Evening Reading

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  Gattaca? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ : CrustaR
  • Oh, wait, that contains a romantic subplot. I read your post incorrectly. :| : CrustaR
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  Man on Fire : pancake humper
  • Win, definitely watch this one! : locater16
• Kung fu panda was good,not much sappy shit in it either : stonedonkey
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  The story of Daniel Johnston is uplifting and not romantic : scorpiusman
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    The Devil and Daniel Johnston? Great movie. Terrible music. : Polysorbate
    • yeah it's certainly a style he has on his own, but I like it : scorpiusman
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  Koyanasquatsi : CleverDan
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    Very, very calming. Same goes for the other two in the set. : skitfish
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      Calming??? That film is intense as FUCK. Do not watch Koyaanisqatsi if you want to relax. : lookitzpancakes
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        Hmm, unobtrusive visuals, nil dialogue, one long score - I'd say it's a great film to have on if you want... : skitfish
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          I dunno, the time lapse in the cities and the erratic philip glass score is not what I'd call relaxing mu... : pyide
          • I think it's possible to have it on in the background; not as your main focus (though it should be watche... : skitfish
• A.I maybe? It put me to sleep and is pretty mellow. : baconisgod
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  Wall-E. It'll make you laugh. unless you are dead inside : stump
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    Major romantic subplot. I was going to say Almost Famous but it also has a romantic subplot. I honestly c... : Serpico74
    • Oh yeah. I didn't read the last sentence in his post. :( : stump
  • Romantic subplot : kpxkrnjc
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  The Big Lebowski always helps me find my happy place : sonicdeathwalrus
  • you're out of your element, Donnie! : mysled
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  How about Shawshank Redemption? : nutrient
  • That gay rape subplot is kinda romantic... Er... Wait... : kallanta
• The Straight Story is like visual nyquil : alnya
• sounds to me like you need to watch some always sunny on hulu. : packav
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  2001 and bladerunner always seem to put me to sleep... : wetard
  • You're obviously wetarded. : lechuck59
• Russian Ark is a dream. : lechuck59
• Labyrinth? No romance in there. : ShoCon
• A River Runs Through It - seriously, it's a feel-good movie with minimal romance and gentle humor. : mn3m0n1c
• its not an anxiety attack. its a special ability that lets you curve bullets. : gyokuro
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  LOST IN TRANSLATION. : coldfusioncs
  • um... the whole film IS a romantic subplot... : kallanta
• This is Spinal Tap : pyide
• Caddyshack : Head Rush
• Baraka http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/ : Haku-Jin
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  Requiem for a Dream : randomposter
  • I second this : Utopia
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  fuck a movie. play tail of the sun. : lacker
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    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6982401204330874726&ei=WVxhSdTDFY3m-AGFoJmKCA&q=tail+of+the+sun : lacker
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      holy crap! : Dave-A
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        i love running and then sliding down the mountain I was climbing because I fell asleep mod-stride. : lacker
        • you mods and your haughty mod-stride >:( : Dave-A
• Superbad : tunis5000
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  good luck man. keep posting, talking to friends and keep busy. don't allow yourself to wallow : hamachi
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    oops. mispost : hamachi
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      meh... still applies... : kallanta
      • ahh in that case: I always go for 5th element or LOTR. something where you can zone out for a it but yo... : hamachi
• A midsummer nights sex comedy - i'd watch this to mellow out when i ran out of crack at 2am or so! : nrgXs
• The Party with Peter sellers, you'll enjoy it : cptstern
• Riding Giants. Good surfing doc. : mechanicalgrape
• oh yeah! the ultimate relaxing movie is The Endless Summer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060371/ : pyide
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  Spirited Away. The train-ride is the most relaxing scene ever. : sgtsanity
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    Yeah it always makes me happy. Also consider Paprika. : Perturbation
    • ^^ DOUBLE-POINTS for mentioning Paprika : m0rfus
  • i just watched this again two nights ago, so good! : Mr.SEX
• Audition. Just stop it 10-15 minutes before the end. : iamgoat
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  Blazing Saddles. Bucktown. : Vangoghs Ear
  • blazing saddles for the win. : med1c
• Dude RAMBO!! The new rambo has nothing romantic about it, hell there are not even that many women in it. : med1c
• Dancer in the Dark : slip42o
• Requiem for a Dream : f3ynm
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  Big Trouble in Little China : egg5hen
  • Hahah I would never have thought of this, but now you say it and it's absolute perfection. I was gonn... : Solstice
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  Collateral : thejm4n
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    You know, for the type of movie Collateral is, I'd watch it to get relaxed. Seriously, it's a weird kind ... : Rice Cooker
    • It has a lot of very chilled out moments though which take the edge off : WhiteHatVeteran
• Kung-Fu Zombies. Not a romantic moment to be found. : AxeMan808
• Family Ties, Season 3 : spiderfill
• Joe Vs the Volcano - It'll pep you up. : trove
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  Muppets from Space. it's streaming on netflix 8.99 a month : rigg5kthx
  • it's also on Hulu. Fuck netflix's streaming, they have shit for selection : proclone1
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  My Neighbour Totoro always makes me feel better. No romantic subplot. :) : gigaduck
  • I agree with this. : Galadriel07
• Idiocracy : YerMothah
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  JESUS MAN YOU NEED MILO AND OTIS Netflix watch instantly. It will make you so happy : johnwissinger
  • it was depressing for me : proclone1
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  although this had a romantic subplot i have to say forest gump if u want a good chill movie... puts a smi... : Poooks
  • nvm : Poooks
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  One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest or Big Fish : WhiteHatVeteran
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    ooooo i forgot bout big fish I second this! wait....there is def a romantic subplot : Poooks
    • Yeah now that I think about it that is true, but since it's a "how I met your mother" kind of deal I don'... : WhiteHatVeteran
• Commando : SockMonkeh
• Tropic Thunder baby!! : Topaz
• No Country For Old Men : DooBall
• Being There, starring Peter Sellers, should be exactly what you need. : drazz
• Very Bad Things : phate81

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  If I'm not mistaken he doesn't kill the agent. He escapes as the semi truck collides...and neo rescues h... : soggybagel
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    That is right. : ConfusedUs
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      No, he kills the Agent with a mega kick, sending him off the semi-truck and into a car. Then he warps int... : Shivawn
      • Morpheus was just practicing alot with Neo, that's why he's so much better : lord_omega
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  If you're played with computers, it makes for some great fiction. Now, ask any good programmer, and as... : esecasco
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    One example : Merovingian : Mother Fucker can Give a girl an orgasm through a fucking cheesecake, but : esecasco
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      orgasm chick = still plugged in. neo and the other "free" guys are jacking in from an outside source and... : pyide
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        Yeah, but if they can plug in, that means that information is being sent to them from a source. That sou... : esecasco
        • Firewall! : node
        • there is no firewall when they're jacked in. they have been freed, so their minds do not accept the rules... : mcborn
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      They can't do that to Neo because he's unplugged from the Matrix. Well, I mean he's plugged in but he's i... : DOOManiac
      • yeah, i'm no programmer or someone else esecasco is talking about, and i don't even like these movies, bu... : pyide
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        Right, I don't mean taking over his body, I mean just doing some fucked up shit to his signal, or ignorin... : esecasco
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          Did you not watch the last two films? The machines never had any intention of stopping Neo, he needed to : Vincent Grayson
          • it was all just another system of control.. =( : mcborn
        • there's a reason why they call it "hacking" in the to matrix every time they enter it. : mcborn
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      I thought the cake she was eating had some infiltration program so he could do that to her. The cake i... : ShoCon
      • it was some sort of aphrodisiac program. if you pay attention later, the french chic said he was caugh... : mcborn
    • Neo can do the things that he can do because of a bug inherent to the incompatibility of humans and the m : smegmar
    • Merovingian's profession is to know things. Neo is disconnected from the matrix, so the only way he can ... : Xin Jing Client 1a
    • What are you doing? : ieGod
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    it doesn't matter if you're a programmer. if you think about it logically then the whole thing is straig... : qsylvr
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      that always bugged me too. haha : pyide
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        I assumed they searched for the ringing phone so they could be sent to that specific spot, but it doesn't... : pyide
        • it's just an analogy the writers used to symbolize exiting the matrix the proper way. : mcborn
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      I think you're really looking into it way too hard. Of course it's completely unfeasible and doesn't hold... : DOOManiac
      • First, it would be far more excusable if the Wachowskis hadn't found an "Introductory to Philosophy" text... : Rice Cooker
    • Although I'm sure since the humans are hacking the code and broadcasting a pirate signal, and they can pu... : Xin Jing Client 1a
  • I'm a programmer and the first Matrix is still my favorite movie of all time. It's called science FICTION... : dpgagnon
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    Ask any good programmer and he'll tell you that he enjoys movies like everyone else. You either buy into ... : mittense
    • But, but, Trinity uses nmap! It has to be about hacking! : antareus
• just pretend 2 and 3 dont exist, clearly thats what the film makers did. the story only exists for one, ... : smacknca
• Well you see, this time he had a sword. : DOOManiac
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  they were thinking, MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY M : qsylvr
  • ^^^ IAWTP : esecasco
• My thoughts on this conundrum. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18824260#itemanchor_18824260 : cornchak
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  I liked all the movies :( : sKetchflow
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    me too :( : skizl
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      its ok to like bad movies/trash you must just be awe that they fucking suck donkeys balls and not try to ... : Hoax
      • - "awe" + "aware" : Hoax
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  they copied the story of the first movie from someone else, that is why it was better than the next two m... : Luminair
  • That story has been propagated over the Internet like wild fire but never substantiated. Hollywood also s... : Toth21
• Two and three had some great spectacles. As in explosive gorgeous creative visual scenes. That's mostly w... : node
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  You do know the sex change thing was a hoax or rumor? (i'm not sure which term is correct) : Slowtreme
  • no it's pretty much the truth : fishbone
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    It begins as a rumour. Then it's either a hoax or in this case, the absolute truth. : doomed
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachowski_brothers#Lana_Wachowski_rumor is there something else out there? : Slowtreme
      • The image at the top of that page you linked? A ton of pictures at http://images.google.com/images?hl=en... : fishbone
      • Hmm, the rolling stone article was pretty interesting. : ColoradoCNC
      • Dude looks like a lady my friend. : newek
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    It was a joke slowtreme. : Ellissd
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      tell that to those guys ^^ : Slowtreme
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        Whether he still has meat swinging or not, the dude wishes and dresses as if he were a female. Are you a... : fishbone
        • I'm not really arguing. QUOTE: "You do know the sex change thing was a hoax or rumor?" no operation or... : Slowtreme
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  The original Matrix had a great story and great action. Reloaded had the best action scenes of the series... : David Craddock
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    I dunno how anyone can hate the dock invasion sequence in Revolutions. That final face off was also pr... : Vincent Grayson
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      That's actually what I was referring to when I said the action in Revolutions was decent, but not up to p... : David Craddock
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        I agree on the end bit...I guess meant more that I felt like the setting and atmosphere of the final conf... : Vincent Grayson
