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  Even further, what stopped you from fully pursuing your dream? I was reluctant to pursue both my dream... : freakynipples69
  • world domination is a lot harder than the cartoons make it out to be. : Modulus
  • I want to be self-employed family portrait photographer. I've been doing family photography for five year... : ConfusedUs
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    you dont live in hollywood and you never sang a song? : podizzle
    • You are correct on that "not living in Hollywood" part. I backed down from being a singer due to fear ... : freakynipples69
  • Never really given it much thought, usually all the things I really want to do cost an arseload of money,... : Splinebastard
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  internet message board poster : EvilDolemite
  • LAWL! : freakynipples69
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  Rich guy who is paid to do nothing but chill out, and nobody would know I'm rich and I wouldn't be famous... : Bean
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    yes. the famous attachment to being extremely rich does not appeal to me, at all. i'd love a movie star... : EvilDolemite
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      Right. I have no desire for fame. None. I'm always scoffed at when I'm with a group of people and they ar... : Bean
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        pretty sure you can go on the price is right and nobody is going to know who you are most of the time : snicker-snack 2
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          Yeah, but why bother nowadays... Bob Barker was the One True Host. : Bean
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            jeopardy? : snicker-snack 2
            • I'm not smart enough to get on that show. :( : Bean
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    I would absolute hate any type of wide spread fame. I actually sympathize with big time actors that have ... : freakynipples69
    • I have no sympathy for them at all. :| There's a price you have to pay for that kind of fame. : CrustaR
• Footballer (soccer) or F1 Driver : Skoal^Fyfan
• Astronaut : Flying h4x0r
• Gigolo : stump
• I'm gonna add what I would love to do if time and space was in my control. If I could be part of the m... : freakynipples69
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  Professional hedonist. : Lone Swordsman
  • You tell them Heff. : erebus
• not a job, but be part of the saudi royal family. : gmd
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  Two chicks at the same time : TastyWheat
  • Close thread. It's done. Good game. : freakynipples69
  • Zombie slayer : NastyJack
• heavy metal singer. fuck yeah. : reverend~heresy
• my preferred phrasing of that question is "if you were independently wealthy, what would you do with your... : snicker-snack 2
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  Screenwriter / Director / Producer, probably. : randomposter
  • That's obviously pie in the sky stuff, otherwise I'd love to own/manage a restaurant and a wine bar. : randomposter
• NBA player... my hoop dreams died a long time ago :( Now I count beans and scream at Tracy McGrady on the : mc-fine
• Creative Director/Lead Designer on video games. I like games and that's about as much fame as I'd ever wa... : mittense
• I would be the owner/manager of a fluffer staffing agency. : cerealSAM2
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  i envy anyone who travels around the world. so people like Anthony Bourdaine, who just travels and eats a... : mindshot
  • Haha, this is absolutely correct. : randomposter
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    There was that guy who just went to different breweries tasting beer all over the world. Fuck that guy. : stump
    • michael jackson. he also did scotch. he was amazing. : hamachi
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  I'm working towards my dream job so I can't really talk about it. Formerly, it was in the military but... : ArcKnight
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    A three letter agency? : randomposter
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      bitches love when I talk about how I'm gonna be in a 3 letter agency in 3 years and they fall all over me... : ArcKnight
      • BAHAMA MAMAS! : ArcKnight
      • DMV represent? : timmie
• adventurer. i would go all over, to crazy places and do crazy things. : d0pamine
• Be a climber. Travel the world climbing all the rocks camping and just enjoying life. : hrdwregk
• be crazy successfull running a software company. working on it! : Antilles_Prime
• toss up between successful director/writer/producer and f1 driver. : moe6
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  Brew beer or build boats. : BanjoBoy
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    I like this one. : hrdwregk
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      I would also consider being a vigilante in my spare time. : BanjoBoy
      • I think we should go into business you and I : Degenerate
• Self-employed graphic designer : grayscale
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  Billionaire Philanthropist - ftw : Dessicator82
  • That is my dream as well. : El Tigre
  • Yes, I would pay Phil to blog professionally, as well. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• One of those guys who somehow scammed his way into being a porn director/cameraman/"actor" for all those ... : Vantage
