Evening Reading: Oh, Glorious Evening

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• Ozma : mechanicalgrape
• here's a link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n70P6c9gGDo : mnok
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  The Dodos, M83, The Cinematic Orchestra, Jazzanova : Yanks
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    and oh shit Porcupine Tree just released a new album, sweet I wonder if it'll be as good as Fear of a Bla... : Yanks
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      haha fuck yeah they are playing in NYC next thursday and there are still tickets, might have to go : Yanks
      • hehe yea I just bought tickets for the Montreal show this month, they are supposed to be excellent live s... : mnok
• Notorious MSG : noodleboy723
• Cut Copy : Navy Spitfire
• The Libertines : _jon
• Metronomy Passion Pit : focusdaily
• I was also introduced to Dr. Dog recently and they seem to be pretty awesome : Yanks
• riverside : mindshot
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  Protest the Hero : Dravenport
  • I came across them recently and holy fuck my mind was blown. They are so amazing. : thecray
  • \m/. Can't wait for the DVD. : moe6
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  Gojira. Epically awesome. : broly1718
  • Of course on the other end of the spectrum is Alison Krauss. Definitely not unkown (ton of grammy's) but... : broly1718
  • Gojira is so good. Continue to amaze me with Mars to Sirius : graceofdragons
• Kinky, anythingng by David Axelrod. thanks lbp and gta4 : abrasion
• the postmarks : anthonybean
• http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20915878#itemanchor_20915878 >:[ : cfalcon
• wilderness : arizona bay
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  Dead Meadow : kramweil
  • Huh, was just mentioned in the episode of The Wire I just watched. : Greymatter42
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  Strata : theangrywaffles
  • I liked the self-titled album way way way more than their followup. I got to see them when they opened fo... : vov1n
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  Bitter:Sweet is a good jazz/electronica band that I ran across if you're into that sort of thing. : DianeOfTheMoon
  • thanks a lot : zverozyab
  • They're alright. I need a new album to listen to though. : c0bra
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  Strapping Young Lad Most specifically the 'Alien' album. Why? I'll FUCKING TELL YOU WHY: Feeling : liqker
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    Devin Townsend :) I only know about him because he's filled in for The Wildhearts a few times when their ... : Durajim
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      I love Devins work so much, and he is such a genuinely nice guy and incredible musician with incredible v... : moshman
      • also check this, the tangent he goes off on in the middle is hilarious http://tothestage.com/MediaDetail... : moshman
• Dappled Cities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AZo1ie2Ks The Delgados (old but awesome) http://www.yout... : gnomish
• In the same vein as Opeth/Porcupine Tree Katatonia My Dying Bride Also, The Atomic Bitchwax Five... : melkore
• The Samuel Jackson 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvAX0DIodso&feature=related Consider the Source (s... : FlamingGimp
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  Animals as Leaders. Weird progressive stuff, but very good if you like that sort of thing. http://www.y... : CAPPINJACK
  • I just found out about these guys, they've got some cool stuff. : FlamingGimp
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  The Antlers Do you like Arcade Fire/Sunset Rubdown/Etc ? Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsXKa97J6p... : wtf242
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    Hah! I worked on this video. I did the bubbles. Pretty good band too. : jbph24
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      that's pretty cool man. : xxiv
      • is all their stuff like this? it's pretty good so far. : xxiv
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  Broadcast : Sapiens
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLx49mW75Kc&fmt=18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6G2uGAwfs&fmt=18 : Sapiens
    • fucking love that album : mXENO
• SVIIB : ]pm[chem
• Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKg3QyHF70U&feature=fvw : Borzoi
• Krister Linder; found out about him from a bonus track Katatonia did for their last album. http://www.... : exponen7
• Beast, dammit! : AxeMan808
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  Frightened Rabbit http://www.thesixtyone.com/#/FrightenedRabbit/ : Rich McNinch
  • One of the many bands I heard because of Chuck. : MacemanInTW
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    quite good friends with these guys : disembodied potato
    • Sweet, tell them they fucking rule. : Rich McNinch
• Zebulon Pike http://www.myspace.com/zebpike : NexusOne
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  Goblin Cock, Legendary Shack Shakers and The Stooges. (I know the Stooges are famous, but a lot of peopl... : akirabob
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    hey man what's up what're you listening to? oh hey dude, goblin cock. : xxiv
    • It speaks to me all the time. : Goblin au
• Emarosa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_e7Eqb3uc : moe6
• Phoenix. They're the best band in recent memory that nobody's heard of but everybody should hear. : coldfusioncs
• Junkie rush out of florida saw these guys open for someone and they are quite good : supermonkeyballz
• Yeasayer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2A_Juv213s Futant suggested these folks to me, and I re... : Juno
• TV Ghost http://www.myspace.com/televisionghost : buttermilksloth
• Black Happy -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwsojxD1y5I&feature=related : Kniggit
• Amorphous Androgynous : Mr. Goodwrench
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  Fake Shark Real Zombie, and Ester Drank : zakazi
  • piss, Ester Drang : zakazi
  • Fake Shark Real Zombie btw is hilarious semi-horrible music. It's great fun, and ADDish so I do enjoy it.... : zakazi
• Down : mrseldowski
• Porcupine Tree has only one album, and that's Voyage 34. : Lone Swordsman
• Good stuff!! Plenty to explore now : mnok
• The Soft Pack : ass-street
