Weekend Discussion: Room for Dreams

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• art & literature section of periodicals at the book store : systatic
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  post it here, so we can give you tips : deathofrats
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    thank you, first helpful suggestion! : BenMurphy
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      wait, this was meant for systatic, fuck you deathofrats! : BenMurphy
      • hahaha why is this post so funny : skizl
• lol : RikiTiki2
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  poetry has killed itself. there is no more poetry. : Perturbation
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    13th Level Cleric casts Resurrection on Poetry. : Rotten Deadite
    • gah! Zombie poetry!! (get to it, people!) : kallanta
• More like BenJonson : nurglich
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  Gentleman whom roger Gentleman Quarterly, Modern Faggot, or Aspiring Shakespeare Weekly : MoreVespeneGas
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    Also latestchatty, print edition : MoreVespeneGas
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      I already suggested that one, but was told to fuck off. : deathofrats
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        eat a dick, deathofrats! : BenMurphy
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          if your poetry is anything as awesome as your witty repartee then you must take a stab at publication. A... : deathofrats
          • QQ : braaains
  • More like Aspiring Shakespeare Weakly, amirite? : cerealSAM2
  • I can't stop laughing at "Gentlemen whom roger Gentlemen Quarterly," it seems so Terry Pratchett-esque : BenMurphy
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  Get a second opinion from someone besides the girl. Someone who knows what they're talking about when it ... : Merlin13x
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    I don't waaannaaaa. Man, I'm a dick in this thread. Thank you for this good advice. : BenMurphy
    • Man, I'm a dick in this thread. There fixed that for ya. Also, cool story brah. : Xevo
    • Congratulations! Being a dick is the first step in becoming a successful poet. : Perturbation
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      If you'd like me to critique it for you, shoot me an SM. Of course, I understand if you don't want me to ... : Merlin13x
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        haha sonnet theft. enjoying this thread so far. your eyes are like stars. : [fry]
        • The eyes of [fry] are nothing like the sun. : Merlin13x
• i installed the lol script just for this post : filthysock
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  haha you're 27 : [fry]
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    don't try to make me into the poetry Sparkly, despite the many parallels : BenMurphy
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      the girl is japanese isn't she? and she lives in japan. and you want to learn japanese. : [fry]
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        um, I'm going to teach English there. A very noble profession, I believe. The fact that she's there is im... : BenMurphy
        • rofl : lodit
        • she nodded on video chat : warpdude
        • ror : AlexXdude
        • the guys dick she was nodding on was just off screen (obligatory) : MrBig0
        • lol. : freshyk
        • kek : lightly inclined
        • nodding off.... : stump
        • quick, someone scan IMDB for the name Ben Murphy and find out what movie the character comes from : yacoub35
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          being an ALT is a noble profession? lol : Nighteyes
          • i thought alt's were banned : shavenewok
        • This is horrible. : Rice-Rocketeer
        • this post should be enshrined : boring gegtik
        • Oh man, that last line is the greatest thing I've ever read. No way your poem can top that. : BoKnows
        • nice. : fletch_
        • fake. : deadfish
        • BAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT YOU : TastyWheat
        • POTM : pyide
        • lol this is great : chungathebunga
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  I wrote a poem for a girl once, I told her I was pining for her, but she just thought I was being sappy. ... : drucifer
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    aaand boom : xsoulbrothax
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      I met an earthy girl, but she treated me like dirt. : drucifer
      • oh my godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddx : datoo
      • aaahahahahaha YESSSSSS : Downforce
      • We missed you so much. : rudds
      • Nice combo. : spazzium
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        mixing it up a bit? http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=earthy+girl&cs_user=drucifer&c... : megarust32
        • freestylin' : drucifer
        • hahaha, boo *throws tomato* : Chandler55
        • leave us our illusions! : Smirks D
        • we almost had a poetry jam going, and you fuck it up : BenMurphy
        • LOL, the guy has no new material : yautja
        • Amazing : chungathebunga
        • good lord i'm lolin over here : notdeadyeti
  • if I was her, I'd have told you to leaf me alone. : hirez
  • did you grovel in front of her? : c0bra
• This is my new favorite thread. It has great potential. : chrisschutz
• Ewa Sonnet? : Crimsonbeak
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  lolol : Modica Sol Solis
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    Also, very, very few places will publish a single poem, unless it's God's gift to man (and it's not). So ... : Modica Sol Solis
    • ok, this is useful information! Thanks for reals. (it is not a godly poem, but it's got iambs and a volta... : BenMurphy
• Between this thread, and oneshot's DeathThreadOnWheels, my weekend was awesome up until this point. : MercFox1
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  the fucks a sonnet : royalally
  • http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1605.html : alias
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  Is it called Pointy Birds? : baconisgod
  • Steve Martin rulez : drucifer
• you could look into the International Society of Poets ? : Megara9
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  I don't understand writing songs/poetry about women....no woman has ever seemed that fantastic to me that... : Mr. Goodwrench
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    Maybe to convince them to fuck you. http://www.bartleby.com/101/357.html : underground banana plantation
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      lol, I had to write an essay ont that crock of shit in college. : Mr. Goodwrench
