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  Civ5. Civ5. Civ5. : Deathlove
  • YES! Post more than 5 chracters? I'll give you something to character! : negativepower
• Can GT5 live up to expectations? Especially given Sony execs that only fan the fire. : getfrisky
• With the motion controller arms race heating up, which company do you think has more to lose when (if?) t... : ViewtifulBen
• GT5, CIV5, and 5nal Destination. : Prozium
• Do you guys want more indie gaming experiences a la Alan Wake/Heavy Rain with DLC or would you like to se... : blackzag05
• What is the possibility that PS Move benefits from the Wii. We saw the PS2 having an extra-long lifecycl... : ascagnel
• In honour of Canada Day what is your favourite Canadian Game (or Game Company) based in Canada; and if yo... : Dylonius
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  The hidden future gems of E3? : Lone Swordsman
  • Joe danger : RuffasBluetain
• I've taken on playing with my 360 controller more often now on my PC. Alpha Protocol, Just Cause 2, Di... : Sailor of Fortune
• nintendogs : fletch_
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  PC gaming : GodZilly
  • Not profitable, move along :( : te[R]ror
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  I'd like to know more about Disciples 3 : kainen1
  • http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23335999#itemanchor_23335999 : valcan_s
• Not really a topic suggestion but a comment on the episode from two weeks ago: I was intrigued when yo... : MassaF
• Do you remember the 3d demo a guy did a while ago using a wiimote backwards? He put the wiimote on the d... : veryqyiet
• Leveling and grinding in multiplayer shooters. It seems now every game is doing a form of this and I am c... : TheWeaponeer
• crazy stuff you saw in the downstairs hall at E3 : byorn
• Since it's the fourth of July weekend why not talk about explosions in games? I still remember the first... : melkore
• Joe danger now that e3 is past. : RuffasBluetain
• The future of gaming is on ipad, iphone, and droid according to Rein. : Vegtro
• Rockstar really kicked it up a notch with gameplay in Red Dead Redemption in many ways, but the most stri... : Dave-A
• Dungon Crawl Stone Soup and Dwarf Fortress!! : Jinxplayer
• Diablo II, been playing all week. 10 year anniversary and all, kinda crazy since you can still buy it ret... : Funran
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  Do you guys hear much about "the numbers" when it comes to indie vs. AAA titles? Meaning not just revenue... : dfay
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    Two good blog posts directly from indie game developers on the piracy issue. It's more about changing per... : Porkasaurus
    • Great and very informative links! But just in case Garnett is still looking at this, I wasn't interested ... : dfay
• Why should we ever go to a game store to buy our PC games when Steam is so reliable and easy? : Grumbeld
• Discuss sleeper hits. Games that were awesome but that few people know about. : GodZilly
• Games that deserve remakes that were planned but got canned (ie: things like Fallout 3 (van buren)) Al... : Durajim
• As an avid adult female gamer, I frequently find the prevalent stereotypical stigmatic notions of games l... : RADzoid
• MMOs coming out soon, not the Cash Shop Free2Play kind. : Sixcos
• Hit the bottle and do the show drunk : rosewood
• E3 left me a little weary of all the sequels coming. To me, it seems too soon for another Killzone, Gea... : SomethingClever27
• I'd love to hear your thoughts on the end of Red Dead and how they handled the dramatic arc. Hopefully i... : SomethingClever27
• FarCry 2 : awaypaster
• I have a question for Warning: In mid 2009 both InFamous and Prototype were released, and while are two d... : ugmojoe
• What do you think the future of achievements/trophies are after e3?Most of the games that I heard reports... : prsgame
• Valve's E3 DNF announcement : sanchez
• In light of a series of recent editorials (Jeremy Parish, Leigh Alexander, Christian Nutt) concerning the... : feitclub
• Mangod confirmed? But why is no one talking about Joe Danger? That game is brilliantly fun! : Coheno
• Can you not play long ass songs in the middle of it. : marmite
• I just want you to know that I hate you cause I have that stupid ass song stuck in my head all the time..... : mrwolf710
• Why does Nintendo get so much appreciation for doing nothing but churning out sequels yet people hate it ... : sharma55
• Any APB talk? And Ebert's final response to video games? And when is the next 4 minute warning? : Archurro
• Comment on the major no-shows at E3. There were several games and hardware releases that were expected to... : eng050599
• Hello Weekend Confirmed! Some of my friends like story in games and they don't want to do annoying gamep... : Snubbelfot75
• The 8 hour time difference forced a late response, I'm afraid; apologies for this. Following last week's ... : iwatttfodiwwfa

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  I don't get the mortgage thing. What do they mean by total payout? (I'm pretty much living in a cave when... : rick
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    If you get a mortgage today and make all of your payments on time, what is the total amount you will pay ... : RomSteady
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      Apparently almost 3 fucking times the mortgage amount? Wow, buying a place isn't as much of a money saver... : rick
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        Get a 30 year loan, but try to pay it off like it was a 20 year. It doesn't take as much extra $$/month ... : Freon
        • Yeah, by making 1 extra payment a year you could pay off your house a full 5 years earlier. : Prozium
      • It is here in shitstickville. Rent for most places is higher then my mortgage. : erebus
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        The interest that you pay is tax deductible and you get a piece of property at the end, so you can actual... : DianeOfTheMoon
        • You still have to pay for the majority of the interest plus property taxes even though you can deduct th... : Porkasaurus
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        fucking rofl. At current Oz interest rates a $200,000 loan will cost over $1.3M for a 30 year repayment.... : biofrog
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          How are you calculating this amount? I'm not getting anywhere NEAR 1300k worth of repayments for a 200k l... : dafugg
          • You are correct.. hmm no idea what I did there, lol. : biofrog
      • No one is paying attention... it is saying that a 200k mortgage from the year 2000 would cost 610k to pay... : ju$tmon3y
      • There is also something nice about know what my monthly housing cost will not go up unless I want it to g... : NexusOne
  • I assume this is based on lower interest rates. : Freon
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  Cherry picking with the Aspirin there. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20100111-price.... : yoonix
  • I think the whole thing is cherry picking. ;) : Freon
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    this kind of thing is why infographics are so fucking dangerous : biskits
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      This bothers the shit out of me. It's honestly ammo that the majority will use to draw some pretty big, W... : phipple
