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  they got thrashed so hard they left early : kpxkrnjc
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    yeah it was pretty sad : lakren
    • I'm still crying :( : datoo
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  i know you're all itching to download a demo instead of a streaming video so ill wait a couple more minut... : DrFlammable
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    wow that was unbeliveable i just downloaded it 50 times to equal the number of demigod purchases i have d... : lakren
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      lakren my experience with demigod tonight has made me wish I took your advice. : Head Rush
      • come play dota right now. all of you. : Xanthos
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      Demigod is such a great game. : greh kleh
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        Maybe when you can actually play it. I spent 40 minutes looking for a game and sitting in a lobby. We... : Head Rush
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          yeah, I have had connection and lag problems as well. But I love it, nonetheless. I see the promise. Just... : greh kleh
          • Yeah, I'll definitely be willing to give it another shot in a few weeks. I definitely like the gameplay, ... : Head Rush
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      Seriosuly Lakren stop threadshitting in Drflammable's TF2 thread, it's just wrong. : dkrulz
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        god lakren always fucking shitting in MY threads what the fuck is wrong with you. please tell me more abo : Xanthos
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          Demigod is sweet, dude. It's fuckin' sweet. I play it constantly when I'm not at work. I could care less ... : greh kleh
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            man i need to buy one of drflammable's hundred copies because this game sounds awesome. also lakren pleas... : Xanthos
            • Watch out for the Queen of Stupid's(I think that's her official name) gay Thorn Shield or whatever that l... : greh kleh
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  who played and stuff : Chandler55
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    oh we had our stellar A-team show up me lakren datoo chepito harvester razzle dazzle : DrFlammable
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      I want to play with you guys sometime. I make a killer soldier and scout. : greh kleh
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        i hope you are serious cause we could use another scout. this entire thread was a joke, we got fucking ra... : DrFlammable
        • and duffman was fixing a nuclear reactor or something i dunno : DrFlammable
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          Yeah, I'm serious. I'll join you anyday. But I live in Korea so I will have to figure out/find out the sc... : greh kleh
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            well UGC is 930 pm US Eastern time (~2 hours ago) wednesday and we are signed up for STA which is sunday ... : DrFlammable
            • fuck. well I can't make it to either of those with my job I'm working those hours, since it's 14 hours ah... : greh kleh
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          get omnova to be a scout : Poooks
          • if he wants to play but he hasn't said anything : DrFlammable
        • Ugh, if it wasn't Wednesdays I'd totally throw down with you guys. : the_burd
        • I wasn't online. Right when I got home is when the match was just getting over. : dmason
  • we played against some scrub team i've never heard of before luetang or something : DrFlammable
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  :( LUE-Tang Krukar : you guys are really good, people talk about you all the time 3_3 DrFlammable : ... : Felraiser
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    hahahahaha yeah razzle that was really uncalled for!!! players on both sides were pretty much assholes : DrFlammable
    • they were shit talking us out of nowhere, so rude!!! : kpxkrnjc
  • hahaha : dmason
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    what i don't miss about clan matches : Audhuml4
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      that's weird, usually both teams don't type on public chat. at least i don't and when i do i don't say an... : DrFlammable
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        hahahah i don't believe this at all : kill9
        • Well, if he's talking about competitive teams in general, he's right. That sort of conversation is very, ... : Felraiser
        • which part? the last time i played in cevo and we were actually doing good neither team would ever type a... : DrFlammable
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  Wow, you guys got your asses handed to you :\ : ecclesio
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    yeah i think everyone pretty much gave up after the first fight where we killed one of theirs to our six. : DrFlammable
    • Yeah I was carrying the team there. : datoo
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  Well played sir! : FlamingGimp
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    dude if our teams scrimmed you would be in for a world of hurt!!!!!!!!from holding your gut laughing so m... : DrFlammable
    • Laughter is my biggest nemesis. : FlamingGimp
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  I hope i grow up to be just like you flammable. you have taught me so much. : Xanthos
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    dude if you ever need dota lessons just let me know. i'll give you a discount from my normal hourly rate ... : DrFlammable
    • holy fuck yes yes yes now. teach me the ways o master. then can we play demigod???? : Xanthos

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• games are for kids : spiderfill
• as much as i love playing video games, movies and especially books move me more emotionally (by a long sh... : qwpeoriu
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  The only time was in Mass Effect when I was like WTF at one point when something happened that I didn't w... : plunkymeadows
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    I thought both options were doable until the bitter end : Mondo