• Cursive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtxIJt2J7tg : botch

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  It sucks at college football players : bipolar
  • Somehow it guessed Nathan Explosion which is what the woman was thinking of. : jingletard
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  it couldn't guess Milton Berle :( : mikecyb
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    The only one it got wrong for me was Richard Dawkins, it thought I was thinking of Stephen Hawking. : jingletard
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      Berle wasn't even in the database. it guessed Dean Martin. it got John Lennon pretty easily though. : mikecyb
      • lol for Warren G. Harding he guessed George Washington : mikecyb
• lololol "Is your character Human"" Not Really. "Is your character Asian?" : mechanicalgrape
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  He got Duke pretty fast. : SockMonkeh
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    Interesting fact: The only difference between Duke Nukem and Gordon Freeman is the PhD. : SockMonkeh
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      Well, they ask if the character has blonde hair, too. : focusdaily
      • Not always! : SockMonkeh
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  He knows Geralt of Rivia - I'm impressed : Lopsang
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    All the ladies know Geralt, but I am impressed that this dude does. : SockMonkeh
    • Akinator LTC? : Dontdrop
• Holy shit! He got the DOOM guy! I thought he was confused but no, DOOM guy nailed! : SockMonkeh
• the question for tyler durden was hilarious: "Is your character a member of a club?" : Supine
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  AHHHHHH He got Eddard Stark and the last questions he asked were awesomely appropriate. : SockMonkeh
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    some of the final questions are really amusing, as you can tell he's homing in on the right answer. : Supine
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      Yeah. For Eddard he asked, after establishing that he fights with swords, Does your character have any br : SockMonkeh
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        I tried to do Gregor Clegane and he guess Sandor instead! WHAT AN IDIOT! : SockMonkeh
        • Hahahah : zebosausamite
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        I guess I confused it because I couldn't remember the color of his hair so I said 'I don't know' when it ... : ArcKnight
        • He doesn't always ask the same questions even if you answer them the same. It's weird. Anyway, Eddard has... : SockMonkeh
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      Yup, the two questions before he guessed Gordon Freeman were "Is he a scientist?" "Does he wear glasses?" : jingletard
      • and if you answered no to both of those questions, you get Duke Nukem : Goblin au
  • Ha, I was blown away when he got Arya : johnwissinger
• 2 for 2 so far - The Predator and Sasha Grey, not bad. : hellspit
• Didn't guess Warren Buffet : Utopia
• WTF he got my semi-internet-famous singer-songwriter friend : RikiTiki2
• Couldn't guess Capt. Ahab : tashtego
• It got Rumplestiltskin, so I'm impressed : bipolar
• Damn, he got Hyolee and Sora Aoi. This guy knows his stuff! : Nighteyes
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  Oh my god it got both Eddard 'Ned' Stark AND Takeshi Kovacs! : ArcKnight
  • Got Maya Ibuki as well. : ArcKnight
  • I thought of Theon Greyjoy and it guess Sandor Clegane. Not bad! : skinlab133
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  Oh man, he guessed Duke Nukem : Maddog_Delphi97
  • I'm expecting after being posted on the Shack enough, the first question will stop being "Is your charact... : SockMonkeh
• heh, got Spike Spiegal :o : deviantpaul
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  Couldn't guess Gordon Ramsay. : silent77
  • it did for me. pretty quickly even. english > cooking > aggressive, BAM : indosauros
• This is bullshit how it gets it so quickly. It somehow got from "Is your character from a video game?" an... : -JLN-
• Got Steve Young. : Pettytheft
• It couldn't guess Joe Liberman. : Maddog_Delphi97
• It got the Koolaid man/thing after like 17 questions. : prime8
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  wtf "is your character dark skinned" : Downforce
  • I know it...I just don't wanna say it..... N _ G G E R : Phreakin
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  Got Nathan Fillion AND Doctor Horrible. This thing is good. : noodleboy723
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    WHAT THE FUCK... It got GLaDOS. How the hell.. : noodleboy723
    • And Viewtiful Joe! I didn't think he was even close. Then all of a sudden he asks about a red suit. Damn ... : noodleboy723
    • http://shackpics.com/files/glados_38kaynk3r327e7lzn027.jpg : SockMonkeh
• It got Kenny Powers. : nakedsavage
• I tried to get it to guess Wes Welker and it came up with Kurt Warner. : Horn
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  I was thinking of Sneezy and he guessed Grumpy. He couldn't guess Gumby. I win the internets. : Omaha
  • Sometimes it comes close. The gf was thinking of one of the Squidbilles, and it guessed Plankton from Sp... : jingletard
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  pretty good didn't get Fox Mulder or Trent Reznor, but it did pick up Conan and Leela from futurama : Yabrodan
  • It got Fox Mulder for me on the first try... : PenicillinX57
• silver surfer correct! : mwasher
• LOL Do it for steve jobs ... the last few questions are priceless. : InfoBiter
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  couldn't guess hiro protagonist or neil gaiman, but he nailed donnie darko. eh. now, back to it ... wh... : strider_
  • fuck, he guess the monopoly guy, i'm outta here : strider_
• Only one I've had problems with was Shinobi, but he got it after about 3 more questions when I clicked "m... : -JLN-
• Ha! He did not know Terry Crowley from The Shield! : PenicillinX57
• It didn't work the first time, but the second time it got Buckethead : Rag and Bone Man
• Was thinking of Preston Manning and it guessed Stephen Harper. So it was right. : Whistler77
• it got zheng he... not bad : Foxhawk
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  Couldn't get Bennett after 2 tries. :( : SockMonkeh
  • Never even asked me if my character wears a chainmail vest! : SockMonkeh
