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  Black Isle : vikramwillrock
  • ^^^ : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Yeah me too. : Perturbation
  • Ayup. Same here. : Vantage
  • I think this is it. Also, Bioware hasn't closed, but I still miss the BG style RPGs. Just give me a... : valael
• Ya, Looking Glass was sad. I felt that their Thief series was a good example of branching out into new ... : CRasterImage
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  Bullfrog :( : dafugg
  • this :( : moe6
  • a thousand times this : alnya
  • This hit me hard too, I really wanted another Syndicate sequel. : nomaad
  • theme hospital!! : Chandler55
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    It's hard to think of a bigger loss to gaming than Bullfrog. : PeanutsEnvy
    • WE STILL HAVE MOLYNEUX! : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I wanted Magic Carpet 3 :( : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Syndicate was one of the best games ever created. : ieGod
• probably Looking Glass, with Ion Storm Austin a close second : mikecyb
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  Well, he left Looking Glass to form Irrational years before Looking Glass folded. : Chris Remo
  • And they even worked together afterwards; System Shock 2 was Irrational and Looking Glass. : Conan
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  Troika :( : daedraug
  • :( RIP Troika. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • Troika for me as well. : jet-poop
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  ION Storm : -efx-
  • ^^^ i was hoping for Daikatana 2 : CoRDS
  • Agreed. Daikatana or the abysmal Dominion aside, they had some pretty cool hardcore games like Anachronox... : Anchovy
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  origin : Chandler55
  • yes :( : lowpoly
  • Origin, yeah. Or the old LucasArts. : Nitrium
  • the other day at work something with the word Origin came up, so I instantly said "Origin, we create worl... : smacknca
  • I wasn't old enough to really appreciate Origin during its time, but now that I'm a bit older, and have p... : Cliffzorz
  • The EA buyout of Origin was a total disaster. : dirge23
  • Yep. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Dynamix closing was upsetting to me. FUCK YOU SIERRA/VIVENDI : semaphore
• shacknews : filthysock
• Ensemble =( : fleabug
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  Bungie selling to Microsoft (the end of the original Bungie Studios in Chicago). I used to be a rabid App... : datoo
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    I'd have to agree here, I still believe that Halo would have been such a better game if it were made for ... : sanchez
    • I was so pumped about the alien vs marine multiplayer mode that was supposed to be similar to tribes :( : datoo
    • how would it have been better? : bagelcc
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  R.I.P. Westwood Studios : yosemiteclimber
  • :-( : matthaeus
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  Looking Glass definitely. : melt_core
  • Not only was there a shitload of drama involved with the Looking Glass Studios shutdown, but it also chan... : melt_core
• waiting for romsteady to chime in. : sammyl
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  YES. Looking Glass Studios. No contest :((((( : SlamDunk
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    ...and Appeal too :((( : SlamDunk
    • Outcast huh? : node
• Troika :( I want more games like Bloodlines. : Marauder IIC
• Bioshock aint exactly a triumph for Looking Glass fans :( : SpaecKow
• Black Isle : gebz
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  Psygnosis. I miss the owl D: : Splinebastard
  • :'''( : d fluke
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  Kixx. Not really I'm just throwing out an old name : chazums
  • I think that was just a "greatest hits" kind of label that published games from several different studios... : d fluke
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  Lucas Arts :( : thewindcriesmary
  • this :( : felicia
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    Alright, if that counts... this. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Crap, I didn't know they folded last year. Well, anything after Grim Fandango/Mercenaries was a travesty,... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• yeah looking glass : dael
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  When those guys left Looking Glass, I'm pretty sure that nobody would have predicted a future Game of the : qsylvr
  • What? Irrational was formed before Looking Glass closed down, and they worked together on Theif 2 and Sy... : manlyman
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  Sierra On-Line. They had kinda already lost the magic at that point, but still :( : GloriousCow
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    and this :( fuck, man I love adventure games. : felicia
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      I miss all the old ones. :( Seriously, when I was little my father and I would try and work our way t... : MacemanInTW
      • As a kid you played Leisure Suit Larry with your father?.... : melt_core
  • It was more like putting a sick animal out of it's misery... : melt_core
  • This one. As much as their adventure games were sucking towards the end I hated to see them go. : baron calamity
  • I agree. When they were still around there was hope they'd do something with those IPs still. :( : Bull
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  Black Isle. Yes, most of them are over at Obsidian these days, but nothing beats what they did with Plane : lightly inclined
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    Holy shit! I was just looking at their site, not having a clue what kind of games Obsidian makes, and the... : Marauder IIC
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      Uhh, ropekid has been talking about the game a bit, I don't remember the details but my impression was a ... : SpaecKow
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        I just realised that might be very vague: what I meant was a game that's far more computer roleplaying he... : SpaecKow
        • Yeah, I was wondering what you meant by that :) Mass Effect was pretty RPGish. It had stats, round based ... : Marauder IIC
      • Man, I hope Obsidian gets the resources they need to make a highly polished product. : Rice-Rocketeer
    • and alpha protocol ffs zomgwtfbbq : d fluke
• Not a closure but... Sega, Since they stop making consoles, they are just not the same anymore. : razlebol
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  Looking Glass, but Irrational was already in existence; you have your history wrong. : Conan
  • Sorry I must have worded it incorrectly, but thats what I meant. Luckily as in , it was good that Ken Le... : manlyman
• bullfrog, origin and looking glass : JohnnyDanger
• Ion Storm : Godhatesfatpeople
• Lucasart which i know isn't 'technically' closed, but yeah. <sniff> I miss the good old days of Lucasart : BigT
• Papyrus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Design_Group Makers of the best looking, most advanced, bes... : LoioshDwaggie
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  Massive Development. I really, really wanted an end to the story Aquanox 2 started Black Isle's a close s... : Arceihn
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    Aquanox? The second one was actually good? I remember the first, it was terrible. : node
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      Terrible is putting it lightly. The sequel's a vast improvement in every area. I wouldn't say any one asp : Arceihn
      • That's a real surprise, I'll check it out since the first one had so much promise and dropped it all. : node
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  Trilobyte. 7th Guest practically got me into PC gaming, even though it was so primitive from a gameplay ... : treefingers1
  • What the heck is a trilobite anyway! : d fluke
  • I wish I didn't lose my 7th Guest CDs. I'd love to replay it now that ScummVM supports it. : Bull
• Looking Glass was definitely my favourite studio. It was so sad when they closed. : Haku-Jin
• SingleTrac. :( : Super Sparker
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  Westwood : retardhumper
  • Also SSI : retardhumper
• Bullfrog and Looking Glass : Fredrik S
• Not closures, but Bungie and Rare going to Microsoft made me sad. Now that Bungie is semi independent ag... : Grumbeld
• Origin, the #1 reason people bought new pcs in the 90s (not an actual fact, just guessing from experience... : razorblade79
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  Dynamix : stgdz
  • Yeah this for me as well. I still weep when I think of it. : dumb.
