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  In keeping with our tradition of making really poor decisions, we have asked mikecyb to become our latest : Ajax
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    ahhh fuck : randomposter
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      i mean, congrats mike cyber : randomposter
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        whenever new moderators are announced, people always tell those users "congrats". I don't really understa... : haiku
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          You're not RoboCop. : Bamtan
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            No, but mikecyb is. Remember, it is cyb as in cyber. : haiku
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              So what about haiku? ku as in... Hai Kutie? : Bamtan
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                haikutie was almost my xbox live name : haiku
                • Gay. Oh, by the way, I agree with your "ruins" sentiment, though I can see this place as being fairly goo : Bamtan
                • i've seen that profile on mr.sex's xbox : fletch_
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          i like baby food and killing things i want to be robocop : randomposter
          • ok, but we get to take you out back and shoot your hand off : zakk
        • fuck it, just give me the filet mignon and scotch pureee and I'll take the job : sroylance
        • Ahaha, you nailed it. : brickmatt
        • lol that is the perfect analogy. : hirez
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          This is absolutely true for pretty much all web forums. Becoming a mod/admin pretty much takes the fun ou... : zohar79
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            I disagree when it comes to game servers. I enjoy being an admin because when people start ruining the ga... : Trips
            • On game servers, it is enjoyable. On web forums, a lot less so. : zohar79
        • good point. i feel sorry for mikecyb : Mmmmmoo
        • Congrats Mike! : YerMothah
        • ^^^ this, I wish I could inflol this at work : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • This is a fantastic analogy. Someone make this man a mod! : baronzemo78
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    You made mike a moderator? Mark my words, this can only end in fire! I keed, I keed, please don't ban : Arcanum
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      hey, genjuro as mod hasn't burned this place down (yet) : RikiTiki2
      • Yet. : Arcanum
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        how did that guy get mod? i still don't get it : X-GOUKI
        • affirmative action : smax
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    oh snape : mojo the helpr monke
    • kills dumbledor! : Xanthos
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    holy shit he can thread shit with AUTHORITY o_O : Downforce
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      No, I'm still the only one with that privilege. : haiku
      • It's not a privilege, it's a habit. : Ride-My-Rocket
    • lol.... : ColoradoCNC
  • WTF : RikiTiki2
  • I speak for all of us when I type "this is why we can't have nice posts." : RomSteady
  • I'm loling this. : spazzium
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    he can't be worse than genjuro : Degenerate
    • we'll just see about that! : mikecyb
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      Man, you just had to issue a challenge.... : Arcanum
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        this is mikey we're talking about. he's bound to fail. : Degenerate
        • plus he's.... compromised ................. : Downforce
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    Fool! You have just ensured the doom of this world. You cannot even begin to imagine what you've set in m : TastyWheat
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      You're probably going to be next. The fact that you're a real life cop makes it all the more lols, not to... : haiku
      • I for one enjoy the irony. Plus I had a hot english teacher at school so I can spell. : TastyWheat
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    LOL LOL LOL : askedrelic
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      LOL : askedrelic
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        LOOOOOOL : askedrelic
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          Your so silly. : YerMothah
          • I'm still laughing 4 hours later. LOL : askedrelic
  • motherfuc- oh wait I kind of like mikecyb : glio1337
  • congrats mikecyb! : .Jayson
  • I like you Ajax, but You have made a grievous error. : Ctrl-Phreak
  • THIS IS BULLSHIT : zakk
  • well he was already a bossy son of a- : tashtego
  • mikecyb, I am not sure if I can agree with you anymore! : CrustaR
  • Congrats, you are now part of the elite group of people with green names. : ant_hillbilly
  • mikecyb MK II : ArB
  • Ahahahahahahahaha : loboca
  • You let a fucking Giants fan become a mod? Someone who would fellate Eli Manning if it meant winning the ... : mechanicalgrape
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    I'd like to see him try to ban dahanese and live : hamachi
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      We told him they had to break up if he wanted to moderate, so they aren't together anymore. : haiku
      • Friends with benefits is still cool, right? : dmason
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    mikecyb as in mike-cyb, not mikey. as in "Cyb" as "Cybernetic". *cue remo* : moe6
    • I always read it as 'mike eee see why bee'.. weird eh : biofrog
  • seems like a good pick to me. :) : burning eye
  • poor mikey, this is just going to ruin the shack for him. : yosemiteclimber
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    UPDATE: The mods have decided to all chip in a few bucks to get mikecyb a haircut. Pressure for him to pr... : Ajax
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      Can you make wtf242 a mod for a day, so you can give him a haircut as well? : Ride-My-Rocket
      • lol : devi| dog
      • bwahaha : mrvandelay
    • you should make him get a sweet fade like you were rocking. : sigpro
    • hey, wait. I like his haircut! only because I dont have any... : hirez
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      PRESSURE APPLIED : action wombmate
      • re-apply pressure and repeat. : j0nchan
    • You should have paid for a 'nad wax, then asked for pics. : cerealSAM2
  • damn he said yes ? i thought mikecyb was a lot smarter than that : qwpeoriu
  • what an idiot. : thekidd
  • congratulations michael cyber : packav
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    Wait isn't he the guy who gets on people's cases for mundane posts? : deathofrats
    • yeah hopefully gonna clean this place up a bit : kill9
    • wait isn't that everyone who posts on this site? : gmd
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      Which is why he is perfect to be a mod. He is already filled with hate. : sigpro
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        I dunno, plenty of people are filled with more hate than mikey. I figure he's about a 6.5 on a good day, ... : Bean
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          yeah mikey is not a very hateful person compared to others. : gmd
          • and by others I mean me : gmd
          • Don't get me wrong... he has potential, and that makes me happy: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=1777... : Bean
    • Him and Zakk will be great together. : loboca
  • Great choice to make all the other mods look not-quite-as-retarded. : Deathlove
  • I was expecting it to be me. I embody the shack's counter-culture vibe. : ra1n
  • how long is he relegated to front page thread detail? : pancake humper
  • Ahhh shit, we're screwed now. : devnullgt
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    ohshi : dahanese
    • ursob&'d : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Shit, are my illicit text messages to him ban-worthy now? :( : ejectorpod
  • this is a typo, right? : rosewood
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    This is the worst decision of all time. : soggybagel
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      Let's not get too crazy here. Jokemon and genjuro are both already mods. mikey is Barack Fucking Obama by : Bean
      • Yeah lets just make Trove a mod and get over with it. : soggybagel
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    Ajax why are you doing this to me I'm going to have to make a post where I express how UPSET I am I can't : Morgin
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      That was kinda my thinking. He's an obvious choice and probably a good one. I'm trying to figure out the ... : Bean
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        WTF is the ball gag and hood dahanese makes him wear during sex. I mean, he's the mod, shouldn't be the ... : ejectorpod
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          Have you looked at the moderator list? If so, how can you say that? That's like going to Singapore and vo : Bean
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            I'm glad you said that because I'm too scared to :( : ejectorpod