      • as is 90% of what you hear on the news :( : biskits
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      But they are fun to make. : hirosushima
      • so are bombs : biskits
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  goddamn i get such a fucking hardon from infographics : multisync
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    oh you too? : PixelPie
    • What kind of self-proclaimed nerd doesn't?!? : nyranger66
    • www.flowingdata.com is one of my fa sites. : multisync
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  They could have used more contrasting colors. I can barely tell the difference :( : freshyk
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    red green color blind? : zakazi
    • Yup. : freshyk
• McDonalds Big Macs: ribbed for her pleasure. : Karnov
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  I have no idea how bananas can be so incredibly cheap. : thenoodleincident
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    Enjoy them while they last, folks: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-unfortunate-sex-life-of-the-banana : Arctic Fox
    • i just subscribed to that website : biskits
    • http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp : nyranger66
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      This reply to that article blows my mind: "Did I understand right that all commercial bananas today (... : imperator
      • fuck they have no DNA or aura?! : bolneze
    • Really well written article : bolneze
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  Fake. Who only spends $44 on jeans? : liquidlies
  • less than 10% of the shack : BongSlayerB
  • You think it's low or high? : Porkasaurus
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    I didn't even know jeans could be that cheap :( : nyranger66
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      i bought a pair of $120 lucky's for only $50 this past weekend on sale, so i almost got there : RikiTiki2
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        And thus you've proven to yourself that they are not infact $120 jeans. My wife is fucking retarded for ... : foo
        • i was just pointing out that i almost paid 44 for jeans : RikiTiki2
  • maybe they mean per square inch of denim : ninjase
  • Jeans are dumb. : Cliffzorz
• This is a pretty small basket of market goods with which to judge inflation... : lotus2133
• Goddamn Red Delicious apples suck! : bolneze

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• lol : indosauros
• haha : FirstPersonCooter
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  I really don't care about the apple vs google war. All I know is that A) I get good reception with Ve... : hbalce1
  • Pretty much this is how I feel I went with the provider with the best service but I do get a good laugh a... : hashd
• I like the Iphone & EVO - this was extremely lol though. :) : PlanetPerfecto
• oh my : nolram
• Is the script for this thing written out somewhere? : Schnapple
• I have seen this in a dozen or so posts around the net today, and IT NEVER GETS OLD. Did you know that... : TheWeaponeer
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  This video is pretty much the worst thing over, for taking as an assumption the worst of geek hubris and : sgtsanity
  • Serious... business. : Fred Garvin
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    Ha dude relax, its the internet. : D45hiz
    • don't worry i mis-conjugated a few verbs in there to keep it internetty : sgtsanity
  • you're the only sane person here, sgtsanity. : industro
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    I think you're overthinking it. It's making fun of the fact that people just want an iPhone because it's... : redfive
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      no, his reason is spot on. The hype is due to the fact that apple made a smart phone that normal people : dopefish
      • ^^^ Precisely. But DON'T YOU WANT TO BE ANGRY GROWL LOTS OF PEOPLE LIKE SOMETHING I HATE IT : the city
      • That's not the point. There are plenty of people who don't have a clue about their Iphone. Same with peop : PlanetPerfecto
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        Not just make calls on : Ovate
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          at&t's network is what you can't make calls on. direct your spite at its cause, don't just spew it out wh... : biskits
          • Apple chooses AT&T as their exclusive partner, resulting in me not being able to make a phone call with m... : Ovate
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        I'd really like to know how many people use their iPhones outside of a phone and texting. I know a few pe... : Fred Garvin
        • phone, sms, email is 95% of my daily use, and i'm a huge geek. : biskits
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          Considering how well the app store is doing and how much AT&T has suffered (in terms of bandwidth) due to... : BouillonCubes
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            Or a smaller than majority group are using an assload of data. It's the same with ISPs. Most of their cus... : Fred Garvin
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              Abs only the few people are buying all the apps? : BouillonCubes
              • And. : BouillonCubes
        • Most of the iphones I see in public have at least the first page filled with the default apps. Seriously ... : d3tached
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    You missed the point of the comedy - the second video lampoons certain EVO lovers in the same way. There : PlanetPerfecto
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      but we can synthesize our way out of the dialectic : sgtsanity
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        absolutely - and comedy is a great way to do that. those videos lampoon both sides perfectly. I'm startin : PlanetPerfecto
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          People reacted pretty much the same way to just one video; pretty sure it wasn't the juxtaposition and fo... : sgtsanity
          • That's human nature though. The same way these videos bother you instead of entertaining you. Really, if ... : PlanetPerfecto
    • Seriously^^ : SlingBlaze
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      My issue is not with the details of how either side is mocked and generalized, it is that it is a continu... : BouillonCubes
      • Well, that's comedy. Just the same way as someone can make a massively ridiculous generalization in a sta... : PlanetPerfecto
  • I agree with you. I have a group of techie friends and last month all of them decided, group-think-wise, ... : Schnapple
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    sgtsanity has been promoted to ssgtsanity. : theangrywaffles
    • you can call me Sibilant S for short : sgtsanity
  • nah I don't think so : boomstickah
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    I approached this video with the chick being the hero of the piece : Dave-A
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      I root for the bugs in Starship Troopers. : sgtsanity
      • I think you're actually supposed to! : SpaecKow
  • while i agree with your umbrage in a general sense, in this case you gotta let it slide because it's just... : biskits