    • They are, but not with the way I played the game. : plunkymeadows
  • Same thing with me in Mass Effect. I liked the guy better but was trying to nail the chick :( : chungathebunga
• I think the interactivity of games destroys any chance for the required subtlety of storytelling and cohe... : Dave-A
• i felt bad for the german shepherds in red alert : mindshot
• Almost all games suck at handling drama. That said, for whatever reason when my favorite NPC ally in ... : roushimsx
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  I don't THINK games have reached the level of emotional impact set by armageddon, but I haven't played ev... : Luminair
  • i will make 800 feet. : mindshot
  • in this way you can consider games to have much lower emotional density than movies (and music) games ... : Luminair
  • Oh dear god, did you really use Armageddon as your example? : poindexter1985
• Nope. I will kill or try to kill anyone. I don't care when someone dies in a game at all, no matter who... : stump
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  I felt somewhat guilty of some of the things Saints Row 2 had you do. Some of the missions were just wron... : FirstPersonCooter
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    Oh and Deus Ex! At one point you had to kill someone on a plane for betrayal. I could not do it. I develo : FirstPersonCooter
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      I couldn't do it either. I ended up immediately turning on UNATCO and attacking Navarra, that stuck up bi : famine101
      • Sniper Rifle to the face, bitch! : deject
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        Hadda kill Anna Navarre. Though I despise Gunther even more for his rampant stupidity backed up by a hard... : destroy.all.monsters
        • Crap I need to figure out how to do the spoiler thing. Sorry if I screwed anyone up with this. I wish... : destroy.all.monsters
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  Planescape: Torment as evil. Good luck! : mem
  • At numerous points in Planescape: Torment for me. Also, to a much greater extent, the choice in Mass E... : poindexter1985
• After you kill an npc out of boredom it should flash to a cutscene in the near future with the npc's surv... : randomposter
• Jade Empire. The evil path was like really evil. : Pettytheft
• no, its a videogame. : Magus
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  Half Life 2 is the only game that can get me all emotional, I think Valve does a pretty amazing job of te... : jingletard
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    OMG. I swear there are 2 games out there that seem to pop up in any thread about games, HL2 and Deus Ex. ... : Pettytheft
    • Parts of the game are emotional to me because instead of just watching some character on the screen doing... : jingletard
    • end of episode 2 : g0rmanat0r
• When I was much younger I used to play evil-paths in any game that had them just to get the most out of t... : nakor_
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  Passage almost emotionally scarred me. I had to take a break and just clear my head. It almost prompted a... : Shadsy
  • well thats kind of depressing, thanks for that : Luminair
• I've felt moved by games, but never emotionally conflicted by any of those goofy morality choices. : Vincent Grayson
• Suikoden 1 and 2 are all sorts of emotionally fucked up. Suikoden 1 Alot of main characters can die, espe : Mondo
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  Zoning into Plane of Fear for the first time in EverQuest (and later on Plane of Hate when it opened)... ... : skizl
  • haha as a monk-puller there it still does. : Mondo
• I don't think games have attracted the top level storytelling/writing talent that other forms of entertai... : mnsnota
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  I jerked it one time to the new reporter clevage in command and conquer. It felt bad, and also...good. : massdev
  • Same here. j/k I didn't feel bad about it. ;D : DOOManiac
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKfbC-adSI : xjdrake32
• You couldn't have picked a better movie? : ErikTehRed
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  Yup. Most recently, in Mass Effect. I can't stand racists in real life because, well, living in Oklah : DOOManiac
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    Wrex would always take care of business. I used him when I needed combat on the team a lot more than I us... : Cheeziologist
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      But that xenophobic cunt shot him in the fucking back. >:( : DOOManiac
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        is this what happens on Virmire if you choose the "Shoot Him" option? You didn't have enough intimidate t : Cheeziologist
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          I didn't even get a choice, I was having a conversation w/ Wrex and she just came up and bam. : DOOManiac
          • Damn. That sucks. I really need to play through it again. for the 5th time : Ormsbee
          • I had full charm so no problems at all : Mondo
        • It happens if the conversation with Wrex goes on too long without coming to a resolution. : poindexter1985
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  I did in Deus Ex. : baconisgod
  • agree... I go all vengeance if Paul dies... people pay. : stygian_whisper
  • Same - where Paul tells you to go. That's hard. : destroy.all.monsters
• Tetris. I cry every time I fuck up a line just before getting a tetris :( : SolveChrist
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  Xenogears and Suikoden have some pretty gripping scenes. : jayacheess
  • Seconding this Xenogears post. : ArcKnight
• I felt cheated by Bioshock because I couldn't not kill Andrew Ryan. I was not happy as a slave. Then I ac... : drazz
• I can't play kotor on the evil path for some reason. probably because the way its written doesn't cate... : Toraz Chryx
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  Mass Effect came pretty close. When you had to decide which member of your team to let die. I ran throu : walker270
  • ^^^ IAWTP : esecasco
• I honestly feel a little bad when I play as an evil character in RPGs. Not like, "oh god I'm a horrible p... : thetangent
• Recently, the end of HL2 Episode 2 kind of left me in a daze for bit... also I got the "bad" ending of GT... : at0micgarden
