Evening Reading: Everybody Says 'Hi'

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  texture-mapped walls! : Johnny Law
  • OK maybe that's slightly more than ten years. :-) : Johnny Law
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  aureal 3d : sigpro
  • I miss my Aureal Vortex 2 card :( : h0cake
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  voxels : pandastrong
  • 10 years ago when I heard voxels my first though was they looked like ass : uncle slappy
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    "Sparse Voxel Octree" John Carmack on IdTech 6 and unlimited geometry detail : locater16
    • Wasn't that Jon Olick? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • Yay! Comanche: Maximum Overkill :) :) :) : biofrog
• rotoscope : CoRDS
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  VOXELS lol : Sapiens
  • And colored lighting. : Sapiens
  • Voxels are coming back, mark my words! : uncleanmonkey
  • The company I work for actually uses something called "voxels" in our fluid dynamics software. I'm not a... : genom
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  bit-boys : CoRDS
  • did they ever come out with an actual product? : Topaz
• 3DNow : Cheeziologist
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  Simple vertex/pixel shaders! Hardware transform and lighting! : DrWaffles
  • oh FUCK you Waffles >:( : SpaecKow
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  3dfx? : Ellissd
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    I see your 3dfx and raise you Canopus : beastrabban
    • S3 Metal! : dognose
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      Pure 3D no less! : biofrog
      • ^^ My first card!!! WOOO!!!! : ShadowRam
• Hardware Transform & Lighting : SpaecKow
• Dynamic Lighting/Shadows : Derringer
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  HPB. : kingdepork
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    You mean LPB. HPB was not awesome ten years ago. : ArcKnight
    • I was an HPB for a long time. Fucking LPBs! : .frame
• Aureal 3d : melkore
• Mods : Bamtan
• specular highlights : TroZ
• MMO DNF : not work safe
• Gigabyte : hoov1185
• Dreamcast : uncle slappy
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  blast processing : mechanicalgrape
  • lolz : jarek99
• VRML! : boarder2
• PowerVR : egg5hen
• 64k with a 64k + 80 column card. : schwinky
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  Math coprocessor. : Majuju
  • opencl says otherwise!!! : j0nchan
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  himem.sys : BlackCat9
  • This was going to be mine. Now I have to think of another. : mittense
• ModeX! : LilCrypto
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  LPB, HPB, Thresh, Carmack, .Plan, 3dfx, ISDN, Trinitron, Diamondtron, 3M mousepad, 800x600, triple buffer... : gyokuro
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    I lol'd at Carmack. : theangrywaffles
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      Why? : DOOManiac
      • Because he's a pretty funny guy. : BlackCat9
      • I figured somebody on the Shack would post something similar. I half expected Fatal1ty to be mentioned fi... : theangrywaffles
  • I still have one of those 3M mousepads with the Voodoo face on it! : ArcKnight
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    Carmack is still quite relevant : dognose
    • Yeah, he makes all sorts of iphone games! : SenorSpine
  • 100+ hertz monitor refresh rate. : notext
• IRQ, DMA : fathertime
• Duke Nukem Forever : eseiat
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  320 x 240 15fps video pornography : DOOManiac
  • porn that was not in motion.. ie - static PICTURES zomg! : beastrabban
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  killcreek : WhatIsThisFor
  • Glorious. : grover69
• DNF Co-op : kramweil
• Playstation : kallanta
• Nowadays we have SHADERS. : Dontdrop
• Duke Nukem : SockMonkeh
• CD-ROM : kallanta
• Frame Interpolation : Barnahog
• "Graphics" : virus
• good games : mindshot
• Plug & Play : PlanetPerfecto
• MMC-1 MMC2 (multimedia spec PC's) and Coloured lighting. : abrasion
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  14.4kbps : Ride-My-Rocket
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    He said 1999 not 1989. : DOOManiac
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      How about ISDN? : abunch
      • Getting warmer. : DOOManiac
• Holy fuck I'm old : Serpico74
• SPACEORB. ld : beastrabban
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  "Shaders" were mind-blowingly awesome, and that's just when they were used to apply awful shiny effects t... : Alice O'Connor
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    I remember being really annoyed that they were added into the final version of Quake 3. The retail versio... : Serpico74
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      But the Q3 shaders weren't actually shaders, just a simplified description for multitextured/animated mat... : SiW.
      • I see. Either way, that's how Carmack referred to them back then, and they were still annoying. :) : Serpico74
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      Uh no, it ran slower because the game code was running on the virtual machine (like any old mod) rather t... : uncleanmonkey
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        The difference between the test maps and the final was huge, especially Tourney1. : Serpico74
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          Er, tourney2 :p : Serpico74
          • And all the extra shinies in DM17 : Serpico74
        • Whaaat? They looked almost identical barring some minor differences. At least the last test. : uncleanmonkey
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  vga graphics : mittense
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    Oh, I'm about a decade off here. : mittense
    • Cel-shading! : mittense
• fserv, xdcc : InfoBiter
• 3d technology : themaestro2657
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  T-Buffer! : TroZ
  • This is what immediately came to mind. : spazzium
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  I still see many recent PC games that have tires that aren't round. :( : TrptJim
  • Valve still thinks "round" = octagon. :( : DOOManiac
• Glaze3D : spyrext
• .com : MercFox1
• 24 bit color? : alias
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  aureal 3d : yosemiteclimber
  • oh shit beat to it on multiple levels! : yosemiteclimber
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  tri-linear filtering : skryte
  • Tri-linear MIP mapping. :D : davantalus
• Zanshin.... : Tripps
• having to go way back, MOD music files ala the Amiga and Apple IIgs... they were the mp3s of the 8-bit wo... : cap n KRUNCH
• Shugashack. : ashkie
• Flaming barrels. : grover69
• Voodoo. : Squirrely
• LOD! : DOOManiac
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  ICQ - "UH OH!" : reelbk
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    I loved the build which made typewriter sounds with each keystroke :( : abrasion
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      It was great when you could see what someone was typing as he typed it. It made conversations very surrea... : BlackCat9
      • I used Back Orfice on a mates computer once and he was such a slow typer I was typing to him what he was ... : abrasion
    • I too loved that build. : thetangent
  • We still use this at work. It makes me cranky. : Nobody Good
  • ya ICQ was cool when it showed everyones IP and u could BO them to death. : technotica
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  John Romero, Tim Schafer, Realvideo : Link.
