Evening Reading: Welcome Back!

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• "Hey, this guy is a phony!" : Sailor of Fortune
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  ah, shacknews irc. abandon all hope ye enter there. : Yanks
  • There were multiple 'future of PC gaming' panels at PAX, I think. : Yanks
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  SM'd with the IRC channel : spiffymc
  • Thanks. : BlackCat9
  • Could I get that as well? I'd like somewhere to go next time the shack goes down. : tfsbrian
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    I was looking for the shacknews IRC channel too when we had the 'whiteshack situation' earlier today, the... : ErneX
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      you guys are aware that we don't have affiliation with the shacknews website right? We don't get info or... : Galadriel07
      • I was just lonely... : BlackCat9
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  So he's raging about a time error? lol : wurt
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    This is PAXgate 2010. I think we need to force Faylor to divulge his sources. : BlackCat9
    • Cool, so who gets to be deepthroat? : Orange Pylon
  • I was looking at the schedule and it looks like PAX East ended at 6PM on Sunday: http://www.paxsite.com/... : Sailor of Fortune
• http://m.lifehacker.com/5532533/tinychat-offers-chat-sessions-controlled-by-twitter-usernames : multisync
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  well is it true????? : boring gegtik
  • As someone who was at PAX and saw Faylor both Friday and Saturday, he was very insistent on going to that... : askedrelic
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  According to this http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/schedule.php The panel was 10pm Friday night at the W... : sigpro
  • Yeah I was about the post this. No wonder his panel on the future of gaming sucked. It was "We Won't Bite... : DarkWolf5
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    We Won't Bite: Behind the Scenes of the Marketing Machine Naga Theatre Sunday, 4:00pm Hahaha what a ... : ArcKnight
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      We all should post comments to his site. : Sailor of Fortune
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        Already ahead of you boss. Unfortunately all comments 'await moderation' before they're posted so I would... : ArcKnight
        • Yeah just noticed that too. : Sailor of Fortune
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          I guess the next best thing to do is counter-blog and put it on Digg. When he sees his site getting 'dugg... : Sailor of Fortune
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            Heh, I got the digg part covered. : MurrayTheSkull
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              http://digg.com/gaming_news/Fraudulent_PAX_East_coverage_on_Shacknews_by_way_of_Slashd : MurrayTheSkull
              • Ground pounding this like a Yoshi : Sailor of Fortune
              • dugg, lol : nandu666
              • digg dugg : jcrockerman
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          Then we need to find a forum where this guy posts and ridicule him there. : Prozium
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            I think I may have found him: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22883137 : cornchak
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              freaking lol. It's like he's Faylor's nemesis in his own head. : zakazi
              • Who watches the watchmen? : Sailor of Fortune
      • done : GloriousCow
  • Ah, just noticed now. I was going off of the Theater he mentioned initially. : Sailor of Fortune
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    Unbelievable. How far is Faylor wiling to go to protect this conspiracy? Who else has he involved in his ... : BlackCat9
    • Faylor did 9/11 : TheQuad
  • Someone make a post to their blog about the fraudulent post about this fraudulent coverage : Home Nugget
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  Paid, motherfucker, not payed. : mafu5150
  • Thank you. That's one of my pet peeves. Irritates the shit out of me. : Colleton
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  Who cares? Maybe it was a different panel? Maybe Faylor got the time wrong? All in all does it matter ... : mrwolf710
  • How can we trust him? By his own admission, he's never even played Diablo! : BlackCat9
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    The blogger never attended the panel. He mistakenly went to one about marketing and then complains that i... : DarkWolf5
    • that guy needs to be repeatedly tazed, then have all internet access removed for a month. : Downforce
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    What? Did you even read my post above and the replies to it? The blogger was at a fucking marketing panel... : sigpro
    • I don't know how to read, asshole. I never learned. Bet you feel like a big man now, huh? : mrwolf710
• I can't believe someone actually burned the calories to get into a fine feckle over such a trivial detail... : Dave-A
• that blog is an excellent tutorial on how to suck cocks. : DonkeyPopsicle
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  Who the fuck cares?! : Blackdawgg
  • That's exactly why this is hilarious. : BlackCat9
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  Haha he's responded: http://epistemology001.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/fraudulent-pax-east-coverage-on-sha... : Sailor of Fortune
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    "Ok, you fake gamers have won this round. But given the state of the stock market, I’m going to ha... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • Who cares. : Zollington
    • His smug emissions must be off the charts. : Prozium
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    man what a dumb guy, the schedule handed out at pax was wrong in several places iirc, the pc panel being ... : DeBurgo
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      oh I get it I guess he hates PA for printing incorrect schedules? : DeBurgo
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        I think he hated them before because he feels that they make too much money or something. I think it's am... : BlackCat9
        • Yeah I found that odd... As if they're paying for the whole thing, and not making a profit. : robosextoid
      • or his own memory since even he couldn't remember what panel he was at. Or maybe he wasn't even at either... : Prozium
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  that guy is on some sort of vendetta against Penny Arcade. http://epistemology001.wordpress.com/2010/0 : genocidalrobot
  • Wow, this guy is off his fucking rocker. : ArcKnight
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvq2ArIqeM : tometome
  • oh. my. god. : robosextoid
  • bwahaha! also, come from behind victory : MrBig0
  • There was a kid exactly like this in a summer camp I taught. Fucking hell. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • oh jesus. This is painful to watch, yet I cannot look away. : thecray
  • IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN : xsii
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  Awww he deleted the whole thing! http://epistemology001.wordpress.com/ : jasoncrowley
  • That was almost too easy. : BlackCat9
  • Never got around to seeing what this was about, anyone have a summary? : Mikuya

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  are there any parts of a URI you won't molest :( : GloriousCow
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    we've already established that the colon is not exempt : boring gegtik
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      i think they should just hide the whole thing i mean if you don't know where you are why did you go there : GloriousCow
      • Come now, be serious : Zero|DPX
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  OS X: Update server not available (error 10) : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • I've been getting that FOREVER. Google and chrome's answers forum don't help. WTF : askedrelic
