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  Diet... lack of something. get a blood test. : yautja
  • It could be this. My fiancee is iron deficient and if she doesn't take supplements for it she's dead tire... : ieGod
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  I also have this strange thing where the last few months I do not feel as if I have a body, it's almost a... : abrasion
  • Adult onset scitzo. : Boxelder
  • damn man i know someone with the exact same issues. he got a diagnosis last week and it's pretty fucking ... : busdriver3030
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    depersonalisation lol : moe6
    • I just wikipedia'd that and it sounds kind of similar yeah but it's probably just because I'm tired all t... : abrasion
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    actually I feel hostage to my body. My body just demands stuff like good food, good exercise, and good sl... : gyokuro
    • In what way? I'm an endomorph and highly intolerant of coffee fucking up my brain chemicals entirely - I... : abrasion
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  Did your tiredness coincide with your quitting coffee exactly, or could it be something else? Walking pn... : mafu5150
  • Nah the tiredness is here before the coffee, but I 'need' coffee to not feel like this anymore. Only whe... : abrasion
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  your diet sucks and you don't exercise : filthysock
  • ^^^^^ This : dante2010
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  Are you getting any exercise? : Conan
  • Please try a different word I might recognise :( : abrasion
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  You're overweight, and you're tired all the time? Dude, you have sleep apnea. Trust me on this! Go to you... : Bold
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    I sleep like a baby every single night almost, I'm just tired like a coffee addict :( : abrasion
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      Before I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, I was SURE I "slept like a baby" every night. I feel asleep as s : Bold
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        Just curious.... how exactly do they treat this condition? : miasma(&)
        • Well, that's the shitty part. See, there's no "cure" for it. Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by the air : Bold
      • Man, I have same tiredness issues. I could "sleep" for like 12 hours and still feel lazy or tired. Maybe ... : Pacalon
• I'm just gonna say you eat shit and don't exercise so your body relies more on sugars to run rather than ... : Sailor of Fortune
• lay off the weed man. : Techpriest((Thc))
• Eat well and exercise. For real. : boarder2
• GO TO THE DOCTOR. : Bamii
• drink coffee in the morning. i swear its the wonder drug. i'm not addicted...wait yeah i am. : gyokuro
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  Why would you stop drinking coffee? It is amazing. : Sapiens
  • i honestly think it if wasn't for caffiene Newton and Einstein wouldn't have come up with all that crazy ... : gyokuro
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    It doesn't work the same way for everyone, like drugs and alcohol. It seems to be the key factor in me fe... : abrasion
    • Coffee in the morning, weed at night. Problem solved! : Sapiens
• sleep apnea maybe : smax
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  Lose weight. It will make every part of your life better. : underground banana plantation
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    You are totally and utterly correct and I notice this every time I'm fat and every time I'm thin. : abrasion
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      How often have these fluctuations happened? What do you attribute them to? I'm genuinely interested, and ... : underground banana plantation
      • +obviously a little drunk here. : underground banana plantation
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        You don't sound mean or condescending and approx once per 18 months for about 15 years. Very very rough ... : abrasion
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          20kg, wow! It's strange to me because I haven't witnessed this among anyone I know, and I definitely can' : underground banana plantation
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            It's called food, insatiable tastebuds and willpower, tragic condition. Although being an endomorph does... : abrasion
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              I also wonder if it directly correlates to your shack time as well. You go on a lot of spurts of no posti... : pancake humper
              • It's more than just that, this much is certain. : abrasion
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  I could be related to a thyroid problem which is some what of a common cause. Call your doc and get a bl... : classicfork
  • FWIW I had a 1 hour siesta (sp?) after posting this, I do feel a bit better. I miss moms cooking :( : abrasion
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  sound more like depression you fat lazy fuck. : radula
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    Fuck you cock! : abrasion
    • theres the old fighting spirit! up and atom! : radula
• That's your body trying to tell you something. : aldraek
• Try leaving sugar off your diet. : vx2o

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• http://www.fukung.net/v/14227/a_2768_R91_w244.jpg : MagicWishMonkey
• So this is what CliffyB does in his off time? http://www.fukung.net/v/357/He-manShe-ra2.jpg : ChibiJosh
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  Did you know bears can type?? http://www.fukung.net/v/527/DeadeyeDick.jpg : MagicWishMonkey
  • lol : Arctic Fox
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  http://www.fukung.net/v/14391/12a18e0e5f0fa2300cf488fc3abffff9.jpg Did you guys ever have teachers lik... : itsjames
  • We had a QBasic class. The teacher had no idea how to program anything. Hence, any commands she did not k... : theo20185
  • Fuck, that should be grounds for termination for that teacher. wtf? : SilverSnake
• http://www.fukung.net/v/819/954e521a2a56f37e4726225ad0678760.jpg this guy's like the japanese Slingblade... : deathofrats
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  Crazy dog. http://www.fukung.net/v/16625/06971fe8b01d91410a05749b1682cc4b.gif : Wombat Woo
  • That is SO awesome : boring gegtik
• LOL - http://www.fukung.net/v/16428/44602a00db97603caacf8a293dc4ac26.gif : Shadowdane
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  holy neckbeard http://www.fukung.net/v/15201/0ece4b5ddcecc9e915de59be217da247.jpg : papaskot
  • lololol : conandan
• http://www.fukung.net/v/5366/20070531-131504-1.jpg : Turd Ferguson
• http://www.fukung.net/v/10122/7e1a78efb9a08bcd7cd895f4184eaea3.jpg : ChibiJosh
• http://www.fukung.net/v/14408/7991a8181c542cbf52051a2bfe71b29a.jpg : deadfish
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  http://www.fukung.net/v/15867/8be1d5af47674164290c88541e9e741a.jpg : deadfish
  • ooh, time to make a coat. : edgewise
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  aww kitties - http://www.fukung.net/v/17558/a0cdc3f1c3c7c201384b232084dc0ba2.jpg : Shadowdane
  • awwwww!!! : deadfish
  • mom must be so proud! : Supine
  • ....I hate you. : Shivawn
  • http://www.fukung.net/v/6080/1074937882419.jpg : Ziz
  • I chill just went up my spine. : legato17
• mmm tit physics http://www.fukung.net/v/15212/f75c028ab85ffd0f4b9f1c5757074bec.gif : deadfish
• http://www.fukung.net/v/15660/1241492806380.jpg : Ziz
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  OW OW OW OW OW OW http://www.fukung.net/v/6676/4vrll6v.jpg : conandan
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    You wassup in this pain subthread? http://www.fukung.net/v/9974/b596a53b6fed907b060a809c99a827a8.gif : Arctic Fox
    • *-u : Arctic Fox
    • um wow... who thought that was a good idea! : Shadowdane
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      fake : conandan
      • I know, clearly the .gif is playing backwards : Arctic Fox
• http://www.fukung.net/v/16976/0d8533aaa81ed568cba3404e1d578567.jpg too soon? : Freon
• http://www.fukung.net/v/5322/503466895_5b83107db7_o.gif perhaps a bit nws : Crimsonbeak
• g0nk http://www.fukung.net/v/492/c3sundave0650rp.jpg : conandan
• http://www.fukung.net/v/7236/4Chan20071106063019.gif : deadfish
• http://www.fukung.net/v/14905/a35f2d0b02f7f4d5204921257fd15616.jpg : Rag and Bone Man
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  • naval special warfare? : deadfish
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  • Throw enough shit at a wall, some of it's bound to stick. : Arctic Fox
• http://www.fukung.net/v/17495/5413f4d4cf0352adaf3d7d722839eb63.gif : esmokah
• lol poor planning - http://www.fukung.net/v/16562/eee2b1b40fe97648a7b747c882c85e03.jpg : Shadowdane
• Awesome: http://www.fukung.net/v/4739/1174702508224.jpg : Arctic Fox

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  Did you quit the .NET shop? : MagicWishMonkey
  • No, heading back into C++ for a few personal projects to try to keep my skills up. : RomSteady
• Yeah, I've been living in VB6/.NET land for years and years, doing Objective-C is ... interesting. Doing... : boarder2
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  Oh yeah. Doing UI in C++ after working in .NET forms and then WPF was... interesting... : Dave-A
  • I'm so sorry :( : Dimmona
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  C++ is what I use and god damn is it a horrible, horrible mess. I'm sure if you had a bunch of geniuses p... : S1ing B1ade
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    The reason new grad coders have issues is they are barley taught pointers in college, fucking travesty if... : dravalen
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      C++ also sucks - it's the only language I can think of where you MUST READ a "how not to fuck yourself ov... : taronish
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        Ya this is more or less my opinion of C++. Sadly, there are many applications that need every bit of spee... : S1ing B1ade
        • I honestly prefer C to C++. I love that C is so simple. My project is C for the bottom layers, C++ in the... : jcupitt
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        it's a good and powerful language but it's fucking massive. almost absurdly so. like you could probably... : mikecyb
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          Thing is, you can do "anything you want" in most native languages (people have written OSes in languages ... : uncleanmonkey
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            There's far more reasons to use C++ than just because it's legacy code. Games, embedded devices and mo... : dravalen
