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• Bridget, Guilty Gear XX : RikiTiki2
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  Voldo : afty
  • He's an omnisexual. : dumb.
  • I think Maxi counts as well. : socksta
• me, whenever i get to make an avatar : Mr.SEX
• Luigi huh? He's with Daisy. : mechanicalgrape
• How the fuck can you questions dukes sexuality? : sigpro
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  Duke I can see but why Francis? He probably hates the cock like everything else : Horn
  • He kind of has that gay biker vibe. : socksta
• Yoshi : dumb.
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  Birdo from Super Mario Bros. 2. : helvetica
  • ^ this guy(?) : kallanta
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  http://www.gametrailers.com/player/12498.html On second thought, this one isn't even in question. : omnova
  • lmfao : Poooks
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  Kanji from Persona 4. : Masem
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    The game addresses that though. : Vincent Grayson
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      There was a Gamasutra article on this specific aspect, and ATLUS specifically stated they left it ambigio... : Masem
      • http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22015 : Masem
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  Link cuz he never bones zelda. Mario cuz I think he's gay with bowser. : 5150Joker
  • Zelda too though, isn't she a cross-dresser? : mysled
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  forgot the name of the villian in FFIX Flee in Chrono Trigger : Demius
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    Kuja. First time I saw him in a cutscene he dismounts from a dragon or something, but it never shows anyt... : ArcKnight
    • you mean "i had my pants around my ankles ready to go at it" : oHnOES
• Zangief : GloriousCow
• Toadstool is a huge gay : pancake humper
• Raiden, Brucie : Bamtan
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  Hahaha, Francis? What makes you think he likes to put it in the pooper? : kainen1
  • Leather. Vest. : ArcKnight
  • If anything, I'd peg Louis as the curious one. : silent prophet
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    Blood Harvest, start of map, only 3 sleeping bags... coincidence, I think not! Also, notice that they wer... : u sir name
    • That's cause you have to have one stay up to watch in shifts though, can't all 4 sleep or you be dead : kainen1
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    He has an insatiable, burning desire to break free of his closeted and quiet life. He tried drugs, became... : Fyunch Click
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      this almost sounds plausible : zerog83
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        The fuck? Bill is a goddamn hardcore sonuvabitch - a MAN'S man. Not some damned cocksucker. : ArcKnight
        • He protests too much, obviously he's a bottom. Plus he's always nagging on Francis. : Fyunch Click
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    I HATE, WOMEN : yacoub35
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      Only a guy who gets involved with women truly knows what they're like : RikiTiki2
      • I HATE, LAMP. I HATE, ZOEY. I HATE, EVERYTHING. : yacoub35
  • Fraaaaanciiiiiiiiiiiiis : Delaric
  • he bends over when he hears a smoker : aeg1x
• Brucie : twifosp
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  The wizard guy in Paper Mario for the Wii : .frame
  • That guy with the gay eye patch and mustache from MGS : .frame
• almost every male protagonist in any of the later final fantasy games. : wytchsansmerci
• Every JRPG character. : mittense
• Vega for sure : ninjase
• Ganon : thetangent
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  M. Bison : greydog
  • aka the DICKtator : greydog
• vortigaunts : Mister Groin
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  Tingle. He's flaming. : Edges
  • his sexuality is not in question : Chandler55
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  every final fantasy game : -=kodiak=-
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    I remember going on a date with Barrett thinking "wtf" : Juno
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      thats just a fun thing they put in, and its hard to get barret on a date! : Chandler55
      • Haha yeah. Don't you basically have to shit on Yufi/Tifa and Aeiris all the way through the game till tha... : braaains
    • i put 90 hours into FF tactics advance on the GBA when it came out, i never did figure out who was a girl... : -=kodiak=-
• Mega Man, check out the way he jumps. : FreshlyShavenGreasedAndAngry
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  skippy from starfox : kaddar0
  • er, Slippy : kaddar0
• TINGLE from Zelda : Iwannaacura
• Dr. Kleiner! He seems uncomfortable discussing heterosexual coupling. A de-beaked headcrab on the other h... : Dave-A
• its actually hard to think of one... : Chandler55
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  Duke? What the hell? He's the archetypical straight guy. His name could've been Straight Straightem. : Marrbe
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    Not really. In Duke Nukem 1 he wore a pink shirt and bitched about missing Oprah. : avatar_58
    • Obviously a joke. Besides, Duke canon begins with DN3D. : Marrbe
• Cloud : kainen1
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  gordon freeman. just because he doesnt fuck alyx : CoRDS
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    He's a theoretical physicist ffs... you think he has any idea what to do with women? : dumb.
    • Chicks dig world-saving heroes. But then again, so do Vortigaunts. : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Gordon are you not hearing us? Standard insertion for a non-stand specimen, go ahead and slot the carrier... : pieman
  • if i had that zero-point-energy gun and was out in the wastes with alyx, you better be sure she'd have so... : biskits
  • I'm amazed Gordon has anything to do with the useless fucks in the resistance. : Arcanum
  • Valve made Gordon not talk because he's supposed to be you and your Gordon is gay! : SockMonkeh
• Max Payne : smackpiece
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  http://kungpaofu.com/cutscenes/05%20-%20Mr%20Gold%20&%20Mr%20Silver.avi : skelom
  • http://kungpaofu.com/screenshots/stage1/s1-53.jpg : skelom
• Korbanio. : trOmblyj
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  Army of two guys : flubba79
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    today's PA comic related to that was lol : Sailor of Fortune
    • Haha, nice! I looked at it after your comment. A hug that's a little too long... Haha : flubba79
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    Haha, I created this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhZ2RKXvAM8 on Shackers and I still forgot those guy... : socksta
    • Haha it's raining men : flubba79
• Kratos. No sex mini game can pacify this guys anger. It's totally this pent-up sexual frustration that hu... : My Documents
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  Solid Snake - just the name sounds like a gay porn actor. : Simulacrum
  • Isn't he missing a penis or something? : Sailor of Fortune
• Sir Fuzzy Logic from Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine : Head Rush
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  socksta, The Duke gives hoo kcers and strippers money. How could he be gay? : CrustaR
  • Oh, and I just got cable at my new place. Woo! It sucked not having a computer for several days. :[ : CrustaR
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  I didn't know that Francis was gay. : thecatinthehat
  • Notice how his inflection in his voice when he refers to Louis is more up and it has more scorn when he t... : Sailor of Fortune
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  sonic the hedgehog : CoRDS
  • I'd say Tails. : ant_hillbilly
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    http://ytmndsega.ytmnd.com/ : 60days
    • http://thatsnobeepinggood.ytmnd.com/ : Dschinghis Khan
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  The big mustached guy from Final Fight. Big bear ype, and all these hot sluts running for him and he keep... : stuka
  • Haggar? Come on, that's a manly name if I ever saw one. : deathofrats
• Donkey Kong. For sure. : ieGod
• Zangief. In one of the snes endings he's flexing in front of a mirror looking at a picture of Vega...lol : icon_of_syn
• Lara Croft : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I think any character in an RPG except for Cid and Kain : bad_fish
• FreshlyShavenGreasedAndAngry. check out the way he takes big cocks up his butt : mega man
• The guy from time crisis. : tohm82
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  Who was the Drow character in Baldur's Gate - I can only assume she'd hate the cock : MaddeningLoop
  • If you played BG2, you'd know that she loved it :O. : xsoulbrothax
• Poison from Final Fight : Gnowknayme
• largo lagrande, he did wear a bra! : disembodied potato
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  so pretty much every character ever made. : mindshot
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    and pretty much everyone who plays them : thekidd
    • pretty much every person who posts about them : scorpiusman
• burning eye : pres589

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• Actually...thats the game. Enjoy. : Jinxplayer
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  should've joined a corp with Shackers :-( Join the channel Shacknews in game and say hi! : zerog83
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    Sure will do!!.... How do I join a channel? >.< : Clasifyd
    • on the left side of the UI there's a button that'll say "channels and lists" when you hover over it (or i... : MisterPhoton
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    what this zerog83 said. Come join Photon Ventures Inc, the best Empire corp around! : MisterPhoton
    • ^^^We will totally help you out. : ejectorpod
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      hijack I've moved to Nonni to do higher quality level 1 Home Guard agents. What standing are we shoot... : r_picmip 5
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        if we could get everyone there, yes, it'd be awesome, especially in ~9 days when I take delivery of my ne... : MisterPhoton
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          You should name it MY CHILDHOOD so you can go around to systems singing "HAVE YOU SEEN MY CHILDHOOD?" : ejectorpod
          • if I wanted to do something like that, I'd name it MY PENIS or MY BASEBALL : MisterPhoton
        • Are you going to probe wormholes with your Willy? : r_picmip 5
        • Oh and that's pretty awesome :D The Orca is a nice looking ship. : r_picmip 5
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  are you doing the tutorial or any of the tutorial agent's missions? You'll get tutorial aids that way ... : Sailor of Fortune
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    Yeah, I've been following them around, and I got put on an 'Epic arc', whatever the fuck that is, so I've... : Clasifyd
    • The trash should be sold or reprocessed. The ships should be pretty easy to sell. : hawkeye
  • Tutorial aids? Is that anything like Space AIDS? : waxthirteen
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  Find some way to make money and do that endlessly forever. Alternatively, go mow lawns and buy isk. Mak... : Sambula
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    What's 'podded'? I see that everywhere, and have no idea what it is. : Clasifyd
