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• Not yet! : ruckboos
• none so far : MrLobo
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  What did I miss? : Tincan
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    Apparently, a $67 iMac from Amazon. : lolpatrol
    • You don't say. : Tincan
  • First gen Mac Mini for sale on Amazon.ca for $66.99. : Fred Garvin
  • Amazon.ca had first gen Intel Mac Mini's (1.66Ghz Core Duo's) for $67CAD Which is more or less the sam... : Toraz Chryx
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  My CC got charged. : Super Sparker
  • What does the status on the tracking page say for you? : r_picmip 5
• No, but my card hasn't been charged yet either. : r_picmip 5
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  Going to need some links for this. : sukabljat
  • http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/error-66-mac-mini-1-66ghz-intel-core-duo-512mb-819446/ : Tincan
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  All of you are going to get cancellations, lmao. : ateam311
  • dunno if this guy was telling the truth or not, but http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/error-66-mac-mi... : inchwide
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    yea, pretty much. I bet they wait until the last minute to do it too. Shipping estimate: Dec 24 200... : Ellissd
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      they're earning interest on your money, they'll cancel in a month : dignan
      • Fuck that. If they haven't canceled in like 2 weeks than that's bullshit. : NastyJack
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        im pretty sure amazon doesn't charge till it ships : re4ctor
        • I can confirm that amazon in the US does this. : Prozium
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          super sparker above says he was charged : dignan
          • true, but he also didn't specify if his order has moved to the "packing" and then "shipment" stage. : Prozium
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        i think amazon makes enough money to not need to run an interest skimming scam on 66$ imacs. : dahanese
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          yea, its slim but Dell has done this more than a few times. 20,000 x 66 isn't chump change. : dignan
          • i don't think you know how interest works, or how credit card transactions work : electroly
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            do you have proof dell did that? because i really doubt they did. : dahanese
            • Dell must have done it because it is something he would do (or try to). : TreMetal
          • It really would not be worth doing for making interest. Even if they somehow made 5% interest in a month ... : Evil Benius
• Damn thats too good to be true. : bolneze
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  First gen? As in, G4 processor? Those aren't worth much at all. : jingletard
  • I really don't know much about macs. This is what it is though: "Mac Mini 1.66ghz Intel Core Duo/512mb/80... : NastyJack
  • First gen of the intel minis : Haxim
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    nope, its a core duo : jono181
    • I sold mine a few months back for $350. :O : CrustaR
  • it wasn't an iMac, it was a Mac Mini, Intel Core Duo : ErneX
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  Not yet! Fuck I hope it doesn't get canceled. : NastyJack
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    do you really think there's any chance this won't get canceled? what universe do you guys live in? : electroly
    • I'm fully aware this is getting canceled and will not be disappointed when it happens! : Ellissd
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      I am 100% certain it won't be canceled. There is no possible, conceivable way that it will be canceled. I... : NastyJack
      • start writing your suicide note : conandan
• Good luck to you guys. : SolrFlare
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  i would of bought 80 of them : mindshot
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    you must of been a sleep at the wheel. : beastrabban
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      Both of you of got to be kidding! : yAak
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        it's completely beyond my apprehension what's going on here. : beastrabban
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          I could care less about your apprehension : stuka
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            Don't use his as an escape goat. : dmason
            • Their difinately not caring, : yosemiteclimber
        • I am being a grammar Nazi, sorry! "i would of have bought 80 of them" "you must of have been asleep a... : yAak
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        Of of of Of of Of of of. : cornchak
        • Oops. It should be: Of of Of of of of Of of. : cornchak
        • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo : beastrabban
• damnit i missed out on this... : inc77
• not yet, I thought for sure they'd send them out today. : jojomcbobo

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  construct a moat and fill it with alligators : multisync
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    or hobos with swords : Jackass1233
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      Hobos with swords riding alligators! : Arcanum
      • ^^^^ oh yes THIS!!! : yacoub35
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  whatever drainage is placed there, you'll have to monitor it pretty close and prevent clogs. i'm surprise... : cpt_gloval
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:French_drain_diagram.jpg French drains don't really clog due to the ... : eldiablo01
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  Call an engineer. : ra1n
  • Please do this. Get some estimates. Your photo looks like the makings of an expensive project. : yAak
• Just fill it in with dead hookers. : ghostmac
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  Water is probably your number one enemy as a homeowner. I'd pass on that place. : filtersweep
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    As a homeowner of only about 1.5 years now I'd say fucking water is a bigger threat than all the other ho... : DinK
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      http://www.filterswept.com/stuff/fuck.jpg ! : filtersweep
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        Oh man that was you. I am 100% not shitting you but I thought of this exact image last night after spend... : DinK
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          Do you have homeowner's? It usually covers water issues if they originate from inside the house. : filtersweep
          • Definitely do. I have flood insurance too even though I shouldn't need it, but storm water does run alon... : DinK
      • Did the city ever recoup your costs? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
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      We need to invade water's homeworld and crush it once and for all! : sanchez
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        Early reports indicate that it has already spread to other planets. We need to destroy the menace before ... : DOOManiac
        • No we're good, Fry drank their emperor! : DialDforDan
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        I bet it's that goddamn Blue Planet. We need to kill everything there. : ArcKnight
        • way ahead of you there, bucko : Herman Toothrot
      • We fight the water over there, or we fight the water right here! : DialDforDan
    • A few years ago my neighbors septic tank caved in because of standing rain water, I seem to have the same... : shotgun1
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      Fire is a pretty good adversary. : eldiablo01
      • It's good, when it's around. But still it and all the others combined < water. There's probably a good ... : DinK
    • I'm gonna have a house made of nothing but stone and plastic. : Marrbe
  • water table ftw. : chilln
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  Yikes. Is there a large downhill slope behind where you were standing when you took that picture? Maybe... : DinK
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    Their is not a slope behind me but to there is to my right. Here is a picture of the hillside. http://... : RuffasBluetain
    • Dig the hill back a few feet and put your wall and drain or whatever, but ideally I think you'd also have... : DinK
    • holy shit, do you get snow there? if so a retaining wall isnt going to cut it. : IgnoramusSA
    • Follow ra1n's advice and get an engineer or a landscape architect/ designer. I've gone over a property l... : plunkymeadows
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  It looks like there's standing water toward the house in that picture, as if the pitch is toward the hous... : mafu5150
  • Same. You probably want to dig back some of that hill and put the drain as deep as possible. : midgetherder
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  You're going to let something called a French drain try and protect something? : mechanicalgrape
  • All they do is lie there and suck/leech. They work splendidly. : mafu5150
