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  The DLC was developed as part of the game proper, then cut out so they could charge for it. : kek
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    no. : dahanese
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      That may not be true, but it certainly gives consumers that message when DLC is pushed out the door in th... : pigvomit
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        yeah, but consumers are generally kind of stupid and them figuring it out is a lost cause. :D : xsoulbrothax
        • I thought this was dahanese's reply and almost lol'd. : pigvomit
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        I always assume it personally. Especially with minor shit like playable characters. : avatar_58
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          Yeah I remember the first DLC for Oblivion was a fucking horse and they wanted 3 bucks for it or somethin... : kek
          • Back in the beginnings of DLC, yeah, it was utter bullshit. Glad they summed everything up into an expan... : one random winner
          • and now compare that to the FO3 DLC from the same company. DLC is still fairly new and people are experim... : derelict515
          • yeah oblivion was so lacking in content : Fayk
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        i wish hard core consumers could get more involved with learning how the process works. that would be nea... : dahanese
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          Well, unless the developer opens up their entire development schedule, how can consumers really know? Ev... : pigvomit
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            that's true, but so often i feel that gamers don't understand exactly what makes up the team that creates... : dahanese
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              Gamers are such a strange market. Seriously how many people out there demand to know the details of how ... : DinK
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                it is unique. i really like it, but that's pretty much my job. even feedback that's disheartening is good... : dahanese
                • Yeah, I'm sure it can be cool actually having a "community" around your business. I don't directly desig : DinK
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                I doubt it's a high percentage of gamers that really care. It's just the hardcore gamers that spend all ... : stump
                • Yeah I doubt it's the majority of gamers, but it's still many more of them than other groups of consumers... : DinK
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                I imagine if you were posting on a car forum you would find more people interested in the production of c... : TreMetal
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                  I've been on plenty of car forums. They'll get excited about an upcoming launch or the scheduling of it,... : DinK
                  • Need to read more of the Lexus forum. Those people purchase articles about the development of their favor... : LoioshDwaggie
              • that means (most) gamers are more informed consumers. this is not a bad thing at all. : anthonybean
            • even if they did release all that information the developers have a motivation to lie for profit. if the... : handofthrawn
          • Because when developers or publishers try to say something, the consumers go "Yeah, right" and then latch... : xsoulbrothax
          • There's been numerous posts by Bioware devs in various threads mentioning that the DLC for that was conte... : Vincent Grayson
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          It would be nice if publishers were more consumer friendly in the first place. Why learn the process when... : Jonathan
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            i'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. i agree consumer friendly is a good thing and everyone should... : dahanese
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              The problem is that understanding how DLC is made is pretty irrelevant - it's how the DLC is sold that is... : Jonathan
              • Technically you could actually skip the last DLC (the free one) if every first hand copy of the game came... : Jonathan
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                the content with game confuses me - that sounds like what preorder bonuses are. then the other two DLCs y... : dahanese
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                  I'm saying I should be able to get pre-order bonuses as paid DLC without being tied to a retailer. : Jonathan
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                    that also happens sometimes! you are right that it's not standardized, but all the stuff you talk about h... : dahanese
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                      for example, the pre-order DLC with Civilization Revolution was available a couple weeks after the game r... : dahanese
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                        but as you say it's not standard and for it to be friendly - the consumer needs to know ahead of time. I ... : Jonathan
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                          I personally would not want some mandate standardizing DLC. I can't see how that would make sense, anyway... : dahanese
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                            I'd like to avoid the need for charts like this - http://ctolpin.googlepages.com/dragonage_contentlist.jp... : Jonathan
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                              that seems like an extreme case. retailer incentives are a whole different ballgame. as for the "finishin... : dahanese
                              • Offering it up later is nice but it's more a sign that the retailers don't care anymore rather than publi... : Jonathan
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                            Were I microsoft, I would: -require all DLC for the first 6 months of a games life be free -not allow t... : batkiwi
                            • you just made me snort soda over the microsoft thing. you should probably go research what they actually ... : dahanese
                            • Why not reward people who buy first hand games? Publishers need to do something to compete with the secon... : Jonathan
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              its not that dlc takes focus from core game. its the fact that the dlc IS THE SAME AS core game and game : papaskot
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                a lot of DLC is definitely not "the last chapter taken out." i think you are generalizing based on some p... : dahanese
                • im not talking any sides here. the only thing i can attest to as far as games and dlc that I have bought : papaskot
      • I agree with you in part, but it's important to note that this DLC is not going to be out soon. : Nitrium
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        It seems like a tough problem to solve. If you announce the DLC before release, you send the message that... : Felraiser
        • Well, Gearbox seems pretty confident that Borderlands is going to be an awesome experience and a fantasti... : Nitrium
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        George from 3DR touched on this stuff last night in a similar thread. He has a similar attitude as some o... : jane911
        • Yeah, I think the method Bathesda and Rockstar used with their content for fallout 3 and GTA4, respective... : pigvomit
    • Yeah, but that's an easy inference to draw. Right or wrong, a lot of people probably think this. : ra1n
    • Lies. : skitzo
  • You are fucking wrong and just spouting shit you made up. Have you ever worked on a game? : OverloadUT
  • You've never worked with developers, have you? : ColoradoCNC
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  developing content is most likely done months in advance of the games release. The content team goes to o... : pancake humper
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    this. : lplasmatron
    • can I have a job? : pancake humper
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    what did the content team do 3 years ago before DLC was common? : Cihte
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      Thats what i'm saying : Shyssiryxius
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        they didn't work on the game anymore, that's for sure. why? because their job on the game was done. : dahanese
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          Or, in rare cases, they'd make an expansion. : Gonzo
          • expansion != game, so i still win! : dahanese
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          This is the most time consuming part, right? At least in overall man hours. : ra1n
          • what is most time consuming? i'm confused! : dahanese
    • Have LAN parties, eat chips, pizza, pop and lay in beds of cash until the next project. : jane911
    • Expansion packs, new IPs, new game ideas, other areas of the company : pancake humper
    • Take a few weeks off (See Bungie Podcast after Halo 3 went gold) : LoioshDwaggie
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      get fired after game ships : multisync
      • dynamix, sierra...how many can we name?! : Fayk
    • Get laid off. : gooblerampling
    • - vacation - pre-production on another project - laid off : synapse19
    • Played Civ 4 and ate pop tarts. : massdev
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      They included it in the game, kept it for the sequel, or released it in a free patch. : yacoub35
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        I don't want to be a dick...but please don't say stuff like this when you have absolutely no idea what yo... : ColoradoCNC
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          Congratulations for discovering the difference between perception and reality. : Jonathan
          • You would think I'd be used to it after almost 20 years on the internet :( : ColoradoCNC
          • except that what I stated was reality: before there was DLC, all content was located in one of the aforem... : yacoub35
    • Get fired or play video games. : lplasmatron
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      Get laid off, usually. : ColoradoCNC
      • Has DLC been proven to curtail industry layoffs then? It seems the people who are putting out DLC mostly ... : Cihte
    • Take holiday, start work on an expansion pack, or start work on the next game using the same engine. : uncleanmonkey
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    Most companies used to release this kind of stuff for free instead of charging for it. Nowadays, there ar... : razlebol
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      i think you need to give examples of what was released for free, because i think the quality of content (... : dahanese
      • Unreal tournament map packs, Team fortress classic and DM classic, Deus Ex multiplayer, Unreal 2 multipla... : razlebol
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      yea i remember duct taping 2 cds together that the dev would just mail me for buying their game back in t... : synapse19
      • What? : razlebol
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    so...dont pimp/show running copies of/announce the DLC before the game itself is even out! : papaskot
    • non-retarded people don't usually attribute dlc announcements the way some people around here seem to. us... : synapse19
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  Yes, all those artists, writers, and lower level producers really have alot to do during the last few mon... : Prozium
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    But if the DLC is set for a 0 day release... wouldn't it have to go through the same QA/Dev processes? M... : Ormsbee
    • Yeah, there really should be a 1 month window. : one random winner
    • I'd imagine it takes a lot less time/resources to QA content for a game than it does a game in it's entir... : Haxim
    • Retail products need to have boxes and manuals printed along with disks. These physical disks need to be ... : deveus1
• The problem is that companies are not getting across to customers that different teams (should be) develo... : Visceral Monkey
• The only thing I would like to know from most developers is how much extra content via DLC they have plan... : theangrywaffles
• I think it's more that consumers expect to get DLC so if you don't announce it seems like you aren't goin... : mrwolf710
• I wish you would have read all the other dozen or so threads about this where game developers here on the... : MercFox1
• It's nice to know a dev is already committed to post game support. : derelict515
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  how about when you go see a movie in the theater, and you know they had scenes they had to cut, and then ... : EvilDolemite
  • Yeah but people still get ticked off if you chop and change the extras so that you end up buying the mov... : Jonathan
  • haha we even get preorder bullshit with movies now... Want those IMAX scenes of Transformers 2 on your... : ghost in my shell
• My mindset was always that if I buy a game, then I should be entitled to the game and all necessarily rel : Jikim