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      its when someone blows up your pod. From the user manual: Podding is the act of destroying a player's ... : MisterPhoton
      • Make sure to update your clone when you are podded (up the skill points that it 'protects' to more than y... : loboca
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  lots of EVE hate >:( http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_21&page=5 http://www.eve-tribune.com/i... : ejectorpod
  • Also, make sure to get EVEMON and Eve Fitting Tool (EFT). Very useful tools. with EVEMON you should sta... : ejectorpod
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  The guides on this site (right panel) are required reading: http://hammer-eve.blogspot.com/ My sugg... : r_picmip 5
  • Yeah, they're just a couple of guys... one guy stuck up my warp drive when I was in some low sec area try... : Clasifyd
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  So, is solo mining actually a profitable venture? : Clasifyd
  • to an extent. It becomes markedly more profitable when you have a second account or a buddy hauling your ... : MisterPhoton
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    Just don't get lolcanflipped. I've done this to so many people it's kind of sad. : kpxkrnjc
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      That does sound pretty nasty.... What is it? : Clasifyd
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        where someone comes over to your jettisoned can full of ore, creates one next to it, then drags your ore ... : MisterPhoton
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          Ah, right. Speaking of mining, are asteroids the only things you can mine? : Clasifyd
          • You can mine moons which provides massive amounts of income, but that's done automatically by Player Owne... : kpxkrnjc
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            you can also mine ice fields and can harvest gas clouds. Ice is used to power player-owned stations and j... : MisterPhoton
            • UncTom was harvesting gas (lol) over the weekend. Never got a final profitability number out of him tho. : loboca
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              I'm assuming ice and gas are all in low-sec space, though, right? : Clasifyd
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                not gas, I think its only w-space (?) but ice I believe yes. : loboca
                • gas can be found in empire space, but probably on the rare side. : JuffoWup
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                  ice is scattered all over the place. There's Ice two systems away from our home system. : MisterPhoton
                  • in a .7, forgot to say that part : MisterPhoton
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          We did this to someone in a Hulk. Well we killed the Hulk and he got pissed off. He went back to the ... : kpxkrnjc
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            Can't you insure those things, though? (minus the cargo) : Clasifyd
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              Freighters and Hulks are tech 2 ships so their insurance payout is extremely small compared to the initia... : kpxkrnjc
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                I see, so, essentially, running a tech 2 ship has a high probability of intrinsic loss? Is there no defe... : Clasifyd
                • The defense is to not die. : Goncyn
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                  Tech 2 gives you power, but that power comes with increased risk. : Finestaut
                  • in other words, with great power comes great responsibility : MisterPhoton
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                  and making sure you can afford to lose it before you fly it. : mindfk
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                    No matter how many times this gets repeated, it's still a lesson no one seems to learn in time. :( I w... : Finestaut
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                      its a hard lesson to follow :( there's so many shiny toys in EVE : MisterPhoton
                      • I was part of a corp that actively recruited new members for awhile, trained them, and tried to make them... : Finestaut
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                        I die a little inside every time someone who's been in the game less than a month celebrates because they... : zerog83
                        • Me too :( In my eve kindergarten corp we tried sooooo hard to put pressure on people to not do that. Un... : Finestaut
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                          I haven't even fully figured out my Destroyer. I'm just hoping I'm ready for Cruiser by the time I get t... : hawkeye
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                            Turn that frown upside down hawkeye! You're smarter than at least 2/3 of EVE's population! Celebrate! : Finestaut
                            • I've also already lost my first love and I'm still playing. I'd gotten my Catalyst all sexied up with ... : hawkeye
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                            It bothers me more because people say "I WANT TO GET A BS!" and they spend days training up the skills ju... : zerog83
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                              I gotta stop clicking Post before my thought is complete. The whole "get the bigger ship!!!!11" mental... : zerog83
                              • Hopefully, us posting about it over and over in this thread will at least help shackers from falling into... : Finestaut
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                                Good advice, I agree. I went balls to the walls mining my first trip through EvE and basically Bored Qui... : r_picmip 5
                                • Oh and a "side job" is important. Be it mining, trading, working contracts. You should be doing that st... : r_picmip 5
                              • I don't see how flying around in an interceptor helps my penis size at all. Now a Titan, that makes me... : hawkeye
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                                But there has to be a floor to this as well, right? I mean, for a newbie like me, I'm flying around in a... : Clasifyd
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                                  Only if you want to mine in .5 sec and up, and even then, there be NPC pirates in the belts who can get y... : Finestaut
                                  • Well, yeah, but I have to get out of the Frigate class and through Cruisers before I can get anything spe... : Clasifyd
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                                  If you're mining then getting out of a frigate should be a priority. http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php... : hawkeye
                                  • ^^^^Listen to this and not to me. : Finestaut
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                                    Okay, I've been using this as a loose guide (already fucked it up aparently, since I went Gallente), so I... : Clasifyd
                                    • If you're desperate to get in something cooler in a hurry and don't mind wasting a little bit of time go ... : hawkeye
                                    • While I encourage no one to follow my lead, my character (I'm terrible though, as I've been away for a ye... : Fayk
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                                I think part of it is that people are used to "bigger" or higher numbers being better, as is typical of m... : Fayk
                                • unless they changed it, frigs can do wrecking damage on a BS, so its in their favor to have some way to s... : JuffoWup
                            • Eve shackers listen to these people.... i was lucky when playing that i was pilot better than alot of peo... : ssj4megaman
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                            in my experience the battlecruiser provides a decent solution for a compromise between balancing the "sex... : mindfk
                            • Battlecruisers are the best thing to ever happen to EVE. : Finestaut
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                      unfortunately it seems like half the people that learn that lesson take the occasion to quit the game. : mindfk
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                        Worse than that. See above. We were actively recruiting and training new players, and despite all of ou... : Finestaut
                        • This should be on the EVE faq or something. : hawkeye
                        • absolute truth right here. and honestly, it never stops being hilarious to me. : zerog83
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                Freighers are not tech 2 and can be insured properly : Reptile
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                  Freighters...I mean Jump Freighters are t2 ....needs more spellcheck : Reptile
                  • Their insurance pay out ratio may as well be T2, in case you didn't know. : kpxkrnjc
        • I caught a can flippers before with a sweet little technique... One of my friends' corps was a high-se... : zerog83
        • classic pirate move. >:) : m0rfus
  • it is until you get blowed up and your shit stolen. : jonin
  • High risk, low reward. You can't efficiently mine alone, you need at least one other player to haul or... : Finestaut
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  Hunting people with directional: http://files.filefront.com/BriefGuideToPiracySmallerwmv/;13172700;/filei... : semaphore
  • directional scanner is a very important skill to know if you plan on doing any kind of pvp : kpxkrnjc
  • that's a pretty cool vid, thanks : dael
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  I started working on an updated version of EVE Asset Manager. Requests go in this subthread. : Goncyn
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    dongs : zerog83
    • I would think MisterPhoton would be interested in this. Both dongs and my program. : Goncyn
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    Wait, did you resub? I'll have to check the latest version and see what its got. <3 asset manager, even t... : loboca
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      There's still no newer released version than the one from a year ago. I'm working on updating it though. ... : Goncyn
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        no no, I'll be like, I wonder where I left blah, and he'll be all, uh, use asset manager, and I'll be all... : loboca
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          Oh, right. That makes sense. I remembered him being initially skeptical of its usefulness so I'm glad he ... : Goncyn
          • Reptile, per lobo's comment, if you use my asset manager how come you never bug me about it? : Goncyn
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    I like it the way it is...maybe some wallet integration, if the API allows for that? : MisterPhoton
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      It does I believe. How would you like wallet integration to work? : Goncyn
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        it'd be nice to be able to pull reports of all transactions, then be able to either export them directly ... : MisterPhoton
