Evening Faylure

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  I don't think it's "too soon" as much as it's "not funny" : uncle slappy
  • That's pretty much how I feel, too. The joke is too obvious. : obiquatro
• That's hilarious. : woddemandred
• Fuck the haters. I think it's funny. : melt_core
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  I laughed, and that rarely happens with PA! : pyide
  • Same here : Phreakin
• It's funny. : randomposter
• That's fucking awesome. : Vincent Grayson
• Ha ha! That's awesome : locater16
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  i dont get it. Did someone kill themselves over rockband? : aeg1x
  • oh nirvana I get it : aeg1x
• I vote funny. : [7]kami
• No no, im pretty sure thats a funny one. : braaains
• It's 15 years ago.. who cares any more! I like it : biofrog
• First one I've laughed at in AGES. : batkiwi
• OH NO HOW DARE THEY INSULT NIRVANA~ : darkT
• I laughed. : chazums
• several levels of awesome : filthysock
• haha, awesome : moshman
• LEAVE KURT COBAIN ALONE :´( : woddemandred
• I laughed. : Bamii
• i laughed a lot : deadfish
• Best PA in a while. : peanut-
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  I liked when Patrice O'Neal told this joke on O&A years ago. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • I loved that guy. I haven't listened to the show in a couple years though. : valael
  • Years? But Rock Band is only about 18 months old :P : SiW.
• Brilliant! : Cliffzorz
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  why is there a bunch of McDonald's "M's" on the floor in the second panel? : g0nk
  • they are mc dowel golden arcs : CoRDS
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    Maybe it's difficult to draw packing shell peanut things, or it's another McIGN. : abrasion
    • I think it's just supposed to be the carpet. I was going to ask about the McFloor too. =( : DinK
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  does it come with a a Courtney love to pull the trigger? : CoRDS
  • No no no, it's El Duce who pulled the trigger. Courtney Love's just the one that pushed him in front of a : Schnapple
• Yeah, I laughed : asylumn
• Haha : r_picmip 5
• I like how they put the orange cap at the end of the barrel to make sure you know it's not real. : beanman101283
• What, too soon? : geedeck
• haha that one's actually funny. : skryte
• Very good. :P : DM7
• That's pretty good. : freakynipples69
• what the fuck? you mean that was a joke? there is no shot-gun peripheral? damnit! yes, i knew all alo : fuzzydamnit
• its a pretty good one, actually : grandmasterlee
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  hahaha, the kurt kablam edition : jonin
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    Let's not trigger a flame war. : r_picmip 5
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      The mods will be gunning for this subtread! : -efx-
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        They definitely have them in their sights. : Totenjaeger
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          Staring down the barrel of a lot of bad puns here. : randomposter
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            Stop giving them ammunition. : Wadmaasi
            • We need to reload the latesty chatty so we don't have to deal with this. : DM7
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              we're just going to have to bite the bullet : Omaha
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                these puns are a bit hit and miss : ghale
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                  This sub thread is a blast : pixelat3d
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                    Yes, it's going along at a good clip isn't it? : Rehevkor
                    • It's providing me with bursts of amusement. : Wadmaasi
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                  Come on guys, aim a little bit higher. : one random winner
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                    It seems like they are going off half cocked. : weaselmeister
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                      I can't gauge the funniness of this subthread : prime8
                      • Its humor is of a questionable... caliber? Seriously, how'd we miss that one? : Rehevkor
                    • This subthread makes me want to kill myself. : father_crown
                • They are covering quite a spread : Awun
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  If this is a bad suicide joke, what is a good one then? : pimpium
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    Courtney Love doing it : jbury
    • not a joke, the truth. : NeoMoose
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCn7Xk_6sb8 : elwood00
• hahahahaha : NeoMoose
• That's funny, and if you think it isn't you're a prude. : liqker
• hahahaha.. I am sick but i found that funny. : baron calamity
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  What low caliber posts : RikiTiki2
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    Aww meant for the subthread : RikiTiki2
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      your reply really missed the target :( : pukerat
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        Just a shot in the dark, but maybe this wouldn't happen if you didn't try to deflect people's fun. : hbalce1
        • He needs to readjust his sights to loftier goals. : Wadmaasi
• That one touched a nerve, I didn't like it. : re-verse
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  Deliberately posting here to avert another pun subthread. : dafugg