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              I do write games for a living, and 99.9% of the time that code could be written in Eiffel, O'Caml, Haskel... : uncleanmonkey
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                I'm an (ex)game developer and take it you haven't worked much with the PS3 and it's lovely SPUs ;). I... : dravalen
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                  I haven't worked with the PS3 no, but surely that's mostly numeric work that could in principle be writte... : uncleanmonkey
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                    The PC .NET GC is actually pretty decent, but the Xbox .NET GC is tag and sweep so if you hit a GC, it wi... : RomSteady
                    • I thought the .Net one was incremental? Even so, the point is that there are GCs which have very low p... : uncleanmonkey
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                    Yeah, but you have to be extremely careful with memory on them. If I remember right you only get 256k of ... : dravalen
                    • Well assuming your high level language was natively compiled and gave you access to all the pointer stuff... : uncleanmonkey
            • Considering our mobile devices have 600 mhz CPUs these days (ok, not all of them) I see no reason for thi... : taronish
        • Complexity and power don't have to be coupled. in C++'s case, the complexity is a result of poor design. ... : taronish
      • After working with it for six years or more, I've come to this conclusion as well. The time wasted on tem... : terath
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      WTF, really? We were taught pointers in high school... : boarder2
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        I was back when I was in high school, but back then we were learning using Pascal. With managed langua... : RomSteady
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          I'm not sure if that's the best way to go. I think C should be taught first thing because it makes you a... : cryptical
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            There are many different approaches, and it all depends on what the goals of the specific program are. T... : adpalumbo
            • I'm not sure the breakdown but Java is hardly an unusual start at top schools too. I went to two that bot... : derelict515
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            I'm going to agree. Low level language should be interspersed with actual computer architecture first. It... : ieGod
            • I'll partially agree. It is highly beneficial for someone to know how their code is executing at the l... : RomSteady
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        Really pointers are the least tricky part of C++ anyway though. I mean, when you can write a whole book w... : S1ing B1ade
        • and that's even without all the complexities that concurrency introduces which make life difficult even i... : derelict515
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          Both this and the "Effective C++" comment above are conflating maturity with difficulty. These books exi... : adpalumbo
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            You're talking about these issues as if they're just advanced features and not ridiculous gotchas and min... : derelict515
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              I believe you can already say the same thing about Java and Python, though. Sure, their VM's will show y... : adpalumbo
              • I don't think "anti-pattern" is an accurate description of the contents of Effective C++ - it's not just ... : taronish
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              Yes, it is a sign of poor language design. Maybe not poor in 1979 or 1983, but in 2009, it's stupid. : taronish
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                right, I meant that the language itself wasn't poorly designed at it's inception, but the feature creep a... : derelict515
                • I think you and I basically agree on this - I think there are some mistakes in C++ that should have been ... : taronish
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                  And don't you ever read your shack msgs ? Sheesh! : taronish
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                    I totally replied to your last shackmessage on scala and clojure. I hope it didn't get lost in the abyss ... : derelict515
                    • Never saw it - ahhhh well! : taronish
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            Um no. I'm not conflating anything. C++ is a hack of C that tries to turn it into a fast, deterministic, ... : S1ing B1ade
            • err I mean "which catches so little unintended behavior at compile time" : S1ing B1ade
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            Both those books really do read like "How not to fuck yourself in the ass" though. It's not expanding on ... : uncleanmonkey
            • The history of C/C++ is best described as "how are we going to handle strings now?" : RomSteady
            • exactly, it's not like 'how to use this crazy feature to do crazy stuff' (ex template metaprogramming), i... : derelict515
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    You know, in the midst of this hate train, I love C++. I've worked with it my entire professional career... : Zero|DPX
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      There is nothing inherently wrong with C++. It just takes time to come to grips with the fact that C++... : RomSteady
      • It's poor design, not just power, but I often hear this unsupportable argument. : taronish
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      "and I don't feel like it's a mess or a bunch of pitfalls that you have to navigate carefully around" ... : uncleanmonkey
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        Are you serious? : adpalumbo
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          Yes. If I was interviewing someone and they talked about C++ as if there was nothing to be worried about ... : uncleanmonkey
          • I didn't say "nothing to worry about". I said I liked the language and overall I feel like it's a good l... : Zero|DPX
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      I gotta second this, I love c++. Every one is complaining here that c++ doesn't do memory management auto... : johnlocks
      • Everyone knows destructors handle cleanup, the problem is making sure it's always called for every alloca... : derelict515
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        Most people didn't really complain about the lack of automatic memory management primarily though... A... : uncleanmonkey
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          theres really two kinds of complants the serious ones and other kind where they're a bad programmer or th... : johnlocks
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            we're talking about your so called serious complaints. And the fact that an average programmer can shoot ... : derelict515
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              I acknowledge "easier to hurt yourself" as a legitimate statement about C++, but it doesn't bother me as ... : Zero|DPX
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                well I definitely wouldn't argue that C is any safer ;) Certainly C/C++ have their place, I would neve... : derelict515
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                  Yeah, I did a couple years of functional programming, and never really liked it. It sometimes was beauti... : Zero|DPX
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                    yeah, well I imagine it depends on what functional stuff you did. It never really clicked for me with Lis... : derelict515
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                      Yeah, we have code reviews for every checkin, a style guide we enforce, bots that regression test things,... : Zero|DPX
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                        http://code.google.com/p/gel2/ : Zero|DPX
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                          Man, ownership types. I've been halfheartedly looking at those in relation to a research project I'm wor... : afty
                          • This looks like basically a twist on reference counting. He's segregating pointers into owning and non-o... : afty
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      It's fast but unsafe (maybe desirable in some places, like games), and I'm unaware of any C++ features th... : taronish
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        For better or worse, the fact that it's unsafe gives the programmer the ability to know how the compiler ... : factor27
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          That is a valid statement - the value of C as a systems programming language comes basically from the fac... : taronish
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            I think it's more a property of higher level languages than being managed or functional (though those usu... : afty
            • Yeah, I think you're right. : taronish
  • c++ noobs should stay the hell away from the more "exotic" language features, like templates, mutliple in... : TPSReport
  • Ahh, C++. For when you want all of the power of assembler, and a slightly more exacting syntax. : Enkidu
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  I know. I hate managing memory. : afrochops
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    absolutely, that's why there's java : hanged_man
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      and every .NET language, and python and ruby, and Obj-C 2.0, and etc, etc. What recent language with manu... : derelict515
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        I agree that garbage collection has been a profoundly valuable addition to modern languages, but you're a... : adpalumbo
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          Uh, garbage collectors deal with circular references just fine.... : uncleanmonkey
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            Some do (like the .NET one.) Reference counted GC's don't work with circular references, though. : RomSteady
            • The vast majority do. In fact I would avoid using the term GC for one that didn't because it would be con... : uncleanmonkey
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          That's a different set of problems though. An experienced programmer can know not to write those kind of ... : derelict515