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  my current job is pretty much my dream job. : mojo the helpr monke
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    What do you do, exactly? For some reason, I think you work for the FBI. I remember you mentioning drin... : ArcKnight
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      Close, On my way to being a Special Agent for Department of Treasury irs (I say dept of tres so people : mojo the helpr monke
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        doesn't the department of the treasury control a certain group of vip-protecting badasses : xsoulbrothax
        • afaik we USED to, but they were put under dept of homeland security (I think). Back in the day though... : mojo the helpr monke
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      but what *exactly* I do right now is this: http://www.jobs.irs.gov/car_opp_cisaSCEP.html : mojo the helpr monke
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        This would be awesome, but I'm limited to non-Agent positions. I just wish I could go back to spring 2006 : ArcKnight
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          It's basically the best route to becoming an agent, I got really lucky. Why are you limited to non-agent ... : mojo the helpr monke
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            I fucked up my feet while I was in the Air Force, and now I walk with a cane. Permanently disabled. Not a... : ArcKnight
            • Ah, that's shitty. There still is plenty of fun to be had though with the staff positions. It's a good gi... : mojo the helpr monke
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              Do people call you House? : riptyde
              • Haha, no. Ironically, before I was injured, my friends always said that if I was a tv show character, I'd... : ArcKnight
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        er those pay scales seem extremely low compared to another 3 letter agency... (hint NOT the FBI they're t... : deadfish
        • actually i think that's the same as the FBI now that I think about it... or at least within 1 paygrade of... : deadfish
        • you know the coolest thing about them is that their check doesnt say their agency on it, it says somethi... : creep
      • You are a big hipped soccer mom? : Slowtreme
  • So can I start calling you happytaxman? : angrytaxman
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  shape surfboards someplace warm, near a good break. its a dying art i think so that kind of has stopped... : spector
  • you shape, I'll glass. and when the waves are good, nobody works : epit
• owner of a high end microbrew pub or exotics tuning/performance shop : arizona bay
• Richard Branson, or an Architect. : djkenohki
• That Dirty Debutantes dude had a great job : peter
• Racing in MotoGP for Ducati : hobosapien
• Wildly successful author of fiction. Massive wealth, limited fame (you can effectively be unrecognizable ... : edgewise
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  Professional Hobo : nickjolly
  • my best friend is this. he hasn't worked in 2+ years and does nothing but travel the globe. fucker. : hamachi
• wear Hefner's skin : Unleashed
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  Rachael Leigh Cook. If I could make a career and lots of money doing Rachael Leigh Cook than that would b... : uglysad
  • My real answer would be a writer. : uglysad
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    somebody watch a little too much She's All That? : RikiTiki2
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      11:14 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331811/ NWS http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1200407/rachael_leigh_cook... : uglysad
      • NWS animated gif version of the important part of that video http://uglysad.shackspace.com/1114.gif : uglysad
• Writer. : dognose
• A medical doctor in the 80s instead of the 2010s.... : menar003
• SA-32 Starfury Thunderbolt Space Superiority Fighter Pilot. : Sailor of Fortune
• Ringworld Engineer : yourGarbageMan
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  The Critic : Mondo
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPBTE0wlZF4&feature=related : Sailor of Fortune
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      ROFL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKxRN2LdEI&NR=1 : Sailor of Fortune
      • ahh man that and Apocalypse WOW : Mondo
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        ahahah i can't stop laughing at that one :D : xsoulbrothax
        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQwERT7XQJA&NR=1 I love these : Sailor of Fortune
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        penguins can't fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JsZbSzMi08&feature=related : re4ctor
        • Home Alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZfM4mrjP4&feature=related haha, I got to watch this show... : Sailor of Fortune
    • hahah : Mondo
• crockett from miami vice irl, or an action movie star : vassili_zaitsev
• Rally Driver in the WRC. I'd rather be good at it though, but great skill also brings with it good pay. : Rag and Bone Man
• i'd be the proprietor of a pretty chill coffee bar with live music and stuff : Cheeziologist