  • Damn you iPhone that's not where I pressed! : dafugg
• Thumbs up. : ieGod
• It's funny. Get over it. : ThomW
• So it's rockband ....with guns!! : MrPim
• different from their just plain bad jokes : dantastic
• Actually, it's a pretty good suicide joke and I'm not a fan of Penny Arcade. : Haku-Jin
• that's funny : Ziz
• Bwaaahahahahah! I like it. : TrickSh0t
• I laughed, good joke : Slowtreme

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581 Gliese 581 (pronounced /ˈɡliːzə/) wtf? : MagicWishMonkey
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    pronounced "pizza" : DonkeyPopsicle
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      All star systems should be named after pizza IMO : MagicWishMonkey
      • I got dibs on the Pepperoni Cluster : Home Nugget
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  Its only as far as our perceptions ...or something.. : theghostofsmdever
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    What? : tomservo
    • Dave's not here, maaan. : MagicWishMonkey
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      Its just a perception. Looking deep into out of space simply causes the reflecting god of ourselves to re... : theghostofsmdever
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        no. : Clay
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          but we could...or better yet it could just be a gigantic eye ball.. : theghostofsmdever
          • With a huge anus instead of a pupil? So it would be an eyeball that could crap out rainbows. That would b... : MagicWishMonkey
  • It's pretty far away dude. I hope FTL travel is possible at some point. : MagicWishMonkey
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  20 light years isn't that far in galactic terms. : Arcanum
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    It's impossibly far in human terms. : MagicWishMonkey
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      I don't think so. It's not inconceivable that some time in the not so distant future that we could build... : Arcanum
      • The video feed would be awful, 20 year lag : phate81
      • Those launching it might never know anything about it. The information retrieved could take another lifet... : ieGod
      • Where we're going we won't need eyes. : c0bra
    • Only for the idiots that don't travel through worm holes. : phate81
  • We should point stuff in that direction and start transmitting now. : Omaha
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  http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q306.html The nearest star is Proxima Centauri at a distance of 4.2 : podung
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    I doubt we will seriously start thinking about traveling between stars until technology advances to the p... : MagicWishMonkey
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      Don't ask me how I know this, but next year we'll be warned not to attempt landing on Europa. : Home Nugget
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        Or what? The ice squids will shoot ink at us? BRING IT ON BITCHES! WE HAVE CUTTLEFISH! : MagicWishMonkey
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          I don't think cuttlefish would be their biggest worry, lighting the liquid methane on fire would be, howe... : one random winner
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            I thought Europa was covered in thick sheets if ice? I thought Titan was the one with lakes of hydrocarbo... : MagicWishMonkey
            • Lets light a match on Titan and find out. : phate81
            • I'm probably the one flipping which one is which, thought it was Europa, ... on consulting wikipedia, ... : one random winner
            • They're getting hit by red-hot meteors and debris all the time, if they were going to ignite and burn, th... : ChibiJosh
    • Human's will die out well before we even get close to travelling the stars : Drewus
  • NM, traveling to Gilese is a much longer distance than Proxima Centauri so it would have more time to acc... : podung
  • Nah, they'd have to have some sort of dual engine system that had much faster initial speed up and slow-d... : one random winner
  • Or you could wait 1000 years and get there even faster! : walker270
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    There was a 50s sci-fi novel I read about a ship we sent to another star at close to the speed of light, ... : elwood00
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      I'd be pissed. : DarkWolf5
      • Time for the Stars by Heinlein http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068419211X : elwood00
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  in 50 years we'll have a telescope that can resolve images from that planet. in 51 years we'll have alien... : edgewise
  • Oh yea! Stick your finger in my thrusha! : MagicWishMonkey
  • The Japanese must be excited : Drewus

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• It takes some time with the undead. The key is to work together. Smokers need to hang back and try an... : Prozium
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  Can you gift me your copy if you're done with it? : ryuuseki
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    you can gift your game to someone else on Steam? : Old_Fart
    • In a perfect world... in a perfect world... : ryuuseki
• watch the other players when you're dead. you learn a lot of tips real quick. : ermac
• Ill give you the crash course to success. if you're boomer, boom asap so another boomer spawns. more bo... : Luminair
• my versus thoughts exactly... Survival mode is awesome : Thomas Hace