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  My pet peeve is this outbreak of pre-order perks that grant in-game benefits or aesthetic features, that ... : Zek
  • i think with dead space, they put the preorder bonus stuff up for general sale after a while. : dirge23
  • you can thank retailers for those : mikecyb
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  It's called price discrimination. It's a way to offer more to the people who want to pay more and less to... : melt_core
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    That only works when the retail is cheaper because of it. : Zek
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      No. : melt_core
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        actually, yes. : yacoub35
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          The OP is asking what's going on and I'm offering an answer from an economic POV. But if you really want ... : melt_core
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            so i'm not allowed to disagree with "everybody wins"? : yacoub35
            • depends on if your disagreement contains actual content or the equivalent of 'no u' : derelict515
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          this is basic microeconomics 101. melt_core is right. : electroly
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            no it isn't. content is arguably less in the vanilla product to make DLCs possible and contain attractive... : yacoub35
            • your whole argument is predicated on the assumption that every piece of DLC comes as a sacrifce to conten... : derelict515
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        You said the people who wanted to pay less could pay less. Except they can't, because they're still payin... : Zek
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          and they're getting games that are just as long as they were 10 years ago before DLC existed with almost ... : derelict515
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            BUT I WANT TO PAY THE SAME PRICE I'VE BEEN PAYING FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS DESPITE THE FACT THAT DEVELOPMENT... : ColoradoCNC
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              How does overall increased sales factor into this arguing point? I'm sure there's more titles being sold... : AndyGoin
              • best selling games that sell a lot of copies will make a profit, but for the average AAA game you need to... : mikecyb
              • Costs + inflation has increased waaaay more than any sales. Especially on the PC platform where sales are... : uncleanmonkey
    • It is! I hope you're enjoying a commodity which has seen price a increase of a whopping 20% over the last... : sammyl
    • No, it's not. You're putting some magic limit on the value of a game being $60. But what if a company spe... : OverloadUT
• because they want more of your money so they will release additional content to get more of it. the inter... : yacoub35
• YESSSSSSSSS : bolneze
• Why isn't there the same anger towards pre-order bullshit? I think that's more annoying. Yeah I just ... : ghost in my shell
• I've never worked on a game that didn't start working on it's DLC before the game was out, and I've been ... : sammyl
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  How many $10 DLC's have had as much content as 1/5 of the $50 game they were for? Yeah... I hate this tre... : Psigun
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    You could look at it the other way, and ask how many games have more than $50 worth of entertainment in t... : sammyl
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      most games are very efficient conveyors of entertainment for the money. DLC just seems to add little knic... : Psigun
      • most games? pfft if only that were true no one would give a rats ass about DLC. : brainchild420
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      It doesn't make sense to look at it this way. That's because the ~$50 price point is established for new... : ra1n
      • Or, irregardless if you're nasty. : ra1n
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    How many $30 PC expansion packs have 60% of the content of the original game? : derelict515
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      most of the ones i've bought have. all the blizzard games, neverwinter nights 1 & 2, relic's games, etc. : Psigun
      • Don't forget Civilization! : one random winner
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        really? Because I recall D2 being 1 act extra on top of 4. 2 classes on top of 5. That's not 60%. WC3 had... : derelict515
        • math?!?! how dare you... : brainchild420
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          There were still much bigger value wise compared to DLC. Nowadays, you get 3 maps for 10$. What the f... : razlebol
          • Multiplayer games have an ugly history of doing this. (GoW, GoW2, Halo 3). : LoioshDwaggie
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            By that token in a $30 expansion you should get 9 maps or maybe slightly more. How many maps did Q3TA hav... : derelict515
            • OpFor was also full price at $50 and less than half the length of Half-Life. It was worth it because it ... : mikecyb
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              Using TF2 in your example is retarded. The Orange Box was the best deal in gaming history. If you already... : zombie man
              • Now that I think of it, the Orange Box was basically an expansion for Half-Life 2, so that would make it ... : zombie man
            • Nobody bought Q3TA for a reason. Also, expansion uses to be about more than just new maps. It featured ne... : razlebol
  • My standpoint exactly. IAWTP : thetangent
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    Are you breaking it down by average gameplay hours? It's hard when you add "stuff" (which isn't always $1... : dahanese
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      it doesn't have to be gameplay hours. it can be anything that adds value to the game. it can be purely mo... : Psigun
      • Bingo. Using the FO3 DLC as an example (hey lplasmatron, my wife still hates you), you got extra story a... : mafu5150
      • i love fallout 3, fable 2, and rock band DLC. those are my top three favorites. : dahanese
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    That is a ridiculous way to try to quantify it. You have bought plenty of $60 games which only provided h... : OverloadUT
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      you infer an awful lot in your tirades mr. dlc crusader. your post telling me what you thought i was sayi... : Psigun
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        meanwhile a whole lot of people were very happy to get more Fallout 3 content because most other $60 game... : derelict515
        • i am actually buying the fallout 3 dlc, so i guess i should have mentioned that as an exception. :) th... : Psigun
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        then do it. if you got rid of dlc it's not like that content would make it to the main game. it just woul... : synapse19
        • i am not against buying DLC. DLC just seems to be mostly not worth the money. in some cases it is, and i ... : Psigun
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        so you would rather spend money on a $60 game that may or may not even be good... instead of having one g... : brainchild420
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          if it's worth it i'll buy it. most dlc isn't worth it was my point. i have L4D2 preordered already so I d... : Psigun
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            no no, i'm saying you are on a completely different train of thought from the L4D2 guys. they expect and ... : brainchild420
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              no it's not bothering me. i'm fine with it, if they're done well. mostly they seem like cash-ins to me un... : Psigun
              • yeah, it's been a long day and i need to go home. :( : brainchild420
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        My point is why would you compare it to the price of the base game? Why not evaluate it based on its own ... : OverloadUT
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          get over the strict interpretation of my EXAMPLE as some sort of in-depth use of a content:dollar analysi : Psigun
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            and also with it being worked on concurrently alongside the primary release of a game. that also bothers ... : Psigun
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              Okay I was all ready to agree with you before this last comment. Complaining that the majority of DLC ... : OverloadUT
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                well we can agree on my first point and disagree on that point then. :) it just seems goofy when a co... : Psigun
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                  reading mikeycybs explanation below made this practice make a bit more sense, so i guess i'm not really a... : Psigun
                  • whoops, should've refreshed. sorry =( : deveus1
                • there are plenty of explanations in these thread from people who actually work in the industry as to why ... : deveus1
    • I agree with you, but I do feel kinda weird having paid $50 for Fallout 3, and then $50 for DLC for it th... : Vincent Grayson
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  THIS IS NOT FUCKING HARD TO FIGURE OUT. Jesus christ I fucking hate how stupid people are about DLC. Here : OverloadUT
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    this defies logic. You are calling us stupid? How about being called naive? Do you think a company says "... : gyokuro
    • Budgets are usually decided based on predicted profits. Are you disagreeing with that? How else would a c... : OverloadUT
• It doesn't bother me that much. Usually when I finish a game I have no desire to play any expansions. F... : WhatIsThisFor
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  What I love the most is games like TES IV Oblivion where the DLCs were made with content that was ALREAD... : Nighthawk0110
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    how dare they plan ahead! they should've just put a teleporter that takes you to Isle de DLC. : derelict515
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      Wow. Obviously you don't get it. Companies are now making the whole game, then saying, lets take ... : JohnnyRey
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        You are wrong. You have no evidence for your assertions and people in the industry are here telling you t... : OverloadUT
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          Really? I always assumed that most companies will wait to see how well a game sells before deciding to ma... : JohnnyRey
          • This is also puzzling.. How can everything be soooo risky and challenging and near bank breaking for the... : AndyGoin
          • this contradicts what you were just saying. you say they make stuff and take it out, and you also say th... : papaskot
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        lets take this and this out and sell it as DLC later This is false speculation. That's not how it wor... : electroly
        • What makes you think it wouldn't have? Lots of things get cut from a game during production. The que... : hawke
      • Companies are now making the whole game, then saying, lets take this and this out and sell it as DLC late : derelict515
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        it's more like while they were developing the game, they had all this other content that either didn't ma... : brainchild420
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          The only exact and proven example of this I remember is unlocking the cheat codes from some EA game. Have... : LoioshDwaggie
          • the content being on the disc doesn't demonstrate anything other than the fact that they planned their DL... : electroly
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            Even if the data is on the disk, that does not in any way mean that the content would have existed in a w... : OverloadUT
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              Sigh, again you miss the point. How long until EA starts selling the "base game" and to get the "full gam... : JohnnyRey
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                ahh, the old "slippery slope" fallacy. can you name even one situation where this has happened? game de... : electroly
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                  Yes. EA. EOT. : JohnnyRey
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                    Saying 'Yes' with no evidence doesn't make it true. What EA games did this? : derelict515
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                      Burnout Paradise, Battlefield: Bad Company, Army of Two, Mass Effect - oh wait : xsoulbrothax
                      • yeah Burnout is pretty much the posterchild for how to do DLC and give great value and it's an EA publish... : derelict515
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                  Not that I agree with JohnnyRey, but what about the Beautiful Katamari "DLC" that just unlocked assets al... : Haxim
