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  shacknews gets a mention, including some quotes from george's chatty posts : ]pm[chem
  • That is a sad story. :( : Rice-Rocketeer
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  We're not supposed to talk about it remember from the memo? : Sailor of Fortune
  • it's the top story on hacker news right now which is how I found it : ]pm[chem
• I look forward to reading this later. Thanks! : NastyJack
• Neverrrrrrrrrrrr! : freakynipples69
• +INF, reading this now. Thanks for the heads up. : CrustaR
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  I had no idea that they'd hired Brian Hook : Dave-A
  • I know, me neither! Q2/Q3 hero. : ]pm[chem
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    That was news to me as well. I remember he started some indie game company, released some bejeweled style... : ThomW
    • Hell, I was on the OSX dev mailing list he landed on when he was looking to release said game, I remember... : SiW.
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  it only makes sense that they dont want people to talk about it if theyre in the middle of a law suit : ninjase
  • yeah... it was the fact that he got people to talk anon which makes the story interesting : ]pm[chem
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  3D Realms blasted back with a countersuit, arguing that since it had never formally issued a date to rele : mwasher
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    as silly as it seems, that's fairly reasonable. it's like having a credit card instead of a loan. : Clay
    • This. The entire thing is a clusterfuck. Sure they took way to long, but the publisher tried to cut their... : locater16
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  Geez, this really paints George in a negative light. If that entire story is true (and it seems so) he r... : virus
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    Honestly, I don't see how he can supposedly be supervising the development of a AAA game for twelve years : Arcanum
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      True, and how come nobody stepped in and told him wtf? : virus
      • I'm sure plenty of people tried. : MagicWishMonkey
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        its hard to tell a guy blowing his own millions on his dream that he's fucking it up. its hard for that g... : NexusOne
        • I think it would get easy around the 20 million mark. : orgcaptainnemo
      • [Brian] Hook, former employees say, also attempted something nobody had done successfully before: He push : the archvile
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        Just like so many people stepped in and told George Lucas that Episode One was a piece of trash? : Kentor
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          Did George Lucas lose a lot of money off Episode One? : MagicWishMonkey
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            No, he just ruined Star Wars forever. : Kentor
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              Well maybe he doesn't give a shit what you think? He owns the franchise and he hasn't run it into the... : MagicWishMonkey
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                That's great MagicWishMonkey, I appreciate your input. It was insightful. : Kentor
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                  Happy to oblige :) Seriously though, George Lucas knows how to make money. He knows what he's doing, s... : MagicWishMonkey
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                    The analogy was to point out who exactly is going to tell George Lucas he doesn't know how to make a movi... : Kentor
                    • I guess that's not quite accurate: it's to point out who exactly is going to tell George Broussard he doe... : Kentor
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          Hahahah, love this analogy. Still angry at getting disappointed by The Phantom Menace at the theater, an... : the archvile
          • Still haven't finished them? Let me break it down for you. Just imagine that you're a 6-year-old child... : RedHatDrew
  • I don't see his depiction in that article being negative at all. It doesn't make out Broussard to be a ba... : SpaecKow
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    I don't think it's negative, he just seems indecisive and wants the best for Duke. It's almost like waiti... : jingletard
    • Not indecisive. Undisciplined. It's like the little kid trying to describe the best movie or game they ... : Arcanum
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    how can you paint him in a positive light? he was leading a project to release a game that would have be... : dantastic
    • Yea, he sounds like he really loves games but they should have let someone else lead the project :( : MagicWishMonkey
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  I posted a bit more about it a couple days ago. Overall, it doesn't say anything that most long-time Shac... : BlackCat9
  • Thanks for the link. : Damodred
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  That article is missing a LOT of facts. Until the lawsuit is settled, you won't know the full story. : jason bergman
  • bergboy with the juicy rejoinder! : Dave-A
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    Coke and hookers? : Jimbo Ro
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      Hokey cookers, that lead to a bizarre BBQ accident : Dave-A
      • Texas : ]pm[chem
  • Unless George and team were being demanded by some unknown force to make constant edits and re-do's causi... : royalally
  • You're sure that it'll be settled? : the archvile
  • To what point though? I mean no matter what the basic story will be that Broussard had a vision and a gam... : SpaecKow
  • I can't wait to view the trial on Judge Joe Brown : pancake humper
  • Thanks for hooking us up with them facts. : thief
  • hi i like attention too. : orgcaptainnemo
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    I hope the full story does come out soon. From what little has been posted here, it seems like he fired ... : slax0r
    • Intellectual property war. Intellectual property war never changes. : the archvile
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      You'll just have to wait for WHEN IT'S DONE!!!!1 : iamgoat
      • Heh, yeah, when the trial's done. : the archvile
      • DNF - Keeping you waiting since 1995. : ashkie
  • better than nothing, I guess : Nitrium
  • Its missing facts maybe, but is it wrong? Did George Broussard ruin DNF or didn't he? : ashkie
  • I guess the only have access to facts the rest of us have access to. Until the lawsuit is settled, its al... : filthysock
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    How do you even know if facts are missing? Are you personally aware of this information? : freakynipples69
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      I was the producer at take two on dnf. So yes. Yes I know the real story. This article has a few things t... : jason bergman
      • Well, it's more than we've had before, and it's probably all we're going to see until the conclusion of t... : the archvile
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        OH SNAP. Someone just got told. : J4NUS
        • Yeah, he really gave it to me good, answering an honest question of mine and all. : freakynipples69
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        At the very least, George could write a book on what happened. I'd read it. : CrustaR
        • The question is, would the book ever get finished? : datoo
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        man its going to be years before we know anything at all : filthysock
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          Unless there's some kind of "holy shit" revelation that completely recasts the 12 years of not finishing ... : Arcanum
          • George B's daughter was being held hostage by the Chinese and they were going to execute her if DNF shipp... : BlackCat9
      • This sounds pretty good to me. :) : warcrow
      • Okay cool. Thanks for giving us the heads up! I really can't wait to hear the whole true story. Maybe we ... : freakynipples69
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        well at this point those get to be declared the facts, as it was from anonymous sources! :) sorry. may... : Downforce
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          Anonymous sources is exactly why it shouldn't be taken as fact! : OverloadUT
          • When it's anonymous sources versus silence, it's hard to take it any other way. The best you can say is, ... : BlackCat9
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        So what blatant falsehoods can you correct without lawyers freaking? : ]pm[chem
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          Probably none of them, or else they would have already said. It's a shame, because this is pretty much go... : BlackCat9
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            The important parts of the story aren't going to change. TL;DR - They wasted 12 years reinventing the ... : MagicWishMonkey
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              The part that's probably important to Take2 is whether 3D Realms could have prevented what happened. If G : BlackCat9
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                That's true, but Duke was killed due to mismanagement. That's been known from the beginning, and it reall... : MagicWishMonkey
                • Like most civil cases, it's going to all come down to whether or not someone can show fault. : BlackCat9
      • tease! : hamachi
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        Lmao yes i'm sure the people suing them have a fair and honest viewpoint on this matter. : crazywigga
        • Might have a little bias, but he doesn't work for Take 2 anymore. He's at Bethesda IIRC. : K1Bond007
        • That's pretty much what Scott Miller said: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=20175441#itemanchor_201754... : the archvile
  • We'll never know the full story. : dmason
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    This is a three edged sword. The truth, fabrications, and Duke. : Sailor of Fortune
    • "and Duke" I believe that to be a true statement. : technotica
• I wish that this would all end like the movie Tucker, and while the lawsuit is going on, somehow, he and ... : pigvomit
• I think they are grumpy they have to re-write their vaporware article. : Fyunch Click
• pretty interesting article. seems to confirm what people have been suspecting for years. : slickdoody
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  This is shacknews' 9/11 : Godhatesfatpeople
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    9/11 times a hundred? : Jimbo Ro
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      9/11 times 9/11 : SpaecKow
      • http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9/11+times+9/11 : Ctrl-Phreak
      • 81/121 : NexusOne
      • It's Shacknews' 0.669421? : mindmann
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  Good article : timaste
  • Well interesting read at least : timaste
• oh wow nice link! thanks : Downforce
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  How rich is George himself still? : orgcaptainnemo
  • He owns half of the Chinese WoW gold farming business. : Sailor of Fortune
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  The staff developed a running joke: If a new title comes out, don’t let George see it. ... The day : Horn
  • Thats where they shoulda buckled down and polished what they were already working on. Then shipped that f... : technotica
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  Is there anything in that article that isn't just kind of common knowledge by all of us here? : mrwolf710