• That bastard got the "King of All Cosmos" : uglysad
• Which Shack made this? http://www.shackpics.com/files/phils_x8ckkjh0a7a6ibwfhmrz.jpg I was thinki... : skitzo
• I went for Betsy Ross and it pulled up Golda Meir lol : judge
• Heh... he guessed "Jack Bauer" for my choice of "Iké Dubaku". Not right, but close! : ChibiJosh
• Sweet, it got Imoen and Irenicus didn't get the Child of Bhaal but that's kind of hard considering it cou... : Pettytheft
• i won 1 out 5. i was surprised when it gave me the 'FYI I check for spys' pyro picture on the last one : harold.johnson
• OMFG...it got WIlson the Volleyball from Castaway! And Rex the Dinosaur from Toy Story, Creed from the O... : PenicillinX57
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  it god Roland Deschain of Gilead. Unpossible. : AMikaboshi
  • it didn't get Anne Burden from Z for Zachariah. lol : AMikaboshi
• Couldn't get Blossom Dearie or Betty Rubble. Useless thing. : willy359
• I think thinking of yourself with it. : bakanoodle
• I chose "Bob Dole" and he came up with "Al Gore." Pffft... what a crock! (Though he got the next two ... : Zips
• WTF. If I goto the site on an iPhone it requires that I buy the app for 1.99 instead of just letting me s... : icon_of_syn
• it got sasha grey :O and failed on Sora Aoi wtf : mo13
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  It guessed Hera : ColoradoCNC
  • And Cthulhu...holy shit : ColoradoCNC
• It knew Jack Bauer! But it missed The Nameless One. : sumo-hacker
• It guessed ED-209 and even had a picture. :( : pupismyname
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  It got HAROLD the GHOUL from FALLOUT! :O : SockMonkeh
  • Oh wow, that's snazzy but he's not a ghoul you racists he's a mutant >:( : SpaecKow
• After it got Dr Doom, Jim Jones and Omar Little, it failed on Polkaroo. : JarEme
• It got the Equilibrium Guy but not Tate Forcier (Guessed Tim fucking Tebow)... what a fucking crock : buzzbat
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  couldn't get patrick swayze : dopeman
  • Probably hasn't heard. You may have thrown him off. : SockMonkeh
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  Tyler Durden correct. : fleabug
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    Also got Deckard Cain. I was suprised. : fleabug
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      Holy fuck, it got Mephisto from Diablo 2. : slax0r
      • It missed Norman Brinker, but got Henry Ford. : fleabug
    • Yeah I was surprised it got this, too. : Wikus Van De Merwe
• fucking christ it correctly picked Oy the billy bumbler son of a bitch : Draugluin
• Oh man it got Thomas Covenant and I even answered "I dont know" to a few of them, this shit is wacky : SatansFist
• Damn it got Meatwad from ATHF. : ant_hillbilly
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  Missed out on Golan Trevize from Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth. : malevolence
  • I don't think this thing reads... didn't know YT from Snow Crash either. : malevolence
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  it got Vampire Bill. I'm impressed. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • suck it, it guessed Baruch Spinoza for David Hume! What an idiot! : DonkeyPopsicle
• It got Sebastian LaCroix from VtM:Bloodlines. It even had a picture. :P Okay, fine. It wins. : Teiresias
• It got kerrigan : Thomas Hace
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  Holy shit he guessed Kilgore Trout !! : Wikus Van De Merwe
  • It guessed Wikus van der Merwe too! : Goblin au
• it correctly guessed morte from planescape torment : Draugluin
• It failed at Miner Willy. : SiW.
• Failed on Milton Berle : guido anchovy
• It guessed Duke Nukem as soon as I entered my username :/ : dognose
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  Nice, he guessed himself. : Gary the Llama
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    However he did not guess Bubsy from that old SNES/Sega game. Man I loved that game. : Gary the Llama
    • So awesome! It got Special Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks! <3 : Gary the Llama
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  It got Sonic the Hedgehog. Now for something more difficult : Goblin au
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    It also got Australian PM Kevin Rudd lol : Goblin au
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      Kylie Minogue Does your character wear sexy miniskirts? : Goblin au
      • Maynard James Keenan was too easy for it. It even got "Harold Bishop" who is a character from a lame Aust... : Goblin au
• Haha, I tried to get it to guess The Hero of Kvatch and it guessed the Nerevarine. :D : SockMonkeh
• This thing is fucking amazing. I couldn't get it on Michael Western, Commander Shepard, The Blues Brother... : Shadsy
• It got Le Chuck. : mechanicalgrape
• it got lady gaga (is your character female? Probably/Partially). Didn't get Michael Moschen (contact jugg... : mindmann
• It got Kyle Katarn from the Jedi Knight series, who fights with swords :| : FlatlineDixay
• I win. Korax from Hexen. :) : delataur
• I can't believe that it got Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt (Warhammer 40.000, Gaunt's Ghosts Novels) That... : CRasterImage
• failed on Mr Rogers :( I wiki'd all the correct answers, too : nevlos
• It got Rachel Maddow : CRasterImage
• I can't get it to guess Spacemoose : Rag and Bone Man
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  He didn't get Lazarus Long but then I don't think this program understands the Multiverse. : trove
  • Ooh, good character. One of my favourites. : Goblin au
• I introduced him to Ronnie Strickland from the X-Files. : Gary the Llama
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  It got Commander Keen, but didn't get Kilrathi. : DHAvatar
  • Did it guess Kzin instead, if so, same thing. : trove
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    The Kilrathi were a race of furrys. Not a person. : CRasterImage
    • Maybe I should've narrowed that down. :/ : DHAvatar
• Didn't get Bayou Billy : fadetofunk
• I was hoping it would ask me if my character has shoes when I did John McClane, but I guess he didn't nee... : SockMonkeh
• It got Willow Rosenburg from Buffy. : CRasterImage
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  It got Wallace from Wallace & Gromit! : devi| dog
  • Holy shit, it also got the main character from Bioshock.... I'm impressed now. : devi| dog