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            I'd be really curious to hear about all these idiosyncrasies that people keep bringing up. Yeah there's w... : dravalen
            • Herb Sutter's Guru of the Week series (a basis for Exceptional C++) is a good start. Effective C++ also r... : derelict515
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              Here's a good site that addresses a lot of them: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/index.html : S1ing B1ade
              • Here's one that's more specifically about "why c++ sucks": http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ : uncleanmonkey
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20385731#itemanchor_20385731 http://bellard.org/tcc/ Tiny C co... : Maddog_Delphi97
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    It's a compiler written for speed of compiling instead of speed/size/optimiatzion of the final executable... : RomSteady
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      What's a better compiler for speed/size/optimization of the final executable? Watcom C++? : Maddog_Delphi97
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        For Windows, I like the Intel C++ compiler (even though it is slow as a dog) with MSVC9 SP1 a close secon... : RomSteady
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          I don't think there's a whole lot of different C\C++ compilers for Linux. Hm, I should look into using... : Maddog_Delphi97
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            it's $600 : electroly
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              (and worth every penny if you're doing computationally intense work. we saw a 30%+ speedup in some long-... : electroly
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                Wow. I wonder if anybody has written an operating system using Intel C++ compiler. Is it mostly good ... : Maddog_Delphi97
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                  Well, it's good for everything, but you'd only care about/notice the difference in performance-sensitive ... : electroly
                  • Nice : Maddog_Delphi97
          • I saw a 20% decrease in execution time by switching from GCC to ICC : StuMan1337
          • you can download a 30-day trial version free http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-e... : jcupitt
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          I hate ICC. Why? Because the reason it produces the most optimized code is that it produces _wrong_ cod... : Zero|DPX
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            I'd be interested in hearing what you think of as "wrong" code, but for the stuff I was working on (games... : RomSteady
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              Buggy generated code. I don't recall FP math being an area with problems, more like incorrect loop optim... : Zero|DPX
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                Any evidence/support for this? We certainly had no problems with icc affecting the correctness of our co... : electroly
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                  Is it currently buggy? The other compilers you mentioned (VC6, old GCC) are very old. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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                    I haven't noticed any differences in the correctness of any compiler I've used (VC6, VC9, GCC, ICC). ICC... : electroly
                    • My post was meant for Zero regarding the newer ICC versions. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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            I hate ICC because it generates alternate sub-optimal code paths for AMD chips. No, really. I mean, t... : qsylvr
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              I guess I can't really begrudge them that; I mean it does say Intel right on the box ;) We've never had ... : electroly
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                Most of our server farm is AMD so I find it incredibly annoying. It's just such a dumb thing... going ou... : qsylvr
                • I'm sure they know they can get away with it because what are you going to do, go back to GCC? There isn... : electroly
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    i love it for development because it's blazingly fast, but for release it's better to use MinGW or Visual... : electroly
    • Oh : Maddog_Delphi97
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      Aren't you afraid that your release compiler might introduce a bug which the development compiler didn't?... : thecray
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        That is a good thing. Using multiple compilers can help suss out bugs in your program. For instance, we... : electroly
        • Also, in the computation code I mentioned earlier, we found at least one uninitialized variable specifica... : electroly
• I can troubleshoot Netscape email issues like a sonofabitch. Wish I could work for a company that uses t... : dognose
• Yeah, the coder I work with day to day loves managed code. : Fred Garvin
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  I realized recently that I like most things about the language but absolutely cannot seem to figure out h... : omnova
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    Strangely, it made a lot more sense to me once I started working on very large (millions of LOC) projects... : Zero|DPX
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      maybe you can help me with something... C++ and templates... why does the linker get confused?! its li... : Demius
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        You need to remember that how templates work is NOT that the compiler generates one piece of assembly tha... : Zero|DPX
        • This is my biggest complaint with C++. Templates are one of the big selling features above C. But if you ... : terath
• There's stuff I miss about both when I switch from one to the other. C++/CLI is pretty cool in that re... : nudel
• Friday night code talk. Hell yeah! : Judecca
• Oddly enough I work in .NET and would love to get a good base of C/C++ : Madwacker

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  you do realize that it's the third in a series (kind of), right? : dirge23
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    yeah I know that, but the movie stands extremely well on its own, and is by far the best of the series : beastrabban
    • agreed : dirge23
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    were the other two "Fistful of Dollars" and "For A Few Dollars More"? : the archvile
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      yep : dirge23
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        I don't know what the hell you people are talking about. You people! : ra1n
        • pistols at dawn sir : r3dn3ck
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  Crimson Tide : Sailor of Fortune
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    crimson tide is like a my first military philosophy playset. pathetic. hate it. : Foxhawk
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      It had Viggo Morteson in it! : Sailor of Fortune
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        vm is pretty cool. gene hackman is pretty cool. denzel is pretty cool. it's a fine movie sans the message... : Foxhawk
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          The guy from the Sopranos is in it too. The message was canned yes but it was a fun movie. : Sailor of Fortune
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            I prefer the cheese of Red October. Sean Connery would kick Gene Hackman's ass. : Foxhawk
            • That movie was awesome, but when Sam Neill died I was so sad. : Sailor of Fortune
    • it's a fun 90's film with some great tension between denzel and gene hackman, in one of hackman's last le... : PlanetPerfecto
• I was just watching the end of that, ending at 11:15. It was the first time I saw it; just brilliant. : the archvile
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  Dawn Of The Dead for me. The original of bloody course. As for The Good, The Band And The Ugly I've he... : NastyJack
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    i am bothered by the glaring anachronism that dynamite wasn't invented until after the civil war : dirge23
    • obviously it wasnt : MoreVespeneGas
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  Barry Lyndon : mechanicalgrape
  • One of my faves. Love it. : systatic
  • only kubrick movie since the killing i haven't seen yet. i've had it for months too.. maybe I'll do that ... : re4ctor
• Shawshank Redemption : locater16
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  2001, Taxi Driver, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset (although I wouldn't mind seeing another sequel if it... : bipolar
  • also, Unforgiven : bipolar
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    Really? I loved before sunrise. Before sunset was tedious. To me it was a 2 hour add on to the first that... : xenophobe
    • I think it's just you ;) Look at the Rotten Tomato or Metacritic for Before Sunset. The thing that ea... : bipolar
• The Princess Bride. : mindmann
• I think I like for a few dollars more a little bit better, but I agree that good / bad is fantastic : flagg209
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  Robocop :( : sethmarc
  • Haha I just saw this again the other day - forgot how violent it was. : bolneze
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  The Fifth Element, Saving Private Ryan : TastyWheat
  • id remove chris tucker : mindshot
• Mannequin : BauriceMastard
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  One of the few movies that has a terrible director's cut. The added scenes over-explain the scenes and dr... : cygnus
  • Yeah, I'm not a fan of the remaster. The dubbing and remastered sound effects just seem odd and out of p... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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  Another Eastwood movie. The Unforgiven. One of the most awesome endings to a film ever. The Good The Bad ... : Pettytheft
  • It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have. Little Bi : conandan
• I spent a good amount of time a few days ago trying to find the pocketwatch from For a Few Dollars More o... : H@rvester
• I've watched Casablanca so many times. I think it's one of the closest movies to being perfect. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• You know you could just not watch a remake if they made one, right? : sweat
• Terminator 2 : Link.
