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  I wonder if Microsoft will fight back with even further price cuts of their own! : Ellissd
  • Kind of doubt it, it's already the cheapest of the 3 at $200, unless the just cut off the bottom tier mac... : one random winner
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    they will probably toss in some value adding things like a game or two. : Sailor of Fortune
    • ^^^^ This : MorrisatCNN
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      I thought they already had several bundles. : Vincent Grayson
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        It changes time to time. Elite is supposed to get Halo 3 and Fable 2 soon. Pro got Kung Fu Panda and Lego... : Sailor of Fortune
        • I thought they were killing off Elite? : Landrosradick
      • They bundle games in for the holiday season but if you go grab a new 60 gig 360 there aren't bundled game... : OmegaRed59
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  LOL! They can't announce it because they sell their units at a loss, so their inventory is automatically... : azenmaster
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    update: still laughing that they can't announce pricing based on accounting policy. say they have 1 ... : azenmaster
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      that is so funny man. I'm going to bust a gut laughing this hard. : Ellissd
      • high five man! : azenmaster
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      Why does inventory book value mean anything? : fishbone
      • well instead of a 1B$ loss it'd be 1.1B$ loss, in my example. Inventory devaluation is a straight up los... : azenmaster
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    Not quite. Inventory valuation is not held at the sales price; it's based on production or acquisiti... : Dessicator82
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      I can't believe I actually know all of that. Why oh why did I ever major in accounting... : Dessicator82
      • They'd typically take it to an inventory reserve if they perm adjusted as well. : bombay
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        Possibly because it's one of the three pillars that makes any decent business work. : one random winner
        • Yes, but it's so boring. And esoteric. And repetive. And other people ask random tax questions. And I... : Dessicator82
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      sorry, you are wrong. If they make a loss each time it is going to be impaired instantly to the net reali... : azenmaster
      • also if you do look it up and find that I am wrong let me know please. : azenmaster
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        Excellent point - I'm assuming that they production costs continued to decline during 2008. If they are ... : Dessicator82
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          sure but the instant they announce a price drop to 300$ that's 1/4th of your inventory value disappearing... : azenmaster
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            Not if the production cost is only $300 or $350 or whatever they drop the price to - then their wouldn't ... : Dessicator82
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              no, you're right. but then would they have said it would affect their inventory level? I guess if the... : azenmaster
              • The raw materials cost is about equal now I think, but they haven't factored in other costs like marketin... : Sailor of Fortune
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  Slim version at $300 please. : ant_hillbilly
  • i would definitely pick one up at that price even though i don't need it love to see a slimline ps3 an... : qwpeoriu
• sweet I still need a blu-ray player : indosauros
• Cool I could use a blue ray player so if they drop it down enough I'll buy one. : 5150Joker
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  NOW FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF $399.98! : jingletard
  • SOLD! : 5150Joker
• YES. I have been waiting for this. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Is this going to be the price cut the current low end model but phase it out and replace with newer SKUs ... : Sailor of Fortune
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    The 160 gig just came out though so I doubt it. : razlebol
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      Isn't it a one time SKU? : Sailor of Fortune
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        I have no idea. : razlebol
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          Yeah, it's Limited Edition, probably like the MGS4 pack. : Sailor of Fortune
          • http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/08/20/live-from-leipzig-north-american-hardware-announcements/ : Sailor of Fortune
  • That is SOOOOOOOO last year. : MorrisatCNN
• be sweet to pick up a price cut ps3 right before God of War : mindshot
• Nice, and then comes the PS3slim : voodooraze
• Thursday, another announcement that was overlooked remove 'that' ! : pigz
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  of course i bought a ps3 two days ago : [fry]
  • lol : NastyJack
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    return it. Did you even consider buying mine? :( : pancake humper
    • They're going to wait for a price cut. : Sailor of Fortune
  • Haha so did I. Fucking dammit. : sonicstorm
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  "Any price cut for the PS3 would be good news for consumers. At $400, the system is by far the most expen... : manlyman
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    Yeah, but LBP was a sales disappointment. MGS did fine, of course. Resistance wasn't the cultural event i... : MorrisatCNN
    • God of War 3 is 2010. : razlebol
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      But you state that it has an underwhelming software lineup, not a quality software lineup with underwhelm... : manlyman
      • lol Sony Defense Front : NexusOne
    • a 299$ ps3 and god of war would move a fuck ton of systems : crazywigga
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    Lets look at 2009 PS3: 13 Exclusives Killzone 2, inFamous, Uncharted 2, White Knight Story, Yakuza 3,... : manlyman
    • Half of the PS3 exclusives I've never heard of, whereas all the 360 games seem like big titles for gamers... : BlackCat9
    • it drives me crazy how titles like Ratchet and Clank never come down in price. The damn game is still $5... : smacknca
    • There's other 360 exclusives like that Bikini squad game, Race Pro, Star Ocean, Halo Wars, Ninja Blade, V... : Sailor of Fortune
    • So will Demon's Souls 0wn or what? : CrustaR
    • only 5 or 6 of those PS3 games are games ive even ever heard of, so I don't really think they can be coun... : Jackass1233
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    Because there are 10s of millions of hardcore gamers Sony was hoping would buy a PS3 but already have a 3... : derelict515
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      Yeah, thats usually how it always ends up when you own all consoles like I do. There are some games that... : manlyman
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        The argument wasn't less of a system, it was less of a value. : derelict515
        • you can derelict my balls! : Jackass1233
    • Yes, this. And with the prominence of multiplayer games in this generation of consoles, I'm going to... : cubeblue
  • The last 4-5 months changed that picture pretty dramatically, but still doesn't have near the quality lin... : Yanks
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    I have all 3, and if it's multiplatform I always go 360. Also ps controllers were designed for midgets wi... : Rauol Duke
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      if it weren't for the d-pad the 360 would be the perfect controller : Yanks
      • Word. Sony should focus more attention on the psn games. That's where the system really kicks the most as... : Rauol Duke
    • I am the same way since if I am playing the game I want my achievements and to be able to easily hop over... : Evil Benius
  • The console lacks gigantic blockbuster hits like Halo & Gears of War. While those titles you listed are : jingletard
  • The best system selling title for that machine is MLB the Show. : Lunatic Angelic
  • There hasn't been more then 5 games I guess that would make one HAVE to buy the system. And the few that... : bozer
  • Oh man. I knew the defense force was gonna go nuts with that line. : deveus1
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  Sweet! Just bought one weeks ago! :D : Rauol Duke
  • Thanks! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• so my bluray player purchase will have to wait. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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  pick something real zany like Aquatic Midget Peanut Butter Time : [fry]
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  DONT : askedrelic
  • That's not a very good name : Katarn3279
• your new name must be a minimum of 15 characters and/or 3 words : handofthrawn
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  Hijack: If you could change your shack username, what would you change it to? : mysled
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    ionex : kaddar0
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    I like my username >:( : ArcKnight
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      OrcKnight : kaddar0
      • I guess if I really had to I'd switch to Kadomony. : ArcKnight
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  • Sucat (St. Patrick's original name) or perhaps just my real life name. I'm getting too old for "cool" na... : handofthrawn
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  • broken i used it back in quake 1 but i can't get it here anyway, someone already registered it :( : vov1n
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      A Zen Master : azenmaster
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        Why didn't you just pick ZenMaster? Or at least change the capitalization to AZenMaster? (Does that still... : Bold
        • I wanted A Zen Master, I don't remember the cirucmstances in whatever year it was. : azenmaster
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    Squeegy That shack database seems to think it's taken. WTF. http://www.shacknews.com/profile/Squeegy : SqueegyTBS
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      Yeah, it says misled is taken too, that's why I registered as mysled. But now I think I prefer mysled sin... : mysled
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        you could change to missled; then you would be missle-like : c0bra
        • or Miss Lead, and then it would be all porn star sounding AND ammunitions sounding. There would be a huge... : mysled
      • I agree, mysled is way more interesting : kaddar0
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        I always thought it was a Citizen Kane reference. : deathofrats
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          * R O S E B U D ' D * : zebosausamite
          • Spoiler alert! : zehh
        • MY SLED : zehh
        • Ha, me too! It's supposed to be "misled"? That's goofy. : Bold
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    • Profiles aren't created until the user makes a post. : pupismyname
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    jen : jenisthebest
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      jen is not the best? : RikiTiki2
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  • haiku : marmite
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    Modica Del Sol since that's what everyone thinks it is anyway : Modica Sol Solis
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      I like the Solis, it always makes me think of desperate housewives : mysled
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        Wait, what? This just makes me wanna change it more >: : Modica Sol Solis
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          Yep! Eva Longoria's character is name Gabrielle Solis, and her husband is Carlos Solis! : mysled
          • Oh, if it's Eva Longoria, that's fine. : Modica Sol Solis
    • Monica Del Sol : mrvandelay
    • Monica Del Sol you mean : RikiTiki2
    • really? I thought it was Monica Solaris. I was going to ask you for pics cuz I thought you were a hot chi... : cptstern
    • Why not just take the faggotry all the way and go Civic Del Sol (or Honda Del Sol) lol - http://www.sw... : action wombmate
    • holy shit it's not? Does someone else have that name? : thekidd
    • man ... now I'm freaked out. I thought it was. : steelsamurai
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    I was firebone. : silent prophet
    • fireboner : okhelosir
  • CurrentLPB : HojuSimpson
  • kainen : kainen1
  • dirge : dirge23
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    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen : c0bra
    • That's weird I would have expected you'd want cobr4 : kaddar0
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    Mr. Tinned Peach, which is what I use on Steam and all my games. Only reason I still use my current one i... : cptn.peachfuzz
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      oooh, I was wondering who that was! Do you want invites to L4D games? I don't think I've ever played with... : mysled
      • I actually forgot to buy it during the last Steam sale. >_< : cptn.peachfuzz
  • QUAD, but that is taken by a no-post user that registered a decade ago :(. : quadeh
  • FckVwls : noodleboy723
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    FLIBBLE FLABBLE WOMBMATE ROOMATE BANANA PIRATE VON PETERSBURG THE EITHTEENTH : virus
    • of ulm : cerealSAM2
  • ridingmysled : Xanthos
  • Mustachio : sparkly
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    Suggest one for me. : DrWaffles
    • Renowned Scientist, Dr. J.R. Waffles, Phd. : sparkly
    • ProfPancakes? : Haxim
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        Or HighPriestHotcakes : Haxim
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      • Awesome : DrWaffles
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      DrBaconWaffles because I know how much you love bacon. : mittense
      • >:( : DrWaffles
    • Waffles is credit to food! : locater16
    • DocWaff : SolveChrist
    • Giant Waffles : Mmmmmoo
    • I like crepe : gnomish
    • What's wrong with DrWaffles? I like it. : voodooraze
    • AlexXGuy : DrFlammable
    • Waffles, M.D. : SockMonkeh
    • WrDaffles : Goblin au
  • Possibly roflcopter, but that'd only be useful if I was still going on my lol patrol. : lolpatrol
  • rosewood pooped here : rosewood
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    Faarten Moldstein or kgargonmagrix78 or kangaroo magic : kgargs
    • haha, that first one's perfect. : mysled
  • Anything anonymous so that I can be more of a jackass around here. : Rich McNinch
  • Headrush : Head Rush
  • joeslim : thejm4n
  • sauerkrause since I use it everywhere else. : zerog83
  • Captain Sodomy : retardhumper
  • acyberkeneticsuperjanitor : Dschinghis Khan
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        • A Sponge Bath : DrWaffles
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  • Loiosh *sigh* : LoioshDwaggie
  • I'd probably change it to my actual name. : mittense
  • xlegolasx72 : Link.
