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  why has no one responded : spaceyme
  • We were waiting for you. : rock elf
• Interesting stuff. Thanks. : Arceihn
• mmm technology : Reeves
• Are you serious? : Reeves
• Actually really interesting. I think I get what they are trying to do with the new engine, it's a lot mor... : spdon
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  ps3/xbox360 life cycles now dictating id's technology planning, him saying they are not starting from scr... : BauriceMastard
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    Does anyone with a clue (not me) know how id are going financially? I do not know if Doom 3 sold crazy go... : abrasion
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      Well, they probably have a whole bunch of money now that Zenimax bought them. : Agrona
      • DISGUSTING! : abrasion
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      not sure, but well enough i bet. they haven't had to pay fatty romero in years for sitting around and pla... : BauriceMastard
      • Look how funny I am because I can hate on John Romero, look at me I am funny. Yeah awesome, let's give s... : abrasion
      • What an incredibly childish comment. And do you still live in 1999? : TwiLyght
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      Id has said that Doom 3 was their best selling game to date. : jet-poop
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        Good, all the dipshits who whined about it need a slapping. : abrasion
        • s/slapping/BFG up the ass and let me pull the trigger/ : nudel
      • Unfortunately it is also the one that costed them the most to produce. : pillzer
      • I'm happy to hear this too! The art and design have not been matched. : spyrext
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    I think Blizzard have a better record of fun before graphics, but yeah, it's an interesting comment from ... : popkorn
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      I vote Valve. Blizzard releases stuff too slowly to hold the record, and it's almost always a sequel whe... : valael
      • This makes no sense. Valve release sequels too (in fact when was the last original game that wasn't a bou... : popkorn
      • They both take their time. We waited for around six grueling years between HL1 and 2. : aasyranth
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  So, at some point he says they have 4 platforms they're targeting (with Rage). I got PC, X360, and PS3 -... : Agrona
  • iphone : BauriceMastard
  • mac! : packav
  • the Mac : ErneX
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    iPhone. It's the other white platform. : geneshifter
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      Carmack said Rage was coming for Mac too, so that would make it the 4th platform : ErneX
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        I would be surprised if it didn't hit linux as well : melkore
        • Last game on linux was Doom3, neh? : spazzium
  • game.com : spiderfill
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  hijack: why does the games industry, with its billions of dollars of revenue only have one John Carmack? ... : BauriceMastard
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    Ken Silverman could've been the new Carmack - he was amazing for his age. : abrasion
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      guys is cool, but not nearly as into engine programming as Carmack. I like Ken's basic HTML website, his ... : BauriceMastard
      • Yeah but at his peak and for his age, the kid was basically a genius. : abrasion
  • Carmack's a once-in-a-generation talent. You can't buy what he has. : Deathlove
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    tim sweeney? : GloriousCow
    • this : OrkO
    • When he came to the part where he said that he'd prefer doing two engines at a time (current gen/next gen... : steauengeglase
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    The game industry does not promote it's talent. : byorn
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      this. There are other programmers of comparable talent, but none have been thrust into the limelight as c... : master_disaster_17
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        This is how I see it too. Despite id not having made a good game since Quake III Arena they, and espec... : vx2o
        • And the whole not making a good game thing is where I'l have to ignore you... : MacemanInTW
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          I totally didn't get the last half of your statement... kinda tuned you out when you said id hasn't made ... : Demius
          • In my opinion, they haven't. What's not to get? : vx2o
    • id started very independent as well which helped them generate names for themselves. you're not going to ... : thebigbeefsandwich
    • Nor pay them. Hence the lack of more geniuses. : [7]kami
    • This as well. In fact it's usually anti-talent unless they can find a marketing angle like Sid Meier. : Fred Garvin
