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Upcoming movie treats--Yes, it would be easy enough to just google it but I would rather hear what shackers know and think of the slew of trailers out in theaters now. In particular, the new Star Trek looked exciting but I couldn't figure out where it supposed to take place in the chronology. I am not a trekkie but it looked cool. X-men - same mantra every time "please don't suck, please don't suck" - I was also kinda baffled I didn't recognized about half the superheroes but I think it must be something from Alpha Flight or whatever the Canadian mutant team was called. Dillinger- YES Terminator- I think I saw the whole movie in the trailer. Has there ever been a prequel better than the original? Seth Rogen mall cop movie film looked funny. I feel like I am forget something. Are there any more good sword-fighting movies for 2009?

Mar 18, 2009 12:10am PDT

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If you could pick any piece of art or photograph to get made into a video game environment, what would it be?

As a kid I always dreamed of exploring certain images as full 3d worlds. Did you have any favorites?

Mar 17, 2009 6:51pm PDT

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  I'd like games to be more surreal and perhaps even painterly. : Dave-A
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    I think Braid was a good step in the right direction. : Dave-A
    - I was thinking a braid like game based on Van Gogh's "starry night" looking stuff :) : imcompa
  - http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/screen_shots.html very surreal and painterly. There is a video of it in... : Finchypoo
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  Raft of the Medusa : mechanicalgrape
  - School of Athens would be cool too. : mechanicalgrape
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  I want a Planescape-esque RPG set in Wayne Barlowe's hellscape: http://www.waynebarlowe.com/barlowe_page... : Noobler
  - Yeah, Barlowe's stuff is awesome, and could easily make for an incredible game setting. : Vincent Grayson
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    Irrational was working on The Lost, which looked like it was inspired by Barlowe : spiderfill
    - Some of this Dante's Inferno game have maximum Barlowe-tude too. : Borzoi
  - wow http://www.waynebarlowe.com/barlowe_image_pages/inferno_z11_what.htm : pointyelbows
  - That artwork looks pretty awesome. It would be very interesting in a game setting. : Rag and Bone Man
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  Guernica, motherfuckers : Home Nugget
  - With you on that one : Gojirah
  - http://www.lena-gieseke.com/guernica/movie.html : sgtsanity
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  Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Meters becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln : ryuuseki
  - Dali at the Age of Six, when He Thought He Was a Girl Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Skin of the Sea... : AxeMan808
- I was gonna say some Escher print, but Echochrome took care of that. : SinistarX
- http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/1999_11/99_1101_pc_dukefour/screenshot_screen003.jpg ... : SockMonkeh
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  Anything by ZdzislawBeksinski. http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_bek... : cptn.peachfuzz
  - Ugh, damn my spacebar, Zdzislaw Beksinski. : cptn.peachfuzz
  - Fear 2 did that. : Melll
  - That's what I came to say. : Lone Swordsman
  - i really like his stuff, but i think it'd be a challenge to retain his airiness and detail and still make... : pointyelbows
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    last one kinda reminds me of shadow of the colossus : datoo
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      I thought the same thing : supamart
      
      Me too. First thing that popped into my mind. : DrWaffles
  - Holy shit this stuff is fucking awesome! : voodooraze
- Leisure Suit Larry. : burning eye
- Anything by Edward Hopper. His paintings of people always make me wonder what their story is and why the... : Thresher
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  this: http://www.shackpics.com/files/1212359976822_99zr7qy75jalekph_xmm7o002cwm83pwngcxy.jpg : g0nk
  - Final Fantasy did that, air ships. : Melll
- obviously: http://scienceblogs.com/seed/upload/2007/03/squidfight_dark.jpg : DonkeyPopsicle
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  Frank Frazetta http://www.kameli.net/nocopy/50-frank_Frazetta.jpg I know it's not really an environmen... : spiderfill
  - Love that imagery - reminds me of RUNE. : dedgecko
- What about landscape or environment pictures? : byorn
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  Hijack: How about Literature and Film. I've always wanted to play a game based on the movie White Fan... : mnsnota
  - Oregon Trail? : dedgecko
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_ultra_deep_field_high_rez_edit1.jpg as an RTS : theamazingrand0
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  Bosch. : On the Brane
  - was just about to post this : kill9
  - spark plugs? : g0nk
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  Imperial Boy: http://images.google.com/images?q=imperial+boy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&cli... : boarder2
  - ^^^ but certain Final Fantasy games comes pretty close. : Edges
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  Anything by Mark Rothko. : NexusOne
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    lol ... and the game would be ... contrast vs. complementary? i love rothko! : pointyelbows
    - You'd just run around on a red rectangle, but it's really big! : nurglich
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  Has any developer made a game based entirely off of HR Geiger? You could probably pull that off pretty ni... : haiku
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    Saboteur was gonna be partly B&W. It looked neat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboteur_(2008_video_game) : spiderfill
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      I think games look their most realistic when they have a really limited color palette. I remember in the ... : haiku
      