        • Agreed. Too Dragon Ball Z for my tastes. And the freeway chase was fun at first but went on for far too ... : quanta88
      • I HATE THE BURLY BRAWL I HATE IT I HATE IT PLASTIC PEOPLE WITH RUBBER BENDY BODIES I HATE IT : Slowtreme
      • People actually liked the Neo Smiths fight? Wow. : Modica Sol Solis
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      I did ask myself during the dock battle "why didn't the APU's have sealed cockpits"? : Xin Jing Client 1a
      • I don't think it mattered. If you watched the Animatrix, you'd know that if you let them get close enoug : IHATEDUST
  • I agree, the car chase scene in Reloaded was pretty bad ass. Everything else about it pretty much sucked ... : phate81
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    Reloaded had good effects and action, but not the best action scenes. Come on. The Lobby + The Subway sha... : Bamtan
    • I don't agree. I still appreciate the first film's story, but most of the action sequences seem tame to m... : David Craddock
  • This man speaks the absolute truth. : lookitzpancakes
• The part I hated the most about the matrix is when all the faggets decided to change their internet handl... : Utopia
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  I liked all 3 very much. don't remember morpheus killing the agent. plus, he had an advantage most of ... : mcborn
  • Morpheous was knocked off the trailer and onto Jada Pinket-Smith's hood. He had to do a signature move ( : Xin Jing Client 1a
  • What always got me about the ending was that, inevitably, it would be the humans who would fuck up and st... : ColoradoCNC
• I think the part of Matrix mythology that people often miss or forget about is this: The Agents and co : Xin Jing Client 1a
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  Despite what they said, it was pretty clear that the first movie was meant to be self-contained. Then th... : afty
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    Storywise at the end of the 1st movie, we never got to see Zion, or see how Neo's Matrix powers would tra... : spiderfill
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      I think it was pretty clearly a self-contained story made by people who really wanted to make a trilogy. ... : Arcanum
      • Yeah true, it was a story about Neo vs Agent Smith. I was disappointed that the trilogy remained about N... : spiderfill
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    If you watch the Matrix Revisited, there are execs at Warner Bros that say the Wachowskis originally sold... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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      George Lucas always said that Star Wars was supposed to be 6 (or 9) movies but it didn't stop him from pu... : GloriousCow
      • Completely different franchise and circumstances. I think George has gone on record to say that he never... : Xin Jing Client 1a
• Actually it made sense to me with the progression of the movie. Morpheus can't beat the agent, he just ba... : Toth21
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  the main question is: why isn't there more animatrix material because it fucking ruled. in terms of ... : Downforce
  • also there needs to be another one, with more in city 01 and shit like that ok : Downforce
• Is there somewhere where I can read what happens in The Matrix online? Wasn't that game supposed to conti... : rosewood
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  are human bodies truly the best source of energy? : skryte
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    Haha yeah I was wondering that too. Unless the machines are just going for style points by making the hu... : Fish_Bulb
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      nah, a wise investment given the environment. harvesting humans over their whole life span? nice. peop... : Downforce
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        cows would have been more efficient : AllYourBase
        • Methane! : Cliffzorz
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    I read somewhere that initially the humans were supposed to be used as some kind of neural network thingy... : Rice-Rocketeer
    • HYPERION'd : Toth21
    • That would make more sense. : Kentor
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      I'm pretty sure thats the basis for the book they ripped off to make the Matrix. : AgentPothead
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        No, this is the book they ripped off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation : Chepito.
        • Actually I think they "borrowed" from a lot of sci-fi stories. I really see a lot of the Hyperion novels ... : Toth21
    • That would have made a lot more sense to me. : riptyde
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    In the first film, Morpheus says the machines are powered by a "form of fusion" as well as humans. : ShekkyBoy
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      I'm sure this is the reason why humans are still alive. There are no plants or animals due to the lack o... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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        what? no. What's feeding the humans? : YamatoTwinkie
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          Didn't they say in the first one that the dead people are liquefied and fed back to the living? : weaselmeister
          • Yeah. Maybe they have some kind of fungus or mold they can use to feed those dirty meat sacks too. : LilCrypto
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            how can there be a net output of energy in a system like that? : Mmmmmoo
            • I think it was just one component of the feeding system and more there to shock the viewer and show how i... : LilCrypto
            • bacteria? fungus? tang? : GloriousCow
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            take one minute to think about this. Say you consume a pound of meat a day to survive. By the age of 25... : YamatoTwinkie
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              If you use the information from the first film as a reference, the humans aboard the Neb are eating some ... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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                Hey, remember the part at the end of Reloaded where Neo went WiFi on a Sentinel and stopped it? : Bamtan
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                  Neo stopped the WiFi? : Xin Jing Client 1a
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                    What? I was just pointing out how stupid it was that Neo was able to stop a real world object. But the... : Bamtan
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                      This may sound contrived, but Neo was supposed to have that power. It links the story all the way back ar... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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                        that part was so bizarre though because the Matrix spent a LOT of time explaining things with decent sci-... : mikecyb
                        • I saw Matrix2 in the theatre and my first thought was "matrix within a matrix" something like 'The Thirte... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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              yeah but humans in the matrix are not using any part of their bodies. they are essentially only using br... : mikecyb
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                But they're not just lying comatose. They're being used for their body heat, which means that they need ... : YamatoTwinkie
                • Your science should not be allowed to interfere with the truth that is Art! : LilCrypto
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                  Unless... the machines also grew crops of humans exclusively for food in addition to having humans in p... : Xin Jing Client 1a
                  • So the solution to not being able to recycle enough humans to feed the humans is to grow more humans? ... : LilCrypto
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                    Sure, but what are those "crops of humans grown exclusively for food" EATING? Humans don't run on magic.... : YamatoTwinkie
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                      If it helps, think about it this way: The energy chain for a human eating a hamburger is something lik... : YamatoTwinkie
                      • Johnny Five needs input. : TrptJim
        • soylent green : hirez
        • The machines put tubes down the throats of the humans and fed them liquified humans. : Xin Jing Client 1a
  • I read that originally the Matrix was infrastructure for a super computer. The machines were using human... : kek
• I loved the first 2, but the third movie pissed me off. The whole "love" scene when trinity dies was so : virus
• they're all terrible movies in some ways, really good in others. : thebigbeefsandwich
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  There's a conspiracy online about how the Wachowskis actually stole the script or how the Matrix and Term... : quadalupeupe
  • I just think its typical sophomore effort, like 2nd albums or where the band's only good album is the fir... : cap n KRUNCH
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  Star Wars Thoughts In the first movie, Obi Wan says "These blast-points... Only Imperial stormtroopers... : BlackCat9
  • that article is LIES! : g0nk
  • In their defense the thing is the size of the side of a barn : alnya
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  I never bothered to see the third one, the second one was so dumb. : Chris Remo
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    Good choice. It may be hard to believe it, but the 3rd is even dumber. : DOOManiac
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      Its super dumb. That said, it had one of the best images in the trilogy, the second wave of sentinels att : Serpico74
      • Also, I forgot just how much Gears 2 took from that movie. : Serpico74
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    What puzzles me to this day is the answer to the question "what were you expecting?" I've heard people s... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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      Fuck man, there are any number of directions it could have gone. Parts of the Animatrix had some awesome ... : Dave-A
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        The whole thing was orchestrated by the machines, from start to finish from birth to liquid lunch, from Z... : Xin Jing Client 1a
        • ..uh, the machines didn't write the screenplay, Xin Jing Client 1a... the wachowksis did... : Dave-A
    • anywhere else. : DOOManiac
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0XiLOXdP0 : swenkcahs
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  There is only one Matrix film. The Animatrix can be included as an aside if it wants. : skitfish
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    In that case there are no Lord of the Rings movies, only the semi-amusing animated cartoons for a laugh n... : Toth21
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      IMO, all three LOTR films were good. IMO, The Matrix was good, the Animatrix was a good aside. : skitfish
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        I know thats why I posted the above. I am the polar opposite, I think only the Fellowship is not an absol... : Toth21
        • Let's agree to disagree :) : skitfish
  • This is the correct response. Just pass over Reloaded and Revolution if you see them on the store shelves... : Dr_Cube
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  While the "matrix within a matrix" might have been a cop out of the "it was all a dream" variety, I think... : randomposter
  • I watch the Thirteenth Floor with that in mind. : LilCrypto
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    No that would have been the worst possible outcome to the story. : Toth21
    • I mean, I like the whole we allow Zion and the rebellion and the prophecy to reach a stage and then reset : randomposter
• The Matrix is one the best sci fi action films ever made; brilliant story presented in an entertaining an... : Dr_Cube
• Quote from the Zero Punctuation review of "Spore", since it's so fitting. If there's one thing history : the archvile

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• that looks damn good. : esecasco
• Oh god, I'm so hungry now. : stump
• I don't see how two people could finish that, let alone one. And really, pickles and tomatoes? On MY chil... : ArcKnight
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  Tell me that's like a family sized portion or something? Holy shit, must be like 5000 calories in tha... : uncleanmonkey
  • more i'm sure : ifallible
• It looks like a cow took a massive dump in a bowl :( : losimagic
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  Your weekly recommended fat intake. : Bamtan
  • Hell, maybe monthly! : terath
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  They eat like that here in Illinois, you can gain a lot of weight living around here. I think at one poi... : jingletard
  • Nah, last I heard, Mississippi and Alabama were the fattest states. Colorado is the thinnest, California ... : WildDanimal
• Oh man I love The Hat : Katarn3279
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  How are you supposed to eat that? It looks like it would be very awkward and messy. : ayesel
  • with your face OM NOM NOM : aethyr
  • I don't mind messy food, but I agree. It looks like there's too much mess and not enough holding it toge... : Arcanum
• i miss the hat : lacker
• Well at least he's wearing gloves. : skinlab133
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  AMERICA : fishbone
  • FUCK YEAH! : jamesray
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkFkmh_P5c&feature=related Even BETTAR!!!!! : nosseman
• my god : Mmmmmoo
• OH MY GOD YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS : aethyr
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  Clearly you havent seen the crap drunk people eat deep in the night in the UK. : marku5
  • a bunch of sauce drenched faggots? : braaains
  • Yeah, the "food" sold at the "chippys" in the UK is so fucking disgusting. Those grease-drenched potatoes... : code-e255
  • A kebab whilst drunk after a night out does not equate or even come close to what looks like a couple of ... : nodebug
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  Let me tell you how we eat fries in Europe*. Start with a layer of fries, then cover that with thinly s... : sonicdeathwalrus
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    Fries, some salt. Ketchup, Mayonese. That's it. It's fries. They're made of delicious tomatoes. You d... : MatzL.E.
