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• wolverine, as far as i've heard : ventro
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  Super Mario Bros. : zipper76
  • You're going the wrong way with that one : matchu
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  Dragonball z games are all better than the movie All Streetfighter games are better than the movies. : Iwannaacura
  • But those were games first. I think he means movies first, then games. : prime8
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  Goldeneye 007 Willow Peter Jackson's King Kong Moonwalker Star Trek: Elite Force (because Voyager suc... : roushimsx
  • Hey I liked Voyager. : ErikTehRed
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    king kong is a pretty bad game : qwpeoriu
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      I liked it. It was as long as the movie but had better pacing and didn't suffer from being a crappy big b... : roushimsx
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        i felt like it was the same shit over and over and over, which for a short game is pretty bad. Playing as... : qwpeoriu
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          Have you ever played Giants: Citizen Kabuto? : roushimsx
          • nope, which is strange since i think i own 2 copies of the game : qwpeoriu
    • Dude, that game is pretty fun and cool. : midgetherder
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      but it was a very bad movie. : Sacred Sperm
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        Errr no. It was an awesome movie. : razlebol
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          Maybe if you cut out about half the movie. Sadly, the 1933 movie is still much better. : Sacred Sperm
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            Cobblers, it's a fucking fantastic movie, they created personality in Kong and they stuck very very close... : abrasion
            • The action sequences dragged on and on and on, and the only way the scenes between Kong and Ann could hav... : Sacred Sperm
  • Oh, thought of some more: - Lego Star Wars. It wasn't too great (buggy and repetitive as hell. the non b... : roushimsx
  • King Kong was a fucking awesome movie that needed a good half hour taken out. : locater16
  • Willow? Fuck no. That game was terrible, and the movie was awesome. : Vincent Grayson
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  Just pick any of Uwe Boll's abortions of film making. : coyoterys
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    http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19873978#itemanchor_19873978 At least Postal was better than the g... : roushimsx
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      The original AitD is the only good one. All the others do not exist... just like there are only 2 "Alien... : coyoterys
      • I'm comfortable with acknowledging the existence of Jack in the Dark as well, since it's on the AitD CD r... : roushimsx
• The directors edition or whatever on HD-DVD made the movie not suck. Adds a fuck load of stuff that got c... : crazywigga
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  At least Chronicles of Riddick was better than Pitch Black, god that was predictable cliche shit. I wa... : abrasion
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    Really? Pitch Black was actually a fun film. Chronicles of Riddick was awful in every way. : Link.
    • After a certain level of stupidity a switch flips in my brain like a circuit breaker and I just can't tak... : abrasion
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      My wife fucking loves Chronicles of Riddick. We got a giant HDTV a few weeks back and watchig it on TNT H... : Schnapple
      • SOMEONES WIFE WANTS VIN DIESELS COCK : abrasion
  • WHAAAAAAAT? I felt way more engaged with Pitch Black. I thought it was a much cooler environment for R... : pancake humper
  • Pitch Black is an awesome movie. I almost fell asleep watching Chronicles. : WhatIsThisFor
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    The other way around. : Godhatesfatpeople
    • For you maybe >:( : abrasion
  • I liked em both? The first one introduced him as an amazing rogue, the 2nd was King Conan. And the Animat... : AxeMan808
  • Nnnnnnnope. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Wolverine and King Kong. That's it. : Link.
• Chronicles was better than anyone seems to give it credit for, especially the director's cut. : Halen
• i liked it :( : packav
• I like the Riddick movies and games. Can't wait for the next in both! : guido anchovy
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  To be fair, the games really aren't based on the movies, they kind of fit in between them. : Thresher
  • The games take place before the movies, story-wise. I think it's a fair comparison. I believe Twohy wrote... : qwpeoriu
  • yes the games slipped in the cracks of goodness between all the shit (pitch black was cool; the rest, ... : EvilDolemite
• robin hood prince of thieves : alexthegreat2
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  The Krull arcade coin-op was better than Krull the movie. : LemonJoose
  • Dual joystick Robotron controls FTW! : AxeMan808
• I never got the hate for that movie. It was more fun and original than the last three Star Wars movies co... : lightly inclined
• that new T4 movie game looks good as well : ultramega

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  I wish more theaters were up to the standards of The Arclight here in LA. Most theaters are crap, even cl... : Serpico74
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    I wish all theater screens were DLP, soo very much better. >:( : MeenMunky
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      Digital Cinema is great in that you're getting solid and standard consistency across the line and you're ... : midgetherder
      • Agreed. The only things I will seek DLP out for are Pixar films. Digital in, digital out. Live action fil : Serpico74
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  Thank god I haven't seen any of "the usual star trek stuff" : gakera
  • Oh you probably have seen some. Um, lets see..... Its pretty much ever damn star trek film that's been ma... : firewoodman
• I saw it on IMAX this morning and it was real vivid, will definitely look good on the home theater. As f... : trOmblyj
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  I saw it on Imax. The movie was great, but seemed to have been poorly reformatted for the screen. Some ... : pyrogen
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    The midwife with the fucked up face looked fucked up on a normal screen too : rosewood
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      Not just that. Plenty of other times where it made no sense, such as with regular crewmembers. : pyrogen
      • I was just saying that midwife was fucking creepy looking. She was all FASy : rosewood
    • Looked like an anime face slapped on a living person. Can't believe that passed test audiences but Kling... : bld
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  HIJACK (sorry to do this so soon) I am really looking forward to this movie in IMAX. How does it stack u... : IHATEDUST
  • they'll love it. : trOmblyj
  • My girlfriend loved it. : orgcaptainnemo
  • As others have said, there are slight (and not so slight) nods to the original Star Trek, but it's a movi... : skinlab133
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  Anyone else get flashbacks to Galaxy Quest when Scotty was beamed into those water lines and the giant bl : Marauder IIC
  • I got flashbacks to galaxy quest all the fucking time. Particularly the super clean fake high tech style ... : Toth21