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              ejectorpod, don't be afraid. None of this actually matters. This is an internet forum populated by a bunc : Bean
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                You mean filtersweep doesn't sodomize the shackers who displease him? God I've been so afraid for so lon... : ejectorpod
                • He hasn't even been able to get it up since 2004! : Bean
                • He can't now that his basement got fucked up in the flood. : sigpro
  • Fuck. : omnova
  • now i have to give sesmaster your phone number : cpt_gloval
  • ill be banned every week : mindshot
  • congratulations mikecyb! the shack now sucks for you! don't ban me, even when i deserve it : EvilDolemite
  • Do mods wear top hats and monocles while patrolling the Shack? : thetangent
  • haha, now you're screwd : naabster
  • well, that still doesn't top JOKEMON : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • One more step in Mark's ultimate plan to make 'Played' the official Shacknews Podcast of Doom : MatthewPhillips
  • He shoulda taken the permaban. : Fyunch Click
  • LOL you poor poor man. : Scotty22
• No good will come of this. : Thresher
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  this is going to end in tears. : Clay
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    Hopefully yours! : brickmatt
    • why u throw chip :( : Clay
• http://www.shacknews.com/extras/guidelines.x needs to be updated at the bottom. : TroZ
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  can i be a mod next : wtf242
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    you already are a mod : Richese
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      no i'm not : wtf242
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        surely you left some back doors... : Richese
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          not sure about left, but pretty sure about entered. : Modulus
          • I'm sorry wtf242, I couldn't resist the setup. : Modulus
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    if you become i will hate you even more and i don't want that. it's better this way. : burning eye
    • a mod. : burning eye
  • Yes. : Ajax
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  can we still call him a fag? : CoRDS
  • sir fag : gmd
  • It's not an insult if it's true, right? : Super Sparker
  • now more than ever : ninjase
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  FPSDAVID FOR MOD 2009! CHANGE! HOPE! FREEDOM! PEACE! LIBERTY! JAILBAIT! : FPSDavid
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    why would you want to be a mod in this place? : deject
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      to ban everyone making fun of his shinypouch boots : Xanthos
      • lol @ "shinypouch boots" : bling1bling
      • wtf shinypouch boots???? : hashd
      • lol that will never end : IHATEDUST
  • +1 for jailbait : tKillbox
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    Does it count as jailbait when they are your age? No, it doesn't. It's you hooking up with a 14 year old ... : Morgin
    • :sigh: I miss high school. : ColoradoCNC
    • Technically yes as I'm 18. : FPSDavid
  • jopapa'd indeed! : Q-ball
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  I guess the dahanese fat jokes are truly dead. :( : skitzo
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    I think you're always allowed to call skinny girls fat. It's every thread we've ever had about a model n... : ra1n
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      ET TU ra1n. :( Where the fuck is msync to back me up here >:( : skitzo
      • Hahah, one love. : ra1n
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        he's in azeroth : Richese
        • Meesa no play WoW. : ra1n
    • what does that have to do with dahanese though? : sammyl
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    Conflict of interest! She's a PR person sleeping with a mod! : Lone Swordsman
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      Oh man. She's not PR. You should see her with PR. It is lolz. : Zhaneel
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        So what does she do? Marketing art? : Lone Swordsman
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          interactive and community. i make things you dipshits like and fight for you. and then you mail me flamin... : dahanese
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            Ah ha! So you ARE in marketing! : Lone Swordsman
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              i'm in the web department, because you can't have a department of one (so we're a department of two.) ... : dahanese
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                Ouch, you two report to marketing? That would be so horrible! : DianeOfTheMoon
                • well it depends what you mean by "report." obviously what i do ties in to marketing... so i work with the : dahanese
  • ^mikecyb's first nuke : Flying h4x0r
• Now any thread criticizing non-Take 2 games will mysteriously vanish.. HAHA NO JUST JOKING CONGRATS MI... : SiW.
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  mikecyb, unban viscid : mr.sleepy
  • only when mods retire do they get to pardon people. : radula
  • Agreed. Free viscid! : itsjames
  • Ugh no no no. : Evil Benius
  • I support this. : Lone Swordsman
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  be sure to change line 82 of shacknews_mod_marker greasemonkey script 172752, // chris remo to : filthysock
  • thanks! : Richese
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    How do we do that? If I hit edit, it opens a file browser... : FPSDavid
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      You poke around the file browser until you find your favorite text editor dot e ex e. : CrazyPants
      • Oh snap, I didn't even see the title of the window, thanks. : FPSDavid
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    Hey, what about ninjase? : Richese
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      I only highlight REAL mods. : rosewood
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        that's pretty racist rosie : Deathlove
        • Doesn't make it not true. : rosewood
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    Is Chris Remo still a mod? : SenorSpine
    • i didn't know he actually ever was a mod : qwpeoriu
    • i dunno, i didn't write the file, just updated it : filthysock
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    Do it for me! : YerMothah
    • talk to ThomW, he maintains it : filthysock
  • Heh, this post has broken the font of every post below. I am using IE 6 mind... : Beady
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  Can I be a moderator? : Maddog_Delphi97
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    You're a secret moderator. : UtilityMaximizer
    • :D : Maddog_Delphi97
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      Hey, you're not dead! : Bean
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        I was lured back to the comments by an overwhelming and tasty emanation of hatred. It turns out it was Cy... : UtilityMaximizer
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          You haven't missed anything. Everything is as it was, is as it will always be. Except now Mr. Cyb as in C : Bean
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            Also - what are you, anyway? A tarrasque or something? : Bean
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              I've taken over Andromeda's old job. : UtilityMaximizer
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                Then why aren't you UTILITYMAXIMIZER? Also, I am jealous. I'm still not efficient enough to subsist on co... : Bean
                • lmao : Downforce
        • Damn, I thought you could sense terrible economic threads with your mind, and that's what it was. But rea... : NexusOne
  • This place would have avatars in minutes if you being a mod is anything like you being a TF2 admin. : NastyJack
• the cyb stands for "Correctin Your Bullshit" : boring gegtik
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  is sexninja still a mod? : feek
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    who? : zakk
    • sexninja!!! : feek
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      worst name change ever : gmd
      • I think you forgot about aCyberneticKeats. Thank god he changed back. : zerog83
• Ajax you need to post more. You're a funny motherfucker and are missed >:( : Dave-A
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  i haven't seen this many chubby chasers uniting together since subjecting myself to haiku's documentary o... : [fry]
  • The documentary on North Korea fits nicely here : bombay
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    oh, will your girlfriend be joining us? : mikecyb
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      it's not impossible, given she succumbs to a sedentary lifestyle and lack of self respect! : [fry]
      • she'll fit in great :( : mikecyb
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  someone needs to update the greasemonkey script that makes mods names green : valael
  • I'll fix it in the morning. I'm going to bed. : ThomW