      • Dude, that is one of the poems of all time. I can't imagine a more brilliant phrasing of "stop being such... : underground banana plantation
  • She equals he minus your anus square your integrity : g.lee
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  you think your such hot shit lets fucking hear it then : Jackass1233
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    FINE! Fuck you jackass and deathofrats! Here's the poem I hope you choke on it! Sunday Morning Trad... : BenMurphy
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      not bad. Seems more about you than her though. : Megara9
      • this is true. What I actually said to her was "I wrote a poem, and you're in it" : BenMurphy
    • i hate poetry. : mrvandelay
    • Cool poem, brah. : mem
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      Nodding so fucking hard right now : TastyWheat
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        Nodding with a vengence : shavenewok
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          i nodded so hard i blew myself and swallowed : filthysock
          • I nodded so hard my head flew off my neck and blew a hole in the roof and my head smashed a satellite and... : boring gegtik
      • I just nodded in my pants. : Gary the Llama
    • Okay, not too shabby. : Rotten Deadite
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      i don't get it : Bamtan
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        TLDR: gazing at his girlfriend did more to fulfill his wishes than any amount of devotion at church. : Postal
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          i read it as if he skipped sunday church to bone his gf : aeg1x
          • Six of one : Ebu
    • i like it : dromo5
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      btw, i think you should have lived in the 1800's : filthysock
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        1800s 1600s - it's perfect for that era : Postal
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          it reminds of me more of the romantics than shakespeare : filthysock
          • it's just the language; I don't remember Victorian poetry being as linguistically complex, but then again... : Postal
    • wut : weevil bob
    • roses are red violets are blue ecclesiastic adulation, perforce, in vain devotion and so are you : aeg1x
    • Google the James Joyce letters and just copy one of those : TastyWheat
    • Good, but i'd go with this one: Sunny Day Sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is swe : Phreakin
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      so English is her second language right? Are you sure she understood all those words that even we Americ... : deathofrats
      • no, she's an old friend from High School who I seem to love now. And all indications are that she recipro... : BenMurphy
    • You know its good poetry when you read it and go what the fuck is this guy talking about, reminds me of h... : Jackass1233
    • I like it. :) : felicia
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      wheres teh rhyme : sirkne
      • I once (very in jest) accused my old band's singer of being "too cool to use words that rhyme" and he got... : Rotten Deadite
    • Man that is good. I'd publish it, if I published things. : vigilante
    • TLDR; instead of going to church he masturbated thinking of you. : underground banana plantation
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      This is bad. Good poetry is at least pretty to the ear. Yours isn't. Great poetry finds meaning in ass... : lechuck59
      • megasnaps : boring gegtik
      • If I was smart, this is what I would say : Phreakin
      • ^^This criticism reads better than your poem : Nighteyes
      • wow, get out the red pen. i wish i could critique poetry like this (except i dont but still cool) : handofthrawn
      • I was just about to post this. : Trips
      • That's what happened to poetry, man. Public education was invented and the high schoolers hijacked the en... : robosextoid
    • It's about the chick?!?!?!? : slacko
    • I was expecting nothing. I was surprised! : Ebu
    • Learn from the Master motherfucker: http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/zines/spacemoose/poetry.gif : Rag and Bone Man
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      This will never get published. : Kentor
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        yeah, actually, reading lechuck59's critique (thx btw), I realize I did rely too much on flowery language... : BenMurphy
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          Yeah, this is good self-reflection. The diction is just strange, to be honest. Originally, I though... : Rice-Rocketeer
          • just for posterity: THERE WAS NO JAPANESE CHICK THAT WAS A TROLL THANK YOU : BenMurphy
        • I'm glad you'll keep trying. : lechuck59
    • I put on my monocle to read this. Now my prostate is nodding something fierce. : steelsamurai
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      I count two lines with incorrect syllable counts... you won't get it published if it is a busted sonnet I... : steelsamurai
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        great example, actually. I was kind of doing some mental gymnastics (with lots of cheating) to write some... : BenMurphy
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          Eh, you can make 'heavy' language work. For fun write another sonnet expressing the same idea but using : thief
          • this is... so helpful. WTF THIEF : BenMurphy
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      You could have told me that was about a hamburger and i wouldn't know. : burning eye
      • thats the secret, it is about a hamburger : filthysock
    • Bah, I've typed -- no joke -- about 5 well-sized paragraphs analyzing your sonnet just to say that I've r : thief
    • This sonnet killed Hitler : locater16
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      Now in German : askedrelic
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        Tradition dictates that lost their importance addled confusion to magic, Sunday morning, that the eve : askedrelic
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          Tradition and its importance should The magic, wacky chaos On Sunday morning, the current cost, per nig : deathofrats
          • now this is good poetry : askedrelic
          • english->chinese->english Tradition of authoritarian rule, has lost its meaning and Chaos magic ... : filthysock
          • "Existence of God is really annoying?" lol : Vantage
          • HAHAHAHAHA.... this is the best thing ever : BenMurphy
    • It's not bad. : lightly inclined