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    I had a vendor at an architectural seminar switch to calling it Freedom Drains during that whole freedom ... : kevp
    • haha wtf i never heard that before. : eldiablo01
• Throw some shamwows in the ditch there and you're golden. : invisible_kid
• Don't even pull the trigger on that one. It's not worth the hassle. : Dante
• In the house I grew up in, we had a creek across the front of our house, down the side, and halfway acros... : Clay
• that doesn't look good. Hard to tell without a bigger picture, but it definitely looks like you could get... : mindmann

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• Prey is worth more than $2.50. I loved that game. : thrallie200
• Nothing wrong with Mirror's Edge, but it can feel a bit stale or antiseptic to some people after a while.... : Jumperus
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  Prey was great :P : Begawkiness
  • I loved the Blue Oyster Cult playing on the Jukebox during the opening sequence. : CRasterImage
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  Mirror's Edge was good in theory, until the combat shows up. Unfortunately it shows up quite a bit.... : avatar_58
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    That's a good summary. For $5 it's probably worth it, though, except for the fact you could be playing a ... : nudel
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      In my eyes ANY game is worth $5.00, really hard to go wrong. Even if you hate it so what....it's $5.00 go... : avatar_58
      • But we don't have time to play every game so the time-cost is as significant a factor as the money, IMO. ... : nudel
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        $5 gone? More like bomb-assed portobello mushroom sandwich gone. :[ : My Documents
        • Just pretend you ate a shitty meal for $5.00 or something. Honestly if it's a AAA title chances are at $5... : avatar_58
      • this is true, Mirrors Edge without the combat mechanics (or at least, without guns) would have gone from ... : Toraz Chryx
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    You didn't really need to do any combat really. Maybe kick a guy off a ledge or something, but there was ... : PointlesS76
    • There were several points in the game where it made more sense to just grab a gun and play Doom. Far less... : avatar_58
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    I didn't think it was that bad. I went through the entire game without firing a gun and the only part tha : Kentor
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      ha, me too. I think the game was more enjoyable not using weapons, it made me feel like the little guy st... : ruckboos
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        Yeah, I felt like the developers were trying to give the player the impression that guns were a no-go. Th : Kentor
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          are you referring to the part after the sniper rifle? I had a huge problem with that until I found I coul... : ruckboos
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            I'm talking about this fight (which the speed runner completely avoids): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... : Kentor
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              I remember that, and I remember dying a lot. Strangely, I didn't hate dying as much as I did, in some way... : ruckboos
              • Oh yeah, you die a lot, but it prompts experimentation and trying to find a faster and smarter way of tra... : SketchyFletchy
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXyoyuJZ8Y One of my favorite FPS's ever. At $5, it's less than the c... : jkstanton
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    The cutscenes look so hokey. Can you skip them? :[ : My Documents
    • The story/dialogue alone are enough to make someone (with taste) want to shut the game off. : haiku
    • The story sucks, but the cutscene animation is pretty cool. : avatar_58
    • Yes. Mostly. They're disguised loading screens, but you can skip them. : AlexW1203
• Nothing wrong with Mirror's Edge. It's a great game. : Zakko
• It's easily worth $5. If nothing else, buy it for the visuals and the parkour action. It can be frustra... : deject
• Use the guns when they are given to you and shoot down the enemies, and you'll have a fun time with the g... : CrustaR
• Dude, Prey was awesome. : r_picmip 5
• Prey was awesome, by the way. :| : CrustaR
• Prey was blah, ME is similar - though there's some cool level stuff in it that's a treat to behold, and f... : dedgecko
• It was one of the few games I played all the way through this year. It's not the greatest game on the fa... : mrwolf710
• I absolutely loved it and played through it multiple times. It certainly had a lot of flaws, but it was s... : roggor
• Prey and Mirrors Edge are both easily worth a lot more than $5. : nodebug
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  it's worth $5 -- it's frustrating in parts, but it can be addictive in repeat play as you know what you'r... : Postal
  • (I also think it's worth $30, which is what I paid for it) : Postal
• It's half-amazing. Think of it like if Wipeout was only fun doing the time trials but racing against othe... : haiku
• Er, Prey was worth the $50 I paid for it. And yes, ME is flawed but still fantastic, especially at $5. : quadeh
• You're wrong about Prey. Any game is worth a vanilla latte : Cashh
• Story is shit just like the combat, but everything else is great. It's a $5 game, you can't really go wro... : jingletard
• WTF, I thought Prey was worth the purchase price when it came out. Maybe a little short, but I'm not even... : devi| dog
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  I want the posters too, they have to be badass, Do they have Dark Carnival yet? Also Prey is great. : dognose
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    They do, in all it's horizontal glory. They have every campaign poster from L4D and L4D2 which can be bou... : My Documents
    • Oh wow :( : dognose
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      Oh god I want those all framed and on my wall! : hashd
      • Me too. Sorry Avril and Miley I love ya but... : dognose
      • And purchased! : hashd
    • Ssssssssssold : tomservo
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      I want a CEDA propaganda pack. : filtersweep
      • That would be so great. I think I'm gonna get the mug. : tomservo
    • tempting... : derelict515
    • Wow, the poster kit is a steal! : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • The tag line for Dark Carnival is so awesome. : PointlesS76
    • $10 shipping FTL :( Economy - US Only – $10.00 Express - US Only – $16.00 Standard - U... : EricZBA
    • Sweet! Gonna have to grab these. : bld
    • DAMN IT!!! Just ordered both poster sets. Argh. : virus
    • w00t I need an L4D2 poster to go with my L4D1 and signed TF2 Heavy litho !!!! : Downforce
    • ill leave the page open and see if the gf picks up on it : supermonkeyballz
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    Dark Carnival is a level in Blood and nothing else. : Marrbe
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      no actually it's also a campaign in l4d2 now, you should try it : dirge23
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        Comp won't run it. :( : Marrbe
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          man, if you can't run the source engine games it is seriously time to upgrade : dirge23
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            college weee : Marrbe
            • Good. You could use some book learnin'. : CRasterImage
• I loved the Mirror's Edge demo, so I just bought it! : tomservo
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  If you could shoot people I'd buy Mirror's Edge : Sixcos
  • You can pick up weapons and shoot dudes. Many people chose not to and complained about it because they w... : CrustaR
• prey was awesome! and ME is worth the 2-3 bucks. just play on easy and ignore most of the fights. : razorblade79
• i didn't like mirror's edge. i just couldn't get the hang of it and i hated repeating shit over and over. : ass-street
• Prey was worth $50.... in zimbabwean dollars : deviantpaul
• Valve posters are really high quality, I've got the Aperture Science posters, and they are the sex. : Creepin_Jeezus
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  the issue that i had with mirror's edge is that it was confused or mismanaged or something and it led to ... : Mr.SEX
  • My biggest issue, besides the constant fighting at the end, was the fact that they force you indoors and ... : r_picmip 5
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  AITOO who got motion sick playing Mirror's Edge? I still play it in short bursts, but I can't play for mo... : angrytaxman
  • Not really, but my girlfriend became physically sick while watching. Come to think of it, Call of Cthulu ... : steauengeglase
  • I get that way when I'm indoors or dealing with a lot of twists and turns, but the rooftop sections never... : PointlesS76
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  People either enjoyed the demo and hated the game, hated the demo and enjoyed the game or they hated bot... : steauengeglase
  • I liked the demo and liked the game. : Kentor
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  I got a L4D poster from my White Elephant last year. It's awesome, and I love it very much. : DrZettl
