Evening Reading

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• Seems like you don't get out much. : Link.
• Seems like you don't read the Shack much. : Bamtan
• Do you hibernate? : dognose
• lol? : lodit
• Yep you're right. No one mentioned this in the world ever. : soggybagel
• Fuck, I knew I forgot to post about something. : rosewood
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  Welcome to Earth. : GeorgeB3DR
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    Welcome to Earth Earf : Dschinghis Khan
    • Welcome to Earth Earf Urf : coldfusioncs
• 2008 called. It wants its financial turmoil back. : FirstPersonCooter
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  uhh.. we did. Had a shackmeet and everything. : Megara9
  • it's twue! : action wombmate
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  You might want to watch The Dark Knight next since you've apparently been in an underground bunker for th... : LilCrypto
  • Don't tell him about the president... : rosewood
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  I wish people would stop asking this goddamn question. Nearly ever time anyone ever asks why nobody menti... : Chris Remo
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    I'm thinking there was a tiny bit of sarcasm in there. : Whistler77
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      There always is. It's still dumb. : Chris Remo
      • Make it bannable in 2010! : naios
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    My "I told you so" gravestone is all for naught :( : dognose
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      dognose, you told me about Taken, and I'm going to heed. I'll try to see it this weekend methinks! : action wombmate
      • me too! Yaaaaaaay!!!! : Megara9
    • I watched Wanted again, just to be sure, and it does indeed suck. : Grumbeld
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    Haha. I thought about posting this and then thought, "Nah, I'll just wait for Remo to post about it." : doc.solo
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      REMO RAGE : razorblade79
      • Remotional : node
  • This is the real reason Remo left us you assholes! >:( : Super Sparker
  • Sorry I made you upset. You'll be OK. Just breathe. : RookieCAF
  • Shut up and record another song for us, funny man! : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Chris, Far Cry 2 is great! Why didn't you tell me? : stgulik
    • Lol : Dontdrop
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      I have Far Cry 2: Chris Remo Edition. It's rad. : CrustaR
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        is that the one where Ben from Full Throttle does a cameo? : stgulik
        • Yeah, but in a totally random way. It's all emergent. : CrustaR
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    why has nobody mentioned how Chris Remo hates these questions? : AMikaboshi
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      am I the only one? : Slowtreme
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        omg I just found out that AITOO = "am I the only one". Why didn't anybody tell me about this? : Ride-My-Rocket
        • because you were the only one who didn't know : dirge23
    • they get lost in the enormous list of everything else he hates : c0bra
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19065580 : [fry]
  • p.s. Remo? Melodramatic much? Get over it. : RookieCAF
• Rookie indeed. : Sirus2400
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  You should also check out Shawshank Redemption. I don't think that movie was talked about much either. : historyinthemaking
  • I've seen that one. : RookieCAF
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  because no one on the shack ever likes comic-book movies. : 60days
  • Yeah, i thought about mentioning Watchmen, but that's not really the type of thing we'd talk about either... : AxeMan808
• what the shit, we hyped it to death. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  the dark knight is better, but yeah, iron man is good. : fsck
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    I actually liked Iron Man more, or at least as much. Liked both plenty, though. Maybe I let the shack ... : ramshot
    • I think I liked Iron Man better as well. TDK was excellent as well. : RookieCAF
  • Iron Man is actually the better movie, the only thing that made the Dark Knight good were Ledger's perfor... : Wolfanoz
  • I liked both, but the dark knight has better re-watchability for me then iron man does. : chungathebunga
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  Have you heard of this movie called Sunshine? I hear it's popular, and Quake is a good PC game. : Slowtreme
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    Sunshine!?! You picked Sunshine as your example?!!?! : AxeMan808
    • it's pretty huge on the shack, same as Iron Man (and older I think) : Slowtreme
• there was some sort of movie with a clown and some gravelly voiced guy with a cape you might want to see.... : Fyunch Click
• Sorry, it was my turn to tell you. I must have forgot. : lowayne
• Star Wars is fucking nice, you might wanna grab a VHS of that on the way home from the roller derby. : MeestaNob

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  I've used namecheap for a while. Seems good to me. : nurikabe
  • This is the correct answer. : pixelat3d
  • another vote for namecheap : festivalman
  • Yeah. I've used these guys for years without a hitch. : Arceihn
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  Boobies tell me it's GoDaddy. : GeorgeB3DR
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    Do NOT use Go Daddy. They steal domain names and fuck you over all the time. : Link.
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      This happened to me, and is the reason I left and moved 30+ domains I had with them. They made it a fucki... : Bean
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        weird, i had never heard of this. what is another registry place that will keep my shit private? : FrayLo
        • FrayLo, I don't know. It's one of those things where everything is peachy for you until it isn't. : Bean
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        How did they steal a domain name from you though? : batkiwi
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          I have a fuck ton of domains and customers using godaddy. I really want to know because I don't want this... : rosewood
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            I assume when you let a domain expire past the grace period they keep it for themselves and jack up the p... : mikecyb
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              That's like every registrar out there (That I've used). The first time you set it up, it's elcheapo. When... : Slowtreme
              • You can always transfer to a new registrar if they try that. : ieGod
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      can you elaborate on stealing domain names? : OmegaRed59
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        A friend's high-traffic blog's domain was sold to Chinese squatters by Go Daddy. After that, I decided to... : Link.