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          Hmm. I wouldn't mind messing around with that after I get a new version out the door. Just like with asse... : Goncyn
          • it really does, but there's just so much information the game has, it's almost impossible to determine wh : zerog83
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    What is the asset manager and where do I get it? : byorn
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      http://wiki.heavyduck.com/EveAssetManager the database file there is incredibly out of date; there are... : Goncyn
      • on second thought, I'm not going to post a new db file before I release a new app version; it would just ... : Goncyn
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    Request: Mac Version! : g0nk
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      i've considered working on a web-based evemon/eft tool for a little while now since i'm sick of having to... : mindfk
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        i'll suuuuuck yer diiiick maaaannnnn.... really, that would be awesome! : g0nk
        • yeah but from what i understand EVE players are notoriously paranoid and having a web-based skill tracker... : mindfk
      • I was really disappointed that EVEmon and EFT are windows only :( : hawkeye
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      Does Mono run on mac? I need to check that out and see how far away my app is from running on Mono. : Goncyn
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        yes there is a mono implementation for osx but it's very rough. evemon is all sorts of broken on it. : mindfk
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          Is Mono itself rough, though, or does EVEMon just use poorly supported features of it? I think you have t... : Goncyn
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            yeah i don't know which. if you were careful i'm sure you could make things work fine with mono. evemon n... : mindfk
            • I looked at evemon's code once and ran away screaming. : Goncyn
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    Why? Old version worked fine except for the new assets (I assume a new db dump will fix it...just waitin... : Reptile
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      oh, I guess that answers the question I just posted. There are a couple of bugs people have discovered ov... : Goncyn
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        Sounds interesting...pricing would be a nice addition http://www.eveonline.com/community/toolkit.asp ... : Reptile
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          I already have an Apocrypha db. : Goncyn
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            perhaps might want to wait for the official one? :) : Reptile
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              Well, I got it from the guy in #eve-dev who has been bugging me for a year to update the program, he is o... : Goncyn
              • Other than the new db needed, I've been fine with the old ver...comes in handy on occasion when I'm feeli... : Reptile
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  Okay, so I've got several of the same ship due to the tutorial missions (I think they're all Navitas and ... : Clasifyd
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    Yes, keep them. Make different builds out of them with the fittings. PvP, PvE, E-War, etc. Probably no... : r_picmip 5
    • you should load out one for tackling and go to =< .4 and start some shit! good learning experiences will ... : m0rfus
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    Use them to play with fittings, and treat them like backups. Never get too attached to one thing in EVE,... : Finestaut
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      Never get too attached to one thing in EVE, because it's always going to get it always has the chance of ... : mindfk
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        I actually prefer my more "hopeless" interpretation. EVE is dangerous. Every time you undock, you run t... : Finestaut
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          true, but in my experience there seems to be a fair amount of things you can do to mitigate those risks. ... : mindfk
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            That's playing smart. : Finestaut
            • honestly it's all due to playing with shackers. as soon as i could fit my drake with something that would... : mindfk
  • I'd keep one spare and either reprocess or sell the others depending on skills (Refining) and needs (vari... : hawkeye
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  Dumb Eve Online Question How are the steps to pvp combat? This seems like such a basic question, b... : byorn
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    1: You don't know. All you really know at first is the ship he's in (right click and show info). You ha... : Finestaut
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      You can have the overview show the name of the ship type, but if you don't know the difference between a ... : loboca
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        lol...that is true. So how do I learn that stuff? : byorn
        • start reading! http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Ship : mindfk
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      So what is the best way to learn about PVP? I know everyone says to join a corp in 0sec, but how do I fin... : byorn
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        I'm thinking the militia stuff might make a decent PVP intro for a newbie. Haven't decided if I'm going ... : hawkeye
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          Our basic requirements for NWS are that you are in a Battlecruiser that can survive 0.0 ratting (Drake is... : loboca
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            Looks like Photon or militia then! I'm a long ways from BC/BS. : hawkeye
            • Yeah, I am close to those, but my funds are nowhere close to being to buy and then cover the expenses tie... : byorn
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              What is the militia? : byorn
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                Faction PvP and PvE in Empire. You join an NPC militia corp for a certain faction and go out hunting for... : r_picmip 5
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                  so does it take place anywhere in empire space and is it one group vs. one group or are you just hunting ... : byorn
                  • It's nation vs nation though you don't have to be a particular race to join its faction, only have high e... : r_picmip 5
      • The best way, honestly, is to start out as a frigate pilot. Learn about tackling; holding down targets wh... : zerog83
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        It's tribal knowledge mostly, you learn by practice, and by association with people who know wtf. Anythi... : Finestaut
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          Are there any problems bouncing between 0sec and +.6sec? : byorn
          • getting there alive, finding someone to run with in 0sec, getting back alive : Goncyn
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            Depending on where, it can be fairly exciting. A lot of wealth flows from 0sec to empire, so a lot of th... : Finestaut
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              What sort of config is a blockade runner? : byorn
              • Transport ship; small cargo hold but really fast to align and get into warp. : zerog83
              • it's a particular ship, a t2 industrial cargo ship : Goncyn
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                It's a t2 industrial ship with a modest cargo hold (in the low thousands), but fast and well armored. If... : Finestaut
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                  How would I get jobs to transport stuff? Via contracts? Wouldn't I get attacked by factions if I am not a... : byorn
                  • You're already smarter than the average courier contract person.... Read where you are picking up/deli... : Reptile
                  • I'm not familiar with doing that kind of work for contracts, but I used it as a cash multiplier for stuff... : Finestaut
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        If you're a goon...go goonfleet! We love our new-bees!! : Caoster007
        • I tried to join last year, but my goon account was turned down so I lost interested. : byorn
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          You need to subscribe to SA to join Goonfleet, ja? : Ride-My-Rocket
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            need to be an active SA poster registered at least three (possibly more) months ago : Majuju
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              I registered a while back, but I think my account has lapsed. If I turn on my account again, should that ... : byorn
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                I thought SA accounts are for life unless you banned and thus have to pay for it to come back. : Sailor of Fortune
                • if you don't use your SA account for a while it gets locked (or something) and it has to be enabled again... : byorn
              • I was in Goonfleet about two years ago, re-subscribed, went through the automated authenticator system wi... : Majuju
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        If you want to learn how to PVP, DON'T join goonfleet. They're terrible pilots. They're funny at times ... : kpxkrnjc
        • ^^^ BoB spy : Clay
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          Haha, your goon hate in EVE threads is always hilarious. I'm curious where you get this stuff. True, I... : Fayk
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            Maybe, one goon is the same as another-- dead. I'm glad they're funny though :D I always feel so alon... : kpxkrnjc
            • I'm ex GBC cooperative : kpxkrnjc
            • It people like you that make me glad I'm goon. You suck. : Caoster007
  • pvp combat initializes when someone with vastly superior range obliterates you. : Downforce
• Every one of these threads makes me want to resub : Thomas Hace
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  So who do I talk to about getting in Photon and where do I need to go? : Clasifyd
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    come to Torrinos VI - Home Guard Logistics Support, click the offices tab, find Photon Ventures, click ap... : MisterPhoton
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      Holy shit that's a hike.... How the hell do I get all my crap out there? : Clasifyd
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        repackage, recycle, sell minerals, buy shuttle, buy new crap when you get there : Goncyn
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          Rgr. Will I actually be able to do missions out there, or will I just get stomped on for a while? : Clasifyd
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            if your rep is preventing you from doing missions, we can fleet up and I can run a lvl 3 or 4 a few times... : MisterPhoton
            • Well, keep in mind I'm still running an Imiscus, so I don't exactly have firepower/shields/etc... That's... : Clasifyd
    • what sec is this? : Thomas Hace
• Yes, its called: JOIN THE GOONS the only reason to do anything in the game is to get money to buy skil... : wimpy1
• "I feel like I'm floating around aimlessly waiting for my skills to increase." - That IS the game right t... : Damodred
