that on my first Vault run =) Dude enraged and easily 8 or 9 of us go ghost runn... : InfoBiter
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      I think that thing with dying in the vault and not knowing its a PvP graveyard happened to a hell of a lo... : jayacheess
      • I wasn't the only one who did that, but I was the only one who couldn't be rezzed :P : Derringer
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  sidejack - Leveling; grind or quest? I was able to breeze through 1 -> 20 in the BE newbie areas, but 20... : liqker
  • Questing is much faster. : electroly
  • Questing for sure. In Azeroth proper there are several different zones for every level range; so if you'r... : InfoBiter
  • questing is a ton faster : pandastrong
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    Questing, yes. Get QuestHelper and follow it. : Rotten Deadite
    • Get Carbonite Quest... ok post fixed. : Simulacrum
  • Skip the long ass "x to y back to x" quests and focus on quests that actually involve killing stuff. That... : SenorSpine
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    How is questing to level up not a grind? : HAMGASM
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      Variety? Each quest may involve a bit of grind, but each quest is different. They also progress the sto... : capt tripps
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        Outside some instance quests (Uldaman is still my favorite) I didn't find the quests very engaging. They... : HAMGASM
        • If you aren't reading the quests, you are missing out significantly, especially in Wrath where there is a... : Chod
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  I try to alt-tab before boss fights, but i usually say "what are the tips on this boss? I've never done t... : pun][sher
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    it's generally been my experience that the people who are dicks about that sort of thing are really not a... : electroly
    • I agree with this statement. Even when I was part of a "server first" guild we had those asshats who ... : InfoBiter
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  On sort of a related note - I spent all morning on http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal%27G : Phil
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    hayyyy phil..... I will be playing late tonight if you wanna do some heroics. we got 25 man naxx till 1... : mwasher
    • 5 more emblems for my t7 chest! : mwasher
    • HELLS YES. I'm ready to rock tonight. I should be on around 9 until 2 or 3am. : Phil
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    i expect to see you doing 3000dps while mana starved by the end of the week : electroly
    • I was pulling aggro last night just like the old days! /single tear rolls down cheek : Phil
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    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal'Ganis&n=Manthor Dang. : HAMGASM
    • Truly An American Icon. : Phil
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    You need to get Rawr from http://www.codeplex.com/Rawr because it's so much easier to use than the Armory... : Majuju
    • aw fuck me, there's no warlock version, sorry :( : Majuju
  • serious lack of achievements : japoneez
  • Needs more affliction spec. : xylothan
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  It sucks so many people have such a heavy reliance on "doing it right." What's wrong with running these a... : Trips
  • the issue is generally when everybody has been through that already and now knows how to run the fight, e... : electroly
  • That makes sense for guild runs. It doesn't really make much sense for a PUG. Still, a smartly-run PUG ... : LilCrypto
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    I'm all about the casual five-mans. Well coordinated, slow and steady but efficient. Rogues that know how... : Magus
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      what part of "well coordinated, steady, efficient, rogues with a threat meter, healers paying attention" ... : electroly
      • I'm a 'casual' player, yet I know wtf in group dynamics. That's mostly from being a long time MMO veteran... : Frozen Pixel
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    figuring stuff out with a bunch of people at the same time is fun though. being the only "idiot" who does... : Ziggurat
    • fyi, not referring to the op as an idiot, just that scenario from the perspective of the other players : Ziggurat
• Didn't you and I and xxiv try to start up a little 5-man thing several months ago? Man it'd be awesome if... : Magus

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  ya but can it slice tru a can of tomatoes lol I think not : d fluke
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    wai u speek lolctaz? : dfz0r
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      i iz thunkin' dat iz how tv shop custmR sez stuff lol God. : d fluke
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        ai can has ginsu? : Ride-My-Rocket
        • That shit is known world wide tho. : doomed
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      Whomever came up with lolcatz needs to be dragged into the street, raped by at least 45 people, then left... : JohnnyRey
      • Hey! I think they're fun... wait, whothefuck are these guys, why am I being dragged onto the street, O... : esecasco
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  Yes, but can it cut through a frozen corpse? : stump
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    Can someone answer this please? Preferably within the next 2 hours. : stump
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      But then it won't be frozen : Crimsonbeak
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        Bodies take a long time to defrost. : stump
        • put it in microwave oven : soapland
• Doink! : avatar_58
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  that is a mighty fine and mighty expensive knife. I had a set of Global knives back home and cooking was ... : Supine
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    i still need to get a global knife >:( or a wustoff but i'm leaning more towards the japanese because th... : Mr.SEX