  • Gren Farvid : melt_core
  • Arcanum. Or Maarten Goldstein. One or the other. : Arcanum
  • Sodomy : Slowtreme
  • CerealSam3 : cerealSAM2
  • I wouldn't. As much as I hate that my name was named after a game I liked at the time, I now have this na... : OverloadUT
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    • falling on your own sword ain't working so well, huh? : Postal
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        Hello, fellow geezer fans of comics which no kids today have ever heard of! : Bold
        • that is vaguely depressing : Deathlove
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  • I haven't been able to come up with anything better :/ : Chunks
  • qpwoeiru : qwpeoriu
  • Finestaut, with a capital F. : Finestaut
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    I like mine a lot. : Frozen Pixel
    • It's neat. :) : nevicata
  • doubledecker soulwrecker but I like gnomish just fine, I guess : gnomish
  • FatCock CocknBalls Ding-a-ling fyi I'm joking, i like my Handle. I tried to make a shack joke... : GoodBoy
  • 27th Level Archmage : Majuju
  • Praetor, Praetorian, or Praefect. Or just ae, I have a thing for that letter combination for some reason.... : Marauder IIC
  • Wally Seepgood : MurrayTheSkull
  • SiW : SiW.
  • P4L : sesmaster
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      I read that as Flaming Potato Mine and I like it better. : c0bra
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        I read that as Flaming Potato Mime, and perhaps that is best of all : GloriousCow
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          mimes are never best : c0bra
          • they are best to shoot in the face, admit it : GloriousCow
  • DONT : askedrelic
  • I kind of wish I had made mine a little more pronounceable. : Omning
  • Fiant Gaggot : Utopia
  • Donkey_Popsicle and have both comment histories merged. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • hoov Shack says it's taken but there's no profile of that bastard. Or maybe that bastard was me and I ... : hoov1185
  • faggatron 5000 : ninjase
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    • I support this decision. : Arctic Fox
  • MonTy, someone who doesn't post has it :( Asked mods for it but no luck! : Lionel2b
  • Acerbicwithadashofawesome : Vincent Grayson
  • BabyPenis : SockMonkeh
  • Hagbard : romulan
  • Jayson with no "." : .Jayson
• it would be great if you could combine accounts. this is my 3rd account on the shack and my first was reg... : get_navi
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  squareonix : Patch-e
  • Squonix : Arcanum
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  We should all change our usernames every year or so. I'm feeling ripe for another change. : Foxhawk
  • So we can be a slow 4chan? owait : ArcKnight
• Don't, leave it the way it is. : voodooraze
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  I believe above ground zucchini farm is available. : SqueegyTBS
  • TAKEN! : Xanthos
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    what about space-based beet vineyard? : MercFox1
    • aquatic kelp factory : sparkly
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    how about secret black people forced labor banana farm : S1ing B1ade
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      replace black people with the n word if you really want something that rolls off the tongue. : S1ing B1ade
      • Secret Nurses Forced Labor Banana Farm : voodooraze
    • Black Market Penis Slave : Sailor of Fortune
    • lol nice : OmegaRed59
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    Purple Introverted Exhibitionist : voodooraze
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      Pointlessly Verbose Shackname : dirge23
      • Interior Crocodile Alligator : My Documents
      • Yes : c0bra
    • Purple Monkey Dishwasher : Mmmmmoo
• we should have a day where every shacker gets a random username and then revel in the chaos : Modica Sol Solis
• type "kill" in console for name-change menu : _jon
• re sign up : SoNiC :<
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  Generally they choose really awful terrible new nicknames and get teased for eternity until they either g... : acheron
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    Bamtan foo : ArcKnight
    • That's what I said. Batman. : acheron
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    Mine is for sure better. : underground banana plantation
    • The novelty will wear off : Sailor of Fortune
    • i've already forgotten who you were. i hate name changes. =( : mindmann
  • Well it is : Bamtan
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    I disagree. : Clay
    • You don't get a vote, Huntsman : acheron
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  So, I reregister with a new name - but how do I get my Mercury status moved to the new account? btw, m... : eonix
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    It's not, fuck off. : eonix
    • You should be nicer to yourself. : esad
  • what the hell? : DrFlammable
  • It should be I'm Changing My Name Because Nobody Pays Enough Attention To Me : Phreakin
• I would only change my name if I could keep my registered birthday of May 21, 2002. : bstrad
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    GO RECONFIGURE GO : m0rfus
    • Needs more sql injection exploits =) : esecasco
• I was thinking of changing my name but I couldn't come up with any real reason to bother. It's just an on... : roushimsx
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    Oh what, no Bolt Thunderhuge? : eonix
    • Just what you see, pal. : Bold
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  You should get one like mine; Everyone loves it. : Ooghijmiqtxxa
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    Ya well I fucking hate it. : eonix
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      eonix sounds like a gay transformer that shoots rainbows out of it's pinky so I win. : Ooghijmiqtxxa
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        I like your name it's pretty : datoo
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          I like your name. Let's make Ooghidatoo babies. : Ooghijmiqtxxa
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            Ooghidatoo, Solo? : hoov1185
            • I've not heard that name for a long time. : Turd Ferguson
          • I put on my robe and wizard hat. : datoo
      • Please tell me how iehowiehfowinef > gay transformer? I'd like to know. : eonix
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    hopefully soon, every time YOU post it will have to be approved by a 3 person moderator counsel that only... : CoRDS
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      Well that won't happen but fortunately for you kleenex has an Australian division. Get the kind with aloe... : haiku
      • hahahah : CoRDS
    • that is such a good idea i approve this post : datoo
    • When douching in Australia, do you go clockwise or counter-clockwise? I forget. Either way though, it sho... : brickmatt
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    That was bad. Didn't seem like something you would normally say. I'm a little disappointed. : virus
    • in before haiku bats virus around like a cat playing with a mouse : acheron
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    it's true, geedeck says yes to everything : Deathlove
    • everything. : re4ctor
    • Geedeck, can I have a pony?? : acheron
  • Fuck the system, I'll make a new account. : eonix
• GodOfShackers, or ShackerOfAThousandShackers : radula

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  I don't get where people are linking smokey and fake locke? : stonedonkey
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    Watch the season again. You'll noticed that every time smokey shows up, Locke magically vanishes. Also, : WhatIsThisFor
    • The best example of this would be when Ben tries to summon Smokey at the Dharma village, but Smokey doesn : dirge23
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      I'm betting that the guy at the start, Man #2 was just another person smokey inhabited : Bamtan
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        I'll buy that. Here's a mind fuck: They're BOTH smoke monsters. : kek
        • I've thought about the possibility of multiple smoke monsters before. Smokey does seem to divide up and : dirge23
        • Wow, okay and upon further review, if there are two smoke monsters, one "good" and one "bad" you can use : kek
        • Holy shit. Add that to this interview: http://my.wrif.com/mim/?p=2152 Emerson points out that the blac : Bamtan
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    Because it's the only other thing in the show that has exhibited the ability to appear as different peopl : kek
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      The apparent rule is that the form it takes must be of someone who is dead. : WhatIsThisFor
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        This isn't exactly true, since the smoke monster seems to have taken Walt's form before and Walt is still : dirge23
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          Ah, good catch. : WhatIsThisFor
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            We don't know that.The smoke monster never killed anybody right after we saw Walt. The Others seemed to h : Endymion_
            • Also a good point. : WhatIsThisFor
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              Agreed, but the most likely example of Smokey posing as Walt is when Walt appears to Locke bleeding in th : dirge23
              • Good point, I was just pointing out we'd never actually seen smokey actually be smokey (which usually mea : Endymion_
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                I now think that was Jacob and not Man #2 I think they're both smoke monsters with the ability to appear : kek
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                  I am pretty skeptical that Jacob could be killed by Ben with a knife if he is in fact a shapeshifting smo : dirge23
                  • Maybe it was a magic knife. Pseudo-Locke gave it to him. I dunno. : kek
      • Yeah! And hence my reference to the "loophole" Smokey (Jacob's nemesis) needed a Dead Leader to imperso : kek
  • logically the only person/thing/whatever we've seen that can shapeshift is the thing you mentioned. I'm ... : fathertime
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    well for one thing, smokey told ben to do whatever fake locke told him : smax
    • I guess I could see why that would be possible, the whole summoning of him by Ben during the incident wit : stonedonkey
  • I'd rather think and hope that ol smokey is really the "referee" to the whole Jacob/Esau thing. He's the : Masem
• hell yes it was epic... i can't believe we have to wait about 9 months for it to start back up again. ... : Shadowdane
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  Call me stupid, but I still didn't get it. : michaelleung
  • You're stupid. : mechanicalgrape
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    me neither, i understand what happened but i dont "get it" or how it works. even in a mystic sort of way : handofthrawn
    • the "rules" werent explained yet so dont feel bad. the op is making a theory. I'm sure we will have mor... : fathertime
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      Yeah, I still have no freaking idea what's up with that 1977 crap. : michaelleung
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        Interview on AOTS last night, the creators said that the passengers were not able to completely recreate : Endymion_
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          But why wasn't Sun sent back with them? : Begawkiness
          • She's really annoying : Bamtan
        • OH THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE : chrisschutz
  • agreed. i thought i missed something that actually happened, not just inference. : thinkp0l
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  Why do people keep saying Juliette is dead? She is just as alive (injured though of course) as the others : Patch-e
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    Jack and the rest are 1000 feet above her protected by stone/eartth/etc. She's touching a hydrogen bomb : kek
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      The last time we saw bad things happen at the hatch, Desmond was touching the "key" and survived, so I re : umcpwintermute
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        So you are saying you think the event at the season 2 finale is equivalent to a hydrogen bomb? I get the ... : Endymion_
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          The hatch fucking exploded and left a giant crater behind. Desmond survived, so why can't Juliette? Maybe : Patch-e
          • Everywhere I read referred to the hatch event as an "implosion." ;) Oh and Eko was rather fucked up as : Endymion_
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      1000 feet? how did she survive the fall if that is the case? : mwasher
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        Locke survived that same fall right? or was that a different hole/well : Slowtreme
        • That was the Orchid, the time travel station. This is the Swan, the electromagnetism station : kek
    • I hate to be a dork about this, but it is not a hydrogen bomb ...it is the nuclear bomb core that starts : flagg209