• As a hunter, hold down duck even after you make a leap, so after you miss you can leap again quickly. : sanchez
• lol. i'm no good either, but it's too fun to stop playing. : arcane_
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  Hunter and Smoker take finesse. They're not rushing-in types of classes. A good tactic for the Hunter is ... : Godhatesfatpeople
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    another good use for the smoker is to drag someone to or in front of the witch. This way the survivors sh... : Prozium
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      Yes, also be sure to annoy the Witch before the Survivors get there. You can set her off as the Boomer by... : Godhatesfatpeople
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        Does this work? I was told they stopped that. : dafugg
        • Still worked the other day...and why shouldn't it? It's not like I can force myself to explode as a boome... : Vincent Grayson
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          Why would they stop it? It's a legit tactic. : Godhatesfatpeople
          • You used to be able to make the Boomer explode with a console command, this is probably what dafugg is re... : Arctic Fox
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      this tactic also works with the alarmed cars. also, some people don't realize that the best thing a smoke... : Drakoniac
      • Love the pink car Smoker tactic :) : Godhatesfatpeople
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  To be fair, the scoring is weird. You can still be a really important part of your team and have a relati... : dmason
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    That may be true, but I still suck at it. I spend most of my time dead undead waiting to spawn. : Thresher
    • you can have a high score with one successful attack every 5 minutes. successful just means having zombi... : Luminair
  • yeah you should get bonus points for incapacitation I think : aeg1x
• i suck too, but in my defence i have only really just started playing and i pretty much only get to play ... : CoRDS
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  Long post! These assume you know how to play and you're looking for a little more strategy. Smokers s : ermac
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    As dumb as this sounds, I don't like trying to just kill one dude with an early tank, because that's no f... : Vincent Grayson
    • It's vs, why should you care what the survivors think? >:( : DM7
    • I think the idea is to make the round last much less than 20 minutes now that they're missing a teammate. : DinK
  • ^^ Nice tips here. I need to put more time in to Versus : nodebug
  • These are some good tips right here : Arctic Fox
  • thanks for this! : razorblade79
  • to add to this Boomers: Use suprise and the knockback from your explosion to send survivors over ledge... : nem00
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    Regarding Smokers ("Loners, survivors on a ledge without a rail") -- how does that work? Usually I only ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      He's talking about horizontal pulls off heights. : Lunatic Angelic
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        I know. But I thought there was a limit to how far smokers could pull vertically. : Ride-My-Rocket
        • Upwards, yes. Someone did an awesome pull on me last night on Dead Air #2, as I cleared the fence bisect : Lunatic Angelic
  • For smoker, you neglected to mention the clear advantage of horizontal > vertical pulls. A) You pull t : Lunatic Angelic
  • Also, for the boomer, it seems instinctual if you've been playing for a while, but DON'T SPAWN UNTIL THE : mysled
• survivors have it a little tougher now, which is good. overall, you need to decide as infected if you are... : Downforce
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  If Peggle is the game you go back to after Left 4 Dead, you probably should have never left. : ColonBlow1
  • screw that peggle rules : EvilDolemite

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• i like auslogics disk defrag : anthonybean
• I like O&O : Agrona
• O&O is pretty good. : byorn
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  JK Defrag (FREE) : Mondo
  • concur : smegmar
  • It's good and free. If you want your hand held, use the GUI version. : h0cake
• Intel Solid State Disk : DOOManiac
• the power of your mind : retarded talking dinosaur
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  perfectdisk? : MikkleThePickle
  • This ^ : zdiddy85
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  Perfectdisk. : five_percent
  • iawtp : riptyde
• Vista's default defrag. : Nali4Freedom
• real men use DiskEdit : someWayne
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  CCleaner guys have one now, it's pretty good. : sasoi
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    I being using Diskeeper for years now, then i noticed Defraggler, from the guys that made CCleaner. Is ac... : Darkfox76
    • it's what i've been using. The fact that the pagefile messes up my pretty little block graph thing ann... : Clay
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  If you're on Vista, don't bother. The Vista defragger keeps your disk optimized better than any third pa... : deject
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    http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_disk_defrag_difference : deject
    • That's pretty interesting, I wish they had tested O&O as well though : someWayne
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      http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/06/great-defrag-shootout-all.html that's the site of the guy ... : MikkleThePickle