• Read this from start to finish http://hammer-eve.blogspot.com : Reeves

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  I agree with that 100%, I've had an iphone since launch and it's probably the worst phone I've ever owned... : MagicWishMonkey
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    oh and god forbid anyone have to dial a number in an emergency situation, it would be nerve-wracking to s... : MagicWishMonkey
    • Isn't a little... extreme to say it's the 'worst phone'? It's able to do many things, besides some of... : Shivawn
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  phone works great for me, 100% 3g coverage : gmd
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    Mine says 100% coverage but there's a 50-50 chance of a call never making it through. Lots of times I do... : MagicWishMonkey
    • I'm having that problem with the phone we just got, the samsung behold, if I'm in my house I will never a... : edge198
    • I'm having that problem with the phone we just got, the samsung behold, if I'm in my house I will never a... : edge198
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  In terms of battery life, it's fine if you compare it to other smartphones on the market. I fully blame ... : jingletard
  • Pretty much, battery life is excellent for a 3G smartphone. : Serpico74
  • I dunno, In the UK i've found that reception can be pretty spotty for my iphone while others on the same ... : Beady
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  used to work? : hirez
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    I was laid off about a month ago. :( : rigg5kthx
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      you didnt sell enough blackberries to teh shack : doomed
      • actually i sold too many. they let go of their best sales persons because they got paid too much. :p : rigg5kthx
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  Yes, it's the iPhone's fault that 3G where you live is poor. : hankyJR
  • because all his complaints were 3G related. : yacoub35
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    i knew someone would overlook all the other things and point exactly on the 3g thing and you had to be... : doomed
    • he's new here hammer don't hurt 'em : the city
    • I didnt and still found half the crap he mentioned not entirely accurate : two50six
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  Totally disagreed here. I type faster on the touchscreen than I ever did using a physical Blackberry/Treo : Serpico74
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    Is it Voxie that you use? : action roommate
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      Its called Recorder, very simple. : Serpico74
      • Oh, i got excited for a sec (a good friend of mine developed Voxie) : action roommate
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    crybaby? i'm asking what there is you can do to alleviate the feature gaps, via apps or tweaking. : rigg5kthx
    • I wasn't calling you a crybaby, I was calling the commenter that posted that (I saw it on Engadget too :)... : Serpico74
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    Serpico, do you have any motor disabilities that would prevent you from typing on a physical keyboard? I ... : stuka
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      Yeah it's basically impossible that you'd type faster with an iPhone if you have any dexterity in your ha... : the city
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        heh if you think about it, i think you'll find it's really obvious : Mr.SEX
        • heh : Mr.SEX
      • How exactly? I type just as fast as I would on my iPhone than I did on my Blackjack. I always get shit fr... : two50six
  • yep, pretty much. Great pics from the camera also http://photocritic.org/amazing-iphone-photos/ : two50six
• it's not perfect but it's still probably the best and easiest to use phone out there : Mr.SEX
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  one thing i don't like: if i merge my entertainment device with my phone, i will not have enough battery ... : yacoub35
  • this is how i feel. In a perfect world i'd have a basic phone with a 3g data contract that would work wit... : disembodied potato
• Haha, my WinMo HTC phone does all of that stuff, except has comparable battery life. : Vantage
• The Iphone is my first phone that I've used for more than just talkling (didn't even have texting enabled... : bcyde
• I've been trying to talk myself into paying the 100% higher phone bills to get iphones for the wife and i... : trevis
• It's a mediocre phone but a fantastic portable pc : Clay
• I totally agree. It's great but it sucks as a phone. : Perturbation
• Well, it's the 2nd cell phone I've owned, and I have to say that as a phone it beats the crap out of my o... : Colleton
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  I've had no problem with battery life lasting 2 days - this is while watching videos (tv episodes) on and... : freakord
  • There may be no perfect phone, but there are without a doubt better phones. They just don't have as slick... : retarded talking dinosaur
• the battery is the same as every other smartphone with the same featureset except for perhaps a blackberr... : mikecyb
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  I continue to not understand people who bitch about having to charge electrical items every night. If you... : Deathlove
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    I never get that one either. I always had to charge my win phones. and the thing crashes so less ofte... : hamachi
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      i charge my phone once a week. battery tech briefly fell way behind everything else, but i would expect s... : retarded talking dinosaur
      • maybe, but I doubt it. but I imagine hardware people will find interesting ways to destroy battery life.... : hamachi
• http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone Old, but still funny. : lefthighkick
• Nearly all of those are solved with the app store. For voice reminders you can definitely get apps th... : ovrlrd
• i read that on Gizmodo too And while its true in a way, the iPhone is still great. The sheer amount... : doomed
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  I agree that the iPhone could definitely use some improvement, but some of those complaints are just stup... : Arcanum
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    why not? a lot of phones have very decent cameras, including flash. they are very slim too - see Sony... : doomed
    • Well for one, it has precisely nothing to do with his purported complaint of it being a mediocre phone. ... : Arcanum
• I like my iPhone but I couldn't possibly survive a work week with it alone. Blackberry is what gets shit ... : stuka
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  Half of the shit you listed there is inaccurate. You should learn to troll better. 1: I havent charged... : two50six
  • Not to re-troll, but what you posted there is not about inaccuracies. It's about your personal opinion. : stuka
  • exactly, just like the OP. However there are some inaccuracies in his post, namely 5,6,8,10,12 in the... : two50six
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    2 day are you serious? LOL : Enigme
    • yeah. Why is that hard to believe? : two50six
    • no one calls him and he has no money to call others. : doomed
• I wish it had copy/paste, a better camera, and real mms. Beyond that, it is close to perfect. It's a beau... : afty04
• whyd you leave VZW former VZW buddy? : taylorwp2
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  iPhone maybe a mediocre phone, but as a package, nothing comes close. iPhone has completely changed my l... : Edges
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    lol, please tell me you are joking : Enigme
    • Fill in the word 'Blackberry', does this become far fetched? It's a personal organizer. The iPhone is ... : Shivawn

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• Howdy! I have a phone! : mafu5150
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  Aww, I haven't upgraded my telegraph yet : manero
  • Homing Pigeons are the WAVE of the future! : loboca
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  damn it... I'm considering getting either T-Mobile Blackberry 8900 or HTC Magic that comes out later t... : P47h063n
  • Blackberry. : yoonix
  • crackberry. : creep
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    My favs: iPhone Blackberry (Curve & up) Treo (with the palm software) Then again, I'm anti window... : goatjc
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      Hijack: My brother is looking for a blackberry, but isn't sure which to choose: Curve, or Storm...any op... : retardhumper
      • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19397965 http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19398250 tl;dr: Curv... : epit
      • If I had to choose any other touchscreen device, it'd be the Storm. epit is correct with it being "meh" ... : goatjc
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    A new username. : ThomW
    • Ha ha ha I like this answer. : voodooraze
    • This is excellent advice. : mrvandelay
    • lolz : action roommate
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    I have the G1, which is made by HTC I believe, and I am loving it.. not sure what this HTC Magic will inc... : wimpy1
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      HTC Magic has a software keyboard instead of an hardware keyboard. How is Android's email application? Do... : P47h063n
      • It's got GMail built in, not tried the other one. : chazums
      • yea, when i first got the phone, I logged in with my google account, and it automatically notifies me of ... : wimpy1
  • If you know enough people with a blackberry, go for it, blackberry messenger ftw, otherwise buy anything ... : davidc02
  • I have a G1 and really, really like it. : snowwolf
  • any rumors on when the Magic will be released in the US? its either that or a new Pearl for me. : epit
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    Blackberry Bold > Javelin Also, I'm convinced that I hate all HTC phones. I know they make a couple n : virus
    • Did any of them run on Android? I'm mainly considering the Magic because it's supposed to be the next goo... : P47h063n
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  Should I call all my ppls? : losimagic
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    /\/\/\Y ph0n3 pp| : Phil
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      2 m4|\|Y /\'5 : mrvandelay
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        d0n7 jUdG3 /\/\/\3. u /\/\/\|gH7 f|/\/d uR53lF h4x0r3d b0y3333333333 : Phil
        • u c4/\/7 d0 7|-|47, 1 |H|4\/3 /\/0r70/\/ : ArcKnight
• phathogen? : stonedonkey
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  hey look at this 31337 d00d : FrayLo
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    I thought the 1337 speak fad ended years ago...now the children are using epic with everything : niceguynick
    • to be fair, his account is 4 years old : RikiTiki2
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  your name looks like autism : klearlyunseen
  • filling in for gegtik? : Fyunch Click
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  What's up Pee four seven... : flagg209
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    not much fagg209 : P47h063n
    • dude, I should sock you...(lol) : flagg209
• I know you didnt mention iPhone..but it rocks. : r3ckless
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  Ohhhhh... PATHOGEN! I GET IT NOW! : SiW.