                  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21166400 or any of OverloadUT's responses in this thread. : electroly
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                Did Valve do this with Half Life 2 and the episodes? : OverloadUT
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                  How about every single "To be continued" game ever created? How about every movie sequel ever made? Do yo... : OverloadUT
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                    I kinda think anything that ships on the disc should be enabled. I don't like paying for stuff I already ... : LoioshDwaggie
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                      Why does the physical placement of the data matter? If they had simply held the content and forced you t : electroly
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                        When I purchase a game I expect it to come with everything the developer has completed. If you unlock con... : LoioshDwaggie
                        • Other than taking a second dip, of course. : LoioshDwaggie
                        • Yes! The reason has been given many times in this thread. The reason the content is not available to you : OverloadUT
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                          ... because it was planned to be DLC? i'm not sure what you're asking here. you seem to be implying tha : electroly
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                            The example Overload gave below about budgeted DLC is something I have not heard of before. Budgeted DLC : LoioshDwaggie
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                              Personally, the only DLC I've found value in is the Broken Steel and Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3. Tho... : LoioshDwaggie
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                                Yeah I think we can all agree the Skate 2 "unlock everything" DLC is bullshit. We're not saying all game... : electroly
                                • Then that's ok by me. I'll continue to vote with my dollars when I disagree (horse armor) and when I agre... : LoioshDwaggie
                                • I actually think those kind of unlock codes are hilarious as shit. It's not like that's the only way to g... : mikecyb
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                      So, let's imagine this scenario: A company has a completed game, and also some completed DLC for the g : OverloadUT
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                        In that SPECIFIC case, I have no issue. I'm surprised someone could load this impressive DLC onto an alre... : LoioshDwaggie
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                          This SPECIFIC case is exactly how it works every single time! You comment about it being added to an alre... : OverloadUT
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                            Anyways, here's an example of what I do not like: http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/01/22/skate-2-dlc-unlocks-... : LoioshDwaggie
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                              Okay yeah that Skate 2 DLC is bullshit. But that is not how most DLC works. Most of it actually is separa... : OverloadUT
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                                the Skate 2 thing isn't really DLC, it's more like they are selling cheat codes. and again, I think it's... : mikecyb
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                                  A part of me hates it, but the other part of me feels like it would be worth it to me personally so it's ... : OverloadUT
                                  • oh yeah, there are alarms in my head going off and shouting "THIS IS BULLSHIT!!" for sure (why the alarms... : mikecyb
                                • I don't have enough schadenfreude in my personality to be delighted. I occasionally make use of cheat cod... : LoioshDwaggie
                  • I want the full star wars experience all as one big movie!! : AndyGoin
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                  No? : JohnnyRey
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                    But Half Life 2 wasn't the complete story! You paid for the game but only got half of it! A couple years ... : OverloadUT
                    • You're being intentionally melodramatic, Overload. It's not necessary. : LoioshDwaggie
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                      Ahh, the good ol' strawman fallacy. Yes. A couple years later. They didn't make it all, then have the... : JohnnyRey
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                        except you've failed to provide evidence that the scenario you reference exists outside your head or cert... : derelict515
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                          Here's the deal. We pay $60 for a game. Years ago, you got a complete, kick-ass game. Patches on a consol... : JohnnyRey
                          • another fundamental flaw is that games are much, much, much more expensive to produce than even five year... : mikecyb
                          • All I hear from you are a bunch of baseless statements. Games aren't shorter. Is HL2 shorter than HL by... : derelict515
                          • Games are not containing less content than they did years ago. That is so fucking wrong it hurts. Jesus f : OverloadUT
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                            Patches and DLC are an improvement. You cannot tell me that you think Wolfenstein 3D is a better, more... : dahanese
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                              Funny you mention wolf3d; would you rather play the new one or the old original? : AndyGoin
                              • i haven't played the new one, so i can't say! the original is one of my favorite games of all time, so... : dahanese
                      • But you case doesn't happen. You have failed to give any case of it ever happening. I am just trying to f... : OverloadUT
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                Did you hear that next year's Madden game only includes one player, and all other players cost $2 to down... : ColoradoCNC
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                  Lol, just wait until GT5 comes with 30 cars, and you have to buy the rest. Don't think it's going to ... : JohnnyRey
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                    I was gonna come up with a snappy retort, but it's not even worth my time. You have worked yourself into : ColoradoCNC
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                      The issue is you (and the rest) are expecting consumers to know the INS and outs of how a product is made... : AndyGoin
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                        nobody is saying "stfu, we need money" here. they are retorting baseless assumptions people are making a... : mikecyb
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                          What about just not announcing day 0 or 1 dlc? Isnt that just feeding the ignorance? : AndyGoin
                          • apparently the number of frothing at the mouth Internet gamers is significantly less than the more ration... : derelict515
                          • what do you mean day 0 or day 1 DLC? most DLC isn't out the same day as the game. DLC is often announ... : dahanese
                          • it's not feeding anything, it's a way of saying "hey after this game is out there will be additional cont... : mikecyb
          • i believe that the SF4 'alternative costumes' falls into this bracket as well unfortunately. those were ... : riedlos
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        wrong. so so so wrong. : synapse19
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          Yes, because you work for every development studio/publisher out there and now how they all do business. ... : JohnnyRey
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            your industry connections are obviously vast though, as opposed to the numerous devs here who're contradi... : derelict515
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              Those numerous devs.. That have a financial interest in the topic at hand. I will say this, while some b... : AndyGoin
              • yes, we're all lying publicly even though what we're saying can be researched and confirmed by people who... : dahanese
              • all the games media and ex-developers who're no longer tied down by their employers must be in on this co... : derelict515
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            your post underlines your misunderstanding of game development on a very basic level. there's not a magi... : mikecyb
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              http://kotaku.com/370694/ea-charging-for-bad-company-weapons Remember this? It got cancelled, but i... : JohnnyRey
              • I'm not saying some company won't ever try something insane, but that's not really DLC content. if we ar... : mikecyb
              • so your best example so far is something that didn't happen... : derelict515
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                this is basically how CCGs work and people still play the shit out of those. : dirge23
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                  Exactly. But do you want your games to start using the CCG pricing model? I sure fucking don't, because y... : JohnnyRey
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                    no, i don't, but even if these products do come to exist they won't push the current model out of the mar... : dirge23
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                      CCGs really shrank the PnP RPG industry. : Jonathan
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                        did they? there are still a ton of PnP RPGs : dirge23
                        • I think he was joking. If anything CCGs actually helped PnP RPGs by keeping the gaming hobby shop in busi... : OverloadUT
      • Companies are now making the whole game, then saying, lets take this and this out and sell it as DLC late : ColoradoCNC
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  Do you guys not understand stuff like certification and content lock? Games are done months before they ... : mikecyb
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    mike, i don't think people who make these sorts of DLC arguments understand anything about the game devel... : electroly
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      Well the other problem is that gamers don't have many reasons to give publishers benefit of doubt - it's ... : Jonathan
      • This pretty much sums it up for me. Ever since I've seen DLC get included on the disk, it's hard to reall... : PointlesS76
    • It's kind of weird too because DLC exists primarily to extend the life of a game (well, aside from money-... : mikecyb
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      Guess what. They don't have to know how your biz works to be disgruntled. Ever been slightly upset abou... : AndyGoin
      • you can be upset about it, but if you are asserting things that are flat out wrong then expect to be corr... : mikecyb
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    I'm surprised games ever get released at all, given how long perfectly boring business software takes to ... : Dave-A
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      well, mostly it's because games are mismanaged from the start and then like three months before you have ... : mikecyb
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        Do you think it would be realistic to have a game studio with little overtime and be profitable? : Dave-A
        • With proper management, I think absolutely yes. : OverloadUT
        • I would say it's possible, and such companies do exist, though they're very rare. : mikecyb
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        This would be funny if it weren't true. BTW, what company do you work for, and doing what? I know dah... : ColoradoCNC
        • he works for cabela, doing mocap on monster bass : Dave-A
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          I work at Telltale (though not on the games outside of the occasional brainstorm meeting or snarky commen... : mikecyb
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            That seems like such a preferable environment. Lucky bastard. ;) : ColoradoCNC
            • come to redwood shores >:D the pogo guys seemed happy : xsoulbrothax
• I do have a problem with this, but not for many of the reasons listed. I dont mind paying someone for qua... : theWhite
• Good call newb. : pres589
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  Really? Again? Breckonsigh : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • lol bkreckonsigh.... : JohnnyRey
  • Would you recommend this game? : Nitrium
• The Beatles' Abbey Road is being released next week for Beatles Rock Band. They announced they were doing... : Schnapple
• I hate the DLC trend, but it isn't always that bad, and I've appreciated DLC on occasion. : Link.