• Looking Glass, Bullfrog and Origin. : Fyunch Click
• Cavedog. I really REALLY wanted to play Amen. At least we got Supreme Commander. : Dynotaku
• Sierra On-Line & Origin. Not been the same since. : icon_of_syn
• Westwood & Muckyfoot. Startopia ftw :( : AMikaboshi
• Origin followed by Westwood. : pigvomit
• Looking Glass by far. I'm a huge fan of the Thief series, so their closure sucked. After playing Vamp... : Rag and Bone Man
• You ever noticed a trend with developers closing and then showing uber cool projects they were working on... : baron calamity
• mentioning ironlore for posterity :( : Luminair

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  does Daytona count :C : moe6
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    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaytoooonaaaaaaaa aaaaaahhhhhhh : moe6
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      That was the only game my dad ever played. He STILL thinks it is state of the art. : ETPC1
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        it's one of the few games I still regularly play if I'm burning some time at the arcade before a movie or... : moe6
        • the one we have here are the huge ass deluxe versions too. bigger than in this video. : moe6
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  X-Men, though the 6-player cabinet was the best. : mechanicalgrape
  • seconded so hard : Head Rush
  • oh fuck yes : zerog83
  • did this game ever make it out of arcades : NeoMoose
  • my brothers and i spent $20 the last time we saw one of these : notdeadyeti
  • I cannot tell you how many time I beat that game. That game was so hardcore it was insane. : conandan
  • Oh god damn that was fun. : Bull
  • What characters did we like? I always went with my man Colossus. : Clasifyd
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  NBA Jam : sigpro
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    HE'S ON FIREEEE!!!! : med1c
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      seriously, we need this for XBLA. : Prozium
      • If this game came to XBLA, I would have to quit my job. : Sgt_Boomstick
• Cyberball. Yes, I am old school. : Thresher
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  Gauntlet, eot. : bipolar
  • Au contraire. Gauntlet 2! 4 Elves running around with Extra Speed, Extra Shot Speed and Reflective shots!... : AxeMan808
• Gauntlet in all its forms, Ninja Turtles, and...Offroad. : VictoriouSecret
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  TMNT! : DOOManiac
  • seconded : manero
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    ^^^ X-MEN, and SIMPSONS : Iwannaacura
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      YES. In that order too. : Albemuth
      • Don't forget Aliens Vs. Predator. That game was fucking awesome! : DOOManiac
• Atari Sprint 4 or 4 player Atari football : retardhumper
• TMNT 4: Turtles in Time, EOT. : gmd
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  Simpsons or X-Men. : Deathlove
  • Oh man I spent so much money at Circus Circus in Reno playing that game. Simpsons that is. : Sailor of Fortune
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  the avengers. : sabadog
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    specifically this one. I love Captain America as a little kid. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19064... : sabadog
    • whoops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America_and_the_Avengers : sabadog
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  Left 4 Dead doesn't count, does it? If not, then I say Gauntlet. WIZARD NEEDS MORE FOOD! : Maddog_Delphi97
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    Don't be ridiculous. No one played wizard. : JarEme
    • I effing loved wizard! : Clasifyd
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  Grid. : kpxkrnjc
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZWaKp5vik4&feature=PlayList&p=16ED8323B4FD2A8F&index=0&playnext=1 Was ... : kpxkrnjc
• Gauntlet. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Oh shit, I know the very one your talking about. Spent many hours playing that shit going between the Isl... : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Wow, talk about a small world... : cptn.peachfuzz
• Knights of the Round was pretty badass. So was Aliens Vs Predator. : Prozium
• Ridge Racer. : TrptJim
• http://goldenaxe.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ fuuuck yeah. : GrimmyD
• Alien vs Predator, only 2 players (at least the cabinets i saw), but holy fuck was 2 guys whooping ass as... : Jackass1233
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  NBA Jam was fun as hell and probably my favorite sports game of all time. For beat-em-ups, nothing cou... : ConfusedUs
  • ^^^^ This guy got it right on the money. : shwortdogg
• damn, someone needs to make a 4 player SmashTV : anhero
• Ironman 4x4! : radula
• Jerkin It : nickjolly
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  Goldeneye. Where the hell is the XBLA version? : spiderfill
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    Its dead. Goldeneye was a great game. But nostalgia plays a big part in it. Its kind of a terrible game t... : Sgt_Boomstick
    • Just needs a modern controller (like on the 360) : sleepytea
• GI Joe. : monkeygone
• Holy shit, Sunset Riders was great! : action wombmate
• ninja turtles or the simpsons! : Demius
• Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off-Road : Kniggit
• X-Men, without a question : ColoradoCNC
• AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! : Psigun
• Toobin : smegmar

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• Basketball. : owly
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  All RTS games ever : wasylm
  • this. : ass-street
  • 3rd'd'd'd : punchdog
  • 4th'd..dd. seriously, i do okay for the first few hand-holding levels then i get raped repeatedly. : waxthirteen
• 2D fighting games. I'm not necessarily bad at them, but relative to the high levels of play that can be a... : mechanicalgrape
• FPS multiplayer. I have yet to find a FPS that I am naturally talented with online against other players.... : theangrywaffles
• damn ikuruga! : vov1n
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  The game of life. : voodooraze
  • hahaha same here : Nitrium
  • This. : nevicata
  • me too. : Ziz
• video games : PapaBoo
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  singing on expert in Rock Band - : flagg209
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    singing on medium in Rock Band : dirge23
    • singing in the shower : PapaBoo
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  X-Com : yossapw
  • This is the correct answer. X-Com is the game I love to hate. : jingletard
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  RTS games. My mind explodes with too much micromanagement but I still like to play : kainen1
  • Me too :( Although it's been a long time since I really liked an RTS anyway. DoW2 has reminded me both wh... : daedraug
  • Yeah same here. I enjoy the hell out of them, but any attempts to play online are an abysmal failure. : ErikTehRed
• Q3 : ieGod
• 4X strategy games : riptyde
• poker : retardhumper
• Hot hands : icon_of_syn
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  Gal Civ 2. I have to play it on easy just to do anything, but it's quite fun. I suspect designing your ... : Rag and Bone Man
  • I love 4x games also but I'm so terrible at them. GC2 kicked my ass even on easy. : Rotten Deadite
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  Any of the race games like PGR and whatnot. : bombay
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    on the other hand you could be a good driver, kick ass at racing games and not have an m3 :C. : moe6
    • hehe, that's the problem. Esp, when I drive an M3 in the games, they don't drive like the car does :) : bombay
• Rock Band : Korban
• QuakeLive. Kill / Death (Ratio): 74 / 292 (0.25) : moe6
• I loved playing 1943 on Nintendo but I suck balls at the free 1943 arcade version on gametap : AssGoblin
• Street Fighter 2 HD Remix : breadsticks
• most scrolling shooters like Ikargua, R-Type etc. :( : d fluke

