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  Sign-up forms for Shack Tourney email forms to shackhon@googlegroups.com !!! forms in reply will be i... : kgargs
  • hrmmm, please nuke this and I'll repost unless you guys like whatever color this is in : kgargs
• I'm on shackdroid cant enter. ill do it tonight. : Iwannaacura
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  i'm very excited about this, good job on the organizing stuff! : multisync
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    Thanks, need more captains though.. you gonna step up? : kgargs
    • a captain in my opion should have a good handle on balanced team builds and counters to other picks. thi... : multisync
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  This is a terrible idea and it will never work : azenmaster
  • DUDE lol! : RogerDandy
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  I'll be a captain but I seriously don't always know what the fuck is going on. That's why I didn't put my... : RogerDandy
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    also how do we see what teams are already formed etc. : RogerDandy
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      so far you would have to build a time machine, because the draft will only be after sign-ups are done. : azenmaster
      • good to know. : RogerDandy
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      captains will be responsible for drafting their teams.. we'll do a draft early next week. No pre-mades. : kgargs
      • gotcha. : RogerDandy
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        is someone going to make a big list of names after it's all said and done cause I can't belive how hard i... : RogerDandy
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          Yeah, we'll put it up in a google spreadsheet after sign ups are closed. I don't want to have to do it m... : azenmaster
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            what is the target date for starting the whole thing? : RogerDandy
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              i think they said they want to do the draft this weekend, so i would imagine first round games beginning ... : Xanthos
              • I'd love to draft this weekend but I'm not sure how feasible that is. Probably early next week which wou... : kgargs
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  you have to add "bribing the league manager" to the tie breaker list. : azenmaster
  • for a list of acceptable bribes you can drop me a line, but I'm not picky and I encourage initiative. : azenmaster
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  aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh : DrFlammable
  • You might as well join up now.. you need the preorder! : kgargs
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  i feel like if we have 50 people we'll be able to scrounge up 10 captains, the people who didn't say yes ... : Xanthos
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    I think we'll hit 50 pretty easily.. but we only have 3 people who put yes on captaincy. Ratman, me, lex.... : kgargs
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      what's the concentration look like on the apps for skill level 4s/5s? I say make those guys the captains... : multisync
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        Not a lot of people that went above a 3. : kgargs
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          i can't sign up because my 6 in skill breaks the webpage, sorry. : DrFlammable
          • dang : kgargs
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            I already told you that this is a lie. this is a copout : azenmaster
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              flammable is not a cop what are you talking about : Xanthos
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                I'M A COP YOU IDIOT : DrFlammable
                • get out : azenmaster
        • I put ION4 bitches : kainen1
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      The only reason I hesitate to captain is my daughter honestly. There's an element of unpredictability an... : kainen1
      • Just gotta try and get your team together and get games going. Do the picks / bans for your team. : kgargs
      • you would be a great captain because any decision you ask me to make you could attach a pic of your daugh... : azenmaster
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        i'm pretty sure on any team the only real work that should be involved for captaining should be the actua... : Xanthos
        • yeah, you wouldn't want to have to be in charge of scheduling AND being your team's leader. imagine ... : azenmaster
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          mcpants there aren't enough 'upper tier' players in the draft. This is subjective of course but you're ... : kainen1
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            I agree. There are like 3-7 shackers that are really good then there is a massive drop off with a bunch ... : Jimb0v2
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              i think kainen has rated me as a better player than I am, but that's not something i really want to get i... : Xanthos
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                How about testing this theory by putting together the All Star team to face challengers ? : gebz
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                  i'm not 100% certain who the all star team would be composed of, but i think a close approximation has al... : Xanthos
                  • Well, the first few times it didn't, recently though Drakky, Bonger, and I (plus two of their buddies) go... : Lexicon_Leidun
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                    um - when did this happen? I would have liked to play on this match. The time we played lex's team a co... : kainen1
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                      dunno. i think it was delusional/foxhawk/kgargs/lakren/psigun like a week ago? : Xanthos
                      • wasn't me. i'm not sure who payed in it. : Psigun
                      • replace psigun with platinum. Not bad players at all, having flammable & kainen in place of foxhawk/delu... : kgargs
                    • lol if you knew who played against them you wouldn't be surprised honestly : DrFlammable
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                      Lexi and I have only ever scrimmed twice, same with drakky and our 2 rookie buddies. We can pub but that'... : bongturbo
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                        i like playing with you guys too - invite me if you dont mind to some of you guys' games. I'm up for pla... : kainen1
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                          Will do. We are constantly short a 4th or 5th! : bongturbo
                          • Especially since I"m trying to get a 3rd Scrim team going, and I feel torn between Drakky/Bonger and this... : Lexicon_Leidun
                      • I am always up for a good group to play with whenever i get the chance. Don't be afraid to throw up the ... : r0cky143
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                    all star team: 1. DrFlammable 2. --DrFlammable-- 3. -~_*DrFlammable*_~- 4. ******DrFlammable****** : DrFlammable
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                      man that team would strike fear in all the neutral creep camps across dota world : kainen1
                      • they would quintuple stack themselves in fear from the very start of the game. it still wouldn't help the... : Psigun
                    • #1 is overrated #3 is going in the first round #4 has way too long of a faggy name : Xanthos
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                It is true that when I go to pick players I will most likely pick based on my feel for teamwork with thos... : Lexicon_Leidun
                • i knew it! : Xanthos
              • it's more of a leadership or 'knowing how to win a game' thing vs. raw skill, average performance, or v... : kainen1
    • as you know from yesterday's thread, I am not going to be a captain. get more from your dota time crew t... : ]pm[chem
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    If we need captains, we should have a way to get them outside of the applications. I'd be happy to capta... : R@zzle
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      I mean-- have everyone who wants to post up in a sub thread or something and write their names down so we... : R@zzle
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        razzle captain a team? that team would be dumb as hell unless i'm on it : Xanthos
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          McPants that's what I'm going for. We'll be the underdog team of retards led by Supreme Justiciar Retard... : R@zzle
          • yesssssssssss draft me 5th round! sleeper pick! : Xanthos
  • Same here. I can if needed but wasn't planning on it. : Pacalon
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  Do we have any webdevelopers in the HoN Shackcrew? I have this extreme disfunction that I always have ... : gebz
  • hi : c0bra
  • I think kgargs has something for this, check with him, I'm terrible with fluff. : azenmaster
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    http://challonge.com was what I found.. I *think* http://challonge.com/shaxhax was my demo : kgargs
    • This looks good for maintaining the tourney/ round robin / league. I´m thinking about a more of hub... : gebz
    • oh thats hawt. : m0rfus
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    I have something of that nature in progress but it won't be ready for this tourney. Blame Demon's Souls. : omnova
    • Good stuff, I´m thinking about a very simple first iteration, so we have a early common ground. But... : gebz
  • we are not very computer literate here : multisync
  • wuts a web developr? : action roommate
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    I'm still working on building out http://honcore.com - having some kind of tournament functionality on th... : re-verse
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      that is your site? : RogerDandy
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        yeah honcore honmod = same site - my design guy is still working on it though so not much there yet. : re-verse
        • cool : RogerDandy
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      Can I write out end-match battle reports for the news part : R@zzle
      • If you're serious, that would be awesome. : re-verse
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  Accursed is a very noob friendly hero. Extremely easy to use. Super tanky too. : boomstickah
  • Yes and no. I've seen his ult abused pretty badly by noobs. They hang out in a fight way too long th : action roommate
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  regarding the draft: I see you want to do a live draft over vent. I predict this will fail. some peopel... : ]pm[chem
  • This, this is how other TF2 tourneys I've done have done it and it works out really well. : R@zzle
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    speaking of this - is the draft pick order decided by lottery? : kainen1
    • if I set it up, I would randomize the first round and base the rest of the order on 3rd round flip (somet... : ]pm[chem
  • in fact I've already created a google docs spreadsheet to start working on this, it will be easy : ]pm[chem
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    good idea. I dont see why people can't also be on vent/in game though. : azenmaster
    • they could do that too but for sake of sanity and clarity all official draft actions should be performed ... : ]pm[chem
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    who the hell suggested a draft over vent.... : MercFox1