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  blade runner : peat
  • ^^^^ This. : Fred Garvin
  • But... it's been changed several times. To good effect, even! : kallanta
  • I love Harrison ford, but this movie sucked. : ochuxgoon
• The music is so good. : Fred Garvin
• Ghost in the Shell : miasma(&)
• Die Hard! It would be a crime to meddle with that movie. : LilCrypto
• The Insider Heat : lodit
• Braveheart : invisible_kid
• 40 days of night ... so brutal! : pointyelbows
• Kill Bill : snuff
• Heat, There Will Be Blood, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist : PlanetPerfecto
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  Predator, the perfect action movie. : quazar
  • Absolutely. : MeestaNob
  • indeed : AMikaboshi
• Pulp Fiction : dissembler
• Samurai Rebellion *or* Cannonball Run II : owly
• Goodfellas is possibly the greatest movie ever made. Really can't think of anything that isn't perfect in... : bozer
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    • Yojimbo is *way* closer to Fist Full of Dollars than Seven Samurai is. : nutrient
• The Hunt for Red October : AMikaboshi
• COMMANDO : Rag and Bone Man
• Goodfellas, Aliens, Shawshank Redemption, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. My family sat in the theater to wa... : nutrient
• A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, make sure its the proper uncut dvd version. : crypt420
• Swingers. Absolutely brilliant. : ajvitaly
• Aliens, without a doubt. Absoloutely perfect. And Die Hard. : -JLN-

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  Looks like a goddamn religious icon! *crushes its skull* : Dave-A
  • Now he's a Navajo mud toy. : rgoer
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  not pictured: katamari guy who pushed the cat into the plant : cfalcon
  • WHAT'S HAPPENING!!! : BauriceMastard
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  omg that's what my kitty looks like when she sleeps on my lap! Here she is rolling around on her favorit... : TheMonkeyWench
  • bonus cats in a strainer. http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=DSC06184JPG_5v9flsvbacaqw1ivjzao.jpg ... : moe6
  • cute! : NFXFSX
  • Nice photo, cute cat. : FlamingGimp
• tho thilly : GloriousCow
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  magus could show most people a thing or two about relaxing: http://www.shackpics.com/files/image001_rco7x... : mindmann
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    • my dad built that cat tree for me for xmas. When i got it, i starting giggling, and he didn't understand ... : mindmann
  • this pic is hilarious : Draugluin
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    looks like a dog : RikiTiki2
    • He follows me around like a little dog. : bigblack
  • The cone of shame! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_lbfpijyzrlpcpa5brnyi.jpg http://www.shackp : bigblack
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  Sup http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=photo_5mbng78xfhugxf5o15lf.jpg : hirosushima
  • hahahaha that is a great picture. : underground banana plantation
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    that cat looks high : bigblack
    • it looks like keyboard cat. : underground banana plantation
  • Hey, what's going on in this dog picture : cerealSAM2
  • everytime ya take a dog picture a cat has to sneak in! : Ziz
  • Myspace cat takes a photo of himself hangin out wit his dawg : kaddar0
• My kitty does that all the time! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_4fcmjbakzs1qt1f4zub1.jpg : Ellissd
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  http://picasaweb.google.com/mkaresky/OdeToMyCat#5257110343495319554 RIP oliver :( : underground banana plantation
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    :(((( sorry to hear he's gone. super cute kitty! : hax3d
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      He ran outside while my aunt was taking the trash out and the coyotes in the canyon got him. I posted thi... : underground banana plantation
      • That's how I ended up with my cat Bob. My ex adopted him while we were together and when things went sour... : hax3d
  • Awesome cat. Ears are as big as his head. : FlamingGimp
• "Cheese it!" http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v82/198/56/6700389/n6700389_32288669_7739.jpg ... : Sailor of Fortune
• http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/v0hGhEIWoYkrNq92y9IKew?authkey=Gv1sRgCMvOusG4oJ7Qcg&feat=directlink ... : hax3d
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    I, too, have a cat that sleeps on a blanket. http://notorque.com/moe6/DSC00772.JPG : moe6
    • awesome! he used to sleep on my stereo receiver because it was really warm, but it kept getting clogged u... : Ziggurat
  • 1982 called and wants it's mousepad back! : jane911
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  This is my kitty chillin' http://shackpics.com/files/n1115209782_30166753_6636_qnkh1flwacf6tdbhppxu.jpg : skunk_ape
  • I think that's my fave for the evening... he just looks so relaxed. : five_percent
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  your cat looks like my cat : SockMonkeh
  • we should make out then : moe6
• this thread makes me happy and was exactly what I needed before bed. Thanks, Shack! : Megara9
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  • i love fluffy cats :3 : AMikaboshi
• my cat is currently sleeping on top of a plastic shopping bag : CoRDS
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  http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_ful7qvd040uspct54v47.jpg my kitty in fancy dress http://www.s... : tinfoilhatter
  • Did having the bow around its neck make him act crazy? Putting a cone on mine made him wild for a bit unt... : bigblack
  • ahaha.. the 1st one's expression is epic : Megara9
  • OK, the first one made me lol. : Arctic Fox
• My cat Shadow sleeping http://www.shackpics.com/files/IMG_0094JPG_onoqp0spprdkm7r9l19m.jpg and diagnos... : DracoNocturnus
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  • all sprawled out, he's kind of a big kitty http://lh3.ggpht.com/_35Hfh_m7mmA/R3SSrcr9oVI/AAAAAAAACI8/vVdg... : cpt_gloval
• http://homepage.mac.com/thresher/kittehs.jpg gay :-( : Thresher
• Camera sniff: http://chrisnelson.ca/gallery/d/11046-2/DSCF2337.jpg Fang rip :( : Annul
• kitten vs mirror http://www.shackpics.com/files/cat2_mpdsf7jc4pnvk1lzcfgr.jpg kitten house http://ww... : x4nth3
• My cat laying on me: http://www.shackpics.com/files/IMG_0628_h5oudo35ocsf64m04vab.jpg : ajvitaly

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  Sadly I think it'll be longer than that - Nolan has a lot of big projects lined up already. Unless they ... : losimagic
  • What has happened before will happen again, and again, and again : SolrFlare
  • he will cancel...and do batman, or else : Chandler55
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    Batman 3 is Nolans chance to prove he is one of the best writers/directors. If it will be as good (or eve... : matthaeus
    • He's done two fantastic movies that weren't Batman...and I'd like to see him go back to doing his own stu... : Vincent Grayson
    • I think he's already proved that he's pretty damn good : losimagic
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      The Dark Knight is not a great film and it won't be remembered as anything more than a bloated actioner w... : lechuck59
      • what : eldersveld
      • Amaizng. : Clay
      • Thank you, I got a good laugh from this post. : losimagic
      • hahaha : Megara9
      • i agree : mindshot
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        Ledger is in the movie for a total of about 15 minutes in 2 hours. The movie is fucking legendary. : MeestaNob
        • legendary? that's a bit much : Halen
      • it was good but I enjoyed batman begins more : fathertime
      • The Dark Knight is a bloated actioneer? By what measurement? Every motherfucking movie coming out is in t... : SpaecKow
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        All future trolls should learn from you. you are a master. : deathofrats
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          I'm not trolling. I know my appraisal is unpopular here, but it is correct. Ford, Lean, Coppola, Bergma... : lechuck59
          • And why is it "correct" ? : Clay
          • Ive heard of 2 of those people, must be awesome. : Jackass1233
          • Bergman was an overrated hack. : Dschinghis Khan
          • do you think directors that mostly make thrillers belong in the list of greats? : spiderfill
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            where is this proof that your correct and everyone else that disagrees is wrong? : jonin
            • He can cite a bunch of great directors that did movies in other genres, therefore Batman = shit. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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              Your question is sort of redundant. His point was that it's not a great film in the sense that the direc : thief
              • *could take out. Fucking pills. : thief
          • my opinion is correct : DonkeyPopsicle
          • lol everyone is entitled to an opinion but what makes you a prick is claiming your opinion is the correct... : eeeealmo
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            Somebody took a film class in college! : SockMonkeh
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              Citizen Cane is the only film worth watching! All others are CRAP! : Rotten Deadite
              • And by Cane I mean Kane, clearly. : Rotten Deadite
              • What that movie did with camera angles and focus and storytelling and other such technical things current... : thief
          • You forgot Bay. : Head Rush
          • ahahahaha : losimagic
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            No, it's not correct. It's your opinion and your opinion sucks. : Fred Garvin
            • Also Fellini is heavily overrated IMO. He broke a lot of ground, but the actual movies he made were not a... : Fred Garvin
          • You really threw in Fellini and Herzog in the same sentence. Monocles o' poppin' : Godhatesfatpeople
        • indeed. he's an expert troll alright. : AMikaboshi