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    No one ever liked RealVideo. : DOOManiac
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      Hey, Realvideo was badass back in the day. : Link.
      • Not really. Worst piece of shit ever. : GodZilly
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      buf... : dfz0r
      • ...fering : dfz0r
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    Tim Schafer what are you doing here get out : mittense
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      No one knows who he is outside of older/hardcore gamers, sadly. : Link.
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        Eh, I doubt that. He's actually been in more headlines in the last year than I have ever seen previously.... : mittense
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          Nah, my brother's 16 and know who he is, admittedly only in connection with Brutal Legend of course. : locater16
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            Introduce him to Psychonauts. : theangrywaffles
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              And Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, Monkey Island, and Day of the Tentacle! : DrWaffles
              • I figured Psychonauts is probably the most accessible at this point, since its available on the PC, XBox ... : theangrywaffles
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    Schafer? With Brutal Legend right around the corner (hopefully)? : theangrywaffles
    • Yeah, Tim Schafer is probably more famous now than he ever was. He was never a huge superstar like Romer... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • tim schafer is more famous now than he ever was, I mean hes doing commercials with jack black : klearlyunseen
• shugashack. :( : Super Sparker
• Up hill both ways in the snow : stuka
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  TEN (online service) : Topaz
  • 10six : sanchez
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    MP over IPX! "OK let's hang up, you call me first" : dognose
    • NOOOO!!!!!!!!! trying to play war2 and doom over that was painfull... especially over a 2400baud modem... : technotica
  • I know. I'm always trying to play Soldier of Fortune online : Judecca
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    Kali! : grover69
    • That's still hot now. : dafugg
• 10 years ago, getting a few computers networked was a big deal. Half of a lan party seemed to involve dr... : SeaLlama
• I miss Glide sometimes. Running UT99 in Glide with a Voodoo3 card was heavenly. : slax0r
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  parallax scrolling : Rag and Bone Man
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    Fuck sakes, that's actually closer to 20 years ago : Rag and Bone Man
    • I remember reading about it for SNES games. Look, it has parallax scrolling! http://www.youtube.co... : slax0r
  • i lol'd : technotica
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  Surprised no one hit this one: NURBS! When Q3 came out everyone was talking about fucking nurbs and curve... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • If you're into 3d modeling this term is still pretty common. : GodZilly
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  VESA : Altanar
  • univbe!! : ShadowRam
• 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit consoles. : deathofrats
• Matrox... (maybe Matrox was never badass) : Judecca
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  "Linux will soon be better than Windows" type articles. Then watch the tumbleweed pass on by. : Optimus Prime
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    I mean, there used to be dedicated Linux servers for UT, Quake, and Half Life games. No one does that an... : Optimus Prime
    • Still plenty of dedicated linux servers around for modern games AFAIK. : dafugg
    • I ran a TF2 server on my linux box for a week or so until I found out my bandwidth couldn't take it. : melkore
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    I had a subscription to, and was interviewed in, Maximum Linux Magazine! : dognose
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      Wow, now that's taking me back a few years. Haha wow. : Optimus Prime
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        Chick that interviewed me was hawt, but she had a boyfriend. I was a "Netscape Engineer" and hated Windo... : dognose
        • pics+divx ~ didn't happen. Saved the article at least? Share with the class, dognose! : Optimus Prime
  • Those are still on Digg at least once a week. : BlackCat9
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  QuakeWorld Team Fortress! These kids today thing the original was TFC : Judecca
  • i pwnt as a sniper and was unstoppable with the HW strafe bug... : technotica
• Rocket Arena :( Okay, I'm done : Judecca
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  wireplay <- one for the brits : steve_o
  • R.I.P. : usedillusion
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  mip-mapping trilinear filtering OpenGL (cmon, seriously...) Scanline Interleave (not the nVidia SLI - ... : EvilDolemite
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    Fucking EMS and boot disks. It took me longer to set up some games than to play them : dognose
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      the game was in getting it to run with sound and mouse control and these days people bitch about only ... : EvilDolemite
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        I bet if I had smoked more weed back then I woulda had less trouble. Hey remember having to edit config.... : dognose
        • yes i am old. i think i had more raw fun with games then : EvilDolemite
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    heres one for ya, Falcon 3.0/Conventional Memory... eeee gaaadzz.. : technotica
    • u literally had to create a bootdisk just to play the game, and sometimes that wouldnt even work. You may... : technotica
  • OpenGL is used a lot today actually. More than DirectX. : melkore
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  Gouraud shading. : FlatlineDixay
  • ellipsoid graphcis! (ecstatica) : EvilDolemite
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    I used to know the difference between Thong and Ggouraud. : dognose
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      Phong : Judecca
      • Ten years man : dognose
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  Cubic Environment Mapping AMD 3DNow! S3T Orchid Technologies SCSI HARD DISK DRIVES : Sailor of Fortune
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    wth, S3TC : Sailor of Fortune
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      haha, I remember holding a graphics card box in 1999 and reading about S3TC : SiW.
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        it was a big deal. maybe three games utilized it but it allowed incredibly detailed textures. : EvilDolemite
        • UT w/ S3 metal renderer was fucking amazing looking : PointlesS76
        • Oh I know, that's why it's standard in DDS textures these days. I was laughing because I have such a v... : SiW.