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  wait which mikecyb is the mod? : Mr.SEX
  • me, mario : mikecyb
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  I still haven't decided if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I mean he pretty much hates almost all yo... : nyranger66
  • "I've always hated you, Socksta" - mikecyb http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=socksta&... : socksta
• lmfao. : virus
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  heehee awesome : Megara9
  • now you really can shack and work at the same time, mike! : Megara9
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  well, congrats mods on making a tough decision. Glad not to be in your shoes and thanks! : terath
  • say, whats your angle here buddy? : Degenerate
• Got your ears on, Mikey good buddy? Seat cover at your back door. : A Sponge
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  it was pretty easy to guess who it was going to be. at first i just recognized mikecyb as dahanese's sid : mXENO
  • I dunno about your wishes re: mikey, but if I was you I wouldn't be holding my breath on that "less stupi... : Bean
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  What do we need more mods for? : Trips
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    Because the Shack is too goddamned stupid and filled to the brim with shit for the ones he had. We're add... : Rauol Duke
    • <3 : scottythejock
    • warmth pours over the shack : handofthrawn
    • Let me show my love for you by posting a random song quote. "You put your left foot in..." : Crimsonbeak
    • thx! -lex : FrayLo
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      i hope you're atleast partly serious : feek
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        this is Rauol Duke. He's serious about many things: drinking heavily, smoking, sport fucking and Maker's ... : Fyunch Click
        • I was going to say "you forgot sport fucking" but then I realized it was already in your list. : ThomW
    • Hah! : lightly inclined
    • Why all the hate for LatestChatty? As far as I can tell the stupidity is contained to the same people who... : tashtego
    • The real problems are with the front page posters right? Right?! : ImageOmega
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      37?! Don't add any mods on the way to the parking lot : skitzo
      • lol. : xxiv
    • haha, word to that. : bakanoodle
• Hey, that's the guy that got my WE 2007 :) Mikecyb, if you censor me I want my stuff back! :P hehe ... : gakera
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  I require a shacknews mod marker greasemonkey script update! : Dynotaku
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    HERE YOU GO : http://lmnopc.com/greasemonkey/shack2007/shack-modmarker.user.js : ThomW
    • awesome. : virus
• may i be the first to say, - goose intestines with black bean sauce to you. : threeup

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  Gimp http://www.gimp.org/ : dognose
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    I want to like The Gimp. I really do. I use a ton of free software, but for whatever reason I find The Gi... : dmason
    • I agree. My fingers and mind are completely Photoshop - oriented. I am installing this getpaint.net t... : CRasterImage
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  Paint .Net http://www.getpaint.net : tbreffni
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    ^^ right here, thread over : oHnOES
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      It's better than The Gimp? : dognose
      • yes but it is still crap. It does get the job done though (most of the time) : Perturbation
      • Yes. By a mile : Horn
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        Ok, I just installed and tried it. The UI is smoother than Gimp. Almost Photoshop-like. However, it ... : CRasterImage
        • I like it a lot more than Gimp mainly because it feels like an actual Windows application. Plus it has... : Schnapple
      • A lot less features but the UI is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000% better because the GIMP is f... : OverloadUT
  • I've got to try this out. I've been using Paintbrush like a mad man lately and it's not a big help. : pauk111
• uh. pics? ^ failures : fuell
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  Post it and we'll tell you. : loboca
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    http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8599/ristafixui6.jpg the right one. i don't know. what u think? : burningpantsman
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      Mobile home'd : goatjc
      • Ah shit, didn't read that last part. Dick move on my part. : goatjc
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      And.. yeah not seeing anything there : glio1337
      • save and zoom in! : burningpantsman
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      NWS for nipples! : sandcrab
      • imaginary nipples! : CRasterImage
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      Who is the creepy fuck looking in through the window on the right? : CRasterImage
      • That's a picture. : ArcKnight
    • Looks like part of the bra to me. : Sailor of Fortune
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      Think its just the shirt underneath has a circle on it. Perhaps with bad placement, though. . . : the_burd
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        I circled it: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6239/kconstrastpe9circledn1.jpg : burningpantsman
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          What? Why on earth would you think her nipple was up there? I am beginning to suspect that she isn't y... : CRasterImage
          • lololol : DooBall
        • You're so very wrong. Clearly her nipple is exposed here: http://www.shackpics.com/files/kconstrastpe... : sandcrab
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          Dude, that is a bit too high for a nipple methinks. : glio1337
          • Seriously guy, that's too high. What you're looking at is a shadow from her hair : glio1337
        • ... That's her hair combined with a shadow of her hair, and it's in a location that is very unlikely to c... : Ctrl-Phreak
        • I don't think you've seen a topless woman. : ieGod
        • seriously dude? : synapse19
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          bags of sand : feek
          • lol, i was gonna say. : bling1bling
        • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shacknews post : Luminair
        • If that's a nipple it's a witch's nipple. : ArcKnight
        • Hahahaha I have never seen a woman with nipples on the top side of her breast...... : hashd
        • hahahahahahaha : wasylm
    • Hmm, can't tell. Post a pic of her without a top on so we can compare. : loboca
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      If her nipples are up that high with big knockers like that she must have grown up sucking on car batteri... : tKillbox
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        yea seriously there is no way that's her nipple lol : eeeealmo
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          that's what i don't understand but it defiantly is. zoom in!!! : burningpantsman
          • I'd have to see a topless picture to compare : tKillbox
          • Dude, are you on drugs? It's ok, you can tell us. : Ctrl-Phreak
          • It's a weird looking shadow from her hair : Flying h4x0r
          • definitely!!! : derelict515
    • Hahahahah. have you ever seen a nipple before? : pilgrimage
    • i don't see it, maybe you should post pics of her breasts so i know what im looking for : Modica Sol Solis
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      Also, * B A G S O F S A N D ' D * : glio1337
      • hahaha : synapse19
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      She is probably 13 but I would fuck her until she looked like Jeff Goldblum in the fly. : gmd
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        lmao of all the ways to end that sentence its like it came from a random "I would fuck her until" gene... : Luminair
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          I was thinking of something horrible and you really can't get worse than Brundle Fly : gmd
          • She is probably 13 but I would fuck her until she looka lika man : Luminair
          • Brundle Museum of Natural History : cerealSAM2
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  Gimp. Unless you are a hardcore photo/print developer, it should have everything you need. : DianeOfTheMoon
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    have they added a main pane yet? I hate how it's just a bunch of scattered windows. worst UI decision e... : mikecyb
    • Someone made a version that uses MDI - http://www.gimpshop.com/ : ZeroSignal
• Gimp : CRasterImage
• Aviary : carnivore
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  damnit, i cant find it, but someone posted a web based thingy the other day that was amazing. : onji
  • aviary : carnivore
• you need to save it to comp and zoom in. try this one: http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3108/kconstrast... : burningpantsman
• Picasa has some brilliant, dead easy photo editing features. : Albemuth
