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  Kumbaya : MoreVespeneGas
  • Someone's crying, Kumbaya : boomstickah
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  Flash ads should be illegal. : nudel
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    they are all the rage these days, but for the love of god abide these two rules: don't expand when i a... : dahanese
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      Also: Don't play sound + Don't use up all my CPU. The Internet needs a police force that goes around a... : nudel
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        my CPU utilization was at 100.10% for a while. it was rad. my lap almost lit on fire the computer got so... : dahanese
        • Save that .swf for the cold winter months! : nudel
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          I didn't know that 100.10 % was possible. : thecatinthehat
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            Could be dual-core and measured as total rather than average. : nudel
            • That's it. OS X reports 100% x number of cores as the maximum CPU usage. : Gonzo
          • it's the little duel core that could! : deadfish
• blah safari locks on me all the time, i don't even bother with it now, and i think i have that hdd sleep ... : vov1n
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  That's really the only difference I've noticed since Steve sold the place - the ads have suddenly become ... : Bean
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    I'll be talking to our ECO during the quakecon meet with them. : hirez
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      ECO? Executive Community Officer? : Bean
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        Evil Corporate Overlord : Mr. Goodwrench
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          haha, doh! Amazingly, I have never seen that abbreviation until just now. :| (I have heard "evil corporat... : Bean
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            He does frequent here from time to time : Mr. Goodwrench
            • Yeah, I've been largely MIA for most of 2009, especially these last few months, so I've lost track of who... : Bean
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        evil corporate overlord :( : mikecyb
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          it will be a very short meeting which ends with hirez either falling through a trap door into a pit fille... : mikecyb
          • I'm all about the beedogs, myself. : Bean
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            I hear tell that the ECO has two fatal weaknesses: velcro and cream cheese. Go prepared, strike first,... : Alice O'Connor
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              Which side of the velcro though? What if he chooses the wrong side? WHAT IF HE CHOOSES THE WRONG SIDE!!??... : Gonzo
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                Then hirez will become forever attached to the ECO, trapped in a deadly tango of death. : Alice O'Connor
                • at least they'll have cream cheese : deadfish
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            I'm really hoping for sharks with frickin' lazers. that would be awesome. : hirez
            • how about beedogs RIDING sharks with frickin' lazers?! : Bean
          • What? No piranhas? :( : ysbreker
      • Isn't he referring to a dolphin? : Anastomosis
  • What I hate more than that is when the entire page stalls while the ad goes through its bullshit. It does... : massdev
  • Yeah only change I've noticed this far also. : abrasion
  • There is a way to make those ads go away but i'm not allowed to say :( Not having ads in your face is ... : Drewus
  • No 'facebook fan' until the ad situation is under control I say! : lowayne
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  It's times like this that I love my bolt. I bought it for fileshack, but damn if all these stories about... : Grumbeld
  • Aye, I picked a shitty time for my bolt to expire! : nudel
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  I'm using AdBlock Pro and Targeted Ad Cookie Opt-out (TACO) extensions for firefox, and I don't get any a... : CyCo_PL
  • *waves farewell to this post* : Bean
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    so long little fella'! ::sniff:: : jcupitt
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      So I wonder how many of these obligatory "in before deleted" posts are gonna get tacked on here before it... : CyCo_PL
      • Back in the day Steve made a point of keeping the ads unobtrusive so expected a level of courtesy to a) t... : cerealSAM2
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    WTF Why hasn't this post been nuked yet? : thecatinthehat
    • possibly the new management doesn't care since they've changed the advertising. : cerealSAM2
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      I'd say that rediculous rule went right out the window when the shack started serving up viruses. : NoCopy
      • ridiculous is what firefox's spell checker is. : NoCopy
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        It did? ;/ : losimagic
        • I didn't mean to wink at you :( : losimagic
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        I think just using noscript will force it to fall to a static ad? I imagine it does a better job than AV ... : dooberzoo
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          flashblock usually gets you a GIF ad instead too, also wtf nuke : jcupitt
          • OMG NUKE! Shacknews has changed, guys. Gamefly doesn't care about this crap. : CyCo_PL
  • The bomb has yet to drop : ColoradoCNC
  • Clearly this is one more thing that's changed, since this post is still here 8 hours later. : Slowtreme
  • Still waiting! I think maybe Gamefly makes enough money not to care about some guy talking about firef... : CyCo_PL
  • Privoxy also works well for me in basically any browser. : dmason
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  t boggles my fucking mind how most shackers, who i assume are somewhat technically literate, can actually... : [fry]
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    the t is supposed to have an i in front of it : [fry]
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      i've never had an issue with them before. the rollover thing is irksome but not terrible. i honestly don'... : dahanese
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        although i have to say that the teeth ads 'round these parts are just all around fucking awful and i know... : dahanese
        • I'm kinda glad I have no idea what you're talking about. : CyCo_PL
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    [fry] :D : moe6
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      mow, when are you going to come to texas and stay in my home for a week. let's go shoot some guns, do som... : [fry]
      • (moe) : [fry]
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        they'll probably want to do a cavity search on me just because I have a Mohamed in my name :( : moe6
        • ^^^ terrorist : dantastic
        • I'll go with you, I like fishing and fry would get to shoot me, it's a win win for everyone. : abrasion
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          sir what the purpose of your visit to america? TO SHOOT GUNS WITH A MAN I MET ON THE INTERNET!!! : aeg1x
          • hahahahahaha : slickdoody
          • lol : abrasion
          • "Carry on..." : nodebug
          • Oh shit he's got nothing to lose. : ieGod
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          Mo' 'hamed, mo' problems. : Alice O'Connor
          • oie! i just groaned so hard i think i undid my hernia surgery D: : Dave-A
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        i wanna come too! :( : moshman
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          emoe, guns and metal guitars. Sounds like a good time! : moe6
          • Moe what gun would you like to fire most? I want to go to the states just to fire a .50 cal, god I want t... : abrasion
      • As if the Freudian slip at the beginning of that post doesn't give away your REAL plans for moe. : fishbone
      • if i come over, can we skip the guns and jump straight into the mowing? : Dave-A
  • yeah, but the first rule is don't talk about fight club. : skryte
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    So what you're saying is that we should block the ads that pay for the shack? : batkiwi
    • If they're causing your browser to crash? Absolutely. : owly
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      Some of us have lightning bolts and if we were ........inclined to do such a thing there would be less gu... : abrasion
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        mercury doesnt seem to turn all the ads off anymore, just some of them. I havent checked in a while thoug... : mrvandelay
        • Oh - I didn't mean that, more just a way of alleviating any guilt if you were to take other such actions. : abrasion
    • lol. Get off your high horse, moral crusader. : CyCo_PL
  • really fry??? really?? : maulla
  • some people shack from work and can't install new software homey. : Scotty22
• flash block and no script. required. : deadfish
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  Boycott quakecon until something is done!! : askedrelic
  • Is this a backwards way of saying you're lost in the woods and trying to delay the fun until you get to D... : Jonathan
• Giant flash ad with sound that breaks the layout in Chrome WIN! Corporatized Shack go!!!! : Shodai80

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  midichlorians : noodleboy723
  • No other answer tops this one =( : invisible_kid
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    ^This. It completely ruined the series for me. All the mysticism that the original trilogy established - ... : The Grolar Bear
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      ^ my thoughts exactly : riptyde
      • Yeah going from "within all living beings" to pure blood was a painfully stupid mistake. : steauengeglase
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    Really? Everyone is so uptight over this. It doesn't sound any crazier than any other science fiction uni... : Porkasaurus
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      It's not the believability, it's the way it unnecessarily fucked with the mythology of the films : riptyde
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        I dunno about "fucked with", but I agree they DID explain it too much instead of leaving it more mysterio... : Bold
        • I don't see why they "needed" to quantify all that stuff about Anakin, though. Just call him the Chosen O... : The Grolar Bear
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          So if body mass is so important to Force power, why was Yoda so awesome? Why wasn't Jabba the Hutt or ... : cornchak
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            Yoda has a very high midichlorian count, as stated in the movies. And neither Jabba nor the Rancor use th... : Bold
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              The real answer (w/o midichlorians) is Anakin was weaker because he had become more machine than man. Thi... : mordaken
              • You are all jealous because you have a severe lack of mydichlorians in blood. : excessus
    • Somethings shouldn't be explained. They're better off being mysterious. : thecatinthehat
    • By calling it the Force, it took on the same qualities of the other known forces: electromagnetism, stron... : Rooster Cockburn
    • Before they explained it, your imagination chose what it was, is the force in ME kids might think - leavi... : abrasion
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      Star Wars was never science fiction though, it was fantasy. : GreatGooglyMoogly
      • oh sweet, this argument : fishbone
      • Oh I see you've already taken care of this for me. Well done. : ieGod
    • Star wars isn't science fiction, it's pure fantasy. : ieGod
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    I agree it was a bad move. But on the other hand, this is kindof a staple of fighting/power levels in st... : fathertime