  • You're absolutely right, the video is totally spergial/smug/stupid, I can't believe I actually sat throug... : SpaecKow
  • Yes the common internet tactic. Sgtsanity makes a thoughtful post and he is berated for "being too serio... : soggybagel
  • Butthurt much? : hashd
  • maybe you can choose to also process this as a self-directed stab at nerds : boring gegtik
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    When I read this post, I read it in the voice of the apple store cartoon girl. It made me lol. : Colleton
    • It's the only way to make it tolerable. : kelerian
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    http://i47.tinypic.com/2pr7iow.gif : Godhatesfatpeople
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      lol. where is that from? : Mmmmmoo
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZuhYJynSk8 : dopeman
    • http://i40.tinypic.com/2cpyweq.jpg : BongSlayerB
  • Rabble rabble rabble. : dantastic
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    I agree with you. It's a stupid video made by someone who takes the technology preferences of others way ... : BlackCat9
    • And the reaction to the video is also stupid because it's a fucking joke. : Fred Garvin
  • If someone tells me "I prefer X because I like it" this is not a supportive argument. Its like saying "I ... : Lukiopimp
• hay guys competition is good eh? : Theos
• aww I thought they were gonna blend both of them : Shai-Tan
• Apple and its fans annoy me, but they release good products. : packav
• This was old yesterday. Snes sux, Genesis rules. : BouillonCubes
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  Can somebody plz fact check this because i'm pretty sure the evo can't turn into a jet : emcea
  • put it into landscape mode and it does : redfive
  • give it to me and i'll make it fly about 16 feet : RikiTiki2
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    It fucking prints money. : fsck
    • I don't care. : Schnapple
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  Hey my repost notice got nuked. : / : Wikus Van De Merwe
  • good : DrFlammable
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  Can I repost this then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be8fNPgteRs : SiW.
  • What the hell is this shit? : Fred Garvin
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  This shit is getting old. : m0rfus
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    how so? because you disagree or was there something specific? : akirabob
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      Because this has been posted here twice before : Wikus Van De Merwe
      • Like everything else. : Godhatesfatpeople
      • ahhh. that is a good reasoning then. i have yet to see it so i was unaware. : akirabob
      • I have watched it and laughed every time it has been posted! : hashd
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    posting "old" comments is as lame as posting "first" on a website'scomments : davidc02
    • First : PixelPie
• Lol posted from Evo : PixelPie
• Haha hadnt seen the rebuttal - not as entertaining as the original though : bolneze

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  This morning there was a thread about parsing CSVs using regular expressions. CSV is not describable w... : daVinci1980
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    Self-referential/recursive regular expression engines can do this, though of course by definition they're... : Satyric0n
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      Absolutely, there are regexp engines (perl, in particular, although there are others) that can parse irre... : daVinci1980
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        I think that's arguing semantics. What is a context-sensitive regular expression but a weak LL parser? Or... : Satyric0n
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          The more complex a pseudo-regex is, the harder it is for a human to understand. The harder it is for a h... : Arcanum
          • Yep, this is the crux of the issue.. Even if your regexp engine supports backreferencing and nesting d... : daVinci1980
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            Again, that's assuming a certain language or library implementation, and really has nothing to do with "r... : Satyric0n
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              Well formal regular expression engines aren't going to be able to parse arbitrary CSVs for the aforementi... : daVinci1980
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                Unless it's the explicit raison d'être for the library, and the library's API is uniquely designed aro... : Satyric0n
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                  How does that not make it an implementation detail? :) : daVinci1980
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                    An implementation detail, by definition, is not documented and is subject to change in various versions. ... : Satyric0n
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                      Ahh, I think we're disagreeing on the term implementation detail. In the usage I'm accustomed to, impl... : daVinci1980
                      • Like this one: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html : daVinci1980
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                        I've never seen the term used that way; I've always used it to describe details of a particular implement : Satyric0n
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                          The definition of implementation detail is just an implementation detail. : daVinci1980
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                            haha : Satyric0n
                            • recursive: see also recursive. : daVinci1980
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              No, it's not assuming anything in particular. The more crap you cram into any expression, the harder tha : Arcanum
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                What if the expression can be refactored into different variables, so the expression is ultimately simply... : Satyric0n
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                  Yes? Have you never read some stupidly long run-on sentence (with multiple nested parentheticals (becaus... : Arcanum
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                    i.e. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ba... : daVinci1980
                    • And that's a relatively nice one. The point being that if this can fairly readily happen with a natura : Arcanum
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                    Eh.. Composition of a CSV expression in with boost.xpressive would be three symbols. Not difficult... I t... : Satyric0n
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                      Codepad it? I'd love to see what boost.xpressive would look like for this. And the compiler errors whe... : daVinci1980
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                        Give me a bit and I'd be happy to. :-) You've got me on the compiler errors, no way around that, haha.... : Satyric0n
                        • I don't have a problem with C/C++ compiler errors at all, I'm really good at them. When you start gett... : daVinci1980