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    No, but I guess the average Wired reader wouldn't know a tenth of what the average Shackerby Shackington ... : Dave-A
    • Shackerby Shackington Von Doom Von Higgings III at your service : PlanetPerfecto
  • Just the quotes from the sources; they were pretty much the only reason why I read through the story. : the archvile
  • Well, the bit about Brian Hook becoming project lead and pushing back against adding features was new to ... : enyakk
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  let it go. : mofo
  • What? This is a great story on something that's pretty germane to video game and this website. : Visceral Monkey
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    That's the title of the article. : ventro
    • This is also something mofo has posted in DNF threads throughout the years. : dognose
  • huh? : fishbone
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    I could give a shit less if DNF came out, but I read the article because I was interested in the topic. : Phreakin
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      He was making a semi-funny that he has routinely made in the past that sadly applies now. : dognose
      • Roger.....my bad then :) : Phreakin
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  Broussard simply couldn’t tolerate the idea of Duke Nukem Forever coming out with anything other t : dirge23
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    In game development, I'd say it's mostly a curse. If you can't say "good enough", you'll never ship. : Arcanum
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      Feature creep has killed many software projects before they could get off the ground. I worked for a guy ... : BlackCat9
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        This isn't even feature creep though, it's reinventing the wheel over and over... which is much worse. : MagicWishMonkey
        • A little of column A and a little of column B, from the sounds of it. : Arcanum
        • In game development, I guess that can be a bigger issue with long projects, since they are so focused on ... : BlackCat9
    • So true, except for some studios "good enough" is the equivalent of "it sucks" for most. : freakynipples69
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  Just to confirm, I thought there was some skeleton crew still working on it and while 3D Realms was close... : zakazi
  • I'm pretty sure 3D Realms as a development house doesn't exist anymore, but could be wrong. : freakynipples69
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    That's 3DR's story right now, anyway. http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1154 Surprisingly : the archvile
    • I still have hope it will come out and when it does it's going to own. : thecatinthehat
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  lol, Within a short period of time, the size of the team more than doubled, from 18 to about 35. : boring gegtik
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    DOUBLED DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!! : MagicWishMonkey
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      How does it work? : SpaecKow
      • Like windmills. : MagicWishMonkey
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  tl;dr: DNF is an example of trying too hard and of sitting on the pot but never crapping. Also, page 4 ha : yacoub35
  • Pretty much, an even if this doesn't match the "official story" I doubt that crucial detail will change. : MagicWishMonkey
• Here's the Shack article on the August 2006 "exodus": http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=43655 : the archvile
• After reading a former employees' blog http://talkinrealatyou.blogspot.com/ it sounds a lot more like a t... : TaintedSyringe
• Damn, I've never been a Duke die hard, but I tell you, that was tough to read. Made me frustrated. Like... : Don Vito Corleone
• damn, it sucks to think what could have been : ninjase
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  Art is never finished; its abandoned. : massdev
  • And then someone picks it up but leaves a shit-ton of cash there instead, because people are nice like th... : d fluke

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  HIJACK: What's on your (realistic) wishlist for the Steam Christmas sale? I'm hoping for Red Faction: Gue... : veras
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    I'd like to see a good deal on the new Total War game and Fallout 3 GOTY myself. : jonin
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      If Empire: TW wasn't such a piece of shit, I'd consider buying Napoleon. : aethyr
      • Whats wrong with it? Folks seemed to love it when it was released. : jonin
      • the recent patches made it playable for me. I played a whole campaign with no crashes. AI is more ag... : kingfish
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      FO3 GOTY is $30 right now at Best Buy FYI. : RyDogg1
      • you win the acronym challenge! : hussdelrio
      • Thanks for the reminder! I have a $50gc for them and never buy anything. Time to get this even though I a... : kagath
  • Something equivalent to last January's $5 BioShock. : Marrbe
  • MW2 and L4D2, since I failed to buy it the other 20 times it was on sale : maulla
  • modern warfare 2 would be cool but i dunno. dragon age for real cheap maybe... : ass-street
  • Games on my sale radar this year are L4D2, DA:O, and FO3:GOTY : Bean
  • I want to give Resident Evil 5 and Red Faction Guerilla a try but they'd both need to be in $20 range for... : mrwolf710
  • excluding Torchlight and those 2, I'd like to see Burnout: Paradise, Tales of MI, Tropico 3, Civ 4 comple... : aethyr
  • L4D2 @ $24.99 : Salad Sammich
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    a preorder deal with swag for Mass Effect 2 : Downforce
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      I hope they do a ME2 digital deluxe with the CE stuff included but let me buy it on Steam, kinda worried ... : veras
      • Well Dragon Age was pretty late for the digital deluxe edition I think. : Jonathan
  • Name your own price on entire catalog* *max 3 items per customer : freakynipples69
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    RF:G is still 'hyperspeed' in win7 for me. its sad. :( i do think most people on win7 cant tell cause ... : xsoulbrothax
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      what does that mean exactly : Whistler77
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        I was the second pair of eyes. It means the entire game is running about 25% faster than it should be. Ha... : eugthinks
        • and your sprinting speed is about as fast as some of the faster cars are in the game at 'normal' speed. :... : xsoulbrothax
    • This makes sense even though I only played it in Windows 7. It always seemed like the EDF guys were runni... : Sovos
  • I'm going to pile on the Fallout3 GOTY sale. I have the original and want all the DLCs but not at 50 dol... : sublime
  • Valve complete pack for $75 : tinfoilhatter
  • L4D2 on sale - I'll buy it for at least 3 people. : virus
  • I agree with the FO3: GOTY sale. Not for me. For friends who have not yet experienced the life-destroyi : Arcanum
  • That's about all I'd be hoping for. : Rag and Bone Man
  • DA:O & CoD:MW2 : Alco23
  • FO3 GOTY tops my list too, but I really hope they repeat the ID pack sale from last year. I didn't grab i... : eugthinks
  • I want the Elder Scrolls Game of the year pack deluxe for $20.00. It includes GOTY Morrowind, Oblivion, S... : denixen
  • Something ridiculous on something I don't own, but would pay the ridiculously low price for. : walker270
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  I'm hoping Steam does an after Christmas sale like last year so I can go fucking broke. : mrwolf710
  • Same, I've yet to play half the games I got from last year's sale lol : Alco23
  • Fallout 3: Enhancement Project BETA Release 2 Fixed UI. Fixed Global EssentialDeathTime. The Fall : stygian_whisper
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  Im sort of out of games to buy, but i would like a sale on Burnout: Paradise, and DA:O : Jinxplayer
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    Seconded on DA:O. Not that I need it -- my game backlog is huge -- but getting it for cheap on Steam woul... : Arctic Fox
    • I've determined out of my collection of video games, 5 or so of them that i own on console (i have all th... : Jinxplayer

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• 170 games according to gog.com. seriously, check this out dudes! : razorblade79
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  Between this and the hypothetical Steam Holiday Sale, I'm going to be broke. : The Grolar Bear
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    Didn't that already happen? Or is there another and I underestimate Steam's greatness? : nwillard
    • Yeah, that's why I said hypothetical. It could happen again (although not confirmed), especially consider... : The Grolar Bear
  • I've been holding out for the Steam sale. It's like they're playing chicken with my wallet. : Topsiderover
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    but think of all the savings!! : mikecyb
    • I'll probably save so much money, I can buy a new pc! : razorblade79
• Holy shit : tomservo
• Wow, nice. : breadsticks
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  If you don't already have the Tex Murphy Trilogy (UAKM, Pandora Directive, and Overseer), get them now fo... : guido anchovy
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    I got some Tex Murphy game for free as a Christmas present from gog.com :D : SilverSnake
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      Yeah, those are the prequels to the full-motion-video games. They aren't bad, but the FMV ones are great... : guido anchovy
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        I see. I don't really know anything about these games other then that some people here at Shack keeps say... : SilverSnake
        • UAKM and Pandora Directive are so. fucking. tits. : roushimsx
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    I own them all on disk, and I'm seriously considering re-buying them. Not having to worry about swapping... : treefingers1
    • I was in the same boat, but I said "fuck it" and rebought them all on GOG anyway. Feels nice to support t... : roushimsx
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  Shogo for $3.89! : mechanicalgrape
  • i'd pay 3.89 for the soundtrack alone. : ass-street
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  does GoG have a client or are the games freestanding? : Foxhawk
  • freestanding installers : Sapiens
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    You just download an .exe file. No DRM, no client. It's really good. : marmite
    • oh, I don't mind a client, actually. I kind of like Steam a base for all my games. I suppose I don't min... : Foxhawk
    • Almost naive, but they're aware of that. So yes, it's great for us. It really feels right to have old gam... : Marrbe
  • It's the best Digital distro method out of all of them. Better than Impulse or Steam. Also some of the ga... : Sailor of Fortune
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  I bought the Heroes of Might and Magic pack over the weekend. I thought I'd play an hour or two but I end... : PointlesS76
  • I have a feeling I'm going to be in that boat by the end of the week, : Zuchu
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  Anyone ever play Evil Genius? : Fred Garvin
  • Yes, it's awesome. If you've ever played Dungeon Keeper (and if you haven't you should probably kill you... : Horn
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    It's pretty cool, but some of the stuff (mostly deathtrap-related) doesn't work as well as it could. : Arcanum