• I just posted about this on the front page! http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21163599 : Dave-A
• I love the fact that they're doing this : Pros : 1. It shows that they will be committed to maintaini... : everybodysuncle
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  What I hope to not see again is content already in the game or on the disc being unlocked via DLC. I beli... : jingletard
  • Why? That's just a distribution matter and should make any difference. I can see people shoving a bunch o... : uncleanmonkey
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  I don't think you know how games work. The last month or so before the game goes to certification, the... : uncleanmonkey
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    Seems like things were fine without DLC all these years. Why all of the sudden is it a necessary part of... : geneshifter
    • yeah the gamedev industry has always been super healthy. It definitely isn't notorious for absurdly long ... : derelict515
• The ideal? Valve's support of TF2. The worst? EA / Dice's treatment of the Battlefield franchise. ... : jimmy-buffett
• You know what...this guy is on to something. TO THE STREETS!!! : warcrow

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• cp : boring gegtik
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  robocopy? : atom519
  • ^^ built in to OS Vista and higher (I believe) : pun][sher
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  Teracopy http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php : EricZBA
  • That's the one I use and it's great. : Geoffrois
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    hmm. tried this and it choked on a couple files and got stuck. : edgewise
    • you sure you have proper rights to copy all the files in the subdirectories? check the individual files ... : beastrabban
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  I use RichCopy http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog which i... : Bean
  • RichCopy owns, I use it too. : Majuju
  • ^^^this right here, using it to copy 8TB of data from our old fileserver to the new one. It's the bomb. : mmogger
• Ctrl+C : Whistler77
• ColonosCopy : Draugluin
• CopyThat10-4 : yacoub35
• Kinko's : Zek
• Rob Schneider : homeboyJim
• Don't copy that floppy! : yacoub35
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  rsync : c0bra
  • or dd : c0bra
• TeraCopy is what I use. : Ride-My-Rocket
• vitacopy : mrtony
• ffcopy? : brainchild420
• copy : Portax
• Ctrl+c : vx2o
• scp : TreMetal
• CopyThatFloppy : acheron
• TeraCopy? : Nitrium
• xcopy /E /C /H /Y : OrkO
• poppycopy : azenmaster
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  edgewise, what did you end up using??? : CrustaR
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    teracopy, but I don't know if I like it. It got hung up on a couple of files and just stopped working. : edgewise
    • Give RichCopy a try next. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr... : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Yes Teracopy has bugs that make it 100% useless because if it can't actually reliably copy the files I te... : OverloadUT
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  I have a teenage Asian deaf-mute concubine look at each individual byte, transcribe it to a papyrus scrol... : RomSteady
  • do you provide medical & dental? i need a job. : StolenNosferatu
  • I didn't realize it was so simple. : atom519
  • Do you work for GameStop? : Rotten Deadite
• rm -rf : Dimmona
• X-COPY http://openbytes.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/xcopy_hi.jpg : woddemandred
• Teracopy is great too : ruckboos
• Supercopier? http://supercopier.sfxteam.org/ : Horn

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• Damnit I accidentally lold this, but that is awesome. : PointlesS76
• OLED is one technology that I wish would come out and be roughly the same as LCD pricing sometime soon. ... : DHAvatar
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  the future is now, today : gmd
  • Just what I was going to say. Anyone from 100yrs ago would probably call this magic. : majestik
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  jesus. The future is upon us, again. : re-verse
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    They need to have OLED dry wall so I have have to paint again : gmd
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      oh holy jesus. omw to patent office now. : Degenerate
      • OLED Tim Tebow : gmd
      • Hai there. : ra1n
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      that actually is a fairly brilliant idea. i wonder how much energy an oled wall would use? : eldiablo01
      • 1 mega watt and the wall itself would be $5 million : gmd
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        time, weather, traffic reports, news ticker, schedule, etc. oled wall would be neat : xxiv
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          You could also have it turn off when you leave the room or have it brighten only a spot near you with whi... : eldiablo01
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            FULL SCREEN A2M : xxiv
            • Dear god... imagine the spooooooooge : Q-ball
          • Clap on / clap off : ateam311
          • Or have eye tracking sensors so it only activates the bit you are looking towards. You could sit in nearl... : Beady
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          Total Recall Wall : bombay
          • Total Rewall. : emazingek
        • dont forget random chuck norris saying generator : papaskot
        • It could be also used as a light source and a mirror. : vx2o
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          What the fuck is wrong with you? Life-size 1991 Alyssa Milano on a loop 24/7. : pupismyname
          • she would be on the ceiling..... : xxiv
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        I think a better question to ask is how insanely expensive this would be initially. It's neat until yo... : Maddog_Delphi97
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          if i was tony stark i would : xxiv
          • True, but not all of us are industrialist playboys and genius engineers who suffers a severe heart injury... : Maddog_Delphi97
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      I've already heard of this.. Don't remember where though :( : Reeves
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        from me, one year ago : gmd
        • Aha! Yes, that's where I heard it!! 40% or I'm comin clean : Reeves
      • ...Well philips had that window stuff... : dedgecko
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      hell ya, I want things like in Total Recall when he can set the mood of his living room to "Tropical" or ... : mnok
      • Expected mc hammer; disappointed. : AndyGoin
  • I want little implants in my skin so I can use my arm as a screen or have dynamic tattoos. : gigaduck
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  Supa sweet find, should advertise as "baby proof" screen or something on top of everything else. : one random winner
  • drunken texting drop proof : xxiv
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    "Wii Proof" : SolveChrist
    • lol : one random winner
• /jaw drop : Zakko
• that's fucking amazing. I just showed that to a couple people I work with. : zerog83
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  only $50,000 for a 50" screen too!!! : EvilDolemite
  • ya but in a few years that shit'll be cheaper than LCD's ever were! : zerog83
  • Fuck it! I'm buying one! I'm going to just use it like wallpaper in my house! : Bean
  • why do you hate innovation? : moshman
  • That's probably about how much my cheap 50" TV would have been worth a decade ago. : DinK
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  iphone flex! : sKetchflow
  • It would help solve problems from broken screens due to being dropped. Maybe next year! : ant_hillbilly
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  It doesn't even look like the hammer is hitting the OLED screen.... : suqur
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    Yeah, that 's the one thing that bothered me, it didn't look like it was hitting the OLED nearly as hard. : one random winner
    • We're going to need a fact check here. Shine the Snopes signal! : omnova
  • I don't give a shit about the hammer. It was the extreme bending of the panel that was awesome. : Whistler77
  • agreed - I don't have sound - but it definitely does not look like it's making any contact with that scre... : dedgecko
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    fucking internet, everything is fucking fake : moshman
    • are you a bot? : sparkly
    • lol : hobosapien
    • This is gold}g: http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1034768585&postcount=19 Does it seem like they : vx2o
    • shut up, cleverbot : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • That because the hammer-head's shadow (our visual cue that it's close-to-or-touching the surface) is basi... : action roommate
  • Its a CG hammer of course : nodebug
  • I love how everything on the Internet instantly finds itself the victim of extreme skepticism no matter w... : Zips
  • It actually does look like its not being hit. they should have just hit one good hit where it remains on ... : mega man
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    it isn't. OLED emits a force field in addition to stunning visuals. : edgewise
    • OLED covered and force field protected Hovercraft FTW! : one random winner
    • Do not bounce OLED. Do not taunt OLED. When finished using OLED, place in shielded safety box. : spyrext
• i fucking love it : moshman
• hax : ieatpubes
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  that music was kinda catchy : yacoub35
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    edit: lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWkDQI0jN4 : yacoub35
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      don't like it too much, they might be ladymenz >:( : yacoub35
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        haha... son dambi + after school are not ladymenz. :D they're kpop royalty. : miasma(&)
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          You act like those two are mutually exclusive. Also lol at them have a song that's an advertisement. : zakazi
          • Yah...it happens a lot. i guess the hyper-commercialized kpop industry and korea's mega-corporation cultu... : miasma(&)
• CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP!!! haha, I enjoyed watching that hammer far more than I should have. : nudel
• OLED is gonna rule... wait, it already does. : vx2o
• That is fucking amazing. : Milleh
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  OLED screen + fleshlight/real doll. someone help me make this. we'd make a boatload! : Unleashed
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    trying to envision how this would work. so a life-sized paperdoll that you can hang on the realdoll, and... : beastrabban
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      Yeah but you could take a picture of some hot chick on the subway and then have her image projected onto ... : riptyde
      • Wow. Creepy. : Ormsbee
      • haha its just like that futurama episode where civilization would crawl to a halt : Unleashed
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    a boatload of what exactly? : zakazi
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      of semen of course! : Drakoniac
      • Cock comes to mind. : Tissen
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  I really hope these lead to super thin 'transparent when off" displays. That is totally some shit from S... : cetra00
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    A transparent display sounds cool but allowing them to be black and opaque probably makes it easier to ge... : DinK
    • just have it change to a painting/portrait of your choice. : SolveChrist
• http://crossroadstrading.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/mc-hammer.jpg ? : rosewood

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  • LMAO! http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/01/asplode.jpg : Wolfanoz
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  MY GOD SOMEONE CALL TIMECOP : NFXFSX
  • hahahahaha : RetroRedEyeJr
  • It's quite simple really, the same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time : Cheeziologist
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  It was AQ, I read an article they arrested someone that was a contractor (on LHC I think) for ties to AQ. : bombay
  • more like a time travelling sabateur : wvuong
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    Yeah, I saw that a few days ago. It amazes me that someone that intelligent could be that stupid. : ColoradoCNC
    • It is a very common trend across AQ. Many, many are 30s educated, and upset with the world. : bombay
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  So to prove the existence of the higgs boson, you must never prove it, thus proving the existence of the ... : twifosp
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    But... what if in an alternate universe, it's never been proven? Err... wait. I'm confused now. : Maddog_Delphi97
    • If you weren't confused the higgs boson would travel back in time to confuse you. : twifosp
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    I think that's only if you believe the amazingly unlikely theory that the LHC will never work because if ... : yakz
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      You took that post seriously? : twifosp
      • I took it, but then I dropped it. : bombay
      • No, but other people in this thread and the last thread are taking this story seriously. Also the fill... : indosauros
      • I think that's only if you believe the amazingly unlikely theory that the LHC will never work because if ... : yakz
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  This is not a dream... not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are una : cerealSAM2
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    So many cool ideas in that movie. : das_runt
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      What movie? : senseimoron
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        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Darkness_%28film%29 : AgentPothead
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          TV Guide once summarized it as: College students scare up can of liquid satan. : cerealSAM2
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            Who hasn't done that once or twice in college? : nurglich
            • Yea, its called Blue Diamond, and it is the worst beer ever. : NexusOne
  • cue DJ Shadow music here : Postal
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  I read about this idea a year ago. It makes me want to be a physicist. 'Inevitably, many commenters sa... : Micand
  • I would guess until CERN runs out of money? : Nali4Freedom
• http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2373 : Sir Reginald Bumwipe III
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  OLD... there's a mega-thread about this story in three days : Home Nugget
  • lol : .ka`boom.zZz.