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      I think it is the racial purity aspect of midichlorian that really pissed people off. You have this thing... : steauengeglase
      • It's just the deification of something small, perceptible and ubiquitous rather than something immeasurab... : thief
  • hello, signing this. it used to be "han shoots first, end of thread" now it's the fucking midichlorians... : Downforce
  • General rule for movies/books/etc: explanations are retarded and unnecessary. : dirge23
  • ^^^ This... fucking weak.. : ShadowRam
  • I loved Liam Neeson explaining it. He did such a good job as Qui Gon Jinn I thought. : chungathebunga
• George Lucas : kill9
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  that whole thing with "the force" is a bunch of BS : zerog83
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    not true. When I'm driving and I double finger point cars to move out of the way on the highway, it alway... : Skoal^Fyfan
    • It makes people stay at stop signs too! : andre GiANT
• The droids memories were wiped, damnit! : stump
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  I really liked Return of the Jedi. Would have been nice if Lucas had done Episode VII --> IX instead if I... : ateam311
  • But no, no serious plot holes I can think of. : ateam311
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  It kind of bothers me that in ANH the rebels thought that the trench run was absolutely necessary to the ... : king_darius
  • hahaha : megarust32
  • the SHOOT HERE TO EXPLODE THE DEATHSTAR LOL hole was kind of silly period : veras
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    A trench run kinda makes sense as a way to approach the port while avoiding anti-air defenses. Flying ar... : nurglich
    • yeah i always just assumed they were avoiding the million AA guns all over the surface. : chrisschutz
    • This is my assumption too. : Arctic Fox
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    I'd also like to know why a proton torpedo would get sucked into an exhaust port : riptyde
    • It was a self-propelled, heat-seeking torpedo. : cornchak
  • It's the megaman syndrome. Can't teleport to the bosses or fuck to Wiley - gotta go to the BEGINNING of e... : avatar_58
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  The ending of Ep3 bothers me: Annakin turns to the dark side WAY too fast, and Padme dies... from a broke : Bold
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    Better formatting of that script: HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN: What have I done? (pause) I submit myself to you... : Bold
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      The audio version is fucking hilarious... http://www.geekson.com/features/episode3.htm : RomSteady
      • I just listened to it, thank you. : Grumbeld
  • yeah that bothered me as well, part of it was bad acting : fathertime
  • Ahahaha: EWAN MCGREGOR Oh no, the hangar has shields up! HAYDEN shoots something next to the shiel : thetangent
• Why the chicken was in the hotel room at the beginning of the movie. : get_navi
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  I would happily sail over all and any plot holes if they'd fixed the dialog and acting. : Dave-A
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    For Episode II, hit Next Scene whenever you see Padme and Anakin together. Much better movie. : andre GiANT
    • Seriously, every scene with them together in that movie, I thought he was about to rape her. It's pret... : jet-poop
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  How do they look and act like humans, and speak perfect english, when it takes place in a completely diff... : ventro
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    Actually in the special editions of the original trilogy any English text was removed from panels, knobs,... : Schnapple
    • They're not speaking English, they are speaking Basic. It's the common form on language for the galaxy in... : theo20185
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    same reason nazis speak english in nazi movies. : chrisschutz
    • JA! Zist ist TRUE! : Grumbeld
    • The Hunt for Red October did this the best. Having the Ruskies speak Russian at first, only to change to... : Anastomosis
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      My favorite is in Cold War East Germany movies, where the good Germans speak English with American or En... : jet-poop
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        haha what? is there an example of this? pretty funny : dirge23
        • This is where I remember it from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082810/ Beau Bridges and John Hurt do... : jet-poop
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  Why did the gunner on the star destroyer not destroy the pod that R2-D2 and C-3PO were on? It's not like ... : Prozium
  • They were probably hoping it would land on a jawa : Dave-A
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    think of it like this... if a US destroyer saw an empty life raft float away after capturing an enemy ves... : lonepie
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      Yes. : abrasion
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        yeah, on second thought - you're probably right : lonepie
        • yeah, what if it contained a copy of the stolen death star plans that can be picked up by another rebel s... : Prozium
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    didn't they want R2-D2 to get away since letting the plans to the Death Star was a trap? Or am I not reme... : fatman
    • Yeah, that's right. The Rebels just got lucky. : andre GiANT
    • you are thinking of episode 6. : Sparticuse
• yes, why is there sound in space : EvilDolemite
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  I dislike how the prequels retconned the original trilogy. Some Obi-Wan retconning for example: Ori... : jehkyb
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    Neither of those two is incorrect or retconned. It's clearly shown that Yoda teaches the younglings; sinc... : Bold
    • It's revised, you can't deny it. It can be contorted to fit into the storyline but it still isn't literal... : jehkyb
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  That Padme (as a character) basically existed to squirt out two kids and then drop dead. That Lucas' def... : Arcanum
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    Seems like Anakin did bring balance to the Force... when he was done there were 2 Jedi (Yoda, Anakin) and... : riptyde
    • The balance Anakin brings is when he kills off the Emperor in Revenge of the Jedi. You might stretch and... : LilCrypto
    • Right, that makes sense (only Obi Wan on the Jedi side, not Anakin). Lucas says that that's not "balance... : Arcanum
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      I think I remember Lucas saying something about how the only way to bring "balance to the Force" was if y... : The Grolar Bear
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        Yes, he does. "Balance to the Force" not "Balance between the Forces." : LilCrypto
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          There's only one Force. It has two sides. "Balance" implies that both sides are necessary and should ex... : Arcanum
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            I'll need a reference for that. Because I don't buy it. Or to put it another way, it's George Lucas' wo... : LilCrypto
            • We're not necessarily saying he's confused about it, just that he used the wrong terminology. : The Grolar Bear
            • A reference for what? That there's one Force with two sides? How about all the movies? They always ref : Arcanum
          • There's no reason to believe the evil side was wiped out. It was just removed from a position of dominat... : nurglich
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            Jedi = nazis : riptyde
            • signed. : fatman
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        It also doesn't work since, if you assume the Extended Universe is canon, there are other sith around eve... : riptyde
        • The Extended Universe effectively is non-canon in the scope of the original trilogy, since it contradicts... : Link.
• i thought this bit was hilarious - http://gizmodo.com/310583/family-guy-explains-the-death-star-flaw : cap n KRUNCH
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  Yes, they didn't let me write 1 thru 3, the fuckheads. Pretty big incongruity right there. : Lunatic Angelic
  • I guess, if you really put a gun to my head, I really didn't like Obi-wan referring to the Jedi in EP4 as : Lunatic Angelic
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    Would you put the credits in green? Or keep them yellow? : thief
    • Or, I mean, the pre-movie thingies. : thief
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  Why are Biggs Darklighter and Luke such good buddies? :( : tomservo
  • Wedge really talked up Luke throughout training. : andre GiANT
  • They grew up on Tatootine together. In early version of the Ep 4 script, there were scenes with Luke visi... : silent prophet
• I like how almost no one actually bothered to answer the parent post. Ahh, you and your George Lucas hatr... : Flynn
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  HAN SHOT FIRST : ]pm[chem
  • Where can I get the t-shirt? : Anastomosis
• >:( I hate you guys. : g0nk
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  That Vader tortured the crap out of his daughter, and luke's cool with that, he's a good guy really! ... : thane
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    When does he learn Leia is his daughter? Luke his son? Is there a specific scene? I don't know the mov... : thief
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      In RoJ he discovers it through searching Luke's thoughts. : Lunatic Angelic
      • Specifically, when Luke is hiding after Vader tosses the light saber and brings down the catwalk Luke is : riptyde
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    Maybe it was because Leia wasn't using the force at all and Luke was so he can sense it somehow? I don't ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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      I assume Vader put 2 and 2 together once he finds out who destroyed the Death Star. Gifted pilot, unusua... : riptyde
      • Which makes you wonder - if Luke's existence was to be hiddne from Darth Vader, why the hell did they not... : evildanish
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        i get the impression that Vader figures it out during the Trench Run, when Luke is piloting with supernat... : dirge23
        • he even comments during that scene something about him being strong in the force. : Sparticuse
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  Hurley is currently writing the movies and will fix any issues. : pimpium
  • yeah, except hurley's useless ass is rewriting the good one. : chrisschutz
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  Star Wars lore guys... what / who became the primary Sith antagonist after EP6? : Lunatic Angelic
  • The initial years is basically cleanup. Remnants from palpatine's various projects like clones and suc... : miasma(&)
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    Well, nothing in the official canon suggests any substantial Sith antagonist. But in the Expanded Univers : The Grolar Bear
    • Wow, I screwed up that spoiler tag. : The Grolar Bear
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  There are only 3 movies. : kramweil
  • Ahahahahaha. : thief
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  None of the movies explained how a force user can be stronger than another, besides the midichlorians non... : Link.
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    i thought that was pretty clear. some are more in tune with their powers. also, even pre-midichlorians, t... : chrisschutz
    • also, training : chrisschutz
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      What does "more in tune with their powers" mean? That's almost as much of a copout as midichlorians. : Link.