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      I have Wustoff knives and they are nice, but imo they are nothing special. : riptyde
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        they are heavy as shit though and for some reason that gives me the feel of quality. i feel like thi... : Mr.SEX
        • I used to think that way too about matching knives in my set. Then I realized some knives are better from... : focusdaily
  • I got it at half the (danish) list price at a sale bu that was still like 190$ which indeed is a lot of m... : imperator
• you'll shoot your eye out : dirge23
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  See if you can pull off the Crocodile Dundee shaving method : devnullgt
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    I wouldn't have a face if i tried that, but when i washed it up my dishwashing brush lost a lot of hairs ... : imperator
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      Scrub away from the blade, for God's sakes, man! : action wombmate
      • I did ofcourse it wash just a small slip of the hand! : imperator
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  oh man I wish I could afford a nice santoku. I don't even like to cook that much, but I do like some of t... : Dante
  • Make sure you try one out somewhere before you buy it. My wife bought one a few years ago, and quite like... : Gonzo
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  i have a 9" Frederick Dick! : m0rfus
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    They had some nice long Dick's at the shop too, and it was indeed tempting to own a knife called Superior... : imperator
    • soooo...you like dicks too?! : m0rfus
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  If you cut yourself touching the blade I think you were doing it wrong. You go across. : DinK
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    It was more of a prick at the 90 degree angle at the begining of the blade near the handle. It bled plent... : imperator
    • ah. Super sharp knives are safer anyway. You'll be better off going forward. =) : DinK
• Now that's a knife. : magistersmax
• I love knives. That's a nice one you got there. : focusdaily
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  Learn proper knife care, including learning how to hone that knife as well as what not to cut on (hint on... : rosewood
  • ^^^ this post needs more love. It's crucial to keeping a knife in good shape. : naios
  • its not a knife its a f*ckin career! : nrgXs
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    ^ chops his own hollandaise from scratch : riptyde
    • lmao. : thecray
• That is GORGEOUS! : ForestCreature
• This ain't got nothin' on the Slap Chop. : DrFlammable
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  How much??????????? : packav
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    190$ on sale. : imperator
    • for one knife? baller. : xxiv
    • Holy fuck. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • nice, my last knife cost me nearly 300. : naios
    • you could have gotten a pair of jeans for that : sposh
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      lol incoming expensive knife subthread.. seriously though, $190 is waaaay too much to pay for a knife,... : deathofrats
      • for a quality knife like that, which gets used as an all purpose knife, $100-200 is a good price range. : re4ctor
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        You couldn't be more wrong. : rosewood
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          this ignorance disgusts me. : rosewood
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            it's not ignorance, it's a difference in what people value : Halen
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              No. "seriously though, $190 is waaaay too much to pay for a knife, no matter the quality." That is ju... : rosewood
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                i dunno dude every restaurant Ive ever worked in just uses those cheap knives that get replaced every wee... : spector
                • neither is having a bluray player over a dvd player, or an hdtv over a regular standard set, or.... : synapse19
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              true, but not realizing that a high quality knife has value to some people is pretty ridiculous. : Mr.SEX
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                true, I can't argue with that : Halen
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                  well, what can we argue about? : Mr.SEX
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                    The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. : Halen
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                      that's bullshit you're retarded and you don't even know : Mr.SEX
                      • you ignorant fool you have no clue, you're not even worth my time thanks.txt : Halen
          • arguing with yourself again? : Demius
      • /facepalm. : Megara9
      • Just because there's a dollar menu at McDonalds doesn't make everything relative. : grandmasterlee
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        $190 for a quality Chef's knife is quite reasonable. : bRAINsick
        • Yes, it's a *KILLER* deal... : O.J. Simpson : .Jayson
      • I'm using my knife at least 20 hours a week. Having a knife that barely ever goes dull, feels good in my... : naios
      • nope : mwasher
      • not even close : riptyde
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        what a silly thing to say : Mr.SEX
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          no, "The platypus kissed the dancing moose" is a silly thing to say : Juno
          • The moose was asking for it when it decided to get all whored up. : ColoradoCNC
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        I am jumping on the bandwagon to laugh at you even though I know nothing about knifes and their prices. : ShekkyBoy
        • well I will laugh at you for your knife ignorance as well! haha my man, I say haha! : mwasher
      • It's all relative. If you like cutting things, that's a good price for a knife. : dumb.