• My favorite ones are the ones where either you think he jumped the gun because he starts guessing "too so... : SockMonkeh
• It just got Keyboard Cat. WHAT : Shadsy
• wow, it's good. : AroundTheFur1380
• It got Captain Murphy at 20 questions. I didn't think it would. : braaains
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  0 for 6, all easy characters too. This thing sucks. : Dimmona
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    What characters? : ArcKnight
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      Donald duck (it guessed foghorn leghorn), wife tried one of the douches from twilight, tried Goliath from... : Dimmona
      • You must have fucked up somewhere because it got Donald Duck in less than 20 questions for me. : ArcKnight
  • Either they werent easy or it's not Akinator that sucks :p : braaains
• wow, yuri gagarin after like 10 questions! : davislovestacobell
• wow.. it failed on one (australian sport specific) then it got Howard Stern peice of piss...impressive : VuduChild
• Didn't get Alan Turing. : Dusty_Slim
• It got echo from dollhouse... : theargent
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  it got duke nukem and nacy botwin. first one i'd expect, nd one not so much. : papaskot
  • then it got tyler durden and scooby doo, finally stumped him with larry david, so i can close the tab, ya... : papaskot
• This thing is fricken awesome...Im trying to think of obscure-ish stuff and it's getting it right.. 4 for... : devnullgt
• WTF got Dr. ALAN GRANT!! : Iwannaacura
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  I was thinking this guy (Gune?) from Titan AE http://content9.flixster.com/question/39/09/82/3909827_s... : hawke
  • Wow, did you guys see what happens when he gets one wrong. The follow-up questions he asks expose some... : hawke
• Nice, it got Barney Stinson (NPH). : acidnynex
• What's really interesting is that even though it doesn't get some of the more obscure ones, they're still... : Shadsy
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  Ha it guessed from E-ragon joker instead of Ganoes Paran :( I think it was fooled by the questions whe : c0bra
  • I had the same problem! Except the question about ghosts never showed up. : ArcKnight
• He didn't get Bumblebee Man! : elosorojo
• it got Hiro Protagonist : meesterbill
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  Come on! It didn't even guess Jay Leno : Reeves
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    Or trent reznor (it guessed Chriss Angel instead lolz).. : Reeves
    • But it did get Gordon Freeman! : Reeves
• It got Spike from Cowboy Bebop right. Amazing. : Safe Mode
• He got Omar Little :S : boring gegtik
• it did not get The Great Gazoo from The Fintstones! : Sakashi
• Got Arthur Dent : hatchet165
• hahah, I did Tom Collichio from Top Chef and it guessed Duff Goldman from Ace of Cakes. Holy shit it was ... : stuka
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  Guessed the God Emperor from Warhammer 40k : loboVT
  • Did not get Leibowitz from "A Canticle for Leibowitz" : loboVT
• Got Don Draper. How the fuck does it keep current? : stuka
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  Got Gaius Baltar after about 6 questions. I love these sites! : invisible_kid
  • And Charlie Kelly, holy crap this is awesome and fun!!!! : invisible_kid
• Ha, beat it, Skipper from Gilligan's Island. : steauengeglase
• Ok, that was a bit impressive, it correctly guessed the chick I was thinking about, Mary Louise Parker. : lightly inclined
• i had to get it to do 2 sets of questions to get emily haines from metric. really threw it off when it ... : dantastic
• I stumped it with River Tam. : DrillBit
• He did not get Roald Dahl : sludge vohaul
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  Holy shit. It got Rhapsody from Symphony of Ages.... : graceofdragons
  • And Hank Moody, kinda creepy : graceofdragons
• It got Murs, Jenny Lewis, Atreyu (from The Neverending Story), Roland Deschain, and Deathwing. Not ba... : Ctrl-Phreak
• Not bad, thought of Odin and guessed Loki : spectr3
• Dude it got Charlie Chaplin : DrillBit
• got Jenna Jameson right : spectr3
• Every time it gets one wrong, it asks the user to type in their answer and adds it to the DB. So it gets ... : spectr3
• It's fucking spooky! Roland Dechain of Gilead Rand al'Thor and Honor Harrington All correct. : Solstice
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  No fucking way. http://www.shackpics.com/files/Picture1_mc05u5toho7kfmxyrz7k.png : magistersmax
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    For those of you too lazy to click: It got the Pedobear. : magistersmax
    • Don't you get to tell it your answer (and optionally upload a picture) if it guesses wrong? If so, it's n... : SilverSnake
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  Holy fuck, it got Morte : bipolar
  • It got Orville Redenbacher :< : bipolar
• holy crap 5 for 5, it got Tommy Gavin (Rescue Me), that's impressive! : tunis5000
• Didn't get Janine Melnitz....but the answer was in there. : Sgt_Boomstick
• it couldn't get Big Daddy :-( : dahanese
• it got Lara Croft easily : gyokuro
• It got James T. Kirk, but it had to ask a shitload of questions : skunk_ape
• HAL 9000 in 13 goes. : Goblin au
• It is no match for Inspector Clouseau! : FlamingGimp
• 0/2, although close. Guessed Sitting Bull for Tecumseh. Guessed Davy Crocket for Simon Kenton. : jake
• jesus christ i REALLY think it missed this one: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/CJM9UALEy_Wom_7amlb9... : EvilDolemite
• Got Dog from HL : CrankMonkey
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  Holy shit it got Barney from Half Life. Was shootin in the dark thinking there was no way : Reeves
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    Also, the genie! http://reeves.shackspace.com/Untitled.png : Reeves
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      Wow it got Evan Longoria : Reeves
      • And it asked "is your character a bomba latina" LOL! : Reeves
      • O_o : d fluke
• Interesting. It got Nathan Hale right, but when I did Capelli (one of the NPC's from R2), it also guessed... : lowpoly
• It got Scruffy the Janitor from Futurama and I swear the fucking questions had nothing to do with anythin... : dirtboxer
• it got richard feynman and dj shadow, holy shit. : warpdude
• wow. it got Tera Patrick : Ariakus
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  motherfucker got cap'n crunch, but not terry fox. : gokart.