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  The HL2 series, specifically HL2: Ep2. In Ep2 I became pretty attached to the surrounding characters and : Begawkiness
  • And if you're specifically asking about if I've ever been conflicted emotionally with one of those 'moral... : Begawkiness
  • I think the ending to HL2 Episode 2 was one of the most emotionally distressing events in any game. : ErikTehRed
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  Planescape: Torment - The moment I learned the truth behind the Nameless One and Morte's history. It was... : Feisty Cadaver
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    Sensorium: Longing. : mem
    • Was that the one with the memory of the Practical Incarnation together with D? If so, yeah. I wouldn'... : poindexter1985
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    Poor skull : Mondo
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      god damn it I'm still playing the game : pyros
      • Nothing was spoiled, chief. : Mondo
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  I've had emotional investments in a number of games, but Metal Gear Solid as a series stands out for me. ... : RevRaven
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    The end of MGS3 was so sad. :( : DOOManiac
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      Yes, yes it was. When Eva was going on about the truth about The Boss, it just hit me hard. I honestl... : RevRaven
      • The whole ending of that game is incredible. Also, climbing the ladder after beating the sniper boss haha... : mechanicalgrape
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    Man, the microwave tunnel in MGS4 was just...awesome. : Conan
    • Nothing matches that. It as as if EVERY game led up to THAT point. : pgharavi
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      I found it so difficult to do the button presses there. Was just shacking :(. : Malku
      • Shaking* Damn you shack... damn you... : Malku
    • That and then the final fight. I'd never been so invested in a single scene before. It was about 5 in t... : obiquatro
    • that was moving : g0rmanat0r
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  The ending of Fable 2. I loved that fucking dog, but could I really give up the lives of thousands for a : uncle slappy
  • lol I sure did : Begawkiness
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    Yeah, that choice was so much easier than it could of been. I don't think anyone mourned the loss of all ... : David Craddock
    • Yet another tag fail for today, but it doesn't really matter. : David Craddock
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  mafia was the only one for me for some reason : jane911
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    which part?! the betrayal or the ending : Mondo
    • the ending i predicted it too : jane911
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  ICO : tomservo
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    (not necessarily conflicted, more like attached) : tomservo
    • WELL THEN YOU'RE WRONG. Hey, wanna play L4D instead of studying for finals? : brickmatt
  • Agreed! : Tissen
  • yes, me too ::sob:: : jcupitt
• Far Cry 2, deciding between my buddies and the priest. Not conflicting per se, but emotionally unsettl : cptn.peachfuzz
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  SOTC - Maybe not conflicted but half way through I started to feel a bit depressed. : zakazi
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    That game felt, um, wrong? Like you were trying to accomplish a noble thing but had to do some dirty dee... : obiquatro
    • Yeah, that game seriously bums me out. The gameplay is fantastic, but stopping to think about what you'r... : ZTac
• I was pretty struck in Call of Duty 4 when you crawl out of the crashed helicopter and die and Price slid : the_burd
• SOTC, when Aggro "dies" That one moment made me want to own the end boss so fucking hard : Drewus
• Stealing from the widow in Thief III. I was so pissed it was required on Expert. : Conan
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  Aerith's death in FFVII was probally the most emotional thing i've experinced in a videogame... : megreedy
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    Hold on, I just started that game for the first time a week ago. You're fucking with me, right? : pgharavi
    • Don't let her hold on to your best items or Materia like I did. Also don't make her your best character. ... : DOOManiac
    • Totally agree. : legsbrogan
    • dude, the game's been out for 10+ years! : at0micgarden
  • fuck you : g0rmanat0r
  • Kind've a spoiler, but that was pretty sad (though not conflicting in any way). : poindexter1985
• Plenty of games get me emotional, especially games which have excellent sound tracks. I find movies seem... : SigENeaT
• fallout 3: the pitt. take the baby, dont take the baby! : radula
• Star Wars Republic Commando I was pretty pissed at the end when you have to abandon your squadmate on : mechanicalgrape
• In Soldier of Fortune I panicked and kept shooting a bad guy in the leg with my shotgun. I didn't realiz... : LilCrypto
• Hitman, when I'm debating between knocking out or killing an innocent bystander. pfft, yea right, they : NexusOne
• Shadows of the Colossus: pretty much the entire game. After killing hte first colossus I felt so awful w... : dopefish
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  RIP Companion Cube [♥] : famine101
  • For what its worth, I have to say GlaDOS is one of the best realized characters ever. : Conan
• SOTC. : abrasion
• I have many but I have to say on Twilight Princess when You and Midna are trying to get to the Princess : Malku
• Fallout, when I sold my Vault to stay alive and they made me into a mutant anyway. They showed a video of... : cineris
• Yeah, but that was a long time ago, by the Wing Commander Saga. This here pissed me off so much back ... : Marauder IIC
• Each time I killed a Colossus, I felt really bad for doing so :\ : Modica Sol Solis
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  See: Placescape: Torment and Mass Effect Those two did great jobs of it. Otherwise I don't really think ... : locater16
  • RE: Deus Ex and SotC came clsoe : locater16
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  Left 4 Dead Every time I kill a zombie I feel bad because I know that once they were normal people jus... : SockMonkeh
  • My problem with L4D, which is (mostly) gone these days, is that I empathize too much with the survivors i... : Lone Swordsman