      Oh yeah Ico, Gears, Killzone : spiderfill
    - I don't know why you're using the past tense, it's still in development.The media blitz is starting end o... : sammyl
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    They have! It's... yeah... Dark Seed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3dGvTaQjd8 : A Sponge
    - I remember playing that! I couldn't remember the name. I remember how awesome the graphics were back th... : .frame
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  would be cool if somebody did a game inspired by kandinsky : rgoer
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    maybe some kind of on-rails experience : rgoer
    - with awesome music : rgoer
  - i was just thinking this ... : pointyelbows
  - Not really much of a game but kinda neat http://davidrlorentz.com/files/OndrianFordrian_LDfinal.html : spiderfill
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    sorry I guess my joke fell flat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez#Story : rgoer
    - dont worry I got it : silentbobuk
- Hyperion series by Dan Simmons : okhelosir
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  Yes! http://www.shackpics.com/files/MarioHardcore_rn24anml2v2oloe2hkqi.jpg As soon as I saw this pic I... : Marauder IIC
  - American McGee's Super Mario World... : supamart
- Patrick Nagel's stuff would make for interesting landscapes. : cerealSAM2
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  There is a Serious lack of pics in this thread : byorn
  - Dude re-post it tomorrow and I will dig up reference material. Its kinda late but I love this thread. : Lightzout
- Would zombo be considered art/? : Unleashed
- How about feudal Japanese wood-carving/watercolors? Oh wait... : Masem
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  This is such a cool question. I need time to choose something though, so many possible choices. Hierony... : Lightzout
  - I'd love to see something like God of War (not the gameplay necessarily, but using the mythology) done wi... : Vincent Grayson
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  M.C. Escher : smax
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    The game already exists, it's called Echochrome : Drewus
    - That reply already exists. It's called earlier in the thread and SinistarX is a douche for pointing it o... : SinistarX
- Rene Magritte's "Le Blanc-Seing" would make for some epic mind-fuckery as a game environment. : kallanta
- Probably something in the style of el Greco. : -efx-
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  http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/Crimson_King_Dark%20Tower.jpg : bld
  - Need wallpaper version of that... : Lone Swordsman
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  HR Geiger of course. The guys bio-mechanical influences are incredible and the world (usually hellish) de... : yosemiteclimber
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    Didn't they already make a game of this? (Darkseed) : jbury
    - It's Giger, and yes, they did. There was even a sequel. Both 2D adventures, though. : Lone Swordsman
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  porn? : MrBig0
  - http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=22360444 ? : razorblade79
- I know there are plenty of games with forest sections , I just don't think any game has yet to pull off t... : matt518
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  http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g53/51653/51653_1152376093_large.jpg : fechols
  - I like that. : voodooraze
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  Dali - The Persistence of Memory http://www.msdlists.com/surrealism/Dali%20Persistence%20of%20Time.html : TroZ
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    I was thinkin' Dali, but I'd like to explore some of these bad boys: http://www.7-07.com/images/The_Ha... : afroninja
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      i have a big print of hallucinogenic toreador hanging in my room :p : pointyelbows
      