    • Fries from tomatoes? Where the hell do you eat? : nosseman
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      Fries with ketchup is an abomination. : sonicdeathwalrus
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        Fries with *mayo* is an abomination. I'd never seen it till I joined the military. Crazy fuckers. : ArcKnight
        • fries with mayo isn't that bad. i used to dip my fries into my mcchicken burger from mcdonalds to get at ... : Mmmmmoo
    • Mayo and Ketchup are alright, but I prefer good old fashioned Danish remoulade. Mind you, Danish Remoulad... : aaarrrgh
    • Indeed. : Lightbulb
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      where do i find these elusive tomatoe fries? : Slowtreme
      • ... and isn't it a bit much to put ketchup on it as well? Or is the ketchup made from potatoes maybe? : SilverSnake
    • lol, damnit. Don't type and talk at the same time... : MatzL.E.
  • garlic mayo is awesome : Blackdawgg
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    Fries or Döner, NOT BOTH!!! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      In Sweden there are a pizza called Three Crowns. Its fries, Döner meat, lettuce, tomato, onions, gar... : nosseman
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        Turkish pizza with Döner meat is ultimate hangover food. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          Lahmacun? Yes! : MatzL.E.
          • ding ding ding! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Trust me when I tell you this is the greatest food in existence at 6 in the morning as you just came out ... : sonicdeathwalrus
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        http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18855233#itemanchor_18855233 : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • (Not such a fan of cheese on fries, I can only take a certain amount of grease) : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • Fair enough, that's well tasty too : sonicdeathwalrus
  • You can get "kebab dinners" pretty much everywhere, it's just fries, doner "meat" and a little salad/sauc... : d fluke
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  I hate that shit because the design is all wrong, just like with nachoes. You get a few super nachos on t... : baconisgod
  • Taco Bell's Fully Loaded Nachos are actually decent, and would fit your needs. : esecasco
  • I prefer the nachos to be served seperately from it's toppings. dipping is where it's at. qdoba's naked q... : Clay
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  They could have prepared that with a shovel. : stuka
  • Looks like it was meant to be eaten with a shovel. : daedraug
• I feel ill. : tomservo
• Fuck, that made me so hungry : chungathebunga
• That's just disgusting. I can imagine that might be delicious if served much smaller, on a plate, ever... : MatzL.E.
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  What the fuck was that? : Fred Garvin
  • FREEDOM : Dschinghis Khan
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  ding fries are done, ding fries are done. : Mr.Finkster
  • every time i went to the mall that tune would just be playing and that rtard would just be in my head si... : SoNiC :<
• I feel stronger just watching that : gmd
• Well, it's a good thing there are pretty much no communist countries left in Europe. : Vangoghs Ear
• The 15lb Burger (skip to 1:30): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUkcRa-d-jU and when you're done with ... : ScrawnyJohnny
• yuck. i prefer mine with just salt and majo. : minigomp
• thats vacation food. You definitely don't eat like that everyday but every once in a while? Hell yeah : boomstickah
• what the fuck? people eat something like that ? : Lightbulb
• my heart skipped a couple of beats just looking at that. : the archvile
• That looks fucking disgusting : Drewus
• Where's the ranch dressing and mustard? : DasCracky
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  it's over 9000 calories!! : Maddog_Delphi97
  • WHAT 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : Drewus
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    was that youtube comment your source? Let's see, an average Chipotle burrito is about 1000 calories. an... : jigstah
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      Yeah, that youtube comment was source... but it seems a possibility with that much food on there. Mayb... : Maddog_Delphi97
      • haha its like "The Half-Ton Man" show on TV - the guy that manages to eat 33,000 calories a day. This is... : jigstah
      • http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Over_9000 : nurglich
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  Wait, they didn't deep fry all that? Pussies. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    lol that would have been funny if they dumped it all into the deep frier : gyokuro
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      * NOW - THAT'S - WHAT - I - CALL - A - TACO 'D * : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • lolol : Maddog_Delphi97
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        Pizza? Now that's what I call a taco! : deject
        • "then we cover the whole thing in vegitarian chili" : med1c
• That should be served in a free collectible tote bag. : cerealSAM2
• pastrami chili. that is a fantastic idea. yum. : stgulik
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  Utterly foul : mr.sleepy
  • seriously, pickles and tomatoes are gross : GloriousCow
• i'm sure that's the only food in the world that looks exactly the same after digestion. : Cihte
• That's like ten portions, but looks good otherwise. : d fluke
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  Speaking of absurd food. When we went to Iceland, I had a pizza with fries, steak and bearnaise sauce on ... : aaarrrgh
  • try hakarl? : miasma(&)
  • Ahhh, búkolla, the cow of the pizza herd : gakera
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  Michael Phelps's new diet plan for the Olympics 2012. : ShekkyBoy
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    yeah, if he wants to sink to the bottom of the pool : FPSDavid
    • Touch my body FPSDavid : ShekkyBoy
• I knew I recognized that counter. I'm going to get those right now. : funnyguy84
• God. That is a perversion of pastrami. How could they just dump the most sensual of the salt-cured meat... : smegmar
• I feel proud that's in my city... plus we've also got Oki-Dog! That's Chili, Pastrami, 2 Hot Dogs, in a ... : CrimsonHandHiro
• what the fuck : halophoenix
• The Hat! my parents live close to there. so awesome for the pastrami sandwiches! I think I shared ... : hamachi
• The Hat is pretty awesome, I love that place. : action wombmate
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  omg he TOUCHED THE CHEESE with his bare hands!!! : Cihte
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    and the pickles/tomatoes. FUCKIN HEALTH VIOLATION : reverend~heresy
    • And he tossed a handful of bacon, right into the trash! : Sailor of Fortune
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  people that eat fries like that should be shot on sight. i come from the country that invented fries (be... : dfz0r
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    Best fries I have ever had were at a restaurant called StripSteak in the Mandalay Bay in Vegas. Duck Fat... : riptyde
    • normally you bake em in ox fat. Duck fat is a good second. But as long as you don't throw on a mountain o... : dfz0r
• ANIMAL STYLE! : kramweil
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  meh you wouldn't be able to taste the fries : Megara9
  • yeah seriously, I hate when stuff is piled on top of fries or nachos or anything. I want it to be seperat... : nomaad
• Italian Poutine. : razlebol

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  i think it's because the show was canceled : qwpeoriu
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    I wish horrible things upon whoever did it. : Thisispol
    • It was on Fox, so that pretty much goes without saying. : Thresher
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  Fox hates good TV : losimagic
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    Fox submits to the will of the people as reflected in ratings. The people hate good TV. :< : the moon and antarctica
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      Well, it's more than that firefly never had a chance. It was killed from the start by airing out of order... : qwpeoriu
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        also fucking crazy space cannibals who love to rape people to death, might not have been suited for netwo... : RetroRedEyeJr
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          That's a little narrow, isn't it? : action wombmate
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            Don't get me wrong i loved Firefly and thought the revers were very cool, I could just see it turning a f... : RetroRedEyeJr
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              I dunno, primetime TV viewers seemed to have no problem with grossly decomposed bodies, internal shots of... : action wombmate
              • CSI, Law and Order: SVU, Bones, House, ER, insert other procedural crime drama here. : Prozium
        • You have not watched and recent detective show then. CSI, SVU, even Monk has stuff more disturbing than ... : Grumbeld
    • They also hated Journeyman. : eldiablo01
  • I remember an episode of Alien Nation where Gary Graham's character was psyched to see a new TV show (whi... : ShoCon
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  Did you watch Serenity? : BlackCat9
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    Great movie. : xZanU
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      I didn't think so. I was still appreciative of the fact that there was a movie after they canceled the sh... : Ellissd
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        That's because it takes place 6 months after the series? A lot of shit happened in the interrim. Read... : IndigoAK
        • there are comic books? omg : ejectorpod
        • holy jeez there are firefly comic books?? : Cihte
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  so fox killed Arrested Development Firefly and Jericho? fucking assholes. : RetroRedEyeJr
  • Jericho is CBS. : Squirrely
• Well, there's the movie Serenity, if you didn't see that. : Deathlove
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  because cowboys in space doesn't make any sense. : zebrigazi
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    cowboys in space makes a lot of sense, actually. : dopefish
    • It is the final frontier and all. : hatelull
    • Sure does, partner. : ifallible
  • It's not called the "final frontier" for no reason. : Rice Cooker
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  What I don't understand is why it didn't go to a cheaper network. Would BSG's ratings survive on NBC pri... : spiderfill
  • I think it was a broadcast rights issue. Fox didn't want to air it, but they also didn't want anyone else... : Ebu
  • IIRC they tried to shop it around, but back then SciFi didn't have the budget for it and nobody else was ... : mn3m0n1c
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  Firefly was great but if you want epic scfi please watch babylon 5 : spaceyme
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    Agreed. I just watched season 1-5 over the past few weeks and it was awesome. Now onto the movies and t... : mikefr24
    • Prepare to be disappointed by the movies. Crusade will show you a glimmer of greatness to come, and th... : elwood00
    • well done, for Crusade please watch them in their intended order - http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/eplist.h... : spaceyme
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      The only movie that's worthwhile is Legend of the Rangers In the Beginning : ConfusedUs
      • In The Beginning was good, but it didn't tell you anything that you didn't already know from watching the... : elwood00
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    What if I'm tired of the man vs machine conflict? What if I like man vs man vs himself while involving s... : sKetchflow
    • Then you should watch Firefly. : kallanta
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      You forgot the whores. : Rag and Bone Man
      • The one REAAAALLLLY hot Brazilian whore. : sKetchflow
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      Cowboy Bebop. : lechuck59
      • Somebody give this man some money, he has sense. : Rice Cooker
  • Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace... it failed. Such an awesome show. I need to go back and... : riptyde
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    you know, I've been watching it now for about 7 minutes and it's really speaking to me. It reminds me mor... : Cihte
    • really *not* speaking to me. : Cihte
    • 3 and 4 : spaceyme
    • Season 1 is almost entirely build-up. The characters are still finding their roles and the SFX are bad. T... : ConfusedUs
    • never, it just gets more and more painful to watch :-P : Marauder IIC
• I'm on the third episode of Jericho. This show needed more people to watch it. Firefly was also great. : .sticks.