• No. : dmason
• Every time I kill a zombie in L4D. : erotic sock
• Shadow of the Colossus. I think anyone who's beat the game knows what part I'm referring to. : Helter Skelter
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  SotC did it for me. When Agro was "killed" I wasn't sad, I was however incredibly upset that this asshole : ColoradoCNC
  • Oh, and Fallout 3. I was doing my best not to be a dick to anyone in the game since, quite honestly, I fe : ColoradoCNC
  • This. When Agro died I was shocked and loaded a previous savegame to see whether that could be averted. ... : zehh
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  KOTOR (not the 'twist') - when you're investigating a crime on the water planet where a 'good guy' is acc : bipolar
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    man i played that game right through and i remember almost nothing of it. : erotic sock
    • The quest was optional, and could easily be avoided, you can actually go to show that their were multiple... : one random winner
    • ....until you said that, neither do I. I'm slightly disturbed. : Scotty22
  • KOTOR for sure. Bastilla :-( : ezanga
  • that was an awesome level, the whole trial and everything....classic and memorable. : at0micgarden
• I'm not sure that's what you mean, but in Far Cry 2 when I had to choose between saving my buddies or sav... : melt_core
• No, I don't think I've ever been emotionally moved by a video game. On the other hand, video games ha... : peanut-
• I haven't been really emotionally conflicted during a game, but I've been emotional after finishing some ... : DinK
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  Chrono Trigger. Especially when the part came where we were in the future and found out what and how the... : CaptainSurly
  • Oh, but I didn't answer the question... emotionally conflicted? No. Emotionally involved? Most definit... : CaptainSurly
• Not really, I focus on the game mechanics and winning : kgargs
• Pac Man. When I would eat the power pellets and watching the ghosts run away in fear. It brought a tear i... : vtxrider80
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  dogmeat dying in FO1 is very sad for me. I always know he can't really make it to the end of the game bu... : ass-street
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    If you didn't reload every time he died you have no heart. : cdbeckman
    • Agreed. : poindexter1985
• Dreamfall - At the end, Zoe is put in a coma by that bitch Helena Chang. Zoe just basically save the wor : deject
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  Absolutely. Feeling emotionally conflicted is admittedly rare - lots of people have mentioned Torment and... : Arceihn
  • Oh, oh - Immortal Defence made me feel conflicted as hell by the end. Wonderful narrative. : Arceihn
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  Syberia did it for me. The Last Express immersed me so heavily that I found it emotional. I found bully p... : cdbeckman
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    OH, and SoTC : cdbeckman
    • The Longest Journey as well. I guess I'm a sucker for newer adventure games. : cdbeckman
• Agreeing with a few others in here, HL2:e2 got me pretty good, didn't see it coming at all. Also Shado... : desolate
• I can think of a few great examples (spoiler free): # Mass Effect, two particular scenarios where you're... : ZaldronGG
• SILENT HILL. 1, 2, 3, 4, Origins and Homecoming have fucked with my mind to the point where I can't play : SniperWolf22
• On a tangent I wonder if the Point Man would have been as hardcore about killing Fettel if he knew it was... : destroy.all.monsters

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  while I love the idea of new technology and energy efficiency I really despise it when people quote bulls : x4nth3
  • I've never had an incandescent last 1000 hours. The glue isn't rated for that, that's for sure. : ryuuseki
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    I would like to add: nothing against virus's post, I am interested in the technology and statistics and : x4nth3
    • I didn't realize they meant the LED draw itself. You win this match x4nth3. : buzzbat
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    Where did you get 50,000 hours as the lifespan? That Amazon page for the LED bulb says 35 years, which i... : skanky08
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      http://www.lemnislighting.com/en/pdf/pharox_LED_bulb.pdf http://www.lemnislighting.com/en/index.html : x4nth3
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        Hah, interesting. I wonder what is with the disconnect between the number in the pdf and the Amazon page.... : skanky08
        • '35 years' is probably a bullshit number based on an assumption about how many hours/day it will be used.... : JHelgie
        • they dont imagine that you will keep the light on constantly for every second for 35 years. They are poin... : Cheeziologist
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      Actually, if you use 35 years, that is 262000 hours, which comes out to $263 for incandescents (rated at ... : skanky08
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        that is why I based my calculations on the estimated life in hours of the bulb and not some analysts esti... : x4nth3
        • Raging optimism? : obiquatro
    • 35 years is over 300000 hours : Cheeziologist
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    I think everyone should have an LED flashlight that doesn't require any batteries in their house and car. : Kaiser
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      because this uses no batteries, ever... http://www.amazon.com/Wind-N-Go-07100-Flashlight/dp/B000G6QFWA/r... : x4nth3
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        Those wind n go flashlights are terrible. You haveto continually wind them to keep the light on. Once you... : VectorJKL
        • The one I have does 15m of light with 30s of cranking. Maybe your battery is a bit knackered? : jcupitt
        • John Carmack has the patent on it : kevp
        • Wrong;. I got one in my white elephant this year. The thing lasts Forever off of a little bit of winding.... : re-verse
  • Thanks for this post. : hobosapien
  • "5 W x $0.12 / 1000 = $0.00006 / hour " You're off by a factor of 10. FAIL. : YamatoTwinkie