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    theres way too much confusion around this whole "teleport" thing. Faraday said a million times that you c : maulla
    • I don't think the bomb changes anything in the future, but I do think it will provide the mechanism to ju : stonedonkey
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    because a nuke went off right next to her whereas the others were separated by tons of dirt. So the other : byorn
    • I thought the nuke was supposed to be a timeline reboot, meaning none of what we saw would happen, includ : Clay
  • Because she fell really far and was clearly very injured. Also, the actress has a new show she's supposed : Vincent Grayson
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  I wondered what the loophole was all about. But what kind of rule that only a leader can talk to Jacob. : handofthrawn
  • That's what season six is for. : WhatIsThisFor
  • I think the rule was that "only one person (at a time) can talk to Jacob." Basically, either the "one : umcpwintermute
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    Someone link me a pic of esau . I have no idea who this is and I watched the whole season. : Slowtreme
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      The guy in the very beginning of the finale? His name wasnt mentioned. The name people are giving him is ... : Patch-e
      • It's better than 'Mr. X' which I've seen him called elsewhere. : WhatIsThisFor
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      http://tinyurl.com/o4du45 : dirge23
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        we don't really know his name right? also, the first thing I thought of when I saw him was Richard Hatch. : Slowtreme
        • no, we don't know his name. : dirge23
        • He was billed as "Man #2", Jacob was billed as "Man #1". : WhatIsThisFor
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          I had come to think (while watching this episode) that he was a younger Christian. I still don't get Chri : invisible_kid
          • The first seen of the finale made me think of the trials of Job : mattavius
    • http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/img/castandcrew/actors/tituswelliver.jpg : lechuck59
  • Two possible explainations for this: Esau (the other guy with Jacob at the start) is unable to kill Jac : Masem
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    I don't know if anyone's made this point already, or if it's explicitly obvious and I'm spinning my wheel : notd665
    • Nevermind, I see Masem made that exact point RIGHT ABOVE ME, hahah. : notd665
    • This is similar to the way that Ben and Widmore apparently cannot directly kill each other, for whatever : dirge23
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  Why would anyone hate on Jack's choice, he had to do it. It's not that he could or couldn't change anythi : Slowtreme
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    I think he did change events. I think in the timeline we've seen up til now, the nuclear detonation was : dirge23
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      the swan wasn't built yet when they were drilling. Nothing is blown up yet. : Slowtreme
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        It seems to have been partially completed. The hatch is in place at the time of the incident. : dirge23
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          Everything that's happening I think always has happened, the incident was the incident they've talked abo : stonedonkey
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            I think Faraday was correct that people can change events and are "the variable", although he did not dir : dirge23
            • Right, but my point is, everything that's happened to a character up to this point cannot be changed. In : stonedonkey
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            Remember Miles asking what if setting off the nuke caused everything to happen in the first place? I don... : Clay
            • It was just to point out the inherent confusion in the issue. There's no way to know until next season. : dirge23
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          looked like it was just sitting there to me : Slowtreme
          • I'm not entirely sure since it wasn't on screen long, but I think it was partially buried, like always. : dirge23
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      You sure about that? Fallout from the nuclear detonation could be the "sickness" Kelvin and everyone refe : silent prophet
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        I think Radzinski, being extremely paranoid about the Hostiles, made up an imaginary sickness in order to : dirge23
        • Hmm... interesting. : silent prophet
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      back in the beginning of season 2, Jack and Sayid were exploring inside the hatch, and there was that con : Flying h4x0r
      • Could just be radiation. Check this out: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19915863 : Bamtan
      • I think this is just to contain the incredibly powerful electromagnetic force that caused the incident in : dirge23
      • problem with that is little ben grows up on the island and dharma comes back to finish their work. So i ... : deathofrats
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    It's just that he's always fucking wrong. And he never realizes that he's always fucking wrong. : kek
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      but he's not wrong, no more than anyone else trying to get away. : Slowtreme
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        He's wrong when he says they're all going to magically reappear on their flight and soar over the island : kek
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          right right, but he had to think he was fixing things in order to be doing exactly what fate/ thepast dic : Slowtreme
          • Yeah. His actions are right, but his motivations are wrong. Which means he essentially accidentally did... : kek
• so whatever possessed locke was presumably the same thing that possessed christian, yes? When anna went t : maulla
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  As someone who only watched the first few seasons of LOST and loved it... now I click the spoilers and... : Supine
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    If you loved the first few seasons, why did you stop? : zebosausamite
    • Because he watched season 3? : Dimmona
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    Why are you ruining the best seasons of LOST by reading these spoilers? : byorn
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      because I'll never watch the series through and I think it's kind of bewildering to see the turns it's ta... : Supine
      • this season has answered a LOT of things brought up in Season 1 & 2... they only have 1 season left, the... : Shadowdane
      • It's been better since they were given an end-date. Once they were told "only two more seasons guys" th... : kek
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  How do you know if Miles is right? That is what next season is for. : topkatz
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    I know Miles is right because: From a story-telling perspective, there's no way that Jack, Kate, Sawyer, : kek
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      They are gonna jump to 2007 time on the island, not in LAX as if nothing happened. Jacob said something l : Patch-e
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        I agree, so Jack was wrong. His motivation for using the bomb was to reset everything so that they never : kek
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          Im not saying he is wrong, Im just saying I dont know. This could be a new time line, and they could be ... : topkatz
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            Maybe, but I don't think so. Everything they're doing is consistent with the future we've already seen. ... : kek
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              this is all true except for that last part. It would only start changing now. : topkatz
              • No, it wouldn't. That's not how it works. Everything going on in 1977 as "the present" for Jack, Kate, Sa : Vincent Grayson
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  I missed about 10 crucial seconds last night can someone help - scene where locke fell off the building. : fathertime
  • Yes. : umcpwintermute
  • Locke was not breathing until Jacob touched him. : WhatIsThisFor
  • He actually touched everyone in the flashbacks, so who knows what that means, but its interesting. : stonedonkey
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    Well Jacob made Richard immortal, so yes he has that power. Or had, I guess. : Modica Sol Solis
    • Immortal is not the term he used. He said "Jacob made him this way", referring to not aging. So we should : Patch-e
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  Juliette's top stole the show. Man, she is hot. : wretchedradio
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    i do not have attraction to this person, not sad if she's gone. : Slowtreme
    • subtle. 7/10 : greydog
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  so... i stopped watching at the end of season 2 or 3 and the last I saw was everyone *in the future* and : kgargs
  • the get there to begin with : Slowtreme
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    Well, you really shouldn't read this but: In order to go back in time to cause The Incident which requi : kek
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      Weeeelll, I don't know if the Losties caused the Incident - the electromagentic release would have been i : Masem
      • Hm, I like that theory. Maybe the nuke isn't going to send them into the future but the initial release : kek
      • I like this theory Masem : Begawkiness
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        Pretty solid theory! : Bamtan
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          Also backed up by the fact Faraday spoke of negating the energy in the magnetic pocket by detonating the : Bamtan
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            so when desmond turned the key he actually triggered the nuke? : palewussy
            • OH SHIT : Bamtan
            • That's would be a logical extension of the theory, yes and why it was the failsafe. So the question re : Masem
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      wtf : kgargs
      • Well, I told you so! : kek
  • hard to explain / technically unknown at this point : Patch-e
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  I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see something after the bomb went off, either say a fla : Carnivac
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    so wow, they actually answered questions and ended a story, but you are somehow upset. thats awesome. : Slowtreme
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      I'm not upset, just a little disappointed. I loved what we got, I just wanted and expected a little bit ... : Carnivac
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        I prefer it this way. Every time when shows like Heroes do it you end up disappointed. This way we can ... : grabbie
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          Or if it gets canned (anything is possible in TV land) at least they gave us a good stopping point. : Slowtreme
          • there is no way Lost could be cancelled short of the entire cast being killed : derelict515
          • Lost has another season, regardless of ratings or anything else. : Vincent Grayson
  • I agree. I was expecting the bomb to happen about 5 minutes before it actually did. What a bummer. :( : silent prophet
  • The game changer was the nature of Jacob and Esau which could have more impact than what happened due to : spiderfill
  • Actually this ending is quite a lot like the ending of Season 1, where they open the Hatch but only revea : dirge23
  • yea, I was a bit disappointed that there was no real setup for next season. : aethyr
  • I disagree. I think if the episode ended any other way it would have been bad. : freshyk
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  I am just now watching last night's episode, and when they opened the box for Frank I couldn't help but i : sesmaster
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    Not at all. What's in the fucking box? kept going through my head. : slax0r
    • Holy shit so I wasn't the only one?? I was even making the upset\confused faces and rising\dropping my g... : HojuSimpson
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  2010 is so far away.. you can have formed a babby by the time LOST is back on TV : sikander
  • what a pig you are : liquidlies
• WE AIN'T FOUND SHIT : Downforce
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  time travel? I've never watched Lost. I thought the premise of the show was that people get stranded on a... : cptstern
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    that is the original premise of the show, but, uh, it takes a few odd turns here and there : dirge23
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      ya I guess ...have they been visited by extraterrestrials yet? how about a japanese soldier who still thi... : cptstern
      • I have been waiting for the Harlem Globetrotters to show up since Season 2 : dirge23