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        Not true, think of it this way. If you had planed on stabbing someone. Wouldn't you want them to feel imp... : voodooraze
        • "This is great, I can hardly feel you shredding my intestines! Thanks for being so thoughtful, buddy!" : dumb.
      • utterly and completely wrong. if you are serious about cooking and use your knives more than twice a mon... : deject
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        I assume this is because deathofrats only uses his kitchen knife to cut open frozen food packages and Ama... : LilCrypto
        • Don't be silly. I use my 10.0" Kretzer Finny Designers scissors for that stuff. : deathofrats
      • I have a nikfe it cost me 1 millions ddolans : Utopia
      • Ok 2 things, 1. this is denmark stuff is expensive in comparison to the us, 25% sales tax added labour co... : imperator
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        I think he has a point. I maybe spent 40 bux at most on my main kitchen knife that I got from one of tho... : bling1bling
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          ^^^knife porn : bling1bling
          • pix of you licking the blade edge pls. : A Sponge
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          I am finding that it's best to stay out of these 'look at this expensive thing i bought' threads. Both s... : deathofrats
          • it's like where do i start with this post? do i start with dismissing the assumption that there are even... : Mr.SEX
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            Bullshit. A good knife has its value in the right hands. This moral relativism has no place here. : rosewood
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              I would be interested to see a blind test of a lot of these things, because I think you'd find that a lot... : SenorSpine
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                A blind knife test? The expensive one is the one you don't feel when you cut off your thumb. : DarkWolf5
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                  What is strange about the idea of having people test knives and pick their favourite without knowing the ... : SenorSpine
                  • I was making a joke about a literally blind knife test. Measuring the difference in knives is not dif... : DarkWolf5
              • maybe most people wouldn't be able to tell a difference, but if you're intimately familiar with some acti... : Mr.SEX
          • bullshit. : hamachi
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          1) that still isn't that great a knife. it's better than what you had before but still not good. it's c... : hamachi
          • honing makes such a difference though! with my cheap little 20 dollar knife i have, i used to hone it fo... : Mr.SEX
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        The price is common enough that you can walk into any regular cooking store and see knives at those price... : dopeman
        • meh my cooking set from the 1 dollar store is just as good! : DarkWolf5
      • Clearly you have never used a nice knife before. The difference in quality is absolutely amazing when yo... : timmie
      • Not necessarily. If you do a huge amount of cooking and cutting you'll end up saving money over the lifes... : ColoradoCNC
      • hahahahahah no a good knife makes everything so much easier in the kitchen. if you care about f... : hamachi
      • It never fails that, every time something expensive is discussed on the Shack, some random poster will sh... : lookitzpancakes
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      Damn I bought 2 sets of ronco knives for a fraction of that, and these fuckers work great. https://ww... : voodooraze
      • Yeah, they work great now. : bRAINsick
      • I bought a sharp as Woverine's claws Santoku knife at Target for $6. It's starting to dull a little now, ... : Dynotaku
    • That's not a bad price, actually. : Rice-Rocketeer
• Bet you wish you had a Nakiri though. : PoopStewart
• wow, look at the hamon on that blade, awesome! : Majuju
• Knifes like this are really excellent at slicing through human flesh : Moonraker7
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  a sharp knife makes things so much nicer in the kitchen, even if you're just chopping up an onion : snicker-snack 2
  • especially if it's an onion; the sooner I'm done with that bitch, the better : proclone1
• thats sex to me right there. UNF : happynoodle
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  I have to admit, I like Cutco knives a lot... you'd be surprised at how well they work in most condition... : Postal
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    :( They work well initially due to the factory-sharpened edge but once they dull it's just an overpriced ... : LilCrypto
    • their best knives are the ones with the pseudo-serrated edges - that's at least more likely to continue c... : Postal
• Lets see it saw through a cinder block then ill be impressed.. And get the ShamWOW guy to do it. : alphablu
• I would surely cut my finger off with that thing. : father_crown
• noice, i got me some Kyocera ceramics, its the shiznit; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_knife : deviantpaul