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          It is legal for them to just sell it behind your back? Sounds fishy to me. : OmegaRed59
          • some registrars are shadier than others. when you think you still have time to deal with your shit they ... : Luminair
        • I bet he forgot to renew it or something : FiReaNG3L
        • You forgot the part of the story where he forgot to renew his domain... : batkiwi
        • That sounds like he didn't tell you everything. You have no idea how many times I run into people who los... : Godhatesfatpeople
      • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18643201 : Dan[WSB]
    • We have used hem for years and have never had that happen. Network Solutions were the ones caught doing t... : Godhatesfatpeople
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  I use 1and1.com for domains. Pretty cheap, and they don't spam you with shit like Godaddy (which I used t... : Bean
  • I host with them and have been nothing but extremely happy. I've had to phone in to customer support a f... : aux7
• I used netfirms. Never had a problem with them. : Anti_dentite
• I would only use network solutions : MoreVespeneGas
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  All of these recommendations except hte first. Use namecheap.com or moniker.com . I cybersquat for a l... : dearjamie
  • Seriously, please, stop using GoDaddy. : dearjamie
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    You cybersquat for a living? Oh dear : jbury
    • yeh, he isnt on my list of people to visit : CoRDS
• Whatever you do don't use godaddy. It was a major hassle getting my domain out of their clutches. I'm usi... : AgentPothead
• A friend recently moved his domains to name.com, says he loves it. : PoopStewart
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  I find gandi.net to be the best registrar. They're simple, they're completely controllable online and via... : LoioshDwaggie
  • And they support open source projects like Debian GNU/Linux! Yay for Gandi! : Dan[WSB]
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  I've been using GoDaddy for over 2 years now, and have never had one problem. Easy to transfer to and fr... : atom519
  • Same here. I have 14 domains with them and never a problem. : SinistarX
  • I actually ended up just using godaddy. It is just a personal portfolio/blog for me so I don't see anyon... : OmegaRed59

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  Hmm... sounds like they got a new VO guy to do the reviews. I like the old one better :( : mechanicalgrape
  • Ouch. Same here. : cdbeckman
  • I like the old guy too but this guy was fine : Begawkiness
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    Ugh. Same here. :( This one is fine - and apparently the format of the text they use is the same - but GT... : zehh
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      Hah, I love how every page has some complaining (even if mildly) about the voice guy. Funny that's someth... : zehh
      • the other guy had a slightly sarcastic tone ... which was a good thing -- added personality to it unlike ... : nova_x
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    they switch off.. one guy doesn't do all reviews. : Demius
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      I would challenge you to find a review from GT in the past year that hasn't been voiced by the other guy ... : mechanicalgrape
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        http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28089.html Daniel has done some reviews in the past, usually when t... : Demius
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          As long as the other guy comes back, I'm happy. : mechanicalgrape
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            I like them both, but i've grown fond of the first dude. Don't know his name though : Demius
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              I think he's Geoff Keighley? : doc.solo
              • That's what I heard too. Guy sounds like a superstar game journalist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff... : zehh
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  no coop and npc's dropping the F bomb? interesting decisions : gyokuro
  • multiplayer looks fun : gyokuro
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  I love how the comments are just 360 vs ps3 flame wars. Personally if you don't own all 3 systems you a... : gmd
  • lol, im glad that phase passed for the most part here on the shack : Jackass1233
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    With those 3 systems being 360, PS3, and PC right? : pigvomit
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      360, Wii and PC, peasant. : mem
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        I have 4 of them then! BEHOLD MY POWER! : pigvomit
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          Until you own and use daily a PC, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3, Sony PSP, Xbox 360, a MAME and an ... : sKetchflow
          • Fuck! No DS! I'm not a gamer :( : freakynipples69
    • no, no, i'm quite sure this is the correct answer : notdeadyeti
    • Look at you peasant. : ieGod
  • Not to mention a closet homersexual : MagicWishMonkey
  • I don't own any. I AM A FUCKING LEPER! : Godhatesfatpeople
• I am so hyped for this. : razlebol
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  Will this be the PS3's Halo3? Haze sure didn't amount to much. : pigvomit
  • Nope. But I hope it's decent at least. : Pettytheft
  • i think its more likely to be the PS3's gears of war : kill9
  • I own a 360, and although I still think the 360 has better overall games than the PS3, I would rather hav... : LemonJoose
  • I have to give credit where is due, killzone > halo : X-GOUKI
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    I don't think it has characters or a central hero as identifiable as Halo 3 has... more like Gears alrigh... : zehh
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      master chief doesn't exactly have much character. it's a generic messiah character out of bad sci fi/fant... : Shai-Tan
      • I don't think it's a matter of unique exposition or anything. You show someone a Spartan and they know i... : pwnage1232
      • Totally agreed, but he's recognizable. For franchises like this, I think having a face that's immediately... : zehh
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    Not in my opinion. I haven't played Killzone 2's multiplayer yet, but the singleplayer was considerably l... : Chris Remo
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      Well, crap :( : Dave-A