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    The problem here is that you suck at math. You are out by a factor of 10 on your electricity costs. : batkiwi
    • To tell you exactly what you did wrong: Your electricity is 12 cents per kilowatt hour. NOT .12 cents... : batkiwi
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    fixed maths: LED bulb: 1000 / 5 == 200, ie. you'd need 200 LED bulbs to draw one kw. Alternatively, d... : jcupitt
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      Even still, you have to roughly halve that because the light output is significantly lower. And on top o... : smegmar
      • people buy more LEDs, more money invested into LED development = same quality or better LED lighting in a... : moshman
      • They are a bit dim right now, but I'm sure that'll get fixed. In the US about 10% of residential electric... : jcupitt
    • ^^^ this is correct. my math was off I blame lack of sleep and too much drinking thank you for the corr... : x4nth3
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    Is it really that big a deal to people that CFLs aren't instantly full brightness? I use them in all the... : DinK
    • This is also what we do. A friend of mine is damned near done replacing all of his (as they burn out), a : mafu5150
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  i think your math is wrong, or i got confused by your post? your energy company charges you per kwh. kil... : anthonybean
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    Yeah he dropped an order of magnitude. : Arctic Fox
    • I believe he likely was drinking some sort of boxed wine product at the time : Downforce
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  Ok - I installed all 4 that I received today, and they're wayyyy too dim. Way way way too dim. Free i... : virus
  • Yeah I picked some $6 LED jobbies from dealextreme.com and they're okay for utility lights and stuff, but... : geedeck
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    Does it say how many lumens they put out? Watts doesn't carry over very well across different types of l... : slax0r
    • LED Bulb : 230 lumens Incandescent Bulb : 490 lumens at least for the ones I linked in my comparison. : x4nth3
    • The lumen scale is fucked when it comes to non-natural lighting due to orange bias. : batkiwi
  • Well they did say they were equivalent to a 40W light bulb, which isn't especially bright. : Arctic Fox
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    Did you replace a 40watt lightbulb with them, or some 80-120 stuff that was a main lightfitting? 40wat... : batkiwi
    • 40w is sex lights : boring gegtik
    • Yeah the light fixture above me has some 40W equivalent CFLs but there are three of them. : DinK
    • Seriously, there is nothing above 60w in my house. . .anything in the 80 - 120 range makes me feel like I... : goatjc
• I hate the color of light from compact floresence. You can't put them anywhere you want to see what stuff... : RogerDandy

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  Tengo un traductor en mis pantalones. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • best post in this thread : freakord
  • This post needs way more love. : Rag and Bone Man
  • Usted debe liberar antes de que se ahoga! Note: I have no knowledge of the Spanish language, other th : mafu5150
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  If you can wait 5 hours or so, I will have time (and sound) to do it. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Too slow, She'll cut your pay in half! : Githyanki
  • How very kind of you! Should the rest of our Hispanophones be lazy gits, I might just take you up on that... : Alice O'Connor
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  Super Spanish!! Only known by the few courageous men and women of Tijuana. : r_picmip 5
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    If you cannot punch through walls, read minds and control sea creatures, I don't want to hear from you. : Alice O'Connor
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      1/3 =( : MoreVespeneGas
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        aquaman? : re4ctor
        • Ho there brave adventurer! (I'm on the left) http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/7/79... : MoreVespeneGas
• donde estas los pantalones : aeg1x
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  It was my major and I still eat tacos from a truck every so often but the odds are without being able to ... : rosewood
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    In other words, shackmsg me a link and I'll give it a go but I make no promises. : rosewood
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      Thank you very much for trying anyway. Your name shall be sung in our churches and pubs all across the... : Alice O'Connor
      • Pubs I'll burn down. : thief
  • does reading lips really help you understand spanish better? That's weird. : MagicWishMonkey
• tengo un problema. no hay papel higiénico : shika.art
• Paging Esteban Colberto. : elwood00
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  Why are there so many replies about your pants? : trOmblyj
  • ¿Por qué hay tantas respuestas acerca de los pantalones? : trOmblyj
  • I'd like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I can do it, but what sort of awesome reward do I get if I manage to accomplish this task? : WaterSign
  • A tape recorder so you can listen to yourself talk all day. : pancake humper
  • UPDATE: I still can do it, but I can't sit here for very long, because I suffer from a rare condition tha... : WaterSign
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    Shacknews.com shall sing the splendour and magnificence of Jonathan Parker Bedrava to the entire world, a... : Alice O'Connor
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      Alright, send it over and I'll see what I can do. : WaterSign
      • MOOOOOON UNIT : Patch-e
    • YOUR VOICE IS NOT OURS! : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • You know, we Canadians spell it "honour" too, but I always want to pronounce that as "honoor." : Lone Swordsman
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  VenusK could probably do it, she translates Spanish to English as part of her job, but she won't be up fo... : Zero|DPX
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    • Fuck yeah, and when she asks why, just put on headphones and turn up music real loud !!! : ArcKnight