• If you're on OS X and want something lightweight, try Seashore. http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ : senseimoron
• http://www.sumopaint.com/web/ this thing is free and sweet, I have it bookmarked for when I'm on a PC wi... : stonedonkey
• I have GIMP on a USB key since my job doesn't have photoshop and I need to use it every so often to edit ... : grabbie
• Photoshop...LOL : soggybagel
• http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~ifjkl/pics/schauspieler/stephen_hibbert.jpg : rosewood
• Adobe Photoshop Express https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html : kramweil
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  Wait what the fuck. Your girl's myspace? Not according to this post: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=... : Modica Sol Solis
  • Oh what a tangled web we weave!!! : LilCrypto
  • busted! : sandcrab
  • How sneaky of you! : dmason
  • The shit has done been brought! : mechanicalgrape
  • SNAP : askedrelic
  • My word! : megarust32
  • haha the shack never forgets! : yosemiteclimber
  • one might say his pants are on fire. if one were so inclined. : mikecyb
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    wtf? There's no way there is a nipple in that picture. Have any of you people seen a breast before? : aethyr
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      I don't think you understand. Read the OP of this thread and then read the post Modica linked to. : mechanicalgrape
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        http://www.shackpics.com/files/nipplediagram_g2vpqlwpivdawdxq8z1p.jpg : aethyr
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          It's not about the picture. : mechanicalgrape
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            OP of this thread + http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19001446#itemanchor_19001446 : aethyr
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              er, I mean http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19066047#itemanchor_19066047 : aethyr
              • sarcasm is lost on you, apparently? : Modica Sol Solis
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                http://www.shackpics.com/files/facepalmec247047_t0p2bgv9xezc9nrps085.jpg : mechanicalgrape
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                  I don't get it, indosaurus in the other thread, and burningpantsman apparently both think there is a nipp... : aethyr
                  • lol : Modica Sol Solis
                  • Haha this gets better with each reply : OverloadUT
                  • Check the post dates Holmes : Bamtan
                  • :o : indosauros
                  • so have you been clinically declared retarded yet? or is this one of those things that you're waiting to ... : sKetchflow
                  • Oh aethyr. :D : lord warlock
                • thank you, i couldn't find this specific one. : siknsyko
    • hey, i think your reply's supposed to go up there ↑ : Modica Sol Solis
  • creeeeeeepy : Bamtan
  • CREEPY : feek
  • I knew that picture looked familiar somehow LOL : Sailor of Fortune
• Guys and girls your obviously missing the only truth here. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. It's a third nipp... : massdev
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  what is this : mindshot
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    A bit creepy, that's what it is. : ColoradoCNC
    • seriously he probably stared at that picture for the past seven days, just masturbating and crying and st... : Modica Sol Solis
• LOL U FUCKING STALKER LOLLOLOLOL : Melll
• Oh, shack. You always deliver. : d fluke
• god youre a faggot : mega man

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  Does Lionhead still work on Black & White 3? : enyakk
  • Spore was made by Maxis. : Arceihn
• It could have been, but once it became only about the money hats, it was doomed. : massdev
• my biggest disappointment last year : Mmmmmoo
• i thought it was fun. i didn't follow the pre-game hype, and i was in a headspace when i played it when i... : dahanese
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  can someone name the last game that has actually lived up to the hype? I havent played a new game in a wh... : mindshot
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    Left4Dead? Gears 2? : GeorgeB3DR
    • dude shackmessage : CoRDS
    • L4D is pure greatness. : YoYo
    • Gears 2 lived up to jack and his friend shit. : sKetchflow
    • L4D had hype? I don't remember seeing much about it on the shack until it was already here and everyone w... : Caboose
  • Fallout 3 is amazing. : Arcanum
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    FABLE II : dahanese
    • Except for creepy eye stalkers right? : DrZettl
  • Left 4 Dead : Mmmmmoo
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    Mount & Blade : AxeMan808
    • no hype on this one, it had to be almost resurrected or brought to life by steam. iirc it has been around... : jane911
  • Rock Band 2, COD4, L4D, MGS4 : kallanta
  • Red Alert 3 : rosewood
  • gta4 , saintsrow 2 . : CoRDS
  • Fallout 3 for me : indosauros
  • Fallout 3 yes : xxx2xxx
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    super smash bros brawl : haiku
    • really didn't do it for me. : naios
  • Fallout 3, Gears 2 : derelict515
  • Fallout 3 & Left 4 Dead definitely stand out. : Psigun
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    Like others have said, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead. : Poor Yurik
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      i never played the previous fallouts, and the closet thing Ive played to an RPG was SS2. someone should m... : mindshot
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        The only similarity between Fallout 3 and the old Fallouts is the theme. The gameplay is actually much c... : Poor Yurik
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          i guess the one thing in fallout 3 (from what ive seen) is the amount of dialogue. It seems overwhelming... : mindshot
          • You don't, so stop posting and play Fallout 3. I guarantee you will not be disappointed. : quadeh
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    Witcher EE : MeestaNob
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      Does the combat ever get interesting? That's what's stopping me from going back so far, and I don't think... : node
      • Hmm, for me its all a bit too Diablo click-click-click rather than Baldur's Gate click/select appropriate... : MeestaNob
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    Dead Space : Juno
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      I think I have to play this game. : mindshot
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        it's the most fun I've had in a singleplayer game in a looong time. : Juno
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          I still need to finish that game. I like it, but it's a little draining to play for more than a couple ho... : ColoradoCNC
          • yeah I did it over a week or so of playing it every day, which means a little under two hours at a time. : Juno
    • I beat the leviathan last night. Really loving this game - I think I'm over halfway through now but I don... : jbury
    • Yeah Dead Space needs more love. : baron calamity
  • GTA4 or Fallout 3 : ColoradoCNC
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    left 4 dead, fallout 3, crysis, farcry 2 : ifallible
    • deadspace : ifallible
  • Double Dragon DS : mr.sleepy
  • Super Street Fighter 2 Trubo HD Remix : CoRDS
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    Dawn of War 2 : SockMonkeh
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      Crysis : SockMonkeh
      • Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, GTA 4 : SockMonkeh
  • CoD: WaW was really slagged upon a great deal before it was released, but I thought it was really a great... : LemonJoose
  • TF2, L4D, DoW II :) : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Fallout 3, Gears 2, Fable 2 : Pettytheft
  • Every Blizzard game. : [7]kami
  • Mass Effect : dirge23
  • HL2, Fallout 3, Civ IV : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Fallout 3 delivers. : Supine
  • Metroid Prime. : lowayne
  • GTA4 : atom519
  • Basically every game I buy. : freakynipples69
• yes, it was. The second i read that they changed the entire game from what they originally showed, i knew... : -=kodiak=-
• The fact there's not autosave's at the beginning of each new era boggles me. I made it to the space ag... : Sailor of Fortune
• It wasn't very good unless you just liked creating buildings and ships. I tried to get far in the Space ... : Richese
• I had a lot of fun with spore. Seriously it kept me solidly entertained for like 2 weeks. : sparkly
• As soon as it was revealed that the game was changed to have more to do with intelligent design and less ... : Drewus
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  Slight hijack: We should have a "28 days later", where we take a second look at a game 4 weeks after it w... : Tissen
  • This is what I do with every shackhyped game. The shack and I generally disagree on what is and isn't a g... : Drewus