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    Is it folded? That's what I'm wondering. : node
    • Posters come in a tube, so no folding. : Creepin_Jeezus
• It's worth that much. It's better on PC IMO too, easier to control. : node
• I loved mirror's edge. : moe6
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  Mirror's Edge could have been awesome had they taken their time adding stealth and more things to do. Ha... : humbleone
  • English ^ : humbleone
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    Stealth? In a game explicitly about running as fast as possible? Bit of a break in gameplay adding forced... : SketchyFletchy
    • Well you might say that, but when I played the game there was quite a few parts where I wanted to change ... : humbleone
    • They don't really have to force it, but rather just intergrate it into the gameplay. It could be interest... : PointlesS76
  • Stealth is over-used. There are very few stealth sections of games that I enjoy. : ruckboos
  • Mirror's Edge could have been awesome GOTY had they taken their time adding stealth and more things to do : MercFox1
• Get the PS3 version. Better tuned and not prone to mouse twitch causing you to jump off a ledge in slight... : SketchyFletchy
• Prey was a really weak game. : Mr. Goodwrench

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• Good luck. I think the entire simulation genre died out in ~2000. There might be a few newer Jetfighter... : walker270
• DCS:Black Shark : watcherxp
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  Silent Hunter 3 has coop Also I believe LOMAC has Coop as well. : phate81
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    There is so much fun to be had in Silent Hunter 4's multi. : copy paper
    • Oh yeah! Thanks! : bundy
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  ArmA 2? : trOmblyj
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    I tried to play mp once in that game. I got yelled at for crashing the C130 or whatever it is and wedg... : hoov1185
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      it sounds like you weren't sticking with your team/following orders - games like OFP and ArmA shine for t... : trOmblyj
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        ArmA must have a multiplayer community of 100 dudes total. : Kentor
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          as oppossed to 100 people and thousands upon thousands of missing link candidates like most games : SockMonkeh
          • Alright. : Kentor
      • Yeah pretty much. It was my first experience online with that game and I had no idea what I was doing, wh... : hoov1185
    • That sounds horrible :| : r_picmip 5
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    Anyone still playing ArmA 2? I haven't bought it yet; I was put off by the initial report that it was bu... : Modulus
    • I finally played this for the first time last night (bought it on June 26 when it was released, on steam,... : trOmblyj
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  What about HAWX? I don't know if it has tcp/ip, but it's the first title that popped into my head. : Clasifyd
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    not very simulation type : umegastar
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      <shrug> Seems pretty sim to me. : Clasifyd
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        Not at all, my friend. : LoioshDwaggie
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          How so? What would it qualify as then? : Clasifyd
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            It's an action game. Incoming Comparison! Need for Speed / Burn Out: Action Game Forza 3, rFactor: Simu... : LoioshDwaggie
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              Hmm... I still don't think I get it... I mean, I understand your comparison, but I don't understand how i... : Clasifyd
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                So would Blazing Angels be a sim or an action in your eyes? : Clasifyd
                • I believe that's also just an action game, but I have not played it. Simulators seek to accurately rep... : LoioshDwaggie
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                Don't the airplanes in HAWX do drifts and powerslides in the air? How in the hell can you consider a game... : Prozium
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                  Do they? It's been a while since I played it (admittedly it was just the demo), so maybe I had a differe... : Clasifyd
                  • i don't think they had that part available in the demo. or at least i didn't figure it out (they tutorial... : cpt_gloval
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                HAWX won't let you fly the jets outside the envelope unless you switch it to the "leaf on the wind" mode,... : cpt_gloval
                • IL-2 is a much more sim-heavy flying game. from the xbox insider (i think) review: If you play the hardco : cpt_gloval
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              I'd say NFS:Shift is much more simulation than action though. : Nali4Freedom
              • Quite true. Shift is the NFS Sim game. It's not quite there, but they did try to give it a proper sim tre... : LoioshDwaggie
          • Arcade? : zakazi
          • It's a fucking arcade game, more or less. it's not a "sim" in any meaningful sense : Toraz Chryx
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        Your normal HAWX plane loadout is 240 missiles that lock on both air to air and air to ground. Your speed... : mroizo40
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          Ah, okay, that makes more sense, thanks. I was thinking more in the lines of moderately realistic flight ... : Clasifyd
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            It doesn't have realistic flight physics or ballistics either. Every plane can do Pugachev's Cobra. They ... : mroizo40
            • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21533654#itemanchor_21533654 : Clasifyd
            • You're making me miss Falcon / Microprose sims more and more :'( : LoioshDwaggie
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              Jesus fucking christ. : MercFox1
              • It becomes awesome when you're playing it in coop and simply take all the ridiculous seriously. 'they'... : xsoulbrothax
            • Hahaha, Wow. : phate81
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  IL2: Sturmovik Lock On: Modern Air Combat And all the updates/expansions. I think the IL2 one tha... : PlanetPerfecto
  • Hell yes for IL2, I think it still has a fairly dedicated multiplayer community too. : phate81
• Falcon 4.0 : LoioshDwaggie
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  DCS: Black Shark Best modern day helo sim. It's the first of a new series of sims. : thejay247
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    A little linky http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/index.php?lang=en&end_pos=148&scr= : thejay247
    • Wow impressive : echoinggreen
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    This game is really good, and a bitch to fly. : sheepraper
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      That's what gives simulation games their replayability, they take a very long time to master everything. : phate81
      • It took my 4 days to figure out how to just fire a missile! : fbsh
• Longbow 2 is on my top 6 or 8 list of best games ever. : reznory
• Battletank, EOT : Dschinghis Khan
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  MechWarrior can't be included? : humbleone
  • MW4:Mercs would be a great answer, especially with the Mek Tek patches : yacoub35
• Freespace 2!!!!!! : Edges
• Comanche 4 : MercFox1
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  Anyone have any experience with this? Sounds intresting.. http://go.metaboli.co.uk/howItWorks.html : bundy
  • inteeeeeeeeeresting... : Toraz Chryx
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  Steel Beasts but it's graphics are dated. Steel Beasts 2 looks better but still old. Il-2 Sturmovik 1... : Sailor of Fortune
  • Landings and taxiing, for that matter, are for women. : fbsh
• If you plan on getting IL2 or DCS Black Shark, also factor getting a TrackIR to actually play the games. ... : fbsh

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• F- : eeeealmo
• No go. : aggressor
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  I have one just like it, sans plaid pattern. : TheMonkeyWench
  • now ellissd can be just like you and keep his cock in a dresser drawer. : trOmblyj
• Retarded. : Jumperus
• Those pants cant be comfortable. : KxRook
• Sexually ambiguous much : locater16
• I want to punch the shit out of that guy : Utopia
• xbox huge pockets : lord_omega
• looks like something out of a gay austin powers movie : QMS|superdave
• looks just like the one my roommate bought...for herself : pandastrong
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  Why would you buy a jacket like that!? : pop_secret
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    What's wrong with pea coats? : Ellissd
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      It's remarkably gay, even by shack standards. : rmjackson
      • if by gay you mean there's yet to be a guy in a well fitting pea coat whose looks aren't remarkably impro... : pointyelbows