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      The rhyming is just so cheesy, man. : Rice-Rocketeer
      • (It feels like you were REALLY stretching for some things, in other words, and hence why it feels so unna... : Rice-Rocketeer
    • Reminds me of the time I wrote a poem to a young lady. Titled, "The Ivory Shaft". I havent done that... : meatnipples
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  This is the kind of wrong I read on the Shack all the time... : kramweil
  • As soon as I read that a Shugashack montage played and my brain faded to black. : byorn
• just scratch it into the paint in a public bathroom stall : retardhumper
• I don't think sonnets are in fashion with the literary reviews these days. : DonkeyPopsicle

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  Shazam once you get a data plan. : tfboc
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    What is it? : abrasion
    • Screenshot: http://komodo17.free.fr/Pochettes_2/Images/Face/Kazaam_f.jpg : rosewood
    • It's like TrackID on Sony Ericssons. Takes a 30 second sampling of music and identifies it. I think a rec... : Goblin au
  • It's great. I think the 3GS has the same feature built-in now which you can use with voice control. : razlebol
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  Hey cocks, how can I edit my contacts on the iphone but on my PC? I don't like the idea of adding all my... : abrasion
  • :( : abrasion
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    HELLO. : abrasion
    • Use Outlook, or set up a separate gmail account with just the contacts you want and sync those. : Dave-A
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    i think you need outlook to do it : shavenewok
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      I have outlook, how do I do it shavenewoks. : abrasion
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        if you have outlook installed, you should be able to set your iphone to sync with outlook in itunes. I... : shavenewok
        • Oh that's pretty simple and what about picture editing though? (which the iphone supports) : abrasion
  • You can also use Windows Contacts (Vista and above, I think). Since I don't use Outlook on my laptop, I ... : mizterd99
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  AP News has Push breaking news notifications. Bloomberg is good. Remote for iTunes is a must have. Amazon... : historyinthemaking
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    We don't have amazon here, I guess ebay might be cool, no woot here either, what's FML? might consider d... : abrasion
    • I've used an app called FStream to stream BBC radio over wifi and the 3G network - works surprisingly wel... : losimagic
• this is why I love my Sony-Ericsson so much since the K700i. They've included a light in it and I've used... : moe6
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  I've seen Mocha Lite recommended a lot as a VNC client. Hijack: What's a good/free VNC server to run ... : losimagic
  • UltraVNC or TightVNC are probably your best bets.. : Helter Skelter
  • I use TightVNC with Mocha and it works great. : razlebol
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    There are no good VNC servers. :( : nudel
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      There must be something good if I want to VNC into a vista64 Home Premium system :( I'll try TightVNC ... : losimagic
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        VNC works, just not particularly well (especially compared to Remote Desktop). It sucks that there isn... : nudel
        • VNC works better than RDP on the iphone from what I've tried though. : razlebol
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  Here's are the one I like. Latest Chatty Twitterrific ebuddy Dictionary! Google Google Earth Wi... : razlebol
  • oh and Remote. : razlebol
• Free Apps I've found useful: iTrade (fun investing simulator) Cell Tracker (shows minutes used, remaini... : mizterd99
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  Is there a good free wifi locator for Canada?? : Trepex
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    Free wifi locater works for Canada. : razlebol
    • Rly?? : Trepex
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  What speed are you getting in your test? : red2lucas
  • I'm not using 'proper' data, just wifi - but it maxes out at 1.8mbits when I used my own wireless - so I'... : abrasion
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  Retarded question but is there any way to run some of these apps on a normal PC? Some of them actually lo... : abrasion
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    You can VNC into your iPhone :P : razlebol
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      Really? I wanted to VNC and RDP out on it, not in to it but I spose that'd be cool. How does that work, ... : abrasion
      • Never tried it. I just saw that it can be done. : razlebol

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  Ummmm... spoiler tags? : PeniX
  • Ending is so bad, worse than The Missing or Hancock. They are a service at this point : dognose
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    I think the wall of text and the fact that he completely gives out the plot would keep anyone from readin... : anhero
    • er.. reading on after the first sentence or two. : anhero
  • Consider it a public service announcement. The movie is bad. : walker270
  • he did you a favor. read this post instead of wasting two hours of your life and go watch a good movie. : mikecyb
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    Really, no need. If you are surprised or entertained in anyway by this plot you deserve a solid beating : locater16
    • Guess it's the "old shack" in me. I still remember when making posts like this would be nuked in under 30... : PeniX
• Really? HAHAHA. I turned this movie off right after the plane crash. It was unbelievably boring. : aldraek
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  That's pretty much it, except you left out the aliens were angels and Ezekiel foretold all of this in the... : dognose
  • oh wow, seriously? Man, the Book of Ezekiel is way more out there and awesome than this fucking toilet... : anhero
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    He also left out the aliens abducted the kids ANYWAY, making the movie the most convoluted alien kidnappi : walker270
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      Exactly. The whole time line countdown plus coordinates was absolutely useless. The aliens could have s : pigvomit
      • What was with the giving them pebbles? And why did the kid start coding if they were all gonna die the n : dognose
• I laughed my ass off when he asked the dude WHO WAS RUNNING AROUND ON FIRE if he was okay. : walker270