• I can paste into word now! Also i agree with your last suggestion, you may as well if your going to take... : snowwolf
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  Seriously? Why isn't this bullshit over with yet? Leave the http alone and stop trying to invent problems... : pixelat3d
  • probably a user experience designer who used to work for apple or something : kaddar0
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    I don't understand what the benefits are to removing that thing. I would think that it would cause confus... : Mmmmmoo
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      I don't see what the benefits of not removing it are? Why do you need to see it, what importance does it ... : snowwolf
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        To keep it consistent. If a user never visits a secure website and never sees the http, what will the... : Mmmmmoo
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          This man is 100% correct. There is no space shortage in the URI display area, so why remove it? : retarded talking dinosaur
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            i assume then that you're in support of always showing the port number, even if it's almost always 80 : electroly
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              essentially the http:// is what shows that its port 80, unless otherwise specified. likewise the https://... : NexusOne
              • likewise in chrome, not having http:// impllies that it's a normal HTTP connection. as far as the user i... : electroly
  • yes, this sort of thing will only confuse people and there are 0 benefits for removing it. People have be... : retarded talking dinosaur
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    Seriously. This is just stupid on so many levels. : Conan
    • Google or Apple: both of them know what's better for you than you do, but I wonder which one knows better... : steelsamurai
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    NO. PARSE EVERYTHING. HIGHLIGHT THE DOMAIN. ADD SPACES FOR READABILITY. : pyros
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      make the background green if it's secure (https) : pyros
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        hide query strings unless you click the address box : pyros
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          Make porn URLs have a pink background, unless they're scat porn, then make the background brown. Or gold... : IndigoAK
          • How about they just give you an option to change it yourself! : mobab
  • I still maintain that this is a move in preparation for a more protocol rich future that includes such th... : Kentor
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  Small request: make the top left corner of the screen a clickable region for the first tab. People who... : kallanta
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    Why? : shurcool
    • It will make it easier for me click the first tab when I'm drunk. : kallanta
  • Oh, do you mean when Chrome is maximized? : shurcool
• IMHO http:// could be a flowing text bubble that isn't editable, similar to how facebook does their "hide... : kaddar0
• Please, I want a way to reduce the height of the menu bar at the top, and an option to "run" download ins... : mobab
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  Small request: don't fuck with the "http://". Taking it out doesn't make anything better so just leave ... : timmie
  • Just noticed it was gone again, I personally don't care if its there or not however it seems to be raisin... : supaLink
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  Oh thank God. This build is no longer sensed as a 3d one by my video card, triggering a ramping up of fan... : Visceral Monkey
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    Shit, nm. For some reason it's still setting my video card off, which is detecting it as a 3d app. This ... : Visceral Monkey
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      Even with a blank page and no Flash? : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
      • Yes, when it loads up, it's detected as a 3d app and the fan kicks on. That is, MSI afterburner detects i... : Visceral Monkey
• Why have the bookmark and refresh buttons changed places? That shit is annoying. : peetabix01

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• I'm gonna stick Clyde Shelton in here. : Toraz Chryx
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  I take it you haven't seen Inglorious Basterds? : bipolar
  • Of course! Dumbass me, fucking awesome. : locater16
  • This is the correct answer. : Arsenal
  • ^ this : riptyde
  • Au revoir, Shoshanna! : deject
  • oh yeah I hated that guy's guts in that movie : X-GOUKI
  • Ooo good one. : bolneze
  • Yesssssss : Link.
  • Seriously! This is the answer! : piddy7
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  Joker imo, only reason that movie was really that good. : Mentalbreakdown99
  • But but but, Christian Bale stared at the camera while constipated and talked in his "I've been smoking t... : locater16
  • quiet you : shirif
  • This was the correct answer prior to Inglorious Basterds. : Arsenal
  • Two-face was the best character in the movie. Joker was way overrated. : Pettytheft
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  I thought Ledger was a good bad guy in Batman. : abrasion
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    Amazing. Only reason that film is even watchable. : dognose
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      he totally carried that movie. I haven't even seen the first christian bale batman yet. : StolenNosferatu
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        The first 20 minutes are good and then the rest sucks so bad you will be angry you wasted your time. : dognose
        • Don't listen to this man. At least not this time. : AroundTheFur1380
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  Heath Ledger as The Joker (How could you miss this?) Tom Cruise in Collateral (I don't even like tom C... : InfoBiter
  • Totally agreed on Collateral. Perfect role for him. : ArcKnight
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  Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds. : kallanta
  • I can get behind that. : Deathlove
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    au revoir, Shoshanna! : Postal
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      I liked how he said Au Revoir and not Adieu. : kabex
      • Why's that? : shurcool
      • They both mean goodbye but, purely speculative guess, maybe kabex means it's because a literal translatio... : bipolar
  • Yes, he was awesome. : bombay
  • Shades of Tim Roth in Rob Roy. : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
• Sling Blade : oneshot
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  Agent Smith was a good bad guy in the first film. The rest don't count. : lechuck59
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    Also Anton Chigurh was fun in No Country. : lechuck59
    • Yes this. : c0bra
    • Yes, a fucking force of nature : Rodeoclash
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  Hans Gruber. He still hasn't been topped. : treefingers1
  • "yippe ky yea... muddahfukka." so goddamned perfect. : beastrabban
  • He is the standard by which all bad guys should be measured. A standard Gruber unit, if you will. : Thresher
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  The army dude in avatar fit that stereotype perfectly : aeg1x
  • lol damn you aeg1x : Home Nugget
  • Yeah he was good. : abrasion
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    WINNAR My god he was like Duke Nukem in drill sergeant form : Schnapple
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      Playing dumb stereotypes shouldn't count. The bad guy must be internally consistent and not simply insan... : trove
      • Oh and he must not make stupid simple mistakes. : trove
      • Agreed. It's hard to take a character like the guy in Avatar seriously if they feel like a forced parody... : DinK
  • JU JU BEADZZZZ : bozer
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    He almost single handedly ruined the movie : Halen
    • saved the movie for me. : miasma&!