    • It got frustrating when the enemies would walk freely all across my base if I wasn't supervising it const... : Geoffrois
  • played the demo. it was interesting. basically an RTS. : biskits
  • Great game, It's got the same style as TF2 but this one came first. : Sailor of Fortune
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  94. Psychonauts (25% off) $7.49 -- If you haven't played this, time to buy it!! : Shadowdane
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    Damn that's cheap, I really should buy this game : Dontdrop
    • Fuck yeah you should. : Fred Garvin
• Painkiller black for $6! woooo : reelbk
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  Oh wow...Stonekeep and Citizen Kabuto bring back so many memories. : chadg033
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    Wow, Stonekeep completely escaped my memory until just now. That game was so badass. : daneloire
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      Yes that game was lots of fun. I'm assuming that the clients for these games work in Windows 7 and what ... : Scotty22
      • they often use dosbox, but you get an installer and it creates a working shortcut, like any modern game. ... : razorblade79
      • The games are tweaked to work in XP/Vista (and presumably Win7?). A lot of times this means they come pre... : kbufo
  • where is my kabuto sequel? :( : filthysock
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  So far I have Soldiers, Ground Control 2, and Empire Earth Gold in my cart. What else is worth checking o... : NFXFSX
  • MDK 1 and 2, Giants Citizen Kabuto and maybe Kingpin : deKaf
  • my favourites of my gog games so far (in no special order): HOMM3, Psychonauts, Beyond good and evil,... : razorblade79
  • SHOGO and Jagged Alliance 2. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Simon the Sorcerer 1 + 2 purchased! : CrustaR
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    They used to have Simon 3D on there. I know it was a pile of crap but I wonder why they got rid of it. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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      It's still on there, but I didn't buy it. : CrustaR
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        I'm an idiot, nevermind. Somehow I searched for the game and couldn't find it. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
        • It was probably for the best. ;) : CrustaR
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  OMG DESCENT 3 : biskits
  • Yeah, I've got to pick this up. : one random winner
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    Has there ever been a similar game since? I played the fuck out of all the descent games when I was a ... : SqueegyTBS
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      I'd love a 'next gen' version of Descent. Imagine how awesome it could be with modern lighting/shadowing ... : lyme
      • How did this turn out? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpD6pkA83k8 Looks Descentish. : lyme
    • http://www.mobygames.com/game/interphase/ http://www.mobygames.com/game/pyrotechnica http://www.mobygam... : roushimsx
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  Everyone buy Duke Nukem Manhatten Project. Now. : Cliffzorz
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    No. I holding out for the XBLA version. : Degenerate
    • Buy both. : Cliffzorz
• Settlers II Gold purchased. : ateam311
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  Both Painkiller games for $7 :O : dognose
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    You keep using that emoticon. I do not think it means what you think it means. : RomSteady
    • Classic. : Navy Spitfire
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    I just bought painkiller black yesterday on steam for $10 :( : thrallie200
    • Still worth it : dognose
• Anyone know how to get that hi-def pack working with eDuke? I get some crazy ass flickering when trying ... : Wolfanoz
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  oh canon fodder, how many hours i spent on you! : smacknca
  • Yes. I booted it up, heard the music and shed a tear. However, it seems to shut down after the opening mo... : GrimmyD
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  you people need to buy Beyond Good and Evil : Draugluin
  • I bought it a long time ago on Steam but just haven't played it. :( : deject
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    fuck that. i've already brought it twice, and each time, it's disappeared before i could play it. the mos : mindmann
    • it won't disappear ever again if you buy it now. :( : deject
    • buy it now and the average you have spent per lost copy will go down. YOU CAN'T LOSE : Draugluin
  • This is the best game ever created. It fights for first place with Zelda OOT. : Snipergen
  • you people ?! : Wikus Van De Merwe
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  Welp, another 11 games added to the GOG bookshelf. :( : roushimsx
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    Which ones? : mallfouf
    • - Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition - Previously only owned the original release and the Plutonium Pak expans : roushimsx
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  $7.50 for Psychonauts? Yeah why not. : deject
  • You will not be disappointed. : Arctic Fox
• Get Sacrifice, seriously. : Beaginator
• Picked up Shogo and Septerra Core. I remember loving the demo for Septerra Core when I was a kid. I got... : melkore

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  That's pretty fucking awesome. Would you please list the specs of the machine? I'm in the planning stag... : Salad Sammich
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    AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H Wintec AMPX 4GB PC2 6400 Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 ... : ieGod
    • Sweet, thanks. : Salad Sammich
    • nice budget rig : ateam311
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      Excuse my dumb question, but I'm years behind on PC hardware: You don't need a sound card for the HDMI a... : MatzL.E.
      • Also, congrats to that awesome setup, you got me tempted! : MatzL.E.
      • I have two options here, actually. Option #1: The HD 5700 series of ATI cards is capable of bitstreami... : ieGod
      • ATI cards can do video and sound out via HDMI. It's why I say hooked a PC up to a HDTV and receiver is a... : Jimbo Ro
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      I'm on my iPhone so I can't watch the vid but is that windows or Linux XBMC? : shavenewok
      • Win7. : ieGod
• interesting, thanks : yacoub35
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  does XBMC have any recording functionality? : Degenerate
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    Not built in, no, that's one of the downsides compared to MediaPortal. I haven't investigated too much bu... : ieGod
    • hmm, what about watching live television? I'd like to give XBMC a shot but recording shows is one thin... : Degenerate
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  that looks really cool. What are the system specs of the HTPC? was your video stuttering or was that ... : .Jayson
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    The pc plays back 1080p at silky fucking smooth frame rates, no hitches. The only reason it looks to be s... : ieGod
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      Is the 1080p video rips from BluRay or something? I wasn't aware there was any way to rip BluRay movies... : Shadowdane
      • hahaha you're so cute : Clay
      • Yes there are ways to rip bluray disks. : sigpro
      • There are many different ways. Some involve no re-encoding even : Jimbo Ro
      • looool : OrkO
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      Yeah, one of my concerns was when you were trying to play something back while recording; it's why I went... : Clay
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        What I plan on doing is a small HTPC running loooonix networked to my main media center PC. The media ... : Jimbo Ro
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          why two separate pcs? why not just a dumb player? : Clay
          • Because the dumb players don't have the features I want, and are less future proof. I want analog 5.1 ou... : Jimbo Ro
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  That's really well done, gj man. I just have terabytes of movies/pics/music that I browse through with a... : kgargs
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    Great video! Looks so slick compared to my PCH! : Trepex
    • Crap misreply. : Trepex
    • I use a PCH as well and while it can be made pretty slick with YAMJ, the speed and extendability of xbmc ... : scapin
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  Watch now, dude. : Super Sparker
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    Best song on that M83 album, FYI. :) : Super Sparker
    • I like We Own the Sky from them, such a relaxing song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzge5vY72hE : Shadowdane
• nicely done : shakybonez31
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  So you like XBMC eh? Was it very painful to setup compared to media portal? : .frame
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    Yes and no. It was very different, but not necessarily harder or easier. In some respects, XBMC just work... : ieGod
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      one more thing! How responsive is it vs mediaportal? That is my only complaint with MP is that it seems... : .frame
      • Hard to say since I'm going from MP on an older machine to XBMC on a snappy new one. Comparing apples to ... : ieGod
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  That was a great video. I wish I could do that but I don't have the money (nor the house) to allow that r... : Super Sparker
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    The specs I listed above came to $413 Canadian taxes and shipping including. In addition to that you'd ne... : ieGod
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      Oh and if you decide to do it Cook and I will be happy to help :) : ieGod
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        Word! I'm thinking about ditching my 350 DVDs. I'd rip them and put them on there...much more convenient ... : Super Sparker
        • Yeah absolutely the content all gets output at the resolution that you set. In my case 1920x1080. I'm not... : ieGod
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  i love every time you say house. canadian house. canadaaaaaa. : [fry]
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    canadian house owns : boring gegtik
    • yeah i just can't help but giggle at you guys though it's so cute. houuuuuuuuse. hooooooose. : [fry]
    • Roadhouse. : hussdelrio
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    We don't sound funny, you do. It's a fact. : Fred Garvin
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      We have the larger population, any other country with English as their main language and a larger populat... : one random winner
      • India? : Agrona
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  You don't need a very good machine to run XBMC on linux and play pretty much anything out there. all you ... : pigz
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    Would this run on an old 2.4ghz P4? : zohar79
    • probably, but you won't be doing 1080p playback : Clay
    • with a VDPAU card? maybe? I dunno about something that old. : pigz
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  Very slick. Did you do the wiring your self? : Jimbo Ro
  • i did it for him. he didn't understand all of the colors on the cables : ateam311
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    I did! That's a whole other video though. I also did network/video/phone wiring throughout the rest of th... : ieGod