      It's a brilliant painting, although it may not have actually been completely done by him. : afroninja
- Ceci n'est pas un jeux vidéo. I would love a game based on Magritte's work. I could never pick just ... : SiW.
- Marcel Dzama all of his little characters are awesome http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/ima : ass-street
- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ;) : AMikaboshi
- mark ryden! http://www.markryden.com/ : pointyelbows
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  Anything by Feng Zhu. http://www.artbyfeng.com/gallery.html : Jobos
  - Looks like Feng Zhu has done work for 3d Realms/DNF. : mysteryperfecta
- The cover of Somewhere in Time. : Marrbe
- Yeah, gonna have to roll with The Garden Of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch. : AxeMan808
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  YO MAMA'S ASS! : Korban
  - This was the only correct response. : Lightzout

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greatest death scene in a movie ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBbmdJTLdE

Mar 18, 2009 3:09am PDT

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  HEAVY DOOBIES! : sanchez
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    i'm quickly becoming obsessed with this clip. everything about it is just perfect. the first time i saw : biskits
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      I like the small ketchup stain that's supposed to represent a bullet wound. : sanchez
      
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      there isn't one thing in that two minutes that isn't perfectly and inexplicably inconsistent. it's brill... : biskits
      
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      I have to concur with your assessment. I think it's the fact that he goes for the blow-up doll] at the en... : PlanetPerfecto
      
      for me it's the "I've had worse" comment after being shot through the heart.. : melt_core
      
      I'm gonna have to agree. : melt_core
- this is the greatest clip ive ever seen. heavy doobies, "look out, he's got a gun!"... bazookas..... I... : -=kodiak=-
- amazing : disembodied potato
- ahahahaha that's awesome : zerog83
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  The popularity of this clip has caused Amazon to run out of copies of the box set while third party selle... : roushimsx
  - i'm gonna hit up my local indie video store tomorrow to see if they have it. there's a good chance they ... : biskits
- wow I need to see this. : randomposter
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9dEyd6cBg&feature=related Awesome! : CrustaR
  - ahh extended version of mine below. : randomposter
  - *FIST PUMP* : oo7|bond
  - what the motherfuck. this is cinematic gold. razor frisbee FTW!!! : PlanetPerfecto
- jesus christ, follow up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloFBudyf1g&feature=related : randomposter
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  That entire series of events makes no sense what-so-ever. Firstly, why does the guy skate past, then d... : Drewus
  - It made much more sense in the play I felt. : -efx-
  - exactly :D : biskits
- LETS GET THAT TURKEY! : avatar_58
- I like how the dude is shot in the heart "eh, I've been better..." : Dimmona

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Hey, I've posted a bunch of my songs, including some tunes I've never posted on the Shack, up at Reverbnation. It's nice because there's no limit to the number of songs, and unlike Myspace the download function actually works!

http://www.reverbnation.com/monstunes

Give them a listen! :D

Some piano, some electronica, some orchestral... I really don't know how to describe my music, but currently Reverbnation thinks I'm the #2 Classical artist in Winnipeg, and in the top 20 nationally. Help me get to #1 :D

I've gotten a bunch of listens from you guys already, but more is always better. I hope you find something you like.

Mar 17, 2009 6:31pm PDT

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Will someone accompany me to my first online game of dow2? 2 People would be best so i can get the achievement

Mar 18, 2009 4:09pm PDT

Will someone accompany me to my first online game of dow2? 2 People would be best so i can get the achie... : SlingBlaze

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Time to get drunk.
Heres to having the least productive day of work ever tomorrow.
Happy St Pattys Shack

Mar 17, 2009 6:13pm PDT

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Time to get drunk. Heres to having the least productive day of work ever tomorrow. Happy St Pattys Shac : Thisispol
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Workout Peoplez

Anyone else feel like puking after lifting weights? I'm doing the Stronglift 5x5 and on the bench press days I feel sick afterwards every time. I think it's the reverse crunches that do it. Wish there was something I could do to not have it happen.