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  I wish my stool was worth money : mr.sleepy
  • to some of us, it is : mojo the helpr monke
• working as a mapper/programmer at valve : DrFlammable
• A guitar maker : lumpymilk
• lottery winner : Topaz
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  porn star : Marauder IIC
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    You do realize many of them have to bang 80year olds, midgets and same sexes right? : Topaz
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      They have to? Who's putting a gun to their heads? : Marauder IIC
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        Jackie Treehorn : c0bra
        • good point : Marauder IIC
• Big time movie director. Still kind of within my scope though not so much as it was in high school. I g... : pop_secret
• Writer. Fly around the world and do feature articles like in Outside magazine. Adventure stuff. : Sturm08
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  Nation-hopping photographer. : Vincent Grayson
  • Yeah, I think it would be cool to work for National Geographic. : Sirus2400
• if i found time and energy to write along with what i'm doing, that would be perfect. but i'm quite happy... : dahanese
• MotoGP or Fighter Pilot. Or bear fighter. Or one of those guys that blows things up while fighting a bear... : socksta
• underwater videographer. I wanna shoot stuff for national geographic. : sparkly
• Novelist. : Arceihn
• teaching, definitely. : Supine
• I want someone to pay me 50k/yr to keep doing timedoctor.org and ioquake3.org : TimeDoctor
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  game reviewer : filthysock
  • I was a game reviewer for a pretty popular (now defunct) gaming website many years ago, trust me it sucks... : arizona bay
• Musician, like Devin Townsend or Mikael Åkerfeldt : forksalad
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  I pretty well do my 'dream job' right now by being a videogame developer. However, in another life I'd... : eonix
  • heh, i know of a game developer who quit last month to study archaeology. : filthysock
• Screenwriter/Director!!! : drbriefs
• think tank. : hirez
• Honestly, my dream job is to be the next Yanni. Traveling around the world with flowing locks and billow... : Vantage
• Stabbing people who talk really loud on their cell phones. In the heart. : Vangoghs Ear
• i just got done watching seven pounds and now i feel like a selfish prick. i think id want to help people : d0pamine
• photographer for national geographic : whereiwannab
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  Game developer : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Even further, what stopped you from fully pursuing your dream? Reality. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • You could do game dev :P : jbury
    • What reality? I'm currently pursuing becoming a professional game developer myself now. : freakynipples69
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      what? there are so many openings everywhere, including junior positions. just pick up a language they wou... : Maarten Goldstein
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        and its not as if coding is the only thing the game industry needs lol. : barichnikov
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          well yeah obviously not, but thats what MBD knows : Maarten Goldstein
          • didn't know that actually :) then yeah .D : barichnikov
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  I'd love to be a pilot. Nothing huge like a commercial airliner, but something like a Learjet. Of course ... : thetangent
  • if you play your cards right you could get the military to teach you to fly some pretty badass jets : lja83
• Buttermilk taster : vikramwillrock
• wild life photographer, it'd be awesome. that or an x-wing pilot : xsii
• Fashion Model Fucker : kramweil
• I'd like to be a guy who designs new Lego sets. : PeanutsEnvy
• One of those guys that works for the Outdoor Life Network, travelling around to the best places on earth. : Dan 101
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  Animator : jbury
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    or a vet : jbury
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      pet cemetery? : filthysock
      • stop motion taxidermist : aeg1x
  • re-animator : Dravenport
  • I ended up being an animator and love it - I didn't become a vet as... well... I'm too stupid : jbury
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  Helicopter pilot, either fire fighting or ambulance / rescue. : yautja
  • +1 I love choppers. :-/ : vorm
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  subhtread: what would your new dream job be once you had your current dream job? : Luminair
  • nude photographer. or y-wing pilot : xsii
• bukkake ninja : deadfish
• Novelist... the kind that can actually live on their published work. : gooblerampling
• I am doing my dream job and I hate it, it's never what it's supposed to be : Durajim
• Actor first, drummer for a successful bad second. : Derringer
• For a long time I wanted to be a (published) writer. Then I left college and got my dream job, the job I ... : Magus
• assassin for hire : Slowtreme
• NBA coach : maulla
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  <span class="jt_red"> <b> Waxer </b> </span> : vorm
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    fail :( : vorm
