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  Foo Fighters : pancake humper
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    he already have an entire downloadable library for RB2, don't they? : biskits
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      Fine, Eric Clapton! : pancake humper
      • now THAT'S a dlc i'd pay money for! : biskits
    • Just Colour and the Shape and This Is A Call/Times Like These/something else. BUT I DEMAND MORE CHORDFEST... : Deathlove
• Wham! : Anastomosis
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  GNR : agentlead
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    The Chinese Democracy album is going to be Rock Band's DLC next week. : obiquatro
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      while you are technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), Guns n' Motherfuckin' Roses is Axl... : Deathlove
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        Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin would like a word with you...as soon as I bring them around with a shot of... : skinlab133
        • I humbly accept this addendum : Deathlove
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  Guitar Hero: Joe Satriani, now with Expert++++++++ difficulty. : Rehevkor
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    but his songs aren't fun... : Cihte
    • Balls to you sir. The G3 version of Summer Song is frickin' awesome. : Rehevkor
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  VAN HALEN! and it's being made! \m/ : FormerHPB
  • Ah didn't know that. They'd be perfect for sure. :) : humbleone
  • Well, that's the rumor it's being made, but I haven't seen aynthing new... : Masem
  • A big Fuck Yeah to that idea. : Stoned Gargoyle
  • yea, totally. Whooo : deKaf
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  Van Halen, which I think is already being developed. I'd like to see an all acoustic Guitar Hero. : jingletard
  • Agree @ Acoustic Guitar Hero. So much material right there. : humbleone
• Big Metallica fan. Man I need that. : AMikaboshi
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  Tool : r4wk
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    ^^2nd'd'd : DM7
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      I haven't tried it but didn't they have a couple songs on Guitar Hero World Tour? : vtxrider80
      • oh, and 3rd'd'd'd : vtxrider80
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        yes, three of them. they're a lot of fun. weird time signatures and nasty bass lines. we need more of ... : biskits
        • Definitely and then maybe some A Perfect Circle for Rock Band! I've always enjoyed Maynards vocals, not t... : vtxrider80
• Pearl Jam. :) : DM7
• Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden. I would probably buy a 360 or ps3 for this game. : fuell
• The Beatles... oh wait... WOOOOO!!! : kallanta
• Santana : tangles
• Rush : Simulacrum
• Guitar Hero Sonic Youth lolz : haiku
• Holy crap it has Whiplash in it. So psyched. : riptyde
• dethklok : kch
• led zeppelin or rolling stones : dantastic
• I want a new rock band game... but im afraid of losing all my awesome tracks, because if its going to ... : chilln
• Leslie and the Lys : El Tigre
• Spinal Tap : Masem
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  Pantera : ColoradoCNC
  • I would say this, but my house could not take the trampling it would get and the guitar equipment would h... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • Agreed : jonin
  • I would put my vote here as well. They would HAVE to make the whammy bar play a part in the music, not ju... : thecray
• Cake : c0bra
• Depeche Mode : two50six
• Yes. : mafu5150
• I'd pay good money for a Weezer version. : Gnowknayme
• I'd like to have more of the Rush back catalogue. : Waverider
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  Megadeth. Not gonna happen though.. : melt_core
  • That'd be awesome also. Who knows.. maybe Mustaine plays the Metallica version and wants one as well ;) ... : humbleone
• I just want more classic rock : rosewood
• wilco : arizona bay
• Muse and Pink Floyd would be my top choices. : Vincent Grayson
• Smashing Pumpkins : kallanta
• I really want one that will never get made: Guitar Hero: Queensryche : Herse00

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• * will do the same thing in areas with aggressive competition. : liqker
• Can't speak for G-boro, but I'm about an hour east in Raleigh and I can say that TWC pretty much dominate... : kainen1
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  "ooooh" 100GB a month! that's so much. oh wait, I shifted 83GB in one fucking day last week, 100GB/mon... : Toraz Chryx
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    Yea same here. It would seriously curb my linux distro torrenting I do. : liqker
    • Ever set up a PC for someone and had them pass over their steam details and say "Download everything on t... : Toraz Chryx
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    you're probably the kind of customer they don't really care if they lose though. People that download tha... : aeg1x
    • Yeah. That's high even for Shackers, and I bet we're all pretty atypical customers. : rock elf
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      Until more people start using Hulu, etc. It's coming, and that is the direction things are going. I can... : Freon
      • right, that's why they're introducing the caps. Demand has outpaced their capacity to provide the bandwid... : aeg1x
      • Time Warner Cable is a television company primarily. They make a ton of money selling you cable packages ... : Schnapple
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  light users = 1GB a month? are they kidding? : edgewise
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    Not even clear that you would need broadband if you do so little. : delataur
    • There's a market for a very low tier like that. Mostly for old folks who just hop online to check e-mail... : liqker
  • I think a person would easily exceed that if they simply left their computer on all the time, even if the... : riptyde
• They are going to have to get in-line with Comcast's 250GB cap or I think congress is going to come down ... : mancide
• I'm in Rochester. We have Time Warner and the local telco (Frontier). That's it. Frontier, from what I... : Arcanum
• lol, it's like they're using plans available here as a template : aeg1x
• wow - double the cost of comcast to get near it's 250gb limit. : OMGzImBurning
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  Seriously? Does it really cost them more if I download more? I don't get it. To me it just looks like gr... : g0nk
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    people own the pipes that data travels down and they charge for it by volume : aeg1x
    • What about the trucks? : CapnChaos
  • It is basically greed. Even if they wanted to charge more to heavy users to cover increased bandwidth us... : Arcanum
  • It's a little bit about more usage that costs them more. It's partly about increased usage breeds infrast... : mancide
  • it's the streaming movies/tv shows that is causing this. They want you to watch these shows on tv with th... : wtf242
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    yes, it obviously does i mean is this even a question : Yanks
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      To expand on this, at each node and trunk there is a certain level of bandwidth that gets doled out to th... : Yanks
      • There also is the greed factor, the communications industry is essentially an oligopoly and if they are a... : Yanks
      • Wow, suddenly I am much fonder of Comcast... : rudds
      • Relatively speaking, the upgrade to DOCSIS 3 isn't that expensive, about $20 per household from the ars a... : rosewood
      • the TWC people mentioned DOCSIS 3.0 in the statement! : Postal
      • Wait. So, how does this imply that downloading more content costs cable providers more money? : Danny5225
  • Sure, but not $1/GB. Not even close. I'm not an expert, but from my limited reading I think it is penn... : Freon