        • And now it's DXT1. : timmie
        • And now every game uses it. : uncleanmonkey
• 256 color EVGA : timaste
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  Lens flares : LemonJoose
  • colored lighting! haha this was the shit for a couple of years http://www.bluesnews.com/screenshots/q2... : EvilDolemite
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  MMX technology : LemonJoose
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    Oh shit, way to read the original post. : LemonJoose
    • wtg Obama-voting n00b >:( : dognose
  • 3dnow! it worked. quake 2 ran like twice as fast with 3dnow enabled. : EvilDolemite
• Multimedia : grendel
• genesis does what nintendon't : FrayLo
• Gibs and Gibbed. Even Fragged is not used anymore. : Sgt_Boomstick
• Derek Smart : LemonJoose
• voodoo, openGL, gibs, i totally agree on curved surfaces. i was pumped with the q3 leak when i first saw ... : jane911
• CD-ROM caddies : LemonJoose
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  ATI TruForm! : timmie
  • I was once tasked with coming up with a software version of that they could have in their drivers, becaus... : SiW.
  • Half-Life and mods supported TruForm. It made NS look fucking awesome. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  modem init strings : LemonJoose
  • On a related not: "LPB" : LemonJoose
  • eewww : technotica
  • Hayes compatible AT command set is go. : dafugg
• MUD. : Edges
• Winsock : LemonJoose
• MS-DOS : kallanta
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  Corp Por, Wavetable Synthesis (may be a bit late for that), LucasArts, Scan Line Interleave, MPC2, Cyrix ... : zakazi
  • In Vas Flam : technotica
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  Y2K Compliant Gas Masks Bottled Water : Nobody Good
  • Nine years ago: Return Policy : Nobody Good
  • I didn't buy bottled water for Y2k in December 1999 (it was all gone at the store), and went to sleep ner... : dognose
• Turbo Buttons : watcherxp
• Bump mapping. : bld
• Gameboy : kallanta
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  800x600 : vx2o
  • That isn't dead yet... some users still use that. :( : Shadowdane
• 32X, the Genesis/Sega add-on : bld
• Pentium? 8MB Ram S3Virge? 2MB VRAM Rendition Verite? Matrox Mellenium 4MBVRAM? MechWarr... : technotica
• Voodoo Fucking 2 SLI 12MB : CrabsJarrard
• Shareware that kicked ass. : NFXFSX
• Low Ping Bastard : snuff
• AGP MiniGL : Whistler77
• CD Audio (not MIDI) : ZombieAcademy
• DNF : uncleanmonkey
• prompt $p$g , ATDT : dignan
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  LOAD * ,8,1 : grendel
  • It still lives :-\ http://au.gamespy.com/articles/995/995485p1.html : biofrog
  • you forgot the quotes... : dignan
• colored lighting. I remember that being a big deal. : Vincent Grayson
• OPL3 soundchip : j0nchan
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  a better one: calibrating the joystick : j0nchan
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    I still calibrate my joystick from time to time. : valael
    • most guys do, though most won't admit it. : Ziz
  • if you had the funky MS optical joystick you didn't have to calibrate it, it was awesome. : dooberzoo
• door games. : j0nchan
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  Powerplay : Beady
  • Ah, the rare Valve failure! : TrickSh0t
• Quakeholio (how has this not been said yet) : tinfoilhatter
• I remember being dead excited about rotating brushes (jesus christ) : alnya
• config.sys, autoexec.bat : shackwack
• 56.6k modem with V.90 tech : drbriefs
• Nvidia Ge-Force Ti series cards. : Cliffzorz
• SVGA AND BILINEAR FILTERING. : ssj4megaman
• rj : lightly inclined
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  DOS4GW - EOT : ssj4megaman
  • memmaker : Nitrium
  • 10 years, not 18 :( : abrasion
• Hardware TnL : chazums
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  Dreamcast : mad hatter
  • <3 Dreamcast : transmetal
  • ikaruga still rules though : skryte
• Parking harddrives : dooberzoo
• 4x CD player : razlebol
• Blast Processing : ADSliv
• Stacker/Doublespace/Drivespace : Nitrium
• Was 32-bit color widely used in games 10 years ago? : vx2o
• Redbook Audio. : Rotten Deadite
• Software rendering : Rehevkor
• CDi ! yeeeah! : dfz0r
• ------>> : ShadowRam
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  Sound cards. Who gives a shit anymore? : Penis Brittle
  • The right card can be very important if you need surround sound, especially from Blu-ray movies. : Lone Swordsman
• Stuff That Sucks. : mem
• Duke3d.exe : CrustaR
• Bullet time : o0JediBeavis0o
• himem : matthaeus
• VIVO http://www.web-ads.com/cbertech/video3b.html anyone remember that? the shittiest quality stre... : vassili_zaitsev
• RAMdisk. ahh the glorious 2MEG ramdisk.... lol : dignan
• Emotion Engine (too soon? you're older than you think!) : transmetal
• 100+ hertz monitor refresh rate : notext
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  DWANGO : Wolfanoz
  • and MPlayer : Wolfanoz
• Dell using bullshit RDram. Making it 4x as expensive to upgrade your system memory then any other ram out... : lumpymilk
• Anisotropic Filtering! Mip-maps! Volumetric Lights! Woohoo! : mn3m0n1c
• "3D Sprites" is an oxymoron, isn't it? Sprites are 2D images. : rudds
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  voxels (but they're coming back, baby!) : cdbeckman
  • aw, I was really, really too slow :( : cdbeckman
• FMV is awesome, WTF dude? : thetangent

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  Borderlands, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fallout New Vegas, and Knights of the Old Republic are all pretty int... : theangrywaffles
  • Also, Mass Effect 2. The Last Guardian is a must-buy for me as well. : theangrywaffles
• Dragon Age is the only one off the top of my head that is getting released relatively soon. : Ellissd
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  Ok, gonna throw another one out there. What are multiplayer games are you eagerly anticipating? : Sgt_Boomstick
  • None, really. TF2 is going to be a mainstay for me for quite some time I think. Also, to add on to my pre... : theangrywaffles
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    Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2. : LemonJoose
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      Bad Company 2 is next year. :( How did I forget MW2 in my list, though. Want so much. : mittense
      • BC2 next year? Damn, that was the only MP I had to look forward to. : Sgt_Boomstick
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        Well, then Battlefield 1943 then, I guess. : LemonJoose
        • Ya, hopefully 43 is semi-decent. Anything to tide over my MP needs would be great. : Sgt_Boomstick
  • Not this year, but i'm most looking forward to Aliens vs Predator : megarust32
  • Natural Selection 2, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 : Wisp!