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      Good effort, though! (shacktags can be seen here: http://www.shacknews.com/profile/Mn3m0n1c) : mn3m0n1c
      • Thanks :D :(*): - HELLO! : vorm
      • I've been looking for those forever. Thanks. : Clasifyd
• The same thing I'm doing now but making about 80k. I really enjoy page layout design and illustration. I ... : not work safe
• Novelist or filmmaker (screenwriter, editor, DP, director, or all of the above). But alas, I am just a lo... : Rehevkor
• Doing what the guys on Top Gear do, drive nice cars and do dumb shit : retardhumper
• An artist, or an alien bounty hunter. : voodooraze
• What I do now, especially recently. World artist/designer. : lplasmatron
• My current job is as close to everything that I've always wanted in a job. : -efx-
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  Making six figures a year & working 4-5 hours a day from home doing anything legit. : Sylvanus
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    I should add that I: - Wanted to be an illustrator for a comic book. - Wanted to be a level designer -... : Sylvanus
    • Oh! And I'd love to play football! I'd get killed, but I'm (or used to be) a quick mofo! :D : Sylvanus
• I'd love to play minor league hockey - or any level of hockey where you get paid for it. : flagg209
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  Senior network administrator at somewhere huge : GBeer11
  • trust me... you don't. : beastrabban
  • That sounds like a nightmare job :( : hawkeye
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  F-16 pilot : phate81
  • I wanted to do that when I was in 5th grade. In 6th, I got glasses. :( : Sylvanus
• I would have something to do with playing video games and sick kids. I would love to set up something th... : risimage
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  serial killer : ass-street
  • shit i meant "cereal killer" : ass-street
• If I could do anything it would be traveling, driving nice cars and eating the best food, and devote time... : ieGod
• Filthy Rich. : Ziz
• a job where I worked an hour a week but made enough for a comfortable living for my family : cptstern
• Running my own web site with a few friends. Did it before, loved it, wrong idea to make a living from. Ma... : node
• King of Dubai : kek
• something part-time and low stress i'm sure. my dream is not needing a job. : electroly
• Park Ranger, but the kind that do forestry as opposed to tours. For real. : ra1n
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  Big Game Dinosaur Hunter : SockMonkeh
  • Even further, what stopped you from fully pursuing your dream? Lack of time travel. :( : SockMonkeh
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  While I'm young I'd want to be a travel writer / pseudo-sociologist. Go to amazing places, live in the l... : hawkeye
  • Even further: I became an American and sold out bought into the dream. I was |.| that close to doing ... : hawkeye
• The Dude. : Ride-My-Rocket

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  On the other hand, GTA4's DLC seems to be doing it right. From what I hear, it's a shit ton of content. ... : pigvomit
  • pity the game hates me and I will never finish it :( : filthysock
• I think many of us anticipated these kinds of problems when DLC schemes were announced. It was never desi... : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  in the "old days" of PC game expansions, generally the game was $50 and the expansion was $30. most DLC ... : EvilDolemite
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    i agree with you. DLC runs a huge spectrum. i'm happy with new maps and quests and shit. i might buy some... : dahanese
    • personally, most $10 DLC is perfect for my time constraints. i can get a few hours out of it, or maybe le... : EvilDolemite
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  i'm not quite sure what the end result of your post should be. i think believing that developers don't fi... : dahanese
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    uh no, i believe that they always want to extract the maximum dollars per customer. And no, i dont beli... : filthysock
    • that's how the games industry works? maximum price (the highest price the market will bear) and minimu... : EvilDolemite
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      what you are talking about is business with a very nasty set of terms. all businesses want to extract the... : dahanese
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        and as a secondary thought "stupid overpriced DLC" is a fairly subjective statement. i won't buy costumes... : dahanese
        • i am in agreement with you here. That's the OP is only my opinion of DLC, and why I will wait for DLC bun... : filthysock
  • No, basically what he's saying is that he feels entitled to things the way he wants it : spiderfill
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  one of the reasons DLC is superior to published expansion packs is that we don't have to worry about mini... : sammyl
  • it's different for everyone. i'll respect someone's choice to pass on a game because they feel the value... : EvilDolemite
  • i dont mind addons being delivered electronically. Demos and movies are that size already. : filthysock
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  I don't think you can point a finger at the devs so much as the publishers : yosemiteclimber
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    looks at capcom.. : Iwannaacura