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      it was in the ruleset for tournament link in this thread's root post : ]pm[chem
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        yeah I read it, but that just seems too chaotic. : MercFox1
        • to be fair we only have 4 captains so far, and they have to choose 4 guys each. That's hardly unreasonab... : azenmaster
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      we discussed it and thought it sounded fun and it would be when we were expecting 4-5 teams... now that w... : kgargs
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        here is the current template assuming 10 captains and 60 players in the pool: http://spreadsheets.google... : ]pm[chem
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          Looks good but I'm not a fan of the 3RR at this point. This isn't drafting LT or Adrian Peterson... a si... : kgargs
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            well, it's not just about the #1 pick. assume any kind of logarithmic dropoff in player skill, so that t... : ]pm[chem
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              p.s. I would also be open to 3RR, which gives a little more bias back to the #1 slot. anything but norma... : ]pm[chem
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                (changed the doc to be 3RR instead of 3RF) : ]pm[chem
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                  I see your point - we'll discuss it! I'm open to this : kgargs
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                    yeah i'll chime in for the last time today that i think you don't need something like 3RR because of the ... : Xanthos
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                      did you not see flammable's all-star team?! : ]pm[chem
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                        i told him his 3rd round pick was gonna get snatched first round, his house of cards will fall without th... : Xanthos
                        • probably true! hey, back to HoN draft format, I am somewhat a fanatic about fantasy drafting (see also: : ]pm[chem
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                          Well, let's look at having first pick (assuming 10 teams) -> 3RR: #1, #20, #30 vs Snake: #1, #20, #21.... : kgargs
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                            did I miss anything here chem? : kgargs
                            • that looks right. for people that want to read more, here is a football-based analysis: http://subscrib : ]pm[chem
                            • p.s., the effects from differences in skill between captains will likely outweigh anything having to do w... : ]pm[chem
                          • agh this hurts my head. : kainen1
      • ATTN: I will be a captain : H@rvester
  • best draft idea EVER! : Skoal^Fyfan
• Since I don't see it mentioned - we had an awesome game last night where the hellborne pushed all the way... : dedgecko
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  I started having dreams about how sexy wild soul is. How do you stop him. Everygame I play as him I rape ... : bongturbo
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    as a fellow booboo lover, what do you mean shields? The +agi shield or the shields you use to build HoTBL... : boomstickah
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      Bucklers at start for neutraling. Wingbow on soul. After that I get a basher for extra stun. I feel the w... : bongturbo
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        I see it the other way, the basher provides diminishing returns since he already has root, but the attack... : boomstickah
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          I put the basher on me. And I use bear form once I get wing. : bongturbo
          • That's bloody brilliant. I am going to try that. : boomstickah
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    If you farm a lane and get booboo to farm neutral creeps, do you get double XP? : crummynz
    • booboo can't fight away from wild soul. but no you won't get double XP, you'll get the gold income t... : miasma(&)
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    let's see... logger's hatchet + buckler on booboo healing pot i jungle for about 9 or so minutes a... : miasma(&)
    • o and ... the instant i stop jungling i go permanent bear form. wildsoul is amazingly tanky in the mid... : miasma(&)
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      this is how i play wiildsoul except I hadnt thought of 2 extra gloves of the swift. Cheap warpcleft, not... : kainen1
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        2 gloves of teh swift = 1k gold for 30% IAS warpclef = 2100 for 50% IAS, plus you can turn it into daemo... : Xanthos
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          i like the incremental buildup because it means i can start ganking and pushing (making a difference in t... : miasma(&)
          • well booboo attacking that fast early is bad news for towers, I can see that benefit at least : kainen1
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          I don't see the waste, you're spending half the gold and still seeing a good gain in IAS. Besides one of ... : boomstickah
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            because you can pour more money into wildsoul than any other hero because of his bear's slots. the more e... : Xanthos
            • booboo can never have enough attack speed... i'm not going to sell those gloves unless the game drags to ... : miasma(&)
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  If you can't get enough captains why not draft 6 per team. People are bound not to show up to games, so ... : indosauros
  • That's not a bad idea, actually. Hopefully we'll have enough captains though. : Lexicon_Leidun
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    IIRC in TF2 we drafted ~12 for a 10-person team, yea? : c0bra
    • yeah, we definitely had extras on each team, and even then ran into lack of players problems : indosauros
  • Agreed! This is a very good point/option. it will also give a true team feel. : r0cky143
• i'll captain if need be : fletch_
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  I will be a captain if need be and draft only scrubs and call our team the Bad News Bears and we will win : Juno
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    Look at this way, even if you lose...you still get 1 point : Reptile
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      I will schedule all of our games for 1:30 a.m. PST so nobody shows up and we get a W : Juno
      • Yeah, I was going to say...that's pretty much the only time you're on. : Reptile
    • Yeah, this was azenmaster's idea. I liked it a lot as it encourages people to play! : kgargs
  • you will want to draft me then : Patch-e
• Need a tourney for feeders. I'd be all over that. : xylothan
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  so i'll go ahead and be a captain since apparently everyone and their mothers thinks i should be. do i ne... : Xanthos
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    my only condition is that i get at least two members of flammable's dream team. : Xanthos
    • Hope you invested in cloning or time travel. : omnova
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      hell yea lets do it mcpants : DrFlammable
      • 2nd round : Xanthos
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      hell yea lets do it mcpants : DrFlammable
      • 3rd round : Xanthos
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      hell yea lets do it mcpants : DrFlammable
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        4th round FUCK YES I KNEW WE COULD DO IT : Xanthos
        • put yo back into it : MercFox1
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    posted here is good, I'll see if we can get the google page updated. anyone else want to throw their nam... : kgargs
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      me kgargs, i know you'll never pick me so i may as well captain. i think it will be fun : R@zzle
      • ok : kgargs
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        sorry razzle looks like my dum as fuk team will play your dum as hell team : Xanthos
        • you've ruined all my plans!!! : R@zzle
    • i'll captain but put me on the desperation list. I'm not a very good player but I'm organised. : RogerDandy
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  s2jason what's the word on health as numbers? that was the only mod i ever bothered to install cause it w... : DrFlammable
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    Why did they ban that? Seems pretty harmless. : omnova
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      it gave players that used it an advantage over those that didn't. especially helpful when playing legionn... : DrFlammable
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        Are there other heroes with specific number references in their abilities? : c0bra
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          pyro, soul reaper off the top of my head. would be nice to know the exact time you can one shot someone ... : kainen1
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            pyro not so much. it's helpful but it isn't as useful as it is for legionnaire. magic armor and all that ... : DrFlammable
            • well my point was that it assists for sure for those types of heroes. well lots of heroes with big nukes... : kainen1
      • if you click on someone you can see their health/mana - i imagine if someone just alters that slightly to... : multisync
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    On a related note I'd love to see numbers pop up any time I deal damage. Man I love that in games : crummynz
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      Doesn't it already do this - or is it only for crits? I thought I saw Chem dealing all sorts of crazy ... : dedgecko
      • It's only for crits and crit-like effects (Whiplash, Disarm) : R@zzle
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        :) it would be cool if you crit'd for over 1000, or say 1500, a special sound effect played (like when... : ]pm[chem
        • like HOLY SHIT!!!! : dedgecko
        • if you've played obsidian destroyer in dota before... the effect a 3/4-mystic staff ult has on the other ... : miasma(&)
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    Any mods like that which provide a significant change in the availability of information we'll likely eit... : s2jason
    • you mean like the mini UI mod? : TShandy
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  Wait so let's get a recap - now that gives us how many players and who are declared captains? We need a... : kainen1
  • i'll recap in the morning, time to play! : kgargs
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  who is shoutcasting? : pancake humper
  • you are, beautiful : boomstickah
• I say the winning team plays against the NZ fail-rape machine. : Cliffzorz
• So if I have a team of myself and four friends, do I just play with them or is this like we all enter and... : Defacil

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  Why did I watch half of that? I got nothing out of it! : DooBall
  • Seinfeld encapsulated. : RomSteady
  • Because it's oddly entertaining! : hoov1185
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  Is Seinfeld worth watching? I don't think I've ever seen it. : knepus
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    You just watched the best parts. : silent prophet
    • This is not true. : mrvandelay
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    yes : mrvandelay
    • I have a feeling that you might be slightly biased. : zerog83
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    I find a lot of it doesn't really get me like it used to, the characters are neurotic, self-centered and ... : azenmaster