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  I watched the whole thing for some damn reason. It still wasn't as big of a waste as some movies I've wat... : thrallie200
  • yeah it wasn't painfully bad or anything, it was just... not done well. it didn't make much sense and wa... : mikecyb
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  Ebert gave it four stars. : pigvomit
  • And he didn't like Die Hard. Yet he's still my favorite critic. : NastyJack
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    Nobody is perfect. I have a hard time understanding how Ebert could be so right about Transformers 2 and ... : BauriceMastard
    • My reasoning is that he maybe just has a huge hard on for Alex Proyas. Ebert did the commentary for the ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • Read his review and he explains why. : WhatIsThisFor
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  no. he didn't 'randomly' compare them to major disasters, he used Google : papaskot
  • that was the best part in the X-Files movie; when she used google to learn how to perform a stem cell ope... : deviantpaul
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  I think I may be the lone shacker who actually liked this one for the most part. Sure, it had many holes ... : VictoriouSecret
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    It was well made and hardly boring. Maybe a few people here have ADHD? : ventro
    • I am not intelligent, but still haven't had my intelligence insulted like that since Independence Day. : dognose
  • Rose Byrne <3 My mate is her cousin and he won't introduce me. Thinks I'm a fucking stalker or something... : Goblin au
• I'd heard the ending was bonkers before I watched it, so I'd prepared myself. Even so, I couldn't help... : -JLN-
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  I got the blu-ray just because I heard the disaster scenes were amazing : gmd
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    mistake. : MrBig0
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      you haven't event seen it : gmd
      • true enough. Is it sweet then? : MrBig0
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    they're not. unless you love hilarious fucking disaster scenes. but they look like shit and are funny i... : mikecyb
    • Well the positive of all this is he can see Nic Cage's hair in glorious 1080p : Godhatesfatpeople
    • I thought they were well done and unexpectedly visceral. I loved that the first one was a single shot. : WhatIsThisFor
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  Question..do they explain why they are after Cage's kids? or are they after kids in general? I haven't ... : deathofrats
  • They explain why, and they explain that they are after specific people, not just kids. : VictoriouSecret
  • They wanted to preserve the human race, so they selected a bunch of retards. : walker270
• Holy shit. I fucking hate nicolas cage anyway so I wasn't going to see it regardless. : MrBig0
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  This is going to be an amazing montage on Youtube someday, like the Wicker Man montage of Nicholas Cage g... : Serpico74
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    If so it'd be well worth it. This had me laughing throughout it.That bee scene, is that how this movie ac... : Marauder IIC
    • Yep. : Poor Yurik
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    holy shit i just nearly died while watching that, oh my god, my friends are still laughing hystarically : MrBig0
    • Its the best : Serpico74
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    absolutely. I'm tempted to do it myself actually. : aeg1x
    • You should! : Serpico74
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    HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! : notd665
    • Dude, anything that involves a bear suit and punching is a-ok by me : Serpico74
• I'm starting it right now, prediction, I will enjoy it and you are all huge movie snob faggots : gmd
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  Movie was incredible...up until the last 25 minutes or so. +Spoiler Tags would be good though. : pturvz
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    Normally yes but this would be like spoiler tagging Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. : dognose
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      George Clooney gets hit with tomatoes in the sequel : deathofrats
      • A tomato is fired from a cannon onto another ship : dognose
• Interesting : guyver-za
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  Is it worse than The Happening? : phate81
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    Depends, what's worse, death or death by "Bunga Bunga"? : BauriceMastard
    • WHAT A TWIST! : BauriceMastard
    • Hahahah : Poor Yurik
    • !!!??!?! : chungathebunga
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  So now if the shack decides a movie is shitty, someone can throw the whole plot in a sentence and it's no... : Ctrl-Phreak
  • That much pure text is about 10 times better than a spoiler tag. : walker270
  • yeah wtf? i saw the movie and thought it was ok. this thread should be nuked : fsck
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    do you have self control issues? honestly - that huge block of text is as good as a spoiler tag; just don... : hirez
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      While I agree that it's easy to avoid, it *is* a blatant violation of a long standing rule. : Vincent Grayson
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        That's my point. It's an incredibly blatant violation of a rule that's generally strictly enforced. Just ... : Ctrl-Phreak
        • I would agree. Not that I disagree with topic, but it is a violation of rules. : bld
  • If you take the time to read through the block of text of a post labelled as an explanation of a movie's ... : Poor Yurik
• I don't think your summary really does the movie justice. The movie wasn't the best thing ever, but I tho... : FlatlineDixay
• this makes me want to see it more : jenisthebest
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  Sounds almost as terrible as Eagle Eye which I watched on TV the other day :( : Poor Yurik
  • Yeah I watched it fully for the first time last night. Garbage. : NFXFSX
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    On a side note, I think seeing Nicolas Cage as the star in a movie these days is a pretty surefire hint t... : Poor Yurik
    • his last good movie was Lord of War back in 2005 : spiderfill
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    Poor little Eagle Eye. It tried so hard. : byorn
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      Eagle Eye was almost a good movie. I got the feeling of Hollywood script butchering while watching it. ... : bld