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  I dunno, that sounds fairly reasonable. If you're sucking up a bunch of bandwidth and causing congestion ... : boarder2
  • If I try to download 1 file that's 400 MB I shouldn't be throttled. If I was downloading multiple gigs a ... : mojo the helpr monke
  • That said, if it just drops you down at like 2am, that's pretty shifty. I'll have to check my connection ... : boarder2
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    Except it pretty much cripples EVERY media service on the internet. Amazon/hulu/netflix steam WoW patches... : crazywigga
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      Good point. That indeed does suck a lot : boarder2
      • I have to wonder whether some of those companies might be looking into the legality of this practice. I'm... : derelict515
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      as well as online backups which are becoming more and more common : derelict515
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        Your backup speed isn't really critical though. Just let it go until it's done and be happy. Streaming vi... : boarder2
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          it's just yet another perfectly legitimate service (that you pay for even) that is being blocked under th... : derelict515
          • But wouldn't you be throttled on Comcast's own VoD service as well? : Attica Blue
  • im sure they inform everyone when they sign up that they cant actually use their connection at the speeds... : extrahappyturtle
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    That's not fucking fair at all. I'm paying for a particular rate of service and they're saying "well we ... : spazzium
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      They are doing it, it's active in all their markets. Started like beginning of January. : mojo the helpr monke
      • I haven't seen it, still getting over 750k from newsgroups : Halen
      • I haven't been home long enough during the week to use VTC. It'll be apparent next week if I'm around fo... : spazzium
  • Then charge me only for the "lowered" rate of service. There is a reason people pay a premium to have : InfoBiter
  • No, it's retarded, and possibly illegal. They're basically selling you on a particular connection speed,... : Arcanum
• Now I know why my Mirror's Edge download from Steam dropped to ~400k after about an hour of downloading. ... : DJ Clipdat
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  You're crying over 400 kB/sec? Sympatico throtlles bittorrent between 4pm-2am (read - the time I use the ... : FiReaNG3L
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    I'm crying. I paid for that bandwith. : TrptJim
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      Are you sure? Check your contract. You likely paid for "up to" that bandwidth. : batkiwi
      • With that logic it's not okay to complain if you're only getting 1KB every hour. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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      You didn't pay for guaranteed bandwidth. Such things are available but you will pay a great deal more. : LilCrypto
      • Did I pay for 70% bandwith? : TrptJim
• It's like selling an airline ticket and then having to stand for half the flight because they overbooked. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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  i don't understand the outrage, if your CMTS port is congested your going to get lower speeds anyway a... : plat2on1
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    if one or two people on your street saturating their downstream impacts your connection you should find a... : derelict515
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      No shit. QoS, hard stuff right there. : rosewood
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        But. That's exactly what they're doing is QoS. Just implemented a little differently, dynamic based on yo... : boarder2
        • I don't consider traditional QoS to be the same as what they are doing. Here they are throttling traffic ... : rosewood
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      not really, two users on comcasts 16mbit tier could use nearly a full channels worth of bandwith : plat2on1
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        Don't oversell. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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          impossible. : plat2on1
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            sarcasm? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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              nope. not unless you are willing to pay a lot more. : plat2on1
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                or be told what the minimum level or service is up front and not have it changed mid-contract : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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                  well comcast has no contracts so there is no issue! : plat2on1
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                    what the hell did Comcast users agree to? an exchange of services for money by doing this they're basica... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
                    • If I take this to its extreme conclusion all I can picture is "Comcast users should feel lucky that they'... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
                    • comcast users agreed to reasonable network management :) it's all spelled out quite clearly when you sign... : plat2on1
              • because they would have to put more infrastructure in to support the product that they.. OVERSOLD : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
        • ^^ : TrptJim
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    Would you be happy if you experienced my airline analogy above? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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      like most, your analogy is a silly comparison. : xxiv
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        It's like meeting the man of my dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife :( : jbury
        • its like raaaaaa111111AAAAAAiiiNnnnnn....... : Ride-My-Rocket
• I guess the congestion in my area is always low because I can always max out my connection. : sanchez
• So happy my ISP doesn't throttle at all, we have Docsis 3.0 about to roll out soon on top of it all. The... : ant_hillbilly
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  Isn't comcast the same company that came out with power boost? So boost your speed, and then kick you ... : rosewood
  • speed boost as long as your file takes less than 2 seconds to download : podizzle
• your throttled speed is still 4x faster than my entire connection. : moe6
• Be thankful your country's intarweb networks are decent enough to provide you 300kB/s when throttled. ... : SigENeaT
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  boo hoo, my isp just throttled me to 64kb/s. That's BITS. : filthysock
  • yup, I'm shaped to that all week and it takes 5/6 tries to load a single page (opening multiple pages = a... : 60days
  • I live in fear of the cap :( : dafugg
  • Sounds like AT&T's DSL at my job. :\ : guido anchovy
• I wish I can download at 300 - 400 kB/sec. : slacko
• I have noticed that streaming video of any decent quality has been hitching with regularity on Comcast la... : LemonJoose
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  And you people still think Blu Ray will be replaced by Digital Downloads? : treefingers1
  • As I've said not anytime soon... I could the next format 7-10 years down the road being digital download : Shadowdane
  • yes : Mr.SEX
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    what do you mean you people : mmogger
    • what do YOU mean you people : Xanthos
  • i'm tempted to sign up for netflix over xbox live to try it out. : ultramega
  • You don't think the ISP's would LOVE to push movies to you at an extra cost? : Werkin
• Youtube and hulu have been really crappy for me the past few months. (along with "other" streaming video ... : baron calamity