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      I'd like to know how you ran the wires through the walls...assuming the walls were still up? When I re-d... : Jimbo Ro
      • You have to plan out your route very carefully. Cold air return paths helped. I had to punch lots of hole... : ieGod
    • Good God, that's impressive, dude. : Super Sparker
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      Are you using any twisted pair video extensions or doing all standard signaling? : spazzium
      • Standard signaling, RG6U for coax feeds, HDMI in the man cave. I did have a dual HDMI over Cat5e plate go... : ieGod
• can I sleep in your mancave when I will be in Ontario : AlexXdude
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  XBMC supports HD playback? : MagicWishMonkey
  • It does when you run it on PC. if you run it on an xbox it still doesnt : Degenerate
  • It does! It also supports hardware acceleration in a very roundabout way on windows and on specific Nvid... : spazzium
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  How did you load the skin? : kanix
  • Just drop the skin into the skins folder before you launch XBMC, then you switch the skin in the settings... : ieGod
• dude that's intense... i want : skelom
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  doh. i thought that stood for x box media centre :( : Klebold
  • it does, it was compiled for pc long ago and development continued on both pc and xbox : MrBig0
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  where are all the movie posters/banners being pulled from? Is it meta data in a file or is there several ... : kevp
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    XBMC downloads them for you automatically...if you have your movie name right. : Jimbo Ro
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      What if it cant determine it? Does it look in particular files (XML, NFO, etc..) like other jukeboxes? : scapin
      • Nevermind, saw replies which explain below. : scapin
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  im wondering how much work goes into keeping your media organized and pretty. all the art and description... : feek
  • It's automatic...it even scans for new movies every time you launch : Jimbo Ro
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    Completely automated. You can set where it pulls the movie, tv and music info from in the settings. You c... : ieGod
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      but do you have to put in xml files in the folders or anything? tagging? so you pretty much just put medi... : feek
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        You can play around with the XML manually if you want to but there is no need. The only thing you really ... : ieGod
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          that sounds really tempting!! : feek
          • fyi, by default it pulls the info from: http://www.themoviedb.org/ : MrBig0
• you have my dream setup in the basement there. i am pretty sure i will never have the home theater i wan... : grendel
• nws for man cave : slickdoody
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  why did you choose TV over projector? : retarded talking dinosaur
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    Honestly? A projector was never on my radar when buying the tv, which happened before I even had this hou... : ieGod
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      It's about the size. Trust me on this. 1080P projectors are just starting to get cheap, and pretty soon y... : retarded talking dinosaur
      • To me, projectors arent worth it because of the $400 a year annual tax... : krym3
• really, really slick : maulla
• Very nice, thanks for the demo! : Colleton
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  Great video ieGod! So I have a pretty slick setup at home like yours, yet this XBMC, I don't have. Does ... : pun][sher
  • I don't know that it's supported on the PS3, I'm pretty sure it's not. Playing with it is pretty straight... : ieGod
• I *cannot live without* the "Smart DJ" feature in Zune 4.0 - It's so good that I have no frontend option ... : rasputinreborn
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  UT was so far ahead of Q3. Q3 was the beginning of the end for id. From that game onwards, id would onl... : jkstanton
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    Damnit, wrong thread. : jkstanton
    • thats ok since what you say is totally true! : Degenerate
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  I assume XBMC plays VIDEO_TS folders so I can just rip and not reconvert? : Cygnus X-1
  • You assume correctly! : ieGod
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  How about streaming off a share? specifically HD content in MKV format. Any hiccups on a 100mbit networ... : scapin
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    I do this regularly over wireless with 1080p, it does awesome on my G wireless. : spazzium
    • Wireless G can be a bit slow for some 1080p content, but 100 Mbps is more than enough. : Jimbo Ro
  • I haven't tried it yet but I'll be building a file server soon. I don't expect to get any hiccups since t... : ieGod
• One thing i would recommend - turn off the menu clicks. If you back out to the menu while a movie is play... : MrBig0
• Very cool. I need to get that XBMC skin. So nice looking. : iamgoat
• That is very nice. Makes me want to start running cables and setting stuff up like that. : mrwolf710
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  So I installed it. Now i'm reading I need a modded box for my 360...true? : pun][sher
  • what? XBMC has nothing to do with the xbox 360 : OrkO
• Dumb question: If I make a HTPC with a BluRay drive, can XBMC play BluRays or will I need to rip them and... : MeestaNob
• This is great. Was thinking about building something like this - great job! : marblehead

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  i think somebody always needs to duel him, but depending what you do during the landsmeet it can either b : dirge23
  • Well I can choose anyone of them. But none of us can win. Ugh. This is so annoying. : Koral06
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  You can't beat him on easy? I wrecked him with a warrior without using a single health pot. : Ellissd
  • I died once... have you tried kiting him around a bit? If he gets into his shield bash chain-stun you're... : deskill
  • Well I made the mistake of going in there with probably my worse players simply because I didn't think th... : Koral06
  • I was a rouge duelist, and he hit me only twice since I kept dodging. : Kylegar
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  You squishy mages. ;) I was a rogue and cleaned his clock, although I did use a gallon of health potions ... : DM7
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    it took me a couple tries with my mage but it really wasn't all that difficult. : dirge23
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      What spells/tactics did you use? Also is there anyway to save it before this part? I hate having to keep ... : Koral06
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        if you can win over enough of the nobles at the landsmeet, you don't have to fight the big brawl first. i : dirge23
        • also i used fireballs to keep him down and mind blast when he got close. it was fairly difficult because ... : dirge23
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    My mage pwned him without taking a single hit, I tried it with my warrior and he's the one who got owned ... : Geoffrois
    • Likewise, my Mage completely locked him down with CC the whole fight and never took a scratch. : Zek
    • yeah, he was really easy on my mage. : valael
  • I didn't even need to use potions on my rogue... Grandmaster Paralyze rune + concentrated deathroot pois... : R@zzle
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    Yeah that was really tough for my Rogue as well. Loghain resisted almost all my attempts to stun him, an : deject
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      Was a Rogue Assassin Duelist when I met up with him. You can hide in plain sight and backstab him into th : Kentor
      • I never used stealth. : deject
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  I've completely lost interest in this game. Having to play half the battles multiple times to get past t : Arcanum
  • lolwat : R@zzle
  • Turn down the difficulty maybe? The game gets easier as it progresses. I played a Mage and after I decide... : Zek
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    My main is a rogue spec'd completely in the archery tree -- a class/spec combo universally considered to ... : walker270
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      Last I played I would get raped at least once or twice by any battle that wasn't a complete throwaway enc... : Arcanum
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        Do you have any strategy at all? Or do you just let your party auto-attack whatever they want? : walker270
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          on easy mode that should even work fine! lol. maybe he's not treating yellow-grade opponents as such? : Downforce
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            Maybe meleeing with a bunch of mages? I don't know... : walker270
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              Yeah, neither do I. I'm not just auto-attacking. I'm using at least some tactics. I'm generally reason... : Arcanum
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                If you're having problems with easy, then you're doing something blatantly stupid. Have you leveled up... : walker270
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                  Nah, I figured I'd just have all my characters run around naked and beat the darkspawn with their faces. ... : Arcanum
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                    I forgot to equip wynne with a hat or booties for at least 10 hours after I got her. : deskill
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                      I am borderline obsessive about gear and leveling in these games. : Arcanum
                      • well let's review then. what level are you, and are your skills/spells all over the place or something? : Downforce
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                    Okay, well... you're going to want to put some gear on your characters. That's your first mistake. Bein... : walker270
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                      Yes, I have gear equipped. Reasonably good gear, based on what's available. And yes, I'm attacking thin... : Arcanum
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                        You have access to Shale once you're done with Ostagar. ... you haven't finished Ostagar? : walker270
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                          ... come to think of it, you have faster access to Wynne than Shale once leaving Ostagar. How far in t... : walker270
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                            I've been to Redcliffe and the Elves. : Arcanum
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                              Ostagar is the first area you go to after your particular Origin story. You can't go anywhere else until... : walker270
                              • Oh, sorry, I was thinking of the dwarf area. However, Redcliffe is closer to that initial town after Ost... : Arcanum
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                          I haven't been to Ostagar. : Arcanum
                          • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh : Downforce
                          • .... what : walker270