• Because FOX needs to burn in hell. : Mystery0000
• :( : jedi_27
• Step 1: Play the series out of order so nobody gets it Yes, if you look at the order that the eps we... : Nation
• It ended before it got boring. Farscape was also a great series but it should've ended its run much earli... : kramweil
• Because Cowboy Bebop did it first and did it better. : deathofrats
• because people are stupid :( : Megara9

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• No one? Everyone just whores the hell out of that savegame button? : Caboose
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  i have. Back in the day i actually beat it on super human too (using saves). I dono how high i beat it pl... : deadfish
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    I think I could be careful enough with movement and cover, but I'm afraid of those random moments when th... : Caboose
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      you know what is awesome? your hovertank at the back of the vehicle takes a square out and some alien wi... : JuffoWup
      • did you save afterwards? : wendigo
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  That is the way I play it every time. : lplasmatron
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    And I've played it like 10-15 times. I pick it up again at least once a year. I've also bought the game 3... : lplasmatron
    • Have you played Apocalypse? IMO Apoc with real-time pause is an amazing game. : Poor Yurik
• hitman? : reverend~heresy
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  I was just playing this and lost my best point man after going up a lift eating an autofire heavy plasma. : Lunatic Angelic
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    If I play hardcore I'm definitely having some unarmored, untrained dullards do my scouting for me. Give ... : Caboose
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      lol. I never thought about doing this. I was always very careful about selecting people, but yeah, using ... : edgewise
      • Well, you don't get that money back if you fire them, so you might as well put them to use. Once I ge... : Caboose
• I'm on my way through a game now... I always save before every mission, and reload if I lose one of my be... : zerog83
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  God, I haven't played this game in so long I can't even imagine how bad the resolution would be. : Rice Cooker
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    i've, uh, i've never played x-com : EvilDolemite
    • 94 or 95'ish game dev'd by Microprose. : Rice Cooker
  • It's pretty terrible, but I play it in a window to ease the issue somewhat. : acheron
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    Windows fix patch + you can run it at any resolution: http://home.comcast.net/~jackbauer001/ufoeuet_2005_... : sanchez
    • I couldn't get this working, it just made my window 1024x768, but it was black bars around a 640x480. : Lunatic Angelic
    • Ooh, thanks a lot! I'll try the game tonight or tomorrow. : Rice Cooker
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    I've never played it before this week, but using dosbox + hq3x scaling it looks OK. : aethyr
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      http://www.shackpics.com/files/myeyes_m0x74aexa8rxjzmcof6v.png http://www.shackpics.com/files/thegoogles... : aethyr
      • Wow. : Rice Cooker
• Normally I would whore up the quicksave button like in Silent Storm but Im so lazy I usually let it go in... : bolneze
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  I'm a save whore. Can we get the funny POTM back please? : sharpie
  • I loved it to hell too but sometimes a joke should be left alone after its time in the sun. Best example ... : leaked
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  I have such an odd relationship with X-Com. I love it, and don't know why. When I play it, I play 1 m... : Chunks
  • Stress....sounds more on par with the irritation for me. I think it's one of those really old games that... : Rice Cooker
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    I think you stress because you know why each character died. It usually had to do with moving too fast... : CRasterImage
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      I dunno. I go really really slow for a really long time, and then when I finally make contact, 3 people d... : Chunks
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        Hmm... That could be it. The aliens get progressivly tougher as the game goes on. While your team is e... : CRasterImage
        • Do the actual units get tougher or is just the game introducing new aliens that are tougher? I can't reca... : Rice Cooker
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  Not really X-Com, but JA2 - did not make it to the end though. :-( : Lukiopimp
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    Ahhh man, playing JA2 hardcore brings back memories. Things get so intense in that game if you are willi... : Poor Yurik
    • I've always wondered how people beat JA2 without any of their mercs getting seriously hurt. I've never ac... : WildDanimal
• What's weird is, as much as we love the game it strikes me as a bad thing to rely on save-crawling to pla... : Rampancy
• At first i always played it somewhat like this, if i got completely wiped out i'd sometimes try from an e... : nem00
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  Not sure if anyone here will agree with me but GRAW for pc was pretty hardcore like that. : BIGAssasin8
  • Yeah, totally agree here. The PC version of GRAW1 before any patches(which added respawning) was crazy ha... : Helios150
• AvP was pretty hard. I also play "hardcore mode" in Blood, meaning my own rule of completing an episod... : Marrbe
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  THREAD HIJACK: Who here has played Diablo 2 hardcore on battle.net and had all their hopes and dreams ... : Durajim
  • running pub bloody foothills normal diff on my first hardcore bowazon... smoked by a scorc that laid down... : shug
  • Got an 89 or something Barbarian killed by a cheater. : Marrbe
• I prefer to, you know, enjoy playing games so I have zero concern with whether or not I'm playing the gam... : wytefang
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  I played Doom 3 this way on my first attempt: No saving. (Doom 3 didn't have checkpoints, so basically th... : MatthewPhillips
  • Hope you played AVP1 on hardcore (iirc there was actually a skill level that didn't allow mid-mission sav... : Poor Yurik
  • You're right in that it can make a big difference in how you appreciate the game. If there's no threat of... : Marrbe
• Hitman series, Rainbow Six series (pre-Vegas), Mount&Blade, Jagged Alliance 2 yeah I love them. : SockMonkeh
• The quote of your post on the front page doesn't mention x-com, and I thought you were asking about ANY g... : Poor Yurik
• Contra! Hitman for silent assassin maybe more like what you are talking about. Not enough hardcore ... : twifosp
• Fire emblem is pretty hardcore in that sense. : barichnikov
• In my game my highest ranked guy, my commander. Went on every mission. He never left the ship because he ... : Ratalon
• Yeah, it's called every fricking arcade game ever made. : watcherxp

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  I tried to find it at a bookstore last week but couldn't find it :( : ejectorpod
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    This is the edition I have, and it's a great price, too. http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Alan-Moore/dp/09... : elwood00
    • I had to get my copy from Amazon too - no local bookstores had it in stock last summer. : trOmblyj
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    I've seen plenty of copies at Target for $15. : Sailor of Fortune
    • no targets anywhere nearby :( : ejectorpod
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    I saw two editions at B&N. Try there. : SockMonkeh
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      that's where I was...then I tried an independent book store :( then i gave up and got drunk : ejectorpod
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        I usually just drunk first and go to the bookstore. A man has to have his priorities. : Rice Cooker
        • You inspire me. : ejectorpod
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  Why are you not watching it with her? : yosemiteclimber
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    WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN : trOmblyj
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      NOBODY Sincerely, 20th Century Fox : elwood00
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        http://www.cracked.com/blog/fox-can-eat-several-dicks/ : elwood00
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          "We want to see Dr. Manhattan’s glorious, blue genitals majestically flopping on the big screen." Ye... : Mr.Finkster
          • Flop flop flop flop flop. : Mr.Finkster
      • :*( : trOmblyj
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        Wait what. It's canned? : -sk-
        • Not exactly. FOX was the previous rights holder, and they're claiming that they still have some stake in... : action wombmate
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      WHO WATCHES THE WOMAN WEADING THE WATCHMEN : johngloid
      • I do, but I try not to be annoying. : elwood00
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    How's the Watchman Motion Comic? I know its available on Amazon, wondering if holds up to the comic : dignan
    • ^^ anyone ? : dignan
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      First part was a bit dry, but Part 2 blew my mind. The narration takes a bit of getting used to (A single... : cptn.peachfuzz
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        does it compare the reading the graphic novel? is it faithful ? : dignan
        • A few (very) minor lines are cut out, but it mostly feels like the graphic novel has come to life, and so... : cptn.peachfuzz
      • how does it compare the reading the graphic novel? is it faithful ? : dignan
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      It's pretty damn neat. It's like an audiobook version of the comic book. : Marauder IIC
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        This trailer will give you an idea of the animation, but the real motion comic is still only being read b... : Marauder IIC
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          i have them already, just wondering if a first timer should trust these instead of reading the novel : dignan
          • Hmm. I don't know. I tried watching a few episodes with a couple of people and none of them got into it, ... : Marauder IIC
• got it for Xmas. Almost done but so far, so badass : eforce98
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  I've picked it up several times at B&N, but each time I thought to myself, "Will I really enjoy 'reading'... : airrob
  • Absolutely. Go get it. Now. : Clay
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    Yes. Watchmen is one of the few graphic novels that would tell a compelling story even without the art. W... : ConfusedUs
    • PS: It's only $11 and change at Amazon. You have no excuse now. : ConfusedUs
  • YES YOU WILL : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • i bought it with a mild interest in it and finished it in a weekend. now i'm stoked for the movie : aurealis
  • Do it! I've never read a graphic novel either and haven't been into comics since I was 14 or so. But last... : DOOManiac
  • It is surprisingly good. The book is about superhero comics (it's a comic about comics, imo anyway), so p... : jcupitt
  • Yeah man, it's really a novel with pictures. Lots of pictures. More pictures than you'd normally expect a... : AxeMan808
  • I thought the same thing but gave it a shot because it was on cheap at Costco and I fucking loved it. : SenorSpine
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  I'm going to be so pissed if they delay it. It looks great. http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/12/30/mus... : Clay
  • that was pretty awesome... hope we get to see it in 3 months. : trOmblyj
• Such a multi-layered story. Sadly ,the woman has no interest in such boyhood fantasies no matter how int... : hatelull
• i finished it a few days ago, and was so excited to re-watch the trailer and know wtf is going on! : ermac
• Just ordered from B and N with a gift card. Got this http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Watchmen/Alan-Moore... : Merlin13x
• Probably the best book I've ever read. No need to qualify it by saying "novel" or "fiction" or "comic bo... : treefingers1
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  I read it to prepare for the now in limbo film and was blown away. Never got into comics or graphic novel... : rezombie
  • Yeah, the author has had a long spiff with directors turning his books into films and not matching the ac... : Rice Cooker
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  I'm waiting til after the movie. : Magus
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    Wow, I was actually angered by this post for a second. I'd really not wait. There is no way the movie can... : re-verse
    • Ya, have to agree here. It's a stupendous BOOK, but as a film... too much has to change to be as amazing... : kallanta
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      It's probably better to wait. Save the best for last. I've done that with other book to film adaptations ... : pyide
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        Usually it goes like this: If I've read the book prior to the movie, the movie is almost always a let d... : pyide
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          I read V for Vendetta after the movie though, and I feel like I skipped over parts, or some of it didn't ... : famine101
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  28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead are good newer ones. : iamgoat
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    please don't turn into an infected vs zombies thread please don't turn into an infected vs zombies thread : Horn