• Im glad this is not happening in my area.Im capped at 2mb/s download with the first few seconds at 3.5 I... : Cashh
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  how about the fact that if you are running 16Mbps (the highest available internet in detroit) you can onl... : podizzle
  • 34.722 sorry you're wrong, : Cashh
• my downloads on comcast average like 75kb/sec and it's intermittent service : arizona bay
• Dammitall. I had the same problem the other day and sure enough....motherfuck. : afrochops
• ive hit 1.2-1.5mbit/sec from fileshack while using Comcast. how new is this? : m0rfus

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• They've been crap for a while : MagicWishMonkey
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  I don't really pay attention to them unless they make noise and then I go into a blinding fury fueled by ... : DrFlammable
  • I doubt those will be a regular thing. : humbleone
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  scratch-n-sniff, just to be sure. Were your ears burning recently? I said nice things about you. : sHugamom
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    They're not true. I'm a monster. A god damned monster. : GeorgeB3DR
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      What other kind of person would keep the awesomeness of a Duke sequel to themselves for so long? : ArcKnight
      • So, so true. : randomjgj
    • You don't even look like Shrek ... you just growl like him and huff but when it matters - you're ... Geor : sHugamom
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      I still believe you were sent from the future in order to make Dognose cry. : Grumbeld
      • It all makes sense now - GeorgeB3DR is the Cryminator : Lightbulb
• You have ads turned on? : Dave-A
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  You must be referring to the GameFly ones? : zipper76
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    I've yet to see those. Maybe because I'm not residing in the US? : humbleone
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      No, he's just being an ass. : breadsticks
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        An ass I may be, but GF is advertising on ShackNews now. I was just being a jerk though.... : zipper76
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          Pretty sure I've seen GF ads on the shack before in the past, not like this is new. : breadsticks
          • And I like cheese. : breadsticks
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  Are ads ever good? : ryuuseki
  • on a website? No. : humbleone
• Probably still some of this, http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19102330#itemanchor_19102330 : Maarten Goldstein
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  They've been bad for a few months. Some of them have pegged my cpu around 50% usage. : sigpro
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    using a pentium 2 is not recomended for 2009 : Iwannaacura
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      sigpro only has 128MB of RAM : redfive
      • leave him alone : redfive
      • Who the hell needs more than 128MB of RAM? : Ride-My-Rocket
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      It's not the fastest CPU but an x2 4400+ gets me by for right now. Only 2 gig of ram in the machine but i... : sigpro
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        You're not still using that old stuff? : bolus
        • Upgraded to an 8800 gtx but other than that yeah. One family income makes it hard to spend money on PC pa... : sigpro
  • same here, the 5 gum one in particular killed my machine at work, which had 2 dual core procs (4 cores to... : slickdoody
  • well according to the gamasutra article, steve's been in talks with gamefly for the past six, so maybe he... : deathofrats
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  *GAMEFLY'D* : prime8
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    I hope this meme is never verboten. it needs to stay. : ]pm[chem
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      People are forgetting how it's done though, it's * S O M E T H I N G ' D * Bold, red, and space in bet... : Nali4Freedom
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        The Old Ways must not be lost. : delataur
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          someone posted an excellent guide once, but I forget who it was :( : Nali4Freedom
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            probably haiku : RikiTiki2
            • correct! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=10251532#itemanchor_10251532 : Halen
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        NOT many people here still remember the * N U K E ' D * days. :( : Super Sparker
        • and I fucked it up. FAIL. : Super Sparker
  • *MCFLY'D* : Nighteyes
  • http://home.comcast.net/~guidoanchovy/gameflytime.png : guido anchovy
• As a Mercury member why don't you just turn the ads off? I haven't seen an ad on Shacknews in years. : Sapiens
• hrmm...weird, i dont see ANY ads, and i dont have mercury nor do i use any sort of ad blocker thing. : papaskot
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  It still amazes me people don't run ad-blocking software : pixelat3d
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    It shouldn't amaze you, because ads are how sites like this are actually able to operate and provide you ... : Chris Remo
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      not the thread for this, but while you're here Remo, I just had to say that last idlethumbs was a riot, y... : mankeroo
      • You're right! This isn't the right thread for this, GET OUT! : heartsauce
    • i tended to run hosts files that blocked 'bad stuff,' but it had the side effect of blocking most banner ... : xsoulbrothax
    • do you sit through the commercials when you have a DVR capable of fast forwarding? : [fry]
    • AFAIK the majority of these ads don't work off of simple impressions anymore. Most of the revenue is gene... : pixelat3d
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    Because it's silly to expect a website to provide you a service while getting nothing in return. : riptyde
    • quickly forward this to china and blow their minds! : handofthrawn
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    Or you can just get Mercury : sonicdeathwalrus
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      George has a lightning bolt, but he still sees the ads. : elwood00
      • He has to set the option not to see them in his account preference screen. : mallfouf
    • I find this answer acceptable. Done. : pixelat3d
• Dammit, George Broussard, focus on releasing DNF.....focus. : lookitzpancakes
• Hey George, know about this? http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm No place like 127.0.0.1 :-) : Tech T
• nah, they've been pretty horrible for a while. There's even the sega one that breaks the website. Yay! : zakazi
• I do not run ad blocker but at work and home, i haven't seen an ad in several days. i just figured ads we... : baron calamity
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  my food turns to crap overnight!! : Mr.SEX
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    Do you eat from the toilet? : Ride-My-Rocket
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      let me tell you about the digestive process : Mr.SEX
      • Could you make it into a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story? : Ride-My-Rocket
• LIGHTING BOLT!! LIGHTING BOLT!! : m0rfus
• i'm not getting any ads right now on LC.. : ultramega
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  I don't see any ads, and not because of any blockers or anything. : carnivore
  • oh good, I'm not the only one. : baron calamity

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• Dun dun dun da dun dun! : Sailor of Fortune
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  I hope so. But why limit it to the pacific? I loved some of the North Africa maps. : pigvomit
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    Why not do all? Have Normandy, the Pacific, and the Russian front. And Africa. And Italy. And Battle of t... : Wisp!