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    cloning is hard :( : Clay
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      they just need some frog dna to fill in the gaps! : thetangent
      • when he starts reproducing asexually, we're all going to regret this : Clay
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    There's plenty of Carmacks out there. He was just one of the first "rockstar programmers" so everyone kno... : uncleanmonkey
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      But all we need is one video of them showing their stuff and gamers will want more. I haven't really seen... : Topaz
      • Yeah, probably. People don't go out and talk about all the really cool stuff they've done in a game for t... : uncleanmonkey
      • It tends not to be that easy, as you still need exceptional artists to really make something that's excit... : FlatlineDixay
    • because they dont own the business. or lead the design! : radula
    • I'd consider Gabe a "rockstar programmer" =) : SigENeaT
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    There are tons of guys as smart and innovative as Carmack, but the media loves a poser child and at one t... : Fred Garvin
    • Also, even though he's brilliant a lot of stuff he's done over the years seems to be taking academic rese... : Fred Garvin
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    There are many, they just don't show off their skills to all the computer graphics / gamer geeks, therefo... : code-e255
    • Carmack's talent is in seeing the viability of new techniques years in advance, taking (usually existing)... : uncleanmonkey
  • He's a visionary. Being a really good programmer doesn't make you a visionary. He's in a very unique sp... : spiderfill
  • I thought Tim Sweeny was very instrumental in Unreal tech, which is pretty much driving the industry at t... : M337ING
• Thanks for posting this. : humbleone
• I love this stuff : fathertime
• So interesting as always : mnok
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  I can't help but wonder what he looks like shirtless. : packav
  • a tanned six pack stomach : hanged_man
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  He seems to have lost his speech "eehmmm". He talks much smoother now from last time I heard him. I ha... : Topaz
  • I think it's a nervous tick. When he's not nervous he doesn't have it. Like each year at Quakecon it wa... : mrwolf710
  • He's better at it, but he still does the "ay'm" stuff about 15 times in these videos. But who cares. : GreatGooglyMoogly
• He is so much better at speaking a few years after being married. : abrasion
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  Why didn't anyone ask where the hell Doom Classic for the iPhone is? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Or Doom2 XBLA : humbleone
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  Holy shit, is that title sequence the loudest most annoying thing you've ever seen? It woke both my wease... : LoioshDwaggie
  • Same here. ugh. : abrasion
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    weasels? :O : CrustaR
    • I have two ferrets here :) -dook dook!- They're both awake now and begging to be let out. : LoioshDwaggie
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  My thoughts after watching this. Interesting as always to hear Carmack speak. I really wish I was able... : humbleone
  • if you fail to plan then you plan to fail : gyokuro
  • Carmack is a different cat. I'm pretty sure he has to lower his IQ to talk to the general public about th... : unsound
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  Did they photoshop that CD Action bottle on the screen? If so, pretty strange watermark. : Anti_dentite
  • same thing crossed my mind, i kept staring at it all the time : hanged_man
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  wow no Day/Night dynamic cycle? he totally disses that feature. I guess he's never played his parent comp... : gyokuro
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    Yeah but he said there are tradeoffs, I thought it was good to see such a candid interview. I mean I lov... : abrasion
    • i think for Rage it will be good without it so they can make it look the way the want : gyokuro
• You know the best part about this entire presentation? By the time he's finished he is always hopeful and : LoioshDwaggie
• god he's a fucking genius : eeeealmo
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  he just said in the 3rd video the Next Console is going to have 2Gigs of memory. Does he know this? : gyokuro
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    he is probably in a position to mandate that sort of thing : cpt_gloval
    • also what excuse would they have NOT to ramp that sucker up. MORE POWAH : smacknca
  • I hope they don't fuck up, the 360 was |_| close to having 256mb of memory...... the story goes that Epic... : abrasion
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    I think he works with console manufacturers. : Flynn