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                          Here's a whitespace-heavy xpressive implementation for well-formed input: http://boost.codepad.org/p35vzN... : Satyric0n
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                            Note that I used static xpressive, but that choice was arbitrary; dynamic xpressive would work just as we... : Satyric0n
                            • Oh, whoops, no I couldn't -- no semantic actions for dynamic xpressive. Nevermind. I'm done with this : Satyric0n
                          • Right, but this isn't a regexp. You're keeping state. Regexps don't have state. That's kindof the deal... : daVinci1980
                    • By the by, you also have to consider that csv is itself not well specified.. Are you talking strictly abo... : daVinci1980
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    lesson: use a utility specifically written to parse CSV. and stop trying to use regexps for everything. : manero
    • IAWTP. You can't use regexp for everything, and even if you can use regexp that doesn't mean you should. : Arcanum
    • i.n.f. : biskits
    • ^^^ winnar : x4nth3
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    A wise man once said that he had a problem, so he decided to solve it using regular expressions. Suddenl... : RomSteady
    • One of my favorite quotes regarding regexps. (I've seen some amazingly bad regexps). This link has som... : daVinci1980
    • your wise man obviously didnt know how to use regular expressions : x4nth3
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    lol I parse CSVs every day using regex and it is easy. : x4nth3
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      Until it fails to work for some new input you get that your regexp doesn't support. : daVinci1980
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        really? are you really expecting to write one regex to handle EVERYTHING? it is easy to write a regex t... : x4nth3
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          Yes, when I write code to split strings into tokens usable by the rest of my program, I try to write it o... : daVinci1980
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            so AAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBB cannot be matched? /A+B+/ ? can you provide an example string that cannot... : x4nth3
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              You cannot write a regular expression that will perform the same functionality as the balanced function i... : daVinci1980
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                Here's a start of what the regexp would have to look like: ^$|ab|aabb|aaabbb|aaaabbbb|aaaaabbbbb|aaaaa... : daVinci1980
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                  of course one regex wont handle that but a simple Perl script will. maybe I am missing something here... : x4nth3
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                    In this thread we're talking about what regular expressions can and cannot do. Formal Regular Expressi... : daVinci1980
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                      yes regex will not solve all the world's problems but is a powerful too and can be used to parse CSV file... : x4nth3
                      • You're wrong and you should feel bad. Regexp is a fine tool when you need to solve any number of probl... : daVinci1980
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                That's a cheat program though. It would report: abababababababababababababababab or aaabbbaaa... : alias
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                  That's not really pertinent to the discussion, but I've fixed the function here: http://codepad.org/KuH1N... : daVinci1980
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                    #! /bin/perl sub balance { s/^(A*)(B*)$/$2/; if (length $2 == length $_ ) { print "balanced"; : alias
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                      Whoops, length $1 instead of $2. : alias
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                        Right, that's not a regular expression. That's using regular expressions to count the length of each segm... : daVinci1980
                        • 'Regular expression' has a formal definition, but at this point I suspect that few actually use it that w : Satyric0n
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    I don't think any CSV parser could handle that input correctly. Besides who builds bullet proof code i... : alias
    • No. Bad. Stop. Numbers on the Mac imports correctly, python's csv module imports correctly, google can : daVinci1980
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      Real code using a real regex library that parses that input correctly: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?i... : Satyric0n
      • Xpressive is explicitly a hybrid parser though, that fits between the Turing Machine that is boost.spirit... : daVinci1980
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  Fuck trying to parse CSV files with regular expressions. Parse it like a sane fucking person and move on... : ThomW
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    I'm a bit concerned when programmers don't get why regexps are a bad fit for CSV, or they don't get that ... : daVinci1980
    • its called a regular expression because it's frequently full of shit : boring gegtik
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      it really depends on what you are trying to do you cant just say that "regexps are a bad fit for CSV" : x4nth3
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        You absolutely can. CSV is reducible to a grammar that needs to count balanced tokens, which is indescrib... : daVinci1980
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          What about this? http://www.antlr.org/ : fechols
          • parsers and parser generators are not regular expressions. : daVinci1980
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  Hm. Care to define CSV? Comma separated is easy, but what about quotes or escapes? What exactly is the gr... : terath
  • Quotes are allowed, and are the escape character. Quotes can be escaped. Commas can be escaped by quotes.... : daVinci1980
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  Regexps are a code smell. Like multiple inheritance. It's almost never the right thing to do, and gene... : uncleanmonkey
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    Bullshit, regexs are exactly the correct thing for regular grammars. It's pretty damn easy, describe the ... : terath
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      If the grammar is regular and the RE you use is faster, cheaper or less maintenance than the alternative ... : daVinci1980
      • Yep. That's true. Good software engineering is hard, and requires good CS knowledge. It's tough to find e... : terath
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      They're the correct thing for regular grammars that you never have to maintain. If you want something tha... : uncleanmonkey
      • I would generally agree with this.. I find that regexps are a write-once kindof operation. Everytime I... : daVinci1980
  • I don't rule out REs in all cases, but I agree that when they get more complicated than something very si... : daVinci1980