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        That probably means it will be fantastic, because people said resistance 2 was bad and it turned out to b... : gmd
        • I haven't got Resistance 2 yet, but I was watching a friend play it through a 1080p projector onto a 120"... : Dave-A
        • Does Resistance 2 get better after the first hour or two? It sure does seem shit, in terms of gameplay an... : nudel
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    Halo 3 did something not many games do, they made a vehicle a character unto itself. : Sailor of Fortune
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      I meant Halo in general, not just the third game. : Sailor of Fortune
      • Hahahahaha, oh God. : Rice-Rocketeer
    • its like the nightrider of video games : aeg1x
  • Not even close. The hardcore crowd is still a little hesitant due to how mediocre Killzone was and the ma... : Evil Benius
  • I hope to no game is a "Halo3" because that game is balls. : ieGod
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  Still interested in the demo but based on that I probably won't pick it up. : Begawkiness
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    based on it looking amazing you won't pick it up? : gmd
    • I probably wont pick it up because i hate playing 1st person shooters with the ps3 analog sticks :[ : ghost in my shell
    • Amazingly rendered exceptionally boring environments. :( The reviewer said pretty much what I was thinkin... : nudel
• It looks pretty awesome to me, it's mostly eye candy so I'm not expecting some legendary experience that ... : jingletard
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  so only one weapon at a time (big weapon plus pistol), and no coop, and it still gets a 9 for gameplay? : deathofrats
  • well. if it was fun to play I dont see the problem. : barichnikov
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    Your post lacks logic. : thecray
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      no guy you gotta see if you could have 10 weapons the game woulda had a 10 and if it had a hundred weapon... : sharpie
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        While obviously that's silly, I do really wish you could hold more than one weapon plus your permanent pi... : Chris Remo
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          Ooh yeah...pistol taking up one slot is a bad idea. COD and Halo have pretty much nailed the two gun thi... : GeorgeB3DR
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            Halo to me does it the best. I almost always prefer playing FPS games on the PC, but Halo to me really ma... : Chris Remo
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              Okay these sentences were terrible, I apologize. Hopefully my point comes across. : Chris Remo
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                Actually makes it sound more fun, but I like socom. What's the aim assist like? turned way down, I hope... : Boxelder
                • I don't know, average? I don't really know how to rank that. And yeah I'm sure some people will like this... : Chris Remo
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              Machine gun or other machine gun? : GeorgeB3DR
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                Most of the weapons are SMGs, then there's a big machine gun and a rocket launcher and a sniper rifle. : Chris Remo
                • From what I saw, it also had a shotgun, a exploding bolt throwing weapon, a flamethrower and a lightning ... : razlebol
            • were the standard encounters fun at least? : sharpie
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          mass effect got that shit right cremo, mass effect got it right though they could have let you drop th... : Luminair
          • Mass Effect, unless you were a soldier, had varying weapon proficiencies. The other classes pretty much r... : Sailor of Fortune
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            if by that you mean Mass Effect made sure that every single combat encounter played out exactly the same ... : derelict515
            • by that I mean it lets you carry three different weapon types at the same time : Luminair
        • Plus from what I have heard it becomes very obvious what weapon you need to kill a boss because they put ... : Evil Benius
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  The only colors are Brown, Grey, and Brown. : mr.sleepy
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    Are you talking about Quake? : SlamDunk
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      For the time, Quake did interesting things with its colour palette, as did Gears of War (another game peo... : nudel
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        <s>color</s> : excessus
        • We invented the language and that makes you wrong, not us. : nudel
• I hate how nearly the first half only shows cinematics instead of actual gameplay, like some PR guy paid ... : razorblade79
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  Tech hijack: so is Killzone 2 the first mainstream game to ship with a viable deferred renderer? Did STA... : dchavez999
  • GTA IV and Stalker were deferred : imperator
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    Is this a rip on the unreal 3 engine? : AgentPothead
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      Theres A LOT of limitations to deferred and some major advantages in regards to realtime lighting. howeve... : imperator
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        Oh my bad I thought unreal 3 WAS deferred rendering, that's why you couldn't use AA on them. I just thoug... : AgentPothead
        • The shadowing is, but only that. : imperator
  • little big planet is deferred, apparently : jcupitt
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    "One key disadvantage of deferred rendering is the inability to handle transparency within the algorithm"... : nudel
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      Crinkly shadow edges in gta4/mgs4/gt5 etc. are a differrent thing, apparently. killzone2 claims to have f... : jcupitt
      • also, they have a second direct rendering path for doing transparent stuff, they say in there somewhere : jcupitt
      • LOL, that last line had me going until "baboons" : nudel
    • Actually, despite what you might think, proper transparency in games is pretty much never there. Sure, en... : lplasmatron
    • The Uncharted cutscenes were pre-rendered to make sure framerate didn't drop, if I'm remembering the dev ... : SiW.