    • Hell, don't look at Capcom, look at Namco Bandai. They're notorious for making you pay for shit that's r... : sevogajre
• So you'd always rather pay $30 for a full expansion, than $10 for a smaller expansion? Without exception?... : Finestaut
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  I think peoples' reaction about the horse armor is overblown nonsense. I'm far more annoyed by things lik... : taronish
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    A brilliant example of my opinion that companies are just testing people's limits of what they will pay f... : filthysock
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      What's more worrisome than companies testing the limits--which is hardly something you couldn't expect th... : Chris Remo
      • i'm the same, hence my original statement about waiting for DLC bundles. But yeah, obviously there is eno... : filthysock
      • Im with you on that one cremo : Luminair
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        Pricing is absolutely subjective and it's not dumb if you don't think it's dumb. Stop being so absolute.... : spiderfill
        • People in Asia play MMORPGs until they die of exhaustion so don't even bring them up in an arguement agai... : SockMonkeh
      • The only downloadable content I have bought are complete games. : ieGod
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        So DLC like new Rock Band songs are not meaningful expansion-like content? : sevogajre
        • I think it's pretty clear that Rock Band DLC brings meaningful content : geedeck
• you could make the same argument about an expansion pack for $30 not providing anywhere near 60% of the c... : derelict515
• Horse armor was three years ago man. DLC has come a long way since then. : nomaad
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  Relic are going to "DLC" 2v2 in to DoW2. I really hope that means a free addition because it's absolutely... : aeg1x
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    Based on the ridiculous sales of the first DOW, statements made by Relic, and the proven success of Valve... : Chris Remo
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      Yeah they've got a good track record with free maps in CoH. Still, I'm really puzzled as to why it's abse... : aeg1x
      • they've stated in an interview they want to see where the community takes the game and its desires throug... : happynoodle
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  As long as there have been expansion packs, there have been people complaining about them existing "just : s2jason
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    As an addendum, I'm not saying that all DLC is appropriately valued and on the right side of being shady,... : s2jason
    • but what you said is right, it gives us choice and I exercise that choice by not buying it : filthysock
• I got so much out of Oblivion for the price of a normal game that Bethesda could've released a Give A Bit... : nudel
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  See burnout paradise for a rebuttal. : batkiwi
  • Agreed. Criterion is a shining exception to most of the rules of DLC though. : Fyunch Click
• At least expansions went down in price after being a few months on the shelves. You could get expansions ... : razlebol
• "It makes one think that DLC episodes are simply parts they didn't finish for the main release, but I dig : Evil Benius
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  Hey if you don't like it and want even MORE game companies to go out of business, go right ahead. I agree... : lplasmatron
  • Funny story, but almost every single day another dev announces layoffs. If DLC is such a god send why are... : VictoriouSecret
• Devs/publishers who ship stuff on the disc that can only be used by paying for 'DLC' to unlock it need to... : Beady
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  I think the blatant bad example isn't horse armor (which was just a bad deal), but Soul Calibur IV. Yoda... : dirge23
  • Namco is probably the most shameless so far about gouging you on DLC. : rudds
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  The worst is DLC that's already on the disc, and you're just paying to unlock it. Any 108k download on Xb... : rudds
  • I agree with this. Take Spore for example. The game was released and announced a week or so later that th... : VictoriouSecret

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• I will probably buy and play the game they are making of it : dognose
• And I am displeased to report that Swing Vote doesn't hold up well to a first viewing. : pigvomit
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  dearest dognose i miss you. too bad work sucks and steals my time and my soul : boomstickah
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    I miss you too, I thought of you when driving past the boba tea place. I will see you on the 28th : dognose
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      wth, there is a good boba tea place in dallas?! : kelbane
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        No : dognose
        • /cry : kelbane
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        They made tea out of Boba Fett? : Cheeziologist
        • I think he started up his own chain. : breadsticks
• i just watched it for the first time yesterday and loved it! : jane911