      • Hey folks, lechuk59 will be here all week. Don't forget to tip the hostesses. : Fred Garvin
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        I thought it was a decent film, but I agree it's not "Great". It was one of the better action movies of t... : uncleanmonkey
        • this is my opinion also : mnsnota
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      The movies are great and all but no he won't be among Spielberg and Scorcese. He'd need to do tons of gre... : bozer
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        imo spielberg isn't a very good director, he's just massively popular and brings the bank : MoreVespeneGas
        • except for how he makes the defining movies of many topics. adventure, war, aliens, holocaust : spiderfill
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      I hope somebody tells Christian Bale to tone down his "Batman voice". It ended up being really distracti... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • He's new to being Batman! He has to refine it like everything else! : SockMonkeh
      • Pretty much the only thing I hated about Dark Knight. The stupid Batman voice completely ruined my immers... : Arctic Fox
• I read this as Gary Coleman and had a vision of a midget villain =( : GrimmyD

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  i remember that issue. it was fucking huge. Hundreds of pages iirc. : Foxhawk
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    i remember how PC Gamers started getting thinner and thinner : RikiTiki2
    • this month's issue is a sheet of cardboard : Foxhawk
    • I remember how I stopped buying them. : ArB
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      And half of each issue is still ads. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
      • That's the way print works. The ads pay for the content. You want about 50% ads. If you sell half as many... : jet-poop
    • 95% ads 5% outdated reviews! Oh and apparently I'm his bitch. Seriously though a must have for crappers t... : OhMyHip
  • It's a November issue. Those things were stuffed full of ads for Christmas. At times the size would be ... : o0JediBeavis0o
• Ugh : abrasion
• I had no idea Max Payne was in development in 97. Also I had fogotten that Prey was in development then ... : afty
• roooshi, why you gotta play with dognose's heart like this :( : moe6
• I would have been more than happy to play this version. Heck I'd take it now. :| : Effol
• I still have that magazine. Was saving it for the day DNF actually came out... :'( : Mmmmmoo
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  Someone wanted a review for Heart of the Alien, right? http://images.roushimsx.com/scans/GamePro_1994_09 : roushimsx
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    Wow, Hotel Mario sounds retarded : d fluke
    • http://www.gametrailers.com/video/video-game-screwattack/18418 : Kniggit
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    Ok, I'll bite, what is your top 5 list of GB titles? : Kniggit
    • My list Mole Mania Mario Picross The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening Kirby's Dreamland 2 tie Su : Kniggit
  • Did you like Pacland? I loved pacland on the c64. : abrasion
  • Now I want to play Shining Force again. Fuck PC Gamer for dissing that awesome game. :( : SilverSnake
  • anybody complaining about the price of games should look at these reviews. Nominal prices haven't change... : DonkeyPopsicle
  • I totally agree on your assessment of GB Donkey Kong. Fantastic game. : ThomW
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  powered by the Quake engine lol : Lunatic Angelic
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    The last 2/3 of page 100 are continuous facepalm. : Johnny Law
    • haha holy shit wow. total comedy gold there : riptyde
    • "To build Duke Nukem Forever on the Prey Engine would have delayed the release until late 1998. LOL : thecatinthehat
  • All the power of OpenGL, baby : riptyde
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  big WTF at those max payne screenshots : OrkO
  • I had no idea they were using the quake engine at one point. : byorn
• I wish they'd have cashed in and completed all those DNFs. : razorblade79
• I still have my copy of that issue. : The-Shadow-TS
• The last paragraph of page 111 is comedy gold : speedy3d
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  The GL support in Duke Nukem Forever will be optional; a 3D Realms game won't require a 3D card until Pre : PointlesS76
  • lol Prey. I remember the hype for that one as well : riptyde
  • Was about to type the same thing. lol...puts the entire thing in perspective. : byorn
  • The funny part is that it's true, in a way. : Helter Skelter
• I think the funniest thing about those scans is the Max Payne screenshots. :D : DM7

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  Link might help http://multiplayer.it/video/borderlands-per-pc/borderlands-videoanteprima.hi/ : Reeves
  • That's a great popped collar on the host :D : stump
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    must be some godmode hacks available on console! lol : Downforce
    • welcome to press demos. Nobody wants to watch someone dieing when you have limited time to see the game. : byorn
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  october is going to be an epic month for gaming : spiderfill
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    not as epic as it was going to be, but still greatness. : byorn
    • Fucking consoles am I right? : jahulio2
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  Borderlands and Rage will be nice to compare. : sukabljat
  • true, though not sure when RAGE is getting released. : byorn
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    Yeah, nice to compare two (probably three) years apart! : nevlos
    • Less than one, I'd guess.... : uncleanmonkey
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    for the love of GOD NO MORE GAME COMPARISONSSSS -shoots self : oatmb
    • Its not CALL OF DUTY?! -shoots self again. : oatmb
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  The worry I have is whether or not there will be any type of armor.. So far it looks like there will be n... : Reeves
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    like chain mail?! Would be pretty out of place in that game. : byorn
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      I think kevlar vest would be fitting : Reeves
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        Sure, but it just wouldn't be a very deep system compared to fantasy RPGs. Does the visual or stat custom... : byorn
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          I would say it depends on the system, and level of customization.. I really like the appeal of finding a ... : Reeves
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            I enjoy that too. : byorn
            • Well hopefully BL will have a bit of both. : Reeves
• Borderlands looks so fucking hot. I want it right now. I hope it doesn't get delayed again. : Link.
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  borderlands is ridiculously badass. : dahanese
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    ps i'm biased. : dahanese
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      lol...you are so subtle. : byorn
      • i am very tired from comic con. i meant to say something that actually contributed (about the coop in par... : dahanese
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      Have you played it or something? If you have then I'm afraid I will have to subdue you for questioning : Reeves
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        yep - work at 2K, we're publishing it. : dahanese
        • Oooh oooh! Please come with me... Now, tell me everything you know! : Reeves
        • Does that make us BFFs? : MADMikeDavis
• it looks pretty sweet to me! : hirez
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  gun sounds are pretty weak : grendel
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    grenades appear to move in slow motion : grendel
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      her tits are too small : klearlyunseen
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        shes got too much gap : klearlyunseen
        • would NOT hit it : klearlyunseen
        • can't play as a spy : Flynn
    • enemies have pointy elbows and are covered is swine AIDS : BauriceMastard
• I'm concerned that I'm going to see another massive vomit of gaming smeared over October. How many people... : LoioshDwaggie
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  I don't really like the cell shading :( it's like they went "oh fuck out game looks exactly like Rage exc... : aeg1x
  • I'm not a fan of this art style too, so far I've been pretty 'meh' about this game. : shirif
  • Exactly my thought. "A quick way to make our dime-a-dozen art style look completely different!" And it so... : GreatGooglyMoogly
• I have to be honest, the only reason i'm even slightly interested in this game is because of the gibson. ... : Ellissd
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  thanks for all the nice things about the trailer by the way. pretty happy with how it turned out. you ... : Steve Gibson
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    Can't you like... leak it? : Reeves
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      once you give it to them, it's all over. they know, and they will hunt him down. and steve will be no ... : dahanese
      • You'll have to get through me first kiddo. : Mad Jack McMad
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    hah, they draw the line at fire? but electrocution and exploding heads are ok? : hirez
    • ok wait, I was thinking of the italian tv show footage. borderlands is gonna 0wn. : hirez
  • You made the trailer? It was excellent and really conveyed the new style of the game very well. : Kentor
  • Steve, can you tell us if there will be harder difficulty level like Diablo where you can continue your g... : razlebol
  • i like how this guy stays positive with all the haters in this thread. i for one will purchase boarderlan... : BauriceMastard
  • It's odd how much control the ESRB has over web content, considering their ratings are only used at retai... : rock elf
  • You think you can hook us up with beta keys? : SiW.
