Morning Discussion: 'Splosion Wednesday!

by Chris Faylor, Jul 22, 2009 6:00am PDT

I still remember the first time we heard about 'Splosion Man. It was April 1, and there were so many other joke announcements, we thought that was one of them. But no, it turned out that the story of a man who explodes his enemies into "chunks of ham and ribeyes" was real, as evidenced by its current availability on Xbox Live Arcade.

I had meant to get up early and play for a bit to provide a more comprehensive overview, but, you know how getting up early is sometimes. And hey, there's a free demo!

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LucyLuBot's Dirtiest Apartment Contest FINAL ROUND - 2 Days Left

Okay guys, we have a commanding lead again! Nice work. There are only 2 days left, but keep voting because I know JesseB's minions will. I can't wait for this to be over!

Jul 22, 2009 7:36am PDT

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LucyLuBot's Dirtiest Apartment Contest FINAL ROUND - 2 Days Left Okay guys, we have a commanding lead ... : SockMonkeh
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- http://www.myapartmentmap.com/contest/dirtiest_apartment_final/99/ : SockMonkeh
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  btw, that wasn't me who posted penispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispenispeni... : Phil
  - (it was Klerck) : Phil
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  Did you forget something? : mafu5150
  - Wow, guess what showed up after a refresh :) : mafu5150
- Phils post = LOL! : Wolfanoz
- Voted : one random winner
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  Longest. Contest. Evar. : ThomW
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    Seriously. When does this nightmare end? : Phil
- Voted at work this morning, gonna hit up a few other machines and vote from them, let's keep it going. I ... : ejectorpod
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  also, lol @ http://www.shacknews.com/profile/CockMonkeh I think you have a nemesis now. : Phil
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    haha if they only knew that a shacker was running the contest. : ass-street
    - They do. It's posted in the comments on SockMonkeh's apartment. I'm still a bit curious where JesseB i... : SilverSnake
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    Wow Sockmonkeh. promising a cut in order to gain votes for some dumb contest. Stop using our forums for t : Mmmmmoo
    - hahahhahahaha : ejectorpod
    - Forums? I thought it was just comments on each entry of this competition? Or is he trying to pretend to b : SilverSnake
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      Hahaha what a douche : Whistler77
      
      Maybe it's JesseB! : SockMonkeh
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  make it stop please god : [fry]
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    Less than 48 hours fry, just keep voting and you too can say you beat jesseb. : ejectorpod
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      i voted for jesseb. : g0nk
      
      it's a good thing you're not playing eve anymore g0nk cuz i would blow you the fuck up for that shit. : ejectorpod
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  Does this thing ever have, you know, an end? : NEX!
  - I don't know maybe if you refreshed the thread and looked you might see this question get answered. : ejectorpod
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  Why does it say "Too many votes wait awhile."? : unjustend
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    did u vote in the last 24 hours? : ejectorpod
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      Nope. Well, not on this computer. (IP) : unjustend
      
      worked now. Will vote again, at home. : unjustend
- Shit's starting to get real in the comments, someone even linked last night's Shack post. Voted again : Arctic Fox
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  I'd like to see the comparison between how much money you make from this versus if you put that time into... : Blucklesworth
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    LOL are you serious? Minimum wage is what? $6.50 or something? That's like 153 hours or so. You really... : ejectorpod
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      Depends, in Illinois they just raised it to $8 : one random winner
      
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      In SF minimum wage is $10 IIRC : xsoulbrothax
      
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      i referred to the national min. wage. : ejectorpod
      
