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"You shouldn't do that," she sighed. "It'll hurt."

"Nonsense! You just need to concentrate." He pulled the trigger and a bullet tore through his thigh, embedding itself in the walnut-effect laminate flooring. She shook her head.

She started, "I did say..." but trailed off as he gritted his teeth, took aim then fired again.

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So who here is going to buy a piece of the Shack?

Gamefly going public; files $50m IPO

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/gamefly-going-public-files-50-million-ipo/

Feb 10, 2010 11:44am PST

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So who here is going to buy a piece of the Shack? Gamefly going public; files $50m IPO http://www.j... : notd665
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- I get to own part of the fucking shack. : mrvandelay
- "YOU CAN'T BAN ME, I'M A SHAREHOLDER!" : jasonepowell
- I have shares!! Ban this man! : boring gegtik
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  GameFly is currently practicing a "quiet period" and representatives could not comment on this report. ... : Iwannaacura
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_period : RomSteady
    - Related to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_generation : c0bra
  - It's a legal thing, IIRC. It pretty much means what it literally implies though. : geedeck
  - a quiet period is the opposite of LOUD NOISES : Deathlove
  - When it comes to the malware advertisements here, they have been in a quiet period for some time AM I RIT... : rosewood
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  how i buy website of cock? : MercFox1
  - Inquire about cost of glennbeck.com. : RomSteady
  - Nice, hahahaha. : LoioshDwaggie
- Can we get some sort of mutual fund going to be a massive shareholder? We'd be able to dump the advertisi... : ryuuseki
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  Get ready for Evening Reading Brought To You By Deathlove, Who Is Fucking Awesome. : Deathlove
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    TSDR. : DarkWolf5
    - YOU ARE FIRST AGAINST THE WALL WHEN MY ONESHARE ORDER CLEARS : Deathlove
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  WERE GONNA BE RICH!!!! : multisync
  - It gets your Chicks Checks! : kanix
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  do mercury subscribers get some shares? : Smitty
  - Absolutely. Just send $1,000 by wire to my bank account as a security for your shares. : LoioshDwaggie
- are they going to give some of that back to the developers whose money they have stolen by causing people : mwasher
- If they can fucking get rid of virus ad vendors I might consider it. : Scotty22
- I own one share of Planet kajiggers so I'm entitled to some answers. Question 1: Why does no one vi... : alphablu
- It's rather funny reading their Risks part - One big earthquake and we're DOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEED. It's like ... : Jonathan
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  Go Steve! :) The Company acquired ShackNews for an aggregate purchase price of $3.1 million, including t : multisync
  - Well played, old bean. : Deathlove
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    I think Maarten got a cut? : Clay
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      Actually, turns out he "got cut", as in my gold-digging niece got cut from the will. : silent prophet
      
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      really? how so? : conandan
      
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      nah, I'm just joking. They were going to give him the money, but he only took 200 space bucks for gas, lu... : silent prophet
      
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      It's tolls, but other than that, well done. : RomSteady
      
      Oh. That explains why it never quite made sense to me. :) : silent prophet
      
      HELLLOOO BAAAABYY! check please! : Halen
  - jinx : mwasher
  - nice haul! : trOmblyj
  - niiice : mrvandelay
  - I didn't even get a Christmas card. Fuck you, Steve. : Phil
  - Haha, so when are you guys getting paid? :) : LoioshDwaggie
  - Now he can pay off his BMW : tomservo
  - Damn. If I had won the lottery I would have so bought the Shack. : DarkWolf5
  - GAWD, $3.1 million!! : CrustaR
  - You here that, we are worth 2.2 million dollars, I DEMAND MY SHARE : snowwolf
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    That is actually a surprisingly low amount considering the amount of traffic this place probably generate... : Yanks
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      Dude got millions of dollars for a website where he talked about making donuts with a foot long penis. : rosewood
      
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      hard to believe that it all started with a simple page at http://www.canweb.net/~smiles/ (still in my bo... : Halen
      
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      It says "loading.." umm.. how long should I wait for it? I have a feeling it won't load anything. : Maddog_Delphi97
      