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    They are great for small hacks, like reformatting a text file or something like that. I use them a lot fo... : jcupitt
    • I read an interesting article about regexp speed. They were faster than a simple recursive descent pa... : jcupitt

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  Have you considered a hotmail or yahoo email account instead? : Dave-A
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    does hotmail do imap? ive looked at yahoo but they charge... : Kitty__Kong
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      Looks like it doesn't : Dave-A
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        yeah and yahoo just does pop also it seems. im ready to pay. how hard is it to find an email provider wit... : Kitty__Kong
        • I wonder if you could pay to get a single hosted exchange account somewhere : Dave-A
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  Check preferences, i think its called "Classic layout" under conversations. : bashildy@speakeasy.net
  • Not seeing this. : JT
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  You...want to disable one of Gmail's best features? : aggressor
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    People are stone set against change, regardless of how good it is. Look at this MSNBC redesign: http:/ : famine101
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      gmail is crap. i only switched to it because my reliable school email is expiring. with gmail i dont know... : Kitty__Kong
      • Why would your emails not go through? Also, they are in the sent folder. : aggressor
      • Maybe it's just too fast? Gmail is a web app, so if it fails to send the email, it will notify you, even : famine101
      • sounds like some pretty big user failure. : emcea
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        I don't understand what you mean you don't know if it went through. There's a message at the top that sa... : DHAvatar
        • often i access email from my iphone and searching on it sucks. i like to click a folder and simply see al... : Kitty__Kong
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        How can you not find shit when there is a huge search bar at the top? There is also the "sent mail" link ... : Prozium
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          search is crap i dont remember what is in the email but i damn well remember what folder i put it in or i... : Kitty__Kong
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            I don't get what you're saying here. If you remember the "folder" you put it in then why do you need to s... : Prozium
            • its the couple things that screw it up. 1. my own emails dont go in the folder. this may not seem like... : Kitty__Kong
            • Stop feeding the troll : foo
      • http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=121181wtf_picard468x_epbhc89udyeorjim0m5u.jpg : indosauros
      • Jesus christ you're deluded. "OH GOD I CLICKED THE SEND BUTTON AND WHAT I TYPED WENT AWAY???" : foo
      • lol you used a school email system and moved to gmail and you think gmail is crap. famine101's comment is... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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      this is a perfect example of false choice. 1. embrace Google's shitty threaded implementation -or- 2.... : steelsamurai
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        i must have stumbled into bizarro land here or something. I think gmail does a fantastic job at threadin... : .frame
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          you can't nest the labels though -- they aren't hierarchical. therefore, as a substitute for folders, the... : skryte
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            yes you can. Try turning on the feature in gmail labs... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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              (Clearly this thread shows people bitching about how crappy a service is really just don't understand the... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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                Click green beaker, Scroll to bottom of the page or crtl-f, bam Nested Labels by Manu C Manage you... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
                • well that's informative. : skryte
    • What is with the HUGE BLANK WHITE SPACES BETWEEN ARTICLES. WHY DO I NE... : trove
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    My old lady has a specific, and somewhat legitimate, complaint about this. She mails a group of people... : daVinci1980
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      yeah exactly. im on lots of lists and simply filter each list to a folder. i like to go to that folder an... : Kitty__Kong
      • it does kind of suck with mailing lists, because the email i send to the list becomes part of the convers... : skryte
    • Wrong. vacations.old-lady@gmail.com Create a filter for "to: vacations.old-lady@gmail.com" to put t... : foo
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  Nope http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_you_disable_gmail_conversation : baconisgod
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    i fucking hate gmail. why cant they simply make an option to turn off their crap. : Kitty__Kong
    • WHY CAN'T YOU DISABLE USEFUL THINGS, GOSH DARN IT. : Durajim
    • Quit whining and stop using it, then. : foo
• Pretty terrible first attempt at a troll. : givemesnacks
• do you mean the way it displays emails or the chat feature? : dignan
• Just create a new label and filter it that way, sheesh : yosemiteclimber
• christ, you sound like one of my users : Waffles!
• The fuck are you talking about? The gmail interface is the best email client there is, period. Crap... : foo

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  That rug really tied the room together. Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXT0gOk1Ogw : daVinci1980
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    I like how so many emotions can get conveyed with the right usage of fuck. : Prozium
    • fucking a, dude. Fucking a. : daVinci1980
• You're a fascist. : Prozium
• Seriously? Everything in the movie is fucking hilarious. : deject
• you're out of your element. : nyranger66
• Clearly you're dead inside. There is no other explanation. : pop_secret
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  It gets better with multiple viewings : chrisschutz
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    Also drink white russians while watching. : daVinci1980
    • and smoke some pot : headbone
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      I was thinking throughout the whole thing, I bet this movie is awesome while drunk or high... unfortunate... : skelom
      • It's better when you are sober because it's harder to miss the good stuff. Seriously, watch it again, and... : pyide
      • I don't suggest being drunk. You want to remember it. But.. Receptive... Is good. For me that's about ... : daVinci1980
      • no drugs and no drinks? shit man, drink a few redbulls and eat a bunch of steaks, that;ll get you in t... : c0ucheh
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        If you drink then you do drugs. : thetangent