    • yeah i sure hope its 2GB (or more) : gyokuro
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  that cd action cup on the desktop is fucking annoying as hell : wtf242
  • bottle... whatever : wtf242
• That man is just fascinating to listen to, even if I don't understand half of what he's saying. : ColoradoCNC

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• SONIC BOOM! : Shadowdane
• holy shit i want one : Reeves
• god damn, it sounds like a cannon! : radula
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  Are they superimposing that sound? That can't be real. The opening of the claw sound just like a gun's ha... : edgewise
  • i assumed so, sounds like a six shooter : dignan
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    gun manufacturers were inspired to by nature when designing how a gun works AND sounds. : j0nchan
    • "we should make this sound like a sea creature that hasn't been discovered yet" : skryte
  • hahahaha : hirosushima
  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa good lord lol : abrasion
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    Yeah they're not that loud. I can hear my dad's clicking away, mostly at night, but it sounds like someo... : Perturbation
    • Well obviously they wouldn't be that loud when you're outside the aquarium, but I thought they might have... : edgewise
  • come on man you're smart. of course its a fucking sound effect. : papaskot
  • BANG BANG : Serpico74
  • -_- : bolneze
  • lol : [7]kami
  • I had one of these in my aquarium. It sounds like someone snapping their fingers. They can do it in quick... : gijoehosaphat
• CLAW SHRIMP!!!!! : spazzium
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  I had one of those in my reef tank and then he killed my two other shrimp :( : angrytaxman
  • seriously? : dignan
  • lol, didn't they tell you that at the pet store? : edgewise
  • Aww. :( My dad's got one that lives with his pink bar goby. It's never bothered the cleaner shrimps or c... : Perturbation
  • Just to watch them die? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_pistol_shrimp : miasma(&)
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    does OZ have a chance tonight? : Foxhawk
    • Who cares! TeD is playing tonight! http://www.gosugamers.net/warcraft/gosubet/ : abrasion
    • I'm going to say no... but starcraft has an odd habit of surprise buttsecks. Oz looked pretty crushed ... : miasma(&)
  • Figures they are inbreds. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Holy potatoes! : shakybonez31
• Nature rocks. : abrasion
• Help me, help me! : cerealSAM2
• Pretty impressive. 4000 degrees, 240 decibels, and a little flash of light from the cavitation bubbles th... : Psigun
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  My favorite shrimp, the mantis shrimp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkv_30niM_A&feature=related They... : Perturbation
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    Haha! So that's what the pissing shrimp are in Steven Chow's The God of Cookery. Man, we'd best pray ... : cerealSAM2
    • It's punches would be nuclear explosions. Godzilla/Cloverfield wouldn't stand a chance. : Psigun
  • Did you see the Ted talk video? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sheila_patek_clocks_the_fastest_anima... : cerealSAM2
  • I want one! Those things are apparently super durable, live a long time, and are highly intelligent on to... : Psigun
  • My favorite are the deep sea guys with the phosphorescent flashbangs. I can't remember what they're calle... : Vincent Grayson
  • So apparently mantis shrimp aren't even shrimp. The more you know.. And the link I posted below: htt... : valael
• hadouken? : moe6
• The veracity of a humor website is doubtable at best, but: http://www.cracked.com/article_17612_6-most-ba... : Agrona
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  This is funny, but a fake. "temperature of a sun" hahaha. : vx2o
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    That might be true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminesence Specifically: Spectral measurements h : Perturbation
    • wow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation The bubble eventually collapses to a minute fraction of ... : anhero
• god all the horrifying shrimp make me hope they never decide to get back at humans for all of the mass sh... : mikecyb
• http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Feb/14/ln/ln01a.html : valael
• wtf indeed! : Milleh
• lobster magnet : DonkeyPopsicle

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• BF1942 duh! : Reeves
• 1942 : razlebol
• Bad Company : Drewus
• tribes. : Hoax
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  2142. Seriously. : master_disaster_17
  • ^^ This here is the only truth. : Cliffzorz
  • Pretty much. : prime8
  • only one after 1942 that i liked. : graceofdragons
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    what grim future crack are you grim future smoking? : johnwissinger
    • Do knock it till you try it. : Lightzout