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    It's cable, a shitty and outdated standard. They are doing this because their service only gets worse th... : midgetherder
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      Not really at all. Despite DOCSIS 1 being a outdated standard, it costs the cable companies fractions of ... : Yanks
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        Here's a little excerpt from a NYT article about this: Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in t : Yanks
        • Holy shit that is ugly. Thanks for the info. But TW is on DOCSIS 1 from what you wrote before, so m... : midgetherder
  • It's all about advertising as it's the main method of offsetting the costs of television production and d... : dedgecko
  • Yes, and that's also why text messages are $0.20 a pop unless you buy into a plan. : Ride-My-Rocket
• This would put a dent in my on-line backup use :( : Spoetzl
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  In North Austin I am surrounded by people stuck with TW, but luckily my little apartment complex is solel... : mwasher
  • of course I'll probably have moved out by then.... hmmm : mwasher
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  Ridiculous. It doesn't seem like this should be legal since the Internet has become such a large part of ... : godwit
  • of course. earthlink just resells time warner. : wtf242
• Thankfully there is competition in my area. No caps and ridiculous speeds ahoy. : ant_hillbilly
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  Stop getting your internet from a company that also sells a service that competes with internet services. : NexusOne
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    we have no choice. they enter these contracts with builders that say TWC will lay the cable infrastructu... : biskits
    • apartment living is fucked period. I get bare copper DSL to an independent ISP. No filtering, no throttli... : NexusOne
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  Austin update: My friend told me they've moved back the process to September for our market. This is pro... : biskits
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    the article in the OP says October : mwasher
    • my bad. october. : biskits
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    Once they implement that plan, I am switching to AT&T Uverse. : CrustaR
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      AT&T has already verified plans to roll out their own tiered charging structure after TWC. : biskits
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        Wait, so they are capping as well? :[ : CrustaR
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          yes. : biskits
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            Wow, that's messed up. I guess we're hosed in Austin. : CrustaR
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              Grande Cable has no caps and no plans for caps! : Athlon7
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                http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19645425#itemanchor_19645425 : biskits
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                  strange, Grande informed me by mail that there are no plans to have caps / tiered bandwidth : mwasher
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                    I'm not sure if I can use Grande at my apartment. :[ I asked my apartment complex who I can use when I m... : CrustaR
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                      Aparentment complexes can't mandate service like that. They can try to, but push them on it. : rosewood
                      • you ain't getting service from a company who has no infrastructure in your building and the building owne... : plat2on1
      • Yes but the existence of both in one market = competition and that at least gives me the option of pickin... : WhatIsThisFor
• Caps have been here a while. A lot of them have different peak and off-peak monthly caps (30GB/300GB is q... : rock elf
• I cannot reconcile with the concept of download limits. To me, the broadband age guaranteed a couple of t... : Marrbe
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  Those are horrible rates. $1/GB is highway robbery. 100GB is nothing, especially with Netflix streami... : Freon
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    lol... the biggest ISP in the country here charges $150 AUD per GB for excess usage. : aeg1x
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      Gawd, that's insane! : CrustaR
      • yeah it's retarded. Most ISPs here offer speed capping rather than excess usage charges though. My connec... : aeg1x
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  This better not catch on. I hope that enough people cancel to discourage this going any further. : freakynipples69
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    yeah but see cancelling and switching to another provider just puts extra load on the new provider, becau... : aeg1x
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      yeah but load isn't a problem, they're not raising prices because of load any more than cable tv raises p... : Luminair
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        There's kind of a difference between the two... : walker270
        • not enough to make a difference in the comparison : Luminair
  • there's absolutely no competition where i live. It's Time Warner or nothing : wtf242
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  Someone needs to step in and shut this down right now. If the feds can't tell this is obviously an anti... : hawkeye
  • they're so deep in the FCC's pockets they may as well conduct a prostate exam while they're in there. : biskits
• Thankfully I live in an area of high competition for bandwidth, so I am not particularly worried unless V... : Yanks
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  they wont do that in socal - FIOS is a strong competition already, and they'd lose people in droves. : epit
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    If FIOS is available in your neighborhood. If it's not then you're hosed. And the AT&T competitor, U-V... : Schnapple
    • FIOS will never cap!!! Dont speak of such blasphemy. : ant_hillbilly
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  Don't let TW fuck you in the ass, guys. Find new providers if you can! That's the only way they will reve... : silent prophet
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    They're trying this out in markets where there are no other reasonable providers. Markets where they have... : Schnapple
    • Yeah, I figured as much. I live in a Comcast monopolized area, so I feel you guys. :( : silent prophet
• So when can I file my lawsuit against every website that servers me bandwidth wasting ads? Since I'll be... : Jimbo Ro
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  so when are they gonna roll out tiered cable television usage? pay by the hour TV!!! : mwasher
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    on a related note if a la carte packages existed for tv channels I would fucking love it since I pay 100/... : Yanks
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      but then a lot of the niche channels would go out of business. : wtf242
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        I know, and that's why it will never happen but goddamn I pay like 110/mo for cable tv and it's goddamn r... : Yanks
        • I'm quite happy without tv service. : terath
    • They need to offer HD packages. Pay for the HD channels only. They are the only channels I watch now. ... : ant_hillbilly
    • Call the FCC and your congress people and voice your opinions. There are laws in the works that will ena... : liqker
    • If we assume that cable companies will want the revenue to stay the same, then the cost for each channel ... : Bold
  • Yep. If anything, if this move comes to my area (god I hope not), I will immediately drop my television s... : theangrywaffles
  • I'd be fine with this but it would have to be all-or-nothing like I said below. No bullshit $50/month PL... : DinK