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  You're in for one hell of a ride. : ashkie
  • HAHAHA I love this post. : Slowtreme
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    lol. Welcome to the world of cutting. : ZombieAcademy
    • cutting board is life : alphablu
• I HAVE VERMIN TO KILL : johnny rotten
• I take pleasure in guttin' you....boyyyyyyiiiiiieuuuuuahhhhhhh : two50six
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  So........how often do you guys wash your knives? I'm a once a month kinda guy. : Drewus
  • You never wash them. Just febreze them. : guido anchovy
  • Any time I cut meat with them. : riptyde
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    I wash mine by swinging them through the air really really fast. : pilgrimage
    • soapy air works best : Enigme
    • i do this too. if the knife is as sharp as it should be, it will split the oxygen atoms, and the resultin... : mindmann
  • It depends on how often I cut something with them. I usually go 5 or 6 times through raw chicken before w... : Caboose
  • I hang it out to dry if I have to cut through anything smokey, you know, fish, ham, pork, what have you. ... : Drakoniac
  • ... after every use? Why would you not wash it regularly? If I didn't wash my chef's knife for a week : action roommate
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    what? you don't wash your knives off after you cut food? : edgewise
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      I think i'm now realizing it's a stab @ the jeans thread thing. : action roommate
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        sharp observation. : edgewise
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          you might say Drewus has a cutting wit. : action roommate
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            this subthread is the cutting edge in humor : mrvandelay
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              At least everyone gets the point, Mr. Cleaver : action wombmate
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                I was gonna take a stab at posting in this pun subthread, but figured I didn't have a sharp enough wit : ColoradoCNC
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                  this shit is going to push me over the edge : mmogger
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                    STAB STAB STAB : Horn
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                      yikes, things are getting dicey in this subthread. : Mister Groin
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                        Cut it out you guys! : bRAINsick
                        • Blades of Glory was a funny movie. : iamgoat
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      You cut your food? You barbarian, mutilating your meals. Leave it how it comes out of the oven. : Bamtan
      • Real men don't even chew. : ColoradoCNC
  • lol : indosauros
  • lol, perfect. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • hahaha. As often as I wash my hair or jeans! : slickdoody
  • ugh, i spilled ketchup on my knife : mwasher
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    Me too. Although the schedule changed recently because i was at some party on Thursday night at 2 p.m. an... : Snuffles-
    • This post made me laugh more than the original. : aaarrrgh
  • hahahahahaha : Chris Remo
  • never, i keeps it rustic : johngloid
  • ahahahaha. Well done! : afrochops
  • hahahas : ateam311
  • I like to cut with the same part of the knife over and over to get a nice wear pattern on it. : bRAINsick
  • Lol : Dontdrop
• Next up: FIRE BAD! : jingletard
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  I'd love to buy a nice knife like that but I'm married..and seeing her with that in her hand isn't for me... : peter
  • When she is finally tired of your shit, do you really want her using something dull? : DarkWolf5
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  Oh ya, definitely. The GF got me a slicer from Global and that thing is razor sharp - even after quite a... : action roommate
  • i love my global knives : CoRDS
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  That's an awesome knife. Such a knife should not be used in the kitchen but rather for the hunt and the ... : sKetchflow
  • lol. : Squirrely
  • haha : DOOManiac
• A couple months ago, tried out Shun, Global, Wustoff, and Henckle knives and ended up going with the Henc... : ChibiJosh
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  Hey are you supposed to tip your Knife Reseller? How much? : jigstah
  • Depends, did you buy the knife before or after the circumcision? : yosemiteclimber
• TOJIROOOOO!! : the archvile
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  I was a chef de partie for a year in a 3 michelin stars restaurant and we all used 15€ knives. True sto... : melt_core
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    Yeah but you guys probably got them in bulk for bulk prices. : bRAINsick
    • Still were shitty supermarket knives.. : melt_core
• this knife is the fucking bomb esp for the money: http://www.amazon.com/R-H-Forschner-Victorinox-8-Inch-F... : ninjase

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• Rome : indosauros
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  The Wire and Deadwood. : A Sponge