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  I would love if the combat in Fallout 3 was of that quality. : enyakk
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    I really hope in the sequel they dump the silly VATS thing, and just work on making it a good shooter wit... : SpaecKow
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      I am hoping they'll make Mass Effect 2 into a functioning action game with RPG stats behind it. : enyakk
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        Eh? You had beef with that game? Thought it played like a standard modern shooter myself, especially if y... : SpaecKow
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          Yeah, I had issues with Mass Effect 1, especially the 360 version. The action gameplay should ideally app... : enyakk
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            Didn't really notice the AI. I never notice the AI in shooter games anymore, outside of how fast they mov... : SpaecKow
            • You didn't notice that they would often stand there like idiots and just killed unless you told them to g... : dkrulz
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      No fucking way. VATS was awesome and getting rid of it would get rid of quite a bit of the Fallout flavor... : Vincent Grayson
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        There was no depth to the system, no? You generally tried to shoot the head of each creature. I know you ... : enyakk
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          Yeah, like the original game, there was really no tactical reason to shoot people in anything but the fac... : SpaecKow
          • That kind of system would only make tactical sense if you had a party fighting it out IMO. Then decisions... : enyakk
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          Actually i HIGHLY disagree with you. Shooting the arms of opponents was almost a necessity if you are on ... : lplasmatron
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            Never found that. I play games on harder difficulties and my solution in shooters where enemies are teari... : SpaecKow
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              I've played through Fallout 3 like 8-10 times. I'm pretty familiar with what tactics work for it. Shootin... : lplasmatron
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                I think VATS is useful. For saving your ammo and health. But by the end game I'm always swimming in it an... : SpaecKow
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                  Well, lplasmatron probably didn't have to figure it out, seeing as how he's one of Fallout 3's designers.... : enyakk
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                    I know he worked on FO3. Guy's acting like I'm just contradicting him for the sake of it or something. I ... : SpaecKow
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                        Yeah well that's certainly true. Pulling off headshots on every enemy in a room without VATS would be fid... : SpaecKow
                        • I played it mostly on pc actually. You can obviously play without vats, it just works better if you use i... : lplasmatron
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  that CELLSHADING looks absolutely HORRID : gyokuro
  • I like it a lot.. Gives the game character.. : Reeves
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    its not cell shading. : ssj4megaman
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      Yep, definitely isn't cel-shading. Here's a couple of games that do use cel-shading: Wind Waker - http... : rock elf
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        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-shading Cel-shaded animation (also called cel-shading or toon shading) : razlebol
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          I disagree with that article. I think cel-shading is a much more specific term referring to the way 3D mo... : rock elf
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            I have no idea how they render it but it clearly looks cel-shaded to me and same for Crackdown. He might ... : razlebol
            • Both of them use black borders like cel shaded games but the way they're actually rendered isn't really c... : DinK
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            Isn't that exactly what the article describes? That's what all the images look like too, rendered with o... : DinK
            • I guess it does. It's just that first sentence could be misconstrued as saying that any cartoony NPR is c... : rock elf
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            I agree with your technical analysis, but when developers repeatedly remind you their game isn't cel-shad... : rudds
            • Good point. After all, the backlash to Wind Waker's cel-shading was quite strong. : rock elf
          • Randy Pitchford also claimed their PraxWar screenshots were real :) : GreatGooglyMoogly
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    the graphics in general look horrid. but i bet its still gonna own : spiderfill
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      it actually did look fun. the stutter of the low fps was kindof annoying though. : gyokuro
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        Didn't look so bad. Might be the video encoding. : razlebol
        • well its pretty smooth I can get over the cellshading becaus it looks fun : gyokuro
  • horrid? really? it's 2009. They can make games look however they want from realistic (crysis) to cartoony... : GrimmyD
  • Really? I think it looks fantastic. : abrasion
• I wasn't interested in the game before. I like the new style. Can't wait to try it out. : .frame
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  That all looks a bit odd. I like the visual style though, even if the enemies seem to disappear into t... : Beady
  • Dead Space's UI was so sexy. : bolneze
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  will it have random generated levels? : JohnnyDanger
  • According to this wiki, yes. http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Borderlands_Wiki : razlebol
• Shit. I was looking forward to Borderlands until I saw this :( : red2lucas
• Man that art style, i thought it was just the chars but then see EVERYTHING is like that. : Ziz
• It looks kind of boring. : nina myers is a goddamned american hero
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    What is unexciting or uninteresting about that? : SpaecKow
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      The video was exceedingly boring, what can I say. Nothing about that game looks interesting. : NastyJack
      • Well don't trust the marketing just on its own, Gearbox is having their first go at their own AAA franchi... : SpaecKow
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    Sounds Diablo and every other dungeon crawler. : byorn
    • A Diablo FPS. Ohhh yes. : crummynz
  • Doom, Serious Sam and painkiller are like that and they are fun as hell. + it has rpg elements and a shit... : razlebol
• The video does not appeal to me in the least. Maybe its the art. Not a fan at all. : boomstickah
• That is the popped-est collar I have EVER seen. : crummynz

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  so you played one game and suddenly got an accurate impression of the entire community? it's an intern... : kpxkrnjc
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    oh i've played a few games. it's just the first time i joined one that was explicitly labeled NEWBIES ON... : the city
    • wasn't explicitly* : the city
    • just find a group of people you like playing with and do pub matches with them : kpxkrnjc
    • I think you should have been skeptical of someone willing to teach random strangers how to play HoN. The... : dkrulz
  • To be fair, you can get an accurate impression of the PUBLIC Halo 3 community from one game. : losimagic
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    Oh look! It's HoN's resident white knight! : ChibiJosh
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      just tired of seeing the hurt vagina posts on the shack. it's one thing to ask for help with the game, ... : kpxkrnjc
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        noob : [7]kami
        • inc post : kpxkrnjc
• Sounds like they taught you a valuable lesson about HoN. : BlackCat9
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  How can a game thats <300MB dload be any good in 2009? : nrgXs
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    It isn't significantly more complex than Warcraft 3 and only has like two maps. : BlackCat9
    • Anyway, why does a game have to be a large download to be good? Braid is 170 MB. World of Goo is 75MB. Bo... : BlackCat9
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    I do hope you're kidding and not trolling. : Supine
    • he expects the game to be completely uncompressed, with all texture files in RAW. : moe6
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    how can you complain? if you actually knew what the game looked like, you'd be saying 'holy shit this ga : kpxkrnjc
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      it would look good...on an iphone : nrgXs
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        it's a 2002 (war3) game that has the look & feel of a pokemon card game : nrgXs
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          i have no idea how to respond to something so blatantly wrong : kpxkrnjc
          • you shouldn't have to, if this isn't blatant trolling then he's clearly proud of his ignorance : Xanthos
        • Ya well......your face looks like a pokemon card game. TAKE THAT! : darkT
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    I nominate this for retard comment of the day. : ShekkyBoy