  • Eh, he was tough, but I didn't hate him : chungathebunga
• The military dude in Avatar : Home Nugget
• The Duke Of New York " A number 1" ! : Ulfie
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  The bad guy in Mission Impossible 3 was also quite good. : ArtilleryMarker
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    Phillip Seymour Hoffman? : Shivawn
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      Yeah, him. : ArtilleryMarker
      • Uh, if you wanna see a fucked up Phillip Seymour Hoffman, watch Happiness. Seriously creeped me out. I wi... : Shivawn
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  Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. : grabbie
  • This would be my pick. : Squid Division
  • Fuck yes. : Lexicon_Leidun
• the bleedy eye guy from casino royale : not work safe
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  Not what you're looking for, but Joaquin Phoenix has made me hate him so much because of his role in Glad... : ImageOmega
  • Oh and throw Darth Maul onto your list somewhere. : ImageOmega
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  Actually, I think you have it backwards. Villains are usually the standout in a movie. Find me a movie wh... : edgewise
  • Die Hard 4 : dognose
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger in eveyrthing. : SockMonkeh
    • Not in Terminator 1 : alexthegreat2
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    Iron Man : bipolar
    • IAWTP : action wombmate
• Magua : Navy Spitfire
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  Probably not going to get a lot of support on this but Bill the Butcher from gangs of New York was a pret... : Yabrodan
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    I think he just played him crazy. I didn't like it. It's easy to play crazy. : trove
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      Ok show us : chrisschutz
      • http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=&cs_user=trove : UselessHack
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    This would be my pick. How did he not win the academy award? : mattavius
    • because the academy decided to fag it up. at some point denzel or crowe each deserved an academy award, ... : dopeman
  • I support this. Also if you count there will be blood Daniel Day Lewis was an awesome bad guy in that too... : chrisschutz
  • Definitely my favorite until Joker (later usurped by Landa). : kallanta
  • ^^ This is absolutely my favorite bad guy! : dopeman
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    Definitely awesome but that movie is old as fuck! : SockMonkeh
    • so if that's "old as fuck", how would you describe Shawshank Redemption? Aliens? Bullett? The Jazz Sin... : kallanta
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  The dude in Pan's Labyrinth! : givemesnacks
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    The Colonel or the guy who almost made me shit my pants with the eyeballs in his hands? : chrisschutz
    • Oh dude the eyeball guy was crazy : bolneze
  • good call. that guy was a dick : smax
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  Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men scared the shit out of me. I can't think of a character that's ev... : Reavers!
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    Yes, this was excellent. It seems so cheesy to have a villain that is so purely evil... and yet Chigurh w... : crummynz
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      the whole scene in the convenience store was pure fucking evil : hobosapien
      • Yeah I got chills and that never happens : Reavers!
  • Ooop, didn't notice you beat me to it! : Begawkiness
• Dude, have you not been paying attention? Two huge badguys in the past two years - The Joker and Landa. ... : brickmatt
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  Collateral - Tom Cruise's character : conandan
  • Awesome villain : Serpico74
  • Loved him in that movie. : byorn
  • winner! : dumbacid
  • Awesome. : lodit
  • vote for this : mindshot
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  I dug the bad guy from shoot em up. I forget the actor's name but he was pretty damn good. : RobTheZombie
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    Paul Giamatti : chrisschutz
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      Lol PIGFUCKER! : kagath
      • Hahaha : invisible_kid
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        Pig Virus... Jeez : chrisschutz
        • Pigvomit : action wombmate
• Biff Tannen : bashildy@speakeasy.net
• Fucking Stansfield in Leon. Brits play the best baddies. : iambinksy
• Daniel Plainview : invisible_kid
• Debo : drucifer
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  Clarance Boddicker! : haiku
  • That guy had no business being so awesome. Balding, bespectacled, nasal-voiced... but Kurtwood Smith mad... : eldersveld
  • Yup, plus the entire fucking GANG in that movie is incredible : Serpico74
• Vincent D'Onofiro in the Salton Sea as Pooh-Bear. And Christopher Walken in True Romance. Gary Oldman i... : plunkymeadows
• Edward Cullen : Tommy Toolbag
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  Heather Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight... easily. : SockMonkeh
  • Actually Ingloroius Basterds! : SockMonkeh
  • ^^^definitely one of the most interesting bad guys in a long time. : byorn
• I was about to type Hans Gruber, but then I saw you beat me to it! Good job! : CrustaR
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  Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood Jack Nicholson in The Departed : magistersmax
  • You had me then you lost me. Nicholson was pure hack in Departed. : skinlab133
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  Thread is so full of win for this type of thing: Hans Gruber - Die Hard Hans Landa - Inglorious Basterd... : funnynamehere
  • Darth Vader - The Empire Strikes Back The Emperor - Return of the Jedi The Alien - Alien HAL 9000 - 20... : funnynamehere
  • The Jewhunter was pretty good. : SockMonkeh
  • karl, a bad guy? he was the hero! : davislovestacobell
  • Good call with Stansfield. My god is Oldman ever a superb actor. : ieGod
• Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old Men is one of the best I've seen in recent years (in addition to many l... : Begawkiness
• Hannibal is always awesome : hussdelrio
• Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg : the archvile
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  Hannibal Lector : uglysad
  • Sorry, didn't finish. Lecter (misspelled in original post, my bad) is my number one favorite villian, fol... : uglysad
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  Timothy Olyphant in anything he's ever done. : akirabob
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    Villain? : Haku-Jin
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      Die Hard 4 and Girl Next Door :) : factor27
      • indeed. : akirabob
      • Don't forget Go. : Ctrl-Phreak
    • I'm not sure, but A Perfect Getaway? : shurcool
  • Hitman? : Rice-Rocketeer
• Joel Scheumaker. : Masem
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  The dude in Training Day, the marine in Avatar, the dude in Inglorious Bastards,.... several others I can... : JonathanBedrava
  • Characters so good you forget their names! : ctlaltl33t
  • ^^this Christopher Waltz was fucking fantastic in Basterds : Herman Toothrot