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        wat? everything about the movie was hokey : spiderfill
        • You could be right, I saw it pretty trashed so my BS meter for films was off. : bld
• I loved the movie, I watched it without knowing anything about it. I most especially enjoyed the slow pa... : WhatIsThisFor
• I just finished watching this movie because of the thread. I enjoyed it a lot! Sure it could've been ti... : Rasnowl
• sounds about right. : Megara9
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  I have no idea why, but this post made me watch this movie today. What a horrible horrible mistake. You... : spazzium
  • yeah the summary was not at all a joke. : dahanese
• my friend just obtained this movie and is going to force us to watch it tonight :/ : MrBig0

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• srsly valve : retarded talking dinosaur
• ya i no rite : SpaecKow
• valve time. needs the last 3 TF2 classes unlocked first. ok thx : Downforce
• seriously : dromo5
• having even more awesome baked in : filthysock
• my most anticipated game ever... : i poop from there
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  it's been almost 2 years, and there's been so little news. nothing to even froth at the mouth over! : zerog83
  • Which is fine by me. IMO I remember reading about EP2 way too soon. : PointlesS76
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  You mean "Gordon Freeman Forever"? : roushimsx
  • how dare you : senor135
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  Will this be the last game in the HL saga? I hope they come up with a completely new IP when they're done... : Mmmmmoo
  • it was hinted it might be the end of Gordon's side of the story but the universe itself will go on : grabbie
  • they have enough IPs. New IPs are stupid. : Cihte
  • Heh, I'd actually be happy to have a Half-Life 3. : quadeh
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    It is the last part of Half-Life 2. Then Half-Life 3 is coming(hopefully) I mean with the nature of the ... : Crimsonbeak
    • I would pay for this game. : Dontdrop
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  Maybe they're finding the "right fit" for Gordon's dialog. : hatelull
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    i dont think they could ever put a voice to Gordon. by now we all have a pre determined thought of how h... : i poop from there
    • To me Gordon doesn't talk. He just walks around with a smirk on his face always. : AgentPothead
    • they just need to say gordon is a mute at this point. they could have mouse gestures for sign language : smax
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  Does anyone still think it is coming out this year? : thecatinthehat
  • They prob just made some concept art while everyone is busy working on L4D2. If anything we will hear s... : grabbie
  • hahahahaaahahahha : CasbahBoy
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  Dude, Emperor Palpatine turns out to be Darth Sidious : hankyJR
  • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! : Geoffrois
• Episode 3 will be scrapped and remade into a cutting edge MMO which will contain a million Episode 3's be... : CAPPINJACK
• I hope : chungathebunga
• Take your pick: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w... : SigmaDraconis
• It's coming Q4 2009, released at full price, and packaged as Half-Life 3 lol not really but i would lo : das_runt
• It's in my pants : Maddog_Delphi97
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  I wish I knew. Time from HL2 to Ep1: 562 days Time from Ep1 to Ep2: 496 days Time from Ep2 to now:... : Perturbation
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    I thought the idea of splitting them into episodes was to reduce the time between games. =( : GrimmyD
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      how many days between hl1 and hl2? : filthysock
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        2189 according to the dates found on wikipedia : GrimmyD
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          pretty good reduction in time between games then! : filthysock
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            Haha, I'd never thought of it like that. You're right, dammit. : nudel
            • Wait wait wait, those time periods fluctuate quite a bit. It's ok though, because I get this sexy little ... : focusdaily
    • Well that was the idea, but Valve likes to do all these updates to the engine at the same time. It's prob... : K1Bond007
  • Longer than some sequels, people have to re-play HL2 to remember it for EP1, then they gotta replay HL2 a... : abrasion
  • Wow I'd forgotten how long it's been. TF 2's been keeping me busy : Dontdrop
  • Wow at first I didn't believe you but you're right, that's insane : Begawkiness
• Anakin Skywalker is Darth Vader : gyokuro
• Guess Valve has the high ground : flagg209
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  Whenever it arrived, the good news it that the guy responsible for the amazing Half Life 2 Minerva levels... : FirstPersonCooter
  • arrives : FirstPersonCooter
• meh i dont even care anymore. thats what happense when shit takes too long to come out i'll probably : dantastic
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  It takes a long while apparently to make an underground craven and fill it with menacing alien insects. A... : lightly inclined
  • cavern : lightly inclined
  • Yeah it does, games are expensive to develop these days. : SpaecKow
• too busy screwing the customer over l4d 1.5 : spaceyme
• They're waiting for you Gordon.... In the Shackchamber : Anir
• Probably not until 2010. : spazzium
• Valve noticed Left 4 Dead 3 rakes in more money. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  I'd be surprised if it didn't come in a bundle similar to The Orange Box. : Serpico74
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    it's probably more likely that its NOT coming in a bundle and is going to be longer and more expansive as... : RetroRedEyeJr
    • Well I doubt that they're working on an entirely new engine, but Valve is always adding new features to S... : SpaecKow
• Top men are working on it. Top. Men. : action wombmate
• I finally played Episode 2 a few weeks ago and the wait for Episode 3 since then has been excruciating! : lowpoly
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  Sitting next to Gran Turismo PSP. : Shivawn
  • You mean GT5. : moe6
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  Wherever Episode 3 is, I am glad it will stay there until Valve's happy with it. It's going to be tough t... : Alice O'Connor
  • i agree. running from the Guardian was probably the most intense game moment ive ever experienced, and t... : i poop from there
• When its done. : MercFox1