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      You just asked the 3 million dollar question. :) : silent prophet
      
      oh. :[ : Maddog_Delphi97
      
      he wins, basically : FrayLo
    - says an increase in revenue of $0.2 million primarily due to acquisition of shacknews.com : mwasher
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    so each post increases the shack's value by about 13 cents. pay dividends by postcount! : ]pm[chem
    - Wow, so by that math Gamefly owes me $3,529.89... er $3,530.02 : trOmblyj
    - sounds good to me! : bakanoodle
  - HOLY SHIT : slickdoody
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    Wow, Gamefly got a fucking deal of a lifetime. : pancake humper
    - For serious. An established, well-known property for a total of 500k in cash and 2.1m in revenue sharing ... : Yanks
    - Really : timaste
  - bravo! : MatzL.E.
  - Fucking awesome! : orgcaptainnemo
  - That raises more questions for me than answers. : ra1n
  - goddamn son : JINKY
  - awesome steve and maarten, pure awesome. : moshman
  - So, mystery solved. 3.1 mil to then go onto making Borderlands and etc. Who the fuck wouldn't take that? ... : locater16
  - they should go public just to pay off steve. wtf 2014. : Downforce
  - wow...very impressive. : m0rfus
  - don't spend it all on one pair of jeans now. : .ka`boom.zZz.
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  woah. the gibson got $3 million. : mwasher
  - Not all of it at once I would reckon. : Sailor of Fortune
- If I do, does that mean I can order Alice and Faylor around? : MorrisatCNN
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  I've worked on filing IPO's before at the printers and dear God is it a mess. But I got to eat all the fr... : Sailor of Fortune
  - I will glady be a "Limited Partner in a Fund"" : mwasher
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    the prospectus says deloitte. I would love to know who the public auditor would be. : Borzoi
    - Well, PwC audits something like 75% of all VC's in the US and growing. It's always them and all the VC's ... : Sailor of Fortune
- Can we have something next to our names that say how many shares we own? : mrvandelay
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  the hammer is gonna come down hard on latestchatty when gamefly goes public :( : slickdoody
  - why? : kainen1
  - yeah ok : trOmblyj
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    What evidence do you have? Because all my evidence says otherwise : geedeck
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      Well, it certainly opens up possibility of more, not less, control by the board. If they were to see thi... : ra1n
      
      We need to get the Board to post in latestchatty.x : MercFox1
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      I'm just guessing of course. But public companies don't like their properties full of the kinds of things... : slickdoody
      
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      Everything that Gamefly has said to us both publicly and privately contradicts that perspective. While th... : geedeck
      
      everything they've said publicly and privately kind of goes out the window when they become public : Halen
      
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      Don't the comments represent thousands upon thousands of ad views a day? I mean if I refresh the shack 20... : abrasion
      
      Most ad services pay for clicks (or actions) and not impressions. : silent prophet
      
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      They're *terrible* ad views though. After seeing the ad 5321 times, you're highly unlikely to click throu... : geedeck
      
      That sucks, doesn't brand recognition still work though - if I see the ad 10,000 times? That's pretty... : abrasion
      
      I don't think I have clicked on a banner ad since 1996. Is that the only way they generate money? : SockMonkeh
  - GAMEFLY IS BUYING THE SHACK THE SHACK WILL NEVER BE THE SAME OH GOD WHERE WILL WE GO WHEN LATEST CHATTY G... : mwasher
  - shutdown like gizmodo! : multisync
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    Yours will be one of the first voices silenced. : Ajax
    - I just upgraded Gamefly to buy on that insider information : rosewood
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    Not if they keep showing infected Ads thats for sure. : YerMothah
    - Maybe an anti-virus or a mal-ware company will invest in the Shack and keep that tradition going as it se... : nudel
  - Just like shackspace was going to get shut down when Gamefly bought the shack. : rosewood
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  Why do they need the money? : ra1n
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    We intend to use the net proceeds to us from this offering primarily for general corporate purposes, : multisync
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      I'm suprised they haven't McGriddled it yet... : kagath
      
      Was x-men'd for a bit. : dmason
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      tl;dr booze money : dmason
      
      lol yup : Merconium
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      Maybe they should use that money to hire more people or get better distribution centers that can actually... : pancake humper
      
      they listed Capital expenditures specifically so I'd assume they'd use the money for more distribution ce... : snowwolf
    - I smell executive cash out. I wonder how many top staff members will take their shares and run? : silent prophet
    - spendin' money on whatever : spiderfill
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      so in a nutshell - "just give us money, we don't have any plans for it right now, but we want some money" : retardhumper
      
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      i'm hoping some of it is towards writing classes for Garnett : multisync
      
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      You just can't raise that kind of capital in today's IPO market : rosewood
      
      Lay off Garnet. He can't help it. : tometome
    - hookers and blow : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    It takes money to make money : Sailor of Fortune
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      Sure, but the question is whether it's worth giving up control. : ra1n
      
      At this point if they're primarily funded by VC's they won't have any control. VC's will have already sti... : Sailor of Fortune
  - To get the files on fileshack up to date. Oh yeah I went there. : RyDogg1
  - They ran out of money to pay Steve... : lpearl
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  So how can I buy some of this when this happens? I have never bought stock before. : dognose
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    1. open an etrade account 2. put real money in 3. buy stock 4. Profit! 5. ??? start your own vegan re... : quazar
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      It's that easy? How much money do I have to put in? : dognose
      