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  Have there actually been any games with a larger Hype:Disappointment ratio released over the last few yea... : Stage
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    Age of Conan : mem
    • ^^ This. : Bamii
    • Its a great game for the first 20 levels : retardhumper
    • Spot on. : [7]kami
  • to those who were following it, Vanguard otherwise, no : Modica Sol Solis
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    Hellgate London : LemonJoose
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      For me, this would have to take the cake. I was sooo looking forward to a "3D diablo 2"... and it was com... : ramshot
      • what really sucked for me was how good the demo was, it also seemed to look better too than the final pro... : Sailor of Fortune
      • The worst part for me is that it wasn't complete shit. Rather, it was just shitty enough that you knew it... : quadeh
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      Tastywheat agrees: for my WE he sent me this http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u7rWwPNSXXCJOrFumrby7w... : filthysock
      • This is what I got for my WE: http://sailor_of_fortune.shackspace.com/Pictures/WE2008/IMG00024-20090123-... : Sailor of Fortune
      • Ha, that's a great present. : Dontdrop
    • HGL was better than I imagined. i enjoyed the game in single player. Multiplayer blew. : baron calamity
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    Tribes 3 possibly, the shackhype wasn't as strong as the others but we stopped talking about it after lik... : bashildy@speakeasy.net
    • Oh and Deus Ex 2, but we saw that coming. : bashildy@speakeasy.net
    • Which really frosted me off, because Tribes Vengeance was fantastic. We should've STILL been playing it ... : Lone Swordsman
    • They slowed it down quite a bit from the beta so it was a lot less fun. I still install it from time t... : melkore
  • Master of Orion III Black & White : Rice-Rocketeer
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    You probably mean that the other way around : Chris Remo
    • Actually, it's not a ratio you want, since that only describes the large gap between the amount of hype b... : spiderfill
  • How much hype did Tabula Rasa get around launch time? : DrWaffles
  • warhammer online : maulla
  • Quake 4 : strandgeck
• i thought spore was awesome. for a week! replay value not so much that is why everyone bags on it. : podizzle
• It was not shit. However I was dissapointed in that I bought it. It was like getting duped into buying an... : byorn
• Deffo, I haven't played it since i paused it at the village building part like 6 months ago...I have no d... : niceguynick
• I liked the tidepool phase. After that I got frustrated. : The_Archon
• I thought Spore was fun. : Arcanum
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  It was worse than that. It wasn't good but wasn't bad. : cdbeckman
  • It falls into a category of games I hate the most. The ones that review well, have excellent concepts and... : cdbeckman
• I wouldn't call it shit... i enjoyed some of the game, but got bored with it pretty quickly. : Shadowdane
• I had loads of fun with the creature editor when it came out - but I got the full game on launch and I ju... : jbury
• It was a huge disappointment but it wasn't a pile of shit. The creation part was great. Just wish there w... : baron calamity

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  rosewood's posts have convinced me to get the X25-E : dextius
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    oh, how big is windows 7? fully installed? 30 gig formatted enough space? : dextius
    • My windows folder is 7.25 gb on this install of 7. : sigpro
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    that is brutal because his posts were about X-25M : Luminair
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      yeah, but i figured, this is my last new pc for a long time, so i better make it totally over the top.. ... : dextius
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        yeah that doesnt make sense though because x25-e isn't faster at workstation loads, and ssd prices are fa... : Luminair
        • yeah, ocz just released some models that are half the price of the low end intel model and just barely tr... : Prozium
    • also that is what I get for copying something from his post history, it is X25-M to be precise : Luminair
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  I might get one the next time a build a system for my os drive. i'm a least a year away. : baron calamity
  • By then you should be able to get a 512GB for like $100? : baconisgod
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  how reliable are these things? : IcomeINpeace
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    Well to me that is the primary benefit, you don't have to worry about failure. The mean time is usually o... : baconisgod
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      interesting...what about corruption? : IcomeINpeace
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        From what I have read all SSD's have a partition of sorts which reserves space for any failed memory chip... : biofrog
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          actually when you buy 256GB you are getting more than that, and you're allowed to use 256GB of it some... : Luminair
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            Are you sure? I'm not referring to the 1,000,000 byte variation in old hard drives. According to http : biofrog
            • well the manufacturer can build it and then advertise it however they want, but the good ones won't sell ... : Luminair
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      Are they really that stable? Got a link to any info I'm lazy. : Richese
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        generally about 1.5 million hours. I think that's around 180 years http://www.ocztechnology.com/produc... : baconisgod
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          Holy shit. I would have thought that they would be worse than a SATA given how new they are. : Richese
          • Blah, platter not sata : Richese
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            well there are no moving parts so there's nothing to "fail." The sectors have a write limit but due to in... : baconisgod
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              I have a holy boat to sell you if you think semiconductors don't fail : Luminair
              • Well, they probably fail less often compared to mechanical parts spinning at high velocity. I'm not sayin... : baconisgod
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      As long as you don't RAID them. The OCZs and Mtrons we've tried to configure in RAID-5 and RAID-6 arrays... : Ride-My-Rocket
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        That's interesting. Have you used any in a simple RAID-1 environment? I'm just curious since that's what ... : dmason
        • The only time we use RAID-1 is on our web servers, and only with HDDs. : Ride-My-Rocket
      • My X-25Ms have done fine in RAID-1 : rosewood
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        did they ever give you a reason why they failed like that? : hamachi
        • haha, no. We've been involved in a multi-month argument to get a refund for the drives. It's been a ton... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      that is wrong because ssds have failed, but I guess you can't be blamed for believing the marketing mater... : Luminair
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        Damn, and I was starting to get excited :( : Richese
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          nothing is invincible, everything important needs a backup, don't expect that to change : Luminair
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            I'm just anxious to move on to tech that is more reliable than what we have today. I do backup regularly... : Richese
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              the more reliable tech you're going to get is called "the cloud" billion dollar companies do a much be... : Luminair
              • Yea, the could makes me a bit nervous though. Hopefully Google and Microsoft will compete each other to ... : Richese
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        Can you post the links to SSD failures? I have friends in data recovery who are very interested in how to... : baconisgod
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          The anandtech review of the X25-M has a great section on SSD and MTBF. : rosewood
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            k, so I went and looked at that http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=4 ... : baconisgod
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              Yes. On top of that, when Intel releases their monitoring tool, it should be pretty easy to know when a d... : rosewood
              • please post when they do that. I'll probably wait till then : hamachi
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          if your friends in data recovery need help from me then they need a lot of help. but I'm just talking ab... : Luminair