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          Ohai that guy : Omning
          • Just telling it like it is. : thetangent
  • So much better. Like, you don't think it will, but it will. : sgtsanity
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  The repetition of words and phrases, the simple plan gone awry, the everyman coping in a world gone mad, ... : Grumbeld
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    you mean, coitus? : skryte
    • The parlance of the times, man : chrisschutz
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  There was a great analysis of the movie a while back that basically described each character as being an ... : deathofrats
  • i remember reading that. It was a quite excellent little article. : -=kodiak=-
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    http://www.filmmonthly.com/video_and_dvd/the_big_lebowski.html ? : pyide
    • yup that's it. : deathofrats
    • Interesting read. Thanks : skelom
    • Interesting read, but I'm not following him on this paragraph: "As I mentioned above, there’s an ... : fishbone
  • Doesn't make it a good movie. : Ebu
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  all fans of the movie think they are totally like the dude. when in fact most of them are more like walte... : spiderfill
  • SHOMER FUCKING SHABBOS!! : pyide
  • I wish I was like Walter. : NastyJack
  • Walter is my favorite character! : pigvomit
  • I am becoming Walter the older I get :( : midgetherder
  • I generally identify with a single line. "the dude abides" I love the movie for what it is, but that lin... : xenophobe
  • The dude abides! : Maddog_Delphi97
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  i'm calmer'n you are. well. i'm calmer'n you. : EvilDolemite
  • /meanwhile, in the background, cops run into the bowling alley, guns drawn : skryte
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  I just saw Glengarry Glen Ross and feel the same way. : jake
  • You got bum leads, Patel? : iambinksy
• still my favorite movie of all time : smax
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  I just watched it last week for the first time, and it was kind of enjoyable, but not worth the hype. : angrytaxman
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    You need to watch it again too. : pyide
    • I'll get drunk and watch it again in the next week or so. : angrytaxman
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    Ebert said the same thing. Then he admitted he was wrong and added it to his Great Movies section. It rea... : NastyJack
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      Yeah it's odd how some movies are like that. O Brother, Where Art Thou and The Life Aquatic are two othe... : Grumbeld
      • I actually remember thinking it was hilarious on my first viewing, but it was the multiple viewings that ... : MaxPete82
      • I remember hating Bottle Rocket the first time I saw it then years later it became one of my favorite mov... : pyide
      • I would like to add Jackie Brown to your list if I may. : Frank_Mackey
      • Yep. The life aquatic is my favorite movie. Bill Murray is a fuckin genius, and every time I watch it I... : Ormsbee
      • I thought O Brother and Life Aquatic were awesome, Big lebowski, not so much. : Old_Fart
• The fact that you're just now seeing it for the first time, pretty much, answers your question. : Druuge
• Dude... : The Grolar Bear
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  It's pretty fucking genius, it warrants multiple viewings for sure. : MaxPete82
  • It's one of the few movies that just gets better with every viewing. : thetangent
• One of the best movies ever made. : massdev
• it helps if you're high. : baconisgod
• Now watch this I found it rather funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJrgFvSQ-f0 may be NWS : hashd
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  That's like.., your opinion, man. : oldRivers
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    ^^This is why the film is so good. : Lukiopimp
    • That and Jesus. : chrisschutz
  • lol.. : Flinz
• I hated it too : boomstickah
• I'm with you, I don't get the appeal : Tattoo Trav
• OK now go watch Barton Fink and report back later. : beastrabban
• It's funny. : nevicata
• You're not alone. I've watched it a couple of times now and can't figure out it's cult status. :( : gokwyjibo
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  Jacob from lost is on there! : fsck
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    I can't remember, is he one of the nihilists or one of the rug-pissers? : zuga
    • He was with the rug pissers. Learned it just recently from the shack. : fsck
• You are dead inside. That movie is fucking fantastic. : thetangent
• Not missing anything, it sucks : randomnull
• If you get high and watch it again, make sure you watch this straight after: http://www.youtube.com/watch... : minigomp
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  I'm this way with Boondock Saints. : Overbyte
  • Thats not really concidered a GOOD good movie, more like cheesy guilty pleasure. : imperator
• Its a film about a guy that just fills in the spot between rich men, nihilists, crazed vietnam vets, porn... : Lukiopimp
• One of the best movies of all time. You're broken. : virus
• Yes, you are dead inside, You might want to get that looked at. : Fred Garvin
• http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20100310%2FREVIEWS08%2F100319989%2F1023 : Shai-Tan
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  Now read this http://scottwesterman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lebowski.pdf : notext
  • and here is all the dialogue from the movie typed out to make a massive poster. I don't take credit for t... : Prozium
• I don't like it too : matthaeus
• I thought the same thing : Pandilex
• Because you missed all the good shit. Watch it again... and again... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I have to get around to watching this : bolneze
• Yep. As dead as dead can be. In my Top5 of all time. : ramshot
• I'm with you...wasn't funny...didn't have much appeal to me in general...meh, at best... : SKI242
• I couldn't finish it either. : alexpr
• i love that movie so much : qwpeoriu
• Maybe you missed something AND you're dead inside. : zipr
• I know people are saying this. But... I watched this and the first time I enjoyed it and some scenes I... : millakazuya
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  It's really a metaphor for the transition from the '60s through to the '90s. The big Lebowski represents... : Lone Swordsman
  • Close, Walter is also the 60's (just the other side of the coin vs. The Dude). Donny is the 70's, a forg... : fishbone
• Watching that movie under the impression that its the best movie ever is not the way to go about it, like... : Squirrely
• You MUST watch the movie multiple times. Almost everyone I know (myself included) didn't enjoy it the fi... : fishbone
• I have no idea. Never got the love for that movie. : Ebu

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  Oh my god. I'm going to invert that wallpaper and it'll be like he's always thrilled at how many bars the... : [fry]
  • Hahahaha : spazzium
  • lol : bolneze
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    Awesome. Thanks guys. http://www.shackpics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_cskc8e143spscbwpdksw.jpg : [fry]
    • :D : bolneze