    • Absolutely nothing. In fact I own one. But that one you bought is remarkably... ewww. : pop_secret
• looks nice. : drucifer
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  The Shack disapproves. Good sign. : Ellissd
  • lol no, not really : kill9
  • pretty much : synapse19
  • I have to agree. : action roommate
  • yeah, nice coat if it fits you well. : J4NUS
• I hope you are female. : fathertime
• What does it look like on you? : thief
• I don't get it? It seems like a simple, double-breasted coat. Might not like the plaid but meh. : Moonbase Commander
• Did you get a free bowl of soup with it? : theargent
• Is that a burberry? : zakazi
• It's a nice jacket. : WaterSign
• This will go with it: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gjPPmWu0L._SL500_AA280_.jpg : DialDforDan
• Are you a slim female? : stump
• Nice if you can pull it off. : moe6
• Those pants look like they would chafe my massive package : silent prophet
• I don't think I could pull it off, but if you can, it's a cool jacket. I think I'm going to pick up th... : Head Rush
• looks good. don't listen to everyone else. : Yanks
• Does it come with incredibly tight pants and clip on emo bangs? : Dynotaku
• Rad. Nevermind these styleless heathens. : get_navi
• if you need random people's approval for something you want to wear... then chances are you shouldnt wear... : -=kodiak=-
• lol : sanchez
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  I don't like the plaid but otherwise a pea coat is cool. : das_runt
  • Yeah, you should have gone to a second hand store for a pea coat if you wanted one. : SnakeIRye
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  Pea coats are for women but if you like it you would probably like this thread on Neogaf http://www.ne... : Shai-Tan
  • no trench coats are for women. Pea coates are for pirates : Megara9
• are you a sailor? : shakybonez31
• I picked up a peacoat today too, but all black and not as tight-fitting. : father_crown

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  15GB for the installer download, and then 15 more GB for the installed files. Then you can probably delet... : OverloadUT
  • I was hoping so - don't feel like downloading 30GB for one game to be honest : ruckboos
  • I'm downloading it right now and the installer is only 7.16 GB. : Vincent Grayson
• Error: Mass Effect is Country restricted on your IP. :( : imperator
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  BUY IT : kn1fe
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    I played it on 360, but this interests me. Is very different of an experience on PC? : KxRook
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      The interface is actually a lot better on PC. : Dschinghis Khan
      • ^^^^ And it's why I just bought it thru d2d. Bioware went out of there way to make a good pc port. : slickdoody
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        I completely agree. and the damn mako controls so much more betterer. : SolveChrist
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          Is there any disadvantage of buying from D2D rather than Steam? I've only used D2D once and didnt have a... : KxRook
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            i've never done d2d to know. I love's my steam too much to flirt with another provider behind it's back. : SolveChrist
            • I have a D2D account because my wife had to have Sims 3 and it's not on Steam. =( : DinK
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  I've never used D2D before, is it as good as Steam? : Ellissd
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    You buy a game and they just give you the executive and you do what you want with it. It's pretty decent;... : The Grolar Bear
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      It's alright. I prefer using their download manager because it is odd to have a 6 gigabyte download going... : denixen
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        i think they're promoting it because at least one other download service charges extra for a 2 yr online ... : slickdoody
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          Yeah, I almost bought Dragon Age from EA until someone posted EA's download policy. Holy shit, way to ali... : denixen
          • slight hijack: how is ubisoft's download service? do they have similar restrictions as EA or are they mor... : ruckboos
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    I haven't had problems with it, but then again I haven't had problems with Steam either. I do like the fa... : ruckboos
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      another plus is you could sell it to someone if you wanted to after you're done. : kn1fe
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        would it be just that you can let someone else install it with the key you were given? or can you transfe... : ruckboos
        • Yeah I would expect it falls under "technically possible but against the license agreement" : DinK
  • it's a different model then steam, as others have mentioned. Good in some ways, bad in others. : slickdoody
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    Sometimes you forget you even have games on d2d : chungathebunga
    • I have done this on several occasions. : Vincent Grayson
  • I've only ever bought one thing there, but it worked well. Like others said, they give you a CD key and ... : DinK
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    Patching D2D games have been notoriously difficult IIRC. Other than that it works well. : Sailor of Fortune
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      I had no problem with Mass Effect. Downloaded the game, grabbed the DLC which included the patch and it a... : Vincent Grayson
      • I thought it was kinda lame you have to register your ME cd key with bioware to get the bring down the sk... : slickdoody
• This is one of those cases where I would SO buy this game for PC even though I've already played through ... : DinK
• Buy this game if you have $5 and like video games It's really an amazing experience. Was worth $60 o... : slickdoody
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  sometimes i think steam bases their sales on what i have bought last week : GloriousCow
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    oh d2d, nevermind. : GloriousCow
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      except, steam had this same deal a few days ago in their holiday sales thing. : JuffoWup
      • For Mass Effect? ARe you sure? I've been keeping an eye on Steam this whole weekend. Did I miss the first... : Ellissd
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  "We are currently restocking keys for Mass Effect, and they will be available shortly. Please check back... : Ellissd
  • Welp, guess that's out. : KxRook
• I almost bought this. I think I'll play it again on the 360 though if I want a refresher before ME2. : Judecca

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• No. : Nixx2004
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  I used to keep up with video cards, passionately. Not so much any more. : dognose
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    Same here. These days as long as I can get somewhat playable framerates I'm good. : mrwolf710
    • They seem to be aiming for the lowest common denominator now, whereas back then you had to go out and spe... : dognose
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    I know why that is. It happens to all of us. : thrallie200
    • MaximumPC Magazine is still a good read. : dognose
  • well thats probably because there is no need to anymore. : DogDharma
  • i remember when you won a card a quakecon, i was very happy for you! : filthysock
• I think I'd rather be spending my money on games than hardware. : roushimsx
• No. : Moonbase Commander
• Absolutely not. : InfoBiter
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  a 3 year cycle is perfect for me. : xxiv
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    yeah, I'm coming up on 3 years. I've did a video card upgrade in between though. : Clay
    • Same here. I have added some memory and added a harddrive, but the guts remain the same motherboard and ... : Thresher
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  guess I'm the only one that enjoyed getting new hardware just as much as playing the games. : DogDharma
  • You can still do that though. Thankfully, the rest of us do not have to. : daedraug
  • yea, but it's pointless to upgrade a lot right now. : DogDharma
  • _/$\_ : papaskot
• absolutely not. When I was younger I had the time and patience for it, now I pretty much stick to my 360.... : headbone
• Not on your life. I'm doing an upgrade now and it's like pulling teeth to figure out wtf I want, but it's... : Dante
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  I do miss readings about new motherboard chipsets, GPUs, and RAM architecture. I just can't keep up with... : giant boy detective
  • I think that is because there is no reason to. A pc from 2 years ago is still perfectly capable for the ... : DogDharma
• Maybe I feel this way because for the longest time my parents financed this need to upgrade, then when I ... : DogDharma
• Maybe when I didn't have any other bills. Not now, that's for sure. : stump
• while it was (still is!) always fun to keep abreast of all the tech, the current environement of cpu's an... : johnny rotten