  • I thought the new movie felt very much like a mix between Star Trek and Mass Effect : buzzbat
• http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trekkies_bash_new_star_trek_film : indosauros
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  Well, I saw it on a Cinemark cinema here. But the black levels and contrast are so low that in many dark ... : Nitrium
  • Yeah, Cinemark theaters are known for using low quality bulbs, among other things. I avoid them whenever ... : Conan
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  How are the Super Nerds handling the complete retcon of the entire series? I thought the movie was great,... : skinlab133
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    alternate universe : FrayLo
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      So they don't consider this part of the original Star Trek timeline then? Is it like Tim Burton Batman vs... : skinlab133
      • They coexist, and it's stated explicitly within the movie. : Conan
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        They flat out say in the movie that it takes place in an alternate timeline. They coexist, although I do... : pyrogen
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          Or at all. Paramount probably plans to release at least one more movie before they begin work on another ... : SpaecKow
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            Where did you read this? : amrbean
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              I didn't read it anywhere, I'm speculating. Paramount used to run two Trek shows in tandem for what... tw : SpaecKow
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                Neato! Thanks! : amrbean
                • This guy: http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/bryan-fuller-explains-his.php : SpaecKow
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          Really? Who/how was this stated? I don't remember Old Man Spock explaining it like that on Hoth. : skinlab133
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            He didn't; Spock, Uhura, et all reasoned it out on the bridge. : Conan
            • ohhhh I think I went to bathroom then. : skinlab133
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          I thought that part was funny, because it really sounded like they were going out of their way to explain... : Vincent Grayson
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            To me it was really them saying "just enjoy the movie" : riptyde
            • Bones: God damn it man, I've gone cross eyed. : rosewood
          • Yeah, it was like Hurley and Miles arguing over the timeline stuff in Lost. : Beady
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        that's how I understood it: nero and old spock come from the normal star trek universe, where romulus was : xxx2xxx
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          How come When Spok and Nero go through the black hole, they end up back in time. But towards the end of t : bozer
          • Yeah, I thought they were all going to get sucked into the second blackhole but this time end up in the p : skinlab133
          • Yeah, that part was kinda dumb. : Arcanum
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            That was a special blackhole from the red mater + super nova combo : rosewood
            • ^^^ this. I guess. Who the hell knows. : BlackCat9
  • The Super Nerds are setting their phasers to kill for anyone who uses the term retcon. : rosewood
• If I remember correctly, the creator of star trek made a specific point to add in humor. It was on of the... : conandan
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  I liked it. It felt more like an action movie then a traditional trek film, but i suppose thats the point... : AMikaboshi
  • That's exactly what I felt. : Nitrium
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    This is exactly how I feel (I just got back from seeing it). It was a great sci-fi action film, but it d... : Arcanum
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      Thats odd because I found it to be a mega huge trek film full of references, characterizations and stupid... : Toth21
      • The last trek film had riker flying the enterprise with a fucking joystick. : rosewood
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        It was full of references, yes. I think the reason it didn't feel right as a Trek film for me is precise... : Arcanum
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          I like that it was pretty much the first Star Trek film to use the ships' weapons in an even remotely rea : riptyde
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            Additionally, the Kelvin stood up pretty well to the weaponry used against it. If you think about it, th : pigvomit
            • Yes then later the enterprise gets hit once and their shields are at %37 and couldn't survive another hit... : Toth21
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            There were some in-universe technological reasons for that weapon usage pattern in the older movies/TV sh... : Arcanum
            • Also I didn't find the fights to very much like fights... it was just a bunch of spinning cameras and exp... : Toth21
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  The opening scene almost made me cry. : amrbean
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    Seriously, that's how you open a movie. It was amazing. : skinlab133
    • I love y...*DEAD* : amrbean
  • I felt like I was watching the first episode of the first season of DS9, but on steroids. : Nitrium
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    I didn't see why Nero didn't hunt down those shuttlecraft that were escaping. I understand that The Ke : kbufo
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      Why would Nero care about Kirk? He says when fighting kirk that he only knows him from history, but spock : DarkWolf5
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        I didn't mean it as if he missed an opportunity to kill Kirk/his family/whatever but more along the lines : kbufo
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          Oh, and the idea that Kirk's father has to stay behind to "fight them off" seems silly if Nero was going : kbufo
          • I don't think he was going to let them escape. A few of them got hit by missles. However, as Papa Kirk ch : Bamtan
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            I got the idea that they were trying to kill the shuttles and Daddy Kirk was using the phasers to shoot d : rosewood
            • He was. You could see the phasers targeting the missiles. Also, we don't know how damaged the ship was : pigvomit
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              Yeah, I mentioned earlier about the crash, and I can accept that a ship smashing into another is going to : kbufo
              • He was waiting for old Spock to finish coming through the black hole. He knew where but he couldn't be su : Duffman8369
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            This assumes that Kirk Sr should have somehow known that Nero was going to let them escape : riptyde
            • This is true, and given the preceding moments he didn't have much reason to think along those lines. Poin... : kbufo
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    the beginning was great. My favorite part was Kirk outrunning the cop on that awesome bike with the beast : AMikaboshi
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      that wasnt beastie boys : hobosapien
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        uhh, it was Sabotage by the Beastie Boys : Patch-e
        • seconding : trOmblyj
        • this is correct : riptyde
      • lol : stuka