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                            So this is the "you need to do things in a specific order that we don't tell you otherwise the game is ri... : Arcanum
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                              No, this is a you are absolutely godawful at this game and need all the help you can get bit. : walker270
                              • Sorry, I did make it past Ostagar and that town after (the one that gets clobbered by darkspawn as soon a... : Arcanum
                          • Ostagar is the place where the war is fought at the beginning right? I don't remember the name of that st... : Geoffrois
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        are you a double amputee and trying to play using your face or something? : veras
        • even that would work on easy : kelerian
        • Double would still give him two usable limbs, which should be enough for easy. Quadruple would still lea... : walker270
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        First order of business. do you have a healer? if you do, set the tactics default to healer. From here ch... : Klebold
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          My main character typically acts as a healer. The usual problem is that he can't keep up with the damage... : Arcanum
          • Is your tank in massive armour? I use shale at the moment and i dont find its a problem keeping him up. ... : Klebold
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        Work on upgrading your mages. I thought the game was ridiculously hard too, but then I started rolling ar... : K1Bond007
        • Blizzard + Thunderstorm is pretty entertaining for large groups, everything melts. : Klebold
    • As far as skill descriptions, this mod is essential: http://social.bioware.com/project/1117/ : aethyr
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  Changing the difficulty to easy was the best thing I ever did in DA:O. I swear, I suck at the game but it... : jingletard
  • I feel the same way but in the opposite direction. Changing it to hard forced me to use good positioning,... : aethyr
• i kited him around the room slowly draining his health. :( : slickdoody
• As a mage, I killed him without him touching me. Like I said before, you need to use your stuns and roots... : Rice-Rocketeer
• Oh no they didn't. >=( : Agrona

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  I've switched from coffee to Stepped Tea with two milk + one sweetener : sikander
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    what is this stepped tea? why sweetener not sugar? <3 warm beverages : azenmaster
    • typo, steeped, not stepped http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/about/news_archive_2004f.html : sikander
  • My fiancee made some sort of crazy tea this weekend with plants or flowers mixed with green tea and some ... : Salad Sammich
  • if the tea tastes so bad i need to put sugar or milk in it, i'd rather not drink it at all. : dantastic
• i've started drinking jasmine tea from these guys: www.smithtea.com. It's amazing stuff. Really floral. : mindmann
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  I've realized recently I'm not really fond of Starbucks regular coffee and at $2 a pop its definitely not... : samduhman
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    is it the best part of waking up? : kbnerd
    • lol kbnerd on point :D : shaq_mobile
• I just finished my Double Double. : ShadowRam
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  One extra syllable in the third line : Entity
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    ruined (1) icy (2) morning (2) = 5? I don't say ruin-ed, it's ruind. : azenmaster
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      well, you'd be wrong then. ru·ined My wife says it like "Rooned", also one syllable, and I alway... : zyklonbee
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        Well since I am the one pronouncing my haiku and I choose to pronounce it that way it turns out that I am... : azenmaster
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          http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ruined : Super Sparker
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            holy shit am I not pronouncing a word the way the dictionary says? I'm off to kill myself in shame. : azenmaster
            • lol. : Super Sparker
        • Runed isee morneeng : c0bra
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      Runed is "ruind". Ruined has a syllable split in ru and in. : Entity
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        I meant rooned. I'm pronouncing it rooned. : azenmaster
        • Then you're pronouncing it wrong. :/ : Ebu
        • i'm imagining danny devito : skryte
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      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjU7qlHhGO8 : Delaric
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        this is relevant I swear : Delaric
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          and probably my best post this week : Delaric
          • ok last chance. Probly my best post before next year. I thought so anyway. : Delaric
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  Tim Hortons sucks. It's not good coffee. : NastyJack
  • Heresy! >:( : spiffymc
  • sup nastyjack. : azenmaster
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    It's good coffee. It's reliable coffee. It's not great coffee, and Starbucks is better coffee, IMO. : Entity
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      Everyone I know who drinks the stuff gets ridiculous double doubles or triple triples. No one drinks it b... : NastyJack
      • Yeah I agree with this. It's a double double or nothing : spiffymc
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        Most people don't drink coffee black, because all coffee is way too bitter all on it's own. : Entity
        • Think so? : NastyJack
    • It is good coffee, It is reliable joe, It's not great coffee. : ass-street
  • be careful, I made a negative Tim Hortons post one time and got strung up for it! : kgargs
  • Yeah, I just stick to Java Factory now : Dave-A
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  Clerihews are better: Mr. Azenmaster Is quite a disaster. For pronouncing it "runed" He's being lam : c0bra
  • Eeeeexcellent. : Lexicon_Leidun

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• Yeah about a year ago. : soggybagel
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  It's funny because most of these people probably have way more fun than most shackers. : Trips
  • hipster spotted! : .frame
  • Dont get defensive Trips. You can still wear your shitty clothes and pretend that your not a hipster. : Jinxplayer
  • oh : Mr.SEX
  • Style of dress, in fact a direct link to your fun level! : sKetchflow
  • way more fun : Downforce
  • I'm usually a non-judgmental 'whatever floats your boat' type of guy, but if I saw a few of those extreme... : buzzbat
  • i'm not sure how you can make that sort of generalization. i'm pretty open minded about people's styles ... : pandastrong
  • Thing is, these folks aren't devil-may-care, I wear whatever the hell I want types.. they are slavishly f... : rasputinreborn
  • I am jumping out of a plane right now. : Godhatesfatpeople
  • Does being judgmental of the judgmental make the act of being judgmental ok in your book? : action roommate
  • I was having a lot of fun until i read your post. : slickdoody
  • I have a shitload of fun HOW DARE YOU SAY I DON'T : royalally
  • Yeah, well, shackers probably have less mistakes on their tax returns. : silent prophet
  • No those people probably do not play L4D games or read Phil's posts or Sponge's intros. We win : dognose
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    they Trips i agree with you. : biskits
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      *hey : biskits
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        OKAY SO THEY BEAT US ON SPELLING FUCK THEM : silent prophet
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          I KNOW, WE'LL SHOW THEM WITH OUT OUTLANDISH GARB!! : yacoub35
          • OUT/OUR *&*%@$ : yacoub35
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      Me too. Not sure why your comment caused a huge chain of replies... : Blucklesworth
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        Because it's fucking stupid. It's no more or less asinine to "laugh at hipsters because they're hipste... : action roommate
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          go play outside AR. : biskits
          • I'm stuck @ work =( : action roommate
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          I think what AR is trying to say is hipsters are fucking retarded. : royalally
          • that goes without saying. anyone in the 16-22 age range is fucking retarded, especially those who are inc... : biskits
        • Thank you. : sKetchflow
        • Look at you all pissed off over something so stupid. : Reeves
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    Yeah, they look like they're having a fucking blast, wish i could party with that guy with the torso tato... : Dschinghis Khan
    • I'm a fan of Hipster Admiral Meowsers down at the bottom. Look at that fucking clown. : royalally
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    I don't have any fun and I think they look like a bunch of fags - except for this guy http://12.media.tum... : Phil
    • FUCKING HIPSTER THREAD : Phil
    • that one might be the best in the group : fatman
  • I dunno, I have a lot of fun laughing at hipsters like those. : thetangent
  • Its funny because these douchebags procreate and you get the Oct 7th post : snuff
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  some of those pictures make me pretty angry, it is my conservative Iranian side boiling up inside of me w... : gmd
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    don't you mean Persian you racist : DonkeyPopsicle
    • every time someone in Vancouver refers to Iranians as Persian I flip out a little inside : Majuju
  • I think they'd look really funny in a fight : snuff
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  Someone should make a site for sites like these. : not work safe
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    usersubmittedmocking.com : Dave-A
    • dontlookatmeimontheinternet.com : ass-street
  • isn't that the job of shacknews comments? :D : homeboyJim
  • Half of these photos are obviously jokes to begin with, or are of people that aren't hipsters. : peanut-
  • passiveagressiveinternetdoucheblogs.com It's can even feature itself! : terath
• The November 24th one is one of my best friends from high school haha : mysled
• thur nov 19 nooooooooooooooooooooo : fathertime
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  well this will settle the PBR/hipster debate: http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq6dq1OmyZ1qzzhzdo1_500.jp... : DonkeyPopsicle
  • Oh god, the PBR fad is just... :( : rasputinreborn
  • I love PBR and I'm much more of a scenester. : Get_It_Together
  • ALL the "crowds" gulp down PBR probably cause all the bars sell it for $1-2. I went to a country/rockabil... : cpt_gloval
  • dude pbr is popular because it is really really cheap. : ass-street
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    PBR is the best cheap beer : Mansmells
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      When your choice of cheap beer is Natural Ice or Pabst Blue Ribbon, you reach for a motherfucking Pabst. : silent prophet
      • When your choice of cheap beer is Old Mikwaukee's Best or Pabst Blue Ribbon, you reach for a motherfuckin... : Ride-My-Rocket
    • Well it's right up there with Holy Oly but Oly is harder to find where I live. : sKetchflow
    • i still can't get over how cheap it is. we went down to wa to ride baker this weekend and my roommate got : gokart.