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    holy shit it got the goatse guy in like 8 ambiguous answers... this thing is a terrible product of the in... : gokart.
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      also: lol at it's gfx http://en.akinator.com/photo/partenaire/w/559449__1511061821.jpg : gokart.
      • ahahaha that's too funny : Reeves
• It got Terry Tate the office linebacker after one incorrect guess! : SockMonkeh
• It got Orgazmo in less than 15 questions... : Crabs Jarrard
• Surprised. I thought I had it fooled with such a minor character and it got it. Aaron (Claire's baby) fro... : K1Bond007
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  It got Manny Calavera : indosauros
  • And Bill from L4D : indosauros
• AHAHAH I BEAT A DATABASE WHOOOOoooooo :( (Ian Cormac) : d fluke
• it got Snake Eyes in 23 : dignan
• I seem to be answering questions incorrectly because I got a like half a dozen characters that he didn't ... : DeBurgo
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  It got Tom Waits, failed on Steven Wilson. : valael
  • God damn it, it even got Arjen Lucassen from Ayreon : valael
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  it got murray the demonic skull : disembodied potato
  • and glottis! : disembodied potato
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  It seems to have a hard time with book characters. It had an especially difficult time with takeshi kova... : DarkWolf5
  • I also got "captain Obvious" when trying to get some book character. : DarkWolf5
• Good god, it guessed every character from TF2 : Reeves
• Didn't get Brian from Life of Brian (but it did guess Jesus Christ!) : nomaad
• Fuck it even guessed Arthas from WC3! : abrasion
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  it's got a blind spot.. it got Dennis Bergkamp and Stephen Fry, but not Patrick Swayze. : Arsenal
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    does it work if you tell it he's gay : moshman
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      also probably thinks he's still alive : moshman
      • It didn't actually ask either of those questions before guessing Kevin Costner.. : Arsenal
• it got 1 out of 6 so far for me. : Old_Fart
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  Didn't get Peter Molyneux. : aaarrrgh
  • Also didn't get André3000, but got Lisa Cuddy. : aaarrrgh
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    WTF it TOTALLY got Peter Molyneux for me. You fail at answering questions : mrseldowski
    • it asks different questions sometimes : Xanthos
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  He guessed Mr.Pink ! : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    He got you and Christopher, I wus impressed : d fluke
    • Wow, he did get Christopher! I miss that prawn. : Wikus Van De Merwe
• he couldnt guess Hal Jordan. He guessed Tintin. : barichnikov
• It hasn't got any of mine correct yet :( : trelain
• It got Ruud van Nistelrooij and Yogi Bear! : Bamii
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  I got him beat with Dr. Claw : abrasion
  • When I was a kid I thought he actually was just an arm on a spring like they show in the intro. : nem00
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  Fail on Thor Heyerdahl and Albrecht der Bär Margrave of Saxony : MamiyaOtaru
  • Hay guy! What's going on this this Kon-Tiki subthread? : ezkilla2
• Wow, it knew Mr. Bogus. : ieatpubes
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  goddamn i'm impressed. Got Lucille Ball and Shodan. : Xanthos
  • ha! got it with Purple Tentacle! sucker... : Xanthos
• it didn't get Quinn from Sealab, but did get Master Shake from ATHF : pandastrong
• Failed on Taran from Prydain Chronicles : kainen1
• It missed Antonius Block from The Seventh Seal. : Lone Swordsman
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  I wonder what the algorithm is for this pretty interesting. : Chod
  • It pops up a form when it loses. People put the character it couldn't guess into the database : Rag and Bone Man
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  i guess this is true? :( http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=akk_m8ihl7u3mhhrn81xy2pv.png : Dave-A
  • I don't know. : Xanthos
• He got Omar from the wire! amazing! : vassili_zaitsev
• Awesome, it got Solid Snake and Lexi Belle. : Big Luke
• It guessed Magnum PI in 11 questions or thereabouts. FUCK. ME. : MeestaNob

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• You should post the challenge and then we come up with crazy ideas to try to solve it. I was watching a v... : shortbuscaptain
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  multisync figured it out use a shrink ray to make the tornado go away. i got stuck on that one too : MagicWishMonkey
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    i was trying to figure out how to make a backhoe dig so i could tunnel under it ;( : xsoulbrothax
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      I think you can only dig in areas that have the brown soil? I am stuck with the stupid bear level a co... : MagicWishMonkey
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        Hint: you can kill stuff. : multisync
        • when it comes to killing stuff i whore the death ray like no other. : xsoulbrothax
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          Yea I burned one with the flamethrower... I wish it was easier to use dynamite/grenades, shit never explo... : MagicWishMonkey
          • I love dropping depth charges onto fish though, lol : MagicWishMonkey
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            try mines : dignan
            • Oh good idea : MagicWishMonkey
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        I summoned a hunter which took care of the bear. : gokwyjibo
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          same here, then jetpack to victory : melkore
          • The jetpack is awesome! : gokwyjibo
      • I put a little campfire next to the ice to melt it, it seemed to scare the bear away and he ran off the s : at0micgarden
  • I ended up using the lasso and swinging across. The lasso is totally hax. : melkore
  • It is also possible to solve this one without summoning anything. Simply use what is available at the st : Mastaba
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  Hijack! Post your Scribblepets or other rooster-hat pics. http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=DSC00... : BlackCat9
  • At first he was like: :( But then he lolled. : DianeOfTheMoon
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    oh my god i want that dog and hat combo : dahanese
    • He's an oldie but a sweetie. : DianeOfTheMoon
  • now I wish I had preordered from gamestop >:( : mikecyb
• This game souns awesome but i don't wanna buy a DS =| : boredguy
• Zombies and Shotguns are pretty useful in this game : watcherxp
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  got a cat off a roof by burning down the house. I like to be efficient. : .sticks.