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        Nero failed almost as hard as you just did. : Dimmona
        • ^^ this : AMikaboshi
    • I actually thought that was a particularly odd choice of music : stuka
    • Yeah, I thought that was pretty clever way to connect the audience with the characters. : andre GiANT
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  may the force be with yoU! : jingletard
  • Heretic! : BlackCat9
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  Yup, its movies like Star Trek that make me a happy Blu-Ray owner. I cannot wait to have that glorious c... : manlyman
  • oh I agree. It'll look spectacular. The effects and everything about the visuals looked great. : AMikaboshi
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  IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME!! lol the power went out at my theater, about 1/3rd the way through, i had to pee ... : g0nk
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    did you get a free pass : Chandler55
    • nah, didn't bother. saw the whole thing, so it was all good. : g0nk
• Great, fun movie. : pigvomit
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  Yet another "this movie fucking rocked" post here : riptyde
  • My new 2nd favorite Trek movie after ST2. : riptyde
• Just got in from seeing it. Fucking awesome. I'm amazed by the whole flick. I can't believe they pulled... : ThomW
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  I do wish that they had a graduation ceremony at the academy or something. What were they on that Vulcan : pigvomit
  • Cadets. : rosewood
• Just got back from the show. Fantastic. : Priest77
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  Awesome nonstop action. I thought the villian was a little weak, but I loved the baddass new phaser phys : bling1bling
  • The villain was a little fat, imo. : rosewood
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  I thought it was good, but... 2 things that bothered me a little: 1) the make-you-blind lighting was a li : K1Bond007
  • Or maybe I meant crossed all their Ts and dotted all their Is. God damn, I'm stupid. :( : K1Bond007
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    If you're going to create a whole new cast of characters and villians and totally disregard Star Trek Can... : Vantage
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      So ... fuck The Next Generation then right? Because that's what I was proposing. Just a new generation. I : K1Bond007
      • Star Trek is a many worlds universe, so it's not "undone". There was a TNG episode with a few thousand en... : Conan
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  I was a HUGE Star Trek nerd back in the day (I have literally hundreds of star trek novels and could spea : Vantage
  • Also, Zoe Saldana is almost 31??? She looks much younger. She's also incredibly hot. Almost as hot a : Vantage
  • If Berman and Braga ever want to do Trek again, Paramount needs to ship them to India where they can hire... : rosewood
  • You sound like a huge star trek nerd and I respect your opinion. : spazzium
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  I just got back and I really enjoyed it. JJ Abrams really must enjoy time travel. : freshyk
  • And the chick playing Uhura is SMOKING HOT. : freshyk
• Yet another praise post. Also, I couldn't stop thinking about that green chick and how she reminds me of ... : smackpiece
• anyone else get the nod to Cloverfield in the bar scene the ordering of Slush-O I love JJ Abrams. : shackwack
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  The green alien is Rachel Nichols, who will be Scarlett in G.I. Joe. BONER! : treefingers1
  • Yea too bad she was killed by Nero, because I'd fuck her until my dick was green. : rosewood
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  Opening scene, I about shit myself when the crew member was sucked out into space along with the camera a : rosewood
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    they used a subspace microphone which can pick up the subspace energy waves and convert it to audible sou : buzzbat
    • lol that's what I was thinking. Reminds me of the scene in Thank You For Smoking when they talk about ha... : pigvomit
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    Another time the silence was awesome was when they were falling into the atmosphere, and then the sound s : ventro
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      So how come they didn't burn up? : Dimmona
      • Specially designed suits? : pigvomit
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        Why would they? They were just falling. There seems to be this weird belief that just falling into the at : zakk
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          No... asteroids/satellites/space shuttles have that issue because they hit the atmosphere at high speeds : K1Bond007
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            Well, it's 250 years in the future, so they have room to stretch the fiction out to compensate for that k... : pigvomit
            • Which is why I'd subscribe to specially-designed suits. I'm not nitpicking the movie, just making a case : K1Bond007
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            It would only accelerate to terminal velocity, though, not just forever. : Conan
            • terminal velocity is dependent on air pressure, which is significantly lower in the upper atmosphere. Th... : ttyRazor
          • Joe Kittinger : cpt_gloval
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        Did they explain why that Olsen guy didn't pull his parachute? I thought he was just a daredevil and was : Mmmmmoo
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          because he was wearing a red suit : ventro
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            This ^^^^ I loved that part. Everything was there. Unknown guy, red suit, cocky attitude. : pigvomit
            • I knew it the moment I saw his suit. : DarkWolf5
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            Absolutely!!! I just got back from the movie with Squeegy. When the gung ho guy sat down in the red unif... : spazzium
            • ^^^ Avoid this comment I forgot to spoiler. : spazzium
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            I cheered at that point. I was also trying to place the actor, because he looked familiar. Checking hi : BlackCat9
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              Hah, really? I didn't catch him. Did they sufficiently age him? : spazzium
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                Maybe a bit. He wouldn't be that much older, though, since Voyager came last in the timeline. : BlackCat9
                • I don't think it was him. : Jonathan
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            this makes no sense to me! explain? : sludge vohaul
            • in TOS red shirted away team members were always the first to die on away missions. : ttyRazor
          • So glad I wasn't the only one who picked up on that. : rosewood
• This is the movie that finally reveals to us that Kirk would be better off avoiding areas that have cliff... : zakk
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  Karl Urban was unbelievably hot in this movie. Lots of mancandy to be had - a Star Trek first! : jessipoo
  • THANK YOU! I couldn't think of who he was! (Bones, right?) : Cihte
  • I usually find that Karl Urban ruins movies with his permanent B Movie actor look he has going, I'll hav... : Mondo
  • i wonder how they got him to act... his scenes must have been long days : cpt_gloval
  • I have a friend who's been drooling over Karl Urban for the last ten years at least, I wonder how she fee... : woddemandred