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  Velociraptor in Jurassic Park. : TwiLyght
  • Clever girl. : Mmmmmoo
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  whats his face from waterworld : hobosapien
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    Dennis Hopper, but I'm sure you're thinking about Blue Velvet not Wallyworld : ctlaltl33t
    • well he wasnt particulaly evil but he was hilarious and did a good job as one : hobosapien
    • who's basically the bad guy in every role he plays : davislovestacobell
    • baby wants to ffuck! : sneakyalmond
• under siege. : -=kodiak=-
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  Teddy KGB : sweat
  • good answer : akirabob
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  tony montana as both the good guy and the bad guy in one : davislovestacobell
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    also bill foster in falling down, who was also a good guy/bad guy : davislovestacobell
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      oh, and drago from rocky IV. prolly didn't help that dolph was playing a commie that made me hate him so... : davislovestacobell
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        and robert patrick as the T-1000. his coy expressions and his entire persona throughout the movie is bad... : davislovestacobell
        • "say..... that's a nice bike" : -=kodiak=-
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          you don't get your own subthread until you've bought us all volcano tacos : akirabob
          • k, who should i deliver to first? : davislovestacobell
• Sheriff of Nottingham in the Costner Robin Hood : exigence7
• Charlie Prince from 3:10 to Yuma was a pretty good bad guy : Herman Toothrot
• Vic Mackey and Heath's Joker : ErichTopp
• Willem Dafoe > Bobby Peru > Wild At Heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56TRBUNkq4 : Borzoi
• Anton - No Country for Old Men & "I drink your milkshake!" guy :) : historyinthemaking
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  the smoke monster : gyokuro
  • The smoke monster is a horrible villian because for four seasons, even the writers had no fucking idea wh... : IndigoAK
• Walternate; I'm from the future, the film is awesome. : massdev
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  Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men Heath Ledgers from The Dark Knight? Sam Rockwells from Iron M... : minigomp
  • *(though he's not BAD...) : minigomp
• Percy in The Green Mile : Marrbe
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  For me, it was Heath Ledger in TDK, and that Spanish dude in Pan's Labyrinth. : lightly inclined
  • I still shudder thinking about the rabbit scene - it came from nowhere. : iambinksy
• Teddy KGB - Rounders : ninjamoo
• Dr. Weir from Event Horizon. : Professor Darkness
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  Heath Ledger as the Joker in the TDK and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men have b... : theghostofsmdever
  • amg we agree on something. Unbelievable. : daVinci1980
• Tyler Durden. : socksta
• Is there really no Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now in this? http://www.carrothers.com/col_kurtz.jpg ht... : anhero
• fucking MCP from TRON : anhero
• Billy Mitchell Because I met Wiebe at GDC and King of Kong was on TV last week : dael
• Percy from The Green Mile Mr. Jangles :( : two50six
• Khan from Star Trek II. : Landrosradick

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  What about resistance exercise like swimming? : aeg1x
  • Yeah, swimming is excellent. : alexpr
• Uh probably discuss it more with your doctor, a nutritionist, and a trainer if you're serious about it. ... : sammyl
• swim : moshman
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  Lift supplements and take weights. Problem solved. : Ooghijmiqtxxa
  • I N F ' D : bolneze
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  Gymnastics. Find a place that teaches adults and they'll know how to take you from pussy to ridiculously ... : Sink the Pink
  • Dude. You have just blown my mind. : robosextoid
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  You're allowed to do cardio but not free weights? Your doctor sounds like a fucking genius. : socksta
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    yeah i don't know what's going on here but it sounds suspect. : xxiv
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      Well when I lift weights I start shitting blood. It doesn't take a genius to figure out there's a problem... : robosextoid
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        That's rough. Are you ok with foods that protein rich foods or is it just the supplements? Out of curiosi... : theghostofsmdever
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          Oh I eat proteins... Mostly fish and chicken, some steak. I weigh 200 and I'm 6'5, which means I'm in pre... : robosextoid
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            You is a skinny skinny monkey, which is good. Can you do pushups and body weight excercises? There's plen... : r3ckless
            • Yeah I can do pushups. My doctor doesn't want me bulking up but pushups don't do that. I think I've go... : robosextoid
      • oh man : moe6
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        not being a dick here, but does this happen as you're lifting weights, or like later on after you're done... : prime8
        • Stress changes the way the immune system works, and I don't know if it's understood or not, but Crohn's ... : robosextoid
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        That almost sounds like bad hemorrhoids from straining too much. : TwiLyght
        • It has something to do with stress, an overactive immune system, and my body attacking the lining of my c... : robosextoid
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  You are describing the perfect situation for yoga. Seriously. I am a weight lifter, I bench over 300... a... : steelsamurai
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    I'd look into some clinical pilates with a reformer/trap table etc : exponen7
    • Is there a difference between normal pilates and clinical? And what is a reformer? : robosextoid
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  Guaranteed to work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S3C4AC908w : Sludgehead
  • Even better: http://www.hulu.com/watch/143264/saturday-night-live-shake-weight-dvd : mrwolf710
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  why can't you lift weights or take supplements like protein, vitamins, bcaa's, fish oil? : xxiv
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    I'm just not supposed to take protein supplements or muscle building stuff. I have Crohn's disease. It's ... : robosextoid
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      In this case, I don't think the Shack is where you want to be getting your advice. : Arcanum
      • Well I don't need medical advice, I just want fitness tips that don't involve weights. If start swimming ... : robosextoid
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  Are you allowed to do things that use your own body weight? If so, push-ups, pull-ups and various other e... : theghostofsmdever
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    Dont suppose you have any links for other exercises besides the usual crunches and push ups etc that use ... : disembodied potato