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  I haven't upgraded since 2002. I also haven't played a new game other than Torchlight in almost as lo... : systatic
  • haha this is why I'm upgrading. Torchlight re-kindled my interest, I'm going to enjoy Dragon Age and such... : Dante
• Yes, I totally miss spending more money all the time. : lodit
• No!!! : Ender.Wiggin
• only because Im somewhat sad that graphics arent improving by leaps and bounds, i keep looking at newegg ... : Unleashed
• no : shirif
• I try to upgrade every three years, sometimes with a minor refresh in the middle somewhere. : RookieCAF
• No... but only because I've been spending so much of my time replacing components that inexplicably die i... : nephilem
• i'm glad we reached the point where i could get a mid-range laptop and it runs all current games for a fe... : Psigun
• no, because after i upgrade i braindump and then have to re-learn everything to upgrade : Magus
• I enjoyed keeping up with the industry news and what was hot but I usually upgraded every 2-3 years. Now ... : freshyk

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• Happy birthday ton of colle. : notdeadyeti
• happy birthday gramps!! and your candle isn't flickering, its just wavering from you moving so fast : beastrabban
• Happy Birthday! :D : dmason
• 49? better whip out the ben-gay : RikiTiki2
• Happy Birthday older man! : cerealSAM2
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  Happy Birthday! If you feel like killing some zombies, I'm starting a game up in 10 minutes. Steam ID is ... : TheMonkeyWench
  • I'd love to, but It's going to be family night tonight. I do want to play online. Soon! : Colleton
• Happy Birthday! : c0bra
• Happy Birthday you dirty old bastard! : midgetherder
• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-fivenine they are caves in which we hi... : mnsnota
• Happy birthday! : ColoradoCNC
• Happy Birthday and you're supposed to be in Big Town! : Sailor of Fortune
• Happy Birthday Colleton! : famine101
• Happy B-day, and thanks for making me feel young :) : yosemiteclimber
• have a good one man, happy birthday. : disembodied potato
• OMGHCD!!! :O : dognose
• Happy birthday my fellow 40's friend. : i am the baker
• Thanks everyone! :) : Colleton
• Happy Birthday Dude! Are you the oldest Shacker? : phate81
• Nice age in your profile, and congrats you are not old enough! : TheArtMan
• Congrats, old man :) : MagicWishMonkey
• Happy B-day! Any advice?? : Jiven
• lol'd : drucifer
• Happy b-day!!!! : bombay
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  49 years ago today something grew inside of your mother. THAT THING WAS YOU! YOU YOU YOU YOU! : locater16
  • Actually probably more like 49.75 years ago. : krym3
• Whoa, I feel young! Happy birthday! : Thresher
• Happy Birthday! : Just A Girl
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  Crap, I thought I was the only 40-something here among all these 16 year old shit heads.... : Ender.Wiggin
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    i am 27 gramps : Utopia
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      You are still 16 in your head, dumb-ass... : Ender.Wiggin
      • :D : Utopia
      • Are you Red Forman? : Ctrl-Phreak
  • I'm an old fart too. 41 : RookieCAF
• Happy Birthday! Feel young, be young :) : Trepex
• Happy bday : thejm4n
• happy birthday grandpa : GloriousCow
• happy b-day old timer : Magus
• Happy Birthday Bro! : punchdog
• just think of yourself as 7 squared! HB :) : Postal
• Happy Birthday. At this stage, its more likely one year closer to death. J/K. : RookieCAF
• Happy Birthday! : rmjackson
• Man! You're even old to ME! ha-p b-da! : AxeMan808
• Happy birthday dude. I hope the shack is still around when i'm 49 : themaestro2657
• Damn, I thought I was the oldest on here at 41. Happy Birthday! : jdcope

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  to get to the other side is the correct answer : cptstern
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    I think you win. He said the first person to answer, not the first person to answer correctly. : Ctrl-Phreak
    • I also think I should win : cptstern
• To get FUCKED IN THE ASS!!!! : Sothebys
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  because he saw a black guy walking towards him and he's a fucking racist : veras
  • ps i already own the game : veras
• To get to the International House of Mojo. : Haxim
• to get away from kukujin : dignan
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  Because he was stapled to the punk rocker? : TheRealBigDumbass
  • ^^ You win. I can't remember when I first heard that joke (when I was 9 or something) but I found it t... : inchwide
  • I don't get it. : jcrockerman
• to be vulcanized and to have a pulley inserted in its middle. : Modulus
• I already own the game, but I'd still like to answer. Because he was stapled to the frog. : JediDwag
• To prove he wasn't no trout. : SiW.
• Because the freeway made him a better offer. : David Craddock
• FUck, i just bought it this morning. : Dschinghis Khan
• Because phil's driving! : hoov1185
• because he had aids : headbone
• Because it was only an inch wide!!! : NastyJack
• Because he had never played any Monkey Island game. : InfoBiter
• he didn't : ass-street
• because it was stapled to the seeing eye dog : akirabob
• Because >Take chicken >Walk East >Drop chicken : CapnChaos
• Because the cock was on the other side : edge198
• It had a pulley in its middle. : Afterglow
• because he can. : Jikim
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  because he was stapled to the dead baby? : AMikaboshi
  • Heh. Oh Eddie you crass man... :) : BioSector
• To get to the other vagina. : zipperface
• for the cock : slickdoody
• Because it wanted to fall down a drain. : Marrbe
• Because Chicken loves me. : DooBall
• In soviet russia, road crosses chicken. : kaddar0
• Because Mirrors Edge is on sale for 5$ : jonin
• because like me he doesn't know what The Secret of Monkey Island is? : ShadowRam
• Because it was getting away from Colonel Sanders : ruckboos
• Genetic pre-desposition. : MercFox1
• Because the chicken didn't want to get run over by Phil Tiger. : jcrockerman
• He didn't. It's all an elaborate illusion concocted by your schizophrenic mind. Soon it won't just be chi... : quadeh
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  Why is everyone saying he when referring to a chicken? Chickens are female! : Ecks
  • Why did the blond chicken cross the road? : humbleone
• To buy me The Secret of Monkey Islandâ„¢: Special Edition : pyide
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  to die. in the rain. : pointyelbows
  • ...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Chicken coops on fire off the shoulder of Purdue. I'... : beastrabban
• How appropriate. You fight like a cow. : Kerranger
• Forty-two. : pandastrong
• because standing in the middle of the road would result in getting run over : retardhumper
• Because the chickens on the other side were beakin' on him. : Gojirah
• Because he bought the game already about 2 minutes ago before he saw this thread >:( can't wait to play : silentbobuk
• You see, on the other side of the road there was a conference filled with the most knowledgeable and skil... : moe6
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  post contest and run :C : moe6
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    oh, I missed that this thread became about comedy because it was won really early :C : moe6
    • I didn't even see his post :( : pyide

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  I think both Microsoft and Sony mentioned that this was going to be the longest console generation we've ... : zerog83
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    I've even heard "10 year cycle" thrown around. : zerog83
    • dual 1080p!!!!! i can see this being a long generation though yes, seriously : xsoulbrothax
    • The ten year thing is not ten years until a new system though. It just means games still coming out for t... : Evil Benius
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      Worked for the PS1 and it worked for the PS2. Honestly, I couldn't believe Microsoft killed off the Xb... : roushimsx
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        I think they did the right thing, that was the only way to be able to release before Sony and that clearl... : ErneX
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          Yea, nothing like releasing a system early and having an obscenely high failure rate with your consoles r... : roushimsx
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            They don't see those numbers as losses but as investment, and I'm pretty sure that not even in MS best es... : ErneX
            • but their = by their : ErneX
          • xbox has surpassed playstation in market/mindshare. that's what they wanted. they were successful. : Clay
          • And your plan for taking on Sony with 80% market share was? Dumbass. : InfectedStool
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            $1.1bn is nothing when it comes to taking as much of the market as they have from Sony in just 2 console ... : zerog83
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              Too bad Nintendo went from shit last to crushing the hell out of them by simply recycling last generation... : roushimsx
              • haha so true. : hamachi
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            The Saturn wasn't competitively priced and was released with little warning. The uniter were rock solid, ... : dmason