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    It was my favorite as well. Nothing beats destroying the core in the enemy team's Titan and running out o... : mrwolf710
    • Exactly. : master_disaster_17
    • damn straight : riptyde
  • on PC 2142, as far as best out of the box experience BadCompany : X-GOUKI
  • how are the system requirements? : melt_core
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    wtf are you all smoking? Everyone said this was the worst one when it came out..did they patch it up the... : deathofrats
    • I also thought it was the worst one but had to wait for someone else to say it. : abrasion
    • Vocal minority. It was always awesome. The people crying foul didnt even play it. It was mostly just peop... : grifter
  • Agreed. It fixed everything wrong w/ BF2...in the future. : Sturm08
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  Codename: Eagle : Kniggit
  • Correct. Howdy, Tim! : Dechter
• 1942 demo. : abrasion
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  Earth : siknsyko
  • oh, wait - wat? : siknsyko
• I've only played Baf Company and 1943 so I'll say 1943. : freakynipples69
• Bad Company : Milleh
• Bad Company : theargent
• toss up between 2142 and 1943 for me : maulla
• 1942. EOT. : moe6
• 42 by far, but they did a phenomal job on the bad company audio, hope they can do that as well with bf3 : HisKillSkill
• I really enjoyed 2 and 2142. Looking forward to Bad Company 2. (Don't rag on me, when 42 was out, I ha... : RookieCAF
• BF2. The infantry combat is so much better than BF1942 that it's not even funny. : treefingers1
• 1942. No Question. : DM7
• Best: BF2 Most fun: 1942 : frunken
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  BF2 best GAME ever : kill9
  • +Before the patches took out all the fun. : JarEme
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  Nam is the only one I played regularly : mrblarg
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    vietnam got no love around here. I always liked it because infantry was a bit more relevant compared to o... : maulla
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      the M60/rocket combo probably killed it, though -- they fixed it, but not before a lot of people got turn... : Postal
      • the m60 in that game was fucking ridiculous. it's like they did no testing. : porp
• 1942 : Maddog_Delphi97
• 1942 still. the rest are kind of blah, competent but missing the perfection. : thebigbeefsandwich
• Bad Company : Head Rush
• 1942. I also had more fun with desert combat than I did bf2. : valael
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  Desert Combat : Bamtan
  • Seconded. A bunch of us still play this over BF2. : geneshifter
  • Meh, it kept getting less and less balanced as newer versions got released. : code-e255
  • This was more fun than BF2 ended up being. I loved the helicopter flight mechanics in DC. : thetangent
• Gonna have to go with BF2. Of course BF1942 brings back crazy memories, but BF2 was just way more intense... : at0micgarden
• 1942 , then bf2.... I still think they have another epic one in them, comon Dice : Antilles_Prime
• 1942 i was sad to see what 1943 turned out to be. : Turd Ferguson
• Battlefield 2 : tangles
• BAD COMPANY hands down. You people are crazy. 1943 has a chance to surpass with more maps, weapons, vehic... : bling1bling
• BF2 is my favorite : eforce98
• I remember when 1942 and BF2 demo went out. Both were epic. but I strangely didn't end up playing these g... : guigr
• BF2 end of discussion : gyokuro
• 1942. Nostalgia, large multiplayer battles, watching everyone crash aircraft carriers and planes sliding ... : podung
• BFF Rose. : Mansmells
• Flight Engine - BF1942 Infantry Combat - BF2 : jimmy-buffett
• 1942 for the time period and maps, BF2 is a good refinement, it's not as fun as flying prop planes and no... : pigvomit
• BF2 for sure : Link.
• BF2: Spec Ops pack : watcherxp
• BF2 was just awesome when it came out, despite the bugs. : Whistler77
• BF2 as it has helicopters that were fun. BFBC helicopters were fun as hell too but it was less of an e... : Sailor of Fortune
• bf2 : special forces : eeeealmo
• 42, 43, bf2 i love all 3 : cpt_gloval
• 1942, Vietnam a close second (god I miss that game) : jane911
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  BF2142 : Lightzout
  • Although Frostbite will probably usurp that when it finally arrives on the PC. : Lightzout
• BF1942 by an enormous margin. IMHO it's the best MP game ever made. : thetangent
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  1942 : Madwacker
  • Though, the single player of Bad Company was damned good. : Madwacker

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• agreed, just sent that back to netflix. fantastic movie, bluray unrated version is A++++ : Downforce
• I really enjoyed the movie. Nothing like vengeance driven action to get the blood pumping. : Danny5225
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  I really liked the movie, the only reason I never bothered to watch it earlier was the generic name, it c... : abrasion