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      The characters are supposed to be neurotic, self-centered and cynical. : David Craddock
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        I know I just meant that neurotic, self-centered and cynical is very 90s. : azenmaster
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          What personality defects will define the 00's? : Rich McNinch
          • I like silent prophet's answer of easily distracted and the rest : azenmaster
    • Cynicism is always worthwhile! : Lone Swordsman
    • I... just.... what? Wait a minute! No way! : xxx2xxx
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      They should remake Seinfeld for the 2000s where they are easily distracted, functionally illiterate, and ... : silent prophet
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        It should never be remade. It is perfect as it is. : mrvandelay
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          okay, I'm just going back away from the Seinfeld thread slowly. I'm not making any sudden moves here... : silent prophet
          • No worries. I often thought about how they would do it. The show went on decline after the end of S7 (LD ... : mrvandelay
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        Thats how I met your mother. : stgdz
        • or always sunny : Modica Sol Solis
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      lol that's what jason alexander said about his character on curb your enthusiasm two weeks ago. : TwiLyght
      • this season of curb is fucking awesome! : headbone
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      ha, yeah. It hasn't aged well. : Godhatesfatpeople
      • just like friends.. god.. I used to watch that drivel.. : bamb
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        you shut the fuck up : mrvandelay
        • U mad? : Godhatesfatpeople
    • cynicism is still very much accepted and a good tool if delivered with expertise. : lonestar3
    • i don't think it's 90's so much as you're older now. : biskits
  • God yes : givemesnacks
  • fuck yes : opengl128
  • There's approximately 69 hours of footage to go through. A bit less if you skip the clip shows. : mrvandelay
  • Good lord yes. : The Grolar Bear
  • Definitely : OverloadUT
  • highly overrated IMO. there are some funny eps but it isn't consistent. : fathertime
• haha. i actually watched the entire video :( : i poop from there
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  haha nice. It looks like they went sequentially through the seasons. If you watch the earlier seasons y... : Delaric
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    Michael Richards said in interviews that the applause distracted him. : David Craddock
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      I thought Seinfeld was laugh-track'ed? : maulla
      • Yeah I was never sure if they had a live audience at any point in the show, but if they had canned applau... : Delaric
    • Not sure how true this is, but I heard that they switch to a laugh track because they could cut the appla... : slax0r
  • Larry David said in an interview (on the Seinfeld DVDs) he put an end to the applause around season 6/7. : givemesnacks
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  Why would someone go through the trouble to do that? : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • This sentence could be applied to 95% of the internet. : Wyvern
  • Because they are a gentleman and a scholar. : mrvandelay
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  If you watch it backwards, there is a distinct racist message. : Totenjaeger
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    if you watch it backwards, it's like a montage of career doors closing : Delaric
    • Pretty much what happened after that incident. : Totenjaeger
  • hahahah : manero

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  Uncharted 2 is worth a day 1 purchase. Brutal Legend doesn't add much to the replay value, as multiplayer... : VictoriouSecret
  • You know what sucks terribly about Brutal Legend being at 99% done with the game and the only thing I nee... : Crimsonbeak
  • You know what sucks terribly about Brutal Legend being at 99% done with the game and the only thing I nee... : Crimsonbeak
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  DEMON'S SOULS : Rehevkor
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    no lie this is one of the best games I've ever played. so intense. : silent prophet
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      This game has wasted so many hours of my life already :( : shwortdogg
      • I'm glad I have to play it at a friend's, otherwise it would probably have been work, souls, sleep, work,... : silent prophet
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    Agreed. It is seriously RPGOTY : re-verse
    • RPGOTY : walker270
    • dragon age isnt out yet :( : eeeealmo
• Pretty much a coin flip between Uncharted and Demon's Soul, depends on how masochistic you are. : one random winner
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  gamefly! : WhatIsThisFor
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    Stop sucking up to our overlords. : Totenjaeger
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      Why bouy when you can rent?? : CrustaR
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        You need to stop adding o's where they don't belong. : one random winner
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          I am sorry -- I will refer to you as ne randm winner from now on. : CrustaR
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            That's all I ask. : one random winner
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              Actually, I don't want to bother typing your name every time I reply to your posts, so forget it. : CrustaR
              • dammit, my vanity search will be much simpler (actually it gets all fucked up anyways but that's another ... : one random winner
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            Also http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=bouy&cs_user=CrustaR&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=a... : one random winner
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              So, yoou are saying he does this on pourpose? : Totenjaeger
              • dammit TJ. : one random winner
            • How did you manage to search my history??? I am outraged, ORW. OUTRAGED. : CrustaR
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    I've been thinking of trying it. How good is their availability of new games? : smax
    • If you game the system by always making sure you have no already released games on your list when new gam... : Vincent Grayson
• I would say Uncharted 2 (And Uncharted 1 if you haven't played the first). Maybe I'm just blinded by hype... : PointlesS76
• 10 hours sounds pretty good to me. : SlingBlaze
• I am thoroughly enjoying Uncharted 2, it's one of the best single player experiences ever IMO. If you li... : Begawkiness
• Well, both BL and Uncharted 2 are about 10h of single player. Both of them have multiplayer; BL is a sli... : qsylvr
• DEMON'S SOULS : walker270
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  thank you guys... well .. fuck it I'll rent them all Uncharted will piss me off because of the gamepa... : Frush81
  • sounds like you aren't going to really like any of those games :/ Although I have to say they seem to ... : DeBurgo
  • It's not hack and slash. More like study, block, wait then attack : MrLobo
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    Uncharted 2 is not a rental at all, neither is Demon's Souls. Brutal Legend is definitely though. : pancake humper
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      pancake, I'm three hours away from defeating Uncharted 2, and I rented it on Tuesday. : CrustaR
      • See onli...o wait : Boxelder
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        co-op, mp, movie mode are pretty solid content to make me want to keep the game. I am glad you are gettin... : pancake humper
        • The multiplayer is on point! : zuff
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          pancake, what does movie mode do?? : CrustaR
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            http://videogamesrepublic.com/?p=8638 Whoa, that sounds bad to the bone! : CrustaR
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              Yes, it's ridiculous. : pancake humper
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                Where does the edited video go in the end? : CrustaR
                • To the movie theater in Duke3d : pancake humper
  • I came from PC games, gamepad aiming may annoy at first but after like half the game you should be pullin... : Shai-Tan
  • Hah, I want to make a motivator that says this: MODERN GAMING Fuck it, I'll rent them all. : the archvile
• I would go Demon's Souls as long as you are a patient player and want to get the most bang for your unit ... : sevogajre
• Demon's Souls, but Uncharted 2 is a unquestionably a must play game too. : Boxelder
• Demon's Souls is the best game I've played in quite some time. : devi| dog
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  ok ok fine demon soul it is .. I better like that one because last time I listen to the shack I bought Sc... : Frush81
  • You should have picked uncharted 2. I think you're going to hate the difficulty of demons souls. : treefingers1
• I have them all. Stoked. : kainen1
• Demon's Souls is one of the best games I have played in many, many years. The best part about it is I can... : OverloadUT
• I'm playing through Uncharted 2 right now. AMAZING experience so far (about 2/3 through). Without a doubt... : dpgagnon
• Uncharted 2 > Demon's Souls > Brutal Mehgend : Ebu

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  i've made it to level 10... what were your strategies to get to 20? i've got a farseer level 10 that i'm ... : Psigun
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    Confuse is your best spell as the farseer confusing wraithlords and other big units is invaluable, up unt... : Cliffzorz
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      what loadout do you go with then; all energy and ability oriented? eldritch bolt any good later on? seems... : Psigun
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        Knockdown immune so i can teleport reliably, suppression immune. and regen runes so i can confuse all day... : Cliffzorz
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          your character's levels are persistent? what? does level have any affect on the game? : DrFlammable
          • the splash screens say it's skill not your levels but i think it's a load of bullshit : dantastic
          • When you level you unlock a piece of wargear, thats about all that changes. The gear you get may/may not ... : Cliffzorz
  • I liked out BLOW EVERYTHING THE FUCK UP strategy : R@zzle
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  I really enjoy the mode and i hope they expand it to be more like single player with each player controll : RetroRedEyeJr
  • just made it to lvl 18 i think, that was freaking hard though. : RetroRedEyeJr
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  I played a bunch last night, and generally my group had trouble clearing Wave 9. All the suppressive fire... : DrZettl
  • That said, we had a lvl 13 Ork join and made it to 10 or 11 once. : DrZettl
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    you really need to hit a couple big AoE attacks right on the bulk of the banshees (storm/rumblah) to ge b... : Psigun
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      i usually try that but often there are at least 2 tanks just sitting outside of range that will rape me t... : dantastic
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        you are immune to all damage while using eldritch storm. you want one farseer doing that at minimum. : Psigun