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              It didn't have to be competitively priced, there was nothing to compete against other than the 3do (~$700... : roushimsx
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                I weep more for the Dreamcast than for the Saturn :( : ErneX
                • I weep for Sega's ability to regress controller design to that abortion that shipped with the Dreamcast. ... : roushimsx
              • It still had to compete with the previous generation of consoles. Even though they were technically infer... : dmason
            • Saturn was a difficult platform to develop for without much payoff. : yakz
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            I love my Saturn. But it had it's issues with hardware too (I'm looking at you cartridge slot). : xylothan
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              cart slot issues normally come from using third party carts with irregularly sized boards jacking up the ... : roushimsx
              • I picked up a 4-in-1 off eBay a long time ago. It worked really well. : dmason
          • availability and software support This is what cost them that generation, which Microsoft has proven i... : ieGod
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        They killed it off because it was bleeding money. Microsoft didn't own the designs for the first Xbox.... : exigence7
        • Yea, not including a hard drive by default was another awesome mistake of theirs and did wonders for fuck... : roushimsx
        • and with the 360 they also managed to get more 3rd party support, some studios didn't even cared about th... : ErneX
  • they really lucked out on that one, given the state of the major gaming market economies (US, JP, EU). : yacoub35
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    The 360 is getting old in the tooth, it can barely keep up with some PS3 graphics. Natal will do squat f... : Lone Swordsman
    • I agree that Natal will be a wash (along with the PS3 motion garbage), but as for old (long) in tooth, I ... : yakz
    • i don't feel like it's behind at all : EvilDolemite
• 2012 at the earliest I think. I'd guess it'll be more like 2013-2014. : uncleanmonkey
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  Both systems still feel new. Great games "starting" to come out now. : DooBall
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    For the PS3 at least. It took me 3 years but I finallybut earlier this month. : zerog83
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      same boat, i bought my ps3 like 2 months ago, its pretty rad. : krym3
      • Yeah, the PS3's finally reaching a good price point and some genuinely good games are hitting it now. In ... : Entity
• I imagine Microsoft will keep their mouths shut until after the Natal comes out and we see how it does. M... : Evil Benius
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  I'm betting that the next 360 will be based on Larrabee, a good thing about the current 360 hardware is t... : ErneX
  • Owning the IP probably makes it more likely for the hardware to support the same CPU and GPU instructions... : DinK
  • It's likely to be based on Larrabee only by virtue of Intel throwing gigantic moneybags at MS for it. Oth... : stuka
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    I have seen nothing about Larrabee that indicates it isn't a destined-to-fail gimmick at worst, and a foo... : yakz
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      But if, say, Intel offers Microsoft to completely fund all of Xbox 3's development and hardware productio... : stuka
      • While Intel is obviously that stupid (Itanium), I don't think Microsoft is. They have shown a very clear ... : yakz
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      The amount of people who are knowledgeable about the future of the industry involved in the project are p... : d3tached
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        There's an interview with Sweeny around the net where he's excited about Larrabee, particularly because h... : ErneX
        • Tim Sweeney has been hyping that shit for years. I don't see an end coming to it being easier to adapt bl... : yakz
      • To me, the last ~20 years have proven that ease of development is king assuming performance is similar. T... : yakz
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  I'm thinking Nintendo will bite first. And if the wii is so cheap to make, they could probably include th... : ruckboos
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    The Wii name is so powerful I couldn't imagine them not naming the next system Wii HD or Wii 2 or somethi... : DinK
    • WiiSi : zerog83
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      The new Nintendo Poo with backward compatibility? : filthysock
      • Naw man, it's the Puu. : quadeh
    • WiiWIi : QMS|superdave
    • WiiNi : aldraek
    • Wii Next WiiNee : jake
    • I think Wii Plus is a definite contender, based on their software naming scheme. : aethyr
    • New Super Wii : DarkWolf5
    • WWII : bashildy@speakeasy.net
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      The Wii Deuce : NastyJack
      • I mean like pee and poop get it. : NastyJack
    • Tranny Wii : DarkWolf5
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      ... or just add a very minor revision and jack people for another 200$ a system, and another 500$ in goof... : -=kodiak=-
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        What you're suggesting isn't even close to mutually exclusive to what I said. =) I was also going to ... : DinK
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          Wasn't the Wii chip basically a higher clocked GC chip? I could see them making a system that's approx... : ruckboos
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            Yeah. That plus more memory and stuff. I'm not sure I see nintendo being the graphics kings again wit... : DinK
            • Yeah, I know I'm basically dreaming about the super high end system. As it goes, when many casual players... : ruckboos
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          and you'll still never get laid until they make Dildo Wii. : -=kodiak=-
          • Lol what's with the hangup on Wii sexuality? I'd bet a majority of owners are married or kids anyway. : DinK
    • WiiD : deathofrats
    • WiiWii : uglysad
    • Wiii : DooBall
    • Wii're still behind the curve with our hardware : virus
    • Virtual Wii Boy : Sailor of Fortune
    • Super Wii 64 Cube : someWayne
    • WiiDP >:( : glio1337
    • Uss : Cihte
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  Last thing I read was the next Xbox will have BC and they are planning a way now for games to have Forwar... : Sailor of Fortune
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    You shouldn't believe that kind of shit at all. Building the next generation system to run the last gener... : yakz
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      They're likely to retain the same major hardware this time around and that would make BC easier. I don't ... : Sailor of Fortune
      • Cell as an architecture is dead and I don't see 360 BC being profitable even if the next system has a PPC... : yakz
  • I dont get 2 shits about backwards compatability. I want to play NEW fucking games, thats why I bought a ... : chilln
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    Forward Compatibility seems like it might be a misnomer. I'd imagine it would be more of a "dual compati... : DinK
    • Yeah this makes the most sense being something as a value added : Sailor of Fortune
  • I can see that happening, good way to bring all those achievements over as well. Right now you can downlo... : bozer
  • not sure about forward compatibility. If all games had it, it would deter to many people from buying the... : DogDharma

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  Mirror's Edge worth 5$ ? : LordHellMaX
  • Of course it is. Great graphics and it's pretty good fun to traverse the environment. The later gunfights... : at0micgarden
  • Yes. : pigvomit
  • Definitely, but opinions vary on this one! I'm still hoping it leads into a more awesome ME2. : biofrog
  • Yup. I bought it for $8 when gogamer had it on sale. Looks nice and runs great on PC. : Rehevkor
  • i don't think so. : ass-street
  • Yes, it belongs in a museum as a work of art. Unfortunately the retail release had internet activation a... : jkstanton
  • Yeah, it's worth precisely that much. : CrustaR
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    yup. very fun but short and no replayability. the definition of a "renter", but this price is the same ... : smax
    • I would say this game is very replayable. I'm always on the lookout for a better, faster way of completi... : jkstanton
  • It's worth more. : FirstPersonCooter
  • I paid $30 for it a couple months ago and I thought that was the perfect price for it. $5 is a steal. : Duffman8369
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    Definitely, it's good fun, especially on the PC with the mouse giving better control. I have a gameplay ... : Matt Burris
    • Speed run on Mirror's Edge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AypxahR8HK8 99.99% of us will never reac... : jkstanton