    • I second this motion. : The Grolar Bear
  • plants vs zombies was like 50 MB : fathertime
  • how can duke3d be so awesome at 50mb while timeshift is so crap at 5000mb?! : crummynz
• They listen to BassHunter. What do you expect? : anhero
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  /join shack for the shackchannel to learn the game with fun players. : [7]kami
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    btw, is there an option to remember your chat settings (channels you've joined/left)? : [7]kami
    • Not yet. S2Jason said they're working on it for a future patch. : JarEme
• lesson learned : drucifer
• Well sounds like you did get schooled - HE-HUCK *SNORT* : pixelat3d
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  I only play with Shackers and friends and although I totally suck I'm having lots of fun with this game. : Bamii
  • In other news: I still have 6 invites available! Shackmsg me your emailadress. : Bamii
• I had an almost identical experience except the game i joined was called "noobs only" : SigENeaT
• That's pretty much a HoN lesson, actually. : Nighteyes
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  I like how the solutions to the shitty community is "join the shack channel". : egg5hen
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    it really is better. there are less douches in there. sure there are a few but out of all the games I've ... : zakazi
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      I should clarify. I don't mean the shack channel is full of assholes. I'm just saying the OP is a rant ... : egg5hen
      • I don't think you could have made your post any clearer. I didn't see it in any other way. All multipl... : Sailor of Fortune
      • Ah, indeed it is a bit. Though in this case I think segregation and avoidance are a better solution than ... : zakazi
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    This is the rule with any online multiplayer game here. Ionly ever play TF2, DoD, CS:S, BF43, BFBC, QW... : Sailor of Fortune
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      people are always railing on xbox live about this "oh man xbox live is such utter shit you can only play ... : Jackass1233
      • Yeah, rate of asshats on XBL and PC games are generally the same imo. XBL is better in that I can see ... : Sailor of Fortune
  • Why not? : [7]kami
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  yeah same, it sucks when people complain and then quit your team because you suck. but yay, I won my firs... : Smellsy
  • just ignore the shitters and continue having fun, paying them attention only gives them the satisfaction ... : kpxkrnjc
• On a slightly unrelated note, anyone have League of Legends invites? (assuming they're doing that) Would ... : zakazi

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  Oh, I won that shit if you didn't know. : SockMonkeh
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    I've been drinking. : SockMonkeh
    • Is good. : nevicata
    • L4D2 preorder. : cyclonebee
• Is this gonna draw out as long as the contest then? :P : Phreakin
• DOW 2 please! : Crabs Jarrard
• The Elder Scrolls Game of the Year Pack Deluxe : jahulio2
• Street Fighter IV also gratz! : hatchet165
• I'd love to try Republic Commando (And its easy on the (ahem* your winnings ;) ) : RookieCAF
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  Congrats! I have no idea what I want on Steam though since my computer is so outdated. Glad to see we w... : khaosman
  • ok i change my answer to monkey island : khaosman
• trine? : Pneum0
• Actually, I'd like to change my choice to The Monkey Island Special Edition. Congrats! ^_^ : MurrayTheSkull
• FUEL, thanks ! : preacher
• I'd love to give Sacred 2 a spin! : JohnnyRey
• Trine. :> : fuell
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  Congratulations, I really didn't think you'd win though.... Trine : Kentor
  • I voted like 10 times good job DoW2 please : jimmy-buffett
• Congrats mate, Tales of monkey island complete pack would be great : Anir
• Tales of Monkey Island. Congrats on the win too. : sm00v3d
• Street Fighter IV. :) : StolenNosferatu
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  Arma 2 please! : 60days
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    How do you not have this already?!?!!? : SockMonkeh
    • My computer won't run it supar well and I was holding off to upgrade, but that now it appears that won't ... : 60days
• Congrats! Spore would be awesome! : Sanityjr
• Congratulations for winning. I'd love to play Left 4 Dead if selected. : sairis
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  Civilization 4. Never played it. : senseimoron
  • And you never should. Sure, it's a fantastic game at first, but after a while you'll lose your job, the r... : Orange Pylon
• I've never experienced The Cradle, so... Thief Deadly Shadows. : TastyWheat
• Dawn of War II! Congrats : CrimsonHandHiro
• ARMA 2, thanks! : dissembler
• Call of Duty 4! Grats. : lightly inclined
• Duke Nukem Forever : thecatinthehat
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  I only voted a few times, so I wouldn't feel right taking from you. Seriously though, Trine would be a... : slax0r
  • A few times is a few more than 0! : SockMonkeh
• ARMA 2 Also congrats on winning! : Mecha Tofu Pirate
• DOW 2 please =]. : irrerno
• Trine, please :) : niceguynick
• Mass Effect. : Marrbe
• The Witcher! : mechanicalgrape
• Holler. Trine. Grats on your steadfast win. : braaains
• Fallout 3 : a sasquatch
• Mass Effect : Vincent Grayson
• Trine. : omnova
• I've been wanting to try out that sniper game ($9), my steam handle is sammyl : sammyl
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  Congratulations! Voting for you repeatedly made Friday here in Queensland go by fast :) Secret of Monkey ... : sethmarc
  • Sup 3G loggin buddy : TastyWheat
• Dawn of Discovery please : PointlesS76
• ARMA2 and i votified for you many times! : kingfish
• The WItcher: Enhanced Edition : myfasha
• arma 2 :D : d0pamine
• witcher! i voted for you lots : GloriousCow
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  Congrats. Elder Scrolls GotY Deluxe : kagath
  • Street fighter 4 please! : Sirus2400
• The Witcher - I've heard it's good, but I've been on the fence for forever. : ScrawnyJohnny
• ...well, I am curious about Braid. : Orange Pylon
• Braid would be cool to check out. : kingdok
• Congrats dude (i guess anyway ;) Anyway. L4D, as I read about it all the time but never have gotten it. : SirX
• Street fighter 4! Sorry for the misreply up there. : Sirus2400
• aion! : Xencer
• changed my mind. Roller coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum : AMikaboshi
• Tau Hammerhead : Wadmaasi
• dawn of discovery : Matto357
• ARMA2 : NodTerrorist
• I'll go with Mass Effect. : gibolas1234
• l4d! Power of the shack unites. : wattss
• i would love mass effect : CoRDS
• Braid. Thanks. : deathofrats
• Trine please? : Fredrik S
• Dawn of Discovery please :) And grats!!!!!! : gendail
• Aion : Ride-My-Rocket
• StreetFighter IV : hirosushima
• call of duty 4 :) : thrallie200
• Trine seemed cool from the demo. So yeah, why not? : gnomish
• Tales Of Monkey Island : railchu
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. I voted! JesseB was tough competition but the better man won in the end. : LemonJoose
• Good on you! : underground banana plantation
• Glad you won, Velvet Assassin, punk! NOW! My co-workers however are upset with you, because of my use : Durajim
• DoD:S : r3dn3ck
• Tales of Monkey Island : gibbo
• Call of Duty 4 : shavenewok
• SFIV please. congrats dude : dignan
• love to have Fallout 3 ::puppy-dog eyes:: : Draugluin
• C&C Red Alert 3, grats on the contest! : zombie man
• My vote is for Civ4 since I've never tried any civ games. : cryptical
• Dawn of War 2 would be nice! : ArB
• Congratulations on winning! And an Aion preorder if you're feeling nice! : -JLN-
• I would like Trine since i can't purchase steam games over here :( : notext
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  ARMA2 would be awesome... I sort of miss those epic Arma ShackTac battles where 64 shackers would hop on ... : WaterSign
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    I'm kind of amazed at how many people have asked for ArmA 2. : SockMonkeh
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      Yeah, it's not something I imagined to be so popular. Still, ARMA multi was totally epic when it went smo... : WaterSign
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        Are there a lot of Shackers that play Arma 2? If I don't win it (which I probably won't), I may buy it ev... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
        • I can't speak for ARMA 2, but I found for OpFor and ARMA 1, ShackTac to have some fairly dedicated member... : WaterSign
      • If it were actually popular, wouldn't all these people own it already? :-D : acheron
• congrats and L4D2 : .frame
• Dawn of Discovery : IndigoAK
• L4D2 please! and congrats on being a dirty boy! : skunk_ape
• Dawn of war II because begawkiness wants to play it and im in medical school and dont have the money to a... : Begawkology
• Civ IV. : Prozium
• ah what the heck, Call of Duty 4 haha you said duty : Flynn
• SockMonkeh, whatever game you feel fit that I do not have. : CrustaR
• The Witcher : buzzbat
• Tales of Monkey Island :D :D :D btw I posted in the last thread but only said congrats, didn't list a gam : Megara9
• Monkey Island! : aggressor
• Team fortress 2 : Reeves
• Wait, what? Anyways, Aion. Love you and congrats. : Confrustrating
• gratz bro. SF4 plz : smax
• Street Fighter 4, congratulations on your social engineering. : Felraiser
• WRX STi : Psigun
• Street Fighter IV : rgoer
• That Civilization 4 game I hear so much about but can't buy because Steam doesn't want us uncivilized she... : Cliffzorz
• Congrats man! Trine. : Link.