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      i keep forgetting that exists in my socialist broke state :D damn! and yeah, any wage would thoroughly cr... : xsoulbrothax
      
      what, no. it's 153 hours, that's over 3.5 weeks of work. THERE'S NO WAY HE'S PUT IN 3 WEEKS OF WORK ON PO... : ejectorpod
  - who cares? this is fun -- minimum wage is not! : dahanese
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  i keep voting just because i don't want that JesseB mother fucker to win. : Korban
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    i think we should all start voting for LisaLisaLisa too just so JesseB gets third place instead of 2nd. : Korban
    - Yeah, I've been voting for SockMonkeh and LisaLisaLisa every time. : Arctic Fox
    - I've been voting for both Sock & LisaLisaLisa each time I'm eligible to vote. : Ride-My-Rocket
    - I've been voting for both as well. : Mmmmmoo
    - This is a great idea! : Link.
    - I agree! You are allowed to vote for both. : Danny5225
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  this is no longer about your 1K -- this is about us winning. never fuck with gamers. natural competiti... : dahanese
  - Seriously. I will grind my fingers into dust if earns somebody in my guild earns +1000gp. : Ride-My-Rocket
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    It was never about the money dahanese though I will appreciate having more than 5 dollars in the bank : SockMonkeh
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      i've voted for you every thread sock, but come on - it was always about the money. : xxiv
      
      I know. :D : SockMonkeh
  - srsly, go sockmonkey!! : boomstickah
- Voted 6 times :) : ZeroSignal
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  what the fuck. i'm @ home and i haven't voted in over 8 hours, yet i get the "too many votes" message. ... : dopeman
  - Every 24hrs you can vote. : ant_hillbilly
- voted again. : ass-street
- I voted 9 times so far Im counting because I need 1 cent for each vote. Thats right nothing is free ! : Cashh
- votard : slickdoody
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  Voted again and again : WadeMcLain
  - 5 more times : WadeMcLain
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  They are insulting all of Shacknews in the comments now! : SockMonkeh
  - Haha what fags. I voted for you again and again and again... : ejectorpod
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    These fuckers don't know who they're messing with. I'll get every computer on this networ.. eh fuck it.... : Phil
    - lol : Godhatesfatpeople
- Damn, JesseBs Mom just posted an awesome offer. wink wink : voodooraze
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  UPDATE @ 02:36pm EST - Sockmonkey is only ahead by 136 votes. JesseB seems to have very strong end-of-da... : Ride-My-Rocket
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    I'm barging into people's offices in my department and commandeering their computers, hahaha people are r... : ejectorpod
    - OFFICIAL IT BUSINESS. : xxiv
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  I am glad they are finally on to you: Stop padding your votes. Your apartment isn't dirty, it's cluttere : deathofrats
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    welcome to every vote-based contest on the internet. : ass-street
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      yeah but most of the time they aren't for cold hard cash money prizes. They are usually for internet pop... : deathofrats
      
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      Oh come fuck off it lol.
      
      Jul 22, 2009 11:51am PDT
      
      Oh come fuck off it lol. : ejectorpod
      
      you really should get that sand out of your vagina : AllYourBase
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    tell that dude that jesse's 300-vote surges are 100% legitimate. people spontaneously happen upon his... : dahanese
    - for all we know it could be a lurker on the shack. : dopeman
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    Are you the one who sold us out, deathofrats? : SockMonkeh
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      I bet he is. BOO THAT MAN! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO : ejectorpod
      
      sigh..why would i draw attention to it if I were? I wouldn't do that. : deathofrats
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    i'm so glad too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : Mr.SEX
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      sigh : Mr.SEX
      
      oh hey, clever post there mr.sex. : deathofrats
- voted again : goatjc
- I'd just like to note, that my house is dirty than all of these apartments, and I continue to vote for yo... : unjustend
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  Holyshit I lol'd at mrvandelay's rebuttle to us being 'gamerkids' - "Most of us are old, fat, white, a... : Phil
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    I got a chuckle out of Mace's reply in the JesseB comments too JesseB, do you smoke? : ZeroSignal
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      mace makes me laugh all the time with his simple questions that you just know are going to lead to him ta... : ejectorpod
      
      hahahahahha : Arctic Fox
- We got lisalisalisa over 700, woot. : ejectorpod
- ahahahahah, who posted this on JesseB's apartment? JesseB's Lawyer Wed 22 Jul Just wanted to r : slickdoody
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  He's only 80 votes down now! : SockMonkeh
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    Hm, he'll get his traditional boost somehow and then we'll come back and get you a few hundred ahead agai... : ejectorpod
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      The only thing that concerns me is that I typically get a lot of votes after midnight, and none of those ... : SockMonkeh
      