    • Do infected really count as zombies. I mean, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie , 'A zombi : capt tripps
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  Dawn of the Dead is the best ever. : virus
  • yes, tied with i Walked With a Zombie. If you haven't seen this one, you should check it out for old sch... : Borzoi
• 28 Days Later Good 28 Weeks Later RAGE QUIT Dawn of the Dead Good Left 4 Dead GREAT! : esecasco
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  i dunno about movies, but i just read world war z and it was god damned amazing from cover to cover. i he... : strider_
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    Here's hoping. I too enjoyed that book a great deal. : ieGod
    • it's the first book i've read in a long time that i talk about to my friends/force it into their hands & ... : strider_
  • I just started it today. So far I really like it! : skinlab133
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  The original Dawn of the Dead is the best zombie movie ever made. It encompasses everything that makes zo... : NastyJack
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    I dig the infected type as well as the more traditional zombie. I'm not an infectist. : mrwolf710
    • I have no problem with the infected either. I think the creatures in 28 Days Later are far more scary tha... : NastyJack
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      It's more the entire premise is entirely fucking stupid, and 28 weeks later was just a complete travesty.... : DerHuhnTeufel
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        Why is the premise stupid? Infected creatures try to kill people. Sounds like a typical horror movie stor... : NastyJack
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          It's not the "infected creatures trying to kill people". It's the entire infection spreading in .2 second... : DerHuhnTeufel
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            I'm just saying if you're going to try and make a realistic zombie movie, at least make try to make it re... : DerHuhnTeufel
            • 28 Weeks Later came out a month before Planet Terror : EvilDolemite
            • Realistic zombie movie eh? Also it's funny that the scene you think is the most awesome is completely ... : NastyJack
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) : Vangoghs Ear
• i really enjoyed [Rec] : shavenewok
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  dead alive : miasma(&)
  • ^^^^^^ right fucking here : wasylm
• Has anyone seen or plan to see Dead Snow? It looks pretty badass. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/... : Perturbation
• Have you seen the NOTLD 1990 remake. Next to the original DOTD, this is my favorite. No slow motion bul... : jahulio2
• Shaun of the Dead is my favorite. Tribute or not...it's done so well and contains the comedic elements t... : ImageOmega
• 28 Days was very good, I also found FIDO to be impressive. : xZanU
• Return of the Living Dead is my favorite. It's cheesy in parts, but that's what makes it great. : Geoffrois
• The great thing about Shaun of the Dead is that it manages to actually be a great "real" zombie movie whi... : s2jason
• Dead Alive : SockMonkeh
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  Shaun of the Dead is a better zombie movie than any other I've seen. : Vincent Grayson
  • This is what I was wondering really. I've watched Shaun a million times and even watched the movie with ... : mrwolf710
• cuz of this thread im watching the old dawn of the dead now. its cheesy and old, but watchable. :) : chilln
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  i enjoyed both 28 weeks... although the first was much better : Poooks
  • ahh i mean 28 days and 28 weeks :P : Poooks
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  Zombie Strippers : FS|Archangel
  • ^^this : Dschinghis Khan
  • yes, this movie is amazing : felicia
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  i've always been a pretty big fan of the original dawn of the dead.. i used to love return of the living ... : wetard
  • fuck i forgot about shaun of the dead.. i'm gonna have to go with that. : wetard
• fido was pretty fun. : ibrokn
• If you aren't going to count Night, then it has to be Dawn of the Dead. : lplasmatron
• You can't disqualify the first one from "best ever" just because you've seen it too much. Besides, it is ... : systatic
• Return of the Living Dead Was my favorite. It was gross, scary and funny. After that, the 70's versio... : CRasterImage
• All my favorites have been named, but Zombie, aka Zombi 2, is also great. It has a zombie fighting a shar : wasylm

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• I find myself not particularly enjoying Just After Sunset. I normally really dig his anthologies, but the... : carrioN luggagE
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  I just read The Stand for the first time and it made sense there, but then again, that book was written q... : Rice Cooker
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    that's a fucking long ass book... I found myself completely skipping the "Trash Can Man" chapters only to... : sludge vohaul
    • Don't do what I did - pick up a copy of the book and read it to find out there were two (maybe three?) ve... : Rice Cooker
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      Dude the Trash Can Man is the best thing in the book. He's awesome. : ConfusedUs
      • my life for you : Deathlove
      • I was in high school and didn't feel like reading about his gay jerkoff bullshit. He annoyed the fuck ou... : sludge vohaul
    • You skipped one of the best characters. :( : walker270
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      i don't think i've ever skipped sections of a novel - abandoned plenty mid-read, but never just jumped ah... : Dave-A
      • It worked in The Stand because each chapter would be about different characters completely. As soon as t... : sludge vohaul
      • I haven't either, and don't get the idea. if a part of it isn't worth reading, then the book isn't. How... : jimmy_legs
      • I have, for sure. Ludlum books I've done that to because the guy just got a little inane and pointless i... : Rice Cooker
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  We live in a world dominated by religions and many people struggle with their religion, what is unrealist... : randomposter
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    He didn't say it was unrealistic : Chris Remo
    • correct, remo. I was tired. : randomposter
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      Railing a core theme of King's books isn't that realistic either. : Rice Cooker
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        Why not? I didn't know King was god obsessed. Useful information. : terath
        • It's just a theme in most of his books that if taken out I think it would be a detractor. The books he's... : Rice Cooker
• you know, i own more king novels than any other author... but i'll be damned if they aren't some trashy s... : erotic sock
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  the best parts are when he spends a few books having characters wonder if he, Stephen King, is God. Over.... : pharoah mike
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    Haha yeah. The Dark Tower series would have been much better if King left himself out entirely. : Perturbation
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      I didn't really like The Dark Tower more or less because of his inclusion into the series. It's his Magnu... : Psigun
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        Well, it was kind of the point of the series, as it evolved, anyway. Hard to just cut it out. : Conan
        • I would have been happier without all of the musings of him being God, then just the voice of God, and th : pharoah mike
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  Stephen King is way overrated. : Haku-Jin
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    I'm sorry but he's not. You don't become one of the most popular author of several generations by being o... : Psigun
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      Twilight. looks like I win. : lakren
      • Twilight around 25 million worldwide, King 300-350 million worldwide. Twilight has a long, long, long way... : mmogger
    • Actually it's very easy to argue against sucess. : themaestro2657
    • Yeah....right.... and Candle In The Wind is the greatest song ever written. : Haku-Jin
    • Oh I am sorry to break it to you but he is. Dark Tower V, VI, VII and retconning Dark Tower I convinced m... : Dr_Cube
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      My argument was that he wasn't overrated, not that he was the greatest writer to ever live. I backed that... : Psigun
      • I really would have liked his Bachman experiment to have continued, to see whether Bachman would have suc... : mmogger
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      exactly why Britney Spears is the best artist on the planet right now and McDonalds the best food ever. : deathofrats
      • My argument was that he isn't overrated, not that he's the best writer on the planet. : Psigun
    • Puff Daddy. : AxeMan808
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    I think he's rated right where he should be: a good writer. And he is. But he likes his schlock, and he... : jasonepowell
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      I don't think he's ever written a good ending. : Haku-Jin
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        Yeah, endings really don't seem to be his strength. He has some great premises. : mittense
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          Every one of his books that I've read has started out great but they've all ended horribly. : Haku-Jin
          • right here, it always has such promise, opens beautifully, then stutters and rolls into the station slowl : pharoah mike
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        Cell started off so well :( I like other stuff he's written like the Dark Tower at least. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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          You like the way it turned into a biography about himself? I enjoyed everything but that stuff about the... : tsuba
          • Dark Tower was awesome up to the point where he decided to finally finish it. :( : Halen
        • Cell did start out awesome, kept me all the way until the floating zombies in fact. His recent stuff has... : dognose
        • Cell started cool but by the middle I felt like he was trying to stretch 150 or 200 pages into 400 and I ... : mikecyb
      • I think he said he doesn't plot out his novels. He starts with an idea and maybe some characters, throws ... : Anti_dentite
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        The ending to the first Gunslinger novel, and almost The Running Man. : locater16
        • If that's the secret to a good King book, he should write all of his stuff as being just an early part of... : pharoah mike
      • Dark Tower says hi : grayscale
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      The Eye of the Dragon. Great book, great ending. : lightly inclined
      • Eyes rather... : lightly inclined
  • Don't you dare insult the writer of Dolores Claiborne :( : woddemandred
  • No he isn't. He's a great writer that millions enjoy. There is a difference between between overrated and... : NastyJack
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    seconded. : Megara9
    • third'd : yosemiteclimber
  • Desperation agrees with you, the book held my attention, but it was not good in any sense of the word. : devi| dog
  • Hell yes he is. The one times he makes an really interesting, original character and he goes fucks it up ... : locater16
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    He isn't rated that high. I think his rating is accurate. He writes easy to read, entertaining fiction wi... : ZombieAcademy
    • Being considered overrated is pretty synonymous with having a high rating. : Rice Cooker
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      What he is best at is characters. He, and Dean Koontz, are both good at writing characters that capture... : CRasterImage
      • His short stories are pretty bad ass, they always seem to be well executed, in almost a storytelling fash... : Halen
  • By today's standards, he's more like the Coldplay of literature. He's there, he's successful, he's compe... : Tawler
• I used to think he was a great talent but no longer. After rereading some of his works I had on my shelf ... : Dr_Cube
• When he dies, no one is going to believe it. : rosewood
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  I really enjoy his supernatural stuff and most of his short story collections. But some of his other s... : johnny rotten
  • I liked The Bachman Books and Four Seasons. And The Stand. Everything else is sorta meh. : AxeMan808

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  i think you meant to say Left 4 Dead : kill9
  • no, he's spot on. : FormerHPB
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    no, not even close. even the makers of L4D admit it's not a true "zombie" game. and it's really not tha... : Korban
    • lol "it's really not that great" okay : kill9
    • oh korban stick to silly pictures : boomstickah
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      neither are that great. but l4d is much better then dead rising. the controls in DR are just plain shit. ... : XchumpoX
      • you're obviously doing it wrong. i've been playing it 10+ hours a week since it came out and it's still ... : kill9
      • What's going on tonight? There is retardness in the air. : dasampla
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        Microsoft Excel, of course, is the best program of the 3. : crummynz
        • I agree. Eve Online is awesome. : zerog83
      • Even if what you said about Dead Rising was true that's not really the point of this thread. And, divo... : mittense