  • It's a little more complicated than that. : Ctrl-Phreak
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    Its just like Gillian's Island, if you imagine the Professor already knew about the island and sabotaged ... : silent prophet
    • this is perfect : Slowtreme
• Juliet's spectacular tits were my constant. Now I am adrift in a sea of flat-chested drama queens. Oh, an : silent prophet
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  Why would people think Locke is the smoke monster? That makes no sense to me. He clearly isn't Locke, b... : grendel
  • "We've never seen anything to indicate that the smoke monster can assume a human form" -- this is flat wr : dirge23
  • Uhh.. the smoke monster was obviously Yemi when he killed Eko. He's also been a horse, a spider (the one : K1Bond007
• remember this from the first episode ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pilot2backgammon.jpg : sikander
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  Re: Jacob - my wife noticed that during all of the Jacob flashbacks, they made a point of showing that he : Dimmona
  • I thought the the touching was pretty obvious. : Bamtan
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    Then she missed the fact he never touched Juliet in the flashback :P : stonedonkey
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      Was there a Jacob/Juliette flashback where he didn't touch her or just that one flashback where her paren... : kek
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        It was the only kid flashback back where he didn't come into play. : stonedonkey
        • because she didnt leave the island : CoRDS
  • the touching was pretty blatant seeing as they focused on it in most of his scenes : maulla
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    to be fair, the only reason I knew about the foot was from shack posts and links to pics. I dont remember... : Slowtreme
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      I remember Sayid saw it when he was boating around the island. I think that might have been in Desmond's... : kek
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        that was the season 2 finale, IIRC : dirge23
        • ^^^Winnar. It was the the Official LOST "wtf?!" Moment™ for that episode. : mn3m0n1c
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      It's been a pretty constant example of 'wtf when are they going to explain ___?' on forums and such : derelict515
      • I'm just glad they finally explained all of the amazing coincidences on the show. Like what are the chan : kek
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  Finished the episode and I really really was hoping for a Claire cameo. Or maybe something a little bit m... : sesmaster
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    There's actually a few problems with Adam and Eve being Bernard and Rose. For one, they were last seen i : dirge23
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      it doesn't matter if they never come in the future, they are already there now. : opengl128
      • Who knows. They're still apparently in the wrong time, though. : dirge23
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      Biblical Jacob and Esau are basically good (blessed by God) and evil (hated by God), and predestined to t... : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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        There are biblical references, sure, but you're jumping to a lot of conclusions here. : dirge23
        • I watched the intro again on ABC.com and he has some points. Just listen to the way they talk to each oth... : Porkasaurus
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      50 year thing was a Jack claim. As everyone likes to point out, Jack is wrong a lot. He's a brain surgeon... : Slowtreme
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        I guess, but if you assume Jack is wrong about that it could be virtually anybody. : dirge23
        • even if he's right it still could be anybody. : Slowtreme
  • I do agree with you that, as a finale, it was kinda lackluster. A great episode, yes. Finale? Not really... : HojuSimpson
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  I used to think there was a science fiction explanation to it all. Ancient alien spaceship, millions of y : Marauder IIC
  • If they went the American Gods route that would be cool, though I'm still holding out for a more 'Sci-Fi'... : mn3m0n1c
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    Pretty sure they've straight-up said there's no aliens. But then again, they also said that about time tr : Arceihn
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      If there are no aliens, then why does the statue only have four toes? : Totenjaeger
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        The statue is an egyptian god with a crocodile head. He can have as many toes as he wants. : .sticks.
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          I'm just having fun. I hope they don't pull an Indy 4 on this one. : Totenjaeger
          • Also, do you have a picture of the croc head, 'cause I thought it was supposed to be Annubis? : Totenjaeger
      • Because that was the style of some Egyptian statues - http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Four-toed_statue : Porkasaurus
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        Because they aren't feet, they're paws, it is an anthropomorphised animal such as an Egyptian god. I alwa : Endymion_
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          We learned a lot of evidence about the statue this episode, from the better shot to the tapestry found i : Porkasaurus
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            Looks more like Sobek than Annubis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek : mattavius
            • Na, although the statue has a long snout and you can see teeth, it's got doggy ears! And while we're on i : Endymion_
• AHH!! Missed the last half hour thanks to damn weatherman covering Tornados in the area.. GRRR. : GoodBoy
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  My question: Who exactly is Jacob, what is the island? Some Garden of Eden? Some alternate reality? Is h : EvilDolemite
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    Impossible to tell at this point. According to the bible Jacob retired in Egypt and we've seen plenty hi : WhatIsThisFor
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      For all of the fear and awe his name inspires, Jacob's actual powers seem extremely limited, or even non- : EvilDolemite
      • He may have raised Locke from the dead, and it seems like maybe he brought the various primary characters : dirge23
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        teleportation, never ages, that's kinda serious for power. : Slowtreme
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          How do you figure teleportation? : dirge23
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            he traveled around to "touch" everyone, and he sure as hell didn't take the sub off the island. : Slowtreme
            • I think "secret boat" before I think "teleportation", but that's me. : dirge23
      • The Incident occurred at The Swan, the electromagnetic station. The time travel station is The Orchid. : kek
      • well when he first appeared when Locke and Ben were waiting for him he said something to the effect of 'i : derelict515
      • He was weaving a tapestry in the crusty old Egyptian room at the base of the pedestal. What is on the tap : Endymion_
      • They also emphasized his faculty with various languages. : skizl
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  What is hilarious to me is that I've only watched Season 1. And I remember when it finished, I thought, : Phil
  • Be glad you didn't get to Season 2, then. That was the worst at being strung out and convoluted. : dirge23
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    I used to think that, but watching Season 5 makes me think that they had a plan all along. And I never... : slax0r
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      Yeah I watched the first 3 seasons on dvd so I skipped over alot of the long drawn out shit. I used to j... : kek
      • Basically, from what I've heard, they had a story in mind all along, but they weren't sure how many seaso... : slax0r
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    It ties together very nicely so far, from episode one and on. Pacing is way the fuck off in s2 an 3, but ... : d fluke
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      I dont know what this says about me, but season two is when I first started watching it and got hooked. : fathertime
      • Season 2 was good when it was first on, but in retrospect it really goes nowhere and very little introduc... : dirge23
  • i agree 100% on all accounts : foo
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  Hurley theory: I think Jacob is aware that at some point, someone is going to kill him. This is why Hurle : Bamtan
  • Whao, Hurley actually becomes important? I like this theory. Unfortunately, after 5 seasons of never ta... : kek
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    This. This is also why Miles is very important. : Modica Sol Solis
    • Yeah I assumed Miles would become important for this reason, hadn't thought about Hurley though. : Begawkiness
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    Well I disagree with Jacob's enemy trying to get rid of Hurley because he was aware of his "importance". : K1Bond007
    • Yeah, there's no reason for Jacob note to be pursuing his own agenda/loophole exploit. Makes sense to me : d fluke
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    wait, when did that second part happen? : deathofrats
    • See the episode "Dave" from season 2, IIRC. : BlackCat9
  • Hurley eats Jacob : gmd
• can't see anyone discussing this yet, but what did Jacob mean when he said "they're coming". I think he's : even4
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  Maybe i missed something from last night but... when did we find out the other guys name was esau? : chodog
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    It's just a nick name Shackers game him. : 5150Joker
    • game = gave : 5150Joker
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    we didn't. people are just assuming since the biblical story of jacob and esau fits : smax
    • oh weird; I could swear I've heard Locke say/use that name previously.... : proclone1
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  Does anyone know what Richard replied with after he was asked "what lies in the shadow of the statue?" : Katarn3279
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    http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_of_the_statue says it was "Ille qui nos omnes servabit," Latin for : dirge23
    • my latin sucks: http://www.apakistannews.com/ille-qui-nos-omnes-servabit-120411 : dirge23
  • Ille qui nos omnes servabit" (Latin for, "He who will watch over us all.") : kramweil
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  I'm not sure if anyone else was aware, but Juliette (Elizabeth Mitchell) was Angelina Jolie's co-star in ... : mrvandelay
  • was there juliette boob to be seen? fuck angelina that bitch's evil : proclone1
  • What the hell? It's disgusting that you think any of the posters in this topic haven't already done a Goo... : Bamtan
• Wait.. so if the smoke monster is the bad guy and convinces Locke to bring them all back, just so Locke w : Edges

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  He's too busy couting his money and driving his tugboat. : Haku-Jin
  • How much food do you think is hidden in his grizzled beard? : phate81
  • And being a wizard. : CapnChaos
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  Every time you fuckers complain, GRRM kills a Stark. Think of the Starks! Stop it! : lightly inclined
  • Hahahaha :( : node
  • Awesome! : zebosausamite
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    Are there any left? I wish I could remember; maybe if it hadn't been FIVE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE THE LAST BO... : rudds
    • arya, sansa, bran, rickon (i think?), jon, zombie catelyn : bipolar
  • hahaha : acheron
  • Hahaha! : uncleanmonkey
• US FAT PEOPLE DO EVERYTHING SLOWER nom nom nom : [fry]
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  My fiance is jonesing for this book like no other. She is constantly asking me when is it coming out. : amrbean
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    In fact, we are both afraid he will die before the series is finished. And I don't even read the series! : amrbean
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      *robert jordan'd* : wendigo
      • I was in basic training when he died - I got a letter from my friend, and my TI didn't let us open our le... : ArcKnight
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  I hate his blog too. so many useless short stories and talks about the jets : hamachi
  • He made me hate the jets even more. : zebosausamite
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  http://grrm.livejournal.com/ : boring gegtik
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    sweet! they cast Tyrion! http://grrm.livejournal.com/86651.html : deathofrats
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      They really couldn't have cast anyone else. : c0bra