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      If you have an iPhone, there's an app called iFitness that has a great list of exercises you can do while... : Ellissd
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        And I say it's for "business trips/vacation" because it doesn't require any exercise equipment. : Ellissd
        • cool thanks ill check this out! : disembodied potato
        • Boughted. And thanks for the heads up! : robosextoid
    • I have a copy of this book. http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Warrior-Pavel-Tsatsouline/dp/0938045555 Its... : theghostofsmdever
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  Dude. Jump the fucking rope. Seriously, it burns more calories than anything you can think of, it's absol... : kabex
  • If you can manage to do 1/10th of what this guy does you'll be fucking toned: http://www.youtube.com/wat... : kabex
• name + post = snicker. : dengar65
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  robosextoid chaged his workout status to It's complicated : Omaha
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  that really does look great. It's hard to tell with the quality of those clips, but so far I notice light... : Reeves
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    Oh and are there any comparison shots out there? I would really love to see cataclysm screenshots compare... : Reeves
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      I wouldn't imagine there's a lot, it's just Stormwind... from the sky! ... and all the crazy crap you've... : elosorojo
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        the flythrough of Orgrimmar shows it to be a vastly changed city. : action roommate
        • Ahh, didn't look. I always played Alliance, so I'm not so familiar with Org. : elosorojo
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          Yeah, it's pretty interesting how much has changed there. The bank is totally different, the priest train... : BlackCat9
          • Ya from the looks of things, Azshara is pretty much Goblin town. Which is a vast improvement over it's f... : Senate5000
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          See, as much as I've played I didn't notice a huge difference except for the scaffolding in the front.. T... : Reeves
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            You didn't notice a huge difference? You've clearly spent no time in Orgrimmar then. I'm sure comparo... : action roommate
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              Erm I've probably spent 50 hours in orgrimmar alone.. It's just been so long since I've played. I would n... : Reeves
              • If you've spent 50 hours there then the first thing you should have said on the Org flythrough is "HOLY S... : Phreakin
          • Also I wanted to see the difference in graphics more than anything. : Reeves
      • Watch the end of the video. There's a part of the city that appears to have fallen off the edge of a clif... : BlackCat9
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        Actually, if you could see Stormwind from the air in current WoW it's kind of amusing. A lot of it isn't... : Senate5000
        • Yes. In fact, your view of the Cathedral from the air taxis was always a bit of a fake. : action wombmate
  • There's definitely some improved textures on the main walkways through Stormwind. : Vincent Grayson
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  yeah, the ass load of screen shots on http://www.mmo-champion.com/ are pretty awesome too. they really d... : atom519
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    Hmm. I'm thinking that the Twilight Highlands is what used to be Darkshore. There's a big horde camp in t... : BlackCat9
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      Oops, nevermind. They have Darkshore further down the page. But there are some areas that look distinctly... : BlackCat9
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        As part of that picture set they're showing the dam that creates Loch Modan, so perhaps the Twilight High... : action wombmate
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          Yep, now I remember. I think that's one of the level 85 zones that will act as a staging zone against Dea... : BlackCat9
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            Oh, cool. There was also that little unused area just south of Dun Morogh that looks like they're implem... : action wombmate
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              Deepholme? That's actually going to be an entirely underground zone - technically an "Elemental Plane", t... : BlackCat9
              • Ahh, gotcha. : action wombmate
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  I wish the hills/mountains were improved. they still look like shit. : valael
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    alphaaaaaaa : action roommate
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      we'll see. you hear the IT'S BETA! stuff all the time and it's usually wrong. : valael
      • the mountains in Wrath of the Lich King were pretty nice! : grendel
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  I was looking at the video of Gilneas, the new starting zone for the worgen and trying to figure out how ... : BlackCat9
  • It wouldn't be unprecedented if they had to take a boat/transport elsewhere to continue leveling. Blood ... : electroly
• Orgrimmar looks great! Very different layout. I was a bit sad when I saw Thrall's chamber is totally go... : grendel
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  how are they going to handle people who don't get the expansion? Is this like a parallel reality? : PixelPie
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    Everyone gets the updates but you have to buy the expansion to level to 85. : BlackCat9
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      Am I correct in assuming that the new races will be expansion-only as well? : action wombmate
      • That's correct. : DianeOfTheMoon
    • ahh interesting : PixelPie
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    phasing : action roommate
    • no, everyone will get the new-old world : mwasher
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  Interesting changes to Stormwind. Do those places behind the keep even exist right now? : Robotic Puppy Eater
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    Wow, okay. Just finished the video. Looks like the park district of Stormwind gets burned up. : Robotic Puppy Eater
    • Yeah, and thrown into the goddamn ocean. Cool stuff. : action wombmate
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  http://i43.tinypic.com/qwy7gj.jpg : mwasher
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    from mmo-champion forums, the only 2 forms of worgen right now apparently, haha : mwasher
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      no wait it seems this is just a bug : mwasher
      • http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2010/may/cataclysm_models_npc/big/worgen.jpg : action wombmate
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        It looks like that's their "placeholder" for female Worgen. : Senate5000
        • SEXISM : mwasher
        • Blizzcon only had the male Worgen playable, too. : BlackCat9
• I haven't played WoW for years, I just watched the Org video and the music just brought back so many memo... : sanchez