  • Karl Urban has always been unbelievably hot, that man must get so much of the soft stuff, he kicked ass i... : abrasion
  • He was perfect. He played Bones pitch-perfect the whole way. Totally channelled the character. By far ... : hawke
• best part: silence as they were falling/skydiving towards the drill : Cihte
• Awesome movie and I agree about the pacing, non stop action. : Mmmmmoo
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  I'm pretty much in agreement with you on all points, ours was a good cinema though. I enjoyed all the co : spazzium
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    I loved how Kirk was making an audio recording of Spock's violation of Starfleet Codes involving Prisoner : pigvomit
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      That reminds me of another fan service comment that was something along the lines of "I'd quote a regulat : spazzium
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        didnt you all notice this???? when kirk is taking the test, he's eating an apple. Remember when kirk w : -=kodiak=-
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          I definitely noticed the apple and its significance. There was just too much. I have to see it again soon... : skankcore
          • Yeah, I commented on the apple in my original review I posted last week. : orgcaptainnemo
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  Oh God, it was too good. Good beyond a reasonable degree. My expectations can not be exceeded by so much.... : skankcore
  • I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain! : BlackCat9
• For the most part I liked it. The opening scene was... perfect. I loved the sounds of the movie, integrat... : shyguy74
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  I'm going to project that this movie makes it well past $100 million in the first weekend considering all... : bstrad
  • I'm guessing it'll last longer than the first weekend too. I've already got the urge to see it again, pl... : ttyRazor
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  I don't like Star Trek. Will I like this? The guy playing Kirk seems kinda...I dunno. Honestly from the p... : Magus
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    It's bad ass, go watch it now. : bling1bling
    • hmm ok : Magus
  • Yes, you will like it. : skinlab133
• I'm gonna go to the 3:40 pm showing of this and see it by myself today. Can't wait to see how it is. : 5150Joker

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  I don't see any links in your post. : pupismyname
  • Seriously, I've never even seen the infamous stripper scene that began the series. : manlyman
• I thought this was a return to her bad acting seen early in the season. Kinda lame episode imo. But y... : MoreVespeneGas
• I was going to post this earlier but I'm not good at posting with one hand. : trOmblyj
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  Awesome episode. I think she's still a terrible actor but the rest of the cast makes up for it. : WhatIsThisFor
  • Yea, plenty of good plot twists. I hope they bring it back for a second season. : askedrelic
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  psycho doc was hot. : stgulik
  • hell yeah : MoreVespeneGas
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  So, deep down, Alpha is a psycho by nature. Right? : Bamtan
  • Apparently. I wonder what he slashed that original chick for. : WhatIsThisFor
  • yea seems that way. hard to tell with matters of the brain. : askedrelic
  • deep down is how echo likes it man : MoreVespeneGas
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  lol he took the fat chick hahahahahah : askedrelic
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    That broad's voice irritates the shit out of me. Hate that actress. : Ellissd
    • Something about her irritated me to. She was overly... I dunno. I just know I don't like her! : Bamtan
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    fat? Please tell me you're kidding. : Halen
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      She is kind of chunky. : Ellissd
      • Helo prefers big butts after having to deal with a whiny anorexic asian for so long. : Bamtan
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        Thicker maybe, but not fat, that's fucking ridiculous. : Halen
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          It's actually not that ridiculous. : Ellissd
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            dude you were sad when she wouldnt pork you admit it : MoreVespeneGas
            • rofl what : Ellissd
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            No? Explain. : Halen
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              lol : askedrelic
              • lol indeed : Halen
            • What's there to explain? She is, as a matter of fact, overweight, a.k.a. fat. : uncleanmonkey
            • This is the internet, where people who criticize women they could never possibly get. : ColoradoCNC
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  That...wasnt really much of a finale especially considering we didnt know until today the show was being ... : smacknca
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    Just because they called it a season finale doesn't mean it was picked up for another season. These epis... : IndigoAK
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      I was referring to a thread this morning that claimed it was confirmed renewed. the thread seems to be n... : smacknca
      • because he made it up, he even said so in the thread which is why i nuked the root : Maarten Goldstein
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    2 things: 1) It hasn't been picked up yet to my knowledge. Logic indicates it'll be canceled, however, Fo... : K1Bond007
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      This isn't the first time Joss has made a "season finale" and still had another episode afterwards. Buff... : dopefish
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        That's pretty much what episode 13 is, since it apparently takes place 30 years in the future. : Vincent Grayson
        • Supposedly they say that episode could be the foundation for a spinoff. : K1Bond007
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  where are the pictures damnit?!? : gimpness
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    http://www.shackpics.com/files/dushkushirt_jzmt5bksinhkxota4og5.jpg I'm guessing this is it. I haven't... : skankcore
    • yup that was it. *fap fap fap* : trOmblyj
    • Faptastic : gimpness

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• holy shit, wow. his face in the beginning waiting for the drums to kick in was awesome, too :) : siknsyko
• Nice. Very nice. He sounds better than my previous drum-playing neighbors, that's for sure. : Conan
• Wow, the kids other videos are also impressive. : Conan
• Holy shit, that's impressive! : Rice-Rocketeer
• O_O that's one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Kid is totally into it and has natural rhythm. : action wombmate
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  He seems so relaxed doing it too : d fluke
  • He knows that as long as he keep going on, his father won't be punching his face. : zehh
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  anyone got a link to that 12 year old doing a crazy drum solo with that kit a like 25 pieces on it? : filthysock
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    Tony Royster Jr.? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPncumXZExo : TrptJim
    • thanks, thats the one : filthysock
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      He's like 25 now and is nearly a flop. Supposedly all he has going for him now is his technique. Latest... : foo