    • They need theatres for the expansions :D : ArcKnight
  • How blind I be. : pyide
• I just hope they get the feel of BF42 back. : Turd Ferguson
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  Aww man, I wish it wasn't going back to WWII... I really liked the modern setting of BF2 much more. UAV's... : DingoStoleMyBaby
  • I loved WW2 for Battlefiled. Dogfights were so much more fun without missile locks. Same with the lack... : pigvomit
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    COD5 has scout planes. But yeah, though I think a commander would still be applicable in this era. : Sailor of Fortune
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      C4's were cool in BF2 as well. I hope they can incorporate something like that in a WW2 setting.. : DingoStoleMyBaby
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        I love satchel charges in BF42. On servers with FF off, I have my buddy load all his satchels into my jee... : Sailor of Fortune
        • Yeh, you do that with the fast buggy thing in BF2 against the tanks. They're nigh impossible to hit becau... : DingoStoleMyBaby
  • My biggest complaint about BF2 is that with the high speed of jets, you had very little control over wher... : Maddog_Delphi97
• Well, just on the eve of a classic shackbattle, that would be pretty cool. Would be interesting with upda... : carnivore
• Battlefield 1943: Pacific Didn't BF1942 cover a bunch of different theaters? I guess this sets them up... : pyide
• This could tie in hugely well with The Pacific (Band of Brothers 2) : Bamtan
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  360 and PS3 only? please don't let this be true : kill9
  • What?!? No!!!! Damn, that would suck. : pigvomit
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    Aww hell no... : DingoStoleMyBaby
    • You know what? Fuck this 2009. Fuck it, and fuck 2010 also. I'm gonna go find me a time machine. : pigvomit
  • This wouldn't make much sense since they've already announced Bad Company 2. : ArcKnight
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    Here's a Dutch translation that mentions PC: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=80&threa... : romulan
    • WHEW : kill9
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    it's most likely going to built for the consoles and then ported to the PC. : stgdz
    • i just hope they don't scale it down for consoles (i.e. no 64 player maps) : kill9
• "Alongside that, French gaming site JeuxActu writes that the game has already officially been announced, ... : cptn.peachfuzz
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  The good news is this means we might get a Battlefield title for the PC in 2009. : Wisp!
  • Haha...wait, scratch that. : Wisp!
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  I have high hopes but low expectations. They fucked it all up after 1942. : romulan
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    Nah, BF2 was awesome (albeit pretty fucken buggy for a while too). 2142 was a total abomination, although... : DingoStoleMyBaby
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      bf2 was released with the exact same fucking bugs (and more) that were STILL plaguing 1942... : -=kodiak=-
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        The worst bug in BF2 was that red name bug (where the teammates would appear with red names). It fucken t... : DingoStoleMyBaby
        • not that in most contexts 'forever' would mean like, a year or two after release, but in this case it act... : derelict515
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    lol BF2>1942 : eeeealmo
    • LOOK AT HOW WRONG YOU ARE : romulan
    • truth : kill9
    • lol indeed : derelict515
    • I agree with you. The revelry for BF1942 around here seems more temporal than anything else. : mittense
    • I need to give it a shot now that I have a PC that will run it. : dmason
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      Squads and commander made it more awesome.. : DingoStoleMyBaby
      • ^^^ and the only game to do it right and do it well. : eeeealmo
    • it was a great game, but i had way more fun in bf42. : Turd Ferguson
    • This man is correct. Nostalgia plays a large part in the shack's undying hardon for 1942. BF2 made huge i... : Sgt_Boomstick
    • So very very wrong! : MacemanInTW
    • How does it feel to be so wrong? : thetangent
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    BF:Nam was awesome. My favorite in the series. : NastyJack
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      Yeah, I'm disappointed that you heathens gave it up so quickly. Now I'll never again get to cap points t... : Lone Swordsman
      • we embraced it early but the m60+LAW combo really was bad : RikiTiki2
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      Same! once you got good flying copters was a dream, omg felt like god flying around and owning everyone. : shackwack
      • i preferred the jets in that game. still dogfightable unlike BF2's : RikiTiki2
  • Bf2 was pretty awesome even though I only played demo. : moe6
• will there be a loop-the-loop button? : skryte
• As long as they don't put it on a shitty engine. 2142 was a nightmare. "Hey guys we have titans that you ... : Bumpmapped
• I hope they bring back ExPack jumping : forksalad
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  This in the new Frostbite engine will be amazing. : Wolfanoz
  • Frostbite made what seemed like small maps so much bigger. : Sailor of Fortune
• Great, now you have given me an errection. : rosewood
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  games with a 1943 on them sell better. : the archvile
  • 1943 (NES) > 1942 (NES) thus, BF1943 will be > BF1942! : pigvomit
• I want a map where it is just aircraft carriers, planes and submarines. 40 vs 40 dog fights sound epic : shortbuscaptain
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  Fuck that shit. Give me another Battlefield PC game in a modern setting. I know that BF1942 is god around... : mittense
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    i was hoping for the same, but modern games seem to be getting a bit saturated at this point : kill9
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      And World War 2 isn't? : mittense
      • it was, but it has kind of shifted i think. i am hoping that they do come back to modern at some point t... : kill9
    • How do you figure that? Hell's Highway and World at War came out last year. What modern shooters did we g... : Dr_Cube
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    For me it was since the weapons and vehicles seem to make a better paced games. I am a huge fan of tank c... : Evil Benius
    • Fucking signed. : delataur
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      Yep, and the prop planes and bombers > jet & helicopter rape. I'd be interested even if it was a basi... : pyide
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        Yup, Really the only thing I didn't care for in 1942 was the infantry combat. : MacemanInTW
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          well... yeah since the game was really all about the vehicles. It's hard to make a good MP vehicle AND g... : rasputinreborn
          • Oh, I know. I loved the game, and played the living hell out of it. I'm just saying that if they had be... : MacemanInTW
• I can't WAIT for Killer Commando mod! : Turd Ferguson
• Hmm, not sure what to think about this just yet... : pop_secret
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  My disappointment at the choice to take the game back to WWII is enormous. If this is indeed Battlefield ... : Dr_Cube
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    I couldn't be more happy with the series going back to its WW2 roots. I never saw BF1942 as just another... : pigvomit