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        Like, meditative harmony and stuff, man. It's totally groovy! : FlatlineDixay
        • so basically, space hippies. : skryte
  • some people are better at, say, math or gymnastics. there aren't many binary talents. even breathing is... : vtx
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  human beings existed a long time ago in a galaxy far far away....... maybe if they said something like pa... : mindshot
  • it would have been harder to cast with aliens. we don't have that many of them walking around, and some o... : chrisschutz
• JAR JAR fucking binks : Mondo
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  That the Empire spends all their money on giant Star Destroyers and Death Stars, when it's pretty obvious... : FlatlineDixay
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    yeah, video games distorted the sense of force powers that i got from the movies. for example, yoda lift... : vtx
    • To be fair, by the time Yoda was pulling that X-Wing out of the muck, he was very near death. The dude ha... : thetangent
• this may sound like a weird suggestion, but the Episode 3 novelisation is really really good. That and... : miasma(&)
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  I don't like how much smaller the universe seems with each movie. Five out of the six movies has at leas... : ThomW
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    Generally for the most part, Star Wars is one movie. The original trilogy is neat, but nowhere near as ... : ThomW
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      Empire Strikes Back wholeheartedly disagrees with you! : drbriefs
      • I like how Star Wars was this self-contained piece of awesome. It ruled because it created a really neat ... : ThomW
    • Empire Strikes Back is the best of the Star Wars movies. : thetangent
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    Since I'm not going to acknowledge the massive canon changes and contradictions that the prequel trilogy ... : Link.
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      It's actually kind of logical - the empire had clones, and could probably make clones at the same speed o... : flagg209
      • But they never actually *did* outnumber the enemy 10 to 1. : FlatlineDixay
• The biggest incongruity is fans that love the original three, and hate the prequels for their quality / d... : rosewood
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  That Obi-Wan would basically hang around Tatooine and do nothing but keep a distant eye on Luke. If 1-3 h... : shyguy74
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    Simple. Obi-Wan was one of only two Jedi left, and if he were discovered, he'd instantly be hunt down and... : Link.
    • Right. His "mission" was to make sure Luke followed the path he did. That's how he was fighting the emper... : skinlab133
• Nope! : fleabug
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  Now I remember >:( How the hell can Leia remember her mother when she dies at fucking birth - way to fu... : abrasion
  • she's a potential jedi, they can see into the future and past and shit : filthysock
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    how do you know it's her birth mother she's remembering : jonin
    • Let us not be pedantic - we know what was implied in the movie. : abrasion
    • "do you remember your mother... your real mother" : goatboy
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  "Hey! Lets invade Hoth with these balls huge fucking things that move entirely too slow and fall over if ... : burning eye
  • i figure the AT-ATs DOMINATED for a while, and the rebels had come up with a counter but hadn't used it y... : chrisschutz
  • it would have been funnier if they just sank into the snow up to the shoulders and got stuck. : skryte
  • That wasn't too bad, ground assualt was a must : ShadowRam
• Holy shit thief! I'm glad you asked this question! Yes, the fact that the first(number 4) has the sam : devi| dog
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  Ewoks defeating a legion of the emperor's best troops. I just don't see how that could happen. : StuMan1337
  • troops that were defending one of the most important places in the whole universe, the shield of the bran... : excessus
  • See: Pakistan : ChibiJosh
  • "Your overconfidence is your weakness." : dirge23
  • Think of it like Vietnam. : legato17
  • It's not like they were missing help. : Lone Swordsman
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  srsly, you nerds need to get a life. : g0nk
  • Posing as mentally sane? Chicks looking over your shoulder? eh? eh? : excessus
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  Anakin in Episode I being played a different person than Anakin in Episode II and III. They should have ... : dirge23
  • And waited 10 years between them? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    The problem is that Jake Lloyd wouldn't have been able to age fast enough. : Lone Swordsman
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      Er, or any child actor. : Lone Swordsman
      • That's so unprofessional and deceiving! : excessus
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  Chewbacca knowing who Yoda is.. also stupid... : ShadowRam
  • yea but they never meet again after episode 3 so it doesn't really matter, it was more just a cheap chewb : NukemFornever
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  i guess the only thing that bothers me is the scale of the explosions. "that's a moon" - "that's no moon... : flagg209
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    http://www.theforce.net/SWTC/holocaust.html those damned Ewoks got what they deserved.. : g0nk
    • Haha, this is good. I loved this line: The mysterious flaming ring emerging from the equator was much : DinK

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  nerfed? 2 patches ago Arachna was one of the worst heroes in the game. : Skoal^Fyfan
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    and 1 patch ago she was the best :P : c0bra
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      Arachna has always been dominant in the early to mid I've found. : Sink the Pink
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        That sticky thing could fuck up any low health hero early game if they got too close. Now she's nerfed, t... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
        • Haha, it works just as good still if you're not autocasting it. : Cliffzorz
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  New one coming soon : s2jason
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    One what? Patch? Hero? (MALIKEN?! D:) : c0bra
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      New patch, just some small stuff since it's only been one day since the last one :) : s2jason
      • sweet dude : c0bra
      • how soon!? : Iwannaacura
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        predator's pounce is bugged btw. I was at level 20-25 and it would (every time) attempt to pounce arachn... : Sink the Pink
        • Same, missed 2 kills, very annoying : FiReaNG3L
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    Did someone typo magmus' damage? It starts at 61-77. I expected that to be on par with tiny, but he's 61-... : Pacalon
    • yep, his base damage and armor i think are errors : DrFlammable
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  Magmus is over powered, I've played him twice today and owned both times. His stun is amazing early game ... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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    Can't wait for more characters :) : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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      I really want Centaur to be added next/soon :( : notdeadyeti
      • Same. And make sure he's big and beefy lookin too. : Pacalon
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        I want to see some of the earlygame pushing monsters! Furion, Brood Mother, etc. : miasma(&)
        • yes on broodmom. : Foxhawk
      • I want characters with fun/new mechanics. Kind of like nightstalker or whatever from DoTA. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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        I want Drow, that has always been my fav character : edge198
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          umm shes in the game already.. her name is Arachna basically. : Iwannaacura
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            Wow, ok, did not realize that was an analogue for Drow : edge198
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              teehee, you remind me of myself when i realized clockwerk goblin = pharoah. : miasma(&)
              • Holy crap didn't realize that either... Anyone to point out? I know Legionaire = Axe and Fat guy = ... : edge198
        • what? That is basically Arachna : sesmaster
      • I want techies (engineer/builder from S2), Nortrom, and Invoker. : DrFlammable
    • Needs more DK, Fiends and Ghouls >:( : abrasion
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  looks like Watch tower is bugged or something. Didnt see franken duder at all. Unless the other team kill... : Iwannaacura
  • Played that map earlier tonight, he was there. : Reptile
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  God, Magamus needs to get nerfed to hell. his ulti and blink hurt bad. : Kylegar
  • nuke his mana and he's screwed : Reptile
  • you know what makes him deadly? an electrician sitting next to him to grip an opponent after magmus blin... : JuffoWup
  • Behemoths ult hurts bad too. Tempest's ult can destroy an entire team. The whole point of heroes like thi... : [7]kami
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    It's just Crix, why cry nerf? : kainen1
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      because people havne't played against him so tehy don't know how fragile or easily countered he is. : Xanthos
      • sheep stick, game over. : sesmaster
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  I really need to find a clan that works on more advanced hero- and teamplay. Got invited to one yesterday... : [7]kami
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    never thought about playing with shackers? : Reptile
    • Shackers are uneven, sometimes they talk. But more often than not only one or two talk making teamwork ha... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
    • Yeah sometimes i do and it is fun. The only problem is that it takes forever to get something going or to... : [7]kami
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    what is your PSR kami : boomstickah
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      Swinging between 1650 and 1700 because i only play pubgames and most of the time i gain about 3 points wh... : [7]kami
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        Also, i wish i could buy epix or dragong flyers with PSR. Whehe. : [7]kami
        • I don't know what those are but they sound gay. :) : kainen1
• Sand Kings was a pretty sweet Outer Limits episode. *wanders off* : 60days
• I just started playing, but I can say that magmus is one of my favorites so far :D : Reeves
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  I just finally broke 3.0 avg kills/g for two reasons: 1) I think I found a chronos (he is so much fun!... : Juno
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    pls share chronos build, oh mighty Juno. : TShandy
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      I posted one in yesterday's thread. 3x soulscream rings, steamboots, elder parasite, wingbow : kainen1
      • ^This is indeed good, although I like to throw in a slash for extra speed/agi : Nighteyes
• s2 Jason said Magmus base attack damage is set too high for some reason. Said to expect a nerf to his da... : Nighteyes

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• Whoa, Hey Gonzo, are we gonna party like it's Windows 98? : kaddar0
• Interesting read. Thanks for all your hard work. : Robotic Puppy Eater
• Thanks man, I will read. : abrasion
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  Good read, and for the most part I agree with your assessments. Only things I would say are: Librar... : RomSteady
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    Re libraries: I wish you could put custom ones on the start menu, either pinned to the top part or on the... : nudel
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      re libraries: open up explorer, drag the library to the start menu button and it will pin it on there wit... : thecray
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        I think he wants to put it in the right column of the Start Menu, with the other commonly used shortcuts.... : Gonzo
        • Yeah, exactly. I never use the Downloads folder so I did consider renaming it "Tools" and putting a bu... : nudel
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        When I click on the library in the start menu I want it to open a pop-up menu of the items in it (like th... : nudel
        • yeah I thought that might be what you were asking for, but I figured I'd throw that idea out there anyway... : thecray
• Awesome, thanks! : prime8
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  How is Win7 any different than Vista, considering that it has nearly the same features, security, perform : Link.