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  the NYtimes really sucks. Putting this kindof crap in their paper? : gyokuro
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    I'm curious, how exactly is this story crap? : ColoradoCNC
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      It is quackery. Tons of misdirection and logical fallacies. It is a slow news day for the LHC, so someo... : indosauros
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        I don't know if the theory is accurate or not, but given the utter weirdness of particle physics in gener... : ColoradoCNC
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          That is exactly one of the fallacies that the article uses. "Quantum mechanics can be unintuitive and ... : indosauros
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            Attempting to explain quantum mechanics in a 2 page internet article meant for every day people would be ... : twifosp
            • Not that the article isn't written poorly. : twifosp
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              no, u. : indosauros
              • for shack, specifically, this does work. : papaskot
            • crazy : lja83
            • "Sane, hot, smart: Pick two" : crummynz
            • ILTC! : gimpness
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          I have to agree. The article may seem stupid as you can't readily prove the premise contained therein, b : ra1n
          • Isn't one of the guys who came up with this theory also the guy who came up with String Theory or some sh... : ejectorpod
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            You can say the same thing about, say, ESP. It's wacky and weird, sort of like Quantum Mechanics... so w : indosauros
            • That's true. I think the difference is lies in being able to determine when that is an appropriate thing... : ra1n
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        the story isn't very good but it's pretty good science behind the papers. The theory - which isn't presen... : pigz
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          It's a cop out. It doesn't explain anything, and it's another borderline fallacy. We can't explain (y... : indosauros
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            What the fuck. The article makes no claims as to the credibility of any theories, you're reading way too ... : daedraug
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              one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science A pair of otherwise distinguished physic : indosauros
              • All in the eyes of the beholder I suppose, I see a harmless popular science essay that barely takes the t... : daedraug
          • It's just an interesting possibility, no one is saying it's the definitive reason. : Nali4Freedom
          • We can't explain ever why the big bang happened. To understand what happened before or outside of the un... : boofy
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      i'm not sure about you but I actually got an A in Quantum Mechanics 4th year level at a renown University... : gyokuro
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        I'm amazed you were able to keep your monocle in place while typing this response : ColoradoCNC
        • his monocle was both in place and not in place until the moment its position was measured, actually : lja83
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          What a terrible response. He wasn't insinuating the parent couldn't understand it. He was saying that i... : twifosp
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            Kind of like how he shouldn't expect a New York Times article to be able to be able to take the theory po... : ColoradoCNC
            • I do expect the New York Times and all other journalistic outlets to exercise a little bit of skepticism.... : indosauros
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            Also, He wasn't insinuating the parent couldn't understand it.. From "So for me to lecture you on all : ColoradoCNC
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              Ok, feel insulted for no reason, that's your problem. : twifosp
              • use gyokuro's response with someone face to face and see how they respond. If you don't think it's a rude... : derelict515
          • "You wouldn't understand" is not an argument. : yakz
          • no not really. the way gyokuro phrased his response does beget a response of coloradocnc's caliber. if : papaskot
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        NERD ALERT! : phate81
        • But one who can't use the appropriate clause when referring to something being 'renowned' or in a state o... : Waverider
      • here's the actual paper, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0802/0802.2991v2.pdf avoid reading news ... : ballystix
• Hmmm, if what the article says is true, then it means that there is more at work in the universe than we ... : everybodysuncle
• So that's why the world hasn't blowed up yet? The damn LHC has been broken for over a year. : mojothemagician

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  Is mace going to be ok? : mechanicalgrape
  • haha : whistletits
  • They have to do that to check his prostate : rosewood
• "Hey dude, whatcha watching?!" http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo... : pulse2115
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  The baby hippo is so cute: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo27 ! : helvetica
  • :D : c0bra
  • it looks like a little trinket! : deject
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    i don't know why but that one made me laugh a lot. He looks so happy! : deathofrats
    • oh i know, it's his little foot manouver, he's doing the Elaine dance from Seinfeld. : deathofrats
  • : O That's awesome! : locater16
  • NOM NOM NOM actually more like nom nom nom nom : Delaric
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    Are those giant vegetables or is that thing tiny? : bolneze
    • it's a baby pygmy rhino, so it's double-tiny : riptyde
• So many good ones in this series. : DJ Clipdat
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  http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo19 This one is awesome. : stump
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    it's baby Yoda! : Dave-A
    • More like Benjamin Button : Home Nugget
• Those are awesome. The woolly mammoth was a surprise to me. : DHAvatar
• There's something you don't see every day : ColoradoCNC
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  Holy fuck baby crocodiles. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo2 : kek
  • They look so evil. : Omaha
• This series is fantastic this week. I love the bird over the pyramids one too. : kek
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  heh - who's the King of Kong now?! : dedgecko
  • Billy Mitchell refused to even acknowledge the gorilla when they were in the same room. : ColoradoCNC
• someone's getting excited about the plumb-grape challenger: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/w... : dedgecko
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  #19 fucking creeped me out. Looks like Mr. Burns : whistletits
  • They did a good makeup job on Brad Pitt : Reavers!