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  http://stopthecap.com/2009/04/10/why-is-time-warner-saying-costs-increasing-to-consumers-but-decreasing-t... : joekamel
  • lol High-speed data costs decreased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2008 primarily d : mwasher
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    its the same thing as cell phone and wow subscriptions. they're all ripping you off because maintaining ... : Luminair
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      cell phones 'maintain the network' is not a fixed cost. Cell phone companies are constantly building more... : hirez
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        text messages cost $0 for the cell companies yet they are charged for on a per use basis... when someone ... : retarded talking dinosaur
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          but network upkeep, paying people to support and run the network, paying for customer care, etc - that al... : hirez
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            Text Messaging incurs no additional cost to the companies beyond what their normal plan costs. : TreMetal
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              exactly. if text messaging was thrown out the window tomorrow. there would be virtually no savings benefi... : retarded talking dinosaur
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                sure there would. they wouldnt have to staff as many people to answer billing questions, or 'how do I sen... : hirez
                • fixed cost. sending 100000 text messages costs them no more than 1 text message. : retarded talking dinosaur
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        in this case what people mean by fixed cost is that the network costs a fixed amount of money to operate ... : Luminair
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          but radios & cell towers have fixed capacities. so you always need to build new ones, add/move radios, ad... : hirez
          • i meant limited capacities. : hirez
          • I know what you're saying (the cost isn't fixed as the max capacity increases), but thats not what people... : Luminair
      • One thing to keep in mind is that cell phone companies often finance their service expansions via the fun... : riptyde
    • the government needs to work to lower the cost of entry to the market. increased competition will stop th... : retarded talking dinosaur
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  I love how in the world of technology and information, it's the people who provide the essential link to ... : DinK
  • It's what happens in any monopoly situation. Having a monopoly causes a company to focus on improving pr... : DianeOfTheMoon
• This stupid hybrid shit is insulting. If they want to be a fully-metered utility then that's fine, but t... : DinK
• well in rochester there is only dsl offered otherwise... and the speeds just dont compare, so i would say... : papaskot
• haha, good thing i'm moving away from rochester soon! : elosorojo
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  this problem is related to you and the government more than just private business decisions. the interne... : Luminair
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    ridiculous. private businesses are often better. UPS and Fedex are much better than USPS. It really depen... : retarded talking dinosaur
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      and what about when they're not? : Luminair
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        there's no saying it won't be better in the future. free markets change. the problem is, once you governm... : retarded talking dinosaur
        • not good enough. the national service needs to be at a certain level for the people of the nation. if i... : Luminair
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          yes but in this case its fcc created monopolies, not free market. : papaskot
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            so in a way the government is already making it mediocre and sucky? : retarded talking dinosaur
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              right because they made a monopoly, and now the private company knows it can do whatever the fuck it want... : papaskot
              • and this is precisely the problem. there needs to be more competition. verizon has shown what can be done... : retarded talking dinosaur
      • They can go under or be replaced. This is NOT the case with the government. : DinK
    • USPS is far better for mailing a package than UPS, imo. : riptyde
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      usps isnt really a good example here, as they're not necessarily gov't owned...they kind of straddle the ... : papaskot
      • It's always going to be hard to find good examples of private competition for government services. Usuall... : magila
• on a side note to TW, they just upped the cost of Turbo by two bucks. I love how that works, they just s... : smacknca
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  Wow. I just realized how thankful I should be to have Comcast : Cihte
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    That's like saying you are grateful to have your foot cut off because the other guy got his balls cut off... : riptyde
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      well with that choice, you would be grateful right? : papaskot
      • I'd rather have my foot :( : SqueegyTBS
    • I could deal without a foot as long as my balls were intact. granted neither are preferred, but if I had ... : zerog83
• I just wrote them a nice little letter. Probably won't do anything, but perhaps if they get enough of th... : WhatIsThisFor
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  I don't understand how this shit is allowed to happen. :( I mean... I understand HOW, but it's just mind-... : Marlin
  • I think wireless internet will free us all from this shit. It's just going to take 5 to 10 years before ... : WhatIsThisFor
• tehehe we can easily fit terabytes of terabytes of data onto our hard drives, it doesn't take a genius to... : scorpiusman
• In other news DSL subscriptions soar. : timaste
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  Rochester, NY always gets fucked :(. : quadeh
  • It's a huge test market for all kinds of stuff. I found that pretty odd when I lived there. : FormerHPB
• rogers does this here already but with fewer cap options. we have a 95GB cap that we go over every month... : dantastic
• gordon gecko is laughing like a motherucker right now. : anthonybean
• See this; http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19648240#itemanchor_19648240 : Visceral Monkey

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• tetris : qwpeoriu
• Tetris : rosewood
• Only one? I should get to choose at least one from each genre. : Marrbe
• Civilization IV : Goncyn
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  How about best game that nobody played? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Combat : exigence7
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    And if anybody has a brain, they'll make a Wii version. : exigence7
    • I would buy this so hard. : eugthinks
• Anachronox is still one of my favorites ever : sparkly
• Ultima 7, hopefully one day there will be a game that changes my view. Deus Ex & Torment came close thoug... : razorblade79
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  Quake 2 Multiplayer :) : pun][sher
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    I would say Quakeworld. So many hours logged in RA and 3wave CTF that I couldn't quote a number if I trie... : thecray
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      RA2, LMCTF, DM.. : pun][sher
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        The only multiplayer quake2 I played was Action Quake 2, and I played that A LOT, but QW still trumps it.... : thecray
        • Oooh Action Quake 2 was fucking awesome. I agree Quake 1 on my 33.6k modem rocked, but the amount of mods... : pun][sher
      • LMCTF on VK Servers FTMFW. : PlanetPerfecto
  • marry me : gokart.