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  Borderlands, Forza 3, Left 4 Dead 2, League of Legends, Need for Speed: Shift, Bioshock 2, Singularity, B... : mittense
  • Battlefield 1943, Dead Rising 2 (?), Saboteur, WipEout HD expansion. : mittense
  • when is league of legends supposed to be out? i'm kind of excited for that game : Mr.SEX
• In the next couple months, I'm interested in Overlord 2, Call to Juarez, Wolfenstein and Batman : stump
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  Fifa 10 on the 360. : Derringer
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    Is FIFA 10 supposed to be really good or do you have FIFA 09 FIFA 08 FIFA 07 etc. : Sgt_Boomstick
    • I have Fifa 09 and I love the hell out of it. A friend and I play each other all the time and it's some ... : Derringer
• Is Rogue Warrior coming out in a few months? : deject
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  Borderlands, Bad Company 2, Crackdown 2, Brutal Legend, Modern Warfare 2. I am a bit tired of the Halo... : LemonJoose
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    I might be actually interested in Halo ODST if it does go down the squad-based shooter path actually. Oth... : theangrywaffles
    • ACTUALLY. I should really read my damn sentences before posting. : theangrywaffles
• Just Diablo 3 and God of War 3 really...And, those aren't close to being out. : ImageOmega
• battlefield 1943, fat princess : quadalupeupe
• Tales of Monkey Island : joesnizzle
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  Too damn many: Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Forza 3, Singularity... : megarust32
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    God, I wish I had the same enthusiasm as you. Only a few of those look promising to me. : Sgt_Boomstick
    • I won't buy em all, i know that : megarust32
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  Half-Life 2: Episode 3, anything Blizzard is working on, and the next Phoenix Wright game. And only one o... : BlackCat9
  • This is my point. The must-have games stopped a while ago. I feel like hardcore gaming has killed it for ... : Sgt_Boomstick
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  There is actually a ton coming out on DS, new zelda, new professor layton, scribblenauts, etc. it's a gr... : jigstah
  • god i want the new professor layton so bad. =( : mindmann
  • Scribblenauts looks worth getting. What's the new Zelda? : BlackCat9
• Probably Battlefield BC2 and 1943. : SatansFist
• Overlord 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Bayonetta, God of War 3, The Last Guardian, Crackdown 2, Modern War... : kallanta

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• Sam & Max episodes : Link.
• tetris : EvilDolemite
• inFamous (both good and evil). : theangrywaffles
• Oh no :( Resistance 1 for PS3! ugh, but I did do 80% of Army of 2 which was much better. : abrasion
• Wolverine : graceofdragons
• Peggle (iPhone) : DooBall
• Sims 2, but damn is 3 hard to beat : locater16
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  Star Wars Force Unleashed : SigENeaT
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    How'd you like that? I've been trying to find that for the cheap. : ashkie
    • A great game, however it's saving system needs some tweaking i think. Long times between checkpoints res... : SigENeaT
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, it ruled, yet again, god it's such a good game. : SpaecKow
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  GTA4 : moe6
  • Same here, I think. : evildanish
• Postal 2 : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• Mirror's Edge : Super Sparker
• gears of war 2 : Mansmells
• Dragon Quest V for DS. Really great. : Judecca
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  50 cent blood on the sand : nova_x
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    Same for me. : tsuba
    • For shame, man. For shame. : disposition
• Mass Effect, I kinda want to replay it as another class but thinking of doing all the Citadel stuff puts ... : Atma Weapon
• Mahjongg : stump
• Red Faction Guerrilla. : pigvomit
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  Baldur's Gate. Last game I hadn't played before would've been KotOR 2. : Arceihn
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    i'm going to assume you started it in 1998. : EvilDolemite
    • Haha, it's been in my backlog for ages. I only picked it up a few months ago. : Arceihn
• Resident Evil IV : Megara9
• inFAMOUS (evil!) : virus
• Mirror's Edge : Code RedBeard
• Mirror's Edge. : K1Bond007
• Plants vs Zombies : SeaLlama
• Dawn of War 2 Coop Very close to finishing Wolverine. : Sailor of Fortune
• Halo Wars : Dan 101
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  Just minutes ago: Grand Theft Auto IV : ovrlrd
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    how did you have the patience to beat that last level...it was infuriating for me and I just quit. : jigstah
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      I only had to retry it about five times total. I guess it helps that I am playing it on the PC since it's... : ovrlrd
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        Yeah I was on PC - the camera fucked me up at one point in the never-ending sequence, and I crashed like ... : jigstah
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          I did have a few bugs where it seemed like I would walk into an area and it forgot to load the whole scen... : ovrlrd
          • Yeah, multiplayer on the PC is really fun, too. : jigstah
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      it was really easy on PC : moe6
      • I played it on PC, it was easy until that last mission. seemed to never end, but maybe I just need to re... : jigstah
    • It really wasn't hard, I think I did it in 2 shots. I'd love to see you at the balcony on KZ2 :( : abrasion
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    Which ending was it? : michaelleung
    • I did both endings, the Kate ending is much harder but it's a better story than the Dmitri ending. : moe6
• Dawn of War 2. It was rad. : pyide
• Portal : cerealSAM2
• Portal. :( : davantalus
• Fallout 3 I think : megarust32
• Killzone 2 : Legolas5
• Pure...if that counts...gold metal on everything : PointlesS76
• so how was it? Loved the demo : dognose
• Ghostbusters : pixelat3d
• God of War 2 : Sirus2400
• Mass Effect : cellx25
• wolfenstein 3D on the iphone or cod waw... not sure : re4ctor
• I went back and played Mega Man 2. Don't worry guys, it's still awesome. I checked! : Orange Pylon
• Ghostbusters, earlier this afternoon. : Syixxs
• Resident Evil V, worth every penny of co-op awesomeness! Before that I think it was Bioshock though, I'... : devi| dog
• Gothic 3 (second time) : vx2o
• Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (on 360). I sent the gnome where gnoman had gone before! : kallanta
• Wolverine. : Dontdrop
• Fallout 3 : TabsAZ
• Prototype : Helter Skelter
• DoW2 co-op : valael