      • He has NO FIGURES to back up his claim that defragging produces a measurable performance improvement. He ... : jcupitt
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  I use O&O : valael
  • It's awesome because after you set it up, you'll never know it's there. : valael
• Puran Defrag here. : Sapiens
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  i just go into dos and manually move files around until it feels right : ninjase
  • I print out the 1s and 0s, rearrange them and then fax them back into the hardrive : sikander
• O&O is good but I have no idea if it's the best. : datoo
• a drive the same size. Copy it all over then format the drive then copy it back : gyokuro
• http://www.defraggler.com/ has worked great for me, and it's free. : ramshot
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  O&O, Perfect Disk and Diskkeeper used to be good but once you've used something as clever as Ultimate def... : abrasion
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    http://members.iinet.net.au/~scottylans/UltimateDefragV1HelpFile.pdf : abrasion
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      that manual looks pretty awesome, but I'm tired and haven't slept yet. How hard is it to use? I like O&... : valael
      • It's really not that difficult, the manual is written for newbies, people who know their filesystems and ... : abrasion
  • Is the freeware version good or are all the decent features in the paid version? : DinK
  • hi abby :D : moe6
• back in the XP days I used Perfectdisk but since I moved to Vista a couple years ago, the built in schedu... : Smitty
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  For SSDs? Nothing, do not want. : Ride-My-Rocket
  • speaking of SSD's, I didn't know the drive was a 2.5"! I probably should've looked at that first. Now I n... : zerog83

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  I still cannot fathom why they're doing this when they stopped Rome for being "too expensive". : Vincent Grayson
  • Yeah, it is strange and especially in the current economic climate. : randomposter
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    I can't understand why they are doing it now when the god damn book series isn't even close to being done... : pyide
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      why can't you just be happy? : nakor_
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        I'll be happy when the second half to the book that came out three and half years ago is in my motherfuck... : pyide
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          It's getting a bit ridiculous, yes... : GreatGooglyMoogly
          • It's getting a bit ridiculous, yes... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      I can't understand why anyone would want to do this. : woddemandred
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        It won't be good, but at least HBO is doing it, and not Sam Raimi, so it probably couldn't get a better t... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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          I'm saying it because I hate the books. : woddemandred
          • Oh. But... ... hmmm. Does not compute. : GreatGooglyMoogly
          • Leave this city now. : -efx-
          • Feed him to The Hound! : Ride-My-Rocket
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      Well, if each season is one book (which I assume is about how it'd go), then even if the show does incred... : Vincent Grayson
      • each season should be one chapter : skryte
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      Well book 5 is coming out soon (hopefully). So maybe they're planning on cashing in on that. : dissembler
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        Book 5, coming soon since fall 2006!™ : pyide
        • "i wrote it already and just split it in half! It'll be out later this year!" <- what fat liars have said... : deadfish
    • Just be happy the Hobbit didn't lose all of his work to date in a PC crash last week. http://grrm.live... : Ride-My-Rocket
  • god damn it. that pissed me off. : valael
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    I had read that they, HBO, now realize they made a mistake and should have kept Rome going. Too bad th... : pimpium
    • Damn Straight!!!! : Totenjaeger
    • Yup. With Sopranos gone, the only reason I watched/subscribed to HBO was for Rome. >:( : DM7
    • Half their set burned down, didn't it? And wasn't it the most expensive set ever made? : GreatGooglyMoogly
• Freaking awesome. : randomposter
• HOLY SHIT : nakor_
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  Other things that have been made in Northern Ireland; 1. The Titanic. 2. The Delorian... : spdon
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    3. Braveheart. : randomposter
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      wait that might have been Southern : randomposter
      • Or might not have been Ireland at all. Just you know, throwing a third option out there : asylumn
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        i'm pretty sure it was made in scotland. : disembodied potato
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          lol, ok. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/locations : randomposter
          • I'm from Scotland originally, they basically priced themselves out of the market when it came to location... : randomposter
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  I can never read that guy's name here without mistaking it for George Broussard. : SiW.