Mar 18, 2009 3:48am PDT

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Bull and I are curious:

Which specific Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter game(s?) and level(s?) does HAWX cross over with? Do any other games cross over in the same storyline (similar to how Chaos Theory crossed over with both Ghost Recon 2s)?

Mar 17, 2009 7:02pm PDT

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- Didn't anyone play HAWX? sigpro? : Bull
- I'm guessing the last level of GRAW 2? : deKaf

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Twitter down?

Mar 18, 2009 6:17am PDT

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- Watership up? : yacoub35
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  PIPER DOON!!!!! WE HAVE A PIPER DOON!!!! : Wolfanoz
  - lmao. We have a piper.. who is down! : royalally
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  Yeah, they shut it down today, guess they ran out of money. : voodooraze
  - Haha, what? : mancide
- net impact on the world = . : 60days
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  works for me : balaams_ass
  - It is now, earlier it was not... oh well. : mancide
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  Now how will you tell everyone what you ate for breakfast????? : MagicWishMonkey
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    Facebook status updates! : stonedonkey
    - Mood: Oatmeal? : silent prophet
  - I had a bowl of Cheerio's for breakfast, and a large coffee. : dumb.
  - TweetDeck+Twitter&Facebook=Crazy Delicious updates : mancide
- 1 fail whale does not mean twitter is down. They are seen quite frequently. : askedrelic
- battlestations! : dantastic
- What's a Twitter? One who Twits? : Jobos

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Is Oakley like Apple where you just have to pay MSRP or are there places that will sell real Oakleys under MSRP?

Mar 18, 2009 6:49am PDT

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so wtf is all this about games "coming to your web browser?".
I'm disappointed at the reality, they seem to be just like steam but the steam program itself is a website. The actual game is still a binary compiled for a particular OS :(

I'm looking at you QuakeLive and you Tribes.

Mar 18, 2009 5:08am PDT

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denizens of shacknews, what type of podcast would you be interested in listening to? i am going to work on one, i believe.

Mar 17, 2009 8:20pm PDT

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  relationship advice : kill9
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    he'd need a female cohost though. team up with laurgasms : dantastic
    - Interestingly enough, I'd probably listen to that. : uglysad
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  I can already say that this is going to be the worst podcast ever. : DrWaffles
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    I need to once again profess my love to you once again. I love you, Doctor. : mittense
    - once again : mittense
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    why would you say that? : lakren
    - Because you're entertaining the notion of having Shackers influence your podcast content...? : Jobos
- Just play a lot of Van Halen and don't fuck it up by talking. : pres589
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  i am in the middle of my podcast right now. i don't know what to talk about, so could you please tell me ... : lakren
  - Frosted butts. : DrWaffles
  - hahah how are you in the middle if you aren't even talking about anything : kill9
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    lakren i don't believe you are podcasting anything : kill9
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      i finished my first episode already where do i upload it? : lakren
      
      how big is it? : kill9
      
      http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9018/uploadu.jpg : thekidd
    - see what did i tell you : kill9
  - current financial crisis : Mmmmmoo
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  DOTA podcast abotu hot gay you are for playing on gayrena and being so gay in general also about your ... : kpxkrnjc
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    im sensing some hostility here razzle dazzle. whats up? why don't you tell us how you don't really feel. : DrFlammable
    - i dialed up his digits yo and the podcast is bom diggy diggy : kpxkrnjc
- One where you and the lakren followers all kill themselves! But seriously, everyone is probably going to... : Xevo
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  EPISODE 1 is UP. I kind of forgot what my topic was but I think it's pretty good, check it out. htt... : lakren
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    Fucking awful. : Wheatloaf
    - wheatloaf you didn't even make it to my segment!! : lakren
  - yo bro i will hook u up so we can put tits and a vagina on this awesome podcast to make it even more awes... : kpxkrnjc
  - Since when did you make good posts on here? : melkore
  - hahah LakCast : kill9
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    lakren, this is a remarkable podcast and I don't think I have heard anything like it before. Thank you. : A Sponge
    - Sponge, you always give the best compliments! Sincerely, CrustaR : CrustaR
  - nice. ummmm : hirosushima
  - if i could rate this i would give it a -1 : eeeealmo
  - The ultimate honor would be if this got nuked, you'd have great material for a new podcast. : Xevo
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      i don't really i was just in the heat of the moment : lakren
      