  • Yes it is. Picked it up for the 360, but I'll be glad to get a copy for the PC. : steauengeglase
  • Easily. : deject
  • Pretty much every game is worth $5 : Ebu
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  Is Call of Juarez any good? I'm home sick and getting tired of TV. What about Riddick? : Horn
  • Yeah, but I heard it's like a 6 hour game. I'm still waiting for it to drop in price to ~the $15 mark. : CrustaR
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    I found it to be very fun, especially the gunfights which are visceral and awesome. : Matt Burris
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      Matt, is it true that it's like a 6 hour game? : CrustaR
      • It's short, but most chapters can be played as either brother, who are quite different playstyles. So you... : DialDforDan
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        I think its just over that. But there are two sections you can completely bypass that take an hour or so.... : Beady
        • I heard it plays a little like crysis in that you have many different ways to complete the mission but it... : stgdz
      • It is short, but worth the journey. I never tried multiplayer, but I hear from people that it can be fun... : Matt Burris
    • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21522976 : deject
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  Riddick is so bought. : nomaad
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    Does this come with an updated version of Butcher's Bay? : ieGod
    • Looks like yes: "Play the award-winning Escape from Butcher Bay campaign, which has been re-mastered with : ieGod
    • Yep, it does. Both games are excellent! : guido anchovy
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  sweet, just as I'd hoped - nothing tempting! :) : yacoub35
  • What? Riddick is one of the most overlooked games ever : RikiTiki2
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  Is Mirror's Edge worth playing on the PC? I know at $5 it's the same as if it was free but it's not about... : te[R]ror
  • I loved it and played with mouse and keyboard. : ahlee
• Mirror's Edge bought! : Arctic Fox
• With these prices I might as well get Mirror's Edge and Monkey Island. : Bamii
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  is today the final day? : dignan
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    i also want to know if today is the final day : OhSnapHighFive
    • This is the fifth set of deals, so it should be the last of them. : The Grolar Bear
  • Think so. The website doesn't say to check back for new deals when the counter reaches 00:00:00 anymore. : inchwide
  • it is http://store.steampowered.com/news/3174/ : byorn
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  Oh dear. There's 3 games there I'm most certainly going to buy. No Starbucks for the next 2 weeks ;( ... : r_picmip 5
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    "The game is a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, which has been remade and ha... : vynn
    • Nice! Definitely buying it when I get home. Thank you. : r_picmip 5
• Another Mirrors Edge purchase here! I've been wanting to get that game so badly, but was waiting for a p... : SnakeIRye
• Riddick is solid; I enjoyed it for 5 dollars on D2D about two months ago. : digweed014
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  Evil Genius any good? Is that the one with all those imps you order around? : bipolar
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    pretty widely called a poor attempt to revive the Dungeon Keeper games. one reason being you can't actual... : yacoub35
    • You can kill them, just not right away. : Horn
    • Ah, that game. I was thinking of Overlord. Still, for $2.50, Evil Genius looks decent : bipolar
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    Evil Genius is a good but flawed game. If you like Dungeon Hunter at all you'd be silly to not pick it u... : Horn
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      also it looks like barf : dantastic
      • it's 5 years old, and I doubt it was cutting edge back then. : deject
    • dungeon hunter? : kn1fe
  • It's worth $2.50 for the title screen music alone. : Haxim
  • It is good for $2.50, but I found it got incredibly frustrating about 60 minutes into any game. The initi... : aethyr
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  Store's getting pounded right now =( For those wondering, Dawn of Discovery is an amazing game, if yo... : Clasifyd
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    Is it more city building than RTS fighting? : r_picmip 5
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      I guess it depends on how you WANT to play it, but I would say overall, yes. There's a lot of 'make you... : Clasifyd
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        Tropico 3 made me wonder if I don't like city building. CivRome was also pretty boring... so I think I m... : r_picmip 5
        • I downloaded the Tropico 3 demo on 360... god, that was a fucking mistake... : Clasifyd
• Bleh : Begawkiness
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  Section 8 is 50% off and it's still $32.99? lol : Sothebys
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    yeah what the fuck, I laughed at this. also what is this game? it looks like Tribes or something? : Majuju
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      It's Tribes but shitty : Sothebys
      • So it's Tribes? I kid, I kid! : Gary the Llama
      • it's not like Tribes it's just shitty if you want Tribes go to http://www.tribesnext.com/ instead of w... : cfalcon
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      It is definitely not like Tribes beyond having power armor and a (very limited by comparison) jet pack. ... : omnova
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        So it has custom classes, speed boost, and jet packs but it's 'definitely' not like Tribes.... : Sothebys
        • it didn't feel like tribes to me when i played the demo : pandastrong
  • It's $24.99. They probably had a misprint. : FirstPersonCooter
  • The demo was awful. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Ooh, Dawn of Discovery. I might grab that. : Clay
  • for the next 15 mins, it';s on for 50% off instead of 30% off on D2D. if you want it, get it there : OhSnapHighFive
  • http://www.direct2drive.com/8146/product/Buy-Dawn-of-Discovery-Download : OhSnapHighFive
• Quantz isn't what I thought it would be. U, W, what's the difference? : pigvomit
• This is the last day, right? : Gary the Llama
• In general, meh. Already bought Riddick for $5 from D2D's sale. I guess I'll pick up Monkey Island. Mi... : dpgagnon
• Shit, I may have to get Monkey Island, Evil Genius and Mirrors Edge. : jonin
• Man Steam is getting bogged down I can't even place my order. Maybe it is a sign that I should stop buy ... : hrdwregk
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  boooo :[ : aethyr
  • Actually, I should be happy I only spent $2.50 at steam for KOTOR during a 5 day sale. I already had Batm... : aethyr
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  Call of juarez and sections 8 are really tempting, how is the section 8 MP? Is it P2P? : stgdz
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    Last I heard nobody was playing it, even on consoles. : Arcanum
    • ouch that sucks for timegate : stgdz
    • The demo was pretty ass. : DrZettl
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  Steam just died mid-transaction and now it says I have to contact support. God fucking damnit. I think th... : retarded talking dinosaur
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    Does anyone know the best way to get this shit fixed? Anyone else have it puke midway? : retarded talking dinosaur
    • I'm in the same boat : Horn
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    This just happened to me except I am installing fine. : Sapiens
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      God damnit. It's going to take forever to get my purchases i bet. I'm sure support will be swamped for we... : retarded talking dinosaur
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        Did you ever get a purchase confirmation email? If so try restarting Steam, your game should be there. : Sapiens
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          I never got the email and the game is in my list. Can't install it though. : Horn
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            same. fuckin thing sucks : retarded talking dinosaur
            • Sweet, just got an email that my CC was declined (it worked two days ago) and now when I try to re-purcha... : Horn
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              i just got an email stating my credit card was declined. games are removed but i get an error now any tim... : retarded talking dinosaur
              • wow, both of you are in the EXACT same boat : OhSnapHighFive
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                It just went through for me so maybe it'll work for you now : Horn
                • yup just worked thx : retarded talking dinosaur
      • I had a similar issue yesterday - I contacted support in the morning, the problem fixed itself an hour la... : veras
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    Buy from the website next time. I'd never buy from the actual Steam client. : K1Bond007
    • Same. : dmason