  • Thank You. : mrvandelay
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    He said "best" not "fastest." Even if it isn't the fastest (which could be for all kinds of reasons at... : nudel
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      Detail the "other improvements" that make Win7 the "best" and certainly not worth $120+ for the "best" w... : Link.
      • Here are some of the improvements I've noticed since installing it compared to Vista. Action Center: W... : RomSteady
      • People have been detailing them to you for the last week. If you don't think they're worth $120 then that... : nudel
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    he said it feels faster, not that it is faster. He doesn't need any evidence. If it feels faster to him t... : thecray
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      Operating system feel and speed has very little to do with frame rates in a game and far more to do with ... : abrasion
      • Which is all the same or slightly different in design but the same in performance between Vista and Win7. : Link.
    • Are you for real? This has to be a fakepost. : Link.
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      Oh lord. It's like I have been teleported to work - where "Vista doesn't work" is code for things like "I... : avatar_58
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        The only problem I have with Vista at work is a problem with our group policy scripts that erase my prefe... : RomSteady
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          is it a mix of Visat and Xp machines? : Fyunch Click
          • I'm one of only three people using Vista in the company, and the only reason we're running Vista is that ... : RomSteady
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          put Vista PC's in a separate OU and save yourself the headaches. : zerog83
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            That's what we did, no issues. Any Vista-specific issues we've squashed over the last year or two. :) I'm... : avatar_58
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              Don't mean to be a dick but you ever here about testing environments? Roll out 1 or 2 W7 machines and do ... : EricZBA
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                Guy we're low on machines. We can also afford to do trial by fire, the office isn't that large. A few hun... : avatar_58
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                  I'm in the same boat; we don't have the luxury of a duplicate, secured environment to test things. We iso... : zerog83
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                    I'm trying to remedy that by getting a nice, beefy system for myself though. I'm hoping a dual Core 2 Qua... : zerog83
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                      I don't mind it, keeps me on my toes. I knew a little about Vista going in so I was more informed, and it... : avatar_58
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                        I like the feeling too. I have to think a lot more about what I'm doing before I make changes. I feel it ... : zerog83
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                          I do find I get bothered when people blame vista without thinking though. I'm usually quick to correct th... : avatar_58
                          • There's maybe 10 people in my company that run Vista, and for each one of them I showed them how the new ... : zerog83
          • WMI filters FTW! : Scrimbo Obeer
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    derp. : Gonzo
    • ahahahahahahahha : abrasion
    • Yarp. : obiquatro
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      I'm glad you remembered the "derp" for me. That word embodies your hack piece "journalism" perfectly. Der... : Link.
      • ^ of "journalism". Derp. : Link.
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      holy shit ahaha! : yosemiteclimber
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        I enjoy how much everyone loves me around here. So much fun. <3 : Link.
        • you should pretty much just quit posting, dude. : Majuju
        • Develop a skin, learn to give shit back within the confines of rules, provide a counterpoint or GTFO. : Fred Garvin
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    No one's forcing you to upgrade, chief. I'm simply saying that the new thing that's coming out in a few w... : Gonzo
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      Nice troll dude. I've been using operating systems long, long before Win2k. Was Win2k your first OS? That... : Link.
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        Jeez, he's the editor in chief of the best tech magazine out there...calm down. : Smitty
        • I don't care what his position is. His biases are showing worse than a nymphomaniac's habits. : Link.
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        hahahaha this nerd rage is pretty incredibly... LAME : Downforce
        • How am I akin to a MP3 encoder. Quite a puzzling statement here. : Link.
      • Link, you're getting into shitty criticism territory when you accuse someone of trolling. : geedeck
      • fking lol : MercFox1
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      Ahhhhhhhhhh fucking magic, pure unadulterated magic! : abrasion
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        I appreciate how you haven't contributed one piece of constructive criticism to this thread. Now run alon... : Link.
        • ...he said, constructively. : nudel
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          I fucking schooled you last time, completely schooled you - I'll let other people do it this time! Der... : abrasion
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            oyea nigga i show dat bitch uppppp wit mah ride : Link.
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              Oh lol link, just lol! I avoided most of last nights Win 7 thread and most of this one because I don't n... : abrasion
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                Oh damn! You truly dominated me there! Woe is me. : Link.
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                  Still nothing useful to add I see. Awesome - I'm enjoying this a lot more than you :) : abrasion
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                    Haha, if I weren't having a blast here, why would I be continuing this very thread? The fact that you kee... : Link.
                    • Link we're not that dissimilar you and I, with our talents we could rule this shacknews? Think about it, ... : abrasion
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      You haven't seem to address any of his real concerns though, other than starting a war about how big your... : kill9
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        his article is not a fucking NASA JPL wind tunnel evaluation. it's also based largely on a 2005 synthetic... : Downforce
        • I didn't see anyone claiming it was : kill9
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        I actually did address the concern he listed in a different thread: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=2... : Gonzo
        • Actually, most of what I saw in last night's thread was the same ego stroking (such as this wonderful thr... : Link.
        • I think this was where you addressed it. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20634028#itemanchor_20634028 : cdbeckman
  • don't you get tired of making the same post over and over when you've been given links to the contrary mu... : derelict515
  • MURDERS TO ZERO : Foxhawk
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    What about the other points? It is an improvement over Vista, hands down. And this is coming from someone... : Fred Garvin
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      I've already brought up how "I don't want to bother picking apart" his article because there's that much ... : Link.
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        In other words you have nothing to stand on but vague nitpicking about wording. : Fred Garvin
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          How so? I brought up substantive issues with the assertions that Gonzo made in his article. How is this m... : Link.
          • You niggled about his subjective impression of speed. : Fred Garvin
  • TO THE STREETS!! : warcrow
• I saw slightly different Vista/Win7 gaming benchmarks which show almost no difference in framerate, but y : jingletard
• Thank you for sharing : rosewood
• nice, i'm looking forward to upgrading : sikander
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  LOL I think your bias is showing. "And once vendors fixed their driver flaws and Microsoft squashed so... : TheStupidOne
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    Whenever I interviewed a Win7 RC user about the things they liked about the OS, two of the top three were... : Gonzo
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      Will, I had forgotten about the audio changes in Vista and Windows 7, what is this going to mean for old ... : abrasion
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        DirectSound/DS3D still works in Vista/Win7, it's just emulated. EAX is what's dead. You have to use som... : TheStupidOne
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          To be honest you are better off ignoring it. Alchemy works, but I find it can slow games down for minimal... : avatar_58
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            Vista ad Win7 drivers are the same. That's why. It's nice that way. : Link.
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              So, they made no changes to the driver model at all? : Fred Garvin
              • Somewhat, since WDDM 1.1 was introduced in Win7, though it's backwards compatible with Vista's WDDM 1.0. ... : Link.
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          Oh well that's not so bad - I just want to run one OS and have a couple of apps like DOSBox and others ma... : abrasion
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            Glide works in dosbox if you take the time to learn about it. Folks run TR in dos. Now early windows game... : avatar_58
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              The new 3D acceleration in VirtualBox is amazing. I can play all of my cranky old games that hate Vista ... : TheStupidOne
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                Which games if I may ask? I never ran across too many. I had to run Zork Grand Inquisitor through Virtual... : avatar_58
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                  I'm playing Baldur's Gate 2 (multiplayer with a few friends no less) and it is flawless. Basically anyth... : TheStupidOne
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                    Yeah but they work in Vista right? I tried it and never ran into issues. I played Planescape, Fallout and... : avatar_58
                    • Well on my machine the 3D accel doesn't work and I get weird graphical glitches. It's fine in VBox. : TheStupidOne
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                    Oh forgot to mention I'm playing it in VBox because Vista/Win7 doesn't support the 3D acceleration and it... : TheStupidOne
                    • This is great news, there needs to be a way for us to enjoy all the old classics. : abrasion
              • This... It's a great way to play old Win95/98 era 3D accelerated stuff on newer OSes. : Gonzo
        • DS3D doesn't actually work right. It's usually greyed out, unless something's changed in the last year. T... : Gonzo
      • This hasn't been an issue yet. Most games that have issues in Vista/Win7 also have similar or the same pr... : Link.