        • You're immune during the storm, afterwards you're fresh for the raping. I always try to bunch up the bast... : Cliffzorz
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          Oh, and does Eldritch Storm do friendly damage? Teammate and I were killed a few times in a storm, but it... : DrZettl
          • Yes, it does. : Cliffzorz
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    Man I wanted to keep playing last night but it was getting so late. I hope they add more to it, like more... : SenorSpine
    • Yeah, we had some tense moments in those games. I bet they add more Heroes and Arenas as time goes on. : DrZettl
  • This is where my friends and I got stuck last night. :-( We were only level 5 by the end of the night bu... : Aragoat
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  It's awesome. What's your GFWL id? : Nitrium
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    Same as my shack name. : Cliffzorz
    • Same here. I haven't tried out the new mode yet but would be down in the near future. : Pacalon
• i played with majuju last night. we had a hard time getting past wave 9. then we get to wave 10 once an... : dantastic
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  Can you play it in single player mode? : CRasterImage
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    sort of ruins the whole point of the mode to play it in singleplayer. it'd be like playing l4d exclusivel... : Psigun
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      I have played the shit out of DOW2 single player. I also played a bit of the multiplayer, with bots onl... : CRasterImage
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        but this is just co-op with a friend. How can you love singleplayer and not like co-op when the game is s... : derelict515
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          It's coop? Cool! I missed that part. : CRasterImage
          • this is like Gears Horde mode, Halo Firefight, etc. But the normal singleplayer game let's you play the c... : derelict515
• Was stuck on wave 16 last night. We couldn't kill our clones (was doing no damage at all) and they couldn... : Alco23
• I look forward to playing a shitload of this tonight. : Majuju
• Its crashing before it can even get started fora friend. He has Vista 64 and all the latest drivers. Anyo... : noobja
• My FS rocks with Eldritch Storm. I had to go with some weak armor with 1/2 the defense but it does give ... : sheepraper

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  yeah great movie, its also a movie that every boy/man loves. : shadebane
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    I don't. : retardhumper
    • probably has something to do with your vagina : veras
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    I think it was a bad movie. pretty and "edgy" though! : wtf242
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      Why was it bad? I think it was more poking fun at edginess than trying to be edgy. What I took for it is ... : Dave-A
      • I took it as: Don't follow anything blindly. Know where you are going and why, feel free to reevalu... : unjustend
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    Call me a contrarian but I didn't get it. I've never really had the urge to be punched though. : Dynotaku
    • the 2nd time you watch it and you know the ending it's a completely different movie : pukerat
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      you really didnt understand the movie if thats all you got from it : maulla
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        I just said I didn't get it. : Dynotaku
        • Sounds like you didn't understand the movie at all. : Sapiens
    • The movie wasn't about fighting. : jcrockerman
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    I think the biggest problem that movie has are the people who see it and take away the message that fight... : woddemandred
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      either that or they think it's literally a message against capitalism, which it's not : EvilDolemite
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        what would you say the message is? : das_runt
        • I think it's deliberately ambiguous. It throws a bunch of ideas out about living a fake ideal of happines... : Dave-A
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          from fincher: "I love this idea that you can have fascism without offering any direction or solution. Isn : EvilDolemite
          • ^This. : notd665
          • it's true. fight club is more a love story than a statement on capitalism. : dirge23
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            I think it's a little silly to say it's not about that when it's clearly there in some form. I think it'd : Tawler
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              That's true, but it's also an observation/attack on anti-consumerism. It's a bit like Animal Farm. The... : nudel
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                right. fight club makes a lot of anti-consumerist statements but then undermines them all by making them ... : dirge23
                • purposefully, IMO. The film is all criticism without solutions, and I don't think I would have it any oth... : retarded talking dinosaur
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              The conusmerism angle was just the reason de jour that Tyler used to enchant the narrator -- it could hav... : ninjase
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                but at the end of the day, those anti-consumerism/consumerism themes ARE in the film and the story, and t... : retarded talking dinosaur
                • They are IN it, but that is not what it is about. : ninjase
        • http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:xHdpiK6puggJ:www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/palahniuk.html+the+who... : bamb
    • This post explains why Hollywood treats moviegoers like idiots. : Arcanum
    • i know! if anything the take home message is the opposite. i've written multiple papers on fight club and... : retarded talking dinosaur
    • Thank you. : Shadsy
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  His name, is Robert Paulson. : hatelull
  • His name, is Robert Paulson. : bozer
  • His name, is Rober Paulson. : legato17
  • His name, is Meat Loaf. : botch
  • http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=his+name+is+robert+paulson&cs_user=&cs_parentauthor... : SolveChrist
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    Her name is Olivia Parson. : unholydonuts
    • hello fellow redditor : retarded talking dinosaur
  • His name, is Henry Paulson : EvilDolemite
  • His name, will do anything for love. But not that. : icon_of_syn
  • His name is KIIIIIIIIIIIIIID KIIIIIID ROOOOOOCK : Majuju
  • His name, is Charles Bronson : ruckboos
  • His name, is Floyd. : hoov1185
  • My name is Judge. : dirge23
• that makes me feel so old :( : ninjase
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  I had forgotten that it did not do very well at the box office. I guess the DVD was where it became a com... : MaxPete82
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    I saw it in the theaters back then and loved it. I remember the DVD edition I got came with the Fight Clu... : -efx-
    • Yeah my friends took me to see it and I had no idea what it was when it was in theaters, but it was amazi... : vov1n
  • It cost the head execs at Fox, Bill Mechanic, his job. He's awesome and sucks he lost his job over this f... : Super Sparker
  • They completely fucked up the marketing of it in both the UK and US which I think can be blamed for a lar... : nudel
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    Magnolia makes me want to pull my eyes out and eat them : bozer
    • bozer magnolia is my favorite movie, i think ive watched it upwards of ten times. : arizona bay
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    also the matrix, sixth sense, blair witch project (yeah i said it), tons more. It was an incredibly big m... : re-verse
    • Haha, I was going to post that, but yeah, my friends and I kept thinking the same thing. : one random winner
  • Yep, I have to watch magnolia again. Love that movie. : FrayLo
  • I went to the cinema not having a clue what it was about, dragging a load of friends with me who knew not... : nodebug
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    Yes, I've said for the past, well decade, that '99 was a pinnacle year for films. : gooblerampling
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      You must be a really smart guy : MaxPete82
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        Better believe it. My keen insight PENETRATES the obvious. : gooblerampling
        • Guys, were not supposed to be talking about fight club.. : AndyGoin
  • Me and some friends saw it in the theater having no idea what it was about because we were bored and were... : ninjase
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    Didn't the matrix come out in 99 too? : ninjase
    • Yup. It did. Its too bad they never got around to making any sequels to that. : Caoster007
• The soundtrack is still fantastic. : Ride-My-Rocket
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  Even more importantly, the 10 Year Anniversary Blu-ray comes out next month. : DarkWolf5
  • wait..what???? INSTA-BOUGHT!!!! : jcrockerman
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  Fight Club was one of those movies that I hated at first (or at least didn't really "get it") but then lo... : wytefang
  • it's hard to really appreciate on first viewing due to the nature of the twist : dirge23
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  Did you know that movie has subliminal images spliced in? Fact! Also, all of Brad Pitt's lines were dubb... : gooblerampling
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    I noticed quite a few of the subliminal images on the second viewing, Didn't see them at all first time. ... : Arctic Fox
    • Another unknown fact is that director David Fincher initially envisioned the movie as a stop-motion proje... : gooblerampling
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    in response to dubbing: what? why??? : OhSnapHighFive
    • He hadn't been able to fully drop the New Zealand accent he put on from his last hit movie in time for fi... : gooblerampling
    • Brad Pitt doesn't do a very convincing Brad Pitt. I'm sure he has a stunt double already, now all he need... : Dynotaku
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    Pretty sure number two is quite false. : Modica Sol Solis
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      It is. It's hard to feel sorry for Brad Pitt for anything, but every time I hear him talk I think he need... : Dave-A
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        "buongiorno" : dirge23
        • lol :) : master_disaster_17
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    No way you could dub that in and have it look as good as it does. No way. : retarded talking dinosaur
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      Brad Pitt wore a special greenscreen prosthetic that allowed the producers to map in a digital mouth to m... : trove
      • Now that's the spirit. : gooblerampling
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    The subliminal images are really obvious and I don't like them. :( : OverloadUT
    • yeah...they worked better if you didn't have the ability to rewind and pause. I rewound it the first tim... : jcrockerman
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  Fight Club the novel vs. Fight Club the movie - which one is best? Go! : evildanish
  • I prefer the movie! : evildanish
  • they're totally different animals to me. I loved the book, and then saw the movie and was blown away by t... : OhSnapHighFive
  • The movie. It's one of those rare cases where it just works better. : SiW.