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    Oddly enough, both are also bad porn names. : dmason
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      They sound like perfect porn names to me! : A Sponge
      • It is tough to find movies for the necromicropenii enthusiast. : stgulik
  • Another vote for The wire here. : ysbreker
• The west wing Dexter Six feet under The wire Lost Bsg : empathe
• The Wire and The Shield. : Deathlove
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  Dexter : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Another vote for Dexter - all 3 seasons are good. : c_man_tmt
  • listen to MBD There is no way you will disappointed. : Thisispol
  • I third this motion : doomed
  • I"ll go ahead and be number 4 in this "I agree with MBD" subthread. : monikerdaven
  • The second and third seasons aren't out on DVD yet though? : Perturbation
• I watch The Unit to get through the nights I don't care about story or plot. In the more recent seasons, ... : Zolneirz
• Have you ever seen Babylon 5? Watch Babylon 5. Season 3-4 are fantastic, 1 is all about the build up and ... : Sailor of Fortune
• Carnivale Generation Kill (only 7 episodes, but it's hilariously awesome) : -=kodiak=-
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  Lost. : Ellissd
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    ^^^ working my way through S3 now : .Jayson
    • Suckiest one yet, the fourth will blow you away, though. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Freaks and Geeks. : stgulik
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : tangles
• Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men, Californication : stump
• Weeds (though season 4 was weak, it was still pretty damn good) : Korban
• Rome, BSG (It's a drama/political/romance show that just happens to be set on a spaceship), West Wing, Ca... : ColoradoCNC
• Rome ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT The first 4 season of The West Wing Californication The Shield The Wire T : Marauder IIC
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  entourage is great : mr.sleepy
  • Agreed. : Ellissd
• Well if you liked Firefly you may like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the show is great once you get past the ... : jlboyd132321
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  The Shield. Burn Notice. Maybe you can find that one season of Over There. : AxeMan808
  • OH. I finally watched all of Band Of Brothers over New Year's (Thanks, DM7!). I had seen like 6-7 of the... : AxeMan808
• That 70's Show : SMBYourFather
• Rome and Deadwood : kill9
• Californication, Deadwood, Dexter, Generation Kill, Rome, Freaks & Geeks : Drewus
• Rome is awesome, too bad it only had 2 seasons. : TabsAZ
• LOST! : pun][sher
• Dexter, The Shield and Veronica Mars : marmite
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  Weeds, it's fantastic. I'm on Season 3 right now. Cliffhanger episode endings FORCE you to watch; it's gr... : lookitzpancakes
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    30 minute episodes really help keep your interest through the entire show : Korban
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      Im addicted to this show as well, and it's Korban's fault : devnullgt
      • I love the word "addicted" when describing your relation to that show. : sukabljat
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        SUCK IT! SUCK IT HARD!!!! did you get through season 4 yet? : Korban
        • yea, I'm all caught up : devnullgt
  • Yes, i got addicted to it a few days ago. I'm on season 3 now. : radicus
• Six Feet Under, Californication, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica. : iamgoat
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  Lost, Dexter and The Wire have been my favourite tv shows in the last few years. : boredguy
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    I'm having a hard time contemplating that The Wire ended 9 months ago. Damn. :( : Bamtan
    • Yeah, i think it was the right choice to end it but knowing there'll never be a new episode to watch suck... : boredguy
• Weeds : the city
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  Twin peaks? : baconisgod
  • I just discovered PlayOn media server and am watching this from my living room on Hulu right now. So lon... : nurglich
  • Yes twin peaks is an awesome show. : Perturbation
• Sons of Anarchy is surprisingly good. I wasn't interested in it because I thought, 'Motorcycles? eh...' a... : Frozen Pixel
• Battlestar Galactica Weeds Breaking Bad Spooks Life on Mars (BBC) Jekyll Sports Night The West Win... : Wheatloaf
• The Wire is without hyperbole the best show ever made. : hawkeye
• Rome and Veronica Mars : pupismyname
• watch dexter you tool : spaceyme

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• agreed. i'm playing through sp again on the hardest diff. once I get my xbox back. : PoopStewart
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  get ready to cry veteran = ragequit mode : Iwannaacura
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    It actually has nothing on World at War on veteran. : sigpro
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      absolute 100% truth. even though i beat WaW on veteran much more quickly than COD4 (which was the firs... : -=kodiak=-