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      The taskbar means nothing to me simply put and even then is it worth spending 100+ on an upgrade from Vis... : TheStupidOne
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        So... don't buy it. : boarder2
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          Don't worry, I'm not planning on it :] : TheStupidOne
          • I am so relieved! : grendel
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        I prefer to judge the O/S aside from purchases or money spent. I don't let that get in my way of being ob... : avatar_58
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          Which is exactly my point. There is ZERO logical reasons to abandon Vista in favor of Windows 7. Even i... : TheStupidOne
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            What? I don't see what you mean. There are definite improvements and microsoft is *obviously* jumping shi... : avatar_58
            • No I said I would think twice because of the inconvenience it would be for me to reinstall my OS. I tend... : TheStupidOne
          • Then don't, i'm going Win7 soon because I love all those changes and think its more responsive, but no on... : snowwolf
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            why oh why is post + username nukable??? :( :( :( If you think it's just a few visual tweaks and sligh... : deject
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              It's debatable whether the taskbar is an improvement. I'm still iffy on it. On one hand I like the quick ... : avatar_58
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                In the last six months, most of the apps that I had problems with lost popups with have been updated so t... : Gonzo
                • No I don't mean lost popups, I mean like say - if an ad leaks through in Firefox. I can go an entire sess... : avatar_58
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                  As usual, Windows Messenger is leading the way in showing the world the WRONG way to do a UI. :( That's t... : nudel
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                    There are a lot of good IM alternatives. Unless you're in a corporate environment where that stuff is lim... : Gonzo
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                      I gave up on the alternatives as there's always something which doesn't work (video chat, file sending, o... : nudel
                      • Same, I just shut up and live with msn. : avatar_58
            • I had exactly the same reaction. : Gonzo
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              Oh you mean the highly annoying Library system? I already sort my files myself thank you very much, and ... : TheStupidOne
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                hi welcome to every other OS including linux, unix, and OS X : EvilDolemite
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                  Yeah, and Linux window managers are suitable for desktop use. Right. There's many reasons why Linux and B... : Link.
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                    OS X is not relegated to server usage. Quite the opposite. I realize you were picking on Linux and BSD, b... : ovrlrd
                    • Uh, when anyone without opaque goggles on brings up "BSD variants", they're talking about FreeBSD, NetBSD... : Link.
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                The new UI only hampers you if you refuse to adapt to it. I bet if spent 20 minutes with an open mind ab... : deject
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                  I used the original public Win7 build for two weeks and later RC1, and I thought the UI changes were eith... : Link.
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                    Well if that's your opinion then that's your opinion. What I mean by having an open mind about it is all... : deject
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                      You're misunderstanding me here. I adjusted to Win7's UI and disliked it. I prefer OS X, XP, and Vista's ... : Link.
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                        *sigh* I give up. Have fun staying with Vista, I'm sure you'll be happy and fine with it. : deject
                        • *note: I am not trying to be sarcastic or anything with this post, just in case it seems that way. : deject
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                      Adjusting to me was spending 10 minutes playing with the RC until the novelty of the new whizbang stuff w... : TheStupidOne
                      • That's exactly what I mean, you're used to the way things are and you don't want them to change. Sure yo... : deject
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                  No sorry I was too busy using my open mind getting Vista 6 months after launch despite all the shit slung... : TheStupidOne
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                    If you truly had an open mind you'd be seeing Windows 7 as a good thing, not bad. You are no different th... : avatar_58
                    • No maybe it's because I actually pay for a legit OS license and I'm not going to spend money unnecessaril... : TheStupidOne
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                    There's a difference there though, Vista was technically a massive failure at launch. There were so many... : deject
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                      How does this change that upgrading from Vista to Win7 isn't worth the money or time spent? Every other p... : Link.
                      • no one cares about that. most people are still on XP, harping on Vista -> Win7 is useless. : Downforce
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                      No, I was fortunate enough not to have an Nvidia video card nor crappy hardware (waited until I built a n... : TheStupidOne
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                        but you're not willing to do that with win7? your posts have one thing in common: a fierce justificati... : EvilDolemite
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                          it's hopeless. it's like the old special olympics poster says. "Arguing on the Internet is retarded. Whet... : Gonzo
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                            disregard the angry nerd outliers trying to weasel in Vista/Win7 differences. that is stupid because most... : Downforce
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                              The score, or why I used PC Mark 05? : Gonzo
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                                the latter. I recall so much drama (shocking!) about win2k versus XP and so much nerd rage over unoptimiz... : Downforce
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                                  I was looking for a relatively easy-to-run hard drive benchmark that runs on XP, Vista, and Win7, in 32-b... : Gonzo
                                  • interesting. very insightful 'benchmark of the benchmarks'. I wonder if folks skipped a recompile becaus : Downforce
                        • LOL opponent? Ahahahaha it is delicious how much the tables have turned. PS not once have I said that... : TheStupidOne
                        • Yes, the people who say there isn't much difference between Vista and W7 have actually used Vista. The p... : walker270
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                      Aside from the video driver bugs and Explorer (which I don't use) being slower to copy to network folders... : nudel
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                        Yes, it's an operating system not a fucking religion. I use what works and I went with Vista at launch b... : TheStupidOne
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                          This is exactly my viewpoint here to the nth degree. : Link.
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                            but you two are the staunchest advocates against win7 : EvilDolemite
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                              Against? More like see through it as nothing more than a marketing campaign and a few tweaks and visual ... : TheStupidOne
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                                if you're on XP, it is awesome. and that's who it's targeted at: the millions upon millions who skipped ... : EvilDolemite
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                                  Well obviously go for Win7, there's no point going to Vista now unless you can get a key for supercheap/f... : TheStupidOne
                                  • Oh, if there was a free or $30 Snow Leopard-style Win7 upgrade, I'd jump on that in a heartbeat. That's a... : Link.
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                                    Windows 7 Home Premium was $50 and Windows 7 Professional was $100 for two weeks... : Portax
                                    • Yes hold on while I downgrade my copy of Ultimate to Home Premium. I totally want to drop MUI support an... : TheStupidOne
                                  • I dont see how anyone could have paid for vista in the first place. MS had so many opportunities to get ... : ant_hillbilly
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                        File copy speeds from one hard drive to another or over a network were painful at best, impossible at wor... : deject
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                          Shitty underpowered hardware can't run the new MS operating system, news at 11. LOL changes in the way... : TheStupidOne
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                            you must have a serious corn field because you are throwing up straw men left and right : EvilDolemite
                            • No I love how pulling up bugs from RTM that haven't been relevant for years are a huge justification for ... : TheStupidOne
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                            Are you for real? Nvidia's drivers were shitty no matter what GPU you had. And my comment about the... : deject
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                              When did Microsoft buy out Nvidia...? And frankly the only thing I noticed about the audio changes wer... : TheStupidOne
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                                As a reminder, SP1 came out just over a year after Vista's launch. That's a pretty long time to have slow... : Gonzo
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                                  Yes Microsoft deserves all the blame for shitty third-party drivers. This makes total logical sense yes ... : TheStupidOne
                                  • There were more devices with partial functionality/buggy drivers or even without drivers at all at XP lau... : Link.
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                                    The Wikipedia page omitted something important. No USB 2.0 support in XP RTM wasn't that big a deal, sinc... : Gonzo
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                                      USB2 was finalized in 2000. It took over 2 years for OS-level support to come out. I think that's a pre... : TheStupidOne
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                                        You're absolutely correct. WINDOWS XP IS THE WORST OS EVAR Alternately, Microsoft could deserve a fair... : Gonzo
                                        • Honestly I chalk most of Vista's launch woes on the OEM's decision to push Vista32 rather than the vastly... : TheStupidOne
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                                          Is that why it took NVidia so long to get Vista drivers? Although I started using Vista in Jan 2007 (R... : nudel
                                          • Compatibility with previous version drivers broke VERY late in the Vista beta/rc cycle. None of the graph... : Gonzo
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                    Why use the best when you can use the second best. *shrug* : lcizzle
                    • Sure when the second best is just as fast as the best with just a different look :] : TheStupidOne
              • Angry poster is angry. : ColoradoCNC
          • When has a Windows OS EVER ran faster than it's predecessor on release? When? : Fred Garvin
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    So, you've compared the code bases and come to this astute conclusion? : Fred Garvin
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      i love that the editor in chief of maximum posts about extensive OS comparisons, done over the span of... : EvilDolemite
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        I just went and read dognose's very special thread and had a good laugh. Also, it's really not worth gett... : Gonzo
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          Oh, I'm having quite the sizable bout of laughs with this thread, let me tell ya. : Link.