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  Monkey Island worth getting/playing? : FirstPersonCooter
  • For sure, but don't cheat by printing out the solution and just walking through it! : inchwide
  • probably the only must haves in the list today : dantastic
  • What kind of question is that?? : avatar_58
  • worth buying for something like the 10th time? HELL YEAH and I'm giving it to my brother aswell. : umegastar
  • you better buy this post-haste to redeem yourself : OhSnapHighFive
  • no question about it, go buy it now! : Herman Toothrot
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    What is Monkey-Island? Is it a king quest'ish game or a 7th guest type of game? : goatjc
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      unlike the sierra graphic adventures like king's quest, in monkey island it's all point-and-click and you... : Herman Toothrot
      • You can't die, except for one single spot in the game but that's only if you want to. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Can we ban everyone that asks if Monkey Island is worth buying/playing? OF COURSE IT IS. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• guess this means i have no excuses to have never played Secret of Monkey Island? : Demius
• meh. havent bought anything since friday : dantastic
• Steam going all Half Life 2 launch on me :( : bipolar
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  Bought Mirrors Edge immediately. : Creepin_Jeezus
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    does it include the mappack dlc? timetrial stuff? : Iwannaacura
    • I don't think it does have any the of DLC, but frankly I don't care at that price, especially since it's ... : Creepin_Jeezus
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  This Quantz game is like 3d puzzle crack : hax3d
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    did you buy it? is it any good? : OhSnapHighFive
    • Does it feature dinosaur clip art? : ChibiJosh
    • I bought it, and it seems really addictive and fun from the 10 minutes that I got to play it this morning... : hax3d
• Straight outta Compton Cleveland, today's Steamers! : yacoub35
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  I think next year I'm not gonna buy any PC games and just wait for the end of november. : smax
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    I think the midweek/weekend sales throughout the year have been better than the end of november sale. : aethyr
    • I'm really sad that I missed TF2 for 2 dollars...i got it with Orange Box, but I wanted to gift it to abo... : OhSnapHighFive
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    it's gonna be funny after Christmas when the deals will be even more amazing, I wonder how many of the th... : veras
    • hopinghopinghoping...aside from the THQ pack, i've only bought games that were less than $10 : OhSnapHighFive
• Will Mirror's Edge run on a Macbook Pro? : peanut-
• are people still having trouble with their transactions? I dont want to click Purchase if all i'm going t... : OhSnapHighFive
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  I want to gift Monkey Island to my 10 year old nephew, but he doesn't have steam and I don't think his mo... : inchwide
  • No, stuff from Steam needs steam running to work. : Toraz Chryx
  • i'm pretty sure it needs steam...also, he'll automatically get a steam account if you gift it to his emai... : OhSnapHighFive
  • Might be, I can try it for you. Some games on steam do not actually require it once downloaded. Unfortuna... : avatar_58
• Evil Genius for $2.49 is SWEET!!! : NeoMoose
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  This is the last day for sales, correct? I was hoping for a small torchlight discount. =( : mindmann
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    me too, maybe the post-christmas sale. I have enough on my backlog to play anyway until then. : aethyr
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      just wait 'til next weekend and they'll be like: December is CHRISTMA-HANAK-EID-WANZA month so every week : yacoub35
      • I'm sure there will be more : umegastar
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        You forgot to work in Ramadan there. : The Grolar Bear
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          Whoops, I'm wrong, according to Wikipedia. : The Grolar Bear
          • lol : yacoub35
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    Torchlight is $20, you crazy fool. : Alice O'Connor
    • seriously what the hell is with all these stupid fucks wanting torchlight discounts? as if it's not cheap... : Majuju
    • Oh theres even a demo! Didn't notice that before. : Ziz
  • Pretend it retailed for $40, which is totally what it's worth. : pyros
• I think I'm not a gamer anymore. I only recognize a few of those, and there's nothing there I want to bu... : action roommate
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  Anyone who hasn't played Monkey Island yet, you no longer have ANY EXCUSE to not try it, $2.49 for an ama... : Herman Toothrot
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    Yeah, I just bought it. Only previous Monkey Island game I've played was Curse, which was very good. : bipolar
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      I just bought it too. Never played a Monkey Island game. : Ziz
      • Buying it now, woot. : sasoi
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    is it the same as the original Monkey Island game, only with better graphic? I might get that if it is. : mnok
    • it is, but im not sure that i like the new graphics...new control scheme is nice though...having fun none... : OhSnapHighFive
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      "better" is a huge understatement. they completely repainted every single scene in the entire game. it'... : electroly
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        and you can press a button to switch back and forth between the old graphics/music and the new one, even ... : electroly
        • i find myself doing that a lot, i miss the old graphics, but i love the new graphics too! i'm so torn! : Herman Toothrot
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      is it still just as hard? I remember spending hours on the freaking sword battle thing (where you have to... : mnok
      • There is a hint button that gives progressively less vague hints the more times you press it. Eventually ... : Duffman8369
      • You can press "H" and it tells you what to do. The more times you press it, the dumber it thinks you are... : electroly
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  Does Chronicles of Riddick have Director's cut commentaries and the like? I heard they are good. : Rag and Bone Man
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    It should. It already did Escape From Butcher Bay was first release on the PC. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • durrrr it already did when EFBB was first released on the PC. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  Bah, I was about to buy the Riddick game but it has TAGES activation-limit DRM. : Goncyn
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    seems silly for a steam purchase : cpt_gloval
    • I agree, cpt_gloval, I agree. : Goncyn
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  Riddick is reallyfucking good. I think that may come with both riddick games. It's a deep first person... : Wheatloaf
  • I bought it on the Direct2Drive sale, but it looks like it still has Xbox textures or something. Everythi... : azshack
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  Mirror's Edge is tempting that cheaply. Maybe. : Link.
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    I will buy pretty much an unlimited number of things that cost <$10 each. : Goncyn
    • You should buy my old Star wars trading card game collection. : imperator
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  Did they have UT3 black on sale at any point? I missed that if so. : Toth21
  • it's been on sale for $10 a few times but not in the past month : cfalcon
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  MattPlays videos (20 minutes or longer) of current Steam deals games I've played: Mirror's Edge :http... : Matt Burris
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    i still love your site :D : xsoulbrothax
    • I still enjoy updating it with new games. I'm 3 games away from 100 videos. : Matt Burris
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    Should I buy Riddick? I never played the first one either : veras
    • If you buy it you get both games. I just started escape from butcher bay and its pretty good so far : Horn
    • Yes. Starbreeze did a really good job blending stealth, melee and gunplay, and the game contains 15 - 20 ... : Ely
    • No question about it, don't even hesitate. If you like anything to do with FPS, one with a smart stealth... : Matt Burris
  • time to mirror your videos on youtube imo... your site is getting absolutely hammered. It's a good 30-60 ... : fvariance
• Huge day, Riddick, ME, Quantz, and Monkey Island B O U G H T ' D : MeestaNob
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  Sadly it's going to take the next 30 years to download mirrors edge at this rate : retarded talking dinosaur
  • YESSS, I've reached ISDN levels!! : retarded talking dinosaur
• Quantz looks fun. Hopefully it is! : dmason
• Pulled on ME and Monkey :) : LordHellMaX