      that's when your true emotions come out : RikiTiki2
  - hahaha that was awesome i am looking forward to episode 2. you should have dr flammable as a guest : kill9
  - hahahaha jesus christ the duked nuked messages were fucking brilliant : randomposter
  - this is amazing : AlexXdude
  - You need to get bead and flammable and do the Dramatic Chatty Read again. I thoroughly enjoyed it last ti... : Xanthos
  - I have to stop listening to this. wtf. : Crimson
  - I think it would be difficult for me to hear your voice without also hearing DrFlammable. : c0bra
  - This is worse than Boxxy : pyros
  - this is the best podcast of all time. : NeoMoose
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    - would you like to make out? : lakren
    - i am also a fan : nomaad
  - This is why a talking web browser will never work : egg5hen
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    I need a sidekick for my "loveline" for shackers podcast. : sergeon
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19456829#itemanchor_19456829 : Xevo
      
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      Hmm, I can't imagine a girl would be hilariously inappropriate like Adam Carolla : sergeon
      
      Have you met laurgasms? : Xevo
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      I'm in! Sounds like fun! : warcrow
      
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      will this come out more frequently than Played? =P : Xevo
      
      Ouch. : bcyde
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      yeah i'm going to have special guest co-hosts don't worry : lakren
      
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      aka talk in funny voices : Xanthos
      
      please welcome "bakren" and "larken" to the show... : Xanthos
  - lakren, this is pretty much, the best podcast ever : Dschinghis Khan
  - I like it. : basketofkittens
  - can you at least talk about butts and stuff : kainen1
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    - i meant to hit preview wow sorry. : lakren
    - furries can't afford lawyers : kpxkrnjc
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    where is episode 2? I figure you must be halfway through season 1 by now : MikkleThePickle
    - tomorrow night and it will be significantly longer. : lakren
  - I AM FUCKING FAMOUS NOW! : sesmaster
  - I love lakren. : vile
  - Lakren, I can fucking hear you smirking while talking. You know this is painful and why the fuck am I st... : DrWaffles
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      I am serious. There is some kind of high-pitched stuff going on in the background. Either you are rec... : CRasterImage
      
      haha it's music. arcturus - the sham mirrors, to be exact. : lakren
  - That was terrible, yet for some reason I can't wait for the next one. : SlingBlaze
  - This is so fucking meta : sammyl
  - Can you read Green Eggs and Ham for the next podcast? : Senate5000
  - I don't listen to "podcasts" ever -- but you certainly have some balls to put yourself out there for Shac... : Jobos
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  talk about what's going to happen when i win the bracket contest with your money : feek
  - you will buy me 2 cheesesteaks. : lakren
- IDEAS for Lakren's next terrible Podcast: 1 - Lakren and friends read shack posts dramatically 2 - Lakr... : Xanthos
- top ten lists : Sailor of Fortune
- dota strategies and how to tell if it is dota time : spaceless
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  I'd like a podcast that is just like the old TV show "connections". : re-verse
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    That was an awesome series. : Sailor of Fortune
    - Agreed, and it would really work in an audio format if done well. : re-verse
  - Connections / James Burke Fans check out his lecture from the Smithsonian: http://dumb.ca/burke/ It... : dumb.
- something not involving you : deject
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  - Oh I haven't hear the first one yet. I just read the first post. I am sure its genius. : Lightzout
- None. Perhaps one where people discuss apophenia. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  - OH sorry, I miss read the question. I guess that helps though, those are the type of podcasts I listen to... : Dan 101
- I have been mentioned twice in this thread. larken, what the fuck are you doing. : laurgasms
- a podcast about podcasts. : Ziz
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  Kill yourself and have someone post the mp3. : Phil
  - Way to be original Phil! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19457073#itemanchor_19457073 : Xevo

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is the blackberry curve any good? its only 100 bucks but it would be with verizon :( and id have it for 2 years since the person who pays for my cell phone already renewed our contract

Mar 18, 2009 7:23am PDT

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shacknews beer snobs here's your thread.

i need a half keg of "something good" for a night before a bachelor party kind of gig. i've been placed in charge of the beer selection since apparently drinking a lot of it means you know a lot about it.

so, if you could have a half keg of something that isn't obscure as shit (i need to be able to acquire it in northern virginia) - what would you go for?