• This is one of the few games I'm looking forward to. I wish it would hurry : valael
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  Hijack Question: What will come out first Diablo 3 or Episode 3? :D : DM7
  • Diablo: Episode 3. : BlackCat9
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  I just started playing Ep 2 again... : pop_secret
  • Going from fullscreen gaming to widescreen gaming is an awesome excuse to play through all of your old ga... : MercFox1
  • i bought it on release and am playing through it for the first time now because first my vid card was too... : aurealis
• I wish they would have just combined EP1,2, and 3 into half life 3. : stgdz
• The worst thing is that they specifically said that the Ep1 team moved onto Ep3 pretty much immediately, ... : AlexW1203
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  Meh. Loved HL 1. HL2 + Episodes not so much. : Mr. Goodwrench
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    I also prefer HL1 to 2 and EP1 (ugh) but EP2 is actually really good. : abrasion
    • same here. Loved the first HL, didn't care for HL2 and EP1 but loved EP2. : baron calamity
• Mind as well be HL3 at this point.... : ShadowRam

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• no but you just motivated me to set one up : WhatIsThisFor
• Maybe I'll do this later. : Robotic Puppy Eater
• It's pretty awesome, especially the color coding of the rarities. : sammyl
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/acidnynex/achievements/ : acidnynex
• I just reg'd and got it up myself. Kinda neat. : mesabo
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  i wish shack would get off their ass and fix it up : spaceyme
  • lol that's like wishing wtf242 would stop being so gay : Flynn
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  ive got one rare achievement! http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/excessdan/achievements/?sort=rarity : dantastic
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    2 it says! : Haxim
    • it hadnt finished updating my xbox gamertag apparently : dantastic
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    I've got 8, but it hasn't load my XBL yet. I wouldn't have guessed any of my WoW achievements were "rare"... : Vincent Grayson
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      Think about how many people have wow accounts vs how many people actually play as hardcore as most shacke... : sammyl
      • I suppose. I've never thought of my playing as being "hardcore". The rare achievements I have seem to com... : Vincent Grayson
  • http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/gegtik/achievements/?sort=rarity : boring gegtik
  • I have 84 rare ones. : sigpro
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    Sad that all of mine are from WoW :( http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/phreakin/achievements/?sort=rari... : Phreakin
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      Heroic ramparts is a rare achievement? o.0 I can solo that place these days. : SilverSnake
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        It's "rare" because few people have it. Not that it's hard to get. : GodZilly
        • I know, but I'm surprised that few people have it, because it is so easy to get. Much like Outland angler... : SilverSnake
  • Evil Benius had something like 200 last time. : razlebol
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ricerocketeer/achievements/?sort=rarity LOL @ UT3 - "play a mission i... : Rice-Rocketeer
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/micatron/games/ 7 rare achievements! They're almost all from Lumines... : nurglich
• That is a swanky background image. : rudds
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  yay, 57 rare. what do I win? http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/foxhawk/achievements/?sort=rarity : Foxhawk
  • a funky donk. : kainen1
• I got 12 apparently, yay! http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/feddan/achievements/?sort=rarity : GodZilly
• Pretty awesome! http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/baron_calamity/games/ : baron calamity
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/siggijarl/achievements/?sort=rarity : OrkO
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/sigeneat/games/ I dont fully understand this but i have a whole lot of ... : SigENeaT
• 14 rare - http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/zerosignal/achievements/?sort=rarity : ZeroSignal
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  I am browsing giantbomb more and more every day. I decided to make an account now. http://www.giantbom... : pancake humper
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    We appreciate your support (and everyone else in this thread). We're really proud of the achievement stuf... : rudds
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      Jeff and Vinny need to get back to the Matrix Online videos :) : pancake humper
      • That's Ryan and Vinny. I think they're planning to do one or two a week until it's shut down, so you s... : rudds
• I have 14 rare http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/corthan/ : broly1718
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/wolfanoz/games/ : Wolfanoz
• 91 rares http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/delusional81/achievements/?sort=rarity : Delusional
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/melkore/games/ : melkore
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  201 rare achievements. http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/silversnake/achievements/?sort=rarity And t... : SilverSnake
  • 249 with both Steam and Xbox Live finished. Sheesh. :D : SilverSnake
• I only go to ThomW based gaming stats sites, and of course the shack. :P : Hiro

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• wow!! : MoreVespeneGas
• wow this is incredible : ErneX
• Awesome : thecatinthehat
• Really cool. Don't read the article before watching :) : sirkne
• Um. wat : Moonbase Commander
• That wasn't nearly as bizarre as the article pitched it. It WAS fucking awesome though. : fishbone
• impressive pixel art : Draugluin
• Very, very cool. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  so pixel sex turns into WoW? : sludge vohaul
  • I have no idea what was the joke there, if there was even one... : mystifier
  • maybe games are turning into pure stimulation : Chandler55
• that was great!!!! : datoo
• lolol : Maddog_Delphi97
• haha oh god the part with the goombas : aldraek
• whoa, that was awesome : delataur
• The FPS portion of that made me want to play the old fps Space Hulk badly :( : Poor Yurik
• That was a little odd.. : Mmmmmoo
• that crashed my browser :( : thecray
• Haha weird but awesome. : bolneze