  • This one is the best. : spazzium
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    i thought his name was Pat Hogen : podizzle
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      I did too. lol : ThomW
      • me three : skryte
    • I thought it was a dell service tag. : skitzo
• oh shi, how youdial this th : Boxelder
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  4nd, b3h0|d, 1 c0m3 qu1ck|y; 4nd my r3w4rd 15 w17h m3, 70 61v3 3v3ry m4n 4cc0rd1n6 45 h15 w0rk 5h4|| b3. : scorpiusman
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    I fucking hate myself for being able to read this fluidly. : DrWaffles
    • The only thing that threw me off was '45'. I tried to read it as a number for some reason. : ArcKnight
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      could you read it fluently because you read leet so good or because you recognized the phrase and your mi... : flagg209
      • Eh, I didn't recognize the first portion as I usually only hear the second part of the phrase used. So p... : DrWaffles
    • its good for making password though : P47h063n
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  FATAL ONE TEE WHY : pancake humper
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    I make mice, keyboards and soundcards. : spazzium
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      I am an IT professional : scorpiusman
      • Then I stepped out of the bus, leaving the people on board with nothing but a memory of a peculiar longha... : ArcKnight
      • but are you well versed in the operating system? : biskits
• sup. : delataur
• oooh, its PATHOGEN! fuck that hurt my brain. : Goblin au

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  I keep thinking about that in terms of the used game market and digital distribution. : ThomW
  • I know that digital distributions helps publishers keep the margins going on their product as long as the... : ieGod
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    I'm more worried about the impact to future Shack White Elephant exchanges. I love giving away old games. : pupismyname
    • Nothing says "I loathe you" like a pre-used Xbox Live Points cards. : ThomW
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    Then you get a game like Dawn of War II that you buy in a store which requires, and is linked to one stea... : Pneum0
    • Yeah, I was just thinking about that in terms of Empire Total War. I bought a lovely Empire TW box from A... : yoonix
• This is the main factor in my choice not to buy much in that format. Pretty much the only thing I've bou... : Zakko
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  yeah but what if you could sell used titles from your digidistro account to other digidistro accounts or ... : massdev
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    That would be awesome. I think transfer rights (even for a fee) should be an option. Also why didn't ... : yoonix
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      Black Label? : ieGod
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        The original, not greatest hits. : yoonix
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          http://completed.shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQLHQ5fCompleteZ1QQ_dmdZ1QQ_sopZ12?_nkw=final+fantasy+VII+playsta... : yoonix
          • Mainly because the Greatest Hits label looks ugly as hell :( It wasn't until the PS3 GH releases that ... : roushimsx
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            $549 http://cgi.ebay.com/Final-Fantasy-VII-PlayStation-BLACK-LABEL-SEALED-NEW_W0QQitemZ380110155453QQc... : Schnapple
            • That is just retarded : WadeMcLain
        • Ah. I have this version. Stupidly I lent it out back in the day WITH instruction manual. I got it back SA... : ieGod
        • I have my original FFVII copy sitting in my entertainment center right next to the PS2. That's pretty mu... : DinK
    • Yeah it would be cool if you could transfer Xbox Marketplace or Steam apps to another user account, even ... : Dave-A
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      It's not rare, there's literally millions of copies of it out there. I don't remember just how many milli... : roushimsx
      • Yeah, it's going up on ebay in a few minutes. I have a GH copy somewhere too. : yoonix
    • i've seen it 179.99 in a gamebuzz store in montreal. : barichnikov
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    I can't imagine that would ever happen. One of the key selling points of digital distro for producers, pu... : Attica Blue
    • The used market helps support higher prices for new merchandise. One of the reasons people are willing t... : LemonJoose
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  That's the whole point; the stuff you own isn't yours anymore. Goodbye, doctrine of first sale. :-( : MaJeStu
  • I know, and that sucks. :( It's the tradeoff we get between instant gratification and resale rights, and ... : yoonix
• GOD DAMMIT don't you know you're hurting the industry when you resell your DVDs????/ : Rotten Deadite
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  yup, everyone is so enamored by iTunes and Steam they forget (or don't care) what they giving up in retur... : Modulus
  • Just reminds me of how much I appreciate the "digital copy" disks with my DVDs. : Rotten Deadite
  • With the exception of games which I've lost over the years, I still own every game I've ever purchased. I... : Schnapple
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    doesn't everyone just burn discs? : EvilDolemite
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      Well you give up the ability to sell it, I think that's his point. You can burn yourself a disk but stil... : pigvomit
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        Good thing when they do, i got hundreds of hours of game play for under a few hundred dollars. : Jinxplayer
        • So steam is like a single payment rental for you? : RikiTiki2
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    I'm guessing that a big portion of "everyone" simply doesn't care, even if many people care a lot. I p... : DinK
    • yeah i don't think i've ever sold any old books or movies or games. i usually donate them. : jenisthebest
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    In the long run, for me the amount of money I save buying through steam vs. the amount of money I would g... : ColonBlow1
    • This is also true. The vast majority of titles I've bought from Steam in the last year or two have been ... : DinK
• Developers bitch about piracy on PCs but you can't sell a digitally distributed game to Gamestop. : Dynotaku
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  I don't mind it as much as most people, I guess, but I'm (thankfully, knock on wood) in a place where if ... : Deathlove
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    I've redownloaded music from Amazon. : mtgDoofy
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      explain how : Deathlove
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        Unfortunately I don't have my amazon account info with me at work, but in general I went to my account pa... : mtgDoofy
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          I go to My Account, My MP3 Downloads, I have three albums, there, go to one of them (Incredibad), and the... : Deathlove
          • Hmm. I will have to try this again when I get home. : mtgDoofy
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  I think they do it mainly because they figure that it reduces their sales. I think that's wrong. Take ... : even4
  • Plus on top of what you said, if somebody knows ahead of time that they'll be able to resell what they're... : DinK
• dirty hippies steal music, they deserve DEATH : scorpiusman
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  What do you think of this digital distribution resale model: A distributor, like Steam or whatever, al... : DinK
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    Conceptually speaking, I just can't wrap my head around resale of digital products. That is, there is no ... : Attica Blue
    • You're just not selling a physical item, you're selling a license. And you're right, it kind of doesn'... : DinK
  • They can start a 'buy-back' program for 'store credit' and it'll let people turn in 5-10 old games for on... : hawke
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  I really don't understand buying TV episodes online...isn't that *WAY* more expensive than buying them on... : Vincent Grayson
  • It depends on how long a season is. A 24 episode season will probably be more expensive. A 6-12 episode s... : yoonix
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    If you're going for true ala carte television, it's not that bad. Figure you pay $50/mo. for cable, that'... : Deathlove
    • ^^^ We just have basic cable at home. I watch my TV on Amazon and Hulu. : yoonix
    • True. I guess I'm thinking more of shows that're on Hulu and the like (so, not HBO/Showtime stuff, where ... : Vincent Grayson
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  And that's why no matter how successful digital distribution becomes, they will always be a market for ha... : Edges
  • As long as boxed copies don't all start tying themselves to one persons online account like some recent g... : Pneum0
  • And they shall be called the SINless, shall be uneligible for what few government services remain, and wi... : AxeMan808
• Welcome to the future motherfucker. Nothing digital will have any value outside of closed systems. : sammyl
• yeah and what happens when some of us live to see the day one of these companies goes out of business and... : Luminair
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  i saw a site that allows you to sell your purchased mp3's : dignan
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    anyone know the site im thinking of? i saw it in PC Magazine I think, an article about the legality : dignan
    • ... : Ebu
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  btw: what's Amazon's cut when you sell on there? was it easy to get your items listed? how much work wa... : dignan
  • much easier then ebay, but they take a much larger cut. 15% i think : want to
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    It's fantastically easy to list items on Amazon, but they'll take 15-20% off the top. If you have somethi... : yoonix
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      how much did you get for Burning Crusade CE ? a local walmart still has a sealed case of the latest CE e... : dignan
      • 80 bucks, I think. I got it on some super special deal for $40 at some point but I quit WoW before the bo... : yoonix
• You could sell the password for your steam account. : thecatinthehat
• And this is why physical media will entirely disappear within about a decade : locater16

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  I thought it was fine. There would be no way to explain the mechanical problems without the bad guy they : sigpro
  • well that and the crew being fucking morons : mindshot
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    Do you honestly feel that there is no possible way that a huge experimental mission to the sun could fail... : OverloadUT