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  Oh man, so many to choose from. I mean, there's Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing for PC, Superman 64 for N6... : roushimsx
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    oh a serious note, why SSX Tricky over SSX 3? I'm not familiar with the franchise other than remember... : roushimsx
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      Probably because they removed Eddie for SSX3, if I recall. Also theme song. : AlexW1203
      • when the theme song was gone for ssx3 that removed about half the fun for me :( : xsoulbrothax
• 1. Civilization 2. Dungeon Master 3. A lot of very good games : guigr
• if you're using a "hooked" metric, i've probably sunk more hours into quake 3 than i care to admit. afte... : dopeman
• Quake 2 multiplayer for me? God I would love to find a great server like Aftershock, which I played on... : edge198
• Quake2 multiplayer : Rigg5
• Grim Fandango for PC, and Super Metroid for consoles. : Helios150
• SimCity 2000, Civ (2? IV? it is hard to choose) Wolfenstein 3D. Those are the ones i played the shit out ... : dahanese
• I remember a time in my life were I only played doom and its mods for probably close to a year. The only... : wellesraphael
• Jagged Alliance 2 : prokat
• Morrowind for PC.... Seriously, I would be here all day if I had to pick more than one. : bitter ego
• My Brute : sublime
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  Quake World : Colleton
  • Yep : chungathebunga
• I simply can't decide. I love video games! ...or hate them. Sometimes I'm not sure. : Orange Pylon
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  Doom ][, and Super Metroid are neck and neck for me. Dark horse is Castlevania IV. : owly
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    Doom/Doom 2 for me as well. I guess the edge goes to Doom 2 because of recent multiplayer developments, w... : jet-poop
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      Recent multiplayer developments? : Chod
      • Not extremely recent, but in the last year or two, the skulltag port (which is a branch off of gzdoom) ha... : jet-poop
• Speaking of RE4 now that I'm nearing the end of RE5 I'm confident in saying it's every bit as good as RE4... : NastyJack
• Fallout : ass-street
• best game ever? a game I'd play when i'm marooned somewhere.... World of Warcraft : TPSReport
• XCOM is up there : bolneze
• TIE Fighter. : cptn.peachfuzz
• Easy. Deus Ex. : Modica Sol Solis
• Chrono Trigger : tcxsnoop
• Thief II or Deus Ex. But it's a hard choice for just one. Tons of awesome games out there. : Conan
• Final Fantasy Tactics : kallanta
• Ocarina of Time would be it for me. It's one of the only games I can start again and just play for hours... : naios
• Hellgate London : SigENeaT
• Deus Ex. Nobody has made a game where the player can make small, transparent choices that actually feel l... : BlackCat9
• Doom ][, for the major impact it had in my life/career's direction, plus it's still a fun game all these ... : Frozen Pixel
• Half-life, so revolutionary in sp and spawned titanic mods : filthysock
• Starcraft, a close 2nd would be BioShock : .Jayson
• God so hard but QuakeWorld is the currently hotty for me : timaste
• Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue : DrWaffles
• i should probably play re4. : podizzle

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  this clan is full :( : ass-street
  • More slots open. : godhatingatheist
• http://nevicata.mybrute.com Feel free to beat me up. : nevicata
• already full : zerog83
• http://ass-street.mybrute.com/ : ass-street
• need a new non-fgts clan : dissembler
• http://conan-dan.mybrute.com I am unstoppable : conandan
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  clan is full :( : kikilupo
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    It's not full. There are a ton of people wanting to get in and once that list maxes out, it says the cla... : godhatingatheist
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      this man speaks the truth. : ass-street
      • Added. : godhatingatheist
• http://glomain.mybrute.com/ : Psigun
• Joined the clan, I'm still resting but I'm almost at level 3 : melkore
• http://jerusahat.mybrute.com (my chap is as dangerous as a sack of kittens) : Balboa
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  Become my pupil join my Harem! http://caliya.mybrute.com : Crimsonbeak
  • damn you just owned stallion dong : ass-street
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  what the fuck is the mother fucking password! : zerog83
  • never mind I'm retarded : zerog83
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  http://poor-yurik.mybrute.com COME GET SOME, BITCHES. : Poor Yurik
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    MANY FALL TO MY IRON FIST. : Poor Yurik
    • haha, this post has opened a small tear in the fabric of gay time reality. welcome my 2 new pupils! : Poor Yurik
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  Clan acceptance is limited to a minimum of level 4 at this point. We have plenty of 3s and 2s. : godhatingatheist
  • haha like we have any control over our level. I made one yesterday, played my 6 fights and I'm sitting at... : Slowtreme
• http://amikaboshi.mybrute.com/ FEAR ME. Bwahahaha : AMikaboshi
• http://lao-tzu.mybrute.com Fight me I dare you... please don't. : cheeseman162
• http://trozshack.mybrute.com Come get some! : TroZ
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  it wont let me join your clan :( http://killer-ape.mybrute.com : sKetchflow
  • aaahh two dogs : ass-street
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    Try again. : godhatingatheist
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      Might be that I have to let my guy rest before hand or something. It just takes me back to the cell when... : sKetchflow
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        Weird. The request should show up regardless. : godhatingatheist
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          worked that time. says I'm pending : sKetchflow
          • Gotcha. :) : godhatingatheist
• http://unpossibly.mybrute.com fight me i need experience \= : shyguy74
• http://whacky-whack.mybrute.com : tinfoilhatter
• Just joined the clan : dudehoyt
• http://mtgdoofy.mybrute.com/ : mtgDoofy
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  brainsick111.mybrute.com my guy sucks : bRAINsick
  • err http://brainsick111.mybrute.com : bRAINsick
• http://oilfield-outlaw.mybrute.com/ : WadeMcLain
• http://tremetal.mybrute.com come defeat me. :[ : TreMetal
• BRING IT, BITCHES! http://zuffdaddy.mybrute.com : zdiddy85