• hahaha amazing : MercFox1
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  The mustaches were the best part : lolpatrol
  • That was hilarious. : ShoCon
  • signed : halophoenix
• o.O what? : i poop from there
• Pretty cool. O_o : humbleone
• awesome + lol + what did I just watch : DinK
• poor Guybrush : Schnapple
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  hahahh when Mario was kicking the shit out of the kid goomba, and the other one ran off crying i nearly l... : Demius
  • yah that part was great! : Shadowdane
• What a climax. : FS|Archangel
• lol what the fuck did I just watch : zerog83
• that was great. i loved the guybrush animations. : Hoax
• i feel as though i should have dropped acid before watching that. : Dschinghis Khan
• okay that was freakin cool! : dromo5
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  what was that game at the end? : Ziz
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    I assume you are kidding but if you arent, WoW. : fr0x
    • hey lay off him, his mmotives were in the right place.. : deathofrats
    • I didn't know, either : zerog83
  • i thought it was farcry2 :( : nova_x
• They totally got the Mario and Pacman physics/movement wrong. that was pretty cool : Drewus
• that was fantastic :D : halophoenix
• Awesome ending. : Sailor of Fortune
• if only there was an actual game that was that brilliantly self-referential. wow, that could really be so... : get_navi
• that was pretty awesome. : grabbie
• The mustachios!!!!! : AxeMan808
• All those fuckin' videogames, man... : kallanta

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  1. A 'module' of sorts? GPUs don't really lend themselves to snapping into a USB port, humbleone. you kno... : Dave-A
  • Yea, I guess :( Kinda wishful thinking on my part.. Sucks if having bought a Wii and then a new one ... : humbleone
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  1 - Who knows. 1a - Who knows. 3 - Yea. Too fucking little space :( Can't you run games off of the sd c... : roushimsx
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    So many games I've yet to hear about. I'll take a look at some of them for sure! How far is your Wii ... : humbleone
    • 495 to go! : roushimsx
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  Wii HD has not been talked about at all. I would doubt your time frame. So far for the Motion Plus: ... : MoreVespeneGas
  • Thanks, ah yea that Grand Slam Tennis seems to be received well. : humbleone
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      That said, they may very well roll out a bunch of fruit-flavored new Wii colors to boost sales before any... : rudds
      • They still have all the colours from the original announcement to do, plus DIGITAL AUDIO OUT (in 2009... ... : abrasion
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  No, there isn't going to be a Wii HD. : Zek
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    No Wii HD at all seems far more unlikely than their being one. I think the question is more of a when.. n... : humbleone
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      Come on, Nintendo is first place in consoles owned by a large margin and you think they're going to alien... : Zek
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        I don't think the Wii HD would require new games - I think it'd just make standard Wii games look better.... : ThomW
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          It doesn't work that way, HD games require HD content. : Zek
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            Have you never played a PS1 game on a PS3, or on a computer emulator? They can certainly render at a hig... : electroly
            • (However, I have considerable skepticism about Nintendo actually doing this. I don't think their market ... : electroly
            • ^^^ what he said. I'm sure they could even ship games with higher quality textures where they're nee... : ThomW
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              Well there's absolutely no way Nintendo would release a new console version just to do that. The Wii alr... : Zek
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                What? No, it would absolutely require a new console. The Wii is not powerful enough to render at HD reso... : electroly
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                  I'm saying that making a new console just to render games on Wii hardware at HD resolutions would be a wa... : Zek
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                    Yes, it would be a waste of effort on Nintendo's part, but should it be done the result would be more tha... : Judicus
                    • Image quality perhaps, but that doesn't change the game's graphics which is all anybody actually cares ab... : Zek
          • Not so much "require" but if you split the hardware the install base is using you either fragment the mar... : Judicus
      • Isn't "releasing another version of the [console] that plays newer games" EXACTLY what it means to "go ne... : DinK
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        Nintendo will release a Wii HD system that will be smaller, cheaper, and come in a variety of colors. It ... : das_runt
        • How exactly do they make a HD system even smaller than the existing one? : abrasion
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          No way. It's going to be bigger and have more features - not less. You can't really make the thing any ... : ThomW
          • So basically you think Nintendo is going to be jealous of Microsoft and Sony and try to copy their consol... : Zek
      • The only reason why I'd say they should fear or at least worry about MS and Sony is because of Project Na : humbleone
    • Sony and MS are likely to not put out a new system until 2012 or after. I wouldn't bank on seeing a new... : Judicus
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      They haven't even needed to drop the price yet so I think an upgrade is a long way off. : Mansmells
      • The DS Lite was selling extremely well with no signs of slowing down before they released the DSi. : Cihte
• As far as games, No More Heroes is fun, Mario Kart is awesome, and Punch Out is reportedly pretty good. : jasonepowell
• This is Nintendo you are going to be buying completely new shit in 2011. : ghost in my shell

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• stop bragging asshole.....aka: jealous as fuck poor guy wishes he could do the same : i poop from there
• Every time I get to track my car, I am happy. It's been quite sometime though :'( : moe6
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  i saw a gt500 follow this camero through a left turn while i was at a red light. it was drizzling outs... : vassili_zaitsev