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      There is no good cheap beer. Beer SHOULD TASTE GOOD. : Jimbo Ro
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        yeah. i drink beer for the taste. if i want to get drunk, i'll drink hard alcohol. : mindmann
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          What if you want to get drunk while sitting in the sun by the pool eating hamburgers? Isn't that an acce... : J4NUS
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            I'll drink a couple Hopslam's or 120 minute IPA's. Great summer beers. : Jimbo Ro
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              I was specifically asking mindmann, since he said if he wanted to get drunk, he'd drink hard liquor. Pre... : J4NUS
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                I think I'd puke if I drank a PBR, Natural Light, Miller Lite, Bud Light, Busch Light, or any of the sort... : Jimbo Ro
                • Actually I can think of one thing I could enjoy about them. Drinking one would make me flash back to bei... : Jimbo Ro
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                  If you think a metal can makes beer taste bad, I don't know what to tell you. Ask the Oskar Blues or 21s... : J4NUS
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                    I avoid most anything that has been soaking in aluminum. : Jimbo Ro
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                      RTFA: "Unlike beer cans of the past, today’s aluminum can and its lid are lined with a water-base... : J4NUS
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                        this is the last fa I r'd http://www.wfsb.com/health/21526296/detail.html : Jimbo Ro
                        • Oh no, Bisphenol A found in glass bottles too!!! What are you going to do!?!? http://www.treehugger.c... : J4NUS
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                    Also Butternuts makes some good canned beers. : Mansmells
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                      I'm more concerned about BPA and other nasty shits. : Jimbo Ro
                      • I don't think they've been detected in pop top beverage cans. And what about the ... alcohol? : Mansmells
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            I do not think it would be possible for me to even get drunk on that watered down of a beer. I would pret... : Evil Benius
            • And the number of times you would have to stop to take a piss would be annoying. And then you are full a... : Jimbo Ro
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            i'd have greyhounds, or jack and cokes. maybe a gin and tonic or mint julip. i just don't like crappy bee... : mindmann
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              but yeah, if i was drinking in the summer, it probably would be IPAs or wheats. Assuming i wasn't just dr... : mindmann
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                Fair enough :D I'm only being stubborn because I used to be a beer snob, and am now a little more open-m... : J4NUS
                • nah, i totally hear you. i mean, i've definitely got drunk off of beer before. but if price is an issue t... : mindmann
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        Yes there is. PBR is good cheap beer. : Mansmells
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          It doesn't taste good...so no there is not. : Jimbo Ro
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            drinking one right now and i can confirm through my rigorous scientific methods that it tastes good. : Mansmells
            • I bet you are a global warming scientist! : Jimbo Ro
      • Rolling Rock dits the bill for me. Friends on college introduced me to it. Maybe it's a (small) step up g... : cannelbrae
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      i like rolling rock better. : d0pamine
      • gtfo : silent prophet
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    If they sold Sam Adams for $1 everywhere, I'd never drink PBR or High Life. But, strangely, nobody does. : J4NUS
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      So you drink something that tastes like shit? I don't get that at all. : Jimbo Ro
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        It doesn't taste like shit. I haven't eaten shit, or drunk piss, but I doubt PBR tastes like either of t : J4NUS
        • Bad is anything that is less than good. There is no "acceptable" or "ok" in my world. Either it is ... : Jimbo Ro
• I like seeing hipsters, makes me feel like I'm playing Fallout. : Sixcos
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  is it considered a hipster thing to wear your keys in front of your pants with these http://media.rei.com... : mayooms
  • I have one on my keys for when I am carrying a ton of shit inside and I do not want to dig into my pants ... : Evil Benius
  • I do that and I'm more of a scruffy steezer with accents of patagucci : sKetchflow
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  this was linked on there, but i kinda like it: http://vimeo.com/7243598 : kingfish
  • I liked it too but I'm a fucking idiot. : jjjapan
• WTF IS THIS SHIT?!!? this is why i carry a sack of rocks in my car. : m0rfus
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  These people's votes in presidential elections count as much as yours and mine :( : Saman
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    hipsters are apolitical : Mr.SEX
    • are you kidding? being a democrat is in style. didn't you get the memo? : d0pamine
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    You're assuming they vote. : thetangent
    • They do, but they use crayons, because a pencil just isn't good enough. : lightly inclined
  • unless they're from Kansas. Exception: If they vote Republican it counts. : fatman
  • yep all our votes are on the same level of meaninglessness. : datoo
• This is pretty awesome http://www.latfh.com/post/214756064/the-weirdest-thing-is-i-found-this-shirt-at-a : freshyk
• Look at these fucking peppers http://bjays.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/lookatthesefuckingpeppemm3.jpg : senor135
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  I want to hit this hipster off his Penny Farthing http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugejuldVz1qzzhzdo1_5... : ColoradoCNC
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    And afterwards I'd celebrate by nailing this hipster chick http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krxhyqioPt1qz... : ColoradoCNC
    • I came to that picture and was like "wait...there's absolutely nothing wrong with this one!" : underground banana plantation
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    I laugh a good minute at the picture. what an hilarious looking bike : Utopia
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      Apparently a lot of the reason they went out of fashion is because so many people broke their necks on th... : ColoradoCNC
      • "Let's put people on a skinny wheel as far away from the ground as possible. What could go wrong?" Th... : Arcanum
• reminds me of the website i was going to make called hipsterorhomeless.com where you had to look at pictu... : chrisschutz
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  I still do not understand the hate for hipsters, most of them are actually pushing for things like local ... : hirosushima
  • ^ is a hispter and wears tight leggings : Utopia
  • Herd mentality. : get_navi
  • lack of threadless t-shirts and old navy jeans is threatening : Mansmells
  • People hate hipsters because they are often elitist and they party a lot. I don't really blame them for h... : datoo
  • haters gonna hate! lol this thread is hilarious : Trips
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    Urban gardening so they can rant about how evil meat eaters are. Bike Riding so that can do critical mas... : Jimbo Ro
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      Urban gardening has nothing to do eating meat, it has to do with sustainability and local control of the ... : datoo
      • you must read the same shallow talking points newsletter that hipsters do. : DonkeyPopsicle
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        Urban gardening has NOTHING to do with eating meat. Tell the vegan hipsters that volunteer at the local ... : Jimbo Ro
        • My point is that hipsters often use something positive to push their lame ass view point. Critical mas... : Jimbo Ro
    • They're worried about chemicals in their veggies like you're worried about BPA in your canned beer. Is i... : J4NUS
  • mostly it's the fact that they dress like douchebags : fishbone
  • because over at pitchfork.com/forums they are laughing at lookatthisfuckingnerd.com so shackers have to r... : cfalcon
  • I live in a small city so there arent a whole lot of them here. I guess thats why the few ive met have ... : broly1718
  • Try working with them. : socksta

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• I seem to bounce between preferred monospace fonts. Right now it's Consolas, but I have a habit of going ... : lunarbunny
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  Envy Code R has been my favorite for quite some time: http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-p... : DrWaffles
  • signed. i have surveyed every monospaced font i could get my hands on, and this is my favorite. : electroly
  • doublesigned. : MatzL.E.
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  Hmmm... looks like shit in Flash CS4's editor because of the antialias. Had to go back to Consolas. : Nitrium
  • It's mostly a consolas clone anyways : terath
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  I don't know why, but I hate sans-serif monospace fonts. I think they all look terrible. I always use ... : boring gegtik
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      IMPACT : guido anchovy
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        Papyrus Bold : mrvandelay
        • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57328/code-papyrus.png : guido anchovy
      • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57328/code-impact.png : guido anchovy
  • that's what I use for the same reason : mikecyb
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    The monospaced Droid font is a nice choice; have you seen it? : Conan
    • link it! : boring gegtik
• That font looks extremely bad on Windows. Blurry as hell. : Chod
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  I use the Dina font and I like it a lot. http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/ : dpgagnon
  • I'll begrudgingly admit: that's a pretty nice font : boring gegtik
• Excalibur is terrific. http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/5242 : Lunaran
• I prefer consolas, the windows vista cleartype collection font: http://blog.hamstu.com/wp-content/uploads... : kaddar0
• I use Consolas for everything. : nomaad
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  Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is the best fixed-width font. : mrvandelay
  • this this this : manero
  • I like this. : aaarrrgh
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  here it is vs. consolas: http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/development/incon-con.png consolas on the ... : jcupitt
  • consolas looks better for wordy languages with lots of method calls, that font looks better for c-like la... : kaddar0
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  courier is the hotness : ass-street
  • I use courier new :\ : c0bra
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  consolas! : pigz
  • yup, even on my mac : Mr.SEX
  • EOT right here. : mathyou
• Lucida Console is my favorite : CRasterImage
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  Proggy Clear!! : Cheeziologist
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    err, Proggy Clean, I meant to say : Cheeziologist
    • Yes, Proggy Clean is indeed the best. : Yanks
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  I only code in the font they used for sub-titles in Avatar. : NexusOne
  • I code in the Star Trek The Next Generation font. Give my code a nice FUTURISTIC feel. : walker270

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• I can't really play FPS on the pc anymore. I have a gimpy wrist which needs surgery. Playing on the 360 i... : ryuuseki
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  they really consoled the fuck out of it ;( : barichnikov
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    not a troll^^^^ i just suggest that it's possible it would feel so much better on the 360 if they aimed f... : barichnikov