  • Yea placing a pack of milk on the ground is too hard! :D : Snipergen
• antimatter seemed to do the trick for me. Though I tried this once before and it sucked the little star i : gokwyjibo
• Sometimes I find the game so open ended that I draw a blank when I try to come up with some clever soluti... : m0nkz
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  Still have one more background to unlock on the title screen/sandbox. Last row, middle column. Not sure w... : Haxim
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    Lmao, you can make a higgs boson : Nali4Freedom
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      and the large hadron collider : Prozium
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        oh shit, interact with it and it makes a black hole. : Prozium
        • http://xkcd.com/637/ : lyme
• Cthulhu > Loch Ness Monster : Prozium
• This game has locked up on me three times now, on three different DS'. : BlackCat9
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  The grappling hook solves so many of my problems. : Helter Skelter
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    I can't get it to fire on things I want! : Snipergen
    • I don't use it for moving myself around so much as hauling stuff behind me, so keep that in mind. : Helter Skelter
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  my favorite solution to killing sharks? toasters : pandastrong
  • mine is similar: hairdriers : zakazi
  • generators, or anvils : Snipergen
  • Depth charges : MagicWishMonkey
• http://xkcd.com/637/ : Schnapple

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• so I suppose you expect me to believe that he's living on a tropical island with Elvis and Tupac : mwasher
• Impulse-bought an HDMI cable, then talked to someone at length about it. They then shared their HDMI-rela... : Shadsy
• I went through about 10 different games, playing each for a minute or so. Then, decided it would be far ... : esecasco
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  I'm learning how to load balance two connections with a single Linux server. :( When do I get my compl... : MisterPhoton
  • Question: Is this part of your job? Or are you doing this at home/for fun? : zakazi
• Bought apple electronics and software. : massdev
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  I'm about to buy a shotgun that I have absolutely no need for. : SockMonkeh
  • ^^I've done this before. Weird. : Wikus Van De Merwe
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  i've been obsessing over what magnetic spice rack set i should buy for the last 2 weeks. really i thi... : dahanese
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    we need a spice solution badly : filthysock
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      lol @ "spice solution" : dopefish
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        It's all about the spice! : shavenewok
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          What with all the extending life and expanding consciousness, I think it's a pretty serious issue. I t... : Vincent Grayson
          • But is it a spice solution, or a spice final solution? This is genocide--the systematic destruction of AL : Bold
• Actually considering playing wow again. : Darthbrooks
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  Met Dan Paladin, and got to shake the hand that drew Castle Crashers (among many others). : kallanta
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    he has a cool name : stamps
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      I met a dude called Marshall Steel. this subthread is now about cool names. tell me the coolest name of ... : stamps
      • also a Peter Justice. Almost a really cool name but 'Peter' lets it down : stamps
      • Me ex girlfriend worked for Jack Steele.. The guy was in his 80's, but I always told her with that name ... : ]aratex[
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        I knew a guy named Dick Hammer. Also saw a package addressed to Anita Cockman at work once. : Old_Fart
        • the worst name I ever came across (at work) was Gaye Priest. : stamps
      • I once met a guy named Genghis Khan. : Helter Skelter
      • Don Deathrage : cerealSAM2
      • A guy I knew in college.. Ramses! : Tchest
      • David Trueblood : lolpatrol
      • Pinpin ho (say out loud) : abrasion
      • I know Jack Frost. Best yet, he's actually pretty cool. : geedeck
      • there is a guy at work Trix Supremeo : marmite
      • Dick Steele in college. Destined for great things in porn : johnwissinger
      • I know a girl named My Johnson : Chunks
      • Stacey Fucker : alexthegreat2
      • A small Asian guy named Thor. :D : xsoulbrothax
      • I have a relative named Stoneroad McCraken : Dechter
      • Anita Dick - She was a girl who went through rush and my good friend dated her in college, she was very s... : Scotty22
      • I was actually in a Squadron with a guy named Sgt. Slaughter : Slowtreme
      • a lawyer named Max Justice : thekidd
      • I have a friend whose real name is Fun. : CrustaR
      • Vietnamese guy named Phuc Ho : MagicWishMonkey
      • Worst name i have ever heard or seen . . . Stub Cock No shit saw it on his death certificate. : fuzzydamnit
      • Dave Chappel. Not Dave Chappelle, but Dave Chappel. : Shadsy
  • did you ask him why they didn't bother to support that game? : slickdoody
• Spent a lot of money on PC components :/ : abrasion
• flew to the USA to play games and drink beer with you lot. : CoRDS
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  I spent the whole day at Disneyland filming a promo for a Harry Potter fan day. : tinfoilhatter
  • When I got home I played Diablo 2. : tinfoilhatter
• put my entire videogame collection in an online database for like the fifth time : DeBurgo
• Bought a lego millenium falcon and am almost finished with construction. : ysbreker
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  i set up an open source ticketing system today along with mysql and community php. i guess that's nerd... : [fry]
  • all that before 10am? i thought you were taking the cat in this morn? : dignan
• I bought a power plug adapter so I can use my UK 360 power pack loading station here. While in vacation. : razorblade79
• I watched the TNG episode Night Terrors and it scared me, especially the scene with Dr. Crusher in the ca... : sanchez
• solved the Rubik's cube... in about 20 seconds : dael
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  Bought an X-Files 'I want to Believe Poster' and paid rediculous amounts of money to meet Trent Reznor an... : Mr. Goodwrench
  • fuck, my spelling and grammar are really off today : Mr. Goodwrench