• "one big ding - killzone doesn't feel that fresh" This is probably why I won't get it, run through it ... : dael
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  I might give KZ2 a try if it supports mouse/keyboard. : SlamDunk
  • AFAIK there is no m/k support. : Nitrium
• Pre-ordered. My PS3 controller has too much dust on it. : freakynipples69
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  Looks like a great game, I kind of want a ps3 but holy jesus they are expensive here right now. : nomaad
  • here right now : chazums

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• Let him die folks, we need to clear out the gene pool for these spaghetti invalids. : ejectorpod
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  yes boil water, put in spaghetti. It should say on the box how long to cook it. Take out the spaghett... : Shadowdane
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    don't follow the directions on how long to cook it. use a fork and take a strand out. bite it. if it's... : Modica Sol Solis
    • yah that is true, depends how thick the pasta is too. If its thin spaghetti might only take 4-5 mins, t... : Shadowdane
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  you serious? what kind of sauce did you buy? add some red wine. : Modica Sol Solis
  • I am a stereotypical retarded-in-the-kitchen male (stereotypical retard I guess?). The extent of my culin... : quadeh
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  Wait you bought jarred sauce? Man I started reading this post expecting a question about making sauce. >:... : Chris Remo
  • You can make that stuff? I thought they bottled it straight from the majestic Saucerfalls of Italy. : quadeh
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    apparently we have a spaghetti enthusiast on our hands : Postal
    • Don't tell him about adding cheddar to spaghetti : Sailor of Fortune
  • That's exactly what I anticipated. : racer5
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    lets see your fucking meat sauce recipe then hoss : Jackass1233
    • Pretty sure I've posted it here before : Chris Remo
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      here's mine: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=15987038 : bipolar
      • except I mean bulb of garlic when I say clove : bipolar
• Don't boil the sauce, just heat it. If it gets too hot, it may burn to the bottom of the pan. : TroZ
• Boil the spaghetti in like a gallon of water with 2 tsp of salt in it until the noodles are done. drain, ... : wtf242
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  lol. This is more directly at jbury and his washing food with soap thing, but have some of you people ... : TwiLyght
  • Too busy playing videogames and rotting my brain. : quadeh
  • No, I never watched as I had more important things to do at home : jbury
• jesus christ : skanky08
• Read the box : snuff
• great zombie fucking jesus : thetangent
• You didn't make your own spaghetti? Wtf let him starve! : .sticks.
• If these people make you feel like a retard...my dad had a recipe for hot dogs when my mom first met him,... : Ovate
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  You're no cook. You're just a REHEATER. : LilCrypto
  • Taste the meat, not the heat! : Sailor of Fortune
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  Do This!! Boil your pasta al dente, drain it, throw it back in the pot, throw in a little sauce and some ... : wasylm
  • i prefer to leave the pasta uncoated to start with so that I get a greater dynamic range of sauciness. yo... : nem00
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    i don't know if this man even knows what al dente means. : Modica Sol Solis
    • Go to the dentist? : quadeh
• My old roommate used to just put the spaghetti in warm water and bring it boil like that :( : focusdaily
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  I think the first step is throwing the premade sauce in the garbage. : Sirus2400
  • premade sauce can be fine if you buy the fancier stuff : wtf242
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  Update 1: All seems to be going well, excepting that sauce boil-bubble that popped and then there was sau... : quadeh
  • Shacknews: It gets sauce in your eye. : Githyanki
  • You no likea the sauce? : nurglich
  • Yeah, you have to let it simmer to heat up. No need to crank it to 9. But bad news about your eye; they m... : jipey
  • yeah you have to keep it on medium-low heat and preferrably covered. you dont really want the sauce to b... : dantastic
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    Post-Pasta Report: So I suppose I'm not a man of discerning taste like the Shack Auteur Cuisinier Klub tm : quadeh
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      Also, thank you kind people for not letting me starve. : quadeh
      • NERDS: they band together for survival : Megara9
    • yeah don't let them get you down. they all like to spend hours making fresh sauce from the freshest vine... : dantastic
  • LOL : bling1bling
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  I've cooked mountains of pasta before, but I'd never cooked Cannelloni before. That changed tonight. Best... : DrZettl
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    what were they filled with? : jimmy_legs
    • Ground round (vegetarian ground fake meat), spinach, garlic and red onions. Drowned in a simple diced to... : DrZettl
• have you ever cooked anything before? Or even heating something up on a stove? This reminds me of when i ... : headbone
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  you guys are hopeless! seriously cooking is not hard. it's heat and food. just follow the directions... : EvilDolemite
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    Once the heat is on the pyromaniac takes control and directions go out the window! This is how Shackers ... : LilCrypto
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      "Hey shack I tried to make instant potatoes but it got fucked up. I put them in a pan with some water (a... : EvilDolemite
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        yeah.. the olive oil problem happens very often it seems. : wtf242
        • or replace olive oil with butter : wtf242
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    you obviously have never seen my wife try to cook : Ovate
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      If you suck just follow instructions. That's what I tell everyone. I'm not an expert cook but I can hol... : EvilDolemite
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        This is exactly what I told her before she almost burnt our house down. Seriously, she didn't understa... : Ovate
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          The best instructional cooking site there is: http://www.rouxbe.com/ The best content is for-pay, but it'... : Bean
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            Holy shit, Bean, this website is amazing. Their little drill-down menu is genius. I think I just got ... : Ovate