Mar 18, 2009 6:35am PDT

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I really love the positivity of youtube comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWjgQeI6_A

Mar 18, 2009 6:22am PDT

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  there is 1 comment that says "you guys suck" : GBeer11
  - 0wned!!! : CrustaR
  - It's not the first video I've made that people have just went off about. : mancide

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I just read this regarding Rock Band and GH: World Tour instrument compatibility.

Activision confirmed that the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero World Tour will be able to use Rock Band's instruments, adapting the note tracks to account for the smaller number of drum pads....

Has anyone actually used the RB drums and stuff on GH:WT? I would love to check out the new GH: Metallica that's coming out, but only if I can use my existing instruments!

Mar 18, 2009 7:23am PDT

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anyone going to see that this american life live show? http://www.thislife.org/About_TALLive_Theatres.aspx i think im going to

Mar 18, 2009 6:22am PDT

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I am looking to buy a new PC for 3D Graphics and animation, and also gaming of course. This is what I'm looking at. Can you guys give me some feedback on the specs in reply?

Mar 18, 2009 7:19am PDT

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Workout Club Menz

My workout sheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pak7AuTbnqFJpR7HQVk7gGw&gid=0

I do my workout M W F on my lunch break at work. I'm fortunate enough to be able to spend 60-90 min away from the office each day. Last week my kids were home sick with the Flu so I was not able to get to the gym for W and F. So basically I called the whole week a wash. This was the first time I missed a workout in 10 weeks since starting Stronglifts beginner.

This Monday (3/16) I went back to the gym, but my lunch hour was late by 2 hours, everything seemed off. I stretched out and loaded up the squat rack. I decided to just to do my week 10 Monday all over again as if nothing had happened. This was total failure.

On my 2nd set of 215 I failed my squat on the 2nd rep and had to put it down. I took all the weight off and reracked it. 215 back on and went for set 2. I got one very shaky rep and since I could tell things were not going well, I just racked it. Dejected and 2 hours late, I bailed on my workout and got dressed.

Today I'm ready to go. But I'm concerned, that week off I feel like I lost something. That 215 5x5 I did on 3/9 was great, not easy but it went well. But I just didn't have the strength to put it up 2 days ago. Reracking for squats SUCKS.

Should I deload? Is it common to lose that much progress being away from the gym for just one week?

Mar 18, 2009 6:29am PDT

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in case you missed it, parrot has finally went "1.0" (www.parrotcode.org).. this is a pretty big deal, since we perl programmers have been anticipating this for well, years (almost as long as dognose has been waiting for DNF). perl 6 is right around the corner (well, it's here technically, www.rakudo.org). but, anyway, if anything is going to give .net or the jvm a run for it's money THIS is it. incremental garbage collection and a register based virtual machine are both solid pillars to build from. the question now is can the optimize it and polish it so it becomes the de-facto dynamic language runtime?

and to make this somewhat gaming related, 38 hours in, and i beat fallout 3. omg.. i think i skipped half the game, it's just too damn big, i need to be like 18 again, with no life, no job, no friends to really dig deeper into that sucker.. oh well.. can't wait for diablo 3!

Mar 17, 2009 9:06pm PDT

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PS3/Xbox 360 men. Any one here game on a older 1080i set? Do most games support 1080i on both the ps3 and 360 and not look like shit?

Mar 17, 2009 7:31pm PDT

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New Mouse Time

My G7's right click has just decided to fail out of nowhere and its over 2 years old, I've started the replacement request with Logitech but I doubt it will get me anywhere.