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      I'm no expert either but afaik you'd need to buy at least one share, so the minimum price would depend on... : ramshot
      
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      Usually at an IPO if you buy it immediately it will continue to jump up a few bucks. : one random winner
      
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      So when will this go down? : famine101
      
      The next day :p, few IPO's that I've actually tracked are price stable from at launch. : one random winner
      
      It really is, back in the day I bought 5 shares of 3DO and every year I would get this cool packet in the... : quazar
  - I would not. : givemesnacks
  - If I buy Gamefly stock I want actual stock certificates. : rosewood
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    if every semi-regular LC poster just ponied up about 5-10k (rough estimate), we could control a majority ... : ]pm[chem
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      And finally move the Read the Rules button : indosauros
      
      ... or just get the latest Chrome Extension. : ThomW
    - I vote for Phil to be on the board. : mrvandelay
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      When is their IPO scheduled? : LoioshDwaggie
      
      They are in a quiet period which means that have already submitted their S-1 to the SEC. They have to wai... : Sailor of Fortune
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      Yes, I'm quite sure that in this IPO they will reveal more than 50% of the stock this is quite possibl... : Deathlove
      
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      yes, I am quite sure my post was a serious proposal this is quite possible : ]pm[chem
      
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      hey, i don't know how retarded you are : Deathlove
      
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      fucking retarded. like, sarah pailin levels. : proclone1
      
      at least : ]pm[chem
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      BRING YOUR FUCKING CHECKBOOK : jingletard
      
      nah - just pics+divx are required. : dedgecko
    - I got 5 on it. : TreMetal
    - Bro, I piss on 10K : kainen1
    - haha, and all the owners could appoint themselves mods, remove the PRL and make themselves exempt from th... : slickdoody
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      The Shack voting bloc at shareholder meetings would be ridiculous. I imagine there will be a lot of motio... : Cheeziologist
      
      the two factions "jesslicaslumber party" and " lemon party" would control the votes. : CoRDS
      
      TITS or GTFO Board. : massdev
      
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      haha how are you contractually prevented from participating in an IPO? : proclone1
      
      He showed JessicaSlumberParty.avi to his broker. : Phil
      
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      it's exactly what it sounds like. Part the employment contract to which I've agreed stipulates that I can... : Cheeziologist
      
      as an insider, as a consumer, as a proxy; all three? Do you work for the SEC? : massdev
      
      He has a contract that prevents him from participating in an IPO : rosewood
      
      He probably works for a financial institution or something, Auditing, Tax Prep, Investment, etc. My la... : Sailor of Fortune
      
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      more like contractually prevented from finish CIV4 pitboss turns : Foxhawk
      
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      I have 3 turns worth of commands queued up. Can anyone tell me why it's not auto-ending my turn? : Cheeziologist
      
      In case you change your mind? Men are such fickle subjects. : StolenNosferatu
      
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      there is no "auto-ending", you just have to log in and hit enter : dirge23
      
      (spacebar? whatever it is) : dirge23
      
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      Even if you have "Wait at end of turn" disabled? : SockMonkeh
      
      huh, i dunno. : dirge23
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      i'd probably buy 5K worth of stock. depends how much it opens for though. : dopeman
      
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      If I had to make a guess based on absolutely nothing at all I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of $15-... : one random winner
      
      < $5/share : Zakko
      
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      whoa, i had it pegged at more like a third to a fifth of that price. : dopeman
      
      As I said, based on absolutely nothing at all. : one random winner
      
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      I suspected penny stock honestly : rosewood
      
      $50 mil.. will it even be a pink sheet? : loboca
      
      How will we know when we can do this? If we only have3 a couple hundred to spend will that be OK? : dognose
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      sounds like a perfect way to run the site into the ground : maulla
      
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      The perfect way to run the site into the ground would be to give full control of the site to Phil. Talk a... : rosewood
      
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      The shack would be synonymous with pedophiles.com
      
      Feb 10, 2010 2:41pm PST
      
      The shack would be synonymous with pedophiles.com : one random winner
    - I would have to look at the company financial statements before committing to investing 10k. : spiffymc
    - We could do this just to extort things out of them. Threaten to all sell our shares simultaneously if the... : notd665
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  If i do, can i get a $ to go along with the Lightning bolt. : krym3
  - im with krym3, i want perma lighting bolt for buying stock : m0rfus
- Solid gold bans for everyone! : Rauol Duke
- And yet they still got a really crappy ad service that serves it's users virus on a weekly/monthly basis.... : deathofrats
- Stocks will go up and down depending to Phil's POSTS/LOLS Ratio : r3dn3ck
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  What will the ticker symbol be? NSFW ? : reelbk
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    it says it in the first sentence of the article D: : harold.johnson
    - I was on the iPod at the time : / : reelbk

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