  • The only way I can do this is by saying that the movie is higher in my favorite movie list than the novel... : daedraug
  • The movie is a great improvement on the novel, I think even Chuck Pahulilaialjuhuhliak thought so : Dave-A
  • I thought the short lived stage play was the best. It could have been the next Cats except for the timing... : gooblerampling
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  Don't mention me : firewoodman
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    Don't mention me : firewoodman
    • Don't mention me : firewoodman
• It's released on blu-ray in a month! : Prozium
• still haven't seen it. it's in my netflix q though : Cihte

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• nice. : ass-street
• bump. : Dschinghis Khan
• lol : AlexXdude
• hahaha 10/10 : RetroRedEyeJr
• bump : Duffman8369
• KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! : Duffman8369
• excellent : marmite
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  Sweet. I'll try to get in this one. : kagath
  • Er, not just for the cock and balls part. :p : kagath
• i should be able to make an appearance after being absent last week. : kbnerd
• hahahahaha, I don't know how this even plays out. : zakazi
• HAHAHAHAHA : Nitrium
• Tonight should be interesting. : gimpx32
• what's going on here? I will be there. That is unless my reborn Mass Effect addiction takes over again t... : SolveChrist
• Hehehe, nice one Khan. : Alco23
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  A winner is Khan! I probably can't make it tonight, sorry : Arctic Fox
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    wtf? why not? : Dschinghis Khan
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      Brother-in-law currently staying at our house, also have to prepare for the imminent arrival of Alco tomo... : Arctic Fox
      • bah! : Dschinghis Khan
• Hahahahaha nicely played : MercFox1
• nicely done! : .Jayson
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  why I gotta be pink? : .Jayson
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    no reason, i just put as much pink in there as i could. : Dschinghis Khan
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      how did you manage to get Duffman's login info? You guys live close by? : .Jayson
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        I'm visiting him at the moment. : Dschinghis Khan
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          balls touching? : r3dn3ck
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            They're touching on your mom's chin, Joquers. : Dschinghis Khan
            • tell my mom i said hi : r3dn3ck
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        I went to work without logging out of the shack at home. I deserve this for assuming I could trust my own... : Duffman8369
        • I couldn't pass it up. : Dschinghis Khan
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          lol, I didn't know you guys were brothers! It kinda makes all that homo talk all that more creepy! : .Jayson
          • yeah, indeed. : Nitrium
        • hahaha : AlexXdude
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          Wait, you're actually REALLY brothers? I thought that was a joke when you guys said that. : ArcKnight
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            I've MET them both and I didn't even know they were brothers. :/ : laurgasms
            • 0wned! : Dschinghis Khan
        • lol, the shack breaks blood ties. : nyranger66
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    "Because you're a fucking faggot." : c0bra
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      thank you. this is the answer is was expecting! : jvox
      • :( : .Jayson
• I will be there if I can get my keezer collar all drilled and painted. : c0bra
• lunch bump. : Dschinghis Khan
• I'll be there, and I can get wasted again because it's fall break. : ArcKnight
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  ILTC bump. : Dschinghis Khan
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    Seriously, dicks in my mouth please. A whole bag of them. Instead of a 6 drink minimum tonight it's a 6 c... : Dschinghis Khan
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      Are there 2 PC's so both of you guys can play? : .Jayson
      • yeah. what's the deal? : ass-street
    • hahahaha! : yosemiteclimber
    • LOL the pendulum swings! : MercFox1
    • karma's a bitch : Arctic Fox
    • Sweet, I guess Katy didn't log you off the HTPC. : Merconium
    • Lol... Brotherly love for cocks right there... : Alco23
    • lol comeback! : SolveChrist
    • Duffman I love you : AlexXdude
    • Duffman's over there?!? Goddamn, the Rage Temple is complete! The amount of bellowing in that house durin... : vile
    • hahahaha nice one duffman : RetroRedEyeJr
• Woke up & my computer is not booting. PSU is a goner. . .possibly the motherboard as well as another PSU... : goatjc
• Bump for people who haven't checked out ER yet. : ArcKnight

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  I'm trying to think of another game where the character is this likeable. I'm coming up with maybe in the... : Beef-
  • Have you played The Witcher? Geralt is awesome, and I wouldn't say he's (much) larger than life. : ArcKnight
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  Uncharted 2 is so much better than the first, it's a far more cohesive experience and is one of those gam... : qwpeoriu
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    God damn it, you're going to make me go buy it :( : cltcprd
    • this and demon souls sound amazing : hamachi
    • You should. Its so good I think it should be required that you own it. If you don't own it you don't dese... : bozer
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      I don't think you'll regret it, it's really superior to Uncharted in almost every single way imaginable. ... : qwpeoriu
      • If you can play while pooping you should be able to play while peeing. : bRAINsick
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        I think Uncharted is the best PS3 game I've played. God damnit. I guess this is what I'm going to do wi... : cltcprd
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          I wonder what time amazon could have it to me by tomorrow... : cltcprd
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            amazon's rolling out same day delivery in some cities. http://gizmodo.com/5382545/amazon-now-delivers-st... : edgewise
            • Oh man. That is fucking amazing. : tomservo
      • Agree on it being much better than the first one, at least from what I've played so far... I never bought... : Leshrac55
    • if you have a PS3, you must get it. It's excellent. : edgewise
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    The only thing I didn't like about Uncharted 1 was the fact that you had bulletproof enemies that you cou... : TastyWheat
    • That is because you were actually fighting zombies the whole time. Bet you didn't think of that huh. : K0LM
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    I love how seamless the game is when jumping back and forth between cinematics and gameplay. It really d... : stump
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      What's really impressive is that they have no loading with no objects or textures popping in. Plus it's o... : PointlesS76
      • I did actually notice some texture loading for a second last night at one point during a huge open map bu... : stump
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    How far are you? The tail end of the game has a few pretty long adventure/puzzle sections, which are pret... : Vincent Grayson
    • I'm up to Chap 21 The Convoy. I can't believe the finale is even more epic than some of the other set pie... : edgewise
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      I've put 7 hours in, so probably what ... 2/3rds of the way through the game ? I believe I'm at either ch... : qwpeoriu
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        you're playing on easy aren't you >=| : Break
        • No way, I'm on normal ! Why would you think that, most people are averaging about 10-12 hrs playthrough t... : qwpeoriu
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  Drake is what the Prince in the latest Prince of Persia tried to be but ridiculously failed at. : pillzer
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    Ironic, since the same voice actor played both characters. : beanman101283
    • Really!? I thought so! : pun][sher
    • lol that's awesome : AlexXdude
    • Informative, and Lulz! : wwonderboy334
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      Had no idea, funny. Still the characters are definitely not the same.. Drake is relevant to the rest of t... : pillzer
      • Plus, voice acting is one thing...writing fucking terrible lines is another. : pun][sher
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      I only discovered yesterday that he is in so many games. : tomservo
      • he was the main character in Shadow Complex as well : grendel
• Oh come on now, "broken combat?" Then how'd I manage to play the entire game, with much combat mind!, and... : Ebu
• i wasnt digging the game too much, now im on chapter 11 and its a damn good game. so far, 9/10. : i poop from there
• I'm waiting to beat the first before I pick it up. But I always play for a while only to get into combat ... : Blackdawgg
• Fantastic post. : tomservo
• I'm working my way though the snow caverns. This dude has unprecedented upper-body strength. Pretty sol... : burning eye
• Situation comedies were in a good place in 1990? Really? Looking back at early 90's sitcoms, I see litt... : poindexter1985

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  Aren't you the guy that already owns about a bajillion games? : capt tripps
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    I've been seriously slacking on cataloging stuff :( http://www.roushimsx.com/lists/ : roushimsx
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      Jeez, is that the entire Xbox library? : pyide
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        I don't think that's 25% of the US library : roushimsx
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          I only had an Xbox for a year or so, looks like way more titles than I remember. : pyide
          • The system was totally killed well before it should have been. :( : roushimsx
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      no DS? Why so few GBA gameS? (Though those are pretty good picks) : Fayk
      • got a drawer or two full of them, just haven't bothered cataloging them think i may have one or two mo... : roushimsx