      • I didn't know who you could have meant and then I looked at it and said "Yes, that is exactly right." : Deathlove
  • Not a single post about WRITING A GODDAMN BOOK : CapnChaos
• haha yes >:( : c0bra
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  How long has it been in development? : silent prophet
  • Dunno, but his LJ writer just got laid off. : zebosausamite
  • wasn't book 3 finished in '99? book four released in 2004 (i think) and it's going to be at least 6 year... : deathofrats
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  I want a Hodor viewpoint chapter : retardhumper
  • Hodor Hodor Hodor, hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor, "HODORRRRRRRRRRR!", hodo : Ride-My-Rocket
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    Haha, that would be amazing. : node
    • I coulda sworn there already is one. : spectr3
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  I'm thinking about not even reading it when it comes out...dont want to wait for the last 2 books after t... : sreyes22
  • Yeah, I've already stocked up on a bunch of fantasy and sci-fi first-of-series books. I'll let the fat h... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    I'm waiting until he finished completely before I reread the series. Same with Jordan (RIP) and his last... : Vantage
    • One book a year, booya! : c0bra
    • I'm curious how Sanderson will handle the last book - I believe they said they are splitting it up into 3... : ArcKnight
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    everyone should read the first three and stop. the third book ends rather well enough to if he had never... : deathofrats
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      I'm on the second.. I heard the 4th is the best though, weird. : phokz
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        the 4th is the worst. There are a few wtf moments, but overall, and you'll understand this once you fini... : deathofrats
        • No it doesn't. The 4th book is a good great and all of the characters that you "don't care about" are cle... : SockMonkeh
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  I think you should read this: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html : cerealSAM2
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    scroll down a couple paragraphs and start reading from "Hi Neil." : cerealSAM2
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      These are great reading directions thanks : boring gegtik
      • no problem any time you're welcome : cerealSAM2
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    It's not entitlement -- it's GRRM saying "almost done, it'll be out in September" year after year, with n... : Ride-My-Rocket
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      The last one came out in 2005. 4 years is not an unreasonable or even an unusual amount of time to spend ... : peanut-
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        True, it's the promising that makes it gut wrenching (and isn't he the same guy who fessed up to losing a... : zakazi
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          Again, I don't care if he spent 6 months watching football or playing WoW. It's the fact that he's been : Ride-My-Rocket
          • Haha Wow is probably to blame. : phokz
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        This is why I read authors like Kay Kenyon, Jacqueline Carey, Peter Hamilton, and Naomi Novik. They're al... : LoioshDwaggie
        • Also, if you haven't read Naomi Novik yet, GO DO SO NOW. : LoioshDwaggie
      • the only problem with that is he said he had written too much and had to chop book 4 into two parts, and ... : deathofrats
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        Erikson cranks out 1000 pages a year! He will have finished the Malazan series in the time it takes Mart... : grendel
        • Yeah, Erikson is a machine. : Ride-My-Rocket
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          Yeah but Erikson just tosses out whatever the hell comes to mind after his latest night out getting shitf... : Modica Sol Solis
          • Do what works I guess :\ : c0bra
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            I don't think so. Erikson's world is a lot more meticulously planned than GRRM. The difference is that ... : Vantage
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              I don't think it's any more or less planned. What I can't stand is the sheer insanity of Malazan's world,... : Modica Sol Solis
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                Yes but the other difference between the series is that the Malazan books get written. I like to read bo... : grendel
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                  I guess I don't mind the wait. I'm a writer, sometimes you need to take shit slow and step back. Ya'll ar... : Modica Sol Solis
                  • I don't mind him taking shit slow and stepping back. I mind that he seems to be spending 90% of his time ... : mmogger
            • I love the books but meticulously planned? come on : AssGoblin
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        i think the problem that people had was that book four was supposed to be what is now going to be book 4 ... : mindmann
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          Especially since at the end of Feast for Crows GRRM was all 'hey dudes the second half of this book will ... : Arceihn
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            I doesn't help that FfC advances the plot about 2 inches. : phate81
            • Don't remind me :( : Arceihn
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  no sploitz, im about to finish book 3! : MrBig0
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    hopefully the fifth will be out by the time i'm done the fourth... : MrBig0
    • Chances of this actually occurring: 0% : wendigo
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19312826#itemanchor_19312826 I'm still betting on DNF. : Deathlove
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  It's gotten to the point where I don't even care anymore. Feast of Crows was kind of meh. : mrwolf710
  • I stopped after book 1 because of reading about his writers block. I have enough other stuff to read tha... : hamachi
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  Thread Hijack: I've read the Sword of Truth series, and will soon be finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. Wh... : MrBig0
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    Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams. It's a great fantasy series! : helvetica
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      I've never even heard of this, but I trust your opinion and I'll add if in the queue somewhere haha : MrBig0
      • It is indeed a good series. : asylumn
      • It's a great take on classic fantasy. I would offer you Naomi Novik's Temeraire series starting with His ... : LoioshDwaggie
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      I've heard great things about Tad WIlliams. : zakazi
      • Shadowplay is a great series : kpxkrnjc
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        He's amazing with descriptions, but I was a little disappointed in the Otherland series. The editor shoul : helvetica
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          Wasn't Otherland more of a children's series? : kpxkrnjc
          • Not at all. Otherland was awesome but the editor needed to do a much better job. There were a lot of thin... : Modica Sol Solis
          • Not in the slightest. : Vantage
        • MS&T is the only tad williams series I liked : boring gegtik
        • yeah, otherland was a cool concept, but it just dragged on and on and on. i read several of the books, bu... : mindmann
        • Fuck yes itdragged, still not finishedthe last. Great fantasy books though. : node
        • I am in the middle of reading otherland, so we'll see how it goes. Surprisingly it isn't dragging on me y... : Toth21
        • The new series does feel like a re-hash of old territory for him. I'm disappointed in it. : Goncyn
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      I have the first book, couldn't get into it. Does it pick up? : zebosausamite
      • It does pick up. It's slow to get started, and takes something like half the first book to really get go... : eugthinks
    • This is among my top five fantasy series. : Goncyn
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    read the Malazan books. skip Wheel of Time. : grendel
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      Wheel of Time is really great in a lot of places. Jordan had a verbose way, and certain ways he'd write a... : zakazi
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        I like Wheel of Time, even the last few where it seems nothing happens I enjoyed. : rhuntley12
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          hmm : MrBig0
          • To clarify, the reason it seems like nothing happened is that somewhere around 7/8 he had soooo many plot... : Ebu
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      Yea the cover to book 5 of Wheel of Time looked gay as hell. : MrBig0
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        ....you're seriously judging the book by it's cover? All of the Wheel of Time covers fucking suck and tha... : ArcKnight
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          there's some wise saying that goes along with this but i can't quite put my finger on it : indosauros
          • Are you sure? I mean, I can't really think of anything relevant to this discussion. At all. Never heard a... : ArcKnight
        • haha i just saw prancing minstrels and thought it looked lame and campy. I still bought it though. : MrBig0
  • I vote Dark Tower. It's sogood]. : Modica Sol Solis
  • The Deed of Paksenarrion is fun. A nice (finished!) trilogy. : mindmann
  • Now that you've finished the kiddie stuff, time to move on to Malazan : indosauros
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    The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I just finished it last week. : ArcKnight
    • I just started Royal Assassin. I feel like I should be reading HP6 instead so far (only about 15% through... : Deathlove
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      Really? The first couple chapters are so fucking bad I couldn't go on. : Ebu
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        I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't reread it. The first part of the first book is pretty slow, but it sets up s... : ArcKnight
        • How long does it take to pick up? I have it here but I made it, shit, barely a double handful of pages in... : Ebu
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      This series is awesome, as is basically everything by Hobb. : Zero|DPX
      • How did you feel about the ending? : ArcKnight
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        Love all her stuff, especially the ship ones, but the latest series started great then dragged on to mise... : node
        • really? I like her stuff but cannot get into the Liveship books at all. : Spoetzl
      • Really? The latest (?) series, which is like I imagine Harry Potter to be (haven't read or seen any Harry... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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        I don't have a high opinion of her writing. Imaginative, maybe, but weak on plotting and characterization... : Goncyn
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          I don't know about her making the characters act irrationally, I've only read the Farseer trilogy. That b... : ArcKnight
          • That's part of what I'm talking about. I think I read those books, too, but it's been a while. I put d : Goncyn
  • Drizzt Do'Urden Series was an okay Forgotten Realms series. I enjoyed the series a lot as have many, and... : kpxkrnjc
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    The Drizzt books are good if you're in middle school, maybe early high school, or if you have very strong... : Ebu
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      i understand what you mean. i had a friend tell me to read the dragonlance books... this was like a year ... : MrBig0
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        Yep, those are in the same category. Best remembered fondly. : Ebu
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          But he has a magical panther friend and cool swords that glow :( : Goncyn
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            Twinkle is the gayest name for a weapon ever. Icingdeath sounds like it was made up by a 7th grader. : Ebu
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              But they GLOW, Ebu. : Goncyn
              • More like flaming : Ebu
            • my favorite was Artemis' replacement for his old sabre.... CHARON'S CLAW : kpxkrnjc
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    BLACK COMPANY : zebosausamite
    • A thousand times, this right here. One of my favorite series - I just wish they would hurry up with the r... : ArcKnight
    • Another vote For Glen Cook. The Instrumentalities series is nice as well, and if you haven't read The Dra... : AxeMan808
  • The Lost Regiment is good stuff, at least the three I've read. Might be hard to find now, though. : Arceihn
  • thanks for all the suggestions guys, i hadn't heard of most of them so i'll check everything out. : MrBig0