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      I'd go so far as to say 1942 was the best WWII game ever made. There are some good competitors (like CoH)... : thetangent
      • Ill never forgive Ashkie for banning me due to "hacking" in a dive bomber >=(.. Sorry dude, I was just th... : Reeves
    • Yep, regardless of the setting the gameplay is fucking awesome. BF2 failed in gameplay AND environment. : yosemiteclimber
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    They did the past. They did the present. They did the future. What do you want? : TrptJim
    • Er, what you want is BF2 better. I can agree with that, but I am happy with this direction as well. : TrptJim
    • Battlefield: Civil War : rosewood
  • I don't understand the WWII hate, it's an awesome time of history and lends itself to games much more tha... : dooberzoo
• hello AWESOMENESS : liquidlies
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  God I hope they make this as basically a graphically updated version of 1942. Maybe take some of the idea... : thetangent
  • This is what is looking like to me, makes me insanely excited. If this is the case, I will buy day one. : VictoriouSecret
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  Battlefield 1946! That would be boring :( : ninjase
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    Battlefield 1939 would have been a rapefest. : Sailor of Fortune
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      Battlefield 1969 is where they reciprocate. : yosemiteclimber
      • Maybe Battlefield 1842? The end of the First Opium War? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War : five_percent
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  they need to do a Battlefield 2 2 : nomaad
  • followed by Battlefield 2 3 : nomaad
• yes please! : Mansmells
• Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk....Milk.... : Phreakin

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  no : wtf242
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    Anyone else? : rudds
    • Hypnosis to help remember the password : spiderfill
    • oh well if a simple vote will change the outcome, then I say yes!!!! I like to help : boring gegtik
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      he would have to email Maarten for that : redfive
      • Yeah don't worry, taken care of. Just trying to make a poorly executed jab at wtf242. : rudds
    • http://gamefly.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/gamefly.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php : pancake humper
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      hey motherfucker I wrote the password reset page : wtf242
      • so yea he'd know if it doesn't work :P : stonedonkey
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        thankfully(sarcasm) shack passwords are stored in plain text though! so someone with db access could look... : wtf242
        • :o : anthonybean
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          How long can a password be? : skitzo
          • Cause, if it's long im going to change mine to: YodawgIheardyoulikedwetmaartens,soheressowetmaarteniny... : skitzo
        • Shit nice, can you recover the password for my old dumb account? Actually, could you just send me a pl... : dumb.
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          are you freaking serious? : c0bra
          • it's pretty easy to figure out. just ask the shack to send you your password.. you'll get an e-mail with ... : wtf242
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            the shack db was build what.... 10 years ago? back them most of the best practices we know about now didn... : wtf242
            • I know, I just figured things had been... fixed... since then. You know, we've had enough changes to the ... : c0bra
          • At least they don't send them down in cookies anymore : Horn
        • good thing I haven't changed my original shack password in the 7 years I have been here. : stgdz
        • Hmmm, perhaps this is how the squirrels took over dognose's account that one time. : CrustaR
        • greeeeeeeeeeeeeeat : afrochops
        • now i'm glad I haven't used this password on any other site for about a decade : itsjames
        • uhm why : nomaad
        • wonder how many shackers just changed their passwords... : deviantpaul
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          THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. : xxiv
          • OUTRAGEOUS. : xxiv
        • So are Ebay's. They told me I should change my password (while on the phone with a rep). I was like, How ... : loboca
      • gj : razorblade79
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  Paypal me $300 and I'll take care of it. : voodooraze
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    are there any situations that this doesn't cover? : Horn
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      The lending of 400 dollars? : skitzo
      • :( : laurgasms
    • "Hey guys, I need $300" : laurgasms
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      Well they say money can't buy you love.... but I don't believe that. : voodooraze
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        Paypal me $300 and I'll take care of it. : laurgasms
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          Hey can I borrow 400 dollars? : skitzo
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            Only if you promise to love me.... in the butt. : voodooraze
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              No, I mean I thought of being gay just for the casual sex. I'd imagine it's a lot easier to get laid as ... : skitzo
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                but waxed assholes and shiny vibrators do? : dedgecko
                • No, i'm more of a bondage guy myself. : skitzo
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  awww man, would be awesome to see Roushi make a reappearance! loved some of his old school gaming / emula... : cause&effect
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    I agree completely. Hope he gets re-registered somehow. : Rotten Deadite
    • Maarten's gonna help him out. : rudds
• Contact Maarten? : Arcanum
• http://www.gamefly.com/member/reg0.asp?re=/member/account.asp?# Please enter an e-mail address and the... : Zakko

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  i wonder what hes gonna do now? : kingfish
  • Snorting coke off of the dashboard in his new Ferrari. : jingletard
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    sniff cocaine off hookers. : SlingBlaze
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      snorting coke off of a boob used to be a dream of mine. i never seemed to have both at the same time. : kingfish
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        never had boob? : SlingBlaze
        • i've partaken of each separately. : kingfish
      • nobody should be forced to live their life without doing that at least once : AbortedFetusChristi
  • ...be a millionaire? : CrustaR
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  Unless he is in some kind of quiet period for legal reasons, I'd like to think that he'd post something. ... : fathertime
  • he did already : radula
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    It's on the front page under the Interesting that no one ever reads http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?i... : grabbie
    • that has a SUPRISING resemblance to http://mynewhobbyisponies.ytmnd.com/ MAYBE MALUM WAS AHEAD OF THE CUR... : retarded talking dinosaur