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    Is stability control bad or something? : MagicWishMonkey
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      in that case it saved their ass. i just found it hilarious that they would fishtail at all going at thos... : vassili_zaitsev
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        Do you not know what torque is? : pancake humper
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          i'm guessing close to 500. : vassili_zaitsev
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            ... So that's no then? : Toraz Chryx
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              What is diarrhea? : MagicWishMonkey
              • doo doo doo da da da : vassili_zaitsev
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            I should have asked: 'You know how speed has nothing to do with fishtailing right?' : pancake humper
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              i don't care if it's speed or acceleration, fishtailing like that looks ridiculous when you're making a s... : vassili_zaitsev
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                THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE. What don't you understand about this. Cars just don't fishtail going around a ... : pancake humper
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                  how the hell is a car gonna fishtail by itself without a driver? lol : vassili_zaitsev
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                    HAHAHHAHAHAHAH YEAH BRO YOU GOT ME HAHAHA LOLOLOOLOOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLGBAHAHAHHA : pancake humper
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                      calm the fuck down man, you're going to hurt yourself : OrkO
                      • Sorry, just hate when people who don't know about cars try to argue about cars and then use semantics as ... : pancake humper
                • i'm going to have to agree with pancake here the two "lol american cars" fishtailing on a left doesnt ... : nova_x
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                unless they wanted to do that. : Slowtreme
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                  well, than he's an asshole. he could've slammed into alot of cars waiting at the lights. : vassili_zaitsev
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                    I get the feeling you don't know how to control your car. I mean that's what this string of posts tell me... : Slowtreme
                    • ok, you got me. : vassili_zaitsev
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                      Oh so now it's ok to spin the back of your car out in the wet while other people are around, awesome - th... : abrasion
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                        i didnt say it was ok or not ok. But I know what is going to fishtail my car and what wont. And just maki... : Slowtreme
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                          you assumed that. i didn't say anything about american cars. : vassili_zaitsev
                          • so gt500 and camero are Euro cars now? It's your schtick : Slowtreme
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              lies, you dont fishtail much going 0. : radula
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                I do. : Degenerate
                • it has nothing to do with smell! : radula
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    you're surprised? with the amount of torque those cars have going through a turn with probably inexperien... : xxiv
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      i am. i didn't know those cars were so fucking dangerous. if just turning left at a light sends your ca... : vassili_zaitsev
      • The government should take action! : MagicWishMonkey
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        There's nothing wrong with a lot of torque. I know most japanese car manufacturer think there is. ;P : FormerHPB
        • Torque is a little different when you have FWD :o : Slowtreme
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        again. there's a total difference in what gear you chose to go through a turn in, when you chose to throt... : xxiv
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          i don't know how my post became an attack on domestics...i lol'd because a simple turn made the dude almo... : vassili_zaitsev
          • going back, sure that's true you never said domestics as a whole. i took it as an implication though, and... : xxiv
      • they aren't dangerous. you can do this with ANY car. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20399908#item... : xsoulbrothax
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      I have yet to fish tail in the rain unless I try to, I actually have been getting surprisingly good tract... : gmd
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        what are you gonna drive in the winter? : vassili_zaitsev
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          the metro rail : gmd
          • :( : vassili_zaitsev
      • Same here. And when I had that vette in FL with those torrential downpours, I was very impressed with th... : FormerHPB
      • that's because you won't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDzsqUOwO4A : xxiv
  • I turn off my TC all the time and punch it when I turn, especially U-Turns. : Slowtreme
  • Most V8 drivers learn how to drive their car instead of letting their PS3 drive around corners so the dri... : stgdz
  • and they lol'd at you for buying a car made by a company who should stick to TV's : maulla
  • my miata does that at about 1/3 throttle in the rain and has ~100rwhp. : xsoulbrothax
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  Arent they american made pieces of crap? cant handle, just got a big motor, or so ive heard. : yautja
  • lol : hobosapien
  • Some American cars can handle these days. Mainly because manufacturers have started using the Nurburgr... : Toraz Chryx
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    Yeah at the end of the day you're still driving a ford. : chrisschutz
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      yeah man, just like that piece of shit GT40 ! : gmd
      • hey guys, hey, hey let's tell ford jokes in this subthread found on road dead, ok, ok you go. : xxiv
• Unless you get a ticket! : not work safe
• Any pics of your ride? : mystifier
• i bet it gets so many looks based on the sound alone. more pictures please. : xxiv
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  Even the day you're using it to carry body parts you hacked apart with a chainsaw? : Lone Swordsman
  • That's an extra special day : Toraz Chryx