            • It's an amazing, super high-quality site for anybody who loves food and cooking. They have great techniqu... : Bean
          • damnnnn that is a great site. bookmarking now! technique is so crucial and often times recipes never ta... : EvilDolemite
          • damn that's cool. i already learned something new! : wtf242
      • Even as an idiotic Boy Scout it was amazingly hard to ruin a recipe. Overcook or undercook meat, sure, b... : LilCrypto
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    The culinary disasters that happen to people on this forum make me lose faith in humanity. : Bean
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      You're both being silly and you know it. There's plenty of decent or even very good cooks, just like ther... : geedeck
      • I never kid or exaggerate geedeck, especially on the internet. I'm the motherfuckin' Straight Talk Expres : Bean
    • :( : quadeh
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      Oh cmon, Bean. Who hasn't washed their chicken with soap. : stump
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        someone really did that? : wtf242
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          Sadly, yes. :( : stump
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            Fuck you guys : jbury
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              I'm pretty sure the shack expects people to be born with all the knowledge in the world >:[ : jbury
              • no, but maybe pick up some basics in the first 20-30 years :) : EvilDolemite
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                okay knowing not to soap up a chicken breast prior to cooking it is not quite the same as understanding a... : mikecyb
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                  Everyone is good at some things and bad at others :( : jbury
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                    eating is one of those things most people are good at though : derelict515
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                      I dunno derelict515, I can barely get food into this hole I have in the middle of my face. I keep missing... : Bean
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                        I just stick my face in the plate and suck, see what goes in. Sometimes I forget to come up for breath th... : derelict515
                        • Oooh. I will have to try this next time! : Bean
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                jbury i like you. you make me laugh but you need to be a good sport about this. it's like fucking a f... : xxiv
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                  I am a good sport, I'm not that bothered about it to be honest :) : jbury
                  • which is good cause we're all friends here. : xxiv
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                http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=should+i+wash+my+chicken+with+soap : Ride-My-Rocket
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                  One of the things that came up: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090113084940AAyLmy9 : dudehoyt
                  • LOL. perfect. : Ride-My-Rocket
                  • lol... wtf : Shadowdane
                  • the worst is the "best answer" WASH IT WITH LISTERINE instead?!! yum mint chicken without having to add... : dantastic
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              jbury you should know your chicken + soap story is already legendary in my household. : stuka
              • Those ridiculous kitchen stories bring joy to countless Shackers. It's a gift to be able to tell such sto... : lyme
      • wtf man. wtf. : terath
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  The mere fact that you call it "spaghettis" tells me you're not ready. : Wheatloaf
  • There was more than one :(. : quadeh
• put water in pot. throw in a few drops of olive oil (it will stop it from boiling over as it disrupts the... : ninjase
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  don't people even TRY to google "how to cook pasta" or "pasta sauce recipe"? Really? :( : terath
  • I figured the Shack, with its host of self-proclaimed culinary experts, could give me some insider secret... : quadeh
  • But then we wouldn't get amusing threads like this. : rock elf
  • I read the box. : changejar419
  • or searching youtube and SEEING how to do it : dantastic
• this is so sad. you are seriously asking how to cook a jar of fucking sauce? : moshman
• quadeh WHAT THE FUCK. i am clinically retarded when it comes to cooking but spaghetti and sauce? you s... : xxiv
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  LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE PASTA PACKET OH MY GOD : d fluke
  • ADD HEAT TO SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 : moshman

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  WAYPOINTS CONFIRMED! : notd665
  • I was honestly on the fence before, but waypoints? Now I have to get it. : notd665
• What the fuck is this. No customizable stats? Automatic grouping? ARGH FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK : Modica Sol Solis
• thank god : bad_fish
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  I wonder how they'll implement pvp then. : mojo the helpr monke
  • probably will differ by game/server? : zerog83
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  Old news but their conclusion from Diablo 2 was that since people would minmax their way to a select set ... : LilCrypto
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    New? The D3 attribute system is pure copy/paste from WoW : kpxkrnjc
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      Uh, I attached new to the customization in D3 not the lack thereof. They're going to have some kind of r... : LilCrypto
      • It's actually basically WoW's glyph system taken to a higher degree. But yeah. : kpxkrnjc
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    Isn't the "No allocating of Stat points" thing similar to the design decision taken for WOW? When you lev... : yao2
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      I think it's more because they couldn't find a way to do anything particularly interesting with the stats... : derelict515
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        I played Diablo 2, but never much more than the single player campaign. Can you give me the jist of this ... : basketofkittens
        • basically because items were by far the biggest factors in a lot of stats there was no reason to do certa... : derelict515
        • When you PvP online you want to have as much base health as possible. This means that every stat point i... : kpxkrnjc
  • Well, the trees are really customizable and the gems you can use to augment your skills does a whole hell : DianeOfTheMoon
  • Minmax was present however you minmaxed around whatever type of unique build you were doing, and holy cra... : Wombat Woo