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        After some more youtube searches, looks like he's been busy. From what I saw, I wouldn't say "flop". : foo
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          Yes, being Jay-Z's live drummer is a good thing : Mondo
          • Oh he's doing that now? Didn't know : foo
      • Maybe he should try hooking up with some death metal bands that can keep up? : Matt Burris
• Pair him up with this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4TNJvVk8M : graah
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  too awesome, even plays with a band full of adults! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRxIiW9wsw : liqker
  • Fuck man this kid's progression from his first vids is amazing. I would totally donate to get him a doub... : liqker
• man, the who fucking rocks : industro
• that's awesome : jimvolk
• Damn, that's totally awesome. :D : ateam311
• Thats's awesome. Kid looks like he's having a blast : jonin
• that's amazing. : Head Rush
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  There is hope! : romulan
  • ps the system of the down videos are way better. he starts to sing, there's close ups, you can hear his ... : romulan
• That is fucking amazing. : Thresher
• those cymbals are annoying : lakren
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  That was terrible! He was drifting, missing beats. Horrible I would never have him in my band : spiderfill
  • Do ya know how many chicks that kid could get ya!? : Ziz
  • hahah, please tell me you're kidding. : phipple
• Fake. There's a robot behind him wearing his arms. : Alice O'Connor
• I just watched about five of his songs--the stuff since he's turned 4 is awesome. : Merconium
• Pssh, whatever, my Rock Band drumming skills are clearly superior. : jingletard
• That's just plain sick how good he is at his age. Jeez. : Matt Burris
• wow : i am the baker
• The little move at 5:36 is hilarious. Kid looks like he's having all kinds of fun too. : fatman
• That's a viral video for the new X-Files movie : icon_of_syn
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ1V8SoL1rM : Karnov

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  That scene is so epic : TPSReport
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    It's really really well animated, the movement is amazing for CGI, it's up there with rendered movies fro... : abrasion
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      It's funny because it looks dated compared to WoW cgi. I really wish the Warcraft movie was in cgi inste... : spiderfill
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        I've never seen WOW CGI and I'm praying if they make a Warcraft 4 (they won't) that it won't have any ref... : abrasion
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          It looks cool you should watch it. And it's hard to see why they wouldn't make a Warcraft 4 because it's... : spiderfill
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            They have that license to print money in the form of WOW, there was a podcast discussing this. It's ... : abrasion
            • Actually, they've mentioned they kind of just make whatever they want to make so I guess if they end up w... : spiderfill
            • Well they could put Warcraft 4 far enough out into the future that it wouldn't be effected by anything fr... : slickdoody
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  blizzard uses blink video or whatever so its big compression : Iwannaacura
  • That's ancient. They use DivX. : code-e255
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  My favorite Bliz cinematic of all time : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVsTrLW_04U I never really loo... : johnwissinger
  • I never knew they got to the point of making cinematics for it! That's such a shame, it looks like it cou... : abrasion
  • Wow. How did I miss this, it was incredible. I was looking forward to Ghost :( : razlebol
  • Damn, I hope they are going to release these cinematics they did together with the SC2 Collectors Edition... : enyakk
  • that was pretty cool. : AMikaboshi
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    I dunno. That didn't seem up to Blizzard's usual standards of writing and voice acting quality. : Arceihn
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      What? It was awesome. : razlebol
      • Yeah, but not as awesome as anything else Blizzard have done in the last decade. I kept wondering if it w... : Arceihn
  • that was kind of meh actually : melt_core
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    Meh, it's like Starship Troopers without the irony or humor. : sgtsanity
    • Yep, totally cliche, though long cinematics are fun in general. I have to give the MechWarrior ones my p... : rasputinreborn
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    Dialogue so sooo lame in that one. : Sgt_Boomstick
    • I'll admit, its no Thrall: GRAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAAAGH : johnwissinger
• Epic scene and one of my favorites. My favorite cut scene is probably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f96... : AMikaboshi
• Probably my favourite. Now I want to play through that campaign again... : pturvz
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  The video for starcraft 2 will probably be compressed as fuck, sadly :( It would be nice if they add a ... : razlebol
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    In Australia what you just said is so backwards. If anything it should be an optional DVD full of cuts... : abrasion
    • hah but whoever plans for Australia's backwards data plans : carnivore
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  It's safe to say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhtXtnV3pg&feature=related : romulan
  • Yeah but we don't know if the one on the DVD will be 480p, 576p, 720p - fuck it could be 1920x1200p who k... : abrasion
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  Blizzard has never been afraid of cramming a case full of so many discs the grippy thing cannot hold them... : Alice O'Connor
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    I would buy a 100$ blu ray drive for this game. : abrasion
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      Sadly, I wouldn't. : AMikaboshi
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        That's ok you can have the 'commoner' edition on DVD! I'll get the special edition. : abrasion
        • I'd perfer to buy it from their store and download the game. (or steam, which is unlikely) : AMikaboshi
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  h.264 compression will help a lot. Given that Apple.com/trailers encodes videos at about 68 megabytes for... : sgtsanity
  • (40 megabytes per minute for 720p if they wanted to save a bit) : sgtsanity

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• Haha there is no way : maulla
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  Only if its got an external power brick, gpu brick, cpu brick, hard drive brick, fan brick, and external ... : johnwissinger
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    If the XBOX 360 is nothing more than a glorified PC, why is it so outlandish that they can't make one the... : zipper76
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      the 360 doesn't really have any off the shelf parts in it. the cpu and gpu are custom, for a start. th... : Toraz Chryx
      • Custom or not, the fabrication processes have improved and they have made the chips smaller and easier to... : zipper76
    • because many of the issues with the console come from heat? : maulla
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      Because smaller components are a lot more expensive, otherwise, why dont you have a laptop sized desktop? : nodebug