• dawn of warrrr! O and congratz :) : Poooks
• Mass Effect! <3 : pyide
• Dawn of War 2! Unf unf : Edges
• i want aion : spaceless
• Yea, L4D2 =D : famine101
• Street Fighter 4 Please. : r3ckless
• civilization 4 pack. thanks! : aldraek
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  The Wticher plz! : Darkfox76
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    i mean, uhm....the Witcher : Darkfox76
    • Too late, getting the Czech version. : 60days
• Monkey Island, please! : Sakashi
• SFIV Please! Congrats! : radar
• Congrats! Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures please! : Lightbulb
• Congrats to you! Prototype would be sweet! : Deviaant
• Orange Box. Yes, I have yet to play HL2. : Tissen
• the secret of MONKEH ISLAND, special edition, please. : umegastar
• hey great! I'd love to try out dawn of discovery or anno 1404 as it is called here I believe : JohnnyDanger
• witcher : deadfish
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  an weee halped. : freqq28
  • Oh, and gosh, sacred 2 would be nice. : freqq28
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  For all my hard work I would take Empire Total War as a pay-off. : quazar
  • ^ a man of modest tastes : silent prophet
• Good job Shack! I would like Fallout 3, please. : Nighteyes
• Trine? : scosno
• L4D2 preorder : cyclonebee
• Sacred 2. Congrats! : DinK
• Rockstar pack (Max Payne etc). : MeestaNob
• Arma 2 : liqker
• Left 4 Dead 2 Pre-Order Thanks Sock you rule. (even if you can't keep your [room at your parents hous... : fuzzydamnit
• Aion preorder. Also, congrats! : PoopStewart
• Congrats ! Left 4 Dead 2 Preorder please! :D : DM7
• DoW2 : oHnOES
• Psychonauts : mtgDoofy
• Street Fighter IV please! :-D : Gary the Llama
• Fallout 3 and congrats on winning. : Senate5000
• Yeah I'll jump on this L4D2 Preorder bandwagon : Xevo
• street fighter 4, and well done. : a uberboy

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  This post didn't end like I expected it to. : Flying h4x0r
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    Oh... there's more... but he was pretty insisting in me keeping everything super hush, and to never name ... : DooBall
    • sounds fun : RikiTiki2
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      You left to walk your dog? : Reeves
      • He pulled out his yo-yo. : trove
    • dogs that dont exist always bit you in the ass. : radula
    • "Hey guys I got into some super secret subversive social club and there was some CRAZY SHIT GOING DOWN b... : S1ing B1ade
    • lol i need to go to walk my dog? you're serious arn't you. you said that. : xxiv
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      Fidelio : jimmy-buffett
      • But what is the second password? : Bold
    • so did you leave with your gf, or did she "stay just a little longer..." ? : Antilles_Prime
    • It was George Bush wasn't it... : .sticks.
    • Then when you got back to your car, your job had broken out the back window with a brick and ran away? : Shivawn
    • I doubt Important People like that would be reading the latest chatty of shacknews.com. : CrustaR
  • Yeah, I was expecting lines of coke and anal sex in a back alley. : DrZettl
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  He's trying to bone your GF : Topaz
  • yeah, do you know where she is right now dooball? : proclone1
  • ^^^ ding ding haha : the city
  • But she said there was no way. : slax0r
  • ^^ knows what time it is : darkT
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    Something similar happened to me and my wife a long time ago with David Copperfield. What a fuckface tha... : .frame
    • ...wait, really? : Shivawn
    • Whoa, awesome. : CrustaR
  • this is the only explanation, honestly. : aldraek
  • he was basically saying "nice shoes, wanna fuck?" : fsck
  • This is one of the perks of having a hot GF, though. Guys will go out of their way to prove they're cool : owly
• I'm in the spokane airport waiting to pick up a friend whose flight delayed an hour. Then its a 1.5 hou... : ejectorpod
• studied Texas guardianship law and ate a banana : RikiTiki2
• Oh wow I think I just shat my pants : skelom
• I think you fucking suck. : shadebane
• He's gonna rape you when you pass out FYI : MagicWishMonkey
• My night sucks.. 5 calls and none returned wow great friday night. Fuck all : Reeves
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  What is absinthe again?? Looks like some pretty scary black magic voodoo : Reeves
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    Back in the days absinthe was said to be a halucinating liquor. Today it's just plain alcohol. : Bamii
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      Apparently you can get some of the 'good shit' which still contains some hallucinating plants. : famine101
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        wormwood. it's something like 60 bucks a bottle. too expensive for something that may or may not fuck m... : romulan
        • How big of a bottle? A 1.75-L bottle of Grey Goose is almost $70, so $60 doesn't seem terribly unreasona... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • No, that's a myth: even "real" absinthe does NOT cause hallucinations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absi... : Bold
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      you can get real absinthe in Oregon now. : mindmann
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        Really? That must be illegal though, since the 'real' absinthe was forbidden for years because of the hal... : Bamii
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          You make it sound like we have tribe leaders or clergy telling us what we can and can't do. : famine101
          • Nice one :) : Bamii
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          no, it's legal, even with the wormwood (what produces the effect). There are several oregon distilleries ... : mindmann
          • There are several distilleries popping up all over the states now. The ban was lifted : Pettytheft
    • Absinthe was defamed and eventually made illegal by wine producers who were upset because absinthe stole ... : vx2o
• 2/10 Does not deliver : Shodai80
• This was supposed to end with the real Dos Equis guy 6" deep in your fun maker. : rosewood
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  Apparently everyone else wishes you got a cock in your ass. I say bravo my good man! : boarder2
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    (Watch out for your cornhole, bud) : boarder2
    • One should always watch out for their cornhole. : Ctrl-Phreak
• Burning absinthe like that should be a crime. True enthusiasts will regard that as unsophisticated. : mofo
• in my mind this was read in robert evans' voice. : algernoN8
• A similar thing happened to me in Laos, except with an uncool French guy :( He had just bought a house... : aeg1x
• I went to Comic Con today, met a bunch of crazy people in costumes, went by the Behemoth booth (Castle Cr... : icking fudiot
• shut your face, DooBall!! i worked; then i drank. i plan to pass out by daybreak, God willing, and then i... : pointyelbows
• This sounds like a post from the 80s. Did you guys do some blow in the bathroom and discuss how cool it i... : gooblerampling
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  I spent it learning how to speak shoe-code. (converse x lupe fiasco x (red) x 100 limited editions) =... : Megara9
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    Please express your current shoestatus as a differential equation : Dave-A
    • (Steve Madden x FPSDavid x (Black Leather) x Dildo x 1 ultra limited edition) : Jackass1233
  • turn in your girl card, now : sludge vohaul
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    Wait, she was wearing 100 pairs of limited edtion red shoes? : DrZettl
    • Pretty much, special edition shoes. : Iwannaacura
• cool story bro : fathertime
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  more ellipses please : kill9
  • Never seen an ellipse nazi before :D : Topaz
• mancrush. When he says he wants to bang your girlfriend you will giggle and blush. : steelsamurai
• yeah, i agree with thread. he's trying to bang your gf --- "likes your gf's shoes" --- right. so did y... : Antilles_Prime
• A man who looks at women's shoes is a faggat in my book and i would not be scare of him boning my gf : Utopia
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  Was it Umberto Leon's shoe store? : edgewise
  • oops, Humberto. : edgewise
• this will not be truly interesting unless you reveal these so-called hush hush secrets : spiderfill