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  Crysis. Two years after release, I have a PC that can play ~max detail 1920x1200 @ 50fps, and this game ... : biofrog
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    It's two years in November... : vx2o
    • Actually I didn't check and was just going off the 2007 Crytek copyright they plaster all over the loadin... : biofrog
  • I finished it at 1280x800 max detail 2 years ago on a 350$ AU videocard and it was very smooth and looked... : abrasion
• Vampire: The Masquerade : icon_of_syn
• DoW2 : lightly inclined
• As of about an hour ago, Prototype. : Malku
• Prototype : ZeroSignal
• Red Alert 3. I was left with the "difficult" decision of going out with Jenny McCarthy (Tanya) or visit i... : GodZilly
• Path of Neo : gimpness
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  WoW. : Bamii
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    No, we still need to beat one more dungeon! : [7]kami
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      He asked which game I beat, not finished ;) : Bamii
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        We still need to beat one more dungeon! : [7]kami
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          No we don't, because I BEAT WoW. : Bamii
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            NO GODDAMMIT WE NEED TO RESUB AND CLEAR ULDATHINGY : [7]kami
            • No. <- see that? It's a PERIOD. <- and another one :) : Bamii
• damn, uh, portal in august 2008, haha : Chandler55
• Plants vs Zombies. : Vincent Grayson
• wolverine. : CoRDS
• that terminator game, it wasnt great : charcharz
• Penumbra Black Plague. : Poor Yurik
• Crackdown. Yesterday. : Cliffzorz
• Plants vs. Zombies :) : gakera
• mario kart DS! It took ages to get the last gold cup :( : jcupitt
• mgs4 i think when it came out. i have a stock of unplayed/unfinished games for the ps3 :[ : fsck
• Pac Man : father_crown
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  I practically beat Fallout 3 (died of radiation just before the end), but I guess technically it would be... : smegmar
  • Oh wait, I beat Halo for the first time a month or so ago. : smegmar
• inFamous : irrerno
• all in the same week, Killzone2, RE5, Army of 2, MGS4... its been a good time, now im just farming RE5, b... : technotica
• Fable 2 : niceguynick
• Wolverine : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Dr Robotnik mean bean machine :P : razlebol
• inFamous : Totenjaeger
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  SF4 i think. although i didn't unlock the last 2 guys. : xxiv
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    I've always been a bit torn on how to count fighting games for my completed game lists :( The only one... : roushimsx
    • i can be ocd about these things too, but fuck it. i played through the last boss and beat him with the ma... : xxiv
• Red Faction : warcrow
• Stalker Clear Sky : ShadowRam
• RE5. LIke 5 times. : Pettytheft
• Fallout 3 (again) : dirge23
• killzone 2, im currently going through my back log : glory hole
• Wallace & Gromit: The Last Resort. : Lone Swordsman
• penny arcade episode 2 : barichnikov
• Bionic Commando (the new one) : o0JediBeavis0o
• Fallout 3, now i am working on Broken Steel. : Dschinghis Khan
• red alert 3 uprising : flagg209
• prototype :( : fufux
• Wolverine : Head Rush
• iPod Peggle, last night! : Zakko
• Super Mario Brothers 3 : PapaBoo
• dow2 : Slowtreme
• iPhone Peggle about 2 hours ago : red2lucas
• Dead Space : ass-street
• Braid : Haku-Jin
• Actraiser : Wolfanoz
• mirror's edge : AMikaboshi
• Infamous : Entity
• You Have To Burn The Rope : TroZ
• Fable : CrustaR
• Portal. Hopefully I'll knock out Mirrors Edge this week. : Omning
• Defense Grid. : h0cake

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  1. get aids : haiku
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    2. anal fisting : askedrelic
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      3. Be homeless : locater16
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        4. ???? : Dunwich
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          5. Profit! : Cheeziologist
          • bah. : AMikaboshi
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          5. Profit! : AMikaboshi
          • bah. : massdev
        • 5. Profit! : packav
  • I notice that the quality of your posts is inversely related to mine. : virus
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  Don't leave, I just got here! : ConfusedUs
  • He's just http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLRRdE6jUdY : cerealSAM2
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  what kind of job are you looking for : consanguine
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    sales/marketing. My previous experience is sales/marketing in telecom, industrial supplies and promotion... : rsustudent
    • What kind of education do you have? : virus
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  Are you taking the shirt making business on the road? : ashkie
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    lol. I can still take orders. :P How you been man? : rsustudent
    • I've been good! I still got some old shirts laying around in the closet. I ran out of fatties to give the... : ashkie
• get aids fuck dudes be homeless but still make more than most shackers HAAAY good luck its a lot dense... : not work safe
• meh.. this state is fucked and its expensive to live. That being said my sister manages to live in the... : sludge vohaul
• smoke drugs : filtersweep
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  Go to the Castro and look for the bar called Moby Dick. Alternately, find the Power Exchange and hit tha... : grendel
  • Finish it off with dinner at Asia SF. : DJ Clipdat
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  Congrats on getting the fuck out of Oklahoma! : DOOManiac
  • Now stay the fuck out of Oakland! : locater16
  • hey man, Bricktown is turning into a happening place. : deject
  • Fucking signed. Get out and never look back. : ArcKnight
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  Question. Are you a Conservative? : snuff
  • absolutely not. : rsustudent
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  Eat food Hike Visit museums Go to Shackmeet rangemeets like this one http://www.shacknews.com/shackmee : Sailor of Fortune
  • WHAT? (There is pretty much zero obese chicks in SF) : Topaz
• Be prepared for a fairly significant jump in cost of living. : action wombmate
• Pay rent! : Amadan
• Good luck with your move : deKaf
• 1. Go to clubs 2. Fuck hollaback girls 3. Visit me and all the Shackers in the area 4. Love the cock. : silentw
• Be sure to eat here at least once: http://www.suppenkuche.com/ : nevicata
• Awesome Chinese food :( : dognose
• When my friend saw SF for the first time a few months ago, I took him to the Sea Lions at Pier 39 while e... : bashildy@speakeasy.net
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  About god damned time! : Squirrely
  • Yo! Squirrely! been forever man. LOL. You'll have to come down and party. : rsustudent