So, how are people liking the G9 or that crazy looking Microsoft one. I also just came across the Roccat Kone, which seems to be getting some good buzz, anybody here tried it?

I'd like it to be wireless really as I've gotten used to that with my G7 but I'm not too fussed either way.

Mar 18, 2009 7:28am PDT

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I'm about to get MD'd but whatever.

Shack March Madness Pool 2009

This is the last day for people to enter into the Shack March Madness Pool! I urge you to shackmessage me as soon as possible so you can get the Paypal info you need to join before the end of the day, and still have time to make your picks today. Tomorrow morning will most likely be too late; Yahoo's servers will be under tremendous stress and you could get shut out from making your picks. Since I don't want that to happen, and you certainly don't want that to happen, shackmessage me as soon as you can!

As of 2 days ago: The pot is currently $127.09 (nobody listens about the $.50 extra for Paypal fees, which is why it's an odd number).

The breakdown right now is $76.25 for the winner, 38.13 for 2nd place, and 12.71 for 3rd.

I have 3 other people interested, so we're still gaining. This is the largest pool in Shack March Madness history, believe it or not, so join in the fun!

Also, historyinthemaking is running a free March Madness challenge, so check out details here if you don't want to pay but still want to play. I hear he's even got prizes!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19456474#itemanchor_19456474

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      :( I used a draft from my bank account : c0bra
      
      Same here. So me adding funds to my account first, and then paying would have circumvented the fees even ... : Patch-e
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      not according to my super perfect picks : Degenerate
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  - I'm having the same issue. : Sexpansion Pack
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Excel Spreadsheet question --

How do you keep the contents of a row of cells fixed at the top of a spreadsheet when you scroll down through it? Google search and help files are failing me. :(

Mar 18, 2009 7:19am PDT

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Photo Guys

And the rest of you too.

Check out this awesome time-lapse video, made using a tilt-shift lens. There's some really awesome stuff in here.

http://vimeo.com/3156959

Mar 17, 2009 8:05pm PDT

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  - Yeah. It's a neat effect and it's fun to see it in time-lapse. : ConfusedUs
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    - heh well, the long lens will be here soon. : re-verse
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- Nice, thanks for posting this! : ImageOmega
- Tilt shift lenses are cool. : DHAvatar
- Wow the HD resolution looks pretty decent for a random internet video. : bolneze
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      Lensbaby's are still ridiculously expensive for what they are though. Only because it's the only thing of... : Drewus
- That was really nice. : randomjgj
- Wow. That was really cool. Makes me want a tilt-shift lens... : Ormsbee
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- jesus, awesome : johnwissinger
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oh man, the video is blocked here but the first 2009 Nissan GT-R in a crash. Caught on video. I guess he was PO'd while racing an Evo...

http://jalopnik.com/5173322/first-2009-nissan-gt+r-crash-caught-on-video

Mar 18, 2009 7:16am PDT

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lol. I want this flight attendant on my next flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjybzdXVmI

Mar 18, 2009 7:16am PDT

lol. I want this flight attendant on my next flight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjybzdXVmI : pigvomit

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http://www.easyscreens.info/?v=4710

iPhone 3g #5 coming up.

Mar 17, 2009 9:20pm PDT

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      Which is why I said 'Last time this happened a new phone was needed.' : pancake humper
      
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      I believe so : pancake humper
      
      nope : zerog83
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      where do you put it? :( : Dynotaku
      
      It goes in the top between the power button and the headphone jack. There is a tiny hole (the iPhone 3G c... : pancake humper
      
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With Android can you control the output power of the antenna? Im thinking like with some wireless routers you can control the gain of the antenna to push the range farther. Is the low level hardware stuff closed?

Mar 18, 2009 7:04am PDT

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awesome short, maybe unfinished... HL2 inspired?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4&fmt=18

mirror: http://wimp.com/incredibleshort/

sorry if this a repost, it's hard searching for youtube videos in the comments

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awesome short, maybe unfinished... HL2 inspired? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4&fmt=18 : OrkO

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