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        I'm on the 2nd to last mission right now, where you have to storm the reichstag. Just took out the 4 88's... : sigpro
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          hahah it took me a LONG time to figure that out. Theres an unexplained hidden way how to do this. I figur : -=kodiak=-
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            One thing treyarch needs to work on and they have been bad since cod3 is fucking checkpoint placement. : sigpro
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              the way that they give you checkpoints in world at war is beyond stupid. You could get 1 or 2 back to bac... : -=kodiak=-
              • oh fuck the start of that level took me like 50 tries as I went for using just the flame thrower achievem... : sigpro
  • Seriously, I was expecting the marine parts to be hard, but God damn these grenade spammin' motherfuckers... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Agreed, one of my favorite SP games ever. (MP actually broke me of CS:S but that's another thread) : cheesefubar
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  i think the part where your chopper gets taken down by the nuke and you slowly die is one of the best and... : maulla
  • totally agreed. i remember that part sent a weird shiver up my arm. i was like "wait... no way... no wa... : greydog
  • yes, I was in total "wtf" mode. : foo
  • yeah, it was wow. : bombay
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    Unfortunately I got that part spoiled before I played it myself. :( : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • same... took a little of the edge off when I got to it.. but it was still a great scene none the less : Demius
• I'm working through it now. It is short....and I don't want it to end. : Mrc32
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  why the hell didn't you play the single player on the 360? and why did you buy a game you already owned : OrkO
  • Well, I normally wouldn't do that - however I got it for the 360 because I wanted to play online with my ... : foo
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  what are your Mac specs? : johngloid
  • 21" imac, current gen, added a gig of ram though : foo
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  I have to be that guy again and point out the lame infinite enemy spawning cheap bullshit, other than tha : d fluke
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    i noticed that only happens when you don't push forward and do what you're "supposed" to do : foo
    • I know, it's still lame. : d fluke
    • That's pretty much the entire game : Sailor of Fortune
    • What you're "supposed" to do seems to often be something retarded like "charge headlong into enemy fire".... : Arcanum
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    It's funny that L4D kind of does this too, but no one complains about that. : aethyr
    • It's generally not nearly as frequent or aggravating. : omnova
    • because they are *supposed* to be zombies :) and in L4D you can actually clear out the areas compeltel... : johngloid
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      i hated cod4 for the endless spawning. i thought you were supposed to clear out the area before advancing... : Mmmmmoo
      • It's not a tactical shooter.. : sigpro
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        cod games have never been tactical. its just as run and gun as any other action game, just in a more real... : maulla
        • i meant to put it in quotation marks because i don't know what else to call it. military themed action ga... : Mmmmmoo
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    That was cheap and something I hated since CoD2. You guys were complaining about that in Far Cry 2? This ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      I don't find it bad in cod4 on anything but veteran because one you go though an area it's fucking clear ... : sigpro
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        it's a shooting gallery. no tactics required. they might as well put you on rails the whole game and just... : pyide
        • Not sure what difficulty you played on but the game is more or less on rails as it's a point A to point B... : sigpro
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          What bugs me about it is that if there are a dozen bad guys in one building and only two of them are shoo... : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • The games really aren't meant to be played on veteran it's a great feeling to be able to beat them on it ... : sigpro
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            This game has practically no AI, it's all scripted events. : Sailor of Fortune
            • I think the script only has a few lines of code that say throw grenades, then throw more at the player an... : sigpro
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          Play through the final stage on Veteran and tell me there are no tactics involved. Yes, the game is very ... : ColoradoCNC
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            I didn't say anything about higher difficulties. But it's almost exactly the same only instead of you bei... : pyide