• I want a pygmy hippo! : sKetchflow
• The golden retriever surfing with the quadrapalegic guy... How awesome is that? Goldens are so awesome : bozer
• kittehs!!! : Megara9
• I wish I could domesticate a Wolf. : whistletits
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  Cats > dogs. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo26 : Ride-My-Rocket
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    I don't agree with that statement. But I am impressed with that picture. Can you imagine how scary th... : CRasterImage
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      Haha, yeah. A normal housecat can purr pretty loud; I can't imagine what something that big sounds like.... : Ride-My-Rocket
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        Cats have different annoying problems. They have the "gets in your face and demands attention and then... : CRasterImage
        • so cuuuutttttte kitty. : focusdaily
      • cats that big can't purr the biggest cat that can is the mountain lion bigger cats 'chuf' instead : fuzzydamnit
  • jesus fucking christ: http://weirdgrrl.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/liger.jpg : mrvandelay
• This Picture: http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/animal_10_16/a36_20757... : locater16
• The eagle one is badass. : lightly inclined
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  #1: "sup guys." #10: badass. #19: Baby Yoda. #27: bahahahah!! #35: 0___o #36: Funky birdcage dance : yacoub35
  • i thought baby yoda too! : d0pamine
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  okay i have to own a pygmy hippopotamus now : [fry]
  • seriously : InfoBiter
  • Why? Your porch frog will just eat it. : c0bra
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    http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/8/hippo_bump.jpg : stgdz
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      Hippos sure are cute for vicious, remorseless killing machines. : riptyde
      • Do you know anything about Hippos? They are the most ferocious killer in the animal kingdom. : CRasterImage
      • It's odd how something that cute can be such an asshole in the animal kingdom. : ColoradoCNC
      • that's part of their plan. they are adorable as hell, even the huge fat ones have their own charm, but a ... : mikecyb
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    Hippos defecate copious amounts into the rivers and ponds in which they wallow all day and also partake o... : scythide
    • No doubt about it, hippos are fucking crazy. : AndyGoin
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      No way, it looks awesome having a hippo as a pet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWgB1hyOHWc : Edges
      • wow that video is hilarious. Love the dogs hanging out with it : Delaric
      • damn that hippo just eats all fucking day. What a life. : baconisgod
      • They say that can't imagine their lives without the hippo, but all it does is open it's fucking mouth for... : fishbone
      • oh fuck it stepped on a dog haha : mikecyb
      • yeah, that'll be awesome until one of the people or dogs pisses it off and it kills the fuck out of them,... : lja83
      • God damn that thing is so awesome. I want to play with a hippo! : Danny5225
      • I don't think things turned out well for Jessica. Pretty sure I saw a show a year or two after that wh : cerealSAM2
      • :D : Serpico74
    • Yeah I happened to be behind one at a zoo when it started doing this. : eldiablo01
  • the truth about baby hippos: http://www.shackpics.com/files/HulkSmashJPG_u47rvgzr5qdbnmirs7rt.jpg : Delaric
• I like #30. A humpback whale just decides to check out the paddleboat. "Sup dude?" : CRasterImage
• There are a lot of great pictures on there : bolneze
• That eagle picture is terrific. : Thisispol
• i love the boston big picture so much. it always perks my day up to look at these awesome photos of rando... : xsoulbrothax
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  The German Shepherd is my favorite, my "Max" can do the same thing! : Ender.Wiggin
  • Be a pillow? Every dog can do that. : CRasterImage
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  a 900# pound liger?!?! http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html#photo26 : khaosman
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    yeah I've seen them up close at King Richard's Faire and can confirm this. Ligers are fucking massive. : beastrabban
    • I saw it there as well, with the same guy/handler last year. It's kind of jarring seeing it for the first... : nakedsavage
• Amazing pics. As always. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• The Big Picture is just awesome in every way. : confuseatron
• Big Picture editor's blog: http://www.kokogiak.com/default.asp : baconisgod
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  After I clicked this, it loaded for 2 seconds, and then a new tab for "VirusDoctor" opened up and did a f... : Warlock
  • same. first time getting it from that site too. : dearjamie
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    Congratulations, you have malware/adware on your computer. Update your AV to latest definitions, and run ... : mem
    • NOD32 is already running and up to date. I think they are using an ad network with spyware in rotation. : Warlock
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    http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-virus-doctor.html : mem
    • Fuck that site in the asshole. It prompted me like 10 times before it let me go back. : mrvandelay
  • Booooo, I got this warning also. I think it is not on my system because Avira popped up and starting deny... : denixen
  • This is why I LOL hard when people say 'you don't need AV, just don't visit porn sites' : xsoulbrothax
• That CAT scan machine looks like it has a gas pump style dollar readout. Makes me want to buy gorilla mea... : Ely
• the police in belgium use shields made of wicker? that is awesome. : thenoodleincident

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  *assumes the audience is stupid. : ra1n
  • You know what they say about assumptions... You know what the say about people... People are stupid... : sheepraper
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  I thought the previews looked kind of stupid. I guess this is based on a kids book or something? I don't ... : Ellissd
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    Probably one of the most famous kids' books of all time. : Lone Swordsman
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      Must have been way before my time, old man! ;p : Ellissd
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        Or your parents just sucked :O : Nali4Freedom
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          My parents were adequate thank you very much. : Ellissd
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            If they did not give you this book they did, indeed, suck : locater16
            • I'm sorry you feel that way. : Ellissd
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              I am going to have to agree here : OverloadUT
              • This means so much to me. : Ellissd
      • When were you in grade school? I think sometime in the mid-90s it became a "banned" book in most school d... : Prozium
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      In the US or what? Never heard of it personally before the previews : avatar_58
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        I can confirm in the US and Australia. : derelict515
        • And the UK. I read and loved it in school. : rock elf
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    This post makes me sad : ColoradoCNC
    • Agreed. Useless kids... : smoove
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  Were you going in expecting a movie for kids or a movie for adults? : pigvomit
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    I was unsure. I figured it would be OK either way. There just wasn't enough story. Which I feel is a s... : ra1n
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      How did he have a clean slate? : two50six
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        As far as the actual story. IIRC, the book was about 10 lines of dialogue. He didn't have the same degr... : ra1n
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          10 lines of dialog? I'm pretty sure it was more than that considering the book was 48 pages long. I own i... : two50six
          • That was hyperbole. : ra1n
          • Either way, it's about a 10 minute read. : capt tripps
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        IIRC, Sendak basically gave Jonze complete freedom to do his own interpretation of the characters and sto... : nakedsavage
        • Right, but when I hear clean slate I hear "reinvention" where the outcome has almost no relation to the o... : two50six
    • but the idea of 'not enough story' and also a '10 line book' should be pretty fucking obvious. : papaskot
• all children are jerks : NexusOne
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  Okay you have the worst taste in everything ever so now I'm pretty sure I will love this movie. Thanks! : mikecyb
  • Posts like this make me feel content in my decisions. : ra1n
• The soundtrack should at least be pretty good. : mnsnota
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  Isn't that a little kids movie? : Shodai80
  • Jonze has said that it's a movie about childhood, not a kids movie : godwit
  • No, in fact the book wasnt much of a kids book either considering it was also banned from a lot of librar... : two50six
• way to watch a baby movie for children : boring gegtik
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  Maybe you were too stoned : two50six
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    * or not enough : boring gegtik
    • or just enough but your an ashole lol : spiderfill
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    I don't actually get stoned anymore, my tolerance is too high. I just get sort of mellowed. : ra1n
    • Then you're not smoking the right stuff ;) : nakedsavage
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      "I'm going to bounce out of work early, get high, and go catch Where the Wild Things Are with my girlfrie... : two50six
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        I'm delineating between stoned and mellowed, or any lesser form. I'm using high as a short form verb for... : ra1n
        • haha ok, innernettes demand clarification ;) : two50six
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  Thanks for this. I was on my way to go see it, but I fell asleep on the train and missed my stop. : Cihte
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    What are you gonna do now? : mayooms
    • shit in the woods : two50six
• repost from MR since no one seemed to care when i posted it lol I saw Where The Wild Things Are. : OhSnapHighFive

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  summary for those who can't watch video at work? : c0bra
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    Perfectly healthy 26 year old chick now pretty much disabled from the flu shot. Yeah it's very rare, but ... : Helios150
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      Exactly. Let your immune system battle it. : kaijuseijin
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        I'm all for this but I get sick on Christmas week EVERY YEAR, and I'd rather be sick the week before :( : c0bra
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          Are you sick any other time of the year? Then consider yourself lucky, because once a year isn't that bad... : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • No I get sick a lot. But I am invariably sick on Christmas Day, the one day that I'd like to be able to b... : c0bra
      • Why don't you let your immune system battle the plague? Worked well for the people of the middle ages! : terath
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        From reading about dystonia flu vaccines, it seems entirely possible her reaction was to the flu itself, ... : underground banana plantation
        • er, dystonia and flu vaccines. : underground banana plantation
        • yep. and just because you get the flu vaccine does not mean you will 100% not get the flu. there are tons... : dahanese
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      almost every drug has a very rare side effect that is super terrible or even results in death. so you ... : dahanese
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        true. but you have to weigh risks to reward. ill take the chance of getting the flu for a couple days ove... : d0pamine
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          tons of people die from the flu each year dude. why do you think the flu is less of a risk? : sumo-hacker
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            If you react this badly to the vaccine wouldn't it also mean that you would have the same or worse reacti... : Prozium
            • nah, the vaccine is grown in eggs etc. there is stuff in them that isn't in the flu. not going to argue a... : imcompa
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              you can't get the flu from the flu vaccine. you can have an allergic reaction to it though. : sumo-hacker
              • you can have flu like symptoms, which for people who feel sick, feels like the flu. it sucks, but it's mo... : dahanese
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          you aren't getting the point. everything from flu shots to aspirin can possibly kill you based on a .1... : dahanese
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            i actually choose not to get a flu shot because other people need it more than i do. i am young, fit, hea... : d0pamine
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              Except that H1N1 has the odd characteristic of affecting young, healthy adults in a really bad way someti... : Milleh
              • oops, you're talking about the flu shot and not H1N1 vaccine, apologies. : Milleh
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      You know you have a chance of dying if you get the flu...a greater chance than having a fatal reaction to... : cetra00
      • Exactly this. : Milleh
    • Would you rather die from the flu? You know that happens way more often than any complications from the v... : uncleanmonkey
• If you're worried about the "very rare," possibilities of life, there's a lot of other things you should ... : underground banana plantation
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  Okay. So you don't fly or drive either, right? Because your chances of getting killed are much higher wit... : jason bergman
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    Or cross the street. Or go swimming. Or accept candy from that guy in the van with no windows. : Dynotaku
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      When my mom was in the hospital for getting her hip fixed she was absolutely convinced that she was going... : c0bra
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        I have that same irrational fear. Awesome. : skinlab133
        • mom? : c0bra
      • Hegel was always afraid of antithesis. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • that's not the same thing. you don't NEED the flu shot, it's a choice that's not going to affect my life... : tunis5000
• Yeah, I know of a person that this happened to as well. I'll pass on the flu shot. : Helios150
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  Yeah, I got sicker than I've ever been in my life right after a damn flu shot. And then my dumbass got an... : Crabs Jarrard
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    Did you get sick the 2nd time? : c0bra
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      Yes. Not as bad as the first, but still had body soreness, congestion, mild to mid fever etc.... : Crabs Jarrard
      • FWIW, I've never gotten the real flu before, shot or not. : Crabs Jarrard
  • this happens to me, although it is definitely a mini flu. you never get a full blown flu (at least i've n... : dahanese
• You could get a virus from your computer!!!!! Click here. : sgtsanity
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  Summary: perfectly healthy 26 year old female took flu shot in August, 10 days later got the flu. Now she... : kaijuseijin
  • I guess it was inevitable : Sailor of Fortune
• That's so sad =( : JohnnyRey
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  I'd rather get the flu than get a shot. I was given shots for 2 years for my allergies and they only got... : melkore
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    I had a roommate who was over medicated by his mom growing up. Allergies, coughs, fever, Asthma, anything... : Crabs Jarrard
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      that story makes no sense. are you saying his mother was poisoning him? what medications was he taking... : dahanese
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        I think it has more to do with the psychological aspects. I bet the first thing his mother says to him wh... : Prozium
        • his story is still retarded. >:( : dahanese
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        I was getting at the point that when he gets home, any sniffle or the like is attacked with 5 different m... : Crabs Jarrard
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          i get over medication. that's fine. but your "intervention" is not an intervention. it's dangerous, an... : dahanese
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            Well, I'm sorry that it bothered you that badly. I've known the guy for years and we've had big conversat... : Crabs Jarrard
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              he kept IV bags in his house? that isn't normal. it's hypochondria. i still maintain at 18 he coul... : dahanese
              • No issues with being called reckless, but I take offense to calling my friend an idiot. This kid was not ... : Crabs Jarrard
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      You are the worst roommate ever, just fyi. : c0bra
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        I'd give that award to the roommate who upper decked my toilet when I was away for the weekend. : Crabs Jarrard
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          i'd rather have to clean up some shit than get beat up and have my meds stolen by my asshole roommates : lja83
          • I guess I also should've posted that other than the inhaler, all the meds were non prescription. Tylenol,... : Crabs Jarrard
    • Shut the fuck up, this story is retarded bullshit. : pres589
    • If your friend is superman and his mom is lex luthor this anecdote would be marginally more believable. : yakz
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  laff - slow news day... : dedgecko
  • YEAH IT'S PRETTY FUNNY LOL : the city
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  do you also not wear your seat belt, because you might get trapped in a car underwater? : sumo-hacker
  • btw, 36,000 people die from the flu in the U.S. each year. 52 people die from dystonia in the U.S. from ... : sumo-hacker
• There are reasons to not get the flu shot. This isn't one of them. Use some common sense. : NastyJack
• I got a dystonia shot : drucifer
• I've gotten a flu shot for about the past decade and I had a mild reaction once. Give me a break. : Link.