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            I'm just saying they have not had someone come in with an SSD failure yet. A link would be helpful becaus... : baconisgod
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              http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9896566-64.html "Currently failure rates for SSDs are running a full o... : Luminair
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                also if you're asking if I think your friends will be out of their jobs because ssds will be a lot more r... : Luminair
                • thanks for the links, this is good information. : baconisgod
    • heres a review of one of those cheaper mlc drives that explains it pretty well. http://www.guru3d.com/... : re4ctor
• I figure next year I'll be replacing my system/non media drives with SSDs. This year there's too much of ... : Jonathan
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  G.Skill Titan 256GB is my choice right now.. Decent performance comparative to Intels, without the massi... : biofrog
  • wow this looks great. : ant_hillbilly
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    I'm thinking when those get down to the $250 range I'll suck it up and go for one. I could even stomach ... : smacknca
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      I would be surprised if the 128gb titan isn't $250 on sale / after rebate this summer, so you might get c... : Luminair
      • newegg had it at $300 but they bumped it +10% already, they must be selling well. : dooberzoo
  • the newegg comments aren't too promising, but then again, it's newegg comments.. will look at it a little... : dextius
• Get the smaller 80GB version for under $400, install the OS and critical apps/games to it, and buy a big-... : Ride-My-Rocket
• I wish apple would have the option of replacing the cdrom with another drive or two. : jayares
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  Most of those drives are absolutely shit. Except the intel one. : rosewood
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    What you have to consider is the shit / $ ratio however 8-P : biofrog
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      The drives with the JMicron controllers that cause everything to stop when they shit down their pants are... : rosewood
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        The G.Skill Titans do use the JMicron, but there's no micro stutter according to the bit-tech review, app... : biofrog
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          I still trust the Intel controller over anything else. : rosewood
          • Me too! : biofrog
        • yeah, I need to see more tests. they just moved the overflow ceiling higher and I'm not convinced those b... : zakk
    • No, they're just shit. A standard HDD will be better than then in every way except for noise/heat. : nudel
• I didn't even know they had 160GB versions of the X-25. $800 though.. I'll probably grab one when i... : DOOManiac
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  When you look at things like boot times and level loads in games, which are basically exactly the kind of... : SenorSpine
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    that is a correct way to look at it too. one thing I'll add is that I saw some good game benchmarks comp... : Luminair
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      But generally you could just throw more RAM at a system and probably get similar results no? : SenorSpine
      • theoretically, not generally :) in reality there are too many layers between the game and the ram to mak... : Luminair
      • But what do you do when you have already done that? SSD, that is what. : rosewood
  • I'd just want to get one to see these 8 second vista boots some people talk about. : valael
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    they're awesome in laptops for battery time though. : the rizzo
    • that is a bit of a myth or a bit misleading, only because 5400rpm 2.5" hard drives don't use much power e... : Luminair
    • Hard drives are a small part of a laptop's overall power usage, small enough where lowering it to even 25... : TrptJim
    • Probably true for the system drive but there's debate on that for secondary drives. (Which admittedly isn... : nudel
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  Can't wait to stick an affordable 250+ GB SSD in this MacBook. OSX pretty much runs like butter from a 54 : rudds
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    hahaahahha good one : Chandler55
    • I know I laughed so hard : tKillbox
• I would not buy anything but the Intel. I have an OCZ series II drive and it is a worthless piece of shit... : nudel
• wouldnt it be better to have a SSD for your Virtual Memory Page File? : Antilles_Prime

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  you're training them up real nice, just don't have friends with children over : filthysock
  • goddamn pugs will tear your heart out. : yosemiteclimber
• bite back! and pics of dogs. : hamachi
• ginger alert! : Unleashed
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  oh you're that fat kid with the freckles, nice to know : EvilDolemite
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    old news, faggot! : [fry]
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      hey you ever going to visit up here? : EvilDolemite
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        last time i was in austin was during ike. you're quite welcome to visit me though! wtf242 pussied out.... : [fry]
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          god, it's such a long drive though : EvilDolemite
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            you ever shoot a fucking noveske with a 16" barrel and 1/7 twist with your left hand on a larue forward g... : [fry]
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              goddamn this post really made me wistful.. if i'm welcome at your residence i'll be there... : EvilDolemite
              • see. see. and i didn't even mention the abundant pussy or good food. you're always welcome! i invite s... : [fry]
            • Fuck quakecon, I'm coming to Texas to hang out wit [fry]. : yosemiteclimber
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              You actually bought an ACOG? Fucking shit. : ArcKnight
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                TA31RCO-M4 calibrated for 16" barrel out to 600 yards. you have a boner, don't you. and i know you do ... : [fry]
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                  Yes, yes I have a raging boner right now. I just bought a Bushmaster 16" a few weeks ago, and I haven't h... : ArcKnight
                  • I don't wanna get fucking shot if I visit fry : EvilDolemite
            • If I ever come through Texas I'm totally stopping at your house [fry]. : ColoradoCNC
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  i get whistletits dog really riled up and she bites and scratches hard. she shit all over the floor yeste... : wtf242
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    no, not cool. dogs should not bite you or scratch you (unless you're hurting them). also shitting on th... : EvilDolemite
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      I opened the garage last week and she ran out and into the street. I chased her down the street for 10-15... : wtf242
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        how the fuck did she get to escarpment? you have that huge wall..did she run all the way to the corner an... : EvilDolemite
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          no.. my garage. i opened it and she ran through the open garage. She's still a puppy. : wtf242
          • she ran all the way down my street, turned, then ran towards escarpment is what i mean : wtf242
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        chasing a dog is the worst thing you can do because they just fucking run faster since their flight insti... : mikecyb
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          i tried that once before when whistletits accidently let her out. I watcher her run all the way down the ... : wtf242
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            well I guess more training is needed :( you really shouldn't let her off leash outside if that's how she... : mikecyb
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              it's his roomate's dog..not his problem. i mean, i don't want the dog to die, but he can't be responsibl... : EvilDolemite
              • oh yeah I'm not saying wtf242 has to do it, I didn't mean to imply that really : mikecyb
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              he is moving out tomorrow so none of it matters to me anymore! : wtf242
              • wtf no more whisteltits roomie, what happened?! : mikecyb
              • 242, can I move in now that whistletits is moving out? : CrustaR
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    i work them into a frothing fury. their tails wag so hard during our "fights" you'd think they'd break of... : [fry]
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      and then you mount them. you think it's to assert dominance, but the next thing you know a raging boner p... : tashtego
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        they prolly lay back and accept it. dirty little pugs. : wetard