    • LOL : Flinz
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  That's pretty lame, can't you install google voice if you jailbreak? : MagicWishMonkey
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    Beats me. This works swell though! : [fry]
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      I get shitty reception in my condo (T-Mobile), being able to make outbound calls over wifi with google vo... : MagicWishMonkey
      • how are you making a call via google voice w/o cell reception? i can't make calls from g1 w/ google voic... : dignan
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    skype is $3/mo, and the iphone app is stellar. it's my solution to shitty coverage inside my home. : biskits
    • I forgot about Skype, I wish I could integrate that with my google voice number : MagicWishMonkey
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      As soon as they update their app for backgrounding. : Brian Leahy
      • i'm still on a 3G with OS 3.1.3 :) : biskits
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    Google voice calls sound like shit. : spazzium
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      Really? I've never had a complaint, it's always crystal clear. Maybe your ISP is dicking with traffic? : MagicWishMonkey
      • Hmmm, well since I was making the call with my cell and was not attached to data, I don't think my ISP ha... : spazzium
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  Five bars anywhere except when you hold your phone wrong. : ovrlrd
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    I haven't experienced that yet and I hold my phone left handed and it's caseless at the moment. I suppose... : [fry]
    • It really only happens with weak reception or if your hands are overly conductive. The Microcell should h... : ovrlrd
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  So is there anything bad about it besides the price? The service in my house is pretty horrible. : extrahappyturtle
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    I can't think of anything bad about it. I have 5 bars everywhere in my house. I even tried to duck behind... : [fry]
    • try from inside the safe : Fayk
  • It works like a champ. 5 bars throughout the house. It does add a few seconds delay when placing calls... : Colleton
  • The units themselves are pretty good, and work well from all the reports I've seen. It's the financial e... : genom
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  Give me that wallpaper now. : Brian Leahy
  • I'm with this guy. That wallpaper says it all : Hizzow
  • its freaky : bolneze
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    here's the wallpaper: and can somebody please (attention grabbing text) mirror that image but do it in... : [fry]
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      Delete word, flip image, rewrite word? : bolneze
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        instead of telling me what to do could you do it for me please : [fry]
        • I don't have CS5 on this machine :( : rosewood
        • Since you were so polite http://www.easyscreens.info/index.php?v=5381&fullsize=1 : bolneze
      • Thank you bolneze and fishbone sorry you both kinda knocked it out at the same time but I will doubly tre... : [fry]
    • Just for you [fry] http://www.shackpics.com/files/3_bccp6uxfcceuhabh7sov.jpg : fishbone
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  Here we have another thread about people who have to buy a $150 device in order to use their IPhones at h... : hashd
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    Has nothing to do with the iPhone, it gives you better AT&T service in your house regardless of phone. : MaxPete82
    • Why would you get AT&T if you cant use their service? : hashd
  • Dude, some people just live in the middle of nowhere and they have shitty coverage no matter what provide... : ovrlrd
  • Some houses kill signal no matter who the provider is : gmd
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    Here we have another thread about people who have to buy a $150 device in order to use and phone at home ... : Slowtreme
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      no phones work good in my house with any carrier. we have a metal radiant barrier shielding on our roof t... : [fry]
      • Hahaha this really made me laugh! : hashd
      • yeah I'm with you, my house is like a faraday cage or something. no matter what carrier people are on, wh... : Slowtreme
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        So what you're saying is you have a tinfoil roof? : MercFox1
        • Much easier than wearing hats : rosewood
        • U so sillay! : [fry]
      • Also good for blocking CIA signals : gmd
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        That's why I had shitty reception? : Just A Girl
        • Yep. This woman can confirm my story. : [fry]
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        pictures of this? im curious what this looks like : hobosapien
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          the entire inside roof of the attic has techshield radiant barrier. it comes in "boards" that you cut and... : [fry]
          • room / roof : [fry]
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            interesting. Does this help insulation? is that why it is energy efficient? also, do you have those do... : hobosapien
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              In southern states heat in attics are terrible, so bad that you can't get someone like comcast to work in... : hirosushima
              • Ah, it's to keep the heat out, I was thinking it's to keep warmth in, lol - iceland We just pump our rad... : gakera
      • try a regular repeater next time then - that way you're not locked into a single carrier. : PlanetPerfecto
      • hahaha : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        hahahahaha : virus
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          you fucking pwned that roof : virus
          • what a fag that roof is : virus
      • http://www.shackpics.com/files/fryandthebigmetalroof_xnbwpkttbj9jo8wtu55c.jpg : minigomp
  • Here we have another hashd post so so lame... : VegasX
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  I don't get it. Why do they charge $150 for this just so you can get better reception at home? Do you get... : aggressor
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    I wonder if other people benefit from this and what the radius is. : Sailor of Fortune
    • 5000 ft but you have to auth the phones to it. : Slowtreme
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  Do you know if call quality/signal is affected if you're maxing out your bandwidth downloading Linux ISOs... : MaxPete82
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    You know there is this thing called QoS that you can use to.. ah forget it, it probably works fine since ... : ovrlrd
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      I know what QoS is, was just asking how it worked in practice. You're probably right, it likely doesn't u... : MaxPete82
      • IIRC, Verizon says theirs uses 300kb for a voice call. Here's a thread about it at Howard Forums: htt... : Old_Fart
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    it mentioned in the manual you can set a priority mode or something for just that purpose. i can downl... : [fry]