• I'm installing a robot at work : Dante
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  Watching all of DS9. I'm on Season 6 now. : askedrelic
  • I did this a few years back, it's fucking great. Enjoy! : node
  • did that last year, again. rewatching BSG now. and then probably a short trip to Firefly land :( : razorblade79
• I'm getting some supplies so I can solder a second Rock Band Stage Kit to my existing one, for double the... : Bold
• I considered replacing my refridgerator light with an LED unit. Eek. : Kolpath
• visited shacknews.com, of course. : xxiv
• You know the group of star wars people who Triumph the comic insult dog visited for the Conan show? I was... : -efx-
• I stopped trying to get out of my shitty job and started studying for the CCNA : flagg209
• I went through my old Chemistry textbooks to redeem myself from the lazy C I received so many years ago. ... : steauengeglase

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• What the fuck? That's retarded, yes. : node
• What the fuck? That's retarded, yes. : node
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  That's pretty stupid, I hope Apple gets hit with the monopoly stick sometime soon. : MagicWishMonkey
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    Apple is way too small to be considered any type of monopoly. : Horn
    • Considering apples behaviour at their current size, I would hate to see them have MS style marketshare. : abrasion
    • That certainly depends on how you look at it. The Norwegian consumer ombudsman was getting ready to smack... : evildanish
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      They are pretty large compared to companies like that custom hackintosh shop they sued last year. Siz... : MagicWishMonkey
      • The lawsuit is still going on, crazily enough. : Lone Swordsman
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      well when they own about 70% of the MP3 market I would consider that a pretty big monopoly. : stgdz
      • Its not like they completely control it though like MS does with the PC market. There are a ton of non-a... : Horn
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  its pretty misleading to anyone who doesn't know what a hackintosh is. : Klebold
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    Given that I explicitly stated that it came with linux installed on it, I'm not sure how that's misleadin... : boarder2
    • ah ok, i stand corrected then. the original post made it sound vague. : Klebold
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  It might be worth bugging ebay about it - exactly what IP rights did you violate? Ebay makes money by pe... : vitaminzach
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    They lose a couple of bucks in commission vice potential millions in lawyer fees/court costs if they have... : asylumn
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      Dude, reading comprehension. All I said was they have motivation to answer the question, "exactly where d... : vitaminzach
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        Dude, my comprehension is fine. All I'm saying is they have zero motivation to answer such a question. T... : asylumn
        • Yep, I started to write up an angry email about it and then stopped shortly after because it's just not w... : boarder2
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  Shouldn't you have the right to face your "accuser"? I mean after all, they are essentially accusing you ... : slickdoody
  • It would be nice if they had to defend, or even explain, their actions, but this is a DMCA world now, and... : asylumn
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  I have relisted it here... hopefully no more fucking problems http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI... : boarder2
  • Ok I bid now nuke the thread so no one will steal it! : Crimsonbeak
  • "If you've made it this far and you're excited, you probably know the other OS that this is capable of ru... : mlev
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    Why are you selling it? : c_man_tmt
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      Like it says in the auction, buying a house, liquidating toys. I have a MBP that I can use. I like th... : boarder2
      • fair enough. : c_man_tmt
• You were using one of Apple's selling points to help sell your non-apple laptop. I don't know if that's i... : Ellissd
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  Wait, what!? You buy their hardware and you can't do what you want with it? Are you licensing their hardw... : ieGod
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    Sorry I misread that as macbook. : ieGod
    • obviously this is and other confusions are why his first auction got nuked. : Slowtreme
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  Thats like wearing a shirt that says "I don't hate Chinks" (sarah silverman joke) : not work safe
  • ha yep. : xxiv
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  That's odd, why would you mention it in the first place? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    Because people like to run OS X on netbooks? : boarder2
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      But it does not have it. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • And I never said it did? I also mentioned that it's capable of running Windows 7, should MS take the auc... : boarder2
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        It's still useful to know. : LoioshDwaggie
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          "Does not come with any OS" should cover it just fine, then. : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • 'Hackintoshes easily' is also perfectly acceptable. : LoioshDwaggie
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          The system can probably connect to an iPod and iPhone, too, but that's not worth mentioning either. : walker270
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            You know, there are people who specifically want to know this. In two months I will be in the market for ... : LoioshDwaggie
            • Yes, there are people who specifically want to know this. Those people probably already know it based on... : walker270
• my penis is not pistoning a hot blonde's ass right now, but it is capable of doing that. : sirsteven
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  I don't know if you are aware Apple can be pretty ruthless when mentioning their product names anywhere. ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    I am aware, that doesn't make it any less annoying. : boarder2
    • I did not say it wasn't. :P : Mad Brahmin Disease