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    I can't read that name without mistaking it for 'Fat Bastard Will Die Before He Finishes'. : Totenjaeger
    • Woah, steady, didn't they say DNF was 90% complete recently? ;) : randomposter
    • ^^This too is my fear. : Jenings
• Give it up guys, GRRM quit his day job as a writer to become a tugboat captain. : phate81
• Winter is coming... : c0bra
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  I am alone in thinking that The Song of Ice and Fire is bad story telling and bad fantasy? I'm not lookin... : Mad Jack McMad
  • Yea, pretty much alone. I'm not sure why you would think that it's bad story telling. Can you specify? : c0bra
  • if you can explain how maybe some people will agree with you? : lakren
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    I only made it like halfway through the first book and wanted to shoot myself in the face, but I hate fan... : Yanks
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      I hate fantasy as well but I loved A Game of Thrones. I'm about to start A Clash of Kings and I'm really... : Haku-Jin
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        This is so weird. ASOIAF is probably the LEAST fantastical series I've ever read. There's hardly any magi... : c0bra
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          That's what I like about it. : Haku-Jin
          • Right. I'm just confused by people who dislike it on the grounds that it is fantasy genre. : c0bra
  • Bad fantasy or low fantasy? It's not all wizards and magic like some other stories, and I actually like ... : zebosausamite
  • What don't you like about it? Not enough action or magic? : Haku-Jin
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    it's the only fantasy series I've ever liked precisely because it focuses so much on character and story,... : DonkeyPopsicle
    • And it still manages to be super fucking nerdy and 'spergian. But yeah, if you don't like GRRM you don't ... : SpaecKow
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    Yes, fgt. : loboca
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      RMR was channeling you last night while we played D&D : zebosausamite
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        Whos dice was he trying to jinx? : loboca
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          his own. : zebosausamite
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            I didn't roll any 1's, but I only scored two hits all night with my warlock. It was great. : Ride-My-Rocket
            • I suggest trying to channel my amazing skill and luck to the DMs dice. : loboca
• Time to order HBO : loboca

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• looks sweet * downloads * : Toraz Chryx
• That mod looks pretty bad ass, i might have to reinstall stalker for that. : RetroRedEyeJr
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  if i'm playing stalker the first time through w/ a 9800gt... what should i do? install this and play ... : nova_x
  • Install this mod for sure. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • I'm not sure, I just played with this big mod and it does change a lot of things! Some for the better, bu... : datoo
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  I wish they added some of the features from Oblivion Lost...like Artefact Transmutation. So awesome. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • agreed : zdiddy85
• Whoa, this looks amazing, STALKER is already a solid game, but some of the engine 'flaws' put me off the ... : MercFox1
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  They REALLY need to do something like this for Clear Sky. Game is pretty sweet...but REALLY buggy. : Rice-Rocketeer
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    Mods saved the first one. I've shelved C.S. until enough sweet mods come out. : IHATEDUST
    • most of the big modders (specially the guy who did OL) called it quits after they released S:CS in the sh... : zdiddy85
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  it removes "Get out of here, Stalker." That kind of sucks. : valael
  • it's an option is ZRP, which it looks like he just included entirely. You can leave that in there. : deject
• Cool, I'll have to try that. : ShoCon
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  Hmmm, I should grab this. The new textures look pretty sweet, and it includes ZRP. I just hope it doesn... : deject
  • It does use that HUD and I agree the vanilla HUD is better. : datoo
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  One of these days I really should play through the original... : boarder2
  • Have you only played Clear Sky? Because that is a sad state of affairs that you definitely should rectify... : datoo
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  UPDATE: I played STALKER Complete 2009 for about an hour and it is quite impressive. The guns sound much ... : datoo
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    I can kill all the guards at the bridge with the pistol, but I wouldn't say it's easy. : deject
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      Yeah they dropped llke flies. I stood behind a tree and was able to kill them all from a distance in less... : datoo
      • Well if it's more accurate, and you're aiming for headshots, they're gonna go down pretty fast. : zdiddy85
  • Thing about most of the aesthetic mods for SSOC is they are crazy about "bloom". I did a post about Tony' : zdiddy85
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  Nice, will install. Can you register STALKER on steam somehow? I have it on DVD. : nomaad
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    No you can only do that with valve games. : datoo
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      I did it with UT3, that may have been an exception though. : nomaad
      • Yeah I think there's a small list of games that allow that, but generally you have to buy the steam versi... : datoo
      • I know I did it with a few games, but I don't remember which.. : melt_core
    • not quite: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7480-WUSF-3601#which : deject
• Cool. : TaintedSyringe
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  A mod that would nerf the anomalies and the sudden deaths would make me play this game. : melt_core
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    What are the "sudden deaths"? Anomalies are generally pretty easy to avoid. : datoo
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      When you get to the lab and you die pretty much anywhere you go whitout any hints of what's dangerous and... : melt_core
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        you mean the monsters that throw stuff at you? : datoo
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          No! The invisible insta-kill anomalies! : melt_core
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            You walk down a corridor, then you die and the game goes WHOOPS, YOU WALKED INTO A FLAMETHROWING INSTA-KI : melt_core
            • lol yeah those can be annoying. life in the zone is not supposed to be easy! fortunately we have quicksav... : datoo
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              You should see a heat distortion in the air where those flame anomalies are. Use the bolts to throw ahead... : ShoCon
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                So that's what the bolts were used for...! : melt_core
                • LOLOLOLOL U SUCK!!!1111oneone : Rice-Rocketeer
                • I never once used the bolts... lol you cant walk around the entire world throwing a bolt every 5 feet. : chilln
              • Yeah. I was trying to remember what you were talking about, since they never gave me trouble. You can s... : valael
• Ah, I was looking for an excuse to re-install this game. I wonder, does anybody know what the mod scen... : Rotten Deadite