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  i can not escape the game industry and honestly i'm pretty sure i would just get bored out of my mind and... : Steve Gibson
  • don't start WoW :( : RikiTiki2
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    Dude, you can totally have an office in AZEROTH. : hoov1185
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      The commute there isn't that bad. : Sailor of Fortune
      • An hour's wait if you're lucky! : hoov1185
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    if you get into another web enterprise let us know... I'd gladly support anything of yours after spending... : sludge vohaul
    • Non of us signed non-competes. :) : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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    dude I feel ya. Working from home seems like a great idea until you do it for a long time. I have been : riptyde
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      Out of curiosity, why? I would really think that having a home based job (what do you do BTW?) and not ha... : thetangent
      • lack of human interaction, not being outside, etc. : RikiTiki2
      • I've done it before, and it's very very difficult to seperate your work life from your normal life. I use... : jbury
  • Best of luck with whatever you do, man. I'm glad you were able to make a buck off this site, you definite... : ColoradoCNC
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    So what's poor Maarten going to do? :( : yosemiteclimber
    • i can not escape the game industry and honestly i'm pretty sure i would just get bored out of my mind and... : Maarten Goldstein
  • It's amazing how time flies. I still remember the r3v days and playing against you guys. In fact, i thi... : burning eye
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    What kind of job do you do after running Shacknews all these years? : cltcprd
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      Lumberjack : ColoradoCNC
      • Leaping from tree to tree! : thetangent
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      Television? : ninjase
      • Has he had quite a bit of experience? : Bold
    • fluffer : SockMonkeh
    • lol watch him become editor for bluesnews or something and adds laryn.x to it : Chandler55
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      male model : futant
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        He did that before Shacknews : Githyanki
        • duhhhh : futant
    • rich layabout if there's any justice in the world. : inchwide
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      Kindergarten Teacher : shavenewok
      • Kindergarten Cop! : ImageOmega
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      You develop www.jo-budshack.com and chase huricanes for the rest of your life. : Bamii
      • Jackin like a HURRICAAAAAAAANNNNE! : changejar419
    • Zebra Cum Collector : mrwolf710
    • Gamasutra Staff Writer : zakazi
    • Indian casino owner : ateam311
    • gamefly envelope stuffer : festivalman
    • Uwe Boll's new sugardaddy : Merconium
    • Server disaster recovery testing. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Come play with Phil and Gonk in WoW. I'll hook you up with twink stuffs. : xylothan
  • Yeah, but how much time off? I did the same thing and 1 year has turned into 3. I do miss working, but ... : yourGarbageMan
  • Congrats man, you deserve it, both the time off and the successful sale of the business! Personally ... : randomjgj
  • We are already on to you: http://stuffthatsucks.com/ : Tissen
  • Good luck, and you're welcome for all the fish! : prime8
  • Take a nice long vacation because you know once you get another job you will be back to the daily grind. ... : handofthrawn
  • you must be looking forward to flaunting that resume. : jono181
• *Prediction!* His boat will sink and then he will have to come back to work for Gamefly running the Sha... : thetangent
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  I imagine him stepping through an impossibly large door. Before leaving he turns, waves, and says "So lon... : drodver
  • he already did that : RikiTiki2
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    steps through the door, makes a little gesture (MGS3, anyone?:)) and says "Shackers, you haven't changed ... : Zeeliv
    • rofl. : needlez
    • Perfect : SilverSnake
    • Haha, spot on! : Tissen
    • hahaha, this is where I was hoping someone would go : zakazi
    • well played!!! : afrochops
    • yes : c0bra
    • haha, awesome! : cause&effect
    • excellent : handofthrawn
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  FUCK : ghostnote
  • Good luck Steve, and thanks. :( : ghostnote
• so can we expect an introduction from anyone from gamefly, or... : d0pamine
• Hopefully he'll post here more often. : Rotten Deadite

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• I'm a completionist when it comes to music. With some exceptions, when I like an artist I don't just keep... : Schnapple
• unless i really enjoy playing the game i wont bother. Last game i comleted was motorstorm. : Vincenoir
• Hardly. I have brief flirtations with tons of games but finish very few. I know I really like a game whe... : dirge23
• same for me, except "until I got a full time job" Last was The Maw, and it was awesome. : razorblade79
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  I've been completing games, but it takes me awhile. Right now I'm working through Grim Fandango. : helvetica
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    Grim Fandango is such an awesome game. I wish I could re-play it for the first time again. : theangrywaffles
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      Right now I'm running around in Rubacava. That place is huge! : helvetica
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        It was certainly ahead of its time. Its so disappointing games like Grim Fandango are no longer made :( ... : theangrywaffles
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          I'm planning on playing Day of the Tentacle next! I love adventure games but they're such a rarity nowada... : helvetica
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            Have you ever played Psychonauts? It's not truly an adventure game, but it reminded me a lot of the old d... : theangrywaffles
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              I started to on the XBox, but for some reason I have a problem finishing console games. I might give it ... : helvetica
              • Haha. Me too. I started it on the XBox, lost interest, then picked up a bargain bin copy for $15 for the ... : theangrywaffles
• I generally only complete story based games. I gotta know what happens. Things like racing games etc, ... : moe6
• The last three games I beat were The Maw, COD:WaW, and Fallout 3. : baron calamity
• Thankfully I don't have that bug in me that so many do to get 500/500 agility orbs or pigeons or all the : Lunatic Angelic
• It's very rare that I finish a game that's not in the half-life series. I just don't have the time. :( : voodooraze
• It depends on your definition of 'completionist.' I usually play through the single player campaigns in m... : theangrywaffles
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  Guilty Confession: I never finished the last level of Thief II. : kramweil
  • me either. great game tho. : AMikaboshi
• beating a game for me usually is making it through the story. the only game i am "completing" is super ma... : podizzle
• Depends what you mean by completionist. If I'm enjoying a single-player game, I will almost always finish... : PeanutsEnvy
• never : boring gegtik
• I either play the hell out of a game and explore every corner, or drop it 1/2 way in and never pick it up... : dumb.