    • Dude, 6 AM isn't that bad :( : Zero|DPX
• Well, I speak portuguese, I can try but I have to listen to the audio first. : Nitrium
• Cuanto cuesta fellatio : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Rosewood is fluent in spanish. : hirez
  • Only in restaurants. : rosewood

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• wow that's crazy : action roommate
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  wow : hobosapien
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    kind of curious what the plane looks like : hobosapien
    • The only picture I found makes it look like a glass canopy Piper-esque light craft, but the pic was 75x75 : Lunatic Angelic
• Insane. : magistersmax
• So yea, that was pretty rad. : pwnage1232
• whoa : MikkleThePickle
• pretty crazy, and the pilot was only 22 : mojo the helpr monke
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  Nicely done. My instructor used to pull the throttle all the way back at random points in our flights an... : riptyde
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    Haha, I still remember going through the forced power off stalls with my instructors above north las vega : Lunatic Angelic
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      Heh, I remember telling one of them at about 600ft AGL that we both knew there was nothing down there tha : Lunatic Angelic
      • hahaha. fuck. i want to learn to fly one day. : FrayLo
    • Yeah, my guy would sometimes wait a long, lonnnng time before he'd throttle back up. One time it was at : riptyde
• Oh sun n fun what a giant traffic jam in the sky. Still thinking about taking a 182 over there though. : Blackdawgg
• That was fucking insane. Kudos to the pilot. : randomposter
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  fucking show off pulling off the road at the end. lol. : NexusOne
  • Hah, yeah, that was pretty class. : delataur
  • It was probably more to get the plane off the three lane street so some dumbass doesn't rear end him or c... : DOOManiac
• Awesome landing. : jingletard
• unbelievably scary. : Foxhawk
• That was fucking awesome. : boarder2
• I can do that. I just don't want to. : Waffles!
• Sweet jesus that's amazing. : dmason
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  it would be nice if it were real, but two things...no traffic at all going their way? and no communicati... : deathofrats
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    This was all done with a bluescreen in a basement and photoshop. : Wyvern
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      not saying that, but it could have been staged.. oh well, im probably wrong. no big deal. : deathofrats
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        It happened on a Sunday morning in a small town in Florida, there isn't going to be much traffic. : mechanicalgrape
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          There was quite a bit of traffic coming the other way. : Nighteyes
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            16 cars is a lot of traffic? : mechanicalgrape
            • Maybe in some bumfuck province in Japan. : MurrayTheSkull
            • I said quite a bit, and if its such a small town then yes, it is quite a bit for one lane to have 16 cars... : Nighteyes
            • when you're trying to land a plan in their midst? I'd say so : aeg1x
            • Winter Haven is only about an hour away from where I live. It's a tiny tiny place that is entirely devot... : smegmar
  • lol : ant_hillbilly
  • Everything on the internet is fake : noodleboy723
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    Ok, first thing, lol @ "fake"... Second, the 30 articles on Google News aren't enough for you? Thir : Lunatic Angelic
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      Thanks for the info on light aircraft. I was under the assumption that all craft had to be in communicat... : deathofrats
      • Hell no, that would interrupt the XM radio way too much for me. : Blackdawgg
      • Radio is a must if you are traveling through restricted airspace or landing at an airport or doing a cros... : riptyde
      • Nope, the town I grew up in has an airport with no tower (so an uncontrolled airport). You just have to ... : timmie
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        That's ok. We should all feel free to call a fake even when we don't know what the fuck we're talking ab... : lechuck59
        • Because we're INTERNET EXPERTS™ : Arctic Fox
    • ^ this. They looked like they were well below 1000 feet when the engine cut out. Landing is the most im... : riptyde
  • the tower should have scrambled the f18s to escort him to the ground : FrayLo
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    This was an experimental aircraft taking off from an uncontrolled field. There is no control tower. : Flint Ironstag
    • To anyone saying it was faked. : Flint Ironstag
    • uncontrolled field conveyor belt : dirge23
    • Pretty sure Winter Haven has a tower. : stonedonkey
  • pretty fucking elaborate for a fake, you cynic : moshman
• god.. the lengths people goto to avoid rush hour traffic... : Klebold
• hah ok who didn't tilt their head back and forth as he was going down? : festivalman
• Wow, that was awesome. I had to laugh when he landed it, wondering what the drivers in opposite lane were... : Colleton
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  Of everything that happened, the funniest win moment was at the end when he actually managed to pull off ... : DinK
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    i loved that. *watch out for the wing!!!!* : FrayLo
    • Then the last thing he said was .. "Fuck the wing." :) : vtxrider80
• I love the reaction when the engine cuts out. Just an immediate "Fuck." No crazy screaming, nothing. A : ArcKnight
• Interview: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4963597n : vx2o
• holy shit, pants = pissed : onji
• Jesus, I grew up in that town, the "Dino's Drivein" he passes just after he lands I used to hit up for lu... : stonedonkey
• well you dont see that very often : Luminair

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  What kind of wiring? Network? House network wiring sucks. I'm so used to drop ceilings and sheet rock ... : trOmblyj
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    I'd never want to run cable through that, oh shit. Internal walls with drywall and studs are pretty strai... : ieGod