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              Not that there's anything wrong with that. It can be fun sometimes, especially in a game that's as well d... : pyide
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                Understandable. I just liked COD4 because it felt to me like it did a great job of straddling the line be... : ColoradoCNC
                • Yes. Also because it's not_another_fucking_world_war_two_fps. I mean fuck, we can only rehash this so... : foo
                • My biggest gripe with it is how they leveraged military advisors to make everything more 'authentic'. ... : Sailor of Fortune
      • Clearly it was my idle buttplay inbetween headshots that was ruining the game : d fluke
  • yep im done with SP in these games. i only bought CoD 5 because it was 20 bucks off on a boxing day sale... : dantastic
• I just played it recently too. I did a braindump about it but that got ER'd... nothing insightful :-) so... : Johnny Law
• i wish COD4's price would drop to something reasonable on steam. Even last weeks sale wasn't enough. : jayares
• Easily my favorite game of the past few years. So much fun. The multi on live is so fun that I played i... : FormerHPB
• It is rather good. Although, like with WaW, your squad mates are so useless it's infuriating. I'm sick of... : Snuffles-
• Agreed. One of my favorite campaigns ever. : Ormsbee
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  Was the Mac port good? I gifted it to my sisters BF. : enyakk
  • It's perfect. Runs great : foo
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  I've been trying to play COD4 online on the 360 (never really done it before) and wow I'm terrible. I pl... : nurglich
  • Yeah, welcome to voice chat online. It's an absolute joke. FIFA online is the worst. So much trash t... : foo

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• Hunt For Red October is pure metal. : d fluke
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  Also Robocop and Starship Troopers. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Epic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rjLQuW2nQ : skinlab133
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      now i want to watch this again! : Dschinghis Khan
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        Shut up, me too. :( : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • I'll buy that for a dollar! : theghostofsmdever
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      Also epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swVoHaQy9I0 : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        this is much more epic than the one i posted : Mmmmmoo
        • You, sir, have been out-epic'd. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • REMEMBER YOUR TRAINING AND YOU WILL MAKE IT BACK ALIVE! Oh man, now I wish I still had this movie. : Marauder IIC
      • I'm doing my part! : Dschinghis Khan
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        This too.. IS EPIC http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IHI6dL9oUZc : Toraz Chryx
        • Skip to 3:35 for major epicness. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Also epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na_Zac23b5E : Mmmmmoo
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      Conan the Barbarian MOTHER BITCHES : PoopStewart
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg : PoopStewart
      • We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried w... : LilCrypto
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    I need to get those. I have Conan The Barbarian. Its the tits also. : theghostofsmdever
    • Conan is my favorite weightlifting music ever. Starship Troopers is great, except the 3-4 tracks with his... : AxeMan808
  • I liked his scores for Lonesome Dove and Conan. : action wombmate
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  Jerry Goldsmith did Total Recall, not Basil Poledouris. : eldersveld
  • Oh damn, so he did. Epic Fail. lol : theghostofsmdever
  • I thought it was Horner lol : ihya
  • Jerry Goldsmith also did a great musical piece that is pretty difficult to find but was featured in quite... : LilCrypto
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  THREAD HIJACK! - Best instrumental Movie Soundtrack: Go! For me, Back to the Future and the Fifth Elem... : Masem
  • the theme to Jurassic Park is my favorite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQTWNjr25WQ : Mmmmmoo
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    That's a toughie. Crimson Tide has an awesome soundtrack, and so does Broken Arrow. Hell, just about anyt... : ArcKnight
    • Agreed. : PoopStewart
  • Requiem for a dream. : doomed
  • Aliens : drazz
  • Braveheart : hirez
  • Maybe not the best, but The Lion King has a pretty good score. : ColoradoCNC
  • Blade Runner. : Damodred
  • ^^^ Anyone who didn't say Star Wars is a fag. It's pure pop cinema exuberance. Orchestral scores like t... : action wombmate
  • Halloween : dognose
  • Gladiator : epit
  • Last of the Mohicans : sonicdeathwalrus
  • Solaris? : wendigo
  • Blade runner : Draugluin
  • Solaris / The Fountain : sikander
  • Blackhawk Down. : stump
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    Braveheart : Dschinghis Khan
    • Shawshank Redemption : Dschinghis Khan
  • Fog of War : Sgt_Boomstick