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  I tried to let this go by but I just can't. HOW DOES IT HOLD UP? It is a pile of crap. I watched it fo... : Grumbeld
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    it doesn't get any worse, so it holds up. : Slowtreme
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      I believe that I said that it was worse the second time. It was so very, very painful to watch. : Grumbeld
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        =( : Kniggit
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          Why so sad? I figured it was Ty's copy. : Grumbeld
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            nope. : Kniggit
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              Well, I can see why you're sad now. I'd be sad if I owned that movie too. : Grumbeld
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                I just can't see how your displeasure with the direction they took from the source material can cloud you... : Kniggit
                • See, I really don't think that it did have as many crazy action sequences. I mean, Night/Day Watch have : Grumbeld
• I did not like that movie, dognose. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
• I refuse to hail the HYPNOLOOM. : Cliffzorz
• I thought it was awesome, and the game looks like it could be fucking fun. Looking forward to seeing the ... : nodebug
• You'd better be right about this movie, I'll watch it tonight! : losimagic
• You mean it stays shitty? Cool. : gooblerampling
• I'm pretty sure that leaping out of my 10th-floor office would be far more thrilling than watching Wanted... : ateam311
• Wanted is a fucking terrible movie. : OMGzImBurning
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  Its funny that people think that wtf242 is a huge troll, but you post stuff that is easily just as insane... : not work safe
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    Dognose is much subtler with his trolling. : Githyanki
    • Except when he is so blatant it ceases to be a troll and becomes art. : Fyunch Click
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    nws don't be an ass. have you ever met him? : boomstickah
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      So he really is mentally handicapped? I thought that was a joke. : voodooraze
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        hey how's the VO career coming? : boomstickah
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          oh, voice over. My eyes saw that as VD career. :( : Fyunch Click
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            can't it be both? : zerog83
            • so he gives the gift that keeps on giving whilst saying "In a world..."? : Fyunch Click
  • there are some pretty glaring differences between dognose and wtf242. : fishbone
  • this is the same guy that posts about about Duke like it's a religion (though he has cut back a bit). wel... : Slowtreme
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    yes but dognose's father was the top troll from a secret organisation of trollers. : dfz0r
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      an organization which trolled him into trolling his own father : nem00
      • but that turned out to be nothing more than a troll! : dfz0r
  • I think the difference is that dognose doesn't know any better. Bless his heart : sonicdeathwalrus
  • dognose just has bad taste in movies. : maulla
• OMG THE BULLETS CURVE! : kainen1
• I found it to be a fun movie, but nothing special. On the other hand, I'm sure it's exactly the kind of m... : Marauder IIC
• dognose, that movie was terrible. :[ :[ :[ I was entertained, I guess, but I laughed at a lot of parts. : CrustaR
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  Are you serious? That was probably on of the worst movies this year. None of it even made any sense. : JohnnyRey
  • psst dognose posted it. : re-verse
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  Wanted good? Shoot'Em Up bad? I don't know what is up and what is down anymore : spiderfill
  • Both were extremely over-the-top movies, but Wanted managed to keep a relatively consistent theme and fee : RomSteady
• While we're on the subject of Wanted sucking, did anyone else notice the fucking scene with Morgan Freema... : icking fudiot

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  Yeah, each time I decide to take a break because I get too scared, I just want to launch the game again a... : sanchez
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    then when i feel like i want to play, i get scared and have to work up the nerve to boot it up : Dravenport
    • lol yeah, I think to myself, do I really want to put myself through this? : mechanicalgrape
• im the same way : Dravenport
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  I could not beat Call of Cthulhu (partly because it was a damned tough game) and The Thing. Man those wer... : djkenohki
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    I lost interest in Call of Cthulhu once it stopped being a scary/spooky game and started being just a Dee... : Arcanum
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      In the beginning of that game, I remember a part where the townsfolk are chasing you through a hotel whil... : djkenohki
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        that part in the hotel is rough as hell : Dravenport