• It's very expensive to live here, so what would seem like a great salary in Tulsa is going to be subsiste... : Gonzo
• Hang out with PETERS! : Iwannaacura
• 1.) Ridiculously good restaurants 2.) Lots of good hiking (Tamalpais, Muir Woods, etc.) 3.) Snowboardin... : Sturm08
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  rent is crazy but you will think you are on a different planet. Are you going to live in San Francisco? : baconisgod
  • looking at south of the city; San Mateo, San Bruno, Pacifica or uhm...San Carlos I think...that's the pla... : rsustudent
• The Tenderloin and Castro Street. : deathofrats
• Congrats, it rules here! And though some of the asshats in this thread have said it in jest, both the Cas... : jessipoo
• holy jesus, man! super congrats! : Megara9
• The gay stuff has been covered I got nothing else. : hashd
• if you want good food in sf, use yelp to find places to eat, mission district has some places that have a... : supaLink
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  Meet lots of gay people. Anyway, how long's the drive? : michaelleung
  • 25 hours. : rsustudent

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• That's how it looked in the video's to me. =( : Pneum0
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  I'm really struggling to find anything positive to say about the game except that there are moments where... : mittense
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    Even the running around isnt very satisfying. I think a lot of that has to do with sound design. Like run... : ashkie
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      The sound is definitely weak, especially after I play Ghostbusters or Infamous. There are also way too ma... : Gonzo
      • Yeah, that's another thing. This is an open-world, "super-hero" (larger than life, crazy powers) game: wh... : mittense
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      Sound design may be part of it, but I think it's just a general "wouldn't this be cool" mindset that led ... : mittense
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        "Every pedestrian in the game is nothing more than gore fodder; they have no personality, quips, or even ... : ashkie
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          Are you telling me Crackdown was any different in that regard? Faceless mobs to mow down and a generic co... : derelict515
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            Crackdown had way more character and identity than Prototype does. I mean, I don't even know how you coul... : mittense
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              I mean, one of my most poignant memories of Crackdown is thinking haha civilians are being dickheads I'm ... : mittense
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                Thats why the star mechanic of GTA worked so well. It gave feed back that the city would no longer tolera... : ashkie
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                  Like this video I just made is a perfect example: http://ashkie.shackspace.com/Movie.wmv I could do... : ashkie
                  • That's because it's a different style of pedestrian they aren't there to be important. They are there to ... : greh kleh
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                Prototype's combat and movement mechanics are way better than Crackdown's. Moving is really, really fu... : Rice-Rocketeer
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                  All of Prototype's moves are extremely useful? The only weapon worth using is the blade, and it has two ... : walker270
                  • The claws are super fast, plus you get the claw spike, which is awesome for taking out hunters. The ha... : Rice-Rocketeer
  • but they put that guys crazy mind in the situation that he is in??????? there must have been innovation!... : Mr.SEX
  • advertisers $$$$ and fanboy rage : quadalupeupe
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    Because thankfully a lot of reviewers can put gameplay over graphics. It deserves a hit in it's score for... : Entity
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      Most of the people here are citing problems with the gameplay elements, not graphics. : walker270
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        Their complaints are trivial and/or make comparisons that are invalid/not thought out, though...this game... : Rice-Rocketeer
        • Saying stuff doesn't make it true. The complaints and comparison are much more thought out than your s... : walker270
      • I was referring to the post above mine, where he states 'how this game can be in the 80s is astonishing' ... : Entity
• hi buddy : aggressor
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  I'm 10 hours in and couldn't disagree more. I have no idea how Crackdown got so much love if this doesn't... : derelict515
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    I think Crackdowns cities had 100x less people in it lifelessly walking around, though. : ashkie
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      the people only exist to consume/kill. SR2 felt empty. I think having screaming crowds and zombies is far... : derelict515
      • yea i kind of enjoy the crowds. sometimes they get HUGE and there are so many fun things in the game to d... : jane911
  • IAWTP. How the same people that praise crackdown could utter a bad word about Prototype I have no idea. I... : greh kleh
  • Crackdown's art style and stylized/stereotypical narrator added a lot to the feel of the game. Everyth... : walker270
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  it's fairly fun but really I think it needed another year for graphics and other little polishing. : moe6
  • we've heard that somewhere before : steve_o
• definitely doesnt look like $50 of game to me. : jigstah
• You are so wrong. This game is awesome. : Rice-Rocketeer
• I really enjoyed it. I would have liked a bit more life in the city, as in GTAIV, but I mostly would have... : Syixxs
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  Amazing game. : sheepraper
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    Ditto. There's a ridiculous number of powers and upgrades, and wreaking havoc on Manhattan island is glor... : Rehevkor
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      The "Web of Intrigue" is an interesting plot device, until you realize it never gives you any new informa... : walker270
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        ...what? Are we playing the same game? An example from the top of my head: The Web of Intrigue just : Rice-Rocketeer
        • IIRC, that was from a required, story-driven consume. The other 99 consumes in the game are meaningles... : walker270
  • I really liked it too. : kelerian
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  The biggest problem with the game is any kind of fucking risk or feedback Everyone's comparison to Cr... : nodebug