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  I like how there will be abilities as rare drops instead of just leaving them in the talent tree. : jingletard
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    ? Never heard of this unless you're talking about the items you use to upgrade/modify the effects of your... : kpxkrnjc
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      Yes, that's it. Runes. I must've been confused, they're modifiers for the talent trees not actual talen... : jingletard
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        And they work really, really well. Was playing with friends at blizzcon and it was cool over how differe... : DianeOfTheMoon
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          Still going to miss the old runes & rune words : kpxkrnjc
          • Hopefully they'll do something interesting with the equipment in terms of sockets/enchants/runes or somet... : jingletard
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            Wait, that's not going to be in D3???? : Godhatesfatpeople
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              I think they're shifting the modifiers from the items to runes that you apply to your talent tree to modi... : jingletard
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                That's entirely separate from D2 style runewords, I've never heard any indication they would remove those... : derelict515
                • I don't know, they just haven't mentioned them at all so that's what I'm going with. : kpxkrnjc
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  They know what they're doing. I have faith. : SqueegyTBS
  • i know. I think the internet police is just nervous with pent up rage : hamachi
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  can't say I'm a fan of that, I really hated it in WoW but there it was exacerbated by the simplified skil... : derelict515
  • not at all. Check out Iron Barb builds or zero vit Energy Shield sorcs. Or Bowadins, or other interesti... : bipolar
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  but....but....but how will the koreans pk me? :( : notdeadyeti
  • U GIVE SOJ! : ninjase
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  I'm becoming progressively more and more afraid for this title and it's the one Blizzard title I really l... : Godhatesfatpeople
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    Most people will buy it anyway even if it sucks. It's Blizzard! It can't be -that- bad. Right? : kpxkrnjc
    • I hope it doesn't suck at all. :( It's the one original title they have that I really like because i... : Godhatesfatpeople
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      more like: many people will buy it because many people play wow and diablo 3 is made by the people who ma... : Luminair
      • er for the people who *play* wow : Luminair
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        On the contrary I find that many of the WoW players are not really gamers at all. They -only- play WoW. ... : kpxkrnjc
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          playing only one game means you're not a gamer? : RikiTiki2
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            Are you a film buff if you just watch the same film all the time? Or are you a person who happens to like... : Chris Remo
            • Agreed. Gamer implies some level of enthusiast, much like people aren't a gearhead because they own a car... : SilverSnake
      • why would they bother to do that? They have millions of hardcore Diablo fans who aren't playing WoW becau... : derelict515
    • Well, this _used_ to be the answer ^^ ..nowadays, I can't really say that I agree. Blizzard seems to h... : rmjackson
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    If the game is fun, does it matter that the stats assign themselves rather than you pushing a button to d... : BlackCat9
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      I don't have a particular issue with those additions. I just don't want them cutting off too much to make... : Godhatesfatpeople
      • his = hit. : Godhatesfatpeople
      • I thought the same thing when I saw a recent screenshot. The colors give it an almost playful feel, and ... : Ovate
      • The stats in D2 weren't really adding much in the first place. For the most part everyone just added enou... : Psigun
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      Lots of people think WoW is fun, when I tried the demo that was one of the things that shocked me and imm... : bipolar
      • haha, you have no idea what you're talking about, there's an insane amount of min/maxing in high level ch... : derelict515
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  I know I am very much in the minority here, but I'm one of those guys who never really knew what I should... : DOOManiac
  • Yeah :( : Godhatesfatpeople
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    that's a good opportunity for the dev to offer a recommended default but leave some margin for customizat... : cpt_gloval
    • I'd rather the game be about how well I use my skills to kill shit, not where I put points into. : Nighteyes
    • The thing is, if they let you choose, then I'd have to, because I have to do everything perfectly, but in... : mxcl
  • I have serious anxiety when it comes to point allocations. If I can't find a clearly laid out guide that... : fishbone
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  There was something very rewarding about finally hitting that level and getting those last remaining poin... : ninjase
  • They'll still have requirements for items, it'll just probably be more based on your level than the stats... : BlackCat9
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  It's good IMO. If I start a new D2 character the first thing I do it load up a webpage on how to spend my... : ZombieAcademy
  • it's far more important not to fuck up your skill points though, and that's the reason they added respecc... : derelict515
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  Getting rid of manual stat allocation is a good design choice as having it there causes player paralysis ... : ahlee
  • I don't understand why they can't do what some RPGs do and let the players choose whether it increases th... : pyide
  • I agree. The more that I think about it, the more I think this is a good idea. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I would always have to read guides after each level to make sure I was doing it right. Spending tens of ... : handofthrawn
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  learned about that (the points deal) long ago in an EP of Played : Nation
  • I think it was this EP from July: http://www.playedpodcast.com/2008-07-22/played-episode-42/ : Nation
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  I see no problem with this. Allocating them seemed mostly tedious to me in D2. : action wombmate
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    I agree I never liked it, I always felt like I was choosing them wrong. : datoo