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            As are we. : Fred Garvin
            • He's the only one laughing at his table though :( : boarder2
      • HE'S GOT BIA$ IN HIS BLOOD!! : Fred Garvin
• I see no pron watching benchmarks in this test. This is all a sham! : jonin
• I haven't even read this and I'm hopping MAD!! : owly
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  I dunno. I've run Vista for the past 2 years and Win 7 RC for the past 3 months. There isn't a whole l... : Colleton
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    There's so much consumer ignorance when it comes to Vista that they didn't really have a choice. : Sapiens
    • This is true, after the first year Vista was fine. That said, it still has a clownshoes UI; Windows 7 goe : Serpico74
  • i tried to say the same thing yesterday and i was clobbered by some win7 true believers. be careful :s. : prancing_jackanapes
  • That's not far from the truth. Windows 7 is essentially SP3. However that's not necessarily a bad thing. ... : avatar_58
• Amazing stuff. Thanks. And always love the mag. : Wolfanoz
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  This has more to do with my machine than windows 7, but installing 7 completely killed my performance is ... : edge198
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    Much like Vista theres no reason to install it on old hardware. Wait for an upgrade. XP should be fine fo... : avatar_58
    • Yea my machine is like 5 - 6 years at this point : edge198
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      I have Windows 7 running on a 6 year old P4. I don't know why you wouldn't try running it on older hardwa... : MercFox1
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        My brother has it installed on my old gaming PC and it drags game performance down to 50%. So you tell me... : avatar_58
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          Dunno what the reality is but I'd be surprised for the hardware vendors to bother making decent Vista/7 d... : nudel
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            It's just the usage requirements of the new UI(glass & such) but it killed my performance. On 7 I had ... : edge198
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              I'd probably turn off glass on older hardware. Not sure if games going full-screen disable glass in 7 lik... : nudel
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                Mine would switch glass off depending on what game I was playing War3 = wouldn't switch Diablo 2 = gl... : edge198
                • I think it's actually just OpenGL games force it to switch to basic. QuakeLive does it. Don't know why Di... : Gonzo
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              i could be wrong, but doesn't vista/7 shut off the UI acceleration when you go into a game? seems like it... : xsoulbrothax
              • No, it doesn't. : Link.
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                and we should remind ourselves of the top vista issue: fucking video card drivers. yet no one will rem... : Downforce
                • The videocard drivers are infinitely better than at Vista's launch. Performance is a little up and down, ... : Gonzo
              • Depends on the game, see my reply to nudel, gave a couple of examples : edge198
• Anyone know if any OEM prices for Windows 7 are already known? I really want a new gaming PC, and I wanna... : code-e255
• Nice review! Maximum PC is the best. : Smitty
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  w00t !!!! reading now!!! : Downforce
  • good read, thanks !! excellent - new rig plans around Win7 OEM, 12GB, SSD w/trim... green light ! ne... : Downforce
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  "For anyone who regularly keeps many windows open at once time, the new Taskbar is worth the price of adm... : bozer
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    oh damn, I have like 40 things there all the time at work. Most group into just pdf's, folders and browse... : dooberzoo
    • That's the big thing to me. We've been using the basic Taskbar metaphor since Windows 95. If you think ba... : Gonzo
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  Fuck, the front page posters have found the Chatty. : Fred Garvin
  • Fred Garvin, you can remedy this by posting pix + divx of your hot sister. : deject
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  Vista was a joke and an embarrassment and I easily avoided it since Windows XP does everything I need but... : [fry]
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    Also, thanks for this writeup. It's the best I've seen so far and I love how you put it together. : [fry]
    • Thanks! : Gonzo
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    If you needed 64bit, and we did, Vista was a great choice. : Fred Garvin
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      I agree this is a compelling reason for it but isn't it more of a you didn''t have much of a choice optio... : [fry]
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        It works fine. The interface needs work, but it's stable and does the trick for us. Every dev machine in ... : Fred Garvin
        • Vista's totally fine now. It wasn't for a long time, but it's been fine since SP1. : Gonzo
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    amen. w7 likely still has some of the downfalls of vista (forgetting windows settings, prolly still has t... : gokart.
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      FWIW the backup & restore util is improved in 7 compared to Vista. For example, when doing a file-base... : nudel
      • well at least it's half way between ntbackup and the vista version. i couldn't get over what a retrograde... : gokart.
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        Acronis True Image works well and is better than the default backup utility. : Gonzo
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          After using Acronis for years I won't touch it anymore. Sick of the bugs, some of which affect the abilit... : nudel
          • We've used Acronis in the lab for years. However, at home these days I'm using a Windows Home Server for ... : Gonzo
        • hardly a fair comparison. one is a free utility to backup files and the other a piece of $50 with greatly... : gokart.
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  Thank you for this, Gonzo. I actually learned some new things about Win7 in reading it. You didn't really... : Bean
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    Glad you enjoyed! We've actually been talking about building something that hooks into Windows' own re... : Gonzo
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      Would it make sense to record videos of the same stuff being done on two machines, then compare stuff lik... : nudel
      • The video thing might work, especially if we could hotwire a KVM to send the same signal out to multiple ... : Gonzo
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  Hey dude awesome stuff. Live Photo Gallery is actually decent. I wish it was Photosynth though. =( : fleabug
  • I actually like a lot of the Windows Live Essentials programs. I love Live Writer for authoring blog post : Bean
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  Great read! I am curious about Netbook performance though : two50six
  • Netbook performance is very, very good. As long as you have a decent SSD or hard drive and preferably 2GB... : Link.
• Thanks for the review, going to wait to read it in print though, otherwise I'd have nothing to read in th... : dmaownsyou
• I don't need no other proof than this that win7 is good: a friend of mine is a HUGE Linux geek and uses W... : razorblade79
• Yeah I <3 W7. It's great. : kainen1
• This was a great review and has mirrored my own experience with win7 exactly (disclaimer: i almost never ... : itsjames
• I'm a Mac guy, about to order a new MacBook Pro, and yet I found your review very helpful in that I was t... : cdbeckman

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  Awesome! You were joking about it's length... damn. How long did this take you? O_o : Ctrl-Phreak
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    I started writing it at 3pm. it was done around 9ish. Then finishing up with the photos and comments on... : Galadriel07
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      I got through the whole thing, pictures too! Awesome write-up! You got almost everything I think. You ... : Ctrl-Phreak
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        OMG you are right! I will add it right now. : Galadriel07
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          Ok I added it. Also, my damn throat hurts so much from Indy :-( : Galadriel07
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            haha, Indy was awesome! Every time your throat hurts just remember the awesome time we had! : Ctrl-Phreak
            • ohh for real, it was worth it to get to drive with CoRDS : Galadriel07
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          "Fourve" : Ctrl-Phreak
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            ITS A NEW NUMBER!! : Galadriel07
            • I wish I could say it like him, i would use it all the time to confuse people. : Ctrl-Phreak
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  I miss you guys :( : freak!