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  dun dun dun http://sirsnuffles.mybrute.com/ : Snuffles-
  • hey, that pitchfork weapon is pretty badass. : Snuffles-
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  why can't i fight? it's been way more than eight hours since my last battle : EvilDolemite
  • 8 hours? I think it's actually a full day! : godhatingatheist
• http://dianeofthemoon.mybrute.com : DianeOfTheMoon
• http://don-juan-the-man.mybrute.com Don Juan is destroying. : braaains
• http://marx4123.mybrute.com I will spear you to death. : okhelosir
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  http://liqk3r.mybrute.com : liqker
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    undefeated so far thanks to my pet scootypuff sr. : liqker
    • Pets rock. Especially the wolf. : godhatingatheist
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    Wow my brute went postal on your ass. I think you got only one hit in! http://crapby.mybrute.com ... : Duck0Death
    • you can link replays http://crapby.mybrute.com/fight/19267808 : Slowtreme
• http://mmmmmoo.mybrute.com I wish I customized the appearance because I don't really care for his current... : Mmmmmoo
• http://icomeinpeacesn.mybrute.com : IcomeINpeace
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  Apparently someone isn't happy with my posts, so they chose to tell me anonymously on the mybrute site by... : godhatingatheist
  • hey, i got a pupil like that too :D : Snuffles-
  • hahahaha : Megara9
  • you give yourself too much credit : MikkleThePickle
  • Somebody created disgustingTranny as a pupil for me. :D : DianeOfTheMoon
  • That's funny, cause even if someone told you on the shack they hated you, they would still be anonymous. : skitzo
  • INTERNETS! : DonkeyPopsicle
  • The last one is my favorite. : freshyk
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    To be fair, your username is the Internet equivalent of tattooing FUCK YOU on your forehead. : pupismyname
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      i thought it was supposed to be ironic : ass-street
      • Yea, kind of hard to hate something that you do not think exists : aggressor
    • Yeah I'm an atheist and it still comes off that way. : OverloadUT
  • dude don't apologize for your beliefs or what you don't believe in. : prime8
  • ive got one guy that apparently is not too happy with my character's awesome whip : dantastic
• http://kikilupo.mybrute.com Somebody be my pupil :( : kikilupo
• http://imageomega.mybrute.com/ : ImageOmega
• Jorge Badman signing up for duty -> : cltcprd
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  http://godhatingfaggot.mybrute.com/ : dantastic
  • i dont know how to join the group : dantastic
• http://jorge-badman.mybrute.com/ : cltcprd
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  clan is full. =( : Pacalon
  • http://pacalon.mybrute.com/ : Pacalon
• http://digitallove.mybrute.com i've been posting this shit up for the past 3 days =/ : Break
• Fuck, I just lost my first fight. I was 10-0 : Phreakin
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  The grey fox animal thing is a killer when you're low level. 10-15 damage hits multiple times in a singl... : scythide
  • http://makewolf.mybrute.com/fight/19581431 My bears WALK UP IN THIS SHIT : Slowtreme
• Somebody already took 'dognose' :( : dognose
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  Is there anyway to choose how stats get distributed on level up or is it a slightly more interactive prog... : alias
  • Nope, random : Githyanki
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  I dont get it - its just automatic? : bolneze
  • Whats the point of this pyramid scheme thing? I dont even see any ads on the site. Noscript did catch som... : bolneze
  • Seems the stats and items you get when you start are random? And you can be a pupil of more than one play... : bolneze

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  is it released yet >:( it looks so awesome. I want to touch your man-bits : pukerat
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    Only half of those buttons actually work right now. The release after the one Apple is neglecting right ... : SqueegyTBS
    • hot : derelict515
    • Push for SM's would be... ridiculous... ly awesome. : spazzium
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      I'd love Push for new posts to a thread I flag : OverloadUT
      • This would be awesome. : Mmmmmoo
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      Are all of these features going to be through your API? : OverloadUT
      • Yes, eventually. : SqueegyTBS
    • I think I just came : prime8
    • anything you need to make the shackmark integration better just let me know. i'm looking at redoing the c... : erotic sock
• Holy shit. Comment search on iPhone? FUCK YEAH : dmason
• Holy shit holy shit holy shit. : spazzium
• I JUST JIZZED IN MY PANTS : g0nk
• god damn it... your gonna make me buy an iPhone aren't you. :( : Shadowdane
• hot! : Mmmmmoo
• stories belongs under messages (or latest chatty) : manero
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  not to piss everyone off, but you should charge 99 cents for this thing. I use the shit out of my chatty ... : Antilles_Prime
  • every thread he says to buy his other game just buy that : azenmaster
  • I'm pretty sure he has a Paypal button, and he also has a game you can buy. : Serpico74
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    If you want to support him, buy VOID : OverloadUT
    • I can only buy it once. :( : BlackCat9
    • ^^^ : Mmmmmoo
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    Wouldn't piss me off. It's totally worth it. : dmason
    • Ah, I should read first. I guess I'll buy Void. : dmason
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    Shit, I'd pay $9.99 for it. : g0nk
    • I'd pay up to $10 as well. : lookitzpancakes
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    You want to pay me for this? Click here: http://aidswalksanfran2009.kintera.org/alexwayne : SqueegyTBS
    • Enjoy your AIDS! walk : BlackCat9
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      Is that really you? : Chod
      • lol, yes it is. : SqueegyTBS
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  Can it crash less? Please? Don't hurt me. : Robotic Puppy Eater
  • 2.0 should take care of that apparently : derelict515
  • Once I moved to firmware 2.2.1 and updated Lc.app, it stopped crashing so frequently. : doomed
  • Yeah. The new version is far more stable. : SqueegyTBS
• damnit, iphones are still going for $450+ even 2nd hand here. i want one, but they're so f'n overpriced, ... : gokart.