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        Then why did Sony ever release a slimline PS2? By your logic, they never should have - it had to cost mor... : zipper76
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          They waited until the tech had advanced so much it actually cost less to release the slimline. : abrasion
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            Exactly, thats why you can get a laptop now that is a lot faster than your desktop was years ago, but the... : nodebug
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              No shit. Are you telling me they're making the XBOX 360 faster and more powerful with each revision? No. ... : zipper76
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                I'm not saying it isn't or can't happen. I just dont see it happening any time soon, especially with the ... : nodebug
                • Especially when their new target to fight is the Wii, they want to compete on price and possibly bring in... : abrasion
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                  I wasn't saying that I think they''ll release it. I think they'll announce it. It would most likely only : zipper76
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                    Sorry I chose the wrong word with rumour, more speculation. From a technical standpoint, as a hardware e... : abrasion
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                      Deal and ok, I'll agree it's speculation. I honestly threw the statement on as an afterthought of posting... : zipper76
                      • Let me put it this way, the 360 was such a clusterfuck hardware wise, I don't think I would have a hard t... : abrasion
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          also when you open up a ps2 slim versus the original the major difference is that the original had a carb... : akirabob
          • The PS2 also managed more than 10 entire internal revisions before moving onto slimline. It got smaller/l... : moe6
      • That would be true if the cost per unit wasn't largely derived from the die area of the part used... smal... : Toraz Chryx
    • Because it will cost more to do so. : razlebol
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      They didn't manage to fit the components in the case in the first place - it was an engineering failure, ... : abrasion
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        Not having the power supply in the console is not a failure, it's a design choice and I don't have a prob... : Fred Garvin
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          well i'm glad sony made better "design choices" because it doesn't have a gigantic power brick sitting ou... : kill9
          • I'd rather have a smaller console and to be honest you can't say either one is a visual dream fest, but t... : Fred Garvin
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          I didn't mention the powersupply, you've misinterpreted the intention of my post. : abrasion
          • Then what components other than the PS did they not manage to fit into the case? : Fred Garvin
    • One guy did make a laptop out of a 360: http://benheck.com/xbox-360-laptop-3-elite : TK-421
• My prediction: an xbox 360 with 4% failure rate instead of 40% ha ha ha - not : cerealSAM2
• god lol, I'm tired of those rumours - no no no and no, not for years. : abrasion
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  Never happen because of all the face plates out there. Also, its just kind of pointless. Its not huge and... : bozer
  • The PS3 is large but it's not the hideous one, not by a long shot, I'd like to make use of Haiku's adol... : abrasion
  • i dont think MS is worried about leaving cheap accessories behind. i mean look how they dropped the orig... : X-GOUKI
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  The only thing outside of the next console itself would be a blu-ray player on the 360. : Masem
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    And that would give the PS3 a further run for it's money. : pturvz
    • I don't know how many PS3 gamers specifically chose the PS3 over the 360 just for it's blu ray playback. ... : abrasion
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    Not impossible, but I don't think Sony wants to make that available to MS, and MS doesn't really want it ... : zipper76
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      They are kidding themselves on that one, high def downloadable movies, convieniently and easily worldwide... : abrasion
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        Not everyone needs super hi-res as seen by the success of Netflix on the 360. All they need to do is expa... : Fred Garvin
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          They'll never make it 'huge' with the downloadable market - not for sooooo many years. : abrasion
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            I think you are wrong. Where I live more and more companies are offering digital TV over the net on cable... : Fred Garvin
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              http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19876002 : abrasion
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                No one said discs are going away tomorrow, but they are going away. I doubt BR will hit the heights of DV... : Fred Garvin
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                  I believe BR will hit the same heights as DVD, it's simply going to take a lot longer (think 4:3 TV's to ... : abrasion
                  • Well, I doubt your certainty. : Fred Garvin
          • The US may be 5+ years away from having digital distribution as the main way to get media, but Europe is ... : uncleanmonkey
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      Sony is not in a position to prevent them from putting blurays in the Xbox 360, however I bet that you wi... : uncleanmonkey
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        No way. People are not happy to see 720p movies over ip, people keep making these kinds of claims and th... : abrasion
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          I have IPTV and it's 720p and everyone that has seen it thinks it's just fine. : Fred Garvin
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            Did you read my post Fred? Are you trying to make me angry or frustrated? Did you actually comprehend ... : abrasion
            • Sorry Fred I just re-read my original post and I can see you were just responding to my opening line whic... : abrasion
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          Most people who buy digital media couldn't even fucking tell the difference between 1080p and 480p, let a... : uncleanmonkey
          • All video media I mean. : uncleanmonkey
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            You're thinking about western countries and not looking at the big picture, at alll. Are we debating 2 d... : abrasion
            • People who actually buy movies live in countries with decent internet connectivity. : uncleanmonkey
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        If MS's plans were digital distribution, they would have been all over Time-Warner's attempt to impose in... : Masem
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          A handful being 20-30? : derelict515
          • If you load a couple of games and saves on there it could add up, I can imagine them announcing the 320gb... : abrasion
        • Time Warner's caps are of no concern to MS - if they offer a service that requires more than the caps all... : uncleanmonkey