• besides wow and eve, there is also lotro that has been successful as well. : JuffoWup
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  LOL Menethil Harbor is underwater: http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2010/may/catazones/we... : grendel
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    holy shit that is crazy : Reeves
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      Why is the dock so high? Looks really odd.. : Reeves
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        It used to be elevated off the water by a good bit. : deveus1
        • Ahh okay that makes sense : Reeves
  • Global warming :( : swimteampie
  • Alliance is getting their shit kicked in. They also lost Southshore, a good bit of Darkshore--compared to... : drhazard
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  SAMOPHLANGE better be fucking there still. : D45hiz
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    SAMOPHLANGE is now in Un'goro because that's where stupid shit like that belongs! : lightly inclined
    • I couldn't hear you over the loud SAMOPHLANGEING going on behind me. =( : Kniggit
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  If I wanted to play this, would I need the two previous expansion packs as well? : MeenMunky
  • Yeah, but they'll sell the whole thing in a bundle once Cataclysm comes out. : BlackCat9
  • I believe it would be necessary in order to level up to 80, but don't quote me on that. Otherwise, you'd... : action wombmate
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  The best part is Kezan. It is the craziest art design in WoW yet and I love what the artists are doing. H... : Link.
  • What's up with Kezan? It sounds like it's going to be part of the first five levels of the Goblin startin... : BlackCat9
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  Man I don't know if I like this. The original world was fantastic. And now new players will get never ge... : Ellissd
  • I think the old world was definitely awesome, but also had its shortcomings. It would appear that Catacl... : action wombmate
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    I'm pretty sure they're doing this to improve it - which is sorely needed The original world was fanta : jbury
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      I'm pretty sure I read someplace that he did. : action wombmate
      • Looks like the rift between North and South barrens goes right through where her body was. : BlackCat9
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  Dude, the Goblins turned Azshara into a giant Horde symbol. http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images... : BlackCat9
  • Fuck me in the ass, how did I not notice that? : action wombmate
  • Oh haha. I remember hearing that they did something in Azshara that looked like a Horde symbol. I didn'... : Senate5000
  • Wonder what kind of hot action goes on at Gallywix Pleasure Palace : Phreakin
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  jesus fucking christ now i want to resub again :( : [7]kami
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    I will be. I have accepted this. It'going to be a riot leveling a troll druid with my shammy goblin frien... : node
    • I've already saved enough badges to send my Goblin Rogue all the heirloom stuff :D : jbury
  • I don't know man. Last time I resubbed I logged in twice and was done. It looks cool, but on the other ha... : Bamii
  • I think a classmate and I probably will resub, if only for a month. Always happens for WoW expansion pack... : freakynipples69

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  * TERRAN o Battlecruiser + The build time has been decreased from 110 t... : moogle
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    has the corruption ability been nerfed or improved? also, with ultralisks getting a needed upgrade, do yo... : kokujin
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      The biggest problem with Ultras is their speed. Even on creep theyll never catch anything. : Blucklesworth
      • They need a charge like ability IMO : wurt
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    I like the Sentry, Broodlord, and Ultra changes...the other seem dangerously strange. I`m sure they will ... : lord_omega
    • maybe I'm nuts, but the parasite ability seemed really underused before, and now they made it more expens... : valael
  • Whoah I just noticed the Ultralisk damage - 25! : abrasion
• I don't want to read them again. They are that bad. : wurt
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  I'm going to go ahead and repost my thoughts on the Zerg in review of this patch and the feel of the Zerg... : Modica Sol Solis
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    My favorite race is zerg, and all the strategies solely depend upon what your opponents doing. Where as t... : Xencer
    • Some people like this and some people don't. I'm in the second camp. I liked developing my strategy in Sc... : Modica Sol Solis
  • I agree with this post. I love zerg and I'm having a harder and harder time playing them as everyone else... : moogle
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    I'm sorry your post is HORRIBLE. REALLY bad and some statements just plain wrong. You speak of early game... : Lionel2b
    • He tends to make poor analysis with little experience. You should se his wow threads before he even hit l... : maulla
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      no starcraft 2 discussion ever makes it past the first reply without oozing sarcasm and jeer. : mwasher
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        (note I am not saying what he has said it right, just talking about the immediate tone sc2 conversations ... : mwasher
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          Like HoN but more popular... : Dessicator82
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            No. Nobody expects anybody to be pro in sc2, people just don't want somebody who doesn't have enough ex... : RetroRedEyeJr
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              can still talk about why he is wrong and show him the error in his logic without the asshole undertones ... : mwasher
              • It's hard to tell somebody they are thoroughly wrong on all points because they aren't skilled enough and... : RetroRedEyeJr
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              I agree with you about everything but HoN. It's a shit community full of shit human beings. :D : midgetherder
              • lol, i honestly don't have that much experience with it i only played about 5 or so matches (terribly i a... : RetroRedEyeJr
              • Oi, let's not bash the HoN folks please. Yes, I love HoN. I like to think I'm not a shit human being. : Lexicon_Leidun
    • Alright, just got home. Responses. Zerg has never been able to wall-in. This is true. However, Zerg ha... : Modica Sol Solis
  • Yea, like I'm not sure why bad players need to post about viability of unit compositions. I'm not trying... : Blucklesworth
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    You are off your rocker. An early ling rush devestates the opponents economy. It's incredibly effective : maulla
    • And I just won 3 2's in a row with ling/ling rush, just flat out. I'm honestly not sure what someone woul... : daVinci1980