    • being given monster as a choice, all other possibilities pale in comparison. therefore, monster = win. : get_navi
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      In the way the movie was written, yes I do feel that way. : sigpro
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        Well yeah obviously if I am saying they should have changed a major part of the movie I am saying it shou... : OverloadUT
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          I don't see how after the air locks got fucked up while they were on the original ship you could explain : sigpro
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            The problem was that the crazy guy was *magic*. Magic had no place in the movie given them trying to be s : terath
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              I don't understand how he was magic. I must have missed that part. : sigpro
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                Well, surviving without food with major burns all over his body for.. months? Years? The time between the : terath
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                  He didn't survive without food though. They specifically talk about how there would only have been 3 year : aaarrrgh
                  • Well, I'd have been more likely to have bought it if he wasn't super strong and so badly burnt. It'd h : terath
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            This makes absolutely no fucking sense to me. Have you ever written something ever? I mean you're saying : OverloadUT
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              Gotta run to my kids parent teacher conference and I will try to think other ways to make it work, but I ... : sigpro
              • The thing about Sunshine is how the sun was the central theme, not only as the thing they had to go re-ig : aaarrrgh
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    that movie isnt scifi, its like fantasy with some space tree. : mindshot
    • its like pure awesomeness in film form. : mwasher
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    Blade runner? 2001? A scanner darkly? : daedraug
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      Blade Runner has action and 2001 has horror. : dirge23
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        2001 has horror? I don't think conflict = horror. While HAL does kill the crew, it's not done in a "hor... : aethyr
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          My "action/horror" qualification was a poor choice of words. I am really more looking for sci-fi movies w... : OverloadUT
          • 2001 still fits then, as does Blade Runner in many ways. : daedraug
  • Donnie Darko (I'm reaching a bit with this one) Brazil 12 Monkeys : smacknca
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    Gatacca? : Utopia
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    Gattaca Solaris 2001 Contact : action wombmate
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      Contact is definitely another good one! I've never seen Solaris; is it worth seeing? : OverloadUT
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        Absofreakinglutely. Both versions are great but I'm actually partial to the newer one because it's more ... : action wombmate
        • and an awesome soundtrack : Geoffrois
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      Is Solaris any good? I'm yet to give it a whirl. : Bamtan
      • i'm fucking stupid : Bamtan
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    Red Planet? I know, they end up fighting the robot dog thing or whatever but it's not horror or crazy act... : sparkly
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      Yeah, it's not a great movie but it is a true SciFi film. Also Mission to Mars (though it's worse than Re... : mn3m0n1c
      • IAWTP : action wombmate
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind. : sigpro
    • Man, I love that movie. : action wombmate
  • Contact, The Arrival : owtwerd
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    Primer : Modica Sol Solis
    • This is was my first thought. Gotta support one of my favorite sci fi movies of the last few years. : nodge69
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    Does Stalker have horror elements in it? : Rag and Bone Man
    • nope, it's just a very tense movie where you're constantly waiting for something horrible to happen : pukerat
  • The past 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. :( : exigence7
  • Wall-E : deathofrats
  • The Prestige : spiderfill
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    Mission to Mars *almost* : Sailor of Fortune
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      that movie was complete shit though : mikecyb
      • Red Planet was worse. At least MtM had some semblance of keeping the sci-fi on the low end for the humans... : Sailor of Fortune
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  I totally dug it. Reminded me of Solaris with Clooney. : get_navi
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    ...which also sucked ass. : SlamDunk
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      fuck you. : coolbreezr
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        feelings = hurt : SlamDunk
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          They should be. Solaris was a great flick. : action wombmate
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            i meant his feelings, and it's a mediocre watch-it-once-then-forget-it movie. : SlamDunk
            • It's been brought up many times thus it's not at all a "forget-it" movie. Can't argue with facts! : terath
          • Yes, Solaris was an awsome, creepy sci-fi thriller. Section Eight studios is cool, Good Night and Good L... : Xin Jing Client 1a
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  I agree with you here. That last bit is totally regrettable : kainen1
  • Yep. Great cast and setup, then it just went to shameless shit. : node
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  I just couldn't get past the dumb, arguing crew. I don't mind conflict, but I just couldn't follow why th... : byorn
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    Well, they were a couple of years into the journey at that point. : aaarrrgh
    • Cabin fever is a bitch. : action wombmate
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  Rose Byrne is hot but I watched two movies with her back to back (the other being 28 Weeks Later) and the... : Sailor of Fortune
  • God yes she was so hot in Sunshine : OverloadUT
  • I've met her in person. I'm good friends with her cousin, but he won't let me talk to her anymore :( : Goblin au

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  Eh? The comedian is an original superhero. Ozy and Silk Spectre 2 were a later generation. I agree the : carnivore
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    None of them are SUPERheroes except Manhattan. : randomposter
    • ohshi right the age thing : randomposter
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      I'd argue that none of them were heroes. Maybe they did heroic things off screen or in the comic that did : Dynotaku
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        that's entirely the point. :) any costumed her IRL would be a total sociopath. : biskits
        • her --> hero : biskits
        • All part of the Comedian's joke. : nurglich
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    lol uncut : SockMonkeh
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      uncut : SockMonkeh
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        I still don't see what you did here. Please clarify. Preferably in a visual, nonwritten manner. : Xanthos
        • 8===D : Shivawn
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  I don't think the guy who played Veidt was a great choice, not that it really matters. He just didn't loo... : Dave-A
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    If they were going to cast him based on looks alone, I would have gone with this guy: http://www.ameri... : mechanicalgrape
    • that guy looks like buzz lightyear : SockMonkeh
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      I say this dude, dyed blond: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4007039488/nm0261595 : randomposter
      • Wow IAWTP. : erebus
    • He looks more like Captain Metropolis, who I was disappointed to see an absence of. : Lone Swordsman
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      The way Veidt is drawn he kinda looks like this guy http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2008-03/37... : action wombmate
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        Yes! It's the TESH! : pigvomit
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          No, it's Peyton Manning! : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • No, wait, the janitor from Scrubs! : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • lol that guy sure looks like the most intelligent man on earth : suruwek
  • Agreed. Should have been older, too. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Nice to see that you enjoyed it. You seemed like you were expecting the movie to royally suck. : pigvomit
  • I had a lot of promise from the trailers blown by a couple of leaked clips, the prison fight and a dialog... : randomposter
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  I finally saw it this weekend as well. My only complaint is Rorschach didn't break enough fingers and the... : pukerat
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    Yeah, the whole Bubastis thing made sense because of the genetic engineering part of the "alien" plot, as : pigvomit
    • actually, he did mentioned genetic engineering while being interviewed by the tv people. i still agree th : anthonybean
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      They cut a lot of things that didn't really affect the plot for time's sake. Like Dr. Manhattan is suppo : nurglich
      • I'm sure that's a scent hat will be restored. The cut is just too drastic. Angry and clothed one second. : Marauder IIC
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    Rorschach didn't 'HURM' enough for my tastes.. : deathofrats
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      HURM didn't sound like I imagined it. It sounded more like a "Humphhh" : pigvomit
      • yeah i can only remember one scene where he actually says anything resembling a 'hurm' and you are right,... : deathofrats
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    yeah how the fuck did his mask work? : eldiablo01
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      In the comic they explain that it was made of a high-tech pressure sensitive fabric developed by Dr. Manh... : nurglich
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        Well, looking back at the comic it's quite possible it was made for some other woman with an Italian name... : nurglich
        • You were partly right: it was that Genovese was unsatisfied with the design, and she refused to pay for i... : Home Nugget