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          It was also fucking awesome. I watched a friend play through it and I was still on the edge of my seat. : ArcKnight
          • damn right : Dravenport
          • That was a great sequence. I lost steam pretty soon afterwards though, in some sneak-and-shoot sequence ... : Johnny Law
      • this was one of the best horror game sequences ever : dirge23
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        i never finished this. scared the crap out of me. i should get mike to play it so i can hide during the s... : dahanese
        • You should hide behind his chair and watch over his shoulder. When something scary happens, shriek, duck... : Arcanum
    • Yeah, I stopped playing once I got weapons. The atmosphere was the biggest thing the game had going for i... : Arceihn
  • I never actually got around to picking this one up. :( : MacemanInTW
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    In The Thing I got stuck at some mini boss. You entered some room and there were tentacles coming from th : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Spoony actually shows how to beat that boss. Anyway, check out his review on The Thing. It's fucken hilar... : DingoStoleMyBaby
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  dead space is a good example of this : kill9
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    I can only play it for an hour or so at a time. Not that it's scary, but it just leaves you so tense that... : ColoradoCNC
    • thankfully the levels tend to go in convenient hour-ish chunks! : kungfusquirrel
    • hah i find myself doing the same thing : kill9
    • I have seen this multiple times and I just do not understand it. While I think Dead Space was a great gam... : Evil Benius
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  Fatal Fucking Frame : Borzoi
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    Besides horrible Engrish translations (forgot which one I was playing), it's pretty scary. : DHAvatar
    • Or rather not the translations but the voice work. : DHAvatar
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    only scary game I couldn't play. I just had to take too many breaks for me to finish it. : moe6
    • Same here. I've tried numerous times but I just can't get very far into it. : SilverSnake
• I loved Eternal Darkness, though there were definitely some intensely creepy moments in that game. Nothi... : Grumbeld
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  have you played phantasmagoria? : RikiTiki2
  • I loved that game.. me and my cousin sat inside a 30x30' empty conctrete building that was just built for... : happynoodle
  • That was an amazing game, I can still visualize many of the moments from it, like the skinned rabbit, the... : MoreVespeneGas
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    7th Guest is still the scariest experience I've ever had playing a game. Phantasmagoria is #2... However,... : Bean
    • 7th guest was alright, but i didn't have the patience for it for very long :[ : RikiTiki2
    • 7th Guest was a great game too, it's sequel the 11th hour (omg so hard to get to run) was A LOT scarier, ... : MoreVespeneGas
  • rape scene was hot : Chandler55
• I don't know for sure about many scary games, but the Shalebridge Cradle level in Thief: Deadly Shadows i... : action wombmate
• Yeah, very much the same here. When playing the Fear 2 demo I was going "fuck it, I'm done with this litt... : ramshot
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  System Shock 2 is this. Goddamn, what a scary game. : quadeh
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    LOOK AT YOU, HACKER. A PATHETIC CREATURE OF MEAT AND BONE. PANTING AND SWEATING AS YOU RUN THROUGH MY COR... : Bean
    • I am still upset I can't get this game running properly in XP Pro SP3. I so very much want to play it aga... : Bean
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      It is scary, but not AvP1 scary. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • Goddamn those fucking facehuggers. I'd launch grenades everywhere until I stopped hearing the squeakin... : Rice-Rocketeer
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  UFO, night mission, played at night, noob soldiers with no armor, omg I don't want to leave the skyranger... : dooberzoo
  • That game did such a fucking good job of simulating soldiers freaking out when shit went bad. I never got... : Arceihn
  • Haha yeah and one of those aliens would sneak up in front of the skyranger and hump one of your guys, who... : Splinebastard
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  Daggerfall was the scariest for me : yautja
  • oh wow, that first dungeon and that weird noise the imps would make and the random scream from a skeleton... : happynoodle
• I am still attempting to play f.e.a.r but find the little girl way to creepy especially when she frolics ... : gimpness
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  your first scary game experience? mine was alone in the dark, a long time ago. : bimd
  • Yeah, I was a little creeped out when I originally played this too. It had good atmosphere, with the c... : Omaha
• Too often being scary means being unpredictable. Seriously, what's scary in being killed instantly with n... : melt_core
• I'll be perfectly fine with scary games for a few minutes when suddenly I'll get all tense and scared. Th... : helvetica