  • I just read the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. Loved it. I don't know if I've ever read any series s... : Xanthos
  • You might like the Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman. : DianeOfTheMoon
  • Dark Tower, Malazan, Black Company will keep you busy for a long time. It might be fun alternating Dar... : icking fudiot
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  Threadjack Brandon Sanderson just released the cover art to Book 12 of Wheel of Time. http://mistborn... : shyguy74
  • Bleh! : Wyvern
  • my fist i shake it at thee : indosauros
  • I fucking hate Tor because of this artist and their shitty binding. : ArcKnight
  • "Damn kids broke my door!" : Totenjaeger
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    i think at around book 7 or 8 or so i just wanted to kill myself : [fry]
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      /tugs braid : loboca
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        I would pay a lot of money for somebody to go through and condense the books by taking out stupid crap li... : Ovate
        • I think the worst mistake was Harriet editing for her husband. He was an excellent writer but, like most ... : Ebu
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    Saddened but not surprised. "On 30 March 2009 Tor Books announced that the A Memory of Light would be spl : Wyvern
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      Yeah, if you read Brandon's blog, his explanation as to why makes a lot of sense. That hasn't stopped peo... : shyguy74
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        I don't think it's greedy, but it is fucking annoying. I want the goddamn thing to be over and done with. : Vincent Grayson
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          Seriously, I have so much invested in it (been reading the bitch since middle school for Christ's sake) b : Ebu
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            I guess I'm in the minority. I'm glad he's splitting it. Rambling or not the 85000 plotlines Jordan opene... : zakazi
            • Oh, I'm glad they're doing what they have to to do it right, I was just hoping to see the ending before 2... : Ebu
  • Hahah, perfect. The reissues with the black covers are the best thing to ever happen to that series : d fluke
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    Fuck, spoilers! I haven't read book 11 yet. : Goncyn
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      Not like you haven't had plenty of time. What with him dying and all. :( Also, I have read it and I... : Ebu
      • haha, same here. I'm a fan but I completely forgot about that and can't remember how that happened. : zakazi
  • oh my lol : fishbone
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    To be fair, it's Darrell Sweet doing the cover art, and he's never gotten it right. Hardly even close. : Ebu
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      Also, after 15 years and so many delays, the storm had damn well better do more than just gather. : Ebu
      • Oh for the love of god. The last book will be released as 3 sub-books. So there are actually going... : Ebu
  • *tugs braid furiously* : Majuju
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    The Dandy Defeats the Haunted House (part 1 of a series) : mrwolf710
    • lolling this so hard, trying to keep from making a scene at work : Majuju
  • Ugh. The more I look at the cover the worse it is. Hell, I can't even list the reasons. Just so bad. ... : Ebu
  • So. Rand now has one withered fist and one missing one? : SpaecKow
  • Ha ha ha! Impression of reading Wheel of Time: First one: Wow, this is pretty good! Second one: ... : locater16
  • BWAHAHAHAHA, man I hate that publisher's art - but this is remarkably bad. : zakazi
  • Wow. That is fucking terrible. : scottv7
  • ahahahaha : smax
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    I can't believe Darrell Sweet still has a job. His goofy style is fine for Piers Anthony because no one c... : TheMonkeyWench
    • This just in: He's 74! : Ebu
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  It really hasn't been ALL that long. Settle the fuck down, let him finish it. Jesus Christ. It's far from : SockMonkeh
  • But Feast and Dance was one book at one point and he released half and then was going to finish up the se... : uncleanmonkey
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    Can we call it the Diakatana of the literary world? That was a 5 year wait... and seemeed like forever..... : Zhaneel
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      Daikatana gets a full reprieve, hail the new duke. : Xin Jing Client 1a
      • The one thing Duke has on it's side is that it was never released. It's harder to hate something that do... : capt tripps
• Never trust a guy named George to finish something on time : acheron
• The Thieves World (Robert Asprin / Lynn Abbey ed) and Heroes In Hell (Janet & Chris Morris ed) shared uni... : AxeMan808
• i always have to reread the previous book before reading a new one because there's so much shit to forget : brewsterdog

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• fuckong awesome : freshyk
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  meh, they used that scream : mindshot
  • Haha, I was thinking the same thing. : Visceral Monkey
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    yup i laughed when i heard it : grabbie
    • Hahaha, it came unexpectedly too. : Sailor of Fortune
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    The good thing is that its only for trailer purposes. : Godhatesfatpeople
    • How do you know? It seems that scream is in everything :( : pun][sher
    • nope, not seeing it now. : mindshot
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    Haha, such a cheesy sound effect. What IS that fucking scream? (And don't say Wilhelm) : fishbone
    • yeah i dunno what the deal with that is. it must be on some disc of stock sound effects that they issue y... : dirge23
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      it's not the wilhelm but it's one of the like four or five super-common stock sound screams that gets use... : mikecyb
      • This one is comical because it didn't fit the action at all. I mean he wasn't even falling. : Sailor of Fortune
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    Just in the trailer :) : spazzium
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      How do you know? : systatic
      • Guessing. : spazzium
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    That scream is also in Dark Forces when you jump off a cliff or something : timaste
    • isn't it also in Starcraft when you click on the academy? : YamatoTwinkie
  • I'd almost rather have the Wilhelm scream compared to the one they used. Ughhhh : tomservo
  • I thought the same thing : prime8
  • I cracked up at hearing the fragment of that. : sgtsanity
  • It really needs a name. Wilhelm is great but this is also awesome. : Serpico74
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  Ehh it looks kind of bad. : Ellissd
  • the book was good, dunno how well they can adapt it tho ... : homeboyJim
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    what?! it looks awesome : AlexXdude
    • You think so? Meh. : Ellissd
  • YOU LOOK KIND OF BAD : Deathlove
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  i heard the wilhem scream in it! :D : homeboyJim
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    i hate that fucking scream : foo
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      and you guys think were bad with memes here : SockMonkeh
      • haha, good point : foo
  • That wasn't the Wilhelm, that's some junk scream from the 80s/90s. : Lunatic Angelic
  • no you didn't : fishbone
  • i don't think that was the Wilhem Scream : Cihte
  • That's not the wilhelm scream. Unless it was in there and I missed it. The "yeeeeaaaaaaargh" type screa... : badspot
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  Too much color, it should be done in black and white. : shortbuscaptain
  • at least more washed out. : prokat
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  Holy shit Omar!! Omar is in this movie, I'm seeing it. : zuga
  • Omar comin'! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    HIDE THE STASH : timaste
    • DROP YO LUNCH : crummynz
  • I love how you can recognize that magnificent bastard from a single frame : spiderfill
  • I'm pretty excited to see him play the character they cast him as. It should be pretty excellent. : tomservo
• John Henry from T:TSCC!! : HojuSimpson
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  Not sure I liked seeing so much of the wife in trailer. : TShandy
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    I agree. I heard they were going to bolster her role in the adaptation, but it looks like they went a lit : quadeh
    • yeah this is exactly what i got from it. the detachment and desolation of having nothing but themselves (... : arcane_
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      Yeah, way too much color and talking. : TShandy
      • It's a 2 1/2 minute trailer. It's job is to get attention and garner interest, they obviously have to mak... : AlexXdude
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        You guys are hilarious : Godhatesfatpeople
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          Hey, I'm still going to see it, and overall I'd give the trailer a B/B+ : TShandy
          • I actually think the trailer is alright. But this is to peak interest in the film. The next trailer will ... : Godhatesfatpeople
    • we'll wait and see I guess, she might only be in the first part of the movie or something : AlexXdude
  • Same here. I hope those were all just flashbacks. It's a man and his son, dammit. : Reid Faylor
  • Showing her suicide instead of mentioning it (she'll probably kill herself right at that table) only heig : Marauder IIC
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  That looks awesome. This a remake of a book? : pun][sher
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    yes, it's based off the Cormac Mccarthy book. : Godhatesfatpeople
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      the one they mention in the trailer.... : AlexXdude
      • what trailer? : ShekkyBoy
      • If I don't read books, i'm sure not going to read anything in a fucking trailer :P : pun][sher
  • Oh yes indeed it is. : TShandy
  • no : cerealSAM2
• holy fucking awesome : oHnOES
• Looks... bland. : vx2o
• i have these monies :( : Deathlove
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  holy shit its the tunnel from L4D Death Toll!!! (:25s) : okhelosir
  • hah totally what i was thinking. : arcane_
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  Looks pretty good. There was no woman in the book though? : Goncyn
  • There was, his wife. As in flashbacks. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • She's there but in a very minimal role. : midgetherder
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  it looks ok as a movie, and it also looks like it completely defies the book. If I had the choice of o... : re-verse
  • The film, from nearly every screening review I've read, says it's extremely faithful to the book. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • How does it defy the book? The one nitpick I have is them actually talking about the disaster (which may ... : Modica Sol Solis
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  Looks like I am Legend minus the Vampires. I will watch it. : Sailor of Fortune
  • no : NastyJack
• the book was soooo boring. *yawn* : mwasher
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  that does not look like a good representation of the book : wtf242
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    I agree. You have to wonder though if you could actually stomach watching a proper rendition of the book... : midgetherder
    • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19920259#itemanchor_19920259 : Godhatesfatpeople
    • This is a good question. : TShandy
  • My guess is they're going to do a little more flashback stuff than before. : Deathlove
  • Aren't there a bunch of dream sequences with his wife in the book? It's been a while and I forgots. : sgtsanity
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  This trailer fills me with nothing but dread. Why would I want to watch this movie, or know this story? : Home Nugget
  • read the book.. it's brilliant. : wtf242
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    Because it's one of the greatest books ever written. : Modica Sol Solis
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      It won the Pulitzer, but c'mon, let's be realistic here. : sgtsanity
      • To each his own. It's good enough that I consider Modica's to be a perfectly reasonable opinion, even if... : TShandy
  • Because the book fills you with dread too... and it's incredible. : ThrillKill
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  I must read this book! : SockMonkeh
  • Also, what's with the large number of weird/stupid posts in this thread? : SockMonkeh
• Looks nothing like what Kerouac wrote. : NexusOne
• That trailer sucked. The book was great though. They dress it up as some action movie. It starts out remi... : systatic
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  meh, if the 'others' are humans which looks like they are, I cant see any possible reason why they would ... : nickjolly