    • you should play it on Xbox Live with us, then you'll truly see how great it is : Halen
    • When did they say that? Link please? : Godhatesfatpeople
    • I played through the first two campaign chapters/episodes last night w/helvetica, ninja techno and my bro... : lefthighkick
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    The zombies in L4D could easily be replaced by aliens. Almost everything in Dead Rising is steeped in mod... : woddemandred
    • They're freaking "infected" : Sailor of Fortune
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      They really should be replaced by Aliens. That would be a sweet mod. : elwood00
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        Naked women. Though I'd never pull the trigger and die every time. Die of happiness. : Trips
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          The bosses could be celebrities. rosie o'donnell as the boomer, amy winehouse as the witch, and I'm still... : Prozium
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            Paris Hilton as the smoker, megan fox as the hunter : Juno
            • "megan fox as the hunter" just gave me a boner : SockMonkeh
            • Yeah, when you shoot Paris she erupts in a cloud of AIDS and fail. : Ride-My-Rocket
        • Children Of The Dead Seed FTMFW. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Disagree'd : thejm4n
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    L4D is a great 28 days later game. : .sticks.
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      Oh, burn. : Arceihn
      • not meant to be a burn. They are infected and they act like 28 days later. It's not a bad thing at all. I... : .sticks.
  • Why would he want to have been completely wrong? : mittense
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    I was very pleased with L4D the five first weeks i played it. Now i'm totally bored with it. It's too dam... : minigomp
    • More content is on the way : Ebu
• I want a zombie mod for gta iv on pc : hirosushima
• I remember getting that the day it came out and playing it all weekend long. Pretty original plot for how... : Sailor of Fortune
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  I wish more games gave you the ability to shoot your enemies legs off and watch them crawl. : Mr.Finkster
  • Oh yeah and the main character's face looked like a toaster wtf was that about. : Mr.Finkster
• I bought it the day it came out, and it's still the last game I bought on my 360. : Chepito.
• lawnmower FTW both in-game and beerwise : eforce98
• if there was a true sandbox mode (no timelimits, no story, etc) it would be even more incredible. : pandastrong
• Not even close. Not even in the same universe. : Ebu
• I was so sad when it quit working that horrible day. Dirty disk faggotry! : .sticks.
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  Such an awesome game, i hope the rumours of a sequel are true. : boredguy
  • it went platinum, capcom would be crazy not to come out with a sequel : qwpeoriu
• Stubbs the Zombie FTW. : Masem
• agreed : kelerian
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  I have a feeling that they'll ruin the sequel by trying to listen to all of the people who whined about t... : pyrogen
  • They already have, supposedly. The Wii version addresses a lot of the main gripes with the original from ... : qwpeoriu
  • It wasn't the non-standard elements that bothered me really. Really the biggest problem was trying to ... : nurglich
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  RE4 >:( : Perturbation
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    No, this is way better than any of the Resident Evil, 4 included. : razlebol
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      Now you've crossed a line into being completely fucking wrong. : mittense
      • I didn't say it sucked. I really loved Resident evil 4, but Dead Rising is much better. : razlebol
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      I have a hard time calling RE4 a zombie game, really. They're not zombies at all. The first one was a bet... : ieGod
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        Exactly, RE4, while fun, wasn't really a zombie game. More like a shooter with bad controls but lots of t... : razlebol
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          There is no way RE4 had bad controls. It had fantastic controls. And you know what? The controls in the r... : ieGod
          • I hated the controls of all the Resident evil. It was fine back when 1 and 2 were released but going back... : razlebol
    • They're two very different games. Even the original (meaning, pre-RE4) RE games that incorporated actual ... : David Craddock
    • Wrong, son! : Magus
    • RE4 is soooooo much better than fucking Dead Rising... : Serpico74
    • What? No. : Ebu
  • Resident Evil 4 didn't have any zombies, therefore, is not a zombie game. : deathofrats
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  I agree. The game has a ton of little problems which, in the end, makes the game way more of a pain than ... : mittense
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    Pretty much. I eventually quit playing because, as fun as it was, I hated trying to wrestle with the gam... : nurglich
    • Agreed. I really wanted to like the game, and it did have its moments, but just ended up annoying me. : opengl128
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  I hate to repeat myself, but Dead Rising sucked. What a terribly broken game. : MikkleThePickle
  • You are broken! : kelerian
  • I restarted four or five times but after that, I had no problems what so ever. It's almost great, but tho... : ieGod
  • I'm with you. I had fun killing a lot of zombies with various weapons, but to actually play the game and... : valael
• Yeah despite its flaws, it's a great game. : lplasmatron
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  Dead Rising has some great ideas, the time mechanic was unique, the open mall was outstanding to explore,... : manlyman
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    "Ring ring ring, ring ring ring. Phone call, Phone call!" - Otis : guido anchovy
    • Not being able to fight and take his calls was annoying as shit. : mancide
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  This is going to sound crazy but I really don't see Dead Rising as a zombie game. Before you all jump on ... : NastyJack
  • But Dead Rising is indeed awesome. : NastyJack
  • Good point, the bosses in the game aren't really related to zombies at all. I can't think of one that is,... : phate81
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    That's what made Romero's dead trilogy work so well. They're movies first and they just so happen to hav... : bcyoohoo
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      I'd say L4D comes closer to giving the feel of being in a Romero movie than any other game so far, but it : aethyr
      • oh, and I think the way L4D replicates this (despite "fast zombies") is because things can be going swimm... : aethyr
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  horrible save mechanic, terrible constrictive time limit, poor shooting controls, fuzzy small unreadable ... : EvilDolemite
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    this is exactly would have typed if i wasn't such a lazy bastard. : busdriver3030
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      ...exactly what i would have typed if i wasn't such a drunk lazy bastard : busdriver3030
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        ^^^ this : jimmy_legs
        • This man speaks the truth. Dead Rising is a broken game. : ihya
  • This : Ebu
  • "poor shooting controls" WTF? It controls just like Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War. Ummmmmmm...... : sevogajre
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    The unreadable text was basically the dealbreaker for me and my brother. : aaarrrgh
    • I don't have problem to read the text at all on my hdtv. I did have problems on my brothers sdtv though. : razlebol
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  Dead Rising's time limit and save mechanic conveyed a true feeling of apprehension and fear to the player... : walker270
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    My only gripe was not being able to unlock a true sandbox mode after a successful completion of the main ... : guido anchovy
    • The whole "my heath is dropping for no good reason" thing sure did suck. I really would have enjoyed pla... : MacemanInTW
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    I hate this bullshit cop-out excuse. I heard the same stuff about RE4 regarding its restrictive control s : Ebu
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      you didnt address the heart of his point which is the save system....I agree with him, that mechanic is f... : kainen1
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        No, he addressed the whole point pretty well. You're the one picking one part out of it. The mechanic (wh... : TrptJim
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          I didn't want a sandbox mode so much as I wanted to have the time to explore and play around a bit in the... : nurglich
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            Sandbox is what you have left when you remove the time restrictions. : TrptJim
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              Doesn't need to have no time restriction, just one that isn't so limiting. It's way too easy to find you... : nurglich
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                This was my problem with Dead Rising as well. I rarely had time to do anything besides go from one story... : Arcanum
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                  The scoops are only optional though. What I did is get the good ending the first time by focusing only on... : razlebol
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                    this is what i really don't understand. there is plenty of time to do all the story missions. the side ... : dopefish
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                      And honestly, that part of the game is one of the things I found to be brilliant. You know of and hear a... : DianeOfTheMoon
                      • I 100% agree with the 2 post above. You can't just do everything in 1 run and I think that is a problem w... : razlebol
                      • I'm pretty much 100% with what you're saying, and that's why I'm willing to excuse a few of the issues I ... : MacemanInTW
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                    Yes, the scoops and the rescuing and all that is optional. No shit. My complaint isn't that I can't do : Arcanum
                    • What?? : razlebol
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        No, it was equally shit. : Ebu
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          I traded the game in to EB for ten dorrars and I felt like I ripped them off. : Ebu
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            Ebu it's not your fault you dont like an awesome game, you just have to let this one go. =( Actually all ... : kelerian
            • No, I happen to love awesome games. But I didn't enjoy Dead Rising. : Ebu
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      It does work within the context of the game though. Metroid Prime did it fanstatically well. And how do y... : ieGod
      • RE4's controls lacked a couple of key elements that kept a great game from being perfect (which Dead Spac... : Ebu
  • It was less apprehension and fear and more frustration and anger. The game was only ever really fun for : nurglich
  • Arbitrary game mechanics are a poor method of creating atmosphere. : Magus
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    I think Left 4 Dead manages to create this feeling much better than Dead Rising. Dead Rising mostly creat... : Vincent Grayson
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      I think Left4Dead creates the feeling of "shoot (almost) everything" really well, and has the atmosphere ... : woddemandred
      • It does have the shuffling mindless zombies, but that's all somewhat negated by the sheer goofiness of al... : Vincent Grayson
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  Negatory. A negative point post count for you. : Rice Cooker
  • Hey, what the hell. There's only room enough for one Rice Master here, and I was here first. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  It had the potential to be. But it was not. : DOOManiac
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    Why did you bring another old post up? : LozAr70
    • It was still on the first page. Fair game. : DOOManiac
    • Oooh, a lecture on shack etiquette from...who are you again? : Ebu
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      lol, off to a great start here : kill9
      • HERE ON THE SHACK WE DONT BUMP THREADS : GloriousCow
    • wtf? are you forbidding him to comment on whatever he wants? gtfo : moshman
    • It's not old until Morning Discussion. : TrptJim
    • uh oh, someones getting a little too big for their britches. : sharpie
• i thought it was terrible, awful awful contols and game mechanics :/ : disembodied potato
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  Just picked this up the other day, haven't gotten a chance to play it yet, but I did play the demo. Look... : Zakko
  • It's a fun game, just be prepared to fight some broken mechanics and don't be afraid to look up item loca... : nurglich
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  It's stylistically very Japanese. I'm eager to see what Blue Castle does with the sequel : spiderfill
  • I want it so hard. : mittense
  • It didn't feel too japanese to me. It doesn't take itself too seriously like GTA3, Vice City and San Andr... : razlebol
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  Its the one game that I really miss from the 360. I plan on picking up the Wii version when it's release... : .Jayson
  • oh god the wii version looks awful : dopefish
• Any game that gives me points for taking upskirts is a fucking winner in my book. : SiW.