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    We miss you too! do you have a number I can text you at? I would be chatty with you all day then!! : Galadriel07
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      PHONE SEX! : Anastomosis
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        uhh, I don't think so. He is like a brother to me. : Galadriel07
        • PHONE SEX! : Lone Swordsman
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  your pink on black hurts my eyes. i think it's cause the text is not spaced out far enough. can you 1.5 s... : dahanese
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    I can if you tell me how... I dont really know how to work wordpress. I can make it white if its hard to... : Galadriel07
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      i don't know about wordpress beyond looking at other themes (mike's a saint and built me a blog. well, re... : dahanese
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        I don't think it's the pink text, it's the background around the black that kills it for me. It makes it ... : sigpro
        • well I just chose a random dark background. I can change the theme really easily if that will make it ea... : Galadriel07
      • I changed it to the same one my foodblog is I think. I haven't had a problem with that one and I made th... : Galadriel07
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  I can't believe you guys didn't go on the best rides, space mountain, splash mountain, thunder mountain a... : mrasparagus
  • It was still pretty much the most entertaining Disneyland trip I've had... and I have lived in SoCal all ... : Ctrl-Phreak
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    They don't want to do rollercoasters. I am not going to make them do things they don't want to do. CoRDS : Galadriel07
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      TastyWheat won't go on them either. They are gonna be bored here and there at Six Flags :/ : dognose
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        just give them a burger. They will be fine lol. Or a giant drink. They seem to be mesmerized by the gi... : Galadriel07
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          I heard about that too. TW ordered a short coffee at Frys (I have never seen anyone do that) and said i... : dognose
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            I made them brownies with rolos in them with American chocolate! TW had one just before we left for Disn... : Galadriel07
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              I heard about those too! Twice! :) : dognose
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                haha. OMG i totally should have made them Vegan :( : Galadriel07
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                  Nah yer all good. I was happy just hearing him excitedly tell about them. The Rolos too.That was repeat... : dognose
                  • I have been sitting here a little bit sad all night because everything is done. It was a great day. Nex... : Galadriel07
                  • dognose this is the reason i keep coming back to this site. did you get your Bolt? I want pics of you : Galadriel07
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  im surprised he didnt take your phone on purpose to iltv you on it. : papaskot
  • He was seriously more than half asleep when we got to the hotel. He probably didn't have the brainpower ... : Galadriel07
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  Those guys are like machines on 2 hours sleep. And they discussed your Escalade, a few times in fact. T... : dognose
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    i know right. I was fucking SHOCKED and i come from a father that is an alcoholic and my inlaws drink li... : Galadriel07
    • Hahaha did he ever! : TastyWheat
• more pics of tinfoilhatter : _jon
• thanks gala sounded like a blast! : trOmblyj
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  Nice write up! I wish I could have gone into the park with you guys. It is interesting to find out what y... : tinfoilhatter
  • I am not sure. I think it was TastyWheat's new camera but I am sure they will upload their pics when th... : Galadriel07
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  How is CoRDS surviving with the food in the states? When he came to Melbourne he'd never had a souvlaki b... : abrasion
  • burgers. Lots of Burgers. : Galadriel07
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    He seems pretty picky. He's never had Indian or Ethiopian either. : dognose
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      He had Chinese today and was OK with that. : dognose
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        Awesome because the 3 days he was in LA he had Carl's Jr., Korean BBQ, Carl's Jr, Carl's Jr, and ESPNzone... : Galadriel07
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          Ugh, what a waste :( : Serpico74
          • I know. It sucks. I wanted to take them to In n Out but once you are at Disneyland, its best to stay the... : Galadriel07
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      He's amazing, I couldn't tell if he was pulling a practical joke on me, I THINK he told me he had his fir... : abrasion
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        If that was a year ago, he wasn't joking. He told me about that at dinner. : dognose
        • Yep, he told me about that as well! :D : Galadriel07
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          Yes about a year, do you have many Greek places there? I mean Souvlaki (and one of the best places in Me... : abrasion
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            Yeah he hates vegetables and told me that if he ever went vegetarian, I would have to eat meat just to ba... : dognose
            • I don't think you can here no, we still have fucking 6-shooters too, although I think they are finally gi... : abrasion
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            Souvlaki is incredible. When I was working at this hostel in Greece I lied and said I was vegetarian so t... : underground banana plantation
            • If you don't like how a Greek is handling your meat, you tell him about it. : ArB
• I wish I had friends :( My brother is living in Brisbane, he will love to hear about this! : VictoriouSecret
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  That looks like a ton of fun, I wish people liked me :( : drbriefs
  • I like you!!! : dognose
  • I like the cut of your brief. : hirez
• I am heading to bed now. I think I will repost this one time during Morning Discussion tomorrow so every... : Galadriel07
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  2/27/10. That's all I'm gonna say. : laurgasms
  • I'm totally excited for the Lakers vs. Philly game too. : edgewise
• Tagged for later. : prime8
• Wish I could have gone. Disney is only 10mins away :( : breadsticks
• great writeup and pics. I'm so jealous that you got an NSW Police patch. : edgewise

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  Also what do YOU hope is in it? : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
  • I hope they bring back the grappling hook thing. The climbing gloves were ok, but not as good. : Mr. Goodwrench
• no one is excited :( i must be the biggest loser ever. i'm going to cry in a corner. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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  I've never played a Thief game. :( I wanted to play Deadly Shadows but I can't get it to run on Windo... : mwasher
  • Play Thief II for a more accurate feel of the series. : kramweil
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    Neither have I. Here the series is pretty intense. : Anastomosis
    • Eye Nose : kramweil
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  What the hell is wrong with your name? : Kentor
  • AIDS. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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    Wait... you aren't pancake or pancake humper at all are you? : Kentor
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      the name is so random, i just lol every time i see his posts. Is there a specific meaning to it? : tfsbrian
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        he's a disciple of underground banana plantation} : pyide
        • lies. : underground banana plantation
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        Perhaps it's the new & improved, less-douchey lookitzpancakes? Now with less emo/metro faux-rapper eye ma... : Bold
        • Whoops, scratch that: he only wore only lipstick, no eye makeup: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=... : Bold
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      nope. I am pretty new to shack thanks to HoN. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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        granted my other account is 3 years old.... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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          You should use the other account then. : Ajax
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            so much wisdom here. this trend is not neat or savvy or clever or anything. : Downforce
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              just changing all my usernames across the internets, not being clever. just need to get rid of username i... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
              • I'm not sure this one's much better ; ) : Anastomosis
          • lol : abrasion
• Seeing how long Deus Ex 3 is taking to even get us in-game pics, Thief 4 will be a while. : byorn
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  Is this just a pipe dream or an actual product? I hope they fix what was wrong with thief 3. : tedv
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    it's been announced, so it's real. there's pretty much no info on it at all except for that terrible THI... : mikecyb
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      which they swore :( : mikecyb
      • It was pretty bad. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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  same dude better be doing garrett's voice : eeeealmo
  • it would be dumb not to. almost his entire resume is video game voices, so he's not in huge demand it se... : mikecyb
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  I really hope that thief 4 is similar to assassin's creed in movement etc oh god. oh no, jesus. no. : EvilDolemite
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    Sigh, I meant like free range up buildings, still first person etc. I just liked the wall climbing. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
    • I think bursts of mirrors edge style motion could be cool, as long as it ties into the stealth rather tha... : 60days
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f93zdgx0PS0 Does the female in the intro sound familiar, insect? I g... : Rampancy
• If Thief 4 is more like Thief 1/2 and less like Thief 3, it'll be well worth playing. Not that the game w... : Link.
• I hope it's good. I love Thief. : h0cake

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  They have all broken for various problems. Biggest culprit being (3 phones) the infamous 'SIM Card insert : pancake humper
  • hahahahaha no fucking way. that's awesome. : jingletard
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    That is pretty awesome. Glad I didn't buy your old phone! : MagicWishMonkey
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      I couldn't consciously sell this current phone to anyone. As much as I wanted to get rid of it and get ou... : pancake humper
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        Thanks for not being a dick. I bought one from glio1337 and it works great. Dealing with phone problems i... : MagicWishMonkey
        • I have to hand it to Apple though. Granted even though each one was a refurb unit, they replace them with... : pancake humper
        • You mean you didn't notice the giant broken nothing? Thank god! glad you're enjoying it : glio1337
  • Awesome : prime8
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    Fag, should have asked for two and sent one to me : gmd
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      I'll send you this PS3 for $280 instead????????? : pancake humper
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        NO DEAL : gmd
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          I forgot that she even called me back after we talked to verify what color I wanted!!!! : pancake humper
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            Hello kitty pink : gmd
            • I got white (again) : pancake humper
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    wait they made you a customer for life by continually failing to provide you with a functioning model unt... : Majuju
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      email the head of any other company and see what that gets you (um... if that company happens to be Valve... : Demius
      • I emailed gabe before. He was nice. : dmason
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        I bet sjobs@apple.com just goes to their regular tech support and this is normal service for someone who ... : stump
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          This was the executive team Austin : pancake humper
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            I've worked at call centers where they had a rotation of people who took calls as an "executive team" for... : Derringer
            • I can assure you he was talking to the real deal, not some person on rotation. : SolrFlare
            • Typically there is an executive escalation team in most companies that do any sort of real support. And y... : h0cake
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        This tactic (e-mailing corporate officers) works for a lot of companies, not just Apple. It's not all th... : deject
        • ^^ works with Comcast. Shit gets done when a corporate customer relations person is calling the local ma... : rlc:tk
    • I purchased my first ipod nano 2g on ebay (new) but the fucking seller had old stock, so my nano was 53 w... : abrasion