  • The Mission, Passion (Last Temptation of Christ), Gladiator, The Virgin Suicides are my favourites. : Vantage
  • Traffic and the Bourne series. : Do_Or_Die
  • Gone in 60 seconds, by a huge margin :D : Downforce
  • Gladiator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPzR1-Dp2c also other stuff from Hans Zimmer like Pearl Harbo... : tunis5000
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : capt tripps
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  I've always thought Wrath of Khan had a very fitting score. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KilBvojsMdw : djkenohki
  • Nicholas Meyer specifically forbade James Horner from being even vaguely derivative of Goldsmith's materi : eldersveld
• I watched it the other day. Some movies you just can't go back to. : davantalus
• Fried rice makes me very happy :) : dognose
• I love the whole Conan soundtrack. : Barnahog
• Re-tag your pirated soundtracks properly next time, lol : Godhatesfatpeople
• Sometimes you are very good at being right. : SpaecKow
• I bought the Blu-Ray version of the movie this week. I haven't seen it in years, I can't wait for my copy... : razlebol
• when I was on the BART train heading from San Francisco to the Oakland airport, I put the Total Recall th... : the archvile
• It definitely got my ass to mars. : jingletard

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  1065 a month around here would get you a 3 bedroom house with a garage : drucifer
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    oh, and that would be the mortgage payment with the taxes and insurance included : drucifer
    • And the lawn/cleaning service. : Githyanki
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      do squirrels come with that? or are they extra? : hamachi
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        Squirrels? That was random. Why squirrels? : dognose
        • they're the rolls royce of random yard animals : synapse19
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          drucifer has a... history with squirrels, shall we say. : mn3m0n1c
          • also do not forget, he is waiting 4 u drucifer: http://mn3m0n1c.shackspace.com/grafix/jabba-the-squirrel.... : mn3m0n1c
  • that'd probably get you a decent place in india too : synapse19
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  haha, we pay 750 a month rent on a 1500 sq ft apartment with 3 bedrooms... im a poor baller. : chilln
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    wtf? where? : pun][sher
    • apparently ohio : synapse19
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    I pay $2400 a month for a 820 sqft 1 bedroom condo : gmd
    • lol. $995 for 1100 sqft 1 bedroom here in Bellevue Washington : pun][sher
    • I pay $640 for the same thing. : mwasher
    • i pay 3k a month for a 800 sqft studio with no bathroom : Mr.SEX
    • $371 for a 1400 square foot condo.. Yes yes, I know it doesn't count because a.) I live in a small tow... : nukewinter
    • well, you are a giant metal dog, you have special needs! : Postal
    • I paid $1,000,000 for a book of pictures of small downtown apartments. : aethyr
    • I get paid $2000 a month to live in my 3000 sq ft waterfront home. : stump
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      I pay 1 million dollars to live in the ass of a fat lady : Utopia
      • A month? : stump
    • I pay 1.42 billion per month for my bathroom alone, and that doesn't even include toilet rental! : ColoradoCNC
    • I pay in haircuts and songs for a 531 sq. ft. RV in Mobile, Alabama. : Head Rush
    • I pay 600$ for about the same. includes random gunfire, weekend car break in sprees, constant drunken yel... : eskimo spy
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      I get paid $1,000,000,ER-GF5 in martian dollars a week to live in my 1billion foot space capsule inside ... : two50six
      • exchange rate is decent. About $100 US dollars for every Blerv I exchange also : two50six
• hey I was just in Orange County over christmas. I drove through Costa Mesa and it was fairly pretty! I ... : mwasher
• I could buy a big TV every month for that amount of money. : ArB
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  I'd rather roomie up in the studio for that price, but its costa mesa, so you're obviously paying for the... : not work safe
  • (and parking) : not work safe
  • costa mesa is where I work. Also, unless you go up to anaheim, you're going to be paying the same prices... : proclone1
• 1265 is my house payment for a 2500 sq ft house < 10 years old. Ok so taxes and insurance add $500 to ... : hanfeitzu
• i pay $2k a month for my house :( : foo
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  this is why when my lease expires next summer im getting a house with 7 people : sparkly
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    Seven? Big house? : spazzium
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      you can get a 5 bedroom house around here for around $3000/mo...so divided by 7 people that isn't too bad... : sparkly
      • the 2 people that don't get a bedroom, how much are they paying? : dignan
      • why the hell 7? for 5 people that's only $600/mo. : proclone1
      • Yeah but then you have to live with 7 other people. The roommate theorem states that at least 3 of them w... : Head Rush