    • I just never felt like it mattered that much. I bet most players wound up with more-or-less the same att... : action wombmate
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  DUMBED DOWN FOR CONSOLES!!! : GeorgeB3DR
  • if you cant kick with both legs in duke4 i will say hypocrit : Chandler55
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    The sad thing is that if a game like Fallout 3 pulled this kind of shit, 'dumbed down for consoles' is ex... : thecray
    • except diablo 3 isn't being developed for consoles so the analogy doesn't really make sense. : datoo
• Diablo's customization was always more about gear and skills than stats, anyway. Gear has such a huge ef... : EvilDolemite
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  I think it's great. The attributes system was so goddamn mystifying. Either you were a min/maxer who figu... : Chris Remo
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    When you get right down to it, skills are the same way. Either you follow a guide, or you pump 10 points... : bipolar
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      whoa whoa whoa, now you're talking crazy. they need to be rebalanced, not removed. : Modica Sol Solis
      • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum : bipolar
    • Except pumping skill points into random skills actually changed the way your character played. The diffe... : derelict515
• As others have said, it became pointless when everyone used the same builds to min/max anyway. Better to ... : Visceral Monkey
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  noooooooooooooo : bipolar
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    Those who didn't like manually assigning attributes in Diablo 2 or think this is a good change, approxima... : bipolar
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      But this isn't going to play exactly like Diablo 2. And what are you trying to say, exactly? That becau... : action wombmate
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        Yeah, pretty much. Who do you think has a better idea about balance in Starcraft II -- a pro player who ... : bipolar
        • Blizzard should be balancing the game to please everyone, not just people who play the game for 5000 hour... : datoo
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          Hahahaha ok. I'd be willing to bet Blizzard has much more reliable data on who plays their game than you... : action wombmate
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            Yes, but you are missing my point. Joe Schmoe (or me) are at such a low level of play in Starcraft II th... : bipolar
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              So, you're essentially saying that Blizzard should make Diablo 3 and tune it appropriately for the OCD pl... : action wombmate
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                Right. Everyone else will buy and play it anyway -- they did for Diablo 2, right? And Diablo 2: LoD. W... : bipolar
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                  Oh, I'm fully aware of who plays the game now. I just think that designing such a hugely anticipated gam... : action wombmate
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                    When a game is dumbed down -- say, Spore release vs. Spore alpha, or Sim City 4 vs. that stupid Simcity S... : bipolar
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                      That's exactly my point, though. You don't know exactly how "dumbed down" it will be, if at all. They'r : action wombmate
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                        removing features that were present in an earlier iteration and were an important aspect of gameplay is i... : bipolar
                        • any feature that gets cut between iterations is dumbing down? right... : derelict515
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                          It was an important aspect of gameplay for you and your little subset, and likely not for the millions of... : action wombmate
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                            Exactly. The large subset doesn't care if it's in there or not. Want proof? Millions of people bought D... : bipolar
                            • who knew the entire depth of Diablo lay in it's deceptively deep 4 attribute system? : derelict515
                            • In my experience, "hardcore" players are a fickle and unforgiving bunch that all want different things (N... : action wombmate
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                When you tune and balance for the hardcore, that doesn't do anything to hinder the non-hardcore man. Star... : Modica Sol Solis
                • It probably wouldn't hinder it, but they're not doing it. Accept it and move on, or decide that it's too... : action wombmate
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                Or, to put it another way, what's a better game -- Quake 3, or Quake 4? Which would you say caters more ... : bipolar
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                  I never really played either one of them. : action wombmate
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                    if you never even played q3 it is difficult to accept your opinion on anything gaming related. Just sayi... : bipolar
                    • Oh, that's such a heaping pile of bullshit and you know it. Even if you're being sarcastic, that's just ... : action wombmate
    • I will wait to see the gameplay in person, but so far I'm with you on this one. : ]pm[chem
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      So, the best part of hardcore mode was that it was essentially broken? : BlackCat9
      • No, it was that it made the game interesting and exciting. : bipolar
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      I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into Diablo 2 and if you think manipulating attribute points was "th... : Chris Remo
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        But this blanket solution of removing allocation entirely is not the best answer. Allowing for some varia... : Modica Sol Solis
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          There are other ways to add variability without having a system where people can absolutely DESTROY their... : Jackass1233
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            So you clarify the stats, you fix them to avoid that exact situation. Or you allow the less hardcore to a... : Modica Sol Solis
            • Not to mention it's, by and large, the hardcore crowd who has kept D2 going strong. To not even include t... : Modica Sol Solis
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              Maybe there will be other, different things in place of the attribute allocation that further enhance the... : action wombmate