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      ooh, congrats! Where did you buy? : redfive
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        In Burlington, over by Upper Middle and Walkers Line. : ieGod
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          very nice. If you need help with the Ethernet I can give you a hand. That I have no problem with. The ... : redfive
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            I might take you up on that! The building is approximately 20 years old and I think the hardest part will... : ieGod
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              Fishing with a fish wire and staple guns. Buy some faceplates and go to town. Might need to break drywa... : redfive
              • Sweet. Sounds like it'll be fun. : ieGod
              • http://cableorganizer.com/greenlee/fish-stix/ > * : riptyde
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              There are utility paths between floors. You just have to find them. When you get done you will realize... : rosewood
              • so true lol : redfive
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                But I want gigabit speeds damnit. : ieGod
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                  Wireless N is not that bad. Not Gigabit but yeah it's still quite useable. I only have one floor of... : redfive
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                    Thinking about it a little more, the only place I really need very high data transfer rates are in the ba... : ieGod
                    • Lots of people are going with the ethernet backbone up the middle of the house (or thereabouts) with an A... : one random winner
            • Go into your basement and find the furnace/act. There will be one main air duct running from that straig... : riptyde
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      Is drywall == double brick wall? I move in to a new house next week which has double brick walls and a... : SigENeaT
      • Cable Snakes. It's basically a spooled up sturdy wire which you can use to fish wires. I used one to get... : tboomer2
      • Feeding cable up through a wall is a fools errand, imo. Easier way: Cut hole in wall where your outle... : riptyde
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  http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Do-Yourself-Manual-Completely/dp/0762105798/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid... : Degenerate
  • But its Readers Digest! What if they condensed the important part! : trOmblyj
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  HIre a professional, nothing to fuck around with if you are clueless about it. : yosemiteclimber
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    I'm not completely clueless but I've just never done it before. It looks pretty simple but I've run acro... : redfive
    • Go to a book store and buy I think...its a craftsman book on house wiring. Its pretty good. : soggybagel
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      I would probably go 12/2, why do you need 14/3 for a GCFI? : .sticks.
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        with /2 then I don't have the grounding wire right? : redfive
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          Sounds like you're completely clueless to me. : yosemiteclimber
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            lol : redfive
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              I needed to get the 14/3 since my bathroom ceiling fan has the white/black/green connection : redfive
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                green is ground, "toolman" talyor! : .sticks.
                • I knew this part! So it's my father-in-law who doesn't know anything and I could leave my existing wire ... : redfive
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          /2 = black/white + ground /3 = Black/White/Red + ground Ground isn't counted. : .sticks.
          • FWIW. Ground is ALWAYS attached as all grounding wires go back to the panels primary ground line. : tboomer2
    • You don't need 14/3 with a GFI. 14/3 is for threeway switches. : tboomer2
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      what does this mean: "turned two 14/2 wires into three receptacles"? Are you saying there are two lines ... : vitaminzach
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        yes, two lines powering 3 receptacles. : redfive
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          Hate to belabor the point, but I think I'm misunderstanding something. (Also, I'm trying to be helpful, I... : vitaminzach
          • I'm appreciative of any help. I do have pictures at home which I can show later. It's not unusual I k... : redfive
  • wiring is pretty easy. Probably the hardest part will be fishing the wire, but past that he should be go... : goatjc
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  don't cut a live wire with pliers: http://evildolemite.shackspace.com/pliers.jpg : EvilDolemite
  • or garden tools for that matter, lol : papaskot
  • On a positive note. Free plasma torch. : tboomer2
  • haha, my dad always told me white was the hot wire. Because white = hot flame. Bastard, never do that... : stgdz
• www.callaprofessional.com : master_disaster_17
• I ran it myself when we put a room in the basement. Really, really simple(positive, negative, ground), ju... : re4ctor

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• Task Manager : hoov1185
• the department where I work just started using communicator. it is nice how it integrates with AD and ca : x4nth3
• our office uses AIM pro; our enterprise clients use communicator : noven
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  i just use MSN at work. My company installed Communicator and no one uses it. It provides no benefit ... : Slowtreme
  • and an office of just 20 people, you can look around the corner and say "Hey jim, did you get that fax ye... : Slowtreme
• gchat, easy : the city
• We use Skype here. : DianeOfTheMoon
• Gaim+Jabber : uncle slappy
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  We used Spark at my last job http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp : meesterbill
  • you forgot to mention that Spark sucks :( : Degenerate
  • I really liked this ^^^ : anhero
  • We use Spark. It's shit. : randomposter