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  People who whine about the controls in Dead Rising, or any other modern game, need to learn how to play v... : Kerranger
  • People who whine about the controls in Ninja 2, or any other modern game, need to learn how to play video... : Big Luke
• 'Sup LozAr70? : drbriefs

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• Yeah... no. : Fred Garvin
• gross : dantastic
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  Some people out there have pages / videos on how to swap inner components between the two controllers. Y... : jimmy_legs
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    I did a quick google and could only find info on doing the other (ps3 into 360) Got a link? I'd much m... : Ebu
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      http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/08/an_xbox_360_controller_crammed_into_a_ps3_dual_shock_controllers_body-2... : jimmy_legs
      • lol at that comment : Poooks
  • the inner guts of the DS3 are no joke, just putting that thing back together is near impossible : qwpeoriu
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    wtf do they add analog triggers for left and right too? : wetard
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      all the face buttons on the dualshock since the ps2 have been "analog" (lol) : dodob
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        well i was referring to the left and right "triggers" as they have a whole angle of deflection and shit..... : wetard
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          the ps3 controller (dualshock, non-dualshock) have triggers. : dodob
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            on the forum post I linked, he mentions that the L2/R2 triggers are not analog in his mod because of some... : jimmy_legs
            • lol thanks : wetard
          • well i did say "unless the bottom triggers were always freakishly long and i just didn't remember." sugge... : wetard
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  What? The 360 is generally regarded as one of the best controllers ever made. : Albemuth
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    i was having a hard time with it in psychonauts where i'd have to tareget something with one trigger, con... : wetard
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      also i think the dpad kinda sucks in zsnes and stuff.. samus seems to have a lot of trouble doing the dow... : wetard
      • Use the R and L buttons for angled shots! : nurglich
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    Except in the d-pad, because it's probably the worst ever made. : SiW.
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      Dreamcast : jimmy_legs
      • Yeah, the DC still wins this category, as much as I liked the console otherwise. : Conan
  • Except for the D-pad, which sucks pretty bad. : Conan
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    Well, I'm not a general. : Ebu
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      Reload joke and fire again. : Rice Cooker
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        Where did you all come from all of a sudden? : Ebu
        • I just got done taking a dump, so probably why your post was apparent. : Rice Cooker
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    The original nintendo controller had the best d-pad ever. The controller itself cuts into your heads and ... : Polysorbate
    • the dpad on the Wii Remote / Wii Classic is just about as good. Also, I'd say SNES dpad was the best. : jimmy_legs
• 360 controller > * : rigg5kthx
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  SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH : sesmaster
  • IAWTFP : greh kleh
  • Hahhaha I totally agree : ateam311
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  look at how incredibly wrong you are : opengl128
  • I spit up my milk. : greh kleh
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  forget the haters, I prefer the ps3 controller too. : TPSReport
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    I like the 360 gamepad's shape but I hate the face buttons and d-pad. I prefer the stick layout and trigg... : pyide
    • if only the ps3 analog sticks were further apart, or better yet offset like the 360, and the triggers had... : jimmy_legs
    • That's the main issue. I can deal with the size (although I prefer the SixAxis in that regard also, even ... : Ebu
  • your mom's a hater. : greh kleh
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  http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/3/33/Futurama_Fry_Looking_Squint.jpg : djkenohki
  • this is my favorite post of the year for some reason : JINKY
• I agree with you. I think the PS3 controller is better. I use the 360 wired for emulators and such, but... : Rice Cooker
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  Tell me if you find this. The X360's controller is fucking retarded. : stuka
  • Nothing so far. :( madcatz does have a wired 360 controller that looks slightly different, but it wire... : Ebu
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  And see one of the main reasons I buy all multi-platform games on the 360 is the controller. The PS3 cont... : Pettytheft
  • Only if I play for >5 hours with no break. : Ebu
• It's my favorite all time controller. : AMikaboshi
• i think the PS3 controller would be better with the left analog stick where the dpad is and the dpad wher... : grendel
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  Do you PS3 controller liking people have like asian girl hands or something? I pretty much can't use the ... : InfoBiter
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    You don't have giant hands compared to...what? Jolly Green? :D : Rice Cooker
    • For my height (6ft 2) I actually have small hands and short arms =\ (and no it isn't true what they sa : InfoBiter
  • I'm 6'5" and have appropriately sized hands. I don't feel the need to embrace a controller to use it. ... : Ebu
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  So is this the only ammo the PS3 fanboys have now? : byorn
  • Yes, byorn. This is it. 100%. There is nothing else. And they're all fanboys. All of them. That's right. : d fluke
  • Yes, you caught me. Because I don't prefer the console you favor I am a fanboy. Good eye. I would giv... : Ebu

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  i love your hair : ejectorpod
  • I miss big chunks of it. :( : ThomW
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  You totally missed an I Love the Clock opportunity. : Lunatic Angelic
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    I was more mystified and confused by the clock than anything. What would you do with something like that... : ThomW
    • My first thought was it was a great place to hide a stash as well... which probably means its actually a ... : Horn
• lame, you don't get naked a single time : AllYourBase
• guitard and drumbs : spaceless
• nice haul, I love how you were just slamming the NES carts onto the table. : h o s t i l e
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  "i have no idea what this is" - I think it's a clock? lol : slickdoody
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    I was just confused by the form factor of it. A tiny clock with a glass door that has drawers in it? Wh... : ThomW
    • it's a great place to store all of your earrings and rings drugs : skizl
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  Impossible Mission was AWESOME. incredibly difficult, though. Epyx did NOT play around when it came to di... : AxeMan808
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    I played it on the Commodore 64. What a nightmare. : ThomW
    • Stay awhile...Stay...FOREVEEEERRRRRRR! : AxeMan808
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  WATCH IN HD FOR THE THOMW EXPERIENCE : askedrelic
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    new camcorder... when are you uploading the sex videos thom? : askedrelic
    • At this point not even I want to see that. :( : ThomW
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    I kind of goofed up the quality of it. I didn't have anything that lets me edit mp4 videos so I used Virt... : ThomW
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      damn good looking! what kinda camcorder is that? it's a nice quality video. : Korban
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        You'll probably run out and buy one of these this afternoon. It's a Mino HD from http://www.theflip.com/... : ThomW
        • Nice, this looks perfect for stalking girls at the mall. : skinlab133
        • ok, that's really freakin cool. you're right, if i could, i'd go buy one right now :D i'm gonna have ... : Korban
        • That's a pretty nice bit of kit. Kinda like an iPod-for-camcorders. Looks simple enough for my parents to... : ShekkyBoy
        • If I could take photos with that, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. : jan0r pants
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  Someone send this man a good pair of box cutters : d fluke
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    The scissors were close by. : ThomW
    • Unacceptable. : d fluke
• WOOOOOOO NES : Slowtreme
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  Lol at the rosewood spite. : Hoax
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    Here's a closer look at it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YekA5edXRI : ThomW
    • it's like a garbage pail kid or something, thats great : Slowtreme
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      ahahaha, this is a WE gift that should be regifted every year. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • I'm definitely setting it aside to do just that. I just hope I remember where I stashed it when I start ... : ThomW
    • Beautiful : rosewood
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    OMG That's awesome. : systatic
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      You need to take good photos of that thing and give it it's own thread. : systatic
      • Look above -- I did a video showing what it looks like close up. : ThomW
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  I was watching the NES carts being taken out and thinking "oh hey I used t- WAIDDAMINNIT!!!" My son pr : SiW.
  • my wife and I used the NES system for several weeks when helvetica first sent it to us last year. After a... : El Tigre
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  My woman saw this video last night and was like "THEY STILL SELL MINI NINTENDOS?!?!?". What have you don... : jingletard
  • i think those are actually pretty hard to find. : ass-street
  • A real Nintendo top loader like that is actually quite expensive, around $100 on eBay. However if she's ... : SiW.