• i thought the intro credits were extremely well done showing bits from the book : fletch_
• Did the BLUE DONG leave a bad taste in your mouth? : jamesray
• One part that made me chuckle was the fact that they were playing a muzak version of Everybody wants to : acidnynex
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  As I mentioned before, The Watchmen's violence and gore mainly made 300 look like cartoon violence. Al... : Sailor of Fortune
  • They used Prophecies as well as Pruit Igoe, but yes, I agree. The only one that really stunk in my opinio... : randomposter
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    Hallelujah is a great song, but that was a terrible version of it. Use the Jeff Buckley version instead. ... : jamesray
    • I agree. I thought the singer was really really bad. : randomposter
    • I like the Buckley version better than the original. : Godhatesfatpeople
    • The point was that the scene is horribly awkward and kind of stupid. The Buckley version would have total... : Morgin

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  Those people who son't want to be healed? Yeah we just call them retarded. : JohnnyRey
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    it depends. Playing expert coop, you don't heal until black and white if you want to win. : re-verse
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      Healing yourself is all relative as well, sometimes I want to heal up when I know a tank is coming so I d... : DM7
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        Yes, prehealing for tank is usually wise. : re-verse
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          i think pills are better for the race, because you waste a medpack... if the tank gets you, you're dead, ... : barichnikov
          • Yeah, if I have pills I'll pop them when a tank is bearing down on the group but if I don't have pills I'... : DM7
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            Speaking of tanks, I think it would be way better if once they incap'd you they went off after the other ... : Delaric
            • I'm not sure, in expert at least. From the infected's point of view, taking the extra couple seconds to ... : DinK
          • Yeah it's clearly a situational thing with different priorities. First, if you're not limping then do ... : DinK
    • its important for points in versus as well : aeg1x
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      I'm not sure I buy that one. I'll agree with killing someone who is super low on health as you reach the... : wytefang
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        Because you get 2 'respawns' with 30 health when you get knocked down. Then you just pop pills like crazy... : Arctic Fox
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          I guess that makes some sense but it's not the best choice to rely on getting the pills consistently enou... : wytefang
          • As Mroizo says below, it's situational. A lot of times it makes more sense, and it's limped me through mo... : Arctic Fox
    • that's arguable, as when you're red and your movement is reduced, you may have to fight off more attacks ... : yacoub35
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      The exception is when you're so slow that you're causing problems. : Gonzo
      • Agreed. That seems to be the most problematic association with the practice. But--to each his own. There ... : TrickSh0t
  • It is necessary on expert in some situations. : sheepraper
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  some players ask for being killed at the end of a level if they are black and white or under 50 hp (game ... : barichnikov
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    I don't agree with the asking to be killed either. I think health should regen between levels maybe. : re-verse
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      That or you start the next level and have to rescue a survivor if any are dead. : zerog83
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        Yeah, dying between the last rescue closet and the saferoom should mean you need to be rescued in the nex... : Beady
        • I like this idea. : Mmmmmoo
        • I agree with this completely. Being dead at the end of a level should work the exact same as if you star... : DinK
        • Hey, that's a great idea. I agree. Would cause players to refocus their strategy and avoid gaming the dea... : TrickSh0t
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  I live for headshots, so those zombie stats at the end are pretty sweet. : ieGod
  • Haha, same here. I love taking out skulls all day with assault rifle bursts. I'm usually on the low end... : DinK
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  I insist on healing at the earliest convenience once health drops below 50%. My goal is to help the team... : Lone Swordsman
  • Healing early and often is not the best way to help your team win though. It has nothing to do with pers... : DinK
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    That's effecitvely throwing away another 50 (current health) + 60 (2 more incaps) of damage you could soa... : mroizo40
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      But if you fall into the yellow or red, you start to limp, and you can get knocked down easily. If you g... : Lone Swordsman
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        Like I said, it depends on the situation. You can deal with the slow movement speed for many parts of the... : mroizo40
        • Oh and the limp cutoff point is 40 hp, not yellow or 50hp. At 39 you start limping, 40 is full speed. : mroizo40
      • Having to slow down slightly is a far lower price to pay than not having one or even multiple healthpacks... : DinK
      • That's also what pills are for btw. : DinK
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        That's what pills are for. : ShoCon
        • But you can't count on those! : Lone Swordsman
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        PILLS HERE! : yacoub35
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          Wait, they're pills? I thought they were peels! : dumb.
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            THERE ARE PILLS HERE! : yacoub35
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              Grabbin' peels! : dumb.
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                I HATE PILLS : yacoub35
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                  Boomer pills! : dmason
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                    GURNADE! : yacoub35
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                      AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEHAHAHEAHAUUUGHHHHHHHHH EH EH!!! : sanchez
                      • TANK!WITCH! mmmm tankwich... tasty! : yacoub35
    • Here's the problem I have with your strategy--you're assuming you're going to be rescued before dying. I ... : TrickSh0t
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      To Mroizo40 - But the problem there is that if you even get knocked down in Expert, odds are decent that ... : wytefang
      • Like I said, it depends on the situation - if you KNOW you're going to take more damage but that you'll s... : mroizo40
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  The healing stuff makes total sense. It's just people learning how to play efficiently. I've thought si... : DinK
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    ^ pretty much it. Anyone playing expert well is healing only under these circumstances. : ColonBlow1
    • note this is all related to playing on expert. when we play, we even let people b/w people die on purp... : brainchild420
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    i wish you could command the bots. right now if they want to heal you, they're gonna heal you. : ermac
    • Unless you pull out your healthpack constantly, which is annoying as fuck. : heartsauce
• I won't heal unless I've been incapped twice. That's the way I've been playing since launch. : notd665
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  On Expert, the only health packs are in the safe rooms and the finale area. There are no health packs inb... : ShoCon
  • but the bots will just keep trying. it's annoying! : ermac
  • There are health packs in the levels on occasion. It's rare, but they're there. : Gonzo
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    This is not true. There are ALWAYS extra health packs on the finale map in-between the safe-room and b... : TrickSh0t
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      There are usually three health kits between spawn and finale house. The third is usually in the far cabin... : Mmmmmoo
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        Perhaps the developers didn't factor OCD gamers climbing to locations the AI can't pathfind to into their... : etherealrhythm
        • possibly, haha : Mmmmmoo
      • you could also not always do the events in the easiest place possible. : brainchild420
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  I would rather not play L4D with you. It sounds like you think you know what your teammates need more tha... : Rooster Cockburn
  • Really, you inferred all that from what I wrote? I think you've injected some opinion here. I've been ... : TrickSh0t
• Can someone add me the Shackers L4D group? Profile URL: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656119797199... : ColonBlow1
• In my first game ever, I got yelled at for being a noob (which I was), followed by a full clip of autosho... : duffman03
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  I'm about 30 feet from the safe room. There's only one other person alive, and there's a giant horde chas : Gonzo
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    While your thinking is admirable, it is my believe that it is better to die attempting to save someone's ... : thief
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      I was just afraid that by the time I got him up, the horde would be on us both. It was a high risk move e... : Gonzo
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        Add me. I play as 'adam' -- steamid is /jaunt/ http://steamcommunity.com/id/jaunt or link me yours... : thief
        • How many aliases do you go by man? : Arctic Fox
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  Is it possible to just vote to change the difficulty on co-op? Is it an unofficial -- unpresented in the... : thief
  • That said, I think the point system could be much better. I don't have time to elaborate, but I think th... : thief
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    Yeah I've done it a few times. Usually just hit esc, call a vote, change difficulty. : Waffles!
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      I feel the fool--I mean change difficulty in VS. : thief
      • Ah, you got me : Waffles!
  • The only thing I'd change about versus is to drastically up the zombie count and give a small increase to... : Gonzo
• I love this game so much. I've only had it for a week or so since I finally got around to getting a new ... : Waffles!