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    You're wrong. The risk comes from the combat. The game doesn't manage "risk" the same way as Crackdown, a... : Rice-Rocketeer
    • There's no risk in combat. Nothing can touch you, at all, unless you take a 30 minute break to go grab s... : walker270

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  it seemed the teams went unbalanced for quite a while : redfive
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    In terms of player count or skill? I really can't do much more about the latter; even with forced random... : omnova
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      Give the top scorer of each round's winning team to the losers for their lowest scorer. BAM! : Felraiser
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        Push CP is the only game type that would even remotely benefit from that, and even then, it's pretty shit... : omnova
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          You're pretty shitty if you won't commit to balance! Exchange that shit and BAM problems are gone. : Felraiser
          • Felraiser you know you shouldn't joke about serious business tf2 :[ : daedraug
          • Oh, I know. RANDOM player from the winning team in exchange for a random player from the losers! Feel the... : Felraiser
          • You can go to http://www.foxnews.com and KABOOM instant fairness and balance. See, I care. : omnova
    • it was in terms of player count. I never whine about skill unless it's obvious stacking. : redfive
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  I thought it was just dandy. The only thing that crossed my mind was on one PL map the offense took a wh... : kanix
  • Was it Pipeline by chance? It is currently set to only one round since it's doesn't have the distinct at... : omnova
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  I wasn't a big fan of follower and badlands back to back, thought I do like both maps. Or maybe it was so... : pyide
  • I am not a fan of yukon's darkly light areas either. : pyide
  • i don't hate it : RikiTiki2
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    I ran out of maps of other types to put between them. I'm sure at least one of the custom maps will get ... : omnova
    • We had 20 or more on follower tonight, it was pretty one sided though so I can't say much about it. I def... : pyide
    • Follower is so much more fun than Freight :( : daedraug
    • Follower is pretty fun for scouts. It's so ridiculously scaled that I can do well as scout, so maybe that... : Felraiser
    • Keep follower! : megarust32
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  Time limits OFF! Jesus let us finish a game for once instead of BAM MAP CHANGE in your face : Trips
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    And maybe give the players their democratic RTV power back, Hitler. Authoritarianism is a failed system. : Felraiser
    • I am hereby using my DEMOCRATIC POWER to vote for no rtv, ever, in any form. : daedraug
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      I enjoyed playing tonight without RTV more than I have in a while. No one is voting fucking dustbowl and ... : pyide
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        I think the players know the best maps a little better than some "pro-gamer" sitting by his ivory tower c... : Felraiser
        • It's not like those maps aren't in rotation and you'll never see them. I don't care what any "pro-gamer" ... : pyide
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    Is there a way to hold the map change until the current round ends (as in wait until someone scores a poi... : pyide
    • I swear I've been on servers where its timelimit has expired but the map still went on until the current ... : pyide
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      It should not be stopping mid-round. I'll fix that if it is. : omnova
      • Yeah, did that a few times tonight. Other than that everything seems pretty good. : pyide
  • I would love to turn time limits off, but I just don't think most people are going to go for it. I'll br... : omnova
• i like everything : Chandler55
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  still would like some arena thrown in every few maps for a change of pace : RikiTiki2
  • I hate Arena and everything it stands for, so that's not likely. : omnova
• Everything seemed pretty good. We just need to find that autojoin fix. : ant_hillbilly
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  turn off all talk thanks it's kinda goofy to put so much effort into the map rotation only to remove t... : jimmy-buffett
  • I don't remember all-talk being on on Dallas. Are you thinking of shackwest the other night? : pyide
  • All talk is off. : K1Bond007
  • All talk was only on because we were discussing stuff and got left on a while afterwards. Chill out. : omnova
• We actually played CTF_Well earlier today, and we probably had 20 people. And it was fun. : megarust32

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  i bet they burn it to the ground. : dopefish
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    BURN IT ALL DOWN, POOKIE!! BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN TO THE GROUND!! : Maddog_Delphi97
    • :D ! : r3dn3ck
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  on a scale of 1-7 what are you doing right now : wtf242
  • being a complete fag : felicia
  • Being a sort of gay. A fag, if you will. : SpaecKow
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    changing my shackname to Gaybo McGee : PlanetPerfecto
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      i think faggy mcfagpants suits you better : shavenewok
      • add "plantation" and a few other ten-character words. : skryte
  • cock gobbling several fags while texting my puffy nipple GF... : massdev
• what are you talking about? : graceofdragons
• nothing. :( : abrasion
• mods have truly gone loopy. The answer though, is nothing. As usual. : terath
• Well fuck. : brickmatt
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  They will do something, others will say they shouldn't have, and if it works they will take credit for th... : pigvomit
  • So it will be like politics? : ShoCon
• Adopt a wait-and-see attitude while reintermediating sticky relationships vis-a-vis global convergence : bipolar
• wash it with soap of course : sikander
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  Jump start the warp drive, it's the only way. : okhelosir
  • Actually we have to eject the core : extrahappyturtle
• I think there will be a change to the change and once that is in place there will be another change. : hashd
• 42 : Megara9
• shift paradigms and synergize : kallanta
• stuff : moshman
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  i'm glad you've started a shackscussion on this important issue : aeg1x
  • shackin' and bloggin' : haiku
• So, what do you guys think they're going to do about everything? : sharpie
• pretend it never happened : cerealSAM2
• Usually ends up being plan B- if we're unlucky, C. : PlanetPerfecto
• Nuke em' : Greymatter42
• shut it down. all of it : HeXoN