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      Yeah we need those guys to vote right now, he's closed the gap to less than 20. : ejectorpod
      
      Guess he has better internet resources to ask for help on. : breadsticks
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  Did we ever figure out where JesseB is getting his support from? They've obviously found this place .... : InfoBiter
  - No, the source of JesseB's power remains a mystery to us. : SockMonkeh
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    well if it was goons we'd be losing : Jackass1233
    - Yeah, it wouldn't even be close. : Ride-My-Rocket
  - i love that people say we're cheating when he clearly has a faction of internet dweebs too. : dahanese
  - Lucy Lu hinted yesterday that she knew where he might be getting them from. : focusdaily
- voted a few more times for you and lisalisalisa : retardhumper
- JesseB is 9 votes away! : Danny5225
- this shit is getting a little too close for comfort. : dopeman
- still says too many votes : podizzle
- Australia is behind you SockMonkeh : TastyWheat
- SHACKERS ASSEMBLE : ashkie
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  Could this be JesseB? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessebikman/ http://webpages.uncc.edu/~jbikman/ ... : mace
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    Oh this is defintiely him. http://webpages.uncc.edu/~jbikman/ http://static.myapartmentmap.com/user... : ant_hillbilly
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      Yup, plus he's a programmer. So no telling what scripts he has running on how many machines. : mace
      
      We need to assemble our script nerds to do battle. : ant_hillbilly
      
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      You can vote multiple times in a given day just by clearing the browser cookie. So it's possible to expl... : Ride-My-Rocket
      
      Ooo, here's an idea: wardriving to find open networks, then voting from each unsecured network. : Ride-My-Rocket
  - Anybody got any plans on how to make him lose? Can we use any of this against him? : K0LM
  - What's frustrating is I am finding it difficult to find where he is asking people for votes. A guy like h... : OverloadUT
  - I'm impressed and somehow lacking surprise at your stalking skills, mace. : Arctic Fox
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  eeek!!! at 5:01 EST you are only 6 votes ahead!! vote ppl!!! : i poop from there
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    doesn't he have until midnight on the 24th? : deathofrats
    - yes but still too close for comfort. sock's opponent is making a push.... : i poop from there
- Wow, this is a pretty tight race. : Mmmmmoo
- monkeys only 14 votes ahead! voted again. : AMikaboshi
- oh shiii.... close! : bakanoodle
- Please don't forget to vote for LisaLisaLisa. : moe6
- SOCKMONKEH LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE! : Phil
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  This needs to end in a tie and have a 30-day vote-off for great justice. : Salad Sammich
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    lol Sockmonkeh would get banned from the Shack : Arctic Fox
    - haha : Phil
- Here's your competition SockMonkeh: http://www.thrillist.com/new-york/dirtiest-apartment-contest : Phreakin
- voted again, will vote again later. JesseB is closing! : Begawkiness
- voted again, good luck! : Flying h4x0r
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  Voted for JesseB. : Godhatesfatpeople
  - A traitor in our midst! : Bamtan
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    Same. Even if he's running scripts or whatever, at least his room is actually the dirtier one. : Felraiser
    - Let's hope you never come to the shack asking for help. : ejectorpod
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  Hey your apartment made the news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeaOg0RL6JE : WadeMcLain
  - haha, all worth it now. : ant_hillbilly
  - Hahaha. It's seriously on the news. I don't know whether or not to feel proud or embarrassed for SockMo... : Ormsbee
- Which one of you guys posted a link to the chatty in the comment section anyway? : Mmmmmoo
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  Jesseb Is in the lead by 20 votes! : jdmSlix
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    fucking LOL : Phil
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      Were going down! : ant_hillbilly
      