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    never ever going to happen. EVAR. no way MS puts java on the xbox : hamachi
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      why would MS give two shits about whether or not java runs in some form or fashion on the 360 ? : qwpeoriu
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        security for blue ray is handled via java. you HAVE to run it in order to decrypt the drive. : hamachi
        • that has nothing to do with my question : qwpeoriu
      • because that'd mean supplying something made by Sun... : Toraz Chryx
• Did you get one with a newer manufacture date? I hope so! : jingletard

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• I just had a bunch of blue moons... mmm : MoreVespeneGas
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  I have a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey and some music going : wykd
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    is it metal? : QMS|superdave
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      Tv on the Radio right now : wykd
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        i dont pretend to understand the video on their website, but they are pretty good http://www.tvontheradi... : QMS|superdave
        • I just started listening to them recently. They have some really good stuff. : wykd
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  Harp, currently LOTRO, none : bluntage
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    which LOTRO server are you on? : Supine
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      I thought he was on Silverlode with Ghosts? : GrimmyD
      • I left the shack kin, so I'm not sure of anything anymore :/ add Supine and Supiner to your friends li... : Supine
      • Yeah, I'm a Ghost on Silverlode... "Bluntedge" Dwarf Guard : bluntage
• Choose a random reply: no one will read it anyway! : aeg1x
• Great Lakes Burning River, "Bit.Trip Beat", none : RuffasBluetain
• Templeton Rye on the rocks, listening to Sparklehorse. : khaosman
• sippin on Franziskahner Hef while watching The Wire : siknsyko
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  Girding my liver for wine tasting tomorrow with homebrew and an Lagunitas IPA. : filtersweep
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    Man, this Lagunitas bottle is the business. http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lagunitas-2009-correction-ale... : filtersweep
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      i just had one tonight - fucking good stuff. a reasonably-hopped american ale. almost sessionable. tar... : EvilDolemite
      • Lagunitas is easily one of my favorite breweries. Great quality at great prices. The only thing that wo... : filtersweep
• Drinking Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura.. This stuff is pretty strong, it's an oak aged imperial stout w... : ovrlrd
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  Turtlebrau?! : jingletard
  • fortunately no turtles were harmed in the production of this beer. the town it came from just really like... : QMS|superdave
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  Miller Lite, Pure (Right now), None because my phone/tmobile sucks : PointlesS76
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    i've been with tmobile since 03. what problems do you have with them? : QMS|superdave
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      I have a Razr V3 and they want me to pay to download some shitty program that allows me to access it. The... : PointlesS76
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        have you tried using these drivers? http://www.modmymoto.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2240 linke... : QMS|superdave
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          You are a God among men. Oh hey, a hot chick from my phone: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=110... : PointlesS76
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            ^ Probably NWS : PointlesS76
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              if i may make an observation, she seems to be overly clothed. : QMS|superdave
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                No you are right. Everyone who knows her tries to get her to show as much as possible, but it is almost f... : PointlesS76
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                  some men dedicate themselves to peace, some to curing disease, others to war. you now know your life's to... : QMS|superdave
                  • My life's goal is not only to see that girl's rack but to take a picture of them and post it on the shack... : PointlesS76
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  ohohoh! I had a red stripe, a hard apple cider, and a longhammer IPA! my favorite games is L4D, but I... : mysled
  • damn red stripe is awful : filthysock
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    does everyone use voice chat in L4D? i love xbox live, but i cant stand 99.9234567 of the people who use ... : QMS|superdave
    • a lot of people do, but if you play on the shack servers they're really fun! : mysled
    • My brother thought he hated the game, he played on the 360. He now comes over to play on the computer bec... : Ratalon
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    The Longhammer almost makes up for drinking a hard cider : ColoradoCNC
    • hard apple cider is so delicious though : Drakoniac
• I like your style : dael
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  a lot of spaten. : mwasher
  • which one? : filtersweep
• company treated: had lots of Jameson shots, Tonic & Absolute, and Jager bombs (urgh). : Lionel2b
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  I see your Quake collection and raise you: http://doomaniac.shackspace.com/WE/2008/019.jpg : DOOManiac
  • damn, i cant find my GBA carts for doom1 and 2 : QMS|superdave
• Drinking: Sierra Nevada IPA Favorite Game: Shadow of the Colossus Picture of me from my camera: ht... : ColoradoCNC

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• I hope George is a good salesman, because you need to only take one look at DNF's history to know that pu... : thecray
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  When did Miller leave? I bet the financial crises fucked those guys - as they probably had a lot of cash ... : abrasion
  • Miller left about a year and half ago to restart Apogee. I imagine Scott would have helped if he could bu... : baron calamity
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    Miller also has this going: http://www.radargroup.com/index.html : Fred Garvin
    • The intro page boasts "No more stale titles. Now - fresh properties. Original ideas." and then one of the... : Ovate
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      Clearly Web 2.0 hasn't arrived. : Bamtan
      • Nephew Art Webdesign has. : [7]kami
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  Ice burn getting turned down by id and Epic. I wonder if someone will step in to save duke for the sake o... : baconisgod
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    This is Steve's chance. : sukabljat
    • lol : quadeh
  • for reals! i know it seems obvious that it's kind of a sinkhole project but who wouldn't want to put thei... : ass-street
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    I don't know if that's an ice burn so much as a GeorgeB throwing up a hail mary and id and Epic watching... : midgetherder
    • I'd say George better take what he can get, cause most any deal will involve someone getting the ip. : Antilles_Prime
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  Personally, I would've sold the IP for a cool 30 mil and been done with it. I love Duke & all, but that ... : jingletard