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    Wrong. Taken came out around Christmas/new year. this past year. wanted came out like last summer. : Iwannaacura
    • maybe not in aussie land! : sammyl
    • It seemed like they came out at similar times here, maybe a couple of months difference but I only go to ... : abrasion
    • In the US Taken was pushed from a September 08 release into 09. I had come out way before that in England... : sigpro
• Awesome movie : sanchez
• I like how the slutty friend ends up dead and whored out but the virgin gets rescued by daddy At least... : lacker
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  He was kinda dull in Fallout 3. :) : cerealSAM2
  • Considering the quality of Fallout 3's writing, who wouldn't? :P : Patakreps
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  Can you believe the miserable shits over at Empire gave it 1 star?? http://www.empireonline.com/review... : ihya
  • did you see the comments? they gave indy 4 stars? lol : abrasion
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    While I've certainly read better reviews, I agree that the movie was not good. : Ebu
    • It was certifiably "ok" Unless you are scoring it solely on the monologue from the trailer which is 10/1... : chrisschutz
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  Probably the coolest movie of its kind for me since Ronin. : Sailor of Fortune
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    Funny you should say that, because I re-watched Ronin on streaming Netflix after Taken :) : mizterd99
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      Yeah, big difference between the two imo is that Taken is more of a lone wolf movie than Ronin was. Ronin... : Sailor of Fortune
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        i always wondered in taken why he didnt get his friends to help. I mean fuck those kind of friends probab... : deadfish
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          Yeah totally, he could have done a whole, "Broken Arrow" moment and then everyone fucking shows up with a... : Sailor of Fortune
          • A-team stylee fo real : chrisschutz
• I rate Taken 5/5. I'm not saying it's a perfect movie, but i'm saying it's a movie EVERYONE should wat... : batkiwi
• best movie in a while. : deadfish
• Well, he's freaking Dark Man! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• i thought the plot was contrived, but it was really fun to watch. it almost felt like i was watching jack... : fsck
• the chained to the pipe escape really bothered me though : packav
• I enjoyed it as well. The casualness did distract me a bit and got close to being cheesy at some points. : fathertime
• I told you I would find you. : SockMonkeh
• I enjoyed it, but I thought Taken was a lesser movie than the Bourne Identity's. Not the same premise, bu... : ajvitaly
• Leon still takes the cake. : Topaz
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  Holy crap. Was I the only one that thought the movie was totally cheesy? Family liked it. Friends liked i... : afty04
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    I thought it was horrible myself. Especially the actress that played his daughter. A 26 year old playin... : metralgia
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      I kind of thought the same thing until I really thought about how I'd react in some of situations. I'd pr... : fatman
      • yeah, but would you run like a little kid to every present you got?! Daddy! Karaoke!!! Oh Daddy, horsey!... : metralgia
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      You shut your whore mouth! LOL She's hot!!! I was so sad when her character, Shannon, dies on LOST : jcrockerman
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        Textbook spoilertag usage, great job. LOST spoiler for anyone that is just starting out. : fishbone
        • Yea, too fucking late for that. :( : Ebu
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        wow, you have the spoiler manners of a jackass. : Sparticuse
        • If people didn't overuse the spoiler tag people wouldn't nonchalantly click on every one. But yeah, that ... : chrisschutz
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    It was definitely over hyped for me. It seemed he was too invincible and too good at everything. : chungathebunga
    • especially when he looks like he's 65yrs old : mnsnota
  • As far as movies go, it wasn't great. As far as cool, calm, collected, calculating ass kickery goes, it w... : ieGod
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  I read that as "Liam Neeson is such badass in Tekken" and I wondered if he was the final boss or somethin... : ErneX
  • yes, he is, as Qui Gon : Old_Fart
  • I did the same thing : zakazi
• Awesome movie. : [7]kami
• Is it true the blu-ray has a killcount? : Iwannaacura
• Yeah, that was a fun move to wawtch : sikander
• He definitely kicks some ass, one bad mother. : Navy_Spitfire
• Eh, it was okay. Standard action movie that I've seen 20 times before and extremely overrated. : Link.