  • They're chasing them because they drank the last Coca-Cola. : Godhatesfatpeople
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    true, in real life people never harm other people : dirge23
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      Yes for reasons, what do these two people have that this large group doesn't, if it was to eat them, I'm ... : nickjolly
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        if you really want to know, click this spoiler: yes, it's to eat them, and to take their meager possessio : dirge23
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          Way to ruin it for me! lol ..but Yea, Just a non-compelling and predictable reason. The movie could still... : nickjolly
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            This isn't really what the story is about, it's just something that happens in the story. : dirge23
            • Also, no reason would seem all that compelling when described in a brief shackpost and not backed up by t... : dirge23
          • I had to lol at this... this movie will not be a "fun ride" by any means. This story is not an action ad... : ThrillKill
  • the others referred to = pretty much everyone, everyone is eating each other. thats why she knows they ca : 60days
  • Of course they are humans, what else would they be? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Garrett Dillahunt playing a deranged lunatic? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?! : notd665
  • I started watching Deadwood season two after finishing Terminator:SCC. I was so happy. : Deathlove
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  wait, i've seen this movie before...oh wait... : vassili_zaitsev
  • Exactly. : vx2o
  • What movie? : Godhatesfatpeople
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    It's alot like Star Wars except it's not in space and there's alot more roads. : edgewise
    • lol : Godhatesfatpeople
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      also, no stars and no wars : dirge23
      • so it's much more like that movie Spaceballs. : Majuju
• I liked the book a lot. It was sad and lonely. I hope the movie is as emotional and heartbreaking as th... : jahulio2
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  I would gladly trade this for a movie version of Blood Meridian. : dirge23
  • That'd be awesome. : TShandy
• uh oh :( : filtersweep
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  2:02 it sounds like the zombie scream from half life : Poooks
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    Starcraft Academy scream I also think it was in a starcraft FPS game from a long time ago. : Nighteyes
    • It's been used in a million things. : Chris Remo
    • shit ya that was it! not half life haha : Poooks
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      Ahem: "Hollywood Edge - PE 13 - Human Sounds 1 - 44 - Man Screams #3- Gut-Wrenching With Fall." : Majuju
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=hf6_hok4-lo : Majuju
• Gahhhhhh. I hope they don't say what the catastrophe is. Fuck. : tomservo
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  I tried to read the book so many times but it just makes me want to take a nap. IT'S GREY OKAY I UNDERST... : mikecyb
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    It's a very interesting experience. Few books have been so evocative for me, and all the emotions are neg... : brickmatt
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      I really want to read it, it's sitting on my nightstand waiting. but every time I pick it up I read like... : mikecyb
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        It's an easy book to do that with. Not a book I'd read in bed, for that very reason. I read it on a beac... : brickmatt
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          I bought it at the airport last christmas along with a copy of the universe in a nutshell and the time ma... : mikecyb
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            HAHA POINDEXTER : tomservo
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              I'll fight you at quakecon >:( I just need to put my glasses in a safe place first : mikecyb
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                Careful, servo has no qualms about grabbing a handful of your shaggy mane. : brickmatt
                • as a fellow member of the shaggy haircuts club I think thomas would fight like a gentleman : mikecyb
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    Yup, book is crap and I trailer doesn't look much different. It's like Mad Max except it's gray and were ... : locater16
    • Yup, this post is crap and your history doesn't look much different. It's like rosewood except it's got w... : brickmatt
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      It's nothing like Mad Max. Did you read it? : Godhatesfatpeople
      • I said the trailer was like Mad Max, yes I read it. A lot of flashbacks and pissing me off because ash is... : locater16
• Garrett Dillahunt, great choice for the role, and Omar as the old blind guy eh? : randomposter
• ha.. the black guy at the end with the knife was Omar. : K1Bond007

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• yeah, that was a big problem i had, too. the little "ding" email sound doesn't wake me up at 3am like it... : foo
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  i wish the ringer could go louder : FrayLo
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    i still have the 1gen and the sound is fucking horribly low. 3g's seem to be a lot louder. : xxiv
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      do this http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone/iphone-speaker-hack-40-louder-23737.html and you're s... : Affliated
      • i spent like 20 mins at the office looking for a pin lol. : xxiv
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  want to watch Hulu on my touch : Phil
  • signed, Indosauros : indosauros
  • Oooooo that's a good one : Home Nugget
  • This would rule : riptyde
  • this is coming to the storm via a client, like youtube : Downforce
  • Hulu is pretty close to releasing an iPhone app : Katarn3279
  • Until then. http://m.nbc.com works for watching NBC shows on the iPhone/iPod Touch. : Matt Burris
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  they all wish they could be the Storm on the l33t .141 firmware. GG. /runs : Downforce
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    every single person at the office who has a storm has traded it in for a curve. is .141 the savior or som... : xxiv
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      basically... yeah! I'd bet those folks all had the .75 launch firmware, which really DID suck ass. No arg... : Downforce
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        cool i think i'm up for a new bb at work sometime soon, i'll see about getting the storm. : xxiv
        • plus it's well tested on BIS/BPS/BES/desktop redirector. same PIN system. and you know one of the annoyi... : Downforce
  • I am using .141 on my Storm as well and I will say it's finally shaping up to be the Blackberry it should... : vile
• Sync all my podcasts from the iPod app. Going into a podcast, clicking get more, then downloading sucks ... : hawkeye
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  Folders on the springboard, and/or app page orgnization in iTunes. I have like 8 pages of apps, and it's... : SqueegyTBS
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    how are you liking 3.0 overall? : xxiv
    • Awesome. I use c&p far more than I thought I would. That + spotlight = awesome. Still havent sent an M... : SqueegyTBS
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    Folders would be great. The Jailbreak app works ok but it's crashy and slow. : hawkeye
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      arn't the springboard pages basically folders? : xxiv
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        Sort of, but they don't have names, and adding new apps just shoves them in the first page with a slot. ... : SqueegyTBS
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          btw dude i'm loving void. i'm going to post a review on itunes sometime but once you get some cooler ship... : xxiv
          • Thanks. Saving the state of a complex battlefield like that wasn't trivial. Ideally though, your right.... : SqueegyTBS
        • Same, especially after losing the organization repeatedly by updating the betas. Now I just put my reall... : Barnahog
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    jailbreak and get categories for folders/app organization : Affliated
    • It's too slow : hankyJR
• I wish you could arrange icons in iTunes rather than having to juggle five pages of icons when you want t... : Albemuth
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  Move the icons for apps you don't use to a new page and then never scroll to it. : rudds
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    but i know it's there. it's like throwing mess from your room into the closet. sure it looks clean but yo... : xxiv
    • actually its more like under the bed, cuz you still go into your closet : Demius
  • thats what I do : Slowtreme
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  Jailbreaking will fix all of your problems. : cyclonebee
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    i'm a purist of sorts. i don't want to mod things and void warranties or create possible future problems.... : xxiv
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      Understandable, but it doesn't void your warranty and I have yet to have a problem with it and I have jai... : cyclonebee
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        links? i'll check into it. i'll be buying a new iphone this summer anyway so i may aswell check it out. : xxiv
        • blog.iphone-dev.org Just download quickpwn if you don't want to read too much. I highly suggest readi... : spazzium
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  Jailbreak makes the iPhone as customizable as it should have been. : ieGod
  • Exactly. : cyclonebee
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    it is kind of baffling the device that many regard as the pinnacle of handheld technology can't do some o... : slickdoody
    • It was pretty acceptable since it was Apple's first mobile device and was rushed out the door. Now that i... : dmason
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      What's amazing is that it's the pinnacle of handheld technology even though it can't do those things. : hawkeye
      • Agreed : Phil
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    What application allows you to repeat notifications? Or how about setting a different tone for certain e-... : Crankladon
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      StatusNotifier will repeat notifications ToneFXs (not free) or Winterboard (well, sound themes) will all... : hawkeye
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        But no one has figured out how to use a certain tone when receiving an e-mail from a certain address? Tha... : Crankladon
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          Specific emails for specific users. I'd never even thought to do that, that's kind of a cool idea. : hawkeye
          • The Blackberry does that, so as an example on our monitoring system, you can turn off all other e-mail no... : Crankladon
      • Well that and the fact that you have full ssh access to the entire file system, you can just drop in tone... : spazzium
• A working sirius satellite app.Starplayr has been waiting for apple approval for months:(I just want to l... : mcpstoner
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  Seperate email signature per account I have my work stuff set up but also a gmail account and every time... : Morgin
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    oh that's a good one. : xxiv
    • It's insane they don't have this, I'm sure many people have this problem : Morgin
• Quick way to disable wifi/bluetooth and a reboot button. Ideally swipe the menu bar for those. Especial... : Barnahog
• I wish there was a shortcut to bring up a 3x3 preview of all your app pages. Touch the page you want and ... : Mmmmmoo
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  apple is brilliant. - let mactards hype up product beyond all possible expectations - release prod... : steelsamurai
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    While I get where you are coming from, the iphone is still far and away the greatest handheld electronics... : riptyde
    • in bed : r3dn3ck
  • I admit it's shameful that Apple missed features like MMS and C&P for so long, but come on. Microsoft ha : hawkeye
  • hm wow that's really insightful :) : Mr.SEX
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    Although this is a very accurate description of events, you discredit yourself by using "mactard". I mea... : spazzium
    • owning an apple product doesn't make you a mactard. A mactard is a retard who owns an apple product. T... : steelsamurai
• Better way to re-org the dashboard icons : hankyJR
• Doom. With multiplayer. Hurry the fuck up, id. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Louder speakerphone, themes, and customizable alerts/sounds. : jingletard
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  Multimedia text messaging???? : bling1bling
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    the iphone doesn't do MMS ? I thought that was a staple : Downforce