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  GLOBAL WARMING IS FALSE BECAUSE ITS COLD OUTSIDE : eeeealmo
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    i've seen this no less than 3 times from people's facebook status updates, thanks to the first snow-fall. : Audhuml4
    • gotta love recreational scientists : eeeealmo
• you are terrible at risk analysis. : DonkeyPopsicle
• was she allergic to eggs? : ninjase
• I heard there was a guy who died after taking a Tylenol, hence me never taking Tylenol. : ColoradoCNC
• I dont care if you die from the flu, but you might get someone else killed because you are scared. : confuseatron
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  welp she seems real positive! i mean look how she nods all the time : industro
  • yeah this is awesome to joke about keep it up thanks bro : the city
• You should play the lottery. Totally your territory, bro. : yakz
• Per the cdc, the flu shot has about a 1 in 100,000 chance of causing serious side effects(0.001%). Mortal... : Adm.Snackbar
• Herd immunity. I'll just keep posting that in these threads rather than make the same argument over and o... : tashtego
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  Why do young people get flu shots? : snuff
  • Because the Shack peer pressures them to under the evil dictatorial heel of the Morality Voltron, of cour... : Jumperus
  • To create antibodies that they might otherwise have to suffer to create. : yakz
  • Requirement to keep my job : uglysad
  • my last job required it. 99% of the employees got it, which was probably close to 20,000 people and this... : valael
• This is also terrible: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aoffi... : Nali4Freedom
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  Jim Zorn's fault : gmd
  • Nice. : Crabs Jarrard
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  Here is a better reason to skip it if you are going to. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/big-business-s... : Stoned Gargoyle
  • considering that the swine flu has actually become more mild as it mutates I find this ridiculous : two50six
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  I realize that the odds are against this happening to me, but having read this and dismissed it as a fluk... : Fooldozer
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    Yeah I'm like that too.. I'll think its a fluke when I'm getting my shot and the lady with the needle wil... : snuff
    • yeah I wish they'd stop keeping that shot of AIDS BLOOD right next to the rest. It seems like a really ba... : Fayk
• You're joking right? : Fred Garvin
• At least she's still bangable if she runs backwards. : geneshifter
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  are any parents getting the swine shots for thier kids? : hamachi
  • Not the baby but we will as soon as we can. The baby is getting the regular flu shot without thimerosal. : geneshifter
  • My entire family is getting it because my brother has no immune system atm so we kinda want to see him be... : Deathlove
• Holy shit she was a hot cheerleader. Ill bet that guy thought he hit the jackpot too. : bolneze

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  That and a Left 4 Prostitute mod would be sweet too. Angry prostitute mods surround you collect money a... : mastermike569
  • Prostitute mods? That doesn't sound appealing at all. : ColoradoCNC
• clever girl... : yacoub35
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  SHOOT HER, SHOOOOT HER : NukemFornever
  • god that always cracks me up : chiisu81
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  actually awesome L4D mod themes: - Ghostbusters - Starship Troopers - Aliens - ... ? : razorblade79
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    Left 4 Danzig : c0bra
    • The sounds just popped into my head and I need to play this. : Rauol Duke
    • "Boomer!" "Mother!" : Bamtan
  • I want a mod with Brian peppers. : choppp
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    Spartans : marmite
    • that would actually work great for a survival map : razorblade79
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    I stand by my beatles mod idea - fab 4 dead - the survivors are the beatles, and the zombies are all repl... : re-verse
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      Hahahaha. I really really like that, and would totally play it. And they need guitars/mic stands for we... : Ormsbee
      • Perfect for a L4D2 mod then. : melkore
      • In No Mercy they would play a concert on the top of the building where they call the helicopter from. Ins... : Prozium
    • The witch could easily be Yoko. : melkore
    • and the cinematic screen effects should be psychadelic : spiderfill
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    Boyscouts vs hordes of pedophiles. : SeaLlama
    • Scarred 4 Life : Fooldozer
  • Thriller : Schnapple
  • Small Children : ShadowRam
  • Terminator Robots : ShadowRam
  • Ninjas : pimpium
  • LEGO 4 Dead : das_runt
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_film) : pupismyname
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      or Fraggles : pupismyname
      • along those lines, Left 4 Dark Crystal. You're 4 Gelfings running from Skeksis! : c0bra
  • you're 4 zombies trying to survive being hunted by normal people : ninjase
  • Civil War period : Link.