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      your saturn collection is impressive. : ass-street
      • Thanks! Almost all of it was from back when the system was alive, too! About the only stuff I've picke... : roushimsx
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      Once again someone who has Homeworld and HW2 but not Cataclysm. You seem to play a lot of good games ... : sanchez
      • You know, I had a bootleg of it for the longest time because I used to be a bit more morally flexible tha... : roushimsx
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  but, you can't display downloaded games! that should make them easy for you to resist! : mikecyb
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    http://images.roushimsx.com/GOG_20090902.jpg http://steamcommunity.com/id/roushimsx/games (hey look, I p... : roushimsx
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      Hostile Waters is so cool :D : SpaecKow
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        I loved that game. I really wish that someone would make another game in that same style. : Aragoat
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          And its infectious as well, I just bought it myself again after seeing roushis copy on GOG. : SpaecKow
          • Mission complete mwahahaha : roushimsx
          • Hahaha, you bastard. Now I want to buy it. I know that I own it somewhere but I'll be fucked if I can r... : Aragoat
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      Yeah but check this shit out. http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_f1d3hg6c3p80jnlh97bl.jpg : mikecyb
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        I don't know if I still have the boxes for that and Overseer. I think? I don't remember for absolutely su... : roushimsx
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          You're out of your league, old man! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_rcnbdtrxfxq73fbj1xgh.jpg : mikecyb
          • Easy to fix :( If you want to impress me, you'll need to find the press version of the game+box! (updat... : roushimsx
      • Third best game ever to feature the voice of James Earl Jones. : dmason
      • HOLY FUCK i remember that game LOL!! i would go over to my buddies house when i was young just to play i... : i poop from there
      • I still have that box too. : razlebol
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        NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS : tashtego
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          http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_x48w55lvsh2acgrx3mi1.jpg : mikecyb
          • Fucking awesome. : Bull
      • Michael C. Whybee has never known the touch of a woman. : tomservo
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      screamer! i remember playing that soooo much :( : GloriousCow
      • Really fun arcade racer at the time but it hasn't aged super well. Not a whole lot of content and the con... : roushimsx
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      Let's have a game fight! http://steamcommunity.com/id/pacalon/games : Pacalon
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        225GB installed http://steamcommunity.com/id/theamazingrando/games : theamazingrand0
        • my steam directory is highlighted in the white box http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/26232/WinDirStat.png : xsoulbrothax
      • Fine then, I'm bringing the heavy guns out http://steamcommunity.com/id/torazchryx/games http://www.s... : Toraz Chryx
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        http://steamcommunity.com/id/crummy win : crummynz
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          http://steamcommunity.com/id/baroncalico bigger win so unfair though : kallanta
          • You're a cheater. : crummynz
          • h4x!!! : Toraz Chryx
          • that is so beautiful. super envious :( Man, I need to pick up those Delta Force games, too :( : roushimsx
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        http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_qk0gzrt3g69781llhy3s.jpg : mikecyb
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          http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_iq8ffmakv1311og8bnb7.jpg : roushimsx
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            I can't match :( new round! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_uw4fhdtdomwviovxx1wt.jpg : mikecyb
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              Don't make me break out the Carmageddon box I've got on a nearby shelf. : Toraz Chryx
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                I haven't even busted out the big guns yet! : mikecyb
                • True, Carmageddon doesn't have guns. Sadly I've long since lost my Kilrathi Saga >:( we need mo : Toraz Chryx
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              Aww, you know I don't have that game you cheap shot bastard :( http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUplo... : roushimsx
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                I am making substitutions! http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_x774dnncdx9y6ecem6n8.jpg : mikecyb
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                  Well this game just got kicked in the balls by fucking ER. :( I was about to take a pic of the N64 Rog... : roushimsx
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                    haha aww, good show though : mikecyb
                    • We gotta do this more often! : roushimsx
              • I love this picture. : Bull
        • That's disgusting, why would you show that to people, put it away. : SpaecKow
    • Nice Midnight Club 2. You play or beat it yet? : alias

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  shack should set up a gifting list so we americans can buy your games for you and gift that shit. : StolenNosferatu
  • that would be awesome. euro shackers could save a fortune : naabster
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    Yes. Lets : millakazuya
    • do people use paypal in NZ? is there an easy way to xfer money painlessly to US shackers? : crummynz
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  How much is DOW2 at the moment. I'm feeling the rage building... : millakazuya
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    20 american. : StolenNosferatu
    • Which is it? 20 or 29? Or are you trying to work me up StolenNosferatu? : millakazuya
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    $29.99USD atm. : Cliffzorz
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      It's on sale for $20. : hoov1185
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        Not here its not. : Cliffzorz
        • Yes but cliff, the point of my post was to find out how much they pay. : millakazuya
  • 29.99 € so about 45 USD. thats not fair. : naabster
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  Is that $12.50 before or after any VAT and similar taxes NZ may have? : Arcanum
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    I'm not sure what VAT is. How does the sale work for you guys Tax wise. Is it included? My bank ch... : millakazuya
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      I'd say its like GST here, steam never mentions GST explicitly though : Cliffzorz
      • 33% is a very high level of tax! : millakazuya
    • Value Added Tax, IIRC. Many countries have it, and it's sometimes added to the price of a product invisi... : Arcanum
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  Nevermind a measly $5. WHERE THE FUCK IS CIV4 AND BIOSHOCK JESUS. : Cliffzorz
  • What is "Bioshock Jesus"? Did they crucify a Big Daddy? : Arcanum
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    Yes. What the fuck. I see you just posted 29.99 USD, did you realise (if that guy above is right).... : millakazuya
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      There is seemingly no end to how much they hate this hemisphere. : Cliffzorz
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        So you've only just realised as well that we are charged more in USD? : millakazuya
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          I've always known. But its more often than not still way cheaper than retail. : Cliffzorz
          • I feel betrayed by Mr Gabe : millakazuya
• different publishing and distribution agreements in NZ? taxes on imports? : cpt_gloval
• This explains so much. Like i was thinking, how the Fuck are Bethseda selling Fallout 3 for 69.99 USD. Wh... : millakazuya
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  Eventually I'm going to move back to NZ and I'm really not sure what I'll do with Steam. To buy games off... : crummynz
  • Someone needs to make a list comparing US - NZ prices. : Cliffzorz
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    if you have a US account/cc you can contact valve and ask them to add an exception for your IP. : filthysock
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      for your account, for NZ IP ranges : filthysock
      • Huh, that's cool to know. : crummynz
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  http://www.xe.com/ 7.50 USD in NZD is ~10 and 9.3 in Roobucks. You are getting charged more than tha... : pyide
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    Oh, they are charging you USD. Haha, well then. That $7.50 game for us becomes $17 for you. That is prett... : pyide
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      Yeah but DOW2, $30USD. I'm quite annoyed about this. I want to know why its so high. They get the s... : millakazuya
      • I have no idea. That much bandwidth being piped overseas costs more than it would continentally? Don't yo... : pyide
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  Interesting, Just tried using a proxy server and it looks like it will allow me to buy it using the c... : millakazuya
  • Let me know if it works; I thought they required your credit card be in the US, too. : crummynz
• You want to know what else is interesting. Company of Heroes, Original & Opposing Fronts, are selling for... : millakazuya

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  Getting to mars might not actually be so hard :D : one random winner
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    getting back is the hard part. : ass-street
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      They shouldn't be so worried about this part. Call it a one-way mission. : Rich McNinch
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        as if they would ever do that. : ass-street
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          They should seriously consider it. : Rich McNinch