• Yeah, you meet some seriously strung-out people in this game, don't you? It's why I prefer to play with f... : etherealrhythm
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  This is why I cant enjoy L4D. When everybody was getting started and it was a game about making stupid p... : johnwissinger
  • Yeah, this echoes my thoughts. Playing with fellow chill-ites is a must. : etherealrhythm
  • That happens with any game. And it also depends on who you play with. A lot of my friends are amazing in ... : Godhatesfatpeople
  • That's pretty much most multiplayer games though. There's always this serious side with fanatics and pro... : SkeezPimp
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  Are the leaping horde zombies a new thing? I was playing Dead Air yesterday, and there were zombies leapi... : Gonzo
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    Hunters? They have been in the game since it's launch O_o : Godhatesfatpeople
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      No, normal horde zombies. Right at the beginning of stage one, they were jumping across the gap just o... : Gonzo
      • Oh yeah they can do that sometimes. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  L4D server stats! HLStats for all shack servers are now available. You can tell who TKs/heals/rambo ba... : Alco23
  • Alco's server stats cured my cancer! : Arctic Fox
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    how does this work? I'm not on this list but I've played shitload of L4D on shack servers : kainen1
    • It works by reading and parsing the logs from the servers. The stats only started picking up logs from th... : Alco23
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      They were only recently enabled on a bunch of the servers, so if you haven't played in the last week or s... : Arctic Fox
      • Explains it. I've taken a week off of L4D : kainen1
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    LOL! And guess who the top player for L4D is? Strabo! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18973592 : Ride-My-Rocket
    • And the follow up xtranormal post: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19436246#itemanchor_19436246 : Alco23
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      he's one of the best teammates I've had on a shack server playing expert co-op. : ]pm[chem
      • I just like that he's competent AND not Special Forces ELITE TACTICS SGT MAJOR on the chat. God, there a... : Kaiser
  • Whoa holy shit #3 O_o : TastyWheat
• Yeah, somebody bitched me out for healing them a few nights ago, so I cr0wned them. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  I get the feeling the original poster is one of the guys who goes way too slow in versus mode! :P : ]pm[chem
  • :) Actually, my original post had nothing to do with Versus Mode. But, to address your assumption, it ... : TrickSh0t
• I was yelled at for healing someone and and then we incapped them for being an idiot. : Derringer
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  >>Though, the more extreme resistance to being healed seems to correlate with female players. Were you... : Vampyre_Dark
  • If that were the case, how could they bring themselves to resist? : TrickSh0t

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  What's with all the boners over copy and paste? What could you possibly want to copy between iPhone appli... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Internet links between email/SMS/etc : indosauros
  • You don't know what you got til it's gone. : yoonix
  • Are you trolling? I usually want to copy and past stuff between contacts, webpages email, texts etc atlea... : historyinthemaking
  • With copy paste you can move around information from Contacts to Notes to SMS to Emails. I use the Cli... : doomed
  • copy and paste on the iPhone is like a floppy disk drive on a PC. You almost never need it but when you n... : Schnapple
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    I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've wanted copy/paste. : Yanks
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      Wouldn't it have been nice to have it available then? : yoonix
      • He only has 1 finger on each hand : ateam311
  • that's what I thought too, until I had to copy a UPS tracking number from an email to Safari.. : MikkleThePickle
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  Exciting. . .wonder how fast it'll get cracked or did Apple just stop caring about that stuff? : goatjc
  • i dont think they care much they do sell a shit load of phones with all the crackery going on speci... : doomed
  • They actually care a lot more now that stupid pirates are cracking and pirating app store apps. Stupid pi... : DOOManiac
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  will they be announcing a release date too? : Korban
  • probably not, but... June/July. : Postal
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  Fail: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/apple-confirms-presence-of-proprietary-chip-in-shuffle-headphone... : omnova
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    and the big deal about this is that... : Korban
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      You can't use your own headphones. You have to pay apple $$$$ for their headphones. They can charge wha... : Freon
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        and for whatever reason, you guys seem to think apple will never let anyone else make headphones for the ... : Korban
        • I dont have a shuffle but since my 2nd ipod arm strap is wearing out i may have considered a shuffle for ... : trevis
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          $$ license charge for proprietary chip I think you just don't get it. : Freon
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            you think they should give the chips out for free? what... : dooberzoo
            • no, he thinks there shouldn't be any chip, just like, you know, every other set of headphones in existenc : electroly
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              there should be no chip at all : vynn
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                So how do you propose that a multibutton control pad works over a single line, being compatible with exis... : dooberzoo
                • The problem is in the design o the device to begin with. An mp3 player device that's completely controlle... : vynn
                • they should do it the exact same way they did it last time they implemented an in-line remote control. r... : electroly
      • Its like a car company selling proprietary tires : boomstickah
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        X not true -- the real issue is that 3rd-parties either need to pay to use an Apple-sanctioned chip or el... : Postal
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          Cant engineer them, as it means you have to crack the encryption on the chip which violates the DMCA. Wit... : Beady
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            I can't find any reference to encryption, do you have a source for that claim? : dooberzoo
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              Even if it isn't encrypted that doesn't mean it's fair game. : Fred Garvin
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                The article specifically says people can make their own chips without certification : OverloadUT
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                  Unless Apple goes after them. Depends how aggressive they want to be. : Fred Garvin
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                    If there is no encryption/DRM what exactly would Apple go after them for? Being clever enough to make it ... : ovrlrd
                    • So, are you saying the only way to protect a digital system is by encryption? : Fred Garvin
          • there is no encryption. that's the whole point: people assumed the chip meant DRM, but it doesn't. : Postal
        • Even if someone else can engineer a new simulator then they have to worry about compatibility, interopera... : Freon
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        It's so hard to make an inline adapter and there's so few companies making iPod stuff... : dooberzoo
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          I think you didn't read the link. http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/16/apple-confirms-presence-of-prop... : Freon
          • You miss my point but thanks for the snarky reply. You'll have your adapter soon enough and whether it co... : dooberzoo
      • then dont buy a shuffle. this isnt rocket science. : riptyde
  • Those motherfuckers did the same thing with the component cable for the iPhone. 3rd parties keep figuring... : vynn
  • That does blow. I fucking hate their ear buds. : kingdepork
  • As they say, it's just a control chip and no authentication/DRM or stuff so people can clone it if they w... : dooberzoo
  • It should be simple to snip the wires above the control chip and attach your own ear buds right? All you ... : Perturbation
• it's on the storm : Downforce
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  Add contact grouping by Company please! : vynn
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    wow, i never thought of that but it would rock indeed. : doomed
    • in fact i did think about something like this, but i had something different in mind, it would work for a... : doomed
• it doesn't already have it, lame. : Turd Ferguson
• There's 10 features that would be more useful than copy/paste. Number 1: MMS. How the fuck is this not... : treefingers1
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  MMS as well. : g0nk
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    if I had to pick only one I think I'd actually prefer this over copy/paste. I really miss sending people... : mikecyb
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      Also receiving pics. It's retarded that you have to go to a web site to view them. But you can't just cli... : g0nk
      • argh yes that is the worst. add non-retarded MMS and I'm pretty much set : mikecyb
      • Yes, the first time I got a picture sent to me, I could not believe how retarded the process was to get t... : afty04
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    Are you saying that's rumored to be included, or is it just something you want? I'm DYING to get MMS. : treefingers1
    • Rumord to be included. : g0nk
    • Would you please read the article next time?? just kidding : doomed
• article i saw: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/13/iphone-3-0-to-get-mms-tethering-and-finally-copy-and-p... : g0nk

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  Can you program it to delete your porn folder? : mechanicalgrape
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    fuck that, I'd keep a crazy amount of really off-the-wall porn so I could have it emailed to people : zerog83
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      Yeah and that one time you forget to respond to their 'check if you're alive' thing suddenly your loved o... : dumb.
      • I fail to see the downside : zerog83
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    At that point, do you really care? : Dave-A
    • I used to wonder about that... I'd die and all my friends, family and co workers would be oh so sad and a... : waxthirteen
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  lol I'm installing it on my coworker's computer as soon as possible and never telling him the password : azenmaster
  • lol, that's very evil : losimagic
  • lol : Phil
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    I'm not sure what this would accomplish if you don't know any of his secret info. : mechanicalgrape
    • Just that he'll get random emails asking him if he's still alive. : Ebu
  • deathswitch doesn't actually kill the person, you know : Luminair
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  What's with pics of the Human League on the bottom? That's bizarre! : spiderfill
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    Haha I didn't see that : cfalcon
    • Don't you want me to send posthumous messages from beyond the grave, baby? : spiderfill
  • wtf that is weird : ass-street
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  Uhm - isn't this what lawyers and a "will" are for? : dedgecko
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    do people put their passwords and secrets in a will? probably not : Mr.Fusion
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      you think you're any better off trusting the people at deathswitch.com than a lawyer? : dirge23
      • They'd probably empty your bank account. : kingdepork
• Fuck em, I'm dead. : pieman
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  Common Deathswitch Uses ... ->Last word in an argument lol. : gimpi
  • ->Trolling internet forums with impunity : dirge23
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  I'm actually going to set this up. My wife would will be utterly destroyed the day I die. I've though... : mace
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    Damn that's touching, it made my prostate shed a tear. : Utopia
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      prostates dont have tear ducts. : hirez
      • maybe yours doesn't : c0bra
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        You need to go look at some pictures of a prostate since i can only guess you have no clue what one looks... : Ride-My-Rocket
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          there are no tear ducts listed in any of these diagrams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate : hirez
          • Tear duck goes "quacK"! : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Yeah... I feel the same way. : virus
  • buy a safety deposit box instead or give a letter to a friend. you don't have to pay some company to do t... : GloriousCow
  • Write her a letter and stash it in your belongings. You people with your death and your internets... s... : SinistarX
  • likelihood that this company is still around when you die: damn near zero : electroly
  • "I love her and she needs to know about it from every direction" now that's the mace I know and love : mmogger
• Would no one noticed if you died? Let the cause make amends by helping someone find your rotting corpse! : A Sponge
• I'm going to send emails to everyone I know letting them know what I really think of them. hahaha : virus
• I'd set one up but I'd probably get too lazy, stop responding to emails, then everyone would think I'm de... : Bamtan
• Holy hell! I have been wanting something EXACTLY like this forever : glio1337
• I like how the concerned people on the homepage look like a New Order tribute band. : Borzoi
• what happens if you have a lot of money in the bank, die, and have no relatives, and no will? does the ba... : opengl128
• Why do you need this service to do this? : thief
• sounds like a stupid idea to me... what if there is a network outage? : MikkleThePickle
• Sounds like an awesome movie title. Someone call Hollywood : phate81
• so... wait........ you give them all your personal information?!? : darkT
• i've got mine set to 10 seconds : aeg1x
• There was a freeware program a guy at Ars made about 10 years ago to do this. : Merconium
• Ive been thinking of making EXACTLY such a site. Except I dont think its a good idea to ask a person for ... : r3ckless