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  thanks to RE4 i get chills whenever i hear a fucking chainsaw. : Dschinghis Khan
  • Dude...I quit the game before I saw any zombies, just being in those woods freaked me out. Plus I played ... : sanchez
• For a while I could only play Bioshock in thirty minute segments, just cause I got too damn creeped ouut.... : Modica Sol Solis

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• Nope not at all. : hashd
• Tonight's project. Disassemble the 6 disk raid5. Replace with 5 disk ZFS raid. And "Tripel Karmeliet" - v... : davantalus
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  i ruined one motherboard and cpu when i was all hopped up on painkillers from surgery : oHnOES
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    I yanked the cord from a 250cm case fan the other day. Totally "forgot" the side door was attached to pow... : davantalus
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      That must be one big case. : yourGarbageMan
      • Yeah, it's huge. : davantalus
• hell no : qwpeoriu
• best way to not get frustrated! : hirez
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  I installed a new WD 1TB Green HD tonight, bringing my machine's total storage capacity up to 3.6TB. When... : Colleton
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    HEY! What's the deal with those green drives? Are the just slower? A friend and I were looking at them in... : davantalus
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      They're cooler and use less power. They probably are slower, but I'm not sure. At any rate, the make f... : Colleton
      • yes the WD Green Drives are 5,400RPM : Shadowdane
      • They're pretty slow. Fine for a storage drive, but I wouldn't want to load apps off of them. : Gonzo
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    are you backing anything up, or have it in a raid, or ... something? : hirez
    • Yeah, serious. It would suck to re-rip all that. : davantalus
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      Nope, no raid at this time. Ultimate goal is to build a media server box with a raid that will rebuild... : Colleton
      • You like living dangerously. You are also crazy. : mmogger
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    I'm currently installing zfs+fuse as a 3x1tb. I'm going to copy over my 2TB of stuff. Then add those 2 1T... : davantalus
    • NAME:fap SIZE:2.72T USED:141K AVAIL: 2.72T : davantalus
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  I once flashed the firmware on my cellphone. . 8 beers in. The results were.. unfortunate. : tboomer2
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    lol that stuff terrifies me sober : opengl128
    • Are you sure? [y/N] : davantalus
• thats the only way i stand working with/on computers : mega man
• lol sometimes I'd wake up and be like "oh hey, I fixed this already?!" : moe6
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  This is how people end up using peanut butter instead of arctic silver. : rosewood
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    This can't have ever happened. Can it? : ArcKnight
    • I once had to pry a dead traveling wave tube off a cold plate with a chisel because some genius had used ... : Colleton
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  Not a repair, but I built my first computer with Yosemitclimber and many, many beers in the process! It w... : racer5
  • A first build went WELL? You must have been blessed by the beer gods. : davantalus
  • I was amazed it booted right up without any issues, we were quite drunk! : yosemiteclimber
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    then you guys had sex, right? RIGHT? : nyranger66
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      You betcha, there was artic silver everywhere! I think he crashed on my sofa, and then went home to start : racer5
      • Meant "arctic" of course. : racer5
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    I also built my first computer while drunk. Cut the shit out of my hands with little metal slots at the b... : randomposter
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      I managed not to do that. However, I wouldn't have done my first build without Yosemite's help. Just nice... : racer5
      • Except for the little incident with the mobo ;) : yosemiteclimber
• I do all my best latenight work while drinking beer and fixing apps. Its fantastic! : Q-ball
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  I'm not the only one who performs major computer repairs while naked right? : Flynn
  • Yep that too. Studio apartment - checking in. : davantalus
• Is there any other way? : nickjolly
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  I upgraded my CPU yesterday while well and truly drunk. : bipolar
  • It may just be that I'm hammered. But this really tickles me. Sexy new i7? : davantalus
• couple weeks ago I installed a pci tv tuner that would not fit in the case pretty blasted, got out the pl... : shackwack
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  Those alcohol wipes aren't for your microprocessor baby ;) : SolrFlare
  • Try some of this canned air, man. : davantalus
• i dont think its possible to be sober and work on them. : d0pamine
• Jesus, no. Though I have been known to drink a bit while doing back-alley abortions. Keeps my hands stead... : Vangoghs Ear
• I can only get enough courage up to flash my BIOS after half a bottle of whisky. : inchwide