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    We have a jabber server and 'Spark' . However, we're mostly techies so everyone has gone on to better... : hawke
    • No integration to our AD stuff though....which is a pain at times. : hawke
  • Spark is fucking slow. I hate that they use it here. : pimpium
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  Skype has three useful features that MSN does not have: 1 - You can send contacts to other people, goo... : SLUDGE^
  • Live has these super cool groups now. groups are permanant when you start a convo and it pulls everyone i... : Slowtreme
• we use Pidgin on the Google Chat network : MikkleThePickle
• we use Office Communicator at work and it sucks. We used to use Sametime and that sucked, but at least I ... : prime8
• Conversant SoapBox. Neither free nor cheap. And it has a suck-ass startup window that just loads their ... : SinistarX
• Jabber + Exodus or Spark : dognose
• Pidgin : thinkp0l
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  Lotus Sametime. It makes me :((((( : erotic sock
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    You can use Pidgin with this! It helps. : prime8
    • interesting though apparently it doesn't have the buddy pictures, nor does it cope well with nested gr... : erotic sock
  • Yeah, sametime is horrible. :( : devi| dog
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    God yes. Especially when you're stuck on a shitty version instead of the awesome 7.5 that allows nested c... : PhoenixArisen
    • We just went from 4(I think) to version 8. The nested chat windows are a god send for that program and i... : devi| dog
• oh god i read that as internal massaging and couldn't figure out why you'd do that in the office. that'... : kingfish
• net send : zipper76
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  If you use exchange then go for office communicator. It has REALLY nice integration. Otherwise just s... : batkiwi
  • Don't you also have to have communications server to go along with office communicator? : rosewood
• I use Openfire with the authentication linked to a group in Windows AD via LDAP. I have it running in a ... : jbt11
• Jabber with whatever client the person likes. : dmason
• My company uses skype and let's people build their own network (so you can't spam everyone). It's pretty... : Dessicator82
• We use AIM at my work. : thetangent
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  Google chat. : afty04
  • same here : Amadan
• IRC baby I wish :( : askedrelic
• OpenFire + kraken. It's all levels of accounting, security, authentication, etc. Heck, I use this at ho... : sukabljat
• We used IRC solely at the last place I worked (large linux software company). Nowadays, we use all use... : rmjackson
• Pidgin, though all employees use MSN. : megarust32
• Google Chat or Skype. I'd suggest using both. : pauk111
• Campfire and iChat for video chat : zakazi
• Most people here have MSN accounts. I use pidgin. : -efx-
• We use MSN but it only connects to the Exchange server. : r_picmip 5
• blackberry chat mostly and for the people who don't have BB, communicator : dantastic

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  It's not a repeat, it's a clip show, but theoretically from a "new" perspective. : Vincent Grayson
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    Wtf, it's the same as the rest of the recaps unless we do something crazy in the last few minutes. : devi| dog
    • What's the verdict? I DVR'd it, but it sounds like a waste of time. : elwood00
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  what is this crap shit : Luminair
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    why do tv networks do this to ussssssssss : Luminair
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      so we can hate them too and take our mind off Kings being shelved : Slowtreme
      • this is the real tragedy : Dunwich
      • ugh, i really like that show and its alternate universe : mankeroo
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      I think Lost is the only show I watch that they do a recap episode. It's fucking bullshit. : Ellissd
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        I actually dont mind recap episodes, I think they have a place. However the show schedule should not be ... : Luminair
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          It's not like they disrupted the show just to fit the recap in there. They're running behind schedule, so... : ventro
          • is that the explanation for the delay? they're behind schedule so they made a clip show to buy time? : Luminair
• I can't take the voice of the narrator, so boring. : Head Rush
• what!? NOOOO : Magus
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  Also, just so you guys know, Juliet > Kate. : Magus
  • SO TRUE. : mittense
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    It depends. Sometimes Juliet looks pretty good, other times she looks kind of used. : Ellissd
    • Watch Gia! Angelina jolie and juliet going at it! : kingdepork
    • Your mom looks kind of used. : weaselmeister
    • If I were Sawyer she'd look used all the time : Magus
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    both jack and kate need to step on a landmine. preferably together : GloriousCow
    • here here : fathertime
  • The only thing Juliet has going for her is she went all lesbo with Angelina Jolie in Gia. : uncle slappy
  • true but they both kind of lose : feek
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    hurley has bigger tits than both of them combined : CoRDS
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      I'd motorboat that son of a bitch if I didn't think I'd choke on his sweaty chest hair : .sticks.
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        thanks for this visual just before I go to bed. : trOmblyj
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          phbbababaabababablahcakCOUGHCOUGHGAKGAK! : .sticks.
          • hair on my tongue. I hate that. : .sticks.
  • Hell naw! : swenkcahs
  • haha yes. this is absolutely it. my friends and i debate this vital issue after every episode. : dromo5
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    WRONG WRONG WRONG : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Your arguments are compelling and your evidence incontrovertible. You've really changed my mind on this ... : elwood00
• their just building up to the 100th episode of LOST next week : g0rmanat0r