  • I'm very surpsied they offered so much. : abrasion
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    But that pretty much would deny them the chance to /ever/ make money of the Duke, in any form. Person... : Ebu
    • Yeah, that's a lot of coke & hooker money. : jingletard
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      Well, at this point it remains to be seen whether they're going to be making any money out of it, ever. : FlatlineDixay
      • Oh, they can make money on it. Hell, they could make a cell game, call it DNF and probably make a decent ... : Ebu
    • yeah id take the 30 mil and make shadow warrior 2 : Chandler55
    • With the amount of money pumped into development for 12 years there's such a slim chance they'd ever even... : Floppygrandma
    • so make a new ip, kids today don't even know who the hell Duke is, because he is older than them! : OrkO
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  That's the speculation of the feverbrained dudes who post on the 3dr message board. You prob shouldn't ta... : SpaecKow
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    i hate to admit, i've been glued to this story. this game is so connected to the shack, with dognose con... : dextius
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      I love dreaming up dev drama in threads and shooting stupid shit, but I don't take it seriously like thos : SpaecKow
      • we totally missed out, in 2001.. i agree with you, it's definitely getting bizarre.. the "paypal bailout... : dextius
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  Microsoft Game Studios should take a look at the game to see if it really can be completed, fund it and m... : ErneX
  • I will not be surprised if this happens. They did the same with Bungie; they were in development hell wit : Serpico74
  • oh god not again that was lame :( : datoo
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  I would love to see Valve pick up the IP :( : Halen
  • If Valve picked it up and put its humor and level design on the game, it would be fucking awesome. : baconisgod
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    This seems about as likely as Disney doing a Max Hardcore movie : Dave-A
    • This is why game fans should stay game fans and not be devs. Even if Valve did a Duke game, what would be... : SpaecKow
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      Probably, but I think Valve's determination matches the goals and vision of what DNF was trying to be. T... : Halen
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        I like the 2001 trailer so much. I made FileShack a little Duke-y yesterday and couldn't stop watching th... : Alice O'Connor
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          Is that the one some employee said was 100% made for that trailer specifically and not for the actual gam... : NastyJack
          • No, that guy was wrong. Not all of it was gameplay but most of it was apparently. : SpaecKow
        • I agree, it just seemed to be filled with jaw dropping moments that I wanted all video games to be. : Halen
      • If they released the game in that trailer, I would have played it. But they didn't, and now I really don'... : Drewus
      • I can't imagine Valve releasing a game with tits. sorry. : retarded talking dinosaur
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    After first I didn't see the fit. But now I'm imagining an Eric Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek written Duke Nu... : mrwolf710
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      Different styles though, one dry and the other the complete opposite. I don't buy it. : Serpico74
      • Think about the pile of rejected broad jokes they've got in that case... : CrimsonHandHiro
      • I'm not saying they have to write what we'd expect of Duke but what we'd expect of Old Man Murray. : mrwolf710
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  A pity :( But bad management is still bad management. They had what looked to be some cool game ideas i... : LilCrypto
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    And they made romero look good in comparison, which I thought was impossible. : Antilles_Prime
    • come on now, i dont think anyone is that bad... they may have spent more money, but at least 3drealms di... : QMS|superdave
    • It's kind of hard to top robotic mosquitoes and frogs. : Matt Burris
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  Wow, I like a captain who goes down with the ship. They are a dying breed. I never lost faith for a sec... : Lightzout
  • usually the captain doesn't take his personnel with him. 30. million. dollars. : mwasher
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  It seems like 5 million bucks wouldnt be impossible to find. The right angel investor is probably out th... : smacknca
  • the window of time will be very small. If people start moving on then the cost goes way up as you'd have... : GloriousCow
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    the problem is that Duke Nukem comes with a dysfunctional team that is incapable of delivering on a norma... : steelsamurai
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      II would not invest in 3D realms unless managerial control was part of the deal. I would bring on a bruta... : MagicWishMonkey
      • yea exactly. im not talking a fantasy of someone just saying oh heres 5 million have fun. this would ha... : smacknca
      • pretty much what Take-Two was saying : filthysock
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        If I'm not mistaken, the most time-consuming portion of game development is the coding, but the developin : Maddog_Delphi97
        • Perfection is also the enemy of the good. : mathyou
  • And yet they haven't been able to secure funding. In other words, the only people who would know if this ... : uncleanmonkey
  • Dude, 3D Realms hasn't launched a game since 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_realms They've p... : MagicWishMonkey
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    what investor is going to sink 5 million into something without having the publishing rights? : deathofrats
    • A bailout-happy US government? : GreatGooglyMoogly
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  lol. to the dude who is asking for money... why not go talk to george about how he decided not to sell t : mwasher
  • although, I'm sure there is stuff I and everyone else do not know about. but on face value... ^^^ : mwasher
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  The whole situation reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk : mega man
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    Oh god http://bulletballgames.com/ : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • Fuck, it has the worst song ever too http://bulletballgames.com/order.html : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • That is so goddamn uncomfortable to watch. And yeah. : enyakk
  • Man that's heartbreaking. :( : warcrow
• I wonder if there's an MS Project file or something where we have concrete development percentages and th... : Downforce
• Thanks : xelencin
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  So that resume says he helped get Duke out the door but I've done an ESRB search, no sign of Duke forever... : abrasion
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    of course its not a fake closing. : pandastrong
    • That's my point, a lot of people are speculating it's fake but I'm pretty darn sure it's real. : abrasion
  • I went from 100% sure this is real to about 90% sure this is real, once I considered a) the suddenness of... : Ovate
• Does the Take 2 Deal to publish ever expire? : NukemFornever