• Buy it from China and Sell it to America with money they borrowed from China. : massdev
• hey i bought pants which are pictured here. i like them. also facebook : burning eye
• Thanks for explaining what this is all about :| : vx2o
• They will do everything! Which is what I am actually... I am everything and I am nothing therefore it i... : Malku
• THIS IS SO COOL : felicia
• My eyes They are open : Goblin au
• watching you slowly get more and more jaded over the years is the highpoint of this site for me. : crazywigga
• cocks. : moe6
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  sadly, they're going to cut down the Amazon. : Juno
  • but then where will i buy books? : master_disaster_17
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  a lot. : nomaad
  • allot synergy paradigms : gakera
• Shut it all down hopefully. : theghostofsmdever
• They'll create a forum which all frontpagers will have to join in order to comment. It will actually be a... : anhero
• Hasbro apologizes to Transformer fans and kills of Michael Bay? : Optimus Prime
• They never do anything about everything. : porp
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  i do not understand this post, or why it is +INF'd. : g0nk
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    haiku : slickdoody
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      So, what do you guys Think they're going to do a- bout everything? : Duffman8369
      • *golfclap* : alnya
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    You're thinking too hard. : porp
    • i just woke up. : g0nk
  • haiku just wants some attention. : vx2o
  • And what are you or someone else going to do about it? : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Yes. : aaarrrgh
• I always miss the good stuff. : Lightzout
• An nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? : BigT
• They'll nuke it like a tv dinner. : Ziz
• Balls. : Ride-My-Rocket

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  No fucking way Fred, that is incredibly rare, I would be very very hesitant to believe the CPU died. Ser... : abrasion
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    Especially since every CPU made in the last 4+ years has been designed to shut off when temps get dangero... : Prozium
    • Yep, Fred do a bios reset, and re-seat components, I'd bet M/B or PSU before CPU. : abrasion
    • When I built my current desktop, somehow I didn't properly attach the heatsink and fan to the CPU. It was... : Ellissd
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    I replaced the video card, memory, so it's down to the mobo or the CPU. CPU was running at 60 at idle fro... : Fred Garvin
    • It's probably not the CPU. I think they're relatively safe up to 100C and they shut off when they get dan... : Prozium
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      I bet if either is dead, it's going to be the mobo. I've had mobo's die all the time but cpu's just keep ... : moe6
      • Yeah, I think that's what I'll try first now after the feedback here. : Fred Garvin
    • my Q6600 is always at 60 C, I had no idea they even went lower on stock : kpxkrnjc
    • If you ever think it might be the board or the CPU, always always bet on the duke the motherboard. : Ebu
    • Mobo is way more likely. : electroly
  • It happens now and again. I have one die on me every few months at work. 1 out of every 50 or so Intel ... : sheepraper
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  Get the Q6600 and oc it--it just so easy to do. : warcrow
  • If he has to replace CPU I'd recommend the E8500 and skip the Q6600, the E8500 is cheaper, overclocks fur : abrasion
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  A perfect excuse to go i7 : dael
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    That's a significant step up in price for the mobo and the CPU isn't it? : Fred Garvin
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      Not really. Newegg has the i7 920 for $280 and you can find plenty of motherboards for ~$200. DDR3 fell f... : Prozium
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        My local MicroCenter has the 920 D0 for $229. : mechanicalgrape
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          god I want one of those things with tripple channel ram and a monster SSD. : abrasion
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            triple channel ram really doesn't make much difference. : Nali4Freedom
            • Every bit counts, plus it'll give me 6 or 12gb! oh so awesome. Does microcenter deliver? : abrasion
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        So $500 vs around $350-400. I think I'll wait a bit. : Fred Garvin
        • Hardly a bad idea with i5 coming soon enough. : Dontdrop
        • But its unholy fast. :( : d0gbert
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    No. The performance increase in games is hardly worth it at this point unless you are already starting fr... : Visceral Monkey
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      I dunno considering intel is going to discontinue the 920 and 940 come fall I think it might be worth the... : ant_hillbilly
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        But you also have to buy a new motherboard and ram. : Visceral Monkey
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          Why? They are continuing the i7 series, just not the 920. : abrasion
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            Right, but if he wanted to upgrade to i7 right now he would need a new processor, ram and mb and not just... : Visceral Monkey
            • It was in regards to the 350-400 vs $500 difference Fred Garvin mentioned above. I should have been more... : ant_hillbilly
      • lol @ a CPU being an "investment" : YamatoTwinkie
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        I don't think I have ever in the history of building computers upgraded a CPU on a installed motherboard,... : stgdz
        • ^^^ Yeah pretty much, we may as well go back to soldered on jobs - I rarely rarely change CPU either. A... : abrasion
• nehalem ex! : Unleashed
• Q6600s are hard to find these days. : baconisgod
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  Nice, it looks like Asus has 3 year warranty on motherboards now. I guess I'll buy another and RMA this o... : Fred Garvin
  • if you figure out how to actually talk to a human there let me know. I have one I think I can still ship ... : zigzag
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  go quad core all the way : kn1fe
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    That is pointless. : abrasion
    • Yup... I said it 3 years ago, and people didn't believe me http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=130988... : ShadowRam
• Q9550 is great. Or you can go i7 and be the cool kid on the block. : Jobos
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  Drop the Quad, cheap out with a good Dual, and wait for something better than the i7 : ShadowRam
  • such as? : JohnnyRey
  • Quad core or bust!! : CrustaR