  • Power Rangers A-Team Porno : Snuffles-
• Someone made one that replaced the zombies with teletybbies. Complete with sound. Scares the he'll out of... : Mmmmmoo
• cornfield + raptors = yes : wvuong
• Left 4 the hot younger chick : jonin
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  Hmm: Raptors = hunters T-Rex = tank That spitting one = spitter : nevlos
  • Ship it. : GeorgeB3DR
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  Left 4 AIDS? : Ender.Wiggin
  • RE:5? : nevlos
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  A mod that replaces the zombies with more zombies! : dognose
  • Truly the only thing greater than zombies; more zombies! : nevlos

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  Dunno, test audiences everywhere are down with it : sreyes22
  • Were those test audiences composed of 17 year old MMORPG nerds? : snuff
• Definitely has massive flop potential. : one random winner
• I'm amazed that they're still going with the this will revolutionize filmmaking line of marketing. It mig : sgtsanity
• It has massive flop potential, but it could also be awesome. I'll withhold judgment until I've seen it. : thetangent
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  I said the same thing about Titanic. I don't bet against Cameron anymore. : jason bergman
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    But Avatar does not feature teenage heartthrobs, Kate Winslet's racks in a PG-13 film, and the aristocrat... : sgtsanity
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      racks? : sgtsanity
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        Quadra-Boob : bRAINsick
        • that's the only way one can outdo total recall. : j0nchan
  • I think "love stories" have far more potential to be a blockbuster than this does though. Seems like they... : Phreakin
• i am still unconvinced about 3D. : cerealSAM2
• i doubt it. I think it looks awesome. Also same shit was said about TItanic months from it's release : wtf242
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  I saw the 15 minutes preview thing and I was literally blown away. I feel like it's gonna be not only a g... : mnok
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    I saw the 15 min preview as well. I know I'll wind up seeing the full movie at least a few times. The 3... : str8upkiller
    • Wasn't the preview supposed to be downloadable online the day after or whatever? I haven't been able to ... : foo
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  Why would you think that? : bozer
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    Almost a saturated hype about it. We were talking about it here and a few of us are just tired of hearing... : Phreakin
    • Well there is a lot of money and tech behind it, of course they are going to hype it up. Can't blame them... : bozer
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      You're making the mistake of confusing the internet with the wider movie-going audience. There is a defin... : ColoradoCNC
      • Seriously. Most of the world has either never heard of Avatar, or has seen one trailer for it. : Vincent Grayson
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  yeah. Dude made fucking titantic though, he could make 3 flops this size and it wouldn't matter. at le... : DeBurgo
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    You're only as good as your last picture. : Haku-Jin
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      there are a few hollywood bank accounts that would disagree.. : d0pamine
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        If this movie loses money it will affect his next movie. Titanic won't give him a free pass on that. : Haku-Jin
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          doesn't matter. it is still his job which he does to make money. even if it does flop, he is still fuckin... : d0pamine
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            Of course he's got cash. That has nothing to do with my post or do you think he used his own finances to ... : Haku-Jin
            • i get what you're saying. of course not. i am just saying, even if it flops so hard no studio on the plan... : d0pamine
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  As I do with all movies I'm excited about, I pretty much ignored all media about "Avatar" until that HD t... : TickHeadDog
  • That's one of the things that did it for me too. The creatures look terrible and seem annoying. : Phreakin
  • I get what you're saying totally. I was a bit dissapointed with the look and feel of the characters as w... : str8upkiller
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  Hahaha you guys see the guy holding the pizza box in the article photo? : hoov1185
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    What would you do if you were sitting next to that guy? : CrustaR
    • I'd be tempted to ask for a slice but afraid his heavy breathing and fat fingers have already contaminate... : hoov1185
  • that is hilarious : OrkO
• i'm expecting it to be pretty fucking remarkable myself : [fry]
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  i saw 20 minutes of it in 3d and it was incredible : grendel
  • Not arguing with you but i've seen a lot of shit movies that had 20 minutes of good parts or a good scene... : Phreakin
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  Even if it does, the reaction from Cameron's fellow filmmakers has pretty much assured that the technolog... : ColoradoCNC
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    On a related note, apparently Ridley Scott is using the performance capture techniques from Avatar on the... : ColoradoCNC
    • indeed... i'm wondering if ghost in the shell will get the same treatment, or has that been canned alr... : miasma(&)
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      I don't know what Forever War is, but I do know Ridley Scott and that phrase together makes me hard : bozer
      • Go out and read The Forever War now, it's by Joe Haldeman. One of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read, ... : ColoradoCNC
    • Oh Rly? I had no idea he is involved with a film project of this book. That is GREAT news! You've made my... : u sir name
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    What technology? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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      The new 3d tech. : Stoned Gargoyle
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        Sorry, here is a link to some info. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/20/3d-film-avatar-james-ca... : Stoned Gargoyle
        • Thanks! : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
• It is pretty freaking ambitious when you consider is cost about as much to make as Spiderman 3 took in at... : emcea
• Nah. I think it will, at worst, break even in the States (which is to say, make at least $300 million), t... : Home Nugget
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  I think you'd be wrong. Some people are over-hyped on it, but others aren't even aware of it yet. : Fred Garvin
  • Yep, IMO this is the most under-hyped mega-movie ever. : Priest77
• The 15 minutes I saw were fucking amazing. I don't know if the story will be all that special, but the ef... : Vincent Grayson
• Haha, no way. : Visceral Monkey

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  :D : dahanese
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    pssst....which one is the new one? : Dave-A
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      if they are all new to you, then all of them. but I released the one of the Big Daddy in the water yester... : dahanese
      • when do we get to play Little Big Daddy Planet? : Dave-A
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    Whenever I see your real name, I always think of the way Gary Oldman pronounces it in Dracula. Eleesa-be : Lone Swordsman
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      that's really weird, dude. q : dahanese
      • You're not a Romanian princess by chance, are you? : Lone Swordsman
• Awesome. : Ender.Wiggin
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  HEY! I SAW THE CONTENT BEFORE THE AGE GATE CAME UP! REPORTING DAHANESE TO ESRB RIGHT NO!! : liqker
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    Hey, me too. I feel my eyes are on fire and want to report her too. : DrZettl
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      i'm frighteningly well versed in regulations. that's not a problem. but i can send you some visine if you... : dahanese
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        Sweet. Is it BioShock branded Visine? : DrZettl
        • no i am just that nice of a person : dahanese
  • same, it was a tease. my pre-pubescent son is scarred for life. : chilln
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    does anyone here actually but their real b-day into these things? i just click a random day and month, a... : riptyde
    • i dont even go that far. Jan 1st and then a year that is < 1980 : liqker
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      I am usually 1/1/1900 : TreMetal
      • I've seen a couple that go to 1900 but dont accept it, so I'm forced to click up a notch or two. seriousl... : Joseph
    • yeah if the month/day are already selected then I just pick a random year in like the 50s or whatever. i... : mikecyb
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  is that a Penny Arcade-drawn wallpaper I spy? : Postal
  • yes - they were part two of the BioShock 2 Artist series i'm releasing. Jhonen's piece (part one) is also... : dahanese
• Those are awesome : losimagic
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  I want a wallpaper of the plasmid videos : Unleashed
  • there are some images of the ads around - but nothing big enough for a wall. this is the closest you ... : dahanese
• more like BioFlop 2 right guys?! : multisync
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  those are awesome. Too bad they aren't big enough. :( Any way to get a larger size? I am running at 25... : sicko
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    why in god's name do you have such a high resolution? it was like two months ago i did a shack poll and r... : dahanese
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      At home, I'm running 1920x1080, but the number of 1920x1200 displays are increasing and with ATI's Eyefin... : RomSteady
      • yeah, 1920x1200 is my upper limit. i don't have time to remake this one to the 2560x1600 spec, but i can ... : dahanese
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      I use two 30" displays for my desktop. That's the native resolution for each of them. I know it is mor... : sicko
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        Wow, that's some space. I bet you keep all your files on the desktop and just find them via longitude an... : DinK
        • GPS : bombay
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        I use 2560x1600 as well, but it never occured to me to use 2 of them. Hmmmm. : bombay
        • oh man, it is so worth it. I am honestly thinking of getting a 3rd. When you first get that much scr... : sicko
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      oh, and I did participate in the shack poll on resolutions! OverloadUT even predicted my sorrow. http:/... : sicko
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        because of you, and you alone, i will from here on out make the resolution 2560x1600 for every new wallpa... : dahanese
        • I thank you too! : bombay
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  I finally ordered Bioshock 1 (360 version), but it isn't in stock yet. Hope it will arrive soon. : humbleone
  • Yet another game I probably won't be playing until the sequel arrives :( I hate trying to avoid random : humbleone
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  You know.. I'm struggling to finish BioShock. I bought it two years ago and I've been slowly working thr : jcrockerman
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    How can you play like that? I go nuts until I finish a game. : Ender.Wiggin
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      lack of interest. I don't get the appeal. Plus...I get fucking owned by Big Daddies. : jcrockerman
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        use armor piercing bullets, or electric bullets : ruckboos
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          Ohhh...I usually just stand there like a moron while I burn him. And then I die...and run in again with ... : jcrockerman
          • Upgraded chem thrower with electro gel ammo stunlocks and kills bigs : Marrbe
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    I'm a bit confused about your description of where you are. It sounds like you're at Smuggler's Hideout, ... : rock elf
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      I got all the parts to invent the "plant-revival" thingy. After that, Atlas made me go to Ryan's place. : jcrockerman
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        OK, that was the end of Arcadia, and now you're at Hephaestus. You're about halfway through, maybe a litt... : rock elf
        • Thanks! I'll give it another go tonight. I really want to finish it. I promised myself a few weeks back ... : jcrockerman
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  Too many logos, did not download. : Lone Swordsman
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    if by too many you mean one game logo, then yes. : dahanese
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      Exactly. I want to see the art, not advertising! : Lone Swordsman
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        the artist who designed the logo is now angry at you. : dahanese
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          also: some of my wallpapers don't have logos. i put them on where i think they fit. grab one of the artis... : dahanese
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            Oh hey, there we go. I thought they all had logos. : Lone Swordsman
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              http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/wallpapers/down_1600x1200.jpg That's probably my favorite from Bi... : dahanese
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                Great wallpaper, just too small. : Lone Swordsman
                • are you another 2560 dude? : dahanese
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  Anyone excited for the sequel? I liked the first one even though it was a bit repetitive but I really don... : razlebol
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    you guys better be excited about it because i want to shoot plasmids at your faces. : dahanese
    • I really want to be excited but it seems to me that it's straying farther and farther away from what I th... : Haku-Jin
  • Feels weird to have a sequel. Like an exhumed corpse that was confortable being dead. We'll see. : Marrbe
  • Bioshock (which i loved) really didn't seem like the kind of game that needed a sequel. I would be pretty... : rock elf
  • I absolutely loved the first 80% of Bioshock and loathed the last 20% with burning hatred. Overall I'd sa... : Bean
• Who puts in their real birthday when you get those forms asking for your age? I always just choose a ran... : TwiLyght