• Looks fuckin great dude. LC2 is holding up... Nothing negative to report. Can't wait for the new features... : vile
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  That's odd. The battery is fully charged in that picture. When does that happen? : Rigg5
  • In the simulator baby! : boarder2
• What feed server should I be using? I'm using shackchatty.com, and it loads the headlines, but not the... : elwood00
• I can't wait for the third iteration of the iPhone this June. I'm finally gonna make the plunge. The rumo... : zuga
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  nice. ps, what's your iphone dev platform? macbook, MBP? just curious : TPSReport
  • 2.4 GHz MBP, non unibody : SqueegyTBS

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  EAST COAST: FULL I scanned in all the maps for our encounter last night and removed DM notes. I'm als... : zebosausamite
  • Here, I ganked this from the PHB: http://wadmaasi.shackspace.com/images/Slonn.jpg : Wadmaasi
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  STRAGLERS: Post here if you couldn't get into one of the other groups and are looking for others interest... : zebosausamite
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    I'm a stragler =( : sans-serif
    • Just don't be a bugbear strangler. I haet those fuckers ever since one killed our entire LFR party. : Wadmaasi
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    Yeah, post here. Give me a reason to write an adventure for you. : Goncyn
    • I guess I'll check again on Monday after the holiday? : Goncyn
  • I'm in. : kaewan
  • Still sort of interested, really depends on the time and stuff : locater16
  • Stragler here! : whore
  • Stragler here as well : gendail
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  CENTRAL: Do we want to set up a voice chat for next Monday so we can flesh a bit of this stuff out? Al... : c0bra
  • FR Player's. The races, classes, feats for FR are in the player's guide. : zebosausamite
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    forgotten realms players guide has genasi. : Sparticuse
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      for quick refrence, its a +2 to str, +2 int for all genasi and water genasi get +2 save vs ongoing damage... : Sparticuse
      • Okay that seems easy enough. : c0bra
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    So, what stuff do I need to download for the game on Monday? : Totenjaeger
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      Whoah whoah whoah. We're not playing on Monday. I'm nowhere near ready! I just thought we might want to c... : c0bra
      • Well, that's fine too since I would have had to rush up a character on Monday if we were. : Totenjaeger
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    Works for me. If need be I can set up a vent or TeakSpeak server. We could also use Steam voice chat I ... : melkore
    • Um any of those work. How 'bout you decide? : c0bra
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  WEST COASTing through life We are FULL The list of players is the following: OverloadUT (DM), hirez... : hbalce1
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    I decided I'm going to be a Striker (rogue). : hirez
    • Cool. : hbalce1
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  so is insider worth it? I'm pissed that the character builder is nerfed for the demo : hamachi
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    I like it for the content from the magazines. : c0bra
    • I mostly got it just for the CB, but some of the stuff in Dragon is pretty cool. : Wadmaasi
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    How is it nerfed? All of the published content is there, and it demos the full product by letting you bu... : Wadmaasi
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      Not all the content from PHB2 is there. : hbalce1
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        Really? Maybe they'll include it in the April update. I was pretty sure it all went in with the March u... : Wadmaasi
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          Avegner isn't in there at least. You can see what is in there by looking at the allowed sources. : hbalce1
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            I guess they did nerf the demo, then; PHB2 stuff is all in my version. Try redownloading the demo, it ... : Wadmaasi
            • this is where I'm at. the demo won't update to the lateset version withouth me paying for it, so I can't... : hamachi
      • Well that makes sense. Otherwise you could get a significant amount of content from the brand new books w... : OverloadUT
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    I think it's worth it. The character builder takes a lot of the tedium out of browsing for character buil : Goncyn
    • Yeah, I'm happy with it. I bought a year's subscription to get the discount and see how it pans out. I'... : zebosausamite
  • I'm pissed it won't actually work : graceofdragons
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  i'd like to request yall post summaries of the games that are played please ;) : e v i l
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    Podcasting ftw. : hbalce1
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      I think we Right Coasters plan to do both. : Wadmaasi
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        Well aren't you the over acheiver. I plan to pawn off this responsibility to someone else. : hbalce1
        • Don't get me wrong, I'm not doing both. =P : Wadmaasi
      • If you guys are interested, point me to the session podcasts, I'll write a dramatized narrative for your ... : silent prophet
• Tangent: Does anyone play on a NWN2 persistent world? It'd be cool to get a group going on one of the For... : Psigun
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  Why does this shit make my insides excited =x : SigENeaT
  • haha I was asking that last night, i read the PHB for 3 hours : graceofdragons

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• Looks very English. : Marrbe
• Not really, not with that expression at least. : hoov1185
• back to the future! : Klebold
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  Bonus points for something obvious? NO. : d fluke
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    It's not that obvious, I've never seen it! : marmite
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      *recordscratch* : d fluke
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        never seen the poster i mean!! : marmite
        • It's the main promotional shot of the movie, you MUST have seen it if you've seen the movie. : thecray
      • haha, the sound played perfectly in my head when i saw that : foo
• That poster is definitely back to the future : OverloadUT
• http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8137/hotornot.png : MikkleThePickle
• no : valael
• no : papaskot
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  most certainly not : kill9
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    i mean she's probably a 9 in the UK but a 4 over here : kill9
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      So, about a 5 in Scranton? : blearey
      • lol : SMBYourFather