    • Yeah, that's probably part of it. I'm also wonding if I'm enjoying it more because it's more difficult f... : mrwolf710
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  That's an interesting questions. One thing that occurs to me is that a keyboard + mouse can have you cons... : geedeck
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    Yeah! I didn't think of that. It's easy to just focus on the buttons and triggers available and get inc... : mrwolf710
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      Another thing, is that I've done the transition you speak of already, except I started earlier b/c of wan... : geedeck
      • That would nice. Hopefully some day I can say the same. : mrwolf710
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  For me it puts the challenge back into shooting. For single player games I generally find it so easy to k... : marmite
  • I think I agree. That seems to be one of the reasons I'm enjoying Borderlands more. It's more of a chal... : mrwolf710
  • Doesn't boredrlands have a difficulty option? : guyver-za
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  I used to be a PC snob until Halo come along. Even then I had to force myself through an hour or two of w... : Dave-A
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    There is something incredibly satisfying about lining up the perfect headshot and then actually pulling a... : mrwolf710
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      I've had plenty of discussion here where I've stated that precision isn't everything with game controls. : Dave-A
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        Precision is everything! I WILL RAPE YOUR SKULL! jk : oO SilentK Oo
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          Wouldn't you rather comfortably rape my skull in a large warm bed that is probably larger than it technic... : Dave-A
          • I do all my skull raping in the Rape Cot[(tm)]s. I can't stand the imprecise mushiness of large beds. ... : oO SilentK Oo
      • If I'm playing a game where I fight, say, zombies, then nothing is more frustrating than fighting the con... : NexusOne
      • It's all in the mind in my opinion. Just like how that girl who got H1N1 vaccine only walked backwards or... : Sailor of Fortune
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        Play L4D2 on the higher difficulty levels with a 360 controller and then tell me precision isn't everythi... : Arcanum
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          Or I could play L4D2 on lower difficulties with a 360 controller and have actual fun :D : Dave-A
          • to be fair i'm not that great on L4D2 on PC either : Dave-A
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        It's not everything but I'll be damned if I don't feel robbed when coming around a corner, seeing a dude ... : ieGod
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          What's the first view advantage? : Dave-A
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            He hasn't seen me yet: his back is turned, he's reloading, etc. In other words, my aim with a controller ... : ieGod
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              So why can he shoot you and not you him? You're both using controllers.... : Dave-A
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                ieGod, not being good with controllers, takes more time to aim (or correct an incorrect aim) than player ... : one random winner
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                  But aren't we arguing that controllers are inherently hard to aim? Surely that levels the playing field i... : Dave-A
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                    I thought his point was that he specifically is handicapped playing with a controller. : one random winner
                    • It is, and I admit I'm still trying to figure out the ropes. It's no less frustrating an issue knowing th... : ieGod
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        It's not about the precision as such at all, really, it's about the distance between me and the input. Wi : SpaecKow
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          Also, some people just have gay standards of fun and like dumb games where they need to do little more th... : SpaecKow
          • Jiggling the gamepad is how I got through CoD4 on Veteran! : Dave-A
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      So a mouse with a trigger would be ideal? http://www.extensivemods.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?... : aethyr
      • That is pretty stupid -.- : r_picmip 5
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  I tried to do it when Halo came out but I just couldn't enjoy it. I felt like my aim was being hampered ... : r_picmip 5
  • Yeah. And it's a silly statement to make that gamepad makes multiplayer more tactical. It doesn't! It jus... : Autocrawler
• And just to stick with today's haiku theme. A gamepad is weird Not like a mouse and keyboard I'll ge... : mrwolf710
• It's nice to be able to relax on a couch and play : headbone
• I'm the complete opposite - when I play an FPS on my PC i feel like THE badass, when playing on my xbox I... : henrikb
• did you make the requisite tweaks to the PC version? because without them it really does just feel like a... : brewsterdog
• I remember making the transition from Keyboard Only to M+K.. but FUCK if I'm going to regress to a thumb... : ShadowRam
• i used to play shitload of CS back in the day and then i found Battlefield. i sure miss playing on the PC... : mayooms
• I like both control methods. But it really boils down to how well the developer implements it. There are ... : Sailor of Fortune
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  Its fun because aiming with the pad is a mini game , the first time you play a FPS on LIVE you'll be runn... : Cashh
  • I'm sure. I know I never want to end up in a 360 CoD match with Kodiak. The complete rapeage would not ... : mrwolf710
• I just got a PS3 a week or so ago and have been downloading demos like mad trying to get the feel of shoo... : Thund3rball
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  yuck man. borderlands had a great control scheme and felt right at home on the PC to me. I can't imagine ... : malloc
  • I'm telling ya it's a better experience (for me at least). : mrwolf710
• drunken co-op borderlands was fucking awesome. loved it. got LOTS of value out of borderlands. : Downforce
• I think part of the reason is it is balanced for 360. I don't think they expected people to be able to pi... : aethyr
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  I would rather fight a difficult enemy than a difficult control scheme. People who claim playing with ... : mlev
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    ^ also not a troll. I'm not trying to say your OP makes me sad, because some games are just more enjoyab... : mlev
    • I understand what you are saying. I'm not saying it isn't silly but at the same time I'm trying to figur... : mrwolf710
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    People use it because it's all they have. If a keyboard and mouse control scheme was integrated into a co... : Godhatesfatpeople
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      Why hasn't this happened yet? Does anyone know? : deskill
      • Probably because they want to disconnect the notion of a home console being a dumbed-down PC. They'd prob... : Godhatesfatpeople
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        Because you need a level playing field, and controllers are easier to learn and use for the bulk of the c... : Dave-A
        • What you say makes sense, but it still seems to me to be the masterstroke consoles could pull to kill PC.... : deskill
• BF:BC converted me and I've been playing COD:MW2 basically nonstop on my PS3 since I bought it a few week... : SatansFist
• Yes why, why on earth would Borderlands be more fun with a controller than a mouse and keyboard WHAT COUL... : SpaecKow
• I have been an FPS guy since DUKE3D and Quake1, and while I played the shit out of quake1 (and quake3 ) o... : X-GOUKI
• Having been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky recently, I'm noticing there how mouse look allows for quic : speon
• I knew this was going to be captioned on the front page the minute I read it. : Pneum0

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  The Planet Earth series would blow my fucking mind in 3D. : Super Sparker
  • My head might explode just from thinking about that too much. : funnynamehere
  • Yeah that would be very cool. But I meant movies that are more drama and character based where story is t... : NastyJack
• I saw a trailer for a Hubble documentary in 3d and it was awesome. : WhatIsThisFor
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  Does porn count as action movies? : ShadowRam
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    whoa 3d porn... : .frame
    • Ya, imagine pulling a "Fight Club' stunt with 3D? Big floppy dong suddenly IN YO FACE!!! : ShadowRam
  • It does have screaming and explosions : uglysad
• lol no : ass-street
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  Sure, why not. : WhatIsThisFor
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    My example would be The Fountain. Whilst being visually impressive, it's not an action movie. I think i... : WhatIsThisFor
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      How about a non-sci fi movie? : NastyJack
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        I don't understand. Non-sci fi? What do you mean? Like Lord of the Rings? : Arceihn
        • Would a horror film count as action? : ShadowRam
        • I mean how would he feel about 3D in movies that aren't sci-fi or action or kids movies. Movies like Farg... : NastyJack
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        Sure, why not? If visuals are one of the key components, then definitely. If not then I don't think it'... : WhatIsThisFor
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          So how would that work? There's going to be some snow so something comes up on the screen saying to put y... : NastyJack
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            Of course not, the whole thing would be in 3D. If you detest 3D then you go see it in 2D. I felt like... : WhatIsThisFor
            • I don't detest it. It was awesome in Avatar. I hope it stays in movies like Avatar. If it ever makes it t... : NastyJack
        • The wood chipper scene, however, would just be disturbing : ColoradoCNC
      • Requiem for a Dream 3D : das_runt
• i think schindlers list would be way better in 3d. ive also thought the same thing about "choose your own... : shaq_mobile
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  I don't know if I would say "improved" however I think that 3D in something like Shawshank Redemption wou... : spiffymc
  • I think that it would be interesting to have some depth perspective on certain scenes, like inside the ce... : spiffymc
• sure, I don't see why you only care about explosions in 3D and not anything else : derelict515
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  Fuck no. Distracting and gimmicky. Leave my films with story and depth in 2D please. : NexusOne
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    3D doesn't *need* to be distracting and gimmicky. You can choose to exaggerate the hell out of it if you ... : uncleanmonkey
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      the simple fact that I have to put on an extra set of glasses makes it distracting. and the only times I ... : NexusOne
      • Very rarely did anything "come at you". The 3D in Avatar was more about creating depth going away from yo... : Vincent Grayson
• I don't know but if I have to start wearing stupid glasses to watch every movie I'm going to cut someone. : Whistler77
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  I've not seen Avatar yet but every film I've seen so far in 3D has been worse because of it. Not signific... : marmite
  • I thought Monsters vs. Aliens was better in 3D than 2D. : Whistler77
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    I feel the opposite. Every 3d movie I've seen, I'm glad I did. Gotta catch 'em all! : Ebu
    • You're gonna love Piranha 3D! : o0JediBeavis0o
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  Magnolia : WaterSign
  • splat : ass-street
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  Something trippy. I haven't seen Nightmare Before Xmas in 3d, but that type of movie. : lpearl
  • Yeah I'm all for the 3D option in animated movies. : NastyJack
  • Nightmare Before Christmas wasn't enhanced by the 3D in the least, though the remastered transfer for tha... : Link.