• Me too. I've used to be very stubborn about finishing games, but then I've realized I was torturing mysel... : Nitrium
• I absolutely have to rap all games I start. If I hear they are really hard I try to avoid them to dodge n... : RogerDandy
• I pretty much always finish a game once I start playing it. As far as completing a game by unlocking ever... : Evil Benius
• I'm the opposite. Most games I play for a few hours then never look at again, but occasionally something ... : re4ctor
• Completing games made me angry. Especially Mirror's Edge : spiderfill
• For highly-touted A+ titles (like BioShock, GTA IV, Far Cry 2) I feel like I need to complete those, othe... : MatthewPhillips
• Prior to 2006, I use to rarely finish a game, and if I did it would take months maybe even a year. No... : freakynipples69
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  Me. This became a problem when I started WoW. : node
  • Also, yes, love completing games, relentlessly, especially since I kicked WoW. Feels like a waste if I do... : node
• I haven't been a completionist since I got rid of my SNES. : Ride-My-Rocket
• I always finish games (unless they have bullshit end bosses at which point I consider it beat anyway) but... : ieGod
• I try to be if I like the game. Sometimes life distracts me and I end up forgetting about the game for a... : guido anchovy
• I thought completionists were people that did everything in a game, like in metroid they not just beat it... : qwpeoriu
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  i try to even though it hurts sometimes. I just finished WaW. What a horrible game. : ultramega
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    Wow really? It was probably my favorite CoD to date. : Evil Benius
    • i thought the SP was really lacking. I'm just going to have to avoid odd # cod games from now on. : ultramega
• I think the last game I finished was Half Life 2. Never played any of the episodes though. : Sacred Sperm
• I'm actually increasing the number of games I play to completion. I guess it's a combination of experien... : Lone Swordsman

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  How many maps did 1942 ship with? With only 3 maps it would be pretty cool if this was less than 40 buck... : Horn
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    1942 had 18 maps. : Chepito.
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      How many maps did people play? : SockMonkeh
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        One? : dumb.
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          ^ pretty much : riptyde
          • well, Wake and El Alamein is about 90% of the matches I ever saw in rotation. : riptyde
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    I bet it will be a budget release since it is coming for XBLA and PSN, $20 tops. : Evil Benius
    • It kind of reads like that. 20 dollars and released on steam would make it an instantbuy/preorder for me... : Horn
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      plus map packs for 10 bucks. Don't think that isn't going to happen. : Fyunch Click
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        Fine by me. : Evil Benius
        • depends on the maps included. I'm betting they'll be 3 maps (themed/linked) in a set for 800 points. Tha... : Fyunch Click
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          The real problem of map packs is that it just splits the community, diminishing the number of players. If... : zehh
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            no dedicated servers, I bet. : Fyunch Click
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              Bad Company has them so I would not be shocked if 1943 has them. : Evil Benius
              • for a Live Arcade/PSN downloaded game? Not necessarily disagreeing, mind you, just a bit wary. : Fyunch Click
          • As long as there is a critical mass I am happy. It is not like you need 100k players who all have the sam... : Evil Benius
• Hey! It's Wake Island a year later! http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=11412&game_id=7... : pigvomit
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  And only 24 players max. What the fuck is this. : Chepito.
  • that does seem wierd. 24 per side? ok. : AMikaboshi
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    I wonder if the console design effected this decision. : stgdz
    • NO WAI!! : theangrywaffles
  • this is the big bummer : feek
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    Probably for consoles only. I don't see why they would limit player numbers on the PC : MrLobo
    • Maybe to encourage sales of Bad Company 2? : Jonathan
  • Does not bug me too much since it means less fuckwads who suck with vehicles constantly taking them :P It... : Evil Benius
• I can't wait to kick all your asses >:) : AMikaboshi
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  I wish this was a full game release. As an XBLA or PSstore release, I'm worried about the quality for PC... : pigvomit
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    why? I guess the size limit is the reason for only 3 maps, other than that all that matters are controls. : razorblade79
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      "In development for PC, PlayStation 3 (through the PlayStation Store) and Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Marketplace : SockMonkeh
      • I don't get it : razorblade79
• Great news indeed. : ateam311
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  so its a graphic upgrade with 3 maps. it better only be 20 bucks : maulla
  • I would expect it to be : Maarten Goldstein
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  this trailer is so good! http://www.battlefield.com/1943/ : marmite
  • looks sweet : riptyde
  • /unsheaths penis aragagagasda; : Phil
  • There is a link to Bad Company 2 at the bottom. I hadn't heard about that either. : SeaLlama
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  I'm a little less pumped now. : carnivore
  • I'm Hans and this is Frans.. and we are here to Pump..You..Up! 1943 shackbattles are gonna rock! : bosst0ne
• looks like it has the same retarded running animations from BF: Heroes... I'm excited - but I'm not th... : dedgecko
• If it's cheap like others have hypothesized, I'm getting it! : guido anchovy
• I hope they fix some of the lag issues. It's the only reason I didn't pick it up in the end. The demo w... : Rag and Bone Man
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  Goddammit, they are going to half-ass this game for the console kids. : The_Archon
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    how is it half-assed? and why is it console related? : nomaad
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      In the past simultaneous release on PC and Console result in the PC title not having dedicated servers, f... : socksta
      • maybe because most of those games are crap anyway? : nomaad
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    Have you played Bad Company? Seemed just as good as any other Battlefield game to me if not better. Peopl... : Evil Benius
    • Maybe one game in ten comes out these days that ISN'T a console port. : The_Archon
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      Bad Company didn't get released on the PC. : socksta
      • I know, but my point is that the game was not crippled for consoles so there is no reason to think that t... : Evil Benius
    • Bad Company is good but let's be honest: there are a lot of features dumbed down that are simply unaccept... : Nitrium
  • its a fucking carbon copy of a 6 year old game, which was pretty fucking simple to begin with. : maulla
• I want a Korean War game : gmd
• I always enjoyed jet rape. i think i will be able to do it again soon. : eldiablo01
• EA/Dice come on the WW stuff is old, need a new BFV or something different.....to bad BF:Heroes is a TPS.... : IA_Lanky