• proprietary... to the end. : Downforce

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• Just for different costumes? : aggressor
• The game really isn't complete without the Nightwing costume : jimmy_legs
• cargo pants batman! : jane911
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  yay they will look great from the back : Cygnus X-1
  • the bonus is he has assless pants on all these : thebigbeefsandwich
• Because you like playing with dolls? : brickmatt
• The other Batman skins are good but WTF Captain America and Green Lantern? : bolneze
• You should have just linked directly to the one you want to use... http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/87... : Ctrl-Phreak
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  Look at all the negative comments. What the fuck, guys? : SockMonkeh
  • All of CaptainJack's skins are sweet. : SockMonkeh
  • Yeah, i already got it for PS3, but i'm a bit jealous : choppp
  • Because its not xbox. : doctorbfunk
  • The console kiddies are jealous. : Rehevkor
• Why didnt the dev include stuff like this? Unlockable crap for the challenges? : bolneze
• Man, I want the classic blue/grey one. : master_disaster_17
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  where's adam west? :( : Klebold
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    the model doesn't have a pot belly, and they're only modding the textures :) : master_disaster_17
    • well if you stretched his lower face onto the existing model- it would look rediculous. This would be ben... : Klebold
  • this is closest to that http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1994/bluegreysuit00116264981.jpg : OrkO
• Batman Of Zur En Arrh, oh yeah! : Portax
• What no nude patches yet? : Big Luke
• whatever makes you feel good about your purchase : dantastic
• thats why you waited? I beat that game weeks ago. Great game, but I dont see skins being much of a fact... : bagelcc
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  Batman Of The Future is pretty lol-worthy : Arctic Fox
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    It's legit, I believe it's reference this Batman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond : askedrelic
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      It was a pretty good show, too. Bruce Wayne makes a badass old man, and it had a character voiced by Hen... : ZTac
      • I totally enjoyed it! Animated Batman is awesome. : askedrelic
• The Dark Knight Batman costume is appealing. : Lone Swordsman
• Holy crap I can play through the same game it 10 times, wearing different clothes each time? Can't stop ... : DinK
• The Blue and Grey Classic is awesome : kgargs
• I like the dark knight and classic blue/gray : inc77
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  Where are the Harley Quinn costumes you gayasses : pancake humper
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    the version in the game (along with Poison Ivy's) are pretty damn awesome by default. : Fyunch Click
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      THEY ARE NOT NAKED SORRY NOT AWESOME : pancake humper
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        THEY ARE AS CLOSE AS THEY"LL EVER OFFICIALLY GET. SEMI-AWESOME. : Fyunch Click
        • I really prefer the spandex look for Holly. : LoioshDwaggie
• Batman more like Fatman, why is he so big? : sirsteven
• While cool, I would never play through the game on my first run-through on anything but the default skin.... : h o s t i l e

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  no!! : AlexXdude
  • a-dude, what's the deal? : CrustaR
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  Only if you hate everything good in the world, mXENO. And that's only a maybe. : Alice O'Connor
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    i only watched the first episode. it just seems like such a dramatic shift of scenery from the first sea... : mXENO
    • The last episode of that season is killer. : kramweil
    • i felt the same way but you will adjust and then as you get along in the seasons you will see what they a... : theWhite
    • I felt the same way, total whiplash. It gets better and some of the other characters introduced a bit la... : gnomish
    • I hated the first episode too but the dock characters grew on me : Shai-Tan
    • I really liked season 2, definitely stick with it. : dmaownsyou
    • I personally thought it was the best of the series. Don't get me wrong, they all kick ass (cept maybe sea... : NoCopy
• NO. The hell is wrong with you : genjuro
• What the fuck xeno. : FlamingGimp
• what ? no, watch all of them : sikander
• wat : NastyJack
• NOOOO!!!!! : Dschinghis Khan
• yes, because you're dumb : RikiTiki2
• Season 2 will be your least favorite after you've watched the show through once. After you watch it agai... : bipolar
• Why would you skip a season of a show? I mean either you like it and you watch all of it, or you stop wa... : Sapiens
• Even though everyone else has said this, it needs to be said more. No, don't be retarded. Watch every... : Senate5000
• yeah just skip it. it's dumb because you never find out anything meaningful about "the greek" through all : sirsteven
• It's the season that makes the show an epic. it's like an entirely new world. : Cihte
• you're insane for even thinking about it after all the rave. : Flinz
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  Yes, i skipped everything except for the 27th minute of S03E04 and it was awesome. : Arsenal
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    You made me go watch the 27th minute of S03E04. It was not as awesome as you're making it out to be. : evildanish
    • damnit, now you're making me admit that i had to go to the bathroom while it was on so i missed that bit.... : Arsenal
• the jews skipped the second season and look what happened to them. : xxiv
• that depends: are you gay (pejoratively)? : boring gegtik
• Why would you do that? : Mr. Goodwrench
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  There is not a bad episode of the wire in any of the seasons. It is the second best show ever. : mrvandelay
  • lol : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I will eat your firstborn. : ShekkyBoy
• Probably, because it's obvious you don't know what the fuck is good for you. : lechuck59
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  Do you not like tits? Cause Season 2 has got tits. : Crimsonbeak
  • big beautiful tits : Vanitas
• Do not skip anything in The Wire, what is wrong with you! : pancake humper
• Definitely not. Turns out to be a great season and there's lots in there that continues on to the next se... : Bull
• i'm on the last ep of the 2nd season...awesome! : vassili_zaitsev