        • only [fry] can finish the story. he needs to go to his place of power. : tashtego
• What the hell? Time to put them down like old yeller with your AR-15 : semaphore
• I can only imagine you as Alfred E. Neuman now : Bamtan
• pics of dogs : SockMonkeh
• Nice freckles, freckles. : GodZilly
• Looks like flies shat all over your arm. : DrZettl
• I miss my dogs and their biting problems so much :(. : Malku
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  Speaking on behalf of PETA, I'm GLAD your arm is bloody >:( : dognose
  • I saw this on a t-shirt once and laughed. "Vegetarian: Old indian word for bad hunter." : erebus
• I like my dogs, specially my chihuahua-shiatsu. He just runs at you and head-butts you with love :) : Darkfox76
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  gegtik i need some feedback here : [fry]
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    easyscreens is blocked at work as are most free image hosts other than shackspace so i cant help you out ... : boring gegtik
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      http://i44.tinypic.com/6419c5.jpg : Phil
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        blocked. : boring gegtik
        • You'll want to look at this one when you get home. : Phil
• rest of series plz : fathertime
• ginger! : Antilles_Prime
• I hate pictures from people in Texas because they always have these nice houses they probably bought for ... : tashtego
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  That's one girly looking arm.... I'm a little turned on right now from all them freckles. I bet you look ... : voodooraze
  • basically, i do : [fry]

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  Fill the kettle with water and turn it on. : A Sponge
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    I can't find the switch on my kettle. :( : SilverSnake
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      What can you see around you? : johnsto
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        Do you see a big blue E or a big green N? ...a big black nothing, right. I'll be surprised if anybo... : ErikTehRed
        • Wow that's really old. 3 dead trolls in a baggie. : malevolence
        • I asked that question myself quite a few times :P I never got that answer, but one time I got "I don't... : s2jason
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        I got my kettle here, it's full of water, but there's no switch on it to turn it on. In fact, I can't fin... : SilverSnake
        • > shake kettle : johnsto
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  ive found some decent answers from it among the idiocy. : podizzle
  • There are some decent answers, yes. When I find the mind-blowing retarded ones though, it just makes me ... : industro
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  If you think that place is bad you should see the shit that is asked at shacknews.com : ryuuseki
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    How much should I tip someone who gives me advice on Yahoo Answers? : risimage
    • [Insert Reservoir Dogs quote here.] : hoov1185
  • This girl wanted to "have sex with me". I don't know what to do shack, please advice. : -efx-
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    Dear Shack. I have worn my pants for 427 days now with out washing them or taking them off. Well I want... : risimage
    • wear slightly cheaper, slightly less raw denim over the top. continue until you hit the present. : 60days
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      this is the best you could come up with? : FrayLo
      • look through his post history and you can find plenty of good examples : maulla
  • My chest hurts and my left arm is tingling. Should I wait it out? : Kaerof
• HOW IS BABBY FORMED : airmaus
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  Don't knock experts-exchange, I've found job saving information on there at times. No joke. : festivalman
  • ^ this ^ : mrvandelay
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    expert sex change should be barred from google i hate that fuck siet : boring gegtik
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      no it's good. : redfive
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        they are IT cockteases and should be punished : boring gegtik
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          scroll all the way down gegtik : redfive
          • i dont have time for this!!! : boring gegtik
          • aaaaaaaall the way down. I love how they give you all the answer blurred out so it looks like you have t... : Horn
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      If you just realize that the answers to the question is available if you scroll all the way down, past al... : SilverSnake
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        They used to have everything hidden though, you could get past that by clicking on "cached" in google... ... : davidc02
        • Yeah, usually it's a mod marking the only answer as accepted as well, I check there just in case some gem... : vov1n
  • job saving information lol what? : MagicWishMonkey
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    job saving? No. But i have found answers there plenty of time that have helped me. : pukerat
    • they had an answer to an obscure exchange 2003 to exchange 2007 connector issue that stumped microsoft 25... : festivalman
• A great place to meetmeat people : retardhumper
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqv9Xz2zMqo8EZoV6Y2bp10jzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20081001091432AAJn9f... : strandgeck
• When everyone's involved, you never know which side of the IQ bell curve you wind up sledding down. : cerealSAM2

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  Watch the four-episode miniseries then Season One then never watch another episode again. : mittense
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    Er, two hour miniseries? Fuck I can't remember. : mittense
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      3 episode, 2 hour I believe : indosauros
      • 2 parts, 4 hours (3 without commercials) : jonas54
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    Ignore this guy, just be ready for a decline in quality. : megarust32
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      Not all of us think it declined in quality. Well, there was the occasional lame episode. But whatever... : Ovate
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        Yep. There are less than stellar episodes in each season, including the first. That doesn't mean one shou... : Ely
        • It's definitely still awesome, but I do miss the barely surviving feel of the first season. : valael
      • agreed, there are some nothing episodes in there, but overall its still excellent and its better now in s... : thewindcriesmary
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        Yeah, there hasn't been a sci-fi show that lacked any 'filler' episodes. BSG at least is pretty few and t... : Sailor of Fortune
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          So why was everyone unimpressed by Season 3? Honest question. So far I've actually liked each season more... : Arceihn
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            Season 3 seemed to have added a lot of the emo episodes. But all that got swept away at the very end. But... : Sailor of Fortune
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              That probably explains it. I really liked the Cylon stuff and the darker episodes were some of my favouri : Arceihn
              • That and the whole Helo being a bitch on more than one occasion. : Sailor of Fortune
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                Whoa, whoa, whoa, Adama did what? When did that happen? : evildanish
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                  I think it's in a Season 3 episode called 'Hero'. Adama sent a recon pilot out over the armistice line to : Arceihn
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                    Hmm. I remember that episode, but what I got from it was that it could possibly have set off the war, but : evildanish
                    • The reasons for the Cylon invasion was always a mystery - it was seemingly unprovoked. You're right that : Arceihn
          • From the end of Season 1 onwards it felt like the show was becoming more serialized, which I really liked... : transmetal
    • I don't think it declined in quality at all. I think it just kept getting better. : Vantage
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      It's not so much a decline in quality, just less consistency. In the Mini Series and Season 1 just about... : SolrFlare
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        The main "problem" you describe I don't see as a problem at all. It's always been about how humanity deal... : shyguy74
        • Oh while I agree that it's very much about humanity, in fact they've explored many angles from how humani... : SolrFlare
      • I agree with all of that : megarust32
      • well put. i'm with you on this one. : Mmmmmoo
      • You are crazy. Season 1 is the worst... I hope you are kidding when you say every episode was excellent. ... : Wisp!