  • Coraline was really good in 3D. : DarkDeus
• No lol. Leave the fucking classics alone and do your gimmicky 3D shit where it's appropriate. : dewdman
• ya like when in the maltese falcon they see the maltese falcon for the first time and it's in 3d and Bogi... : cptstern
• on a sidenote, i love how everyone is askign "what is a non-action movie?" : shaq_mobile
• I think there needs to be a reason for the 3D for it to work. Avatar was built around the technology and ... : Arceihn
• Looking back, I think Mousehunt would've been an awesome 3D movie. : o0JediBeavis0o
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  Shawshank was an action movie? : Fred Garvin
  • ouch. : Boring Writer
  • get busy actioning, or get busy dialog-heavy-character-piece'in : Dave-A
  • Uhhhhhhhhhh : NastyJack
  • Nope. Next question? : pigvomit
  • Oh fuck, I need coffee. : Fred Garvin
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  Did you see Avatar in 3D?Were the action scenes the only scenes that were awesome in 3D? : uglysad
  • There were plenty of really cool looking scenes. The holographic displays were phenomenal. : pigvomit
  • No there was tons of 3D awesomeness but then I never took the movie seriously at any point. It was a big ... : NastyJack
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    The two holy shit 3D moments for me were vertigo when they're climbing those vines, and the gas grenades : node
    • My favorite 3D effect (very subtle) was after the falling of the tree and the characters were all mournin : Dimmona
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    No, one of the best looking 3D scenes in the movie is when three of the main characters were in the brig. : WhatIsThisFor
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      Oh yeah with the perspex holes in the door, fuck that was trippy : node
      • Glad I'm not the only one who thought this shot looked really awesome. : Geoffrois
    • any scene with windows was awesome. THEYRE TOTALLY BEHIND WINDOWS FUCK : GloriousCow
  • I thought the 3d was very thoughtfully implemented and really not used in any gimmicky ways. Nothing jus... : Saman
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    i think something is wrong with my brain because that movie was barely 3d to me. : ass-street
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      yeah, there's something wrong with you then : derelict515
      • for real! i could barely tell. i had to focus on what was 3d to really make it pop. : ass-street
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      Nope, you pretty much got it. I don't think it was 3d for the sake of it. It was done to enhance scenes... : Saman
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        you must not have seen Avatar : derelict515
        • That, or you hate everything awesome. : Saman
    • That sucks. I bet that qualifies as a disability in California. At least you can get handicap plates. ... : pigvomit
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      man anybody that comes out of avatar saying "I barely noticed the 3d" has something wrong with them. I'm ... : GloriousCow
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        in some scenes i took the glasses off and the screen was 100% normal : ass-street
        • they had to have fucked up the projection then : GloriousCow
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          Ha! I think someone ripped you off. Was this in one of those traveling IMAX theaters in the back of a van... : gooblerampling
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            no and the people around me definitely got the experience out of it. : ass-street
            • the only answer is you're a cyborg sent back in time to kill sarah connor. Your optics have been program... : GloriousCow
            • It's all in your mind. You believed it wasn't before you started. You're going to start walking backwards... : Sailor of Fortune
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          I noticed that all of the big sweeping landscape shots had no 3D to them whatsoever. Then it would drop i... : Xevo
          • Yeah I thought this was the case too...a few scenes actually were flat (landscapes mostly), but most of t... : Rasnowl
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            yeah this is what i'm talking about! during those scenes the screen did not look doubled up at all. it wa... : ass-street
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              That was probably less than 5% of the movie...for you to say you barely noticed the 3D still makes no sen... : Rasnowl
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                i also saw double A LOT with the glasses on. : ass-street
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                  i guess i was just totally underwhelmed. it was barely 3d is the best way i can put it. : ass-street
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                    your eyes are broken. There was pretty constant amounts of 3D completely unlike any 2D or even previous 3... : derelict515
                    • NO U : ass-street
                    • There was WAY less 3D in this than most 3D movies I've seen (especially Beowulf and Coraline, which made ... : Xevo
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                    It's not supposed to come out at you, you can look around the screen and see how there's some depth. The ... : Sailor of Fortune
                    • The control panels they used looked fucking amazing with the 3D effect. : thetangent
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                also, if you thought sweeping landscape shots were less than %5 of the movie i don't know what movie you ... : ass-street
                • Not all the sweeping landscape shots were 2D though. Two examples I remember: 2D: When they showed t... : Rasnowl
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            when they were up in the tree from a high camera angle did you see the ground as far below or did it loo... : GloriousCow
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              I don't specifically remember on that one. But basically, any time it was a wide angle long shot with a s... : Xevo
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                perhaps some people have a limited range of depth perception and avatar goes flat when it tries to push i... : GloriousCow
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                  Nah, I promise you, there were a bunch of shots with absolutely no 3D at all. : Xevo
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                    there were also a lot of shots that were 50/50. where half of the image was being 3d-ified and the rest l... : ass-street
                    • Right well a lot of times it was just foreground elements that were popped out with the 3-D but the middl... : Xevo
  • One funny part to me in Avatar was that 3D holographic computer displays that you always see in sci-fi mo... : gooblerampling
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    One of my favorites was the big meeting scene of the humans where the military guy was giving a speech. T : Nixx2004
    • even cooler in that scene: when you realize that they're sitting in a 3D movie theater, watching 3D foota... : ITcola
• Sunshine would blow my mind in 3D. : Modica Sol Solis
• The Shining. : Marrbe
• Brüno should be in 3d. : pigvomit
• Backdoor Sluts 6 : retardhumper
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  problem with 3D: the real reason it's being pushed is because it's a way of stopping piracy. you can't... : Postal
  • Why is that a problem? : Nixx2004
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    it can serve multiple purposes equally well. I t's not even about piracy necessarily, it's about makin... : derelict515
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      That is also why you are starting to see more Theaters with Assigned seating, and food service in the the... : Crimsonbeak
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        Their $10 popcorn and small water isn't helping their cause any. Jesus christ, what a rip off. : Danny5225
        • That's where the theater makes its money. Not defending it at all, but movie theaters make the vast major... : thetangent
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    What about people who, due to various reasons, cannot view a movie in 3D? I think there will always be a ... : at0micgarden
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      Depends on why you can't view a movie in 3D. If you're blind in one eye, then the movie will look like... : walker270
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        Alot of people have glasses... : imperator
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          So? Having glasses doesn't prevent you from seeing a 3D movie in 3D. You just need the bug-eye'd versio... : walker270
          • they only give out one shitty size glasses here : imperator
        • I wear glasses and have had zero problems dealing with movie theater 3D glasses. : thetangent
        • I have glasses and never had any problem with 3D movies. : ColoradoCNC
  • that's ok because i feel like they've come up with a creative, rather nonintrusive way to combat piracy (... : Mr.SEX
  • Get outta here! : kershner25
  • I was thinking that it was a way to differentiate the movie going experience from the home viewing experi... : Colleton
  • OH NOES MY MIND IS HURT I BEEN LIED TOO ALL FOR MY NMONIES FROM THE EVIL CORPATRATIONS FROM AVATAR : socksta
  • lol, that is the worst fucking argument. let's not advance technology because it might also address pirac... : boring gegtik
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    that's silly. almost all 3d movies of any significance are also offered in 2d. : retarded talking dinosaur
    • not so retarded after all. : Turd Ferguson
  • I think it's more about making the real theater experience better than the bootleg, not making the bootle... : DinK
  • How is that a problem? If thieving morons stopped stealing shit they wouldn't need to resort to 3D to sto... : ColoradoCNC
  • You can bring a camcorder into a 3D movie. All you need to is tape one of the lenses from the 3D glasses ... : ventro
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  I think once 3d matures this question will be like asking if non-action movies benefit from color. It wi... : DogDharma
  • well to be fair if you look at the old films that were colourized the answer would be a resounding NO. : cptstern
  • Filming in black and white was probably more of a hassle than filming in color. So in that respect, no, ... : pigvomit
  • I do wish I could choose what to focus on, but I doubt there is any way to shoot it and make it possible.... : DarkWolf5
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  the fall!!!!!!!! : anthonybean
  • That would be amazing, especially the wedding scene. : ZTac
• I just assume 3D and other post processing stuff is already in big budget movies despite the genre : not work safe
• Moon would have been scarier in 3D on top of what it was. : Sailor of Fortune
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  your mistake is in making it about the action.. any movie with visuals that help to sell and tell the sto... : wimpy1
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    Why? I don't know why. It's different but I don't know why it's assumed it's better. : NastyJack
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      makes the important visuals more real? it doesnt mean every movie and every scene would be improved, but... : wimpy1
      • More real? In real life if I look at something it comes into focus. In real life I don't wear glasses. I... : NastyJack
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  Nothing would be improved with the 3D gimmick. It needs to DIAF. I am watching a movie not trying to be a... : yacoub35
  • hahaha all up in it. : RogerDandy
  • It's like virtual reality. Do you want to just watch it or do you want to be there? 3D is one step closer... : fechols
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  Imagine how much better rape scenes would be in 3D? : Godhatesfatpeople
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    Porn in 3D. Cumshots. 0_0 : Colleton
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      I'd be more worried about the "poke you in the eye" gimmick most 3D movies employ. : walker270
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        Goatse3DTM : Colleton
        • Is it wrong that I read that as Goatseed? : hussdelrio
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  Think? How about know. There were plenty of non action sequences in Avatar (well at least the ones where ... : locater16
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    I'm not asking about slow sequences in a big dumb awesome action movie though. This movie was no more a s... : NastyJack
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      The point is, it drew me into the movie when it was working, action or not. Thus I'd think it would do so... : locater16
      • And my point is what works for some movies won't work for others. Leave 3D in stuff like Avatar and Up is... : NastyJack
• The Matrix : cr00kedview
• When someone says Avatar the first thing I think of are the closeups of Sully's eyes in 3D. : SpaecKow
• The Mask : SeaLlama
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  GIGLI : Downforce
  • That would be jarring with j-lo's actual bottom and affleck's face bottom leering out of the screen at yo... : Klebold
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  advances in tech don't necessarily advance the art, no. : cpt_gloval
  • I don't think so either but you've got people actually saying 3D is to colour what colour was to black an... : NastyJack
• Judd Apatow buddy films in 3D? Don't see why not. : Klebold
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  Porn, of course. : SockMonkeh
  • Well duh. : NastyJack
• I don't see any reason why not. Like I said in the thread last night, if it is done well and not just "OO... : ColoradoCNC
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  Yep. When you watch 3D you get the feeling like the scenes are actually being played out in front of you,... : ventro
  • I don't get that feeling and I enjoy 3D. : NastyJack
  • That's how I felt watching Avatar. The top-notch audio mix helped as well. : WhatIsThisFor
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  Anyone else think the glasses kill the brightness. Taking off the glasses watching the Avatar the bright... : dael
  • The glasses use polarizing filters. Those cut light transmission by half or more. That said, the film was... : Serpico74