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  why? Windows is fairly smart enough to not use the virtual memory when it's got a ton of ram. : moe6
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    ^^^ Since fucking when? Not any version of Windows I've ever seen. (especially if your program pasts the... : ShadowRam
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      oh god not this again.. : bamb
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        yeah, I know, it's the new tipping thread. : Old_Fart
        • Word on the St is, you can't see the diff from 25 and 60 fps! : abrasion
    • I love it when morons think they know something. It's amusing. : CAPPINJACK
    • it's like there's some kind of Shadow RAM conspiracy!! : dirge23
    • Since pretty much always. : uncleanmonkey
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    I use 2GB ram, and I turn the virtual memory off... : ghost hacker
    • lol : abrasion
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  No and you'd be better of sticking with the 4 you have and saving that money towards an i7 with 6 in 3 to... : abrasion
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    How do you know I have 4 gigs? *mind boggled* : r3ckless
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      It's pretty obvious you've got 4gb because you're asking about 8gb. If you only had 2gb of ram, your mac... : abrasion
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        I bet he has a monitor, keyboard and mouse! : moe6
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          Yeah I have a Core 2 6600 (2.4ghz) on a 775 mobo. Trying to figure out nowadays what to upgrade. I don... : r3ckless
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            Ok if you're not playing games an i7 isn't going to do shit for you, stick with that machine - chuck 8gb ... : abrasion
            • (4gb more) : abrasion
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              Hmmm, 229 is a steep price for a drive. I'd rather not spend that. I will consider getting 4 more gigs th... : r3ckless
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                Listen man I charge for this advice, don't cock about. Nah seriously though, if you really don't play ... : abrasion
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                  He didn't say Q6600, which leads me to believe he has an E6600 dualcore : Toraz Chryx
                  • yeah its the e6600 dualcore. : r3ckless
                  • I misread :/ mmmm well still 8gb and an SSD would still be very nice in that machine for VM's : abrasion
            • If running virtual machines is the goal, more RAM is better, always. It is the number one performance fac... : master_disaster_17
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    The cost of an extra 4 GB is not money well saved. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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      I didn't realise he was using a system for VM's - if it's for gaming, an extra 4gb on a 775 machine is al... : abrasion
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        4gb is like $40-$60 here. It's chump change. Putting that towards a better CPU will rarely yield reasonab... : ieGod
        • As I said............ if he's playing games adding 8gb to a 4gb machine for 60$ is basically stupid. 40-... : abrasion
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  *facepalm* NO NO NO NO NO, VIRTUAL MEMORY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, IT IS A GOOD THING TO HAVE ENABLED N... : Toraz Chryx
  • We've got servers at work with 32gb and we still have huge pagefiles set aside for them on our SAN. Keep... : melkore
• 18.45 exabytes would completely eliminate the need for virtual memory, which is interestingly only about ... : bostrov
• I'm not an expert in windows 7 memory use, but even with 8GB of ram, if windows needs more, it will write... : jermm
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  We're all assuming you have 64bit here btw. : abrasion
  • Yeah win 7 x64. : r3ckless
• No and don't even bother trying. I've got a box with a FusionIO card, eight processors, 32GB of ram and ... : sukabljat
• Virtual memory is not just about paging things to disk, it's also about reducing fragmentation. You're pr... : uncleanmonkey
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  Bottom line: keep VM enabled, windows managed. You won't even TOUCH it with 8 gigs of ram, but keep it en... : at0micgarden
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    You can disable the VM checks for those games actually. : enyakk
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      The point is, there is no reason to turn it off. : melkore
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        If you use a SSD as your drive space might be an issue. : enyakk
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          True, but you can set your virtual memory to tun off of a slower storage drive if you have a primary OS ... : melkore
          • True, but if you have a SSD you're starting to hate hearing spinning drives and want them shut off and go... : enyakk
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  Virtual memory isn't a bad thing. It just maps a virtual memory address space for each process to physic... : Ovate
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    The speed benefit is not just crazy small, it doesn't exist. You can't disable virtual memory, you can on... : uncleanmonkey
    • Yeah, I'm fairly certain you can't "turn off" virtual memory, it's pretty much a part of the OS / hardwar... : Antilles_Prime
• The biggest performance increase that you'll ever see is throwing in an SSD in to the mix. Sure, you cou... : jingletard
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  Ok Recap: I use my machine mostly for running a development Virtual Machine. I sometimes use Design and... : r3ckless
  • The best thing to buy, without a doubt is 8gb of memory. The second thing to buy is an SSD, they really ... : abrasion
  • Going from 4gb to 12gb made running my test VMs much, much nicer. Also with that much ram, pretty much al... : yakz
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  just leave it alone : cpt_gloval
  • i mean the virtual memory setting. add as much ram as you want : cpt_gloval
• Windows uses virtual memory as swap space and you'd instantly crash out if there was ever a single hitch ... : Link.