  • Omg, I defy anyone to watch that cliffhanger at the end of Season One and not want to watch the rest! : fleabug
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    No way. Season 2 is amazing as are the rest. My favorite episode in the series is still "The Captain's ... : Richese
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      haha at least watch half of the entire series before you throw in the towel, that is a good way to tempt ... : Luminair
      • I know but it's true! : Richese
    • Season 2 had my favorite episode too, mine was "Scar" : MoreVespeneGas
  • No! Bad advice! Bad! Go Lay Down! : Kaerof
• Miniseries, yes. Then begin season one. : Deathlove
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  The season one box set comes with the miniseries as the first disc. Start there. : megarust32
  • now I just need to convince the gf to put these on her netflix, or I guess I could just take the leap and... : BigCooter
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  Make sure you watch the mid series programs like Razor : rosewood
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    Actually that is one episode he could probably skip. It didn't bring anything new and it was just a re... : MrLobo
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      It's a fun watch though, lots of action etc. : Richese
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        And the chick is hawt! : shyguy74
        • Most definitely! : Sailor of Fortune
        • she's on terminator now : Richese
• Nope, don't do it. The fuck up the ending. : liquidlies
• Don't : genjuro
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  Aussie SCIFI menz, SCIFI channel australia will be broadcasting the latest episodes (starting on saturday... : thewindcriesmary
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    And they went widescreen recently, zomg etc (fuck Foxtel is arse backwards sometimes). Any idea when t... : MeestaNob
    • damn, i da know man. Their only playing 1 episode a week i think. But on saturday their doing a marathon ... : thewindcriesmary
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  Just start watching the new episodes. If you "catch up" you'll actually break apart the show since it isn... : socksta
  • What? Ignore this post. It's very much a continuous story and after the first two seasons isn't really ep : Arceihn
• screw the haters. miniseries, then season 1, then the rest, you can supplement with webisodes if want, bu : thenoodleincident
• watch the fucking miniseries its awesome dont be like most morons and start on ep1 you won't have much of... : spaceyme

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• whoop their ass : jonin
• I always start out killing just looters until I gain a couple levels. Maybe find a tournament or do some ... : valael
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  dude, it's easy to win those fights. if you're worried, only target the dudes far from the main body. : Sailor of Fortune
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    It's easy to win fights against looters. Possibly forest bandits on the easier difficulty settings. Sea... : Arcanum
    • Steppe Raiders fucked up my whole crew the other day...10 Raiders vs 22 of us, and we got mounted Cavalry... : AxeMan808
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  Can't you flee by getting near a boundary / away from enemies and hitting tab? Or does it carry penalties... : Fayk
  • I've done that and it just takes you back to the initial menu. "Fight or Surrender!" : Sailor of Fortune
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    I flee to a boundary, accept the "Retreat" option offered...and I have to do the fight over. And over. ... : Arcanum
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      You will only be captive for a day or so : Mondo
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        Yes, and I lose money and time and goods and it's fucking stupid. I'm on a horse. Even a barely adequat... : Arcanum
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          you should be able to avoid them on the world map if you are faster. I guess it plays like they have you ... : stgulik
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            That's not at all how the scenarios are set up, though, and even if they were, if I can escape and I'm fa... : Arcanum
            • you have to engage them a bit before you can retreat and be allowed to run on the main map, then you shou... : RetroRedEyeJr
• River pirates for a little while, get yourself a weapon you're comfortable with, maybe hire a few peasant... : Zolneirz
• ONE DAY YOU CAN BE A BADASS LIKE THIS: and your sword, hand and forearm will be bloodstained. http:... : Mondo
• I have switched to a club and have been knocking looters out and selling them in the tavern and have been... : wellesraphael
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  The best strategy I found in the demo was continually circling around the enemy units, picking off the gu... : Drewus
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    Yeah, and that's why I stopped playing. I could solo a massive army that way. It's too hard to bring my... : Derringer
    • that vanilla enhancement mod has spear bracing that makes this really tough (and some powerful archers/xb... : stgulik
    • there's no freaking way you can do that later on, go back to playing : Mondo
• get a lance and practice with it, get some archers, get friends with lances, usually works for me. horse ... : stgulik
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  How many troops do you have? : 60days
  • he has 1 : Mondo
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    None? I'm talking about getting started from the very beginning. Advice along the lines of what Zolneir... : Arcanum
    • Recruiting from a village is really cheap, and they train up pretty fast at first. : sixfoot6
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      ahh i see, at that stage you should be faster than the bandits, I try to avoid anything but river pirates... : stgulik
      • Ok, I'll try what you and Zolneirz are suggesting (though I've started at least 3 or 4 games and have yet... : Arcanum
    • I thought that might be the case - I havent played for a couple of versions but I held off getting dudes ... : 60days
• Is there a honor hit for selling prisoners to the slave traders? : Mondo
• I'm a noob still, but for starting out seems best to recruit a small group, do some training and a tourna... : sixfoot6
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  All these M&B posts made me get nostalgic and go looking for memories, this here screenshot is why i fell... : Zolneirz
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    Holy shit that's awesome, how'd you get so many guys? O_o : DM7
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      battlesize changer, 300 unit maximum set (it actually goes up to about 340 when set to 300), I hijacked a... : Zolneirz
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        I have mine set to 270 and get about 40 fps.. on phenom9850/radeon4850/3 gigs only thing I have off gr... : Mondo
        • the game is excellent when it comes to using new hardware, part of why (aside from being updated yearly) ... : Zolneirz
• Oh how I wish you can play some co-op in this. : DM7
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  You can ride away from them. In the battle map, if you ride away from the enemy you can use tab to retre... : randomjgj
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19064411#itemanchor_19064411 : Arcanum
• I was getting raped just like that until I did one important thing to turn it all around: - Recruit ab... : reelbk
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  Custom soundtrack 1. Paste your music files (.mp3 files only) into M&B music folder (usually: 'C:\Prog... : Mondo
  • music.txt is in modules/native actually : Mondo
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    Or you could just turn off the music and run an audio player in the background. The game alt-tabs very we... : ErikTehRed
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      That or just use a Multimedia keyboard and a media player that supports globalkeys so you can just tap "P... : Sailor of Fortune
      • Yeah I have one and that's how I typically do it. Some game interfere with the global hotkeys though, I'm... : ErikTehRed
  • Time to get some Amon Amarth or BSG music in there. : NFXFSX
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  i joined a faction and now get my ass kicked by my faction's enemies. i cant really fight anyone because... : dantastic
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    follow around your faction lords, when they get in fights, join them, same with seiges. Also if they get ... : sixfoot6
    • hang around wherever the king is to get in on sieges - he'l appear eventually to lead a war party agains... : 60days
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  This game is only single player? No thanks. : snuff
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    need someone to hold your hand? awww : Mondo
    • No I want to kill humans or grief them. : snuff
  • Buy the game so they make a sequel and include this then. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Ok, I did more or less what Zolneirz suggested, and I'm doing better. I have a decent bow (why the game ... : Arcanum
  • Anyway, thanks everybody. : Arcanum
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    Why it starts me with a crossbow when my Bow is 85 and x-bow is 22, I don't get. : AxeMan808
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      http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Mount%26Blade/Character_creation : moogle
      • That's...pretty dumb. Overall, not just with archery. They should give initial items based, at least so... : Arcanum
  • the backstory you pick sets your base skills and equipment I guess : sixfoot6
  • Sweet. selling sea pirate raiders as prisoners is one of the main ways to fund my army now :( : Mondo
  • Last time I played I played a noble with a huge army and I did not have to grind very long as my troops w... : azenmaster
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  Seeing everyone play this brinks a tear to my eye.. =P : Pacalon
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    Last 2 nights I played it until 5AM, I have to work in the morning tomorrow so I'll have to cut it off at... : sanchez
    • I played until 1:30AM last night and had to get up at 5:45 today... blargh : dirge23
    • i had some late night work to do. went to play an hour before bed so i wasnt so stressed outand it turne... : dantastic
• 1. Kill a few looters, you should be able to run away from everyone else if you pay attention. 2. Win a ... : sanchez
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  My guy is doing rather well, I have a party of 30, half comprised of NPC's that are upgraded the other ha... : kainen1
  • a good thing once you're set up is to get to be a vassal, at which point you get a village that brings yo... : azenmaster