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            would you go? : ass-street
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              Fuck yeah. : Rich McNinch
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                I'll be a Mars Pioneer with you, can we bring girls? Hot ones please. : ejectorpod
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                  Yeah, but that's a really long trip to take with a woman. Lets hope this suspended animation stuff works... : Rich McNinch
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                    You'll also want to make sure their tubes are tied, don't want kids born in that situation. : one random winner
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                      No you absolutely want kids born on Mars. Otherwise what's the point in pioneering? : Rich McNinch
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                        Oh, you thought you all were going to survive, how very quaint. : one random winner
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                          Yeah we'll live in a bubble and grow carrots and taters. : Rich McNinch
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                            Leaving your children with the fate of sleeping together. : DarkWolf5
                            • You mean assuming we can't mate with the Martian people? Perhaps Earth can send along a selection of spe... : Rich McNinch
                            • or sleeping with you! : StolenNosferatu
                        • lol'd : ass-street
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      Does that mean we're still waiting for robots to carry seeds and water over there to start a small livabl... : one random winner
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        Especially with no atmosphere. : Totenjaeger
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          Mars has an atmosphere. We should be able to generically engineer something that will live there. Wate... : trove
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            generically genetically, right? : one random winner
            • Lol. Yeah. : trove
          • I dunno, this engineering is good and all, but it just seems so generic. : SenorSpine
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    I don't look forward to space travel anymore. My friends wife last weekend hit up the garage sales and b... : Wombat Woo
    • *cue inspirational movie speech music* "For too long has furniture been restricted to the floor! For ... : uglysad
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    There was a story a few days ago, I wish I could remember the name of it, but it was about a new sort of ... : unholydonuts
    • I remember hearing something about that too, an interesting idea and way more plausible than some of the ... : one random winner
    • Ion engines are a bit old, they've been used on probes before. The one you heard about uses ionization, ... : twifosp
    • which is important because the current time it takes us to get there exposes the travelers to higher than... : derelict515
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    With new plasma rockets being developed, mars is not that long of a trip as previously thought. Bein... : twifosp
    • so this is what priapism feels like. : everybodysuncle
• that was interesting : fathertime
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  That's amazing - who knows what kind of crazy things this could lead to! : thetangent
  • i can agree to go to romantic comedies : spiderfill
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    legal corpse sex ? : MrLobo
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      I wonder if consensual chloroform porn exists. : liqker
      • You can start it up. : pimpium
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  this is cool. maybe I can realize my dream of seeing what happens in 1000 years. : jvox
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    Nuclear holocaust FTL... : one random winner
    • nah, it'll be all Minority Report-ish! : jvox
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkudvjhARI : Solstice
    • go on adventures with a Mexican robot and a fuckable cyclops : spiderfill
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  There's a ted presentation about it. : WhatIsThisFor
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    who gives that talk? I searched ted.com for Mark Roth and found nothing : rgoer
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      http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_ward_on_mass_extinctions.html : WhatIsThisFor
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        So only 75% of your brain would be revived? No thanks. : bakanoodle
        • for some people that would be an increase in cranial capacity : CoRDS
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  I want to know how they conduct the first human trial for this. : notd665
  • Chinese prisoners : Chod
  • death row inmates "hey guys, we can extend your life a couple more days at least, but you gotta... almost... : moe6
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  It seems to fail on larger animals. No suspended animation for us yet. : bRAINsick
  • haha. Fat people suck : uglysad
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    It's entirely possible that mice have remnants of a hibernation system in their genome that pigs and huma... : retarded talking dinosaur
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      so the logical solution would be to splice bear genome with man genome. : Cihte
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        throw in a shark and I think you've got yourself a deal http://tofupunk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploa... : c0bra
        • FEROCIOUS! : Danny5225
    • one that's based on hydrogen sulfide? : c0bra
• hah wasnt this an episode of CSI? : -=kodiak=-
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  This can only lead to DEMOLITION MAN : mnok
  • damnit, taco bell gives me hellish heartburn and gas : Joseph
• The source of Solanum? : dedgecko
• DARPA has been experimenting with this to come up with new and advanced Battlefield Medicine and MEDEVAC ... : Sailor of Fortune
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  This is surprising to me considering how poisonous H2S is. If it pans out, I imagine it would have to be ... : retarded talking dinosaur
  • That's what I thought as well. I've took a very basic H2S survival course, and it isn't something to be ... : Rag and Bone Man
• It doesn't look like anyone saw the part about it reduced the amount of damage the heart sustained during... : Professor Darkness

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  did they add a home button yet? I could never find one, and had to manually type shacknews.com into : atom519
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    it has always had a home button, you just have to check the "Show Home button on the toolbar" option in t... : electroly
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      electroly you're so smart. i bet your mom told you that a lot didn't she? : atom519
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        thats how he found the home button... mom always said "Show Home button on the toolbar" ... people though... : Demius
        • skelomeh : thrallie200
  • It's always been there. Options->Basic->Show Home Button on Toolbar : Dimmona
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    I don't get the trend of removing the home button by default. Firefox was going to remove it for 3.0 but ... : jonas54
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      I don't really get the concept of a "home page" or the need for a home button. It's just another bookmark... : Goncyn
      • Business. Some people tend to use a single webapp at work and the business wants that as the default page... : steauengeglase
      • My home page is my bookmarks. I use a custom page with big buttons that link to every site that I use. ... : electroly
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  they have themes now so you don't have to look at the default blue and grey colors : aurealis
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    Do they not work when using incognito mode? : dmason
    • Never mind. I see what was going on. : dmason
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  I like that Chrome is faster, I don't like that the Awesomebar is not in it. : Deathlove
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    Omnibar > Awesomebar. : Omning
    • so very, very true : Perturbation
    • false : retarded talking dinosaur
    • I like them both. Incredibly handy. : dmason
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    The main thing I miss about the Awesomebar is typing substrings from URLs in my history and having them a : rock elf
    • i just type "s" and it brings up latest chatty :) : electroly
    • I agree that I wish it would more aggressively match strings in the middle of the URL. : Goncyn
    • We have two problems here. The first is that we only match substrings at component breaks, so we could m... : Zero|DPX
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  Still waiting on a Mac version.. Hasn't this been out over a year now? : Tripps
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    Yep. The OSX builds are still lacking in any real functionality : foo
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      Um, what? They do most things. What are you missing? : Zero|DPX
      • I can't change the homepage from google.com :( The textbox appears to be read only. : electroly
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    Is there a Linux version? : AndyGoin
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      Like the Mac version, it's in development. : rock elf
      • It works quite well now, though it still not really ready for sole use. They are making great progress. ... : jcupitt
      • I've been using it with much success. Missing features, but functional. : dmason
    • Yes. It's a dev version still, but I use it day to day for my only browser. I've not opened firefox in ... : batkiwi
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    You can still use them.. I'm using the OSX version now.. there are bugs but its stable. I haven't really ... : Demius
    • http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel : Demius
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  I'm working on the extension. I have a bunch of scripts working to varying degrees. : ThomW