    • Yes. I wasn't really mad, more frustrated about the history of it. It's hard to quantify how this experi... : pancake humper
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    'how fast it was handled' , didn't it take you 4 phones to get this 'great service' ? : dignan
    • Took probably 4 hours total to get this resolved. The other incidents were replacment phones and they wer... : pancake humper
  • Wow thats incredible. Glad you got it resolved. : Robotic Puppy Eater
  • Cool story. I had one problem with my 3g, the sim card wouldn't stay locked in place. I walked in, they... : spazzium
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    i love good customer service stories. :-) : dahanese
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      I love this comment for so many different reasons. : spazzium
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        why? : dahanese
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          Oh, the help you gave me with the book. The fact that I got stomped on by a really ignorant customer tod... : spazzium
          • Oh and the fact that tomorrow is going to suck. : spazzium
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            oh, no worries. i forgot i helped you with that book! i head up customer service and am continually tryin... : dahanese
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              Yeah, it's tough. Especially when you run into legit customer issues but due to quirks in the system or ... : SolrFlare
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                yeah. we have guidelines for the team, but they are told that if they ever come up against something that... : dahanese
                • Yeah, it's the same for me. It is really great working for a company that knows how to do its best to do... : SolrFlare
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                Oh and never ever say you simply "can't" do something and leave it. Instead you explain the why's behind... : SolrFlare
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                  i had a guy come to me whose save file of an epic Civ game was corrupted. it took a while to figure that ... : dahanese
                  • Oh man. Ones like that are always the worst. My favorite saying to all my customers is "while I'm concern... : SolrFlare
                • as someone who did escalation support with people who have entitlement issues, I don't entirely agree. I ... : h0cake
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    Prooove it! : noobja
    • Ok! : pancake humper
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    i think you have stockholm syndrome. : ibrokn
    • LMAO : Downforce
    • is that the one with extra chromosomes? : drucifer
    • hahaha : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • probably :( : pancake humper
  • sweet dude! seriously awesome customer service there! hope the GS works better for you! : hirez
  • Man I knew they would get that shit taken care of. I had issues with DirecTV and a subsidiary at my last ... : vov1n
  • Glad it worked out for the best. : electroly
  • Sweet, glad it worked out! : tashtego
  • haha great story. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Their customer service is always epic. When I bought my macbook I forgot to update my billing informatio... : Lionhart32935
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  An event like that (concerning best buy fucking me over with a compaq and apple doing the 'dont worry we'... : squigiliwams
  • That is my apple though. : pancake humper
• People can say what they will, but I love Apple products and will continue to do so. I've had two replac... : Tripps

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• No way. i'll just get new clothes by getting awards in games. i'm not paying for avatar clothing. : stump
• I really like the Halo warthog rc car, but it's just too expensive. IMO all of that stuff should remain f... : bozer
• Avatar what-now? Haven't looked at it since NXE launched. Still don't see the point. : BlackCat9
• I find avatars completely pointless, so there's no way in hell I'm spending money on one : kill9
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  There are probably a few who needs the e-penis lightsaber. : Vegtro
  • Oh man! Clone armor even! And a Jedi outfit! They didn't have those when i first got the update. : Ziz
• lol no : opengl128
• I'd buy the Clonetrooper outfit if it wasn't half the cost of Mass Effect. Fuck that. And even then, the ... : theangrywaffles
• I was kinda tempted, but I did not. Netflix is great though, I've gone from 2 bars to HD full. Did the... : pigvomit
• I picked out something, then realized it was 80 points. WTF?! Are you serious? : dumbacid
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  I've never understood what kind of people buy things like this. You're basically throwing money away. I'v... : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
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    It's a way of making something yours, like hanging up art in your house - some people want to express the... : abrasion
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      PS3 does have a really nice system for free stuff. I really wish the 360 had an easy implementation for s... : dahanese
      • Sony try and milk us for payable themes, DLC and stuff too :/ Look at home - the only thing I'm mildly b... : abrasion
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    You have the longest username I've ever seen on this site. : cookblaze
    • Wrong : I have the longest username on this site. : abrasion
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  I bought a lightsaber. I'm weak : Serpico74
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    *points and laughs* I'd buy it if it were cheaper... : pigvomit
    • Last month I bought $100 of MS points from the Chinese for $70. This is what I'm doing with my FU money : Serpico74
  • I almost did. lol : ThomW
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  Do I want the lightsaber? Yes. Will I pay $5 for it? Fuck no. : kallanta
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    ...okay, maybe $2. Serpico, can you change its color or does it only come in blue? : kallanta
    • It only comes in blue and its awesome. One of my friends also bought the whole Jedi outfit. I'm very t... : Serpico74
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  I want to buy an X-Box so I can buy some avatar clothing :| Some of the steampunk set is so great, and... : Alice O'Connor
  • I saw Dahanese sporting one of the Big Daddy helmets. : DrZettl
• It's really expensive - especially the game stuff : chazums
• I've barely played my xbox lately : filthysock
• I'd buy a big daddy costume, but they only have helmets. : Horseshorses
• no i've never bought a profile pic or a theme and i won't buy clothes. i use The Maw's NXE theme but you... : dantastic
• Heck no, never will. : Lone Swordsman
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  No but I'd love to see the financials on DLC, are they actually making any money on that kinda crap. : RyDogg1
  • Of course they will. Just like home does for some reason. : razlebol
• I bought a eye patch, it was 40 points, i've had 50 points left over from any points i buy. : Ziz
• I wonder how avatar rewards will work? : Ziz
• wtf? why would you waste your money like that? that's even worst than a fucking horse armor. when... : X-GOUKI
• hahaha : razorblade79
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  the first person on my friends list that i see with full COG/halo armor are getting de-friended! : maulla
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    buying now... : Degenerate
    • I bought it twice! : ThomW
  • you guys could just send me $10 and I will remove you from my list : maulla
• They're just using these purchases to flag accounts for targeted The Sims ads. : DinK
• I bought the Monkey Island spyglass during the preview program, but it was for the good of science, I swe... : rudds
• unless they start selling weapons you can kill other avatars with, no deal. : thebigbeefsandwich

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  No. : SiW.
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    DLC is region specific to where the game came from though. ie, if you buy USA Rock Band you can only dow... : SigENeaT
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      ^^^ this fucked me up :( I had to buy Burnout DLC through PSN Hong Kong. : hankyJR
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        I heard about that occuring to people, why do they have to do this? Microsoft have a single sign on for l... : abrasion
        • Oh and Nintendo Frog : abrasion
        • it's a pain. oh well... I bought a HK PSN voucher on ebay for cost price, they emailed me the code, a... : hankyJR
        • Its a PITA but imo Sony's system is the best out of the three. So often is the DLC that i want availab... : SigENeaT
        • Multiple accounts don't really matter since all the stuff downloads and shows up for all accounts. Whe... : Vincent Grayson
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  Nope, sadly Blu Ray is though, don't buy the US copy of Robocop >:( : abrasion
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    Don't buy robocop at all. : button in an apple cinnamon pancake
    • Well now you've pretty much confirmed everything about you is bad. : abrasion
    • wtf? Get off the shack. : SiW.
    • Go away : dognose
    • you don't belong here : Halen
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      generic disapproval : felicia
      • lol : Ormsbee
    • you'd be better off posting on youtube : skryte
    • go away : moshman
    • You're dumb. : CyCo_PL
    • Who the fuck are you and what are you doing in my shack? GTFO, now. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Silly username go away ! : imperator
    • shut the fuck up : [7]kami
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      Guys, I got this : pancake humper
      • haha : razlebol
      • Fucker I just spent the last five minutes laughing like a fool on the train in to work : Home Nugget
      • this is a good post : trOmblyj
      • Well played, my friend. Well played. : Totenjaeger
    • We need a shackvoltronapocalypse vote on this STAT! : jasoncrowley
    • you shut your damn filthy mouth : OrkO
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      Just cause your dad was the ED-209 doesn't mean it's right to hate on Robocop. : ieGod
      • If anything he should be hatin' on stairs. : Totenjaeger
    • All aboard the hate train! TOOT TOOT : Teiresias
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    Don't use a region-locked BR player, you mean! :-D (Though after discovering the pigfucking hassle min... : nudel
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      I <3 my PS3 - to be honest I would never purchase a BR player which wasn't included in a console - unles... : abrasion
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        Remember how I said we would talk about you? We talked about you. : dognose
        • and the result? : hankyJR
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          They've only met me once! :( : abrasion
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            Doesn't matter. We've all known you ten years. : dognose
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              Internet abrasion ! = real life scott, I'm a lot more jolly in real life. : abrasion
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                Are you a fatty boom bah? : SigENeaT
                • I wasn't when I met them a year ago :( : abrasion
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                thats what CoRDS said yesterday. : Galadriel07
                • I told y'all! : abrasion
              • I heard that too : dognose
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                dont worry mang, i'll set them straight... only I know you... intimately. : radula
                • Well we both think the same chick is hot, this is a start. nnnnnnGGGGGGggg : abrasion
              • So I hear, but I refuse to believe it! : ColoradoCNC
      • I didn't mean standalone BR players. No idea what they're like these days. For BR playback I've got a HTP... : nudel
      • People buying standalone BR players have too much money to spend? That makes no sense. They're cheaper th... : Bull
    • Do you know where to get info about the BR hidef audio? I plan on building a HTPC soon. : razlebol
• I don't think so. If you have any doubts check www.play-asia.com for the game since they're pretty good a... : Prozium
• I bought the PAL version of LBP and it works great! : hirez
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  on a game's packaging there is a region indicator, though, isn't there? are they really region-free? : skryte
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    Yes, PS3 games are entirely region-free and it's fucking awesome. : Vincent Grayson
    • hot damn, i'm going shoppin : skryte
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  Mini Hijack : What games are worth importing? I'm in the UK so are there any region exclusive games I'm ... : nodebug
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    Demon's Souls, though that is getting a NA release later this year. : Talonus.
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      This game sounds fucking brutal and fantastic at the same time. I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks! h... : nodebug
      • It really is brutal, especially when you're just starting out, but its also very fair. It makes the accom... : Talonus.
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  I read this as religion coded : JohnnyDanger
  • mine only works within the bounds of an athiest church. : skryte
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkeeK0Npi2g : abrasion
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  What do you want to buy that you don't have in Australia? Or is it just because of the price? : razlebol
  • The PlayStation 2 has yet to arrive in Australia, so CoRDS is going to impress the heck out of everyone! : Alice O'Connor
  • I think it is the censorship issue, not that he can't find it. : Totenjaeger