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                I shouldn't exaggerate. It doesn't kill the replayability, but it certainly lessens it and the depth of t... : Modica Sol Solis
                • I'm a fan of the "wait and see" method. Armchair judging is 90% bullshit. I'm not saying that I know th... : action wombmate
            • Or, just make the mechanic that you used to have to tweak attributes on and bake it into your skills, ins... : DianeOfTheMoon
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        Guess not. I'll be honest, by the 100th run through the Bloody Marsh, killing Bishiboshi had no real thr... : bipolar
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          I'm perfectly happy with the skill system providing the variety, especially if they continue to add more ... : Chris Remo
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            The two go hand in hand. There are Barb 'singing' skills that require more mana than he can regen even w... : bipolar
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              Your ability to deduce so much from one simple change is truly stellar. I'm sure Blizzard is horribly una... : derelict515
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                This is my blessing; this is my curse. : bipolar
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                  you're deducing more than is there, you're assuming that it will be exactly like D2 except for the abilit... : derelict515
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                    So instead of min/maxing skill points, it will be min/maxing gear/charms with + skill points? That is a ... : bipolar
                    • if you are trying to make gimmick builds you're always going to have to min/max something so I don't see ... : derelict515
                    • The difference is that you can always change out your gear if something doesn't work or you realize that ... : BlackCat9
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              Blizzard's definitely gonna make it so that some of their skills are unviable. : Rice-Rocketeer
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                Re-read my post. : bipolar
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                  My point is that Blizzard will let you do all those things that make a Barbarian unique. : Rice-Rocketeer
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                    And if you want to be a Barbarian who is awesome at shouting, I'm sure they will allow you to do that, ev... : Rice-Rocketeer
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                      In other words...you're so dogmatically tied to the idea of stat allocation, that it is clouding your jud... : Rice-Rocketeer
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                        In fact, with the new skill rune system, I'm sure you'll be able to be even more unique than in Diablo II... : Rice-Rocketeer
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                          How sure? : bipolar
                          • Are you a wagerin' man? : Rice-Rocketeer
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        Gosh, Mr. Remo - you've sure gotten crotchety in the last year! That said, I agree with you. : Rice-Rocketeer
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          Diablo 3 could actually just be a game where they ship in the box a huge rusty knife that instructs you t... : soggybagel
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            By the way this was not meant to be insulting, I just meant that you, Mr. Remo love Diablo and are going ... : soggybagel
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              It would be really, really hard for them to do something pre-release that dissuades me from buying it. I ... : Chris Remo
              • I will admit though since the shackcast era anytime diablo comes up I know immediately to roll my eyes an... : soggybagel
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      i put 1000 hours in Diablo II. This was a perfect change, not to mention all you had to do was bring up a... : Jackass1233
      • You don't count because you couldn't handle HC. joking kind of : bipolar
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      I love this change just because it will piss a lot of people of! : SockMonkeh
      • +f : SockMonkeh
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      I probably played Diablo 2 for a lot more than 600 hours, and never once used the attribute points in any... : Sacred Sperm
      • some fan you are : derelict515
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  The only colors are Brown, Grey, and Brown. : mr.sleepy
  • Except in the secret unicorn level. : kaddar0
• I used to save all my points in case I needed them for some armor later (and didn't want to go online to ... : kaddar0
• Awesome. : slacko
• They could make the game about flipping cheeseburgers and I would still buy it : Magus
• Attributes in Diablo 2 have never been about customizing your character, but min/maxing them so you can k... : Psigun
• ... a lot of cries on the internet. From people who will probably still buy 3 copies. : razorblade79
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  in any event, here's a good column that summarizes both sides of the argument. I agree with the Cons, ot... : bipolar
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    Cons: we won't be noobs forever, no attributes = no skill... yeah, great article. I'm so torn on who's ga... : derelict515
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      I'm more upset about the lack of potes. How am I going to spam my spells without being able to chug ma... : Rice-Rocketeer
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        When I played it at Blizzcon, I was running around massacring so many mobs that dropped energy orbs that ... : BlackCat9
        • Okay, sweet. As long as I can spam the fuck out of my spells, I'm good. I just like being a mage-ty... : Rice-Rocketeer
      • I thought there were still pots just also the orbs that dropped from kills : derelict515
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  Old news, but still awesome. Such an annoying feature. : SilverSnake
  • yea it sucks building your character the way you want. : jonin
• Thanks for posting this. : Lightzout
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  I initially interpreted this as TALENT points, but now I understand that they're talking about strength, ... : fishbone
  • Of course not. : razlebol
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  hopefully its just attributes and not skills : dantastic
  • it says black and white its just attributes. : barichnikov
• this is how it is in war3 you nancies. you pick up tomes or items which modify your base attr, and you ca... : boomstickah
• Who cares. Get rid of them. : jayacheess
• I think they should've gone the Guild Wars route, and allow the user to experiment as much as they want w... : Rag and Bone Man