    • OS 3.0 will : manero
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  the latest rumor is that the new iPhone is just another update... 600MHz cpu (up from 400) and 256mb ram ... : prime8
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    Pretty sure OLED is still REALLY REALLY expensive, it'd probably bump the price another $50 for them to r... : boarder2
    • I think Sony Ericsson is releasing some new phones and/or mp3 players with OLED displays. : prime8
• It would be awesome to have a settings profile based on what cell tower you're connected to. Like an opti... : JT

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  No one should follow that taskbar advice before at least trying it the new way for a while. : Goncyn
  • Agreed. The new task bar is like if the OSX dock and the vista start menu/task bar had a baby and that b... : DrillBit
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    Everyone at work who has scoped out the RC can't stand the task bar. You can't tell how many copies of X... : abrasion
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      that era started like 10 years ago, you just weren't paying attention because you're a curmudgeonly nerd : electroly
      • and OSX has been doing the same thing with the dock since the beginning and nobody cares : electroly
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        Well actually I think it's because I want decent control over my machine and knowing what it's doing, I s... : abrasion
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          That is without question a nerd trait. Generally, people only care when their shit isn't working. When ... : electroly
          • not to mention, win7 has vastly superior memory management to xp. : cpt_gloval
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      XP combines them once you fill it up. i find that to be more maddening than just combining them all. : cpt_gloval
      • (yes i turn that off) : cpt_gloval
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        IAWTP, because it makes the behaviour inconstant. : Toraz Chryx
        • wtf spellchecker, inconsistant : Toraz Chryx
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        Same here. : abrasion
        • Shit,.. same here, I also turn it off. : abrasion
      • I use to hate it but now that I am used to it, I can't live without it. It does tell you how many number ... : razlebol
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      no doubt becase you've helped nudge them in the 'right' direction. Change is bad. I'm well aware of the... : derelict515
      • if i want to know what resources my computer is using, task manager is the reliable method. number of win... : cpt_gloval
      • Agreed. I have no idea how much RAM or CPU my apps take up, nor do I care in the least. I've never look... : electroly
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        Actually I did set one up without all the stuff changed and while he did stick with the new themes and co... : abrasion
        • yeah, after what? 2 days? because he has 7 years of habits with the XP style even if it has inferior usab... : derelict515
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      Who cares about resources anymore? This isn't the dos days where we had to tweak the autoexec. : WhatIsThisFor
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        What the hell are you talking about? So you're happy to forget a minimised copy of Bioshock down the t... : abrasion
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          what the heck? the default behavior will only collapse that minimized bioshock task if you have >1 biosho... : cpt_gloval
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            My point was there are multiple of other things, it's difficult to tell if I have 2 IE windows or 255, I ... : abrasion
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              well then enjoy that double-stacked taskbar : cpt_gloval
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                Here we go http://members.iinet.net.au/~scottylans/taskbar.jpg I like it, I'll stick with it - thread... : abrasion
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                  The difference is you are mapping the word functional to an increase in information. The more information... : derelict515
                  • As long as they cater for me with the option for the old stuff derelict I'm happy. Look at the new start... : abrasion
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                  Is that Windows 95? I can't tell :( : aggressor
                  • XP Pro at work. : abrasion
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                  yes it's perfectly clear what's going on in all those SMS Assist windows. collapsing the similars would k... : cpt_gloval
                  • I was about to point this out. If you couldn't remember you'd be guessing and clicking. You'd waste more ... : hoov1185
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                  That's just plain hideous. : Fred Garvin
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                    Like your posts :( : abrasion
                    • Not really dude. Just because something looks good doesn't mean it's less functional and the new Win7 int... : Fred Garvin
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              The number of active IE instances is largely irrelevant, what is relevant is the ability to recognize the : WhatIsThisFor
              • Also, I think your confusion about how people find the new interface elements to be efficient is due to y... : WhatIsThisFor
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                ia, but the taskbar thumbnail stacks in W7 are an alright substitute given the lack of Exposé : Toraz Chryx
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                  Expose is an awesome way of alt tabbing with a mouse - I'll fucking pay that - it's very well designed. ... : abrasion
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                    I've got Exposé and Spaces set to hot-corners right now, 4 desktops, browser, IM clients and whatever... : Toraz Chryx
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                      Is apples stuff patented? If Microsoft added the expose thing where all the apps centre in the middle on ... : abrasion
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                        Someone at MS had made exactly that: http://insentient.net/ They can't include it with the OS or they ... : WhatIsThisFor
                        • Thanks! ^^^ this is the kind of changes I can get behind, they actually make things better, not different... : abrasion
                        • Hm, had not heard of this, might have to try it later. : derelict515
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                        https://photos-2.getdropbox.com/i/l/9MaU0LM216d10x27WxCeokPfqrkt-sk0daErEApxPqc#6 it r0x0r5 j00 : Toraz Chryx
                        • whoops, forgot to say what was actually going on.. tl;dr: you can trigger exposé WHILST looking at th... : Toraz Chryx
                • Definitely, I think in some cases it can be more efficient and in other cases more effective (like the ab... : WhatIsThisFor
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          This isn't a fight you're going to win, abrasion. You're in the small minority. Most people are just no : electroly
          • In fact, Windows 7 is the first operating system I know of that will let me tab out of a beefy game like ... : WhatIsThisFor
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            LOL That's a good one "they are there to get work done" That is fucking brilliant. *I* am here to get ... : abrasion
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              This is what I'm reading: QQ. You're a control freak, it would be healthier if you just admitted it. Yo... : electroly
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                Seriously, though, you're hilarious. I love how righteous you're getting about this. : electroly
                • He also likes to turn off hardware acceleration for his UI because he somehow thinks it's faster :p : Toraz Chryx
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                electroly you just completely negated your posts, why would you do such a thing? Yes I do like to be in ... : abrasion
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                  Considering that I'm a Mac user, I think "apple-ifying" my machine is indeed what I want to do. :) : electroly
                  • I like how "I've been using it since DOS5!" is supposed to be impressive, though. Cute! : electroly
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                    Oh fuck man! you cock! what are you doing in here, of course I want things different to you, I am a contr... : abrasion
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                      I type 140 WPM sustained and yet I prefer to use the mouse. AM I BLOWING YOUR MIND YET : electroly
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                        I could probably only do about 90, glad you like the mouse, I like the faster one personally :) : abrasion
                        • my cock is _so_ much bigger than yours : foo
            • And here the rest of the world is still working efficiently without knowing at a glance the exact number ... : derelict515
            • I have similar needs and I've found the new taskbar to be a godsend. My problem with the old taskbar was... : Whistler77
            • It's cool, you think you're right, and that's why THE OPTION IS THERE for you. The rest of the world i... : boarder2
        • Yes, what does it matter to me as long as things run well. Windows 7 has made great improvements to the ... : WhatIsThisFor
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      Moving your mouse and not clicking is easier than moving your mouse and clicking. And if you want an OS ... : capt tripps
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        What the motherfuck are you talking about? one option I need to move my _eyes_ not even my mouse to see w... : abrasion
        • This makes no sense. I can open 2 Explorer windows in the new taskbar, and it shows me 2 windows running.... : disdain
        • Not necessarily. All you can read is the text in old-school windows land. When you've got two copies of : WhatIsThisFor
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          I agree that's a shitty feature, that delay makes it really annoying IMO. But the reason I think the app... : Barnahog
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            http://insentient.net/ : WhatIsThisFor
            • Switcher is awesome, I had used it in the past but forgotten about it. Going to install it on my pc asap.... : Barnahog
          • Don't agree with me in any way, I'm a cantankerous nerd dude. : abrasion
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          waiting for it to render some mini version of my apps? Yeah, that .0005 second delay is totally gonna... : ColoradoCNC
          • You really don't know how I work, do you? : abrasion
    • Luckily most new machines have the resources to run a ton of applications without slowdown, so it's a moo... : ColoradoCNC
    • I love it. : Fred Garvin
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    the only change i made was to push the bar to left, its awesome : filthysock
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      I've been trying this for a week on my laptop and I'm still not sure about it. : rosewood
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        i try it off and on (shackhype) and i've still got some ingrained habits of mine that are hard to ditch -... : xsoulbrothax
        • they should allow you to keep the start button on the bottom left with the apps stacked towards the top. : MikkleThePickle
    • Yeah. I'm really digging the taskbar pinned on the left. It works really well with the new taskbar. : Mmmmmoo
    • I've been doing this too. It just makes sense with a widescreen laptop. It takes some getting used to not... : renegade732
    • I'm gonna have to try this. : yosemiteclimber
    • Try the right. It's awesomer. : hoov1185
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      Yep. Windows 7 has made me a dedicated fan of using a sidebar. : ColoradoCNC
      • yep, i'm hating my XP box at work : Clay
    • I do this too. Works great with wni7 : crummynz
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      Heh, now you will discover all the apps which don't use SetWindowPlacement() properly and, every time you... : nudel
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        It is for this reason that I put my taskbar on the right side instead of the left. Same reasoning as put... : electroly
        • The real reason is because that's where the BeOS Deskbar was. :'( : electroly
  • IAWTGONCYN : rosewood
• on a low-res widescreen (800-900 height) it's pretty handy to move the taskbar to the side, improving the... : cpt_gloval
• If you have multiple firefoxes open, is there a way to tell if you get a gchat message? : menar003
• Nice, thanks. : persuxe
• tagged for later. : RyDogg1
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  that's kind of a lousy article. : slickdoody
  • agreed, i was interested in what it had to say about speeding it up but it was pretty much "go to your po... : alphablu