    • Of course it does. But you know what gets old? The same standard early ling rush time and time again. I k : Modica Sol Solis
  • Zerg has by an large the best map control in the game. While on paper their units may require "more" ... : InfoBiter
  • There's a lot wrong with this post so here's the simple response,, don't play Zerg. : Senate5000
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    • I think the advice of just expanding all over is not quite right. Walling in could mean they're massing u... : Lionel2b
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    aren't banelings, nydus worms, air units, and even overlord drops a response to wall ins? : valael
    • and just expanding yourself, yes. If I wall in against zerg and don't attempt my own harass/offense I jus... : derelict515
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      i love nydus worms, so hot : mwasher
      • I used my first nydus worm against a turtling Terran before. After 50 roaches and zerglings popped out, ... : DHAvatar
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      Wall ins happen in the very beginning of the game. Literally the first couple minutes. Banelings require ... : Modica Sol Solis
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        cheese? so you're whinging because I can't get stupid victories without any strategy? : even4
        • *because you can't : even4
  • Yeah, I'm going to have to say Zerg's strength is still very much in their ability to out-expand and out-... : Lexicon_Leidun
  • maybe you should stop playing zerg or stop playing sc2 : darkT
  • I play mostly zerg (i was a protoss player in sc1), i agree with some stuff but some of your points are w... : even4
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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22882285 glad to see im not the only one getting hard locks : maulla
  • Misery loves company. : StolenNosferatu
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  Day9 daily live with new URL and time (7pst all summer) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/day9tv : valael
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    so this is better than livestream right (it'd be hard not to be)? : derelict515
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      It's only the second day, some people were complaining about constant lag with this, but I don't know. I... : valael
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        If I don't have to hear another livestream commercial I'm thrilled! : Lionel2b
        • I've only seen one ad on ustream so far, the rest have just been banners which I can deal with : valael
  • oh shit he bumped his graphics up to medium : valael
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  Is anyone else having crashes when exiting SC2? : wurt
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    yes... annoying. had to reboot. : crypt420
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      that solved it? : wurt
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        i was stuck in the game... : crypt420
        • I also crash when existing. restarting is not fixing it :( : Lionel2b
        • ctrl-shift-esc or ctrl-alt-delete didn't get you out? : derelict515
  • yup, every time. have to end the process.. which is retarded. : dopeman
  • yeah im getting that. : thechunder
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  Why doesn't anyone use overlord drops? I've used it to secure island expansions, but I never seem to thi... : SqueegyTBS
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    • pretty sure overlords can transport with the upgrade : valael
    • Not true. Once you research it, all your overlords can drop. : SqueegyTBS
  • It's kind of pricey to research and I can find better use for the minerals and gas elsewhere. : Ellissd
  • I try to do ling drops as much as possible and it really does work. I wait until their army starts to mov... : Lionel2b
  • I think we'll see it more as we get more varied maps where lifts/drops in general are more advantageous. ... : SolrFlare
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    Baneling drop! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjylOpmP-E#t=5m10s : vynn
    • That would actually be an awesome strat in 2v2 where you could have a teammate provide base defense/offen... : SolrFlare
    • sexy : filthysock
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  2 keys for first 2 responders (please don't reply if you already have an account) : mwasher
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    one? : Nation
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      sweet ... what do you need me to sm you? email? : Nation
      • sm'd : mwasher
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    Skoal^Fyfan : JarEme
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      Has wanted one forever... copy and paste fail there. : JarEme
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        i already messaged him asking if he wanted one. Although I sent the message to skoal and not skoal^fyan : Reeves
        • but yeah im gonna hold on to my second key until i hear from skoal so if he wants one it's all his once h... : Reeves
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    two? : silly
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      SM'd all gone : mwasher
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        Thx mwasher, you own : silly
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          actually he rents : electroly
          • with an option to buy. : ImageOmega
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  Is there a faster way to download the beta? I've been downloading for an hour and still have about 2 hou... : tfsbrian
  • Cut off the power to your neighbors? only if you are on cable though. Or just for a good laugh : SolrFlare
  • yes. Open the torrent in something like utorrent and limit upload. The blizzard downloader is stupid and ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
• I placed in the middle of Bronze 2v2 tonight with enough bonus points to throw me into silver if I win an... : limpossible
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  K I got one beta key going out to the first to reply. : Robotic Puppy Eater
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    ME? : crunkfunk
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      sent. : Robotic Puppy Eater
      • Gracias : crunkfunk
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  How are you guys getting additional keys? I need to get one for a friend... : ImageOmega
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    You'll probably get an email eventually with some keys in it. They seem to go out to people randomly. Or ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
    • Ok cool, thanks. Yeah, I don't want to take away from needy shackers though. : ImageOmega
    • Yeah, I just got an email today with two keys. Its been a while since I got the last one. : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  Man, I didn't play a single Zerg opponent tonight. I think they're on strike. It was mostly Protoss opp... : Scythe99
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    I wanna see more ultralisks tear stuff up now : crunkfunk
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      I want to see a mothership get Neural Parasited :D : SolrFlare
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        This is going to sound pathetic, but... I got mothership rushed tonight :-( : Scythe99