      We are getting owned! : K0LM
      
      FISSION MAILED : r3dn3ck
  - Oh shit, nearly 80 ahead now! : krym3
  - the votes are coming from within the house! : drucifer
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  oh what the fuck i'm gone for a few hours and this shit happens. let's end this shit shackers! : ejectorpod
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    Do we know where JesseB is getting the votes from? : pigvomit
    - No but every day he has these spurts...we just need to get Sockmonkeh back in the lead before ER, then ho... : ejectorpod
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    I voted again! I don't have anywhere else to vote tho so I am bumping this so someone else can vote for t... : Galadriel07
    - haha i voted on my blackberry too! : Galadriel07
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  this is pretty weaksauce, but voted. shoulda seen my aurora apartment when Halo came out, or at any point... : Downforce
  - I think everyone agrees that his apartment really isn't that dirty. This is not a dirtiest apartment cont... : OverloadUT
- Voted, but jesseb is way ahead. : re-verse
- voted twice today. all this voter fraud...makes me feel American! : spiderfill
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  wow how the fuck did he jump so much so fast? Time to do something drastic. : ejectorpod
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    Tor network ftw : goatjc
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      I just tried figuring this out and failed. If someone tells me what steps I need to do I will do this at ... : ejectorpod
      
      I think it would be considered cheating anyway. As much as a few shackers say whoring out for votes here ... : SockMonkeh
      
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      Download & install Tor & Privoxy. Make sure both are up & running & the FF add-on is working. Go to t... : goatjc
      
      that is, the privoxy FF add on is working. : goatjc
      
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20481451#itemanchor_20481451 : SockMonkeh
      
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      Sweet. : goatjc
      
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      Appreciate the support, but I don't think we should resort to cheating when we already have so many votes... : SockMonkeh
      
      yea lets not cheat : mrvandelay
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  If you have an iphone or blackberry then vote from your phone, too! : Robotic Puppy Eater
  - I've been driving around, resetting my iPhone, and biting again on 3G! : Dave-A
- Voted! : spiffymc
- Motherfucker! From the time between leaving my office and getting home, JesseB is now up by almost 100 vo... : SockMonkeh
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  How are they tracking how many times a day you can vote? Is it IP based? : K0LM
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    It appears to be IP based. Someone said it's cookies but I tried clearing mine and it still won't let me ... : OverloadUT
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      I tried the cookie thing and it didn't work. Would some sort of IP spoofing thing work? : K0LM
      
      I'm gonna say that since the person who created the site posts here, any ideas you get will be fixed. : Phreakin
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      I just release my ip on my modem and renew then vote again. rinse and repeat : WadeMcLain
      
      Yes this will work on a dynamic IP as will using something like Tor. : OverloadUT
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  Are we really going to lose this? To some guy called Jesse? Jesse B? : Bamtan
  - He was up on us this time of day yesterday, too. We were back on top by midnight. If we can do that tonig... : SockMonkeh
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  uh oh. JesseB is almost 100 votes ahead : Mmmmmoo
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    The same thing happened yesterday and we were back up by midnight. : SockMonkeh
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      I am starting to lose faith, SockMonkeh. I recommend posting pics + divx of hot naked women to motivate t... : Mmmmmoo
      
      I have some prepared for Evening Reading. : SockMonkeh
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  Obligatory "holy fuck this contest is too long" comment... voted : hussdelrio
  - Yes, it has been long, but there is only one day left now! ONE DAY TO GET ME BACK TO FIRST PLACE!!! : SockMonkeh
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  Is anyone here paying attention to the vote count? JesseB went from 2036 to 2080 in less than five minute... : Mmmmmoo
  - It was actually at 2064 about a minute ago. : Mmmmmoo

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