      • hahah yes i just watched that today : kill9
      • Haha awesome : bolneze
• how does she fit food in such a tiny mouth? : eeeealmo
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  dude don't let her do anything sexual to you because you'll never hear the end of it from the shack : sparkly
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    (she looks like she has downs) : sparkly
    • lol : Phil
    • omg hahahahahah : Serpico74
    • bahaha : SigENeaT
• WHERE ARE ITS LIPS?! : lakren
• no : Phil
• donotwant : BongSlayerB
• I like redheads : crummynz
• she looks like the chick from dirty dancing : cpt_gloval
• If she wasn't making a dumb face she looks like she would be attractive. : ArcKnight
• No. Bonus items like a shirt can only help if shes kinda hot already. : bolneze
• No not at all. : orgcaptainnemo
• Nope. : pilgrimage
• Why is her lip upside down? : two50six
• http://nrvliving.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c36d553ef00e55399efed8833-320wi : pancake humper
• not hot. : deject
• Her mouth looks too small to accommodate even my modestly sized man meat. Would not do. : Mr.Finkster
• you're all a bunch of fucking failures, she's totally cute : Majuju
• beaker from sesame street : jane911
• Maybe with a different expression...but going by that alone? No. : aggressor
• she doesn't live in oxford by chance? : filthysock
• NEGATIVE : ass-street
• http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p31/ceruleansloveofmusic/cameronfrye.jpg : H@rvester
• eh, I've got no complaints, but I think that's a terrible picture : halophoenix
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  Don't listen to these guys, marmite. You either love it, or you hate it. : Snuffles-
  • LOL. : Jonathan
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  Is this a new meme? : sukabljat
  • no, we date only supermodels, and even those aren't good enough : RikiTiki2
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  Beaker? : zakazi
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    D o : : spiderfill
    • hahaha : cpt_gloval
    • lol, awesome. : zakazi
• She might be but it's really hard to tell with the goofy expression and horrible photo. : OverloadUT
• sort of want.jpg : PointlesS76
• looks like Celine Dion before the surgery. : mafu5150

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  wait, what Is this a reimagining or a do-over or what? : Deathlove
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    It's a do-over, basically. Same people, same director and everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva... : ArcKnight
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      In this version, Gendo shoots first and every Angel explodes with a ring explosion. : RomSteady
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        Gendo is who I aspire to be when I'm older. : ArcKnight
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          You aspire to accidentally transform your wife into a 25-story-tall monstrosity and have your hand yanked... : RomSteady
          • Yui planned to get sucked in! All I did was continue her cause :*( Also, hot naked 14 year old clone o... : ArcKnight
          • goddamn you, RomSteady : Majuju
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          "hey guys, I wanna grow up to be a creepy megalomaniac who is neglectful of his own child and sexually in : Majuju
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            Actually Gendo was boning Ritsuko, who is a fine piece of woman. Besides, Gendo is like the epitome of... : ArcKnight
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              It seems you and I have differing ideas of manliness! : Majuju
              • He doesn't let emotions get in the way like a woman would! : ArcKnight
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      Is Anno going to go batshit crazy again? : Deathlove
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        I dunno, but he's already changed several things that will have consequences down the line. : ArcKnight
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          Intriguing. I'll give it a shot, what the fuck. : Deathlove
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            Oh, wow, this came out last year? The pulse is far from me (though in this case that's probably for the b... : Deathlove
            • It's still not released Stateside >:( But yeah, I had no idea because I was incommunicado from Sep 200... : ArcKnight
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  I couldn't watch that series at all. The characters were so limp-spined it was unbearable. : Megara9
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    It's much better this go around. You might want to give this a shot. Shinji is...I wouldn't say better, b... : ArcKnight
    • hmmm... might give it a go. : Megara9
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  is it worth watching if you have never watched an episode of the original series? : Klebold
  • Yes. I actually like it better. This condenses the first 6 episodes I think. : ArcKnight
  • I think it is, the music and visuals are certainly awesome. : WhatIsThisFor
  • my feelings on it: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19649206#itemanchor_19649206 : MrBig0
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  I can't find a blu ray version. How are you seeing this in HD? : CrustaR
  • Wait, here's something: A Blu-ray Disc and a new DVD release titled "Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alon : CrustaR
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  Unfortunately from watching the first part, it feels really rushed compared to the actual series, with li... : MrBig0
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    I don't remember the first part of the series explaining much - you were pretty much as clueless as Shinj... : ArcKnight
    • Yeah, I remember watching the first five or six eps and thinking "get on with it already!" Also "More Mis : mn3m0n1c
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  Oh interesting how have I not heard of this yet? My only question is does it get all fucking weird and sh... : bolneze
  • No idea - it's just the first 6 episodes condensed. The next movie comes out in Japan in a few months I b... : ArcKnight
• I'm watching Darker than Black right now.. but maybe I'll end up watching this instead because of this po... : aldraek
• Awesome. I'll have to pick this up. It can't possibly have a worse ending than the first one. : S1ing B1ade
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  It has English subtitles yet? : quanta88
  • http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=4847 : miasma(&)
• I also thought it was pretty great. I liked the remastered soundtrack a lot too. : Yanks
• Yea I just watched it and thought it was awesome. More intense and faster paced. The animation and new so... : DarkDeus

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  what are you going to slap on there? OS X? : c_man_tmt
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    Yeah. I bought it as a cheap way to try my hand at iPhone programming. : ThomW
    • so, with the mini 9 and os x, that's around $500 total? Not too bad for entry to iphone dev. : TPSReport