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    If you'll actually use it, it's yours. I don't really have any place to hook it up anymore (and play NES ... : ThomW
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      I'll ask my woman tonight and see if she really wants one and I'll toss some cash your way for the troubl... : jingletard
      • Plucking stuff from my WE that I'm not going to use is fine with me. Anyone need a tiny red clock tower... : ThomW
• Awesome top loader NES! : guido anchovy
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  God, you guys live in the same state and shipping was 16 dollars? I'm gonna get raped shipping stuff ove... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    I think that he sent it priority mail, so he probably paid more than he had to. They were two fairly hea... : ThomW
    • Oh yeah, I only notcied that a few minutes in after I made that post. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• hahaha the clock was becki's.. its a jewelry storage thing she hated and wanted to get rid of. The por... : El Tigre
• anticipation is a classic party NES game. so fun : dantastic
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  This one is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rduYuF-yoxo&feature=related : bozer
  • hahaha that is one awesome video. love the music : Mmmmmoo
• Your mad scientist haircut kills me. : omnova
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  hahahahahahahahahahahahaha I love you. : pancake humper
  • hahahahaha, that was amazing. : mittense
• Hahaha, Will and Grace. : mittense
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  i have one of those top loader NESs. arent they like rare? : oHnOES
  • just more valuable due to less flashing power button : dignan
• haha, that's completely awesome! i promise ill participate in the next white elephant! :D : burning eye
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  LOL at teh first related video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu1COhYkhY&feature=related ELephant As... : dignan
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    I can totally see how those videos are related. lol : ThomW
    • of course, you were scourging through someone elses trash too , perfectly sensible! : dignan
  • brings new meaning to junk in the trunk : festivalman
  • ..... I love the cock trunk? : YerMothah
  • oh my : Mr.Fusion
• sweetness! : deject
• Damn, an NES?!? LUCKY!!!! I would love one of those. : virus

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  I'm using plex on my macmini and loving it. They added Harmony support and it fucking rocks my nuts. : rosewood
  • This is the way forward.. unfortunately i'm still stuch with my old xbox running xbmc, but very soon i am... : Arsenal
  • hey how responsive is your harmony with the new .7 harmony support? because it's slow as hell for me. a... : dopefish
• I also gotta say it's freaking awesome. So little user intervention is needed for it to populate your li... : Barnahog
• My WE is totally getting hooked up, when I finally send it. I hope he likes it :D : Yanks
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  the free media center softwares are pulling it together well, but the windows 7 media center is going to ... : Luminair
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    Ok, but how will it do with all the non-Windows codecs? That seems to be my issue right now, among other... : Don Vito Corleone
    • it is a directshow video player like any other, so... get the codecs and install them, the end : Luminair
• Been using it for a long time now. Just got my brother's Mac setup with it. I really love that it reads i... : dudehoyt
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  I've been using MediaPortal for a while. I recently configured it with the TVSeries plugin and it is now ... : ieGod
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    do it : Luminair
    • Alright I made a video just for you. The quality is shit and it's very jumpy but I'll post when it's done... : ieGod
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      TADA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUtTVpZmLs&feature=channel_page : ieGod
      • Setup specs: TV: Samsung 40" LCD, LNT4061F Receiver: Onkyo 502 6.1 receiver PC: AMD Opteron 175 o... : ieGod
      • I fully approve of this video!!!!! but oh snap I didn't see the tv tuner interface. maybe you don't use ... : Luminair
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  Can it do stuff like stream TO a popcorn hour box? : Clay
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    no point, just use YAMJ on Popcorn (yamj + robinsjexcal skin for tv shows) : Shai-Tan
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      can you explain how YAMJ works? I'm little confused about that. : Clay
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        also, does it need a drive installed to use it? can you just use a usb drive? : Clay
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          It runs on a PC and generates what is essentially a web page. So you run it whenever you add new files or... : Shai-Tan
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            awesome - does it basically just become the UI for pch? : Clay
            • i don't have a PCH yet, it's backordered. nas, network, everything is set up. : Clay
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              if you had a hard drive in it you could run a custom index.htm but I just load it from the normal interfa... : Shai-Tan
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                what's the custom index? sorry for all the dumb questions :( : Clay
                • If you create an index.html in the root of your hard drive, then it will open it automatically. So, yes, ... : weaselmeister
        • and no, you don't need an internal drive. I don't have one : Shai-Tan
        • YAMJ just reads the file names and nfo flies in your collection, and then builds a pile of html and xml f : weaselmeister
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  I have Mediaportal running with Moving Pictures and MP TV Series plugins and I love it. : mattfl
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    I don't know what some of these words mean. VIDEO, HOOK IT UP : Luminair
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      Moving pictures and MP TV Series are both plugins for media portal. Moving pictures is for movies and ... : mattfl
      • What skin are you using? I've been on Monocrhome but I recently saw these screenshots for StreamedMP and ... : ieGod
• I am using boxee on my HTPC now and it's pretty cool, hulu takes too much cpu for my oldass AXP box thoug... : Yanks
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  I used to have an old crappy HTPC running Media Center 2005. I got a WD TV HD media player for Christmas... : dchavez999
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    the no-network thing is mindboggling : Clay
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      not really when you consider that the device is really an indirect marketing tool for WD portable HDDs. : dchavez999
      • insightful post : Luminair
      • Does it support multiple drives? And can you copy from one drive to another (say a usb stick to larger hd... : thecray
    • Some people don't have their main PC in wired network range of their TV viewing area. : LilCrypto
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  love xmbc and now even more so with the beta hulu plugin : t0ad
  • Sweet, I'm going to have to check that plugin out. : iamgoat
  • I was JUST thinking today that i would love a Hulu plugin. Where can i get this? : krym3
• I've been considering turning my crystal xbox into something useful, but I never bought the DVD/remote ad... : woddemandred
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  "download the IMDB info for all movies" & "categorizes your files by genre, if you have/have not watched ... : kgargonmagrix79
  • you have to be in Library mode (not "file" mode) for all that stuff to work. But first, you have to scan... : dopefish
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  what sound card and output are you guys using to get dolby or any surround sound out to your receiver? i ... : [fry]
  • My Mobo (MSI) has an onboard optical out that im more than pleased with. No interference and no problems... : krym3
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    What do you use to play it? XBMC? Try using an external player like VLC where you can select the audio st... : ieGod
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      no i'm using media player or MPC or VLC to play it directly out to my TV. i'll try looking for those thin... : [fry]
      • There are options in MPC and VLC to have them pass along the DTS or DD signal to the sound card (to then ... : Prozium
• lol there is no link for the actual XBOX version. : Slowtreme

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  I thought it was only okay the first time I saw it. Then I got a retail job, and wound up watching it ag... : kallanta
  • yea, same here. : dedgecko
  • agreed : riptyde
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  it was good in 1994. Watch chasing amy and mallrats now : HeXoN
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    as long as u promise me they won't disappoint as much as clerks : Poooks
    • no. since you don't like it, don't bother. it's just not for you. : hamachi
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      both of them are much worse, but since you hate clerks you might actually like them. who knows? : pyide
      • i enjoyed clerks 2... maybe clerks was just too old for my taste : Poooks
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        While I would agree Chasing Amy was far worse than Clerks I enjoy Mallrats more than Clerks. Clerks and M... : sigpro
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          sigpro here are the things you're good at: gamerscore here are the things you're bad at: judging movies,... : Deathlove
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            I know you like it and all but you also like the fucking cubs and the bears so that means you like shit ... : sigpro
            • Chasing Amy is the only Smith movie I can watch again. >:( : Super Sparker
  • this is correct - some movies have to be watched during their time, or at least while trying to put yours... : halophoenix
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  I don't particularly like any of his movies, but the Evening with Kevin Smith shows are seriously great s... : Marlin
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    Those are ridiculously entertaining. I've watched the first two, and have the 3rd in queue. I can't be... : DOOManiac
    • I've seen a few of his movies and they just never did much for me. But I think it was the youtube of his ... : Marlin
• I never liked Clerks, but I like most of his other stuff. : edgewise
• I didn't like it either. I like everything else Kevin Smith has done, but Clerks always just seemed st... : DOOManiac
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  Like the second one, hated the first. I just didn't see the point of Clerks being in black and white. : Rice Cooker
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    I think it was because it was cheaper to make that way : bad_fish
    • Really, I hadn't thought of that. The movie was released in 1994, so that does explain a lot. : Rice Cooker
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    if your biggest complaint about a movie is that it is black and white, you fail at movies. : NexusOne
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      Really? Never minding the biggest distraction is that it's filmed in black and white and made in the '90... : Rice Cooker
      • Interesting fact: 50-60 years ago, most films were in black and white, and some of them were even two hou... : nurglich
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    FYI, it's black and white because he finance it himself with credit cards and personal loans. Color film ... : Ctrl-Phreak
    • As I said in a reply, that goes far for explaining it since it was made in the early/mid nineties. : Rice Cooker
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  Clerks was designed for the early 90's late teen / early twenties crowd who weren't particularly ambitiou... : EvilDolemite
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    kids today are more ambitious than they were 15 years ago? I beg to differ. : edgewise
    • the channels for success are much more available i think how many high school kids or even college kid... : EvilDolemite
    • It's a white thang. : ThomW
  • lol Generation X blows : Perturbation
• People have talked about it for years. I've tried to watch it on 3 different occasions. Every time i've f... : Pettytheft
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  The shack has horrible taste on movies for the most part. Don't worry about it too much. : stuka
  • Oh and FWIW, I kind of liked Clerks back when it came out, but I was a lot younger then. I think it's kin... : stuka
• Thirty seven!! And your taste sucks. : Fred Garvin
• I loved that movie. I also worked in a convenience store at the time. Coincidentally, I quit because my b... : Chunks
• Liked it when I was young...though I grew up in Jersey so I'm expected to love it by default. Now I lo... : heartsauce
• It's a vastly overrated movie. I just took the time to watch it and frankly, I still don't see why it wa... : Rice Cooker
• Jersey Girl was great. : kramweil