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    Do you need testers? I refuse to install firefox just for lols. : Haxim
    • If you're smrt you can grab what's on the google code shackscripts project but there are lots of bugs, so... : ThomW
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    Hurry! I love chrome and had the scripts for like a two month period, then they broke : ( : the_burd
    • Pay me. lol : ThomW
  • Huzzah! : Albemuth
  • Awesome! :) : dmason
  • ThomW I switched to chrome, but the biggest argument for switching back to firefox is your scripts. I lov... : StolenNosferatu
• If it doesn't have NoScript, I'll pass. : Marrbe
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  I don't like how it slows down over time. I leave the browser open while I go out for lunch and when I re... : Home Nugget
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    http://dev.chromium.org/memory-usage-backgrounder "Chrome offers 3 runtime memory management models: ... : Micand
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      And how do you activate this? I copy --memory-model=high in to the address bar and it doesn't do shit. : Rigg5
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        It's a command-line switch -- edit the shortcut you use to launch Chrome to include the switch. See this ... : Micand
        • I should mention that, unless you feel Chrome is grossly unresponsive when you return to it after leaving... : Micand
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      This switch is gone from the Dev channel builds, and was on high by default before that. Home Nugget's... : Zero|DPX
      • I gotta say I appreciate your dedication to this community Zero. : Draugluin
• happened upon a website the other day that informed me they specifically block chrome and I should use a ... : xxx2xxx
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  Anyway to move the tabs under the bookmarks like in firefox? thats driving me nuts. : rak
  • No, and there never will be. Sorry. : Zero|DPX
  • It is way better. You can just go all the way to the edge of the screen, which makes it faster. : OmegaRed59
• I'll switch once I can get the same Firefox extensions on Chrome. : PointlesS76
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  reply with your email here for Google Chrome invites I have 6 left : TastyWheat
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    I have some gmail invites if anyone needs some : crummynz
    • You should check out these IE install keys I have, corporate edition baby! : steauengeglase
  • tastywheat@gmail.com thx : TreMetal
  • dmpond@gmail.com : thecatinthehat
  • omgomgomg!!!!! send to: troll me hard at gmail dot com!!1!!1!!one : Creepin_Jeezus
  • loverboystevegibson@yahoo.com : slickdoody
  • tastywheat I pmed you my email if you want to give me one! : ejectorpod
  • rwong013@gmail.com : StolenNosferatu
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  It's getting alot better. They finally fixed middle click scroll. Is there a reason the scroll wheel has ... : retarded talking dinosaur
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    Scratch that, middle click scroll STILL has bugs. *sigh* : retarded talking dinosaur
    • What are the bugs? Seems to work here : crummynz
    • Which ones? Things should be working fairly well now. : Zero|DPX
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    the scroll rate in firefox is way too short compared to every other program out there, I always double it : sanchez
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      That was my conclusion as well, so I picked a rate that felt good to me :). Actually it's weirder, Fir... : Zero|DPX
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        Whoa, I just found a weird OSX scrolling bug in Chrome. If you put a Safari window below a Chrome window ... : Kentor
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          haha you're right. that's weird. : electroly
          • it only happens when the mouse is hovering over a link. like any shack post. if i hover in the empty sp... : electroly
  • Middle click scroll works fine on the developer channel build, but it's nothing like as smooth as Firefox... : rock elf

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav : Vimn
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  Chavs in england, neds in scotland. Scum. Kill them all. Ok, perhaps spare the entertaining ones, i'm fee... : marku5
  • .. and if you want to see what neds are like, http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/ : marku5
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    Chavs IMO tend to be just uneducated types who wear slightly tragic clothes and take no interest in anyth... : disembodied potato
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      Abusive and violent, isn't that pretty much implied for EVERYONE in Scotland? : locater16
      • only if you look at us. : disembodied potato
    • So basically it is the difference between a wigger and a wino/bum? : steauengeglase
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  Yes. I imagine rednecks, wiggers, or whatever equivalent you have usually mind their own business and onl... : Bamtan
  • Yarp, they have no respect for anything.. and the trouble that ensues is what you'd expect. : cause&effect
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  They're the equivalent of emos, from what I understand. : BlackCat9
  • No, those were mods : d fluke
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    No. Emo is a fashion and music subculture, and we have that too. Chavs do have their own fashion, which i... : rock elf
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      Aside from the fashion, they sound like emos. But I just meant they're the same from a standpoint of bein... : BlackCat9
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        Nah, Emo's are normally from a different background. I've found most emo kids are basically normal people... : Creepin_Jeezus
        • Yeah emo's tend more often than not to come from privileged back grounds, and have terrible taste in poet... : disembodied potato
    • this describes the typical resident of my fair city : cpt_gloval
    • I just remembered - Fat Pie, the guy who made the Salad Fingers animations, also plays a chav character c... : rock elf
  • Nonononono. Emo's are emo's everywhere. They're the middle class 'rebels' who haven't quite grown any ... : Creepin_Jeezus
  • I thought they were the equivalent of hillbillies or white trash. : jingletard
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 : Greymatter42
  • Aw. : SpaecKow
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    he's got a joker scar smile :o : dantastic
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      thats called a Chelsea smile, you see quite a lot of folk in glasgow with them : disembodied potato
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        ack, even described in a wiki that's nasty. : Super Sparker
        • oh wow, that is what happened to maximus' man maid in gladiator http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsF/2... : gmd
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        You must live in some really dodgy parts of glasgow, i've lived here my whole life and never saw anyone w... : marku5
        • I just spent ten minutes learning about the rivalry between Celtic and the Rangers. Now I know alot more... : trove
  • it's Ali G : gmd
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    haha i'd love to here american shackers interpretations of those lines :) : disembodied potato
    • bwahahaha. Can someone have a go? Please? : Creepin_Jeezus
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      he isn't even speaking English : gmd
      • Believe it or not, he really is. : Creepin_Jeezus
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      It doesn't even sound like English to me except for a couple words. It sounds like Chinese that's been sp... : BlackCat9
      • Will you tell me what he's actually saying now? : BlackCat9
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        translation (with explanations) Here mate. (Here is used to draw attention, for example' HERE YOU '... : disembodied potato
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          and you say us Americans butcher the language, Jesus. : gmd
          • its strangely characterful, as much as neds are maligned, they're a hilarious part of the culture and mos... : disembodied potato
          • haha : cpt_gloval
          • It was broken when we got it. : BlackCat9
        • I got some of that right, even though it didn't make sense to me anyway. : BlackCat9
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      i understood literally none of it : electroly
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        WAIT I HEARD HIM SAY "LAST NIGHT" : electroly
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          and before that "I fucked your mom" definitely got that part. : TShandy
          • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huK0mIDAl30 <--- lyrics. wtf : electroly
  • I can barely understand one word... : sanchez
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    this guys looks really punchable : cpt_gloval
    • he is the Chav lookitzpancakes : gmd
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    he looks so pale and wet : Mansmells
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      That's what all the British look like. : SpaecKow
      • i mean more than normal : Mansmells
      • Lack of sun and all that rain : Drewus
  • dont know what is going on here, but it is very entertaining : fathertime
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLfr1EP08 : SpaecKow
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  This reminds me, the term 'chav' has only really become popular in the last 5 years. When I was at school... : rock elf
  • [Insert general insult here] : Creepin_Jeezus
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  Think of the droogs from A Clockwork Orange, then scale them back a bit with different clothing and less ... : Lone Swordsman
  • for some reason this was far more amusing than it should have been. : Toraz Chryx
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  Look up the video for the song 'stress' by Justice. I'd do it but I'm posting from my iPhone. : marmite
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9NvJfwF9bI : Creepin_Jeezus
  • I'll just watch some Lady Sovereign videos instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYrXH2ZbEw4 : DonkeyPopsicle
• I would happily hunt them all down, capture them, put them in crates and send them off to a small island.... : niceguynick