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  Maybe if you didn't have such gigantic fingers this wouldn't be a problem!!! : Deathlove
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    No shit. I always get comments from people who are surprised at how nimble my fingers are on a standard ... : ThomW
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      shoulda picked up a Mini 10 ASUS 1000HE : Postal
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        is that the one to get? it seems more people recommend it : hamachi
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          I don't think it plays well with OSX though, so if that's your main reason, stick with the dell 9. : edgewise
          • I have a mac for mac stuff. I just want an xp/win7 thing for my wife to use around the house and at conf... : hamachi
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  I've read that the version of XP that ships with netbooks can't handle more than 1GB of RAM. Is that tru... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • really? : edgewise
  • I dont think so... I've never heard of this before. : c_man_tmt
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    It's false. Some netbooks have a hardware limitation of 1GB, but that's about it : aggressor
    • Ah, sweet. Hardware limitations are easy to get around -- simply don't buy the shit -- but I was concern... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • Nah, in fact Dell will now ship Mini 9's with 2GB in customization. I put a 2GB stick in mine for like $... : Tripps
  • only the mini10 not the mini9. and the 10 is getting an upgrade in 1 week : podizzle
  • That's laughable. It's just regular old XP Home. Nothing special about it. : deject
  • The license (because it is UMPC) doesn't allow Dell, or other manufacturers, to offer machines with MORE ... : sludge vohaul
  • I'd imagine 1 gb is plenty for anything that a netbook is capable of running. 512 is really where xp bec... : bipolar
  • the mini10 I bought has a hardware limitation of 1GB, I think it soldered to the board. I find it snappy... : .Jayson
• Ubuntu is great. I use it for work on my laptop, and I almost never feel the need to boot into Windows a... : afty
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  Every netbook I've tried has a completely useless keyboard. I can type faster on my iPhone than the Mini... : hawkeye
  • My MSI Wind has a somewhat full sized keyboard that is miles above and beyond other netbooks I've seen. ... : sludge vohaul
  • The HP Mini 1000 and Samsung NC10 keyboards are ~92% of a full size keyboard. I doubt you'd have trouble ... : derelict515
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  I put OSX on mine the other night. It runs flawlessly.. : Tripps
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    dammit i missed a meeting. this can happen? : freqq28
    • Read here.. http://mydellmini.com/forum/faqs-and-how-toʹs-f55.html : Tripps
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      Osx on netbooks is the rage right now, especially on the mini 9 because it runs 100 % and runs well. : Visceral Monkey
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        It finds and works with all the hardware? : WhatIsThisFor
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          yes, all the mini 9 hardware is fulling supported in OSX. : cltcprd
          • Fuck, I really should be saving money but... : WhatIsThisFor
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    Do you guys think the mini 10 will get full OSX love? : pgharavi
    • no, the hardware in it isn't supported. : Visceral Monkey
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      No. The Video GPU in the Mini 10 is actually worse than the 9 and it's not something that Apple using in... : cltcprd
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        oh wow, so the Mini 10 is gimped. Damn. 9" is just too small for me. : pgharavi
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          MSI Wind works 100% with OSX. : DarkWolf5
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            I thought wifi didn't work unless you switched it out? : cltcprd
            • Several months ago the wifi makers leaked OSX drivers. : DarkWolf5
      • worse for gaming, but better for video : .Jayson
  • is the touchpad multi touch? : ibrokn
• I have the same problem with ' on the mini9, I regularly catch enter instead of it. So I wind up posti... : Toraz Chryx
• I have the same problem with the ' :( : jessipoo
• whoa, for some reason i thought that the keyboard was full sized? : dopeman
• I've seen articles where a lot of people switch the ' and ; keys. I may do that yet. : cltcprd
• Anyone know the max res this thing can output? : mrvandelay
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  Did you get the $200 version? Throw OS X on it, and you'll never want to touch Ubuntu again. Maybe it's... : boarder2
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    did you put OSX on the 8gb SSD? : cltcprd
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      Yup, it was actually really easy. I used the EFI method with 2 USB drives and shrank it down like this: ... : boarder2
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        how much did you pay for your 32gb runcore? i've been thinking about doing something like this, but I ca... : mwasher
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          about $130 I think, it's been nearly 2 weeks and I don't think it's going to ship until some time next mo... : boarder2
          • I emailed them for an ETA and never received a response :( : cltcprd
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            So you spent 200 + harddrive and RAM upgraded + OSX (even more so if you didn't get it on that $200 deal)... : derelict515
            • mine's going to be about $350 all told :( $120 runcore, netbook was $200 shipped, OSX is free, RAM was $1... : xsoulbrothax
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              expensive netbook yes, but a cheap Mac :) $250 (tax + shipping for my mini 9 Dell needs to hurry up an : cltcprd
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                yeah true, although no multitouch would be sad, what do those have for output to LCDs? Just VGA or do som... : derelict515
                • I think the hardware supports multitouch, but you need drivers to do it :( VGA output on all of them I... : cltcprd
                • the mini 9's all have VGA, the mini10's have a hdmi out, but you cant run OSX on them : .Jayson
            • When all is said and done, $350 for a pretty quick, no moving parts computer that runs OS X natively. Ev... : boarder2
  • I didn't read any of the replies before I wrote mine... anyway, I have the same problem with the ' key, I... : boarder2
  • 8.04 was a bit of a fatty. They've been working on performance improvements. 9.04 comes out on April 23... : melkore
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  Anyone think a Mini 9 would run EvE??? : g0nk
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    I think it would. I ran EvE on my Pentium M 1.6 with 512mb of memory back in the day (2005). : cltcprd
    • OH FUCK. : g0nk