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          if he's rushing motherships you should have been smashing down his front door : filthysock
          • You can only have 1 mothership :P : razlebol
  • I need to practice v zerg and all I do is get terran and protoss. : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  • I went 4-0 tonight. Good night. =) : ImageOmega
  • I'm getting so sick of that : abrasion
  • All I ever see are protoss it seems. Every now and then I'll get a terran guy; and very rarely I'll see z... : InfoBiter
• I just won a base race but feel totally gyped. He was in plat and outmacroed me so hard. But failed at bu... : StolenNosferatu
• all this teasing, and still no beta :( anyone have another spare key? pleeease? : razorblade79
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  final names! Who is going to stick with their beta name and who is going to change their name with the fu... : filthysock
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    Sticking with my stupid name unless they magically allow me to use "KoolAidMan" in the final : Serpico74
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      I love the notion that "KoolAidMan" isn't a stupid name. : sammyl
      • Sorry, "stupider" name. I completely agree : Serpico74
  • I haven't really decided. I will probably just split my normal screen name in two instead of using it twi... : InfoBiter
  • I am likely to keep my current username. : abrasion
  • I might change my name to Franzen if I play Terran at retail. (Red Wings player nicknamed "The Mule") : ThereCanBeOnlyOneCat
  • probably sticking with current. its just a shorthand of what i usually use anyways. : StolenNosferatu
  • Sticking with hemoptysis.knob : valael
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  I've got a spare EU beta key, who wants it? : moshman
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    The keys aren't region locked, you can create an account in any territory you want and use a key. pancake... : Wikinger
    • ah, I didn't know that. Still I would rather give it to one of my EU peeps : moshman
  • MEMEMEMEME : mad-d00d
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    me! : Lightbulb
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      sorry, mad-d00d was first :( I'll keep you in mind if I get another key! : moshman
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        figure, I usually only find these threads hours later anyway :/ btw do you know any online shop where ... : Lightbulb
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          It seems they sold out pretty fast? Okaysoft says that they are already sold out on the CE. Apparently yo... : Wikinger
          • And they sell it for 79 Euros ?? not bad at all. : Lightbulb
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          just order the normal one from amazon.de and get your beta key like that. : moshman
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            .de also gives beta keys ? wow I didn't know that. : Lightbulb
            • they do indeed, I got one from them : moshman
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    Sweet! Thanks holmes! : mad-d00d
    • No worries, I'll be home in about 2 hours. I'll send it then. : moshman

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• Just got back as well. I agree with the general sentiment that it's not as good as the first one but sti... : Druuge
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  Is it true that the movie might have been better as a whole if they had simply removed Scarlett Johanssen : lightly inclined
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    I don't believe so, they didn't really spend a lot of time on her. I just got back and I thought it was r : MrBig0
    • Also, stay until the end of the credits! : MrBig0
  • I can't see how she took away from anyone else. It seemed pretty well balanced, actually. Unlike you migh... : Conan
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  I thought the first one was an ok movie but much like Spiderman it was way way overrated. I will totally... : abrasion
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    You don't think the first movie was fun as hell and totally captured Stark's character perfectly? : MrBig0
    • I don't know Starks character, you have to remember most of the audience (myself included) know nothing a... : abrasion
  • Because a lot of us didn't think the first was way overrated. : Conan
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    surprise! : mwasher
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      I don't hate the movie at all, I quite enjoyed it - but it's no Batman for example, it's no Avatar, it's ... : abrasion
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        It's a shit load better than Avatar and I would put it right next to the Dark Knight. : sigpro
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          I liked ironnman more than the dark knight. I hate to say it, but tdk suffered from ledgers death. It sho : mlev
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            What? : SpaecKow
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              Watch the movie again. Its a fairly distinct stopping point, and I've heard tell tdk was going to be two ... : mlev
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                But just long enough for a DC movie. : SpaecKow
                • Whoops, my bad. In "marvel" mode tonight. : mlev
              • This is the most retarded thing I've read on here in a long time. : socksta
              • That's just not true at all. It was never going to be two movies, though obviously they had plans for the... : Conan
              • Well, that's simply incorrect. Ledger died after the film was completed. I do remember reading that at on... : Arceihn
          • I thought Ironman was the better overall movie. TDK had Ledger but the rest of it was iffy. : bolneze
        • Subjective of course, Ironman isn't bad at all to be honest but I just find most of these comic book movi... : abrasion
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  You guys stuck around to watch the scene after the credits, right? : kaijuseijin
  • Indeed. And I'm really curious to see what Kenneth Branagh is going to do with it. : Conan
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    I didn't. Mind putting it in a spoiler? : kbaxter
    • The thing in New Mexico was Thor's Hammer. : Conan
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  What happened to the "you complete me!" Scene from the trailers?? : mlev
  • Made gwyneth look too much like a human being who likes people and is liked. : SpaecKow
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    Yeah too bad they left it out. Would have come full circle at the end. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Nah, Pepper ends up with Happy Hogan (the driver) in the comics, and that ain't changing. : Conan
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  She was tied into the plot well enough to make her relevant to the viewer. And she's a fun character. : SpaecKow
  • With a fun body. : mlev
• Can't wait until I see it over the weekend! : Link.
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  And what about Scarlets ass? Jesus what a great ass. : minigomp
  • Want to touch the hiney.... : Arcanum