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      do you still use up your data plan if you are on the microcell downloading stuff to your phone? : Slowtreme
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        Why wouldn't you just use the wifi in your house? : Prozium
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          ^^^. : [fry]
          • i dont care : Slowtreme
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          you assume wifi is here : Slowtreme
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            Who now owns a router that doesn't have wifi? : Prozium
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              http://www.shacknews.com/profile/Slowtreme : armybob
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                Slowtreme, I have an extra wireless router and you are a cool shacker. SM me your address and I'll hook y... : EricZBA
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                  i dont want the CIA snooping on me!!!!! I have wifi, just thought it was a valid question. Apparently : Slowtreme
                  • Well, to answer your question, then, no, the microcell still uses your limited cellphone plan data even t... : BlackCat9
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  Do you have a landline? : DrWaffles
  • people still have land lines? : Slowtreme
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  So if you buy one of these, can you restrict it to just your own phone, or can any one end up using it? : holinka
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    att requires you to put in phone #'s that it's useable by. verizon/sprint are just open. : x[sliver]
    • Nope, Sprint's requires numbers as well. You register with Sprint directly. : virus
    • VZW's is open by default but you can call and have it closed. Also, when open, it still only allows 1 non... : Old_Fart
  • You add which numbers are allowed. So it's private. : ovrlrd

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  terrible, the epitome of over hyping and failing to deliver, and don't let the nice ones fool you into th... : graceofdragons
  • its definitely not terrible. its just...not great. which is terrible : spiderfill
• sucked : bolneze
• I wouldn't call it gay... reproduction plays a pretty big role in the game. : The Grolar Bear
• It was okay. Worth playing if you can get a good deal on it, and you're into the whole making a creature ... : systatic
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  The creation tools, the part where you make things, is great, wonderful and really more games should have... : baron calamity
  • APB is amazing for customization as well. : Derringer
  • It's just too bad your choices don't really affect the behavior of your creature in any way outside a +1 ... : deject
• Not worth it. : Mmmmmoo
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  The best part of the game was the first part where you were a little organism floating around with really... : rick
  • Yeah, that part was actually a lot of fun. : systatic
  • I still liked it during the early exploration and mutation stages, but once you hit the tribal stage it s... : Vincent Grayson
• It's probably actually worth it now if you can find it for a few dollars somewhere, it most certainly was... : Durajim
• Fun for a couple days, then not fun. : BouillonCubes
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  It turned from a promising dynamic evolutionary sim into a scripted creationism "sim" : Drewus
  • Yeah, I don't see how they can call it an evolution sim when, at each "stage", you remodel your creature.... : Vividvoid
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  After I built a handful of phallic creatures I kinda lost my interest : ColoradoCNC
  • I Loved Those Creatures : Earl Greigh
• I just realised I think I got all the fun out of the product before it was even released. They killed tha... : Durajim
• Best part was creating stuff, the actual gameplay was pretty boring. : Pneum0
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  Majorly overhyped. Best part was the creature creator which you can get for free anyway. Actual game was ... : Viprime
  • Do you remember when EA said they were going to make Spore bigger than the Sims? http://www.mcvuk.com/... : Schnapple
• I thought it was a brilliant experiment in game design but a failure at making something that most gamers... : BlackCat9
• I enjoyed it for about a week, then completely forgot it existed. : Conan
• http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/218-Spore Will Wright created The Sims, a : the archvile
• It was addicting and I played it straight from start to space age. However there wasn't a save point earl... : Sailor of Fortune
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  Biggest waste of time. Don't bother. : -=kodiak=-
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    this right here is proof. If Kodiak gets sick of making penis creatures then it definitely is a horrible... : redfive
    • i didnt even bother with that. By the time i got my hands on my own penis creature, there were already 93... : -=kodiak=-
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  SIDETHREAD: Do you think Spore could have been saved? Is what they were trying to do originally even poss... : Schnapple
  • In theory I think it sounded excellent on paper, but perhaps it was just too hard to simulate, or even ma... : u sir name
  • I think it was too grand an idea for them to make it good. Maybe if they release each evolution in the fo... : rick
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    I thought the concept and the game was good. However, the first four phases were ridiculously quick to f... : Aldebrand
    • Aw, you haven't been to the center? I think it's worth it to play if you own it at least until you get t... : shinseitom
  • If they finished up the 2005 version of Spore. Spore was the be an evolution Sim and each stage was conne... : baron calamity
• It's fun for a while, but it gets old pretty fast. I was very disappointed. : thetangent
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  I liked the space shit. I wish someone would take that and make a serious galaxy conquesting game with re... : NukemFornever
  • It seemed like it had a lot of the same stuff going for it as Star Control 2. : BlackCat9
• If you can get it for like $5 it's not bad to play it for several hours but it gets very old fast due to ... : Shai-Tan
• City level and beyond lacked depth. The other levels were great. The game design requires exponential a... : spyrext
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  Its gay. The original idea and presentation by Will Wright was superb, the implementation by EA horrible. : Lukiopimp
  • Correct. : Old8Leg
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  I thought of it more as a kids game, honestly. : virus
  • so did the developers : smax
• Hijack - So what was at the centre of the galaxy? I remember that being a spoiler of some sort. : Dontdrop
• It was pretty boring : moshman
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  Side question: Worse than/more disappointing than Black&White? : filthysock
  • more, I quite enjoyed black and white : moshman
  • Black & White was a lot of fun. I could have been better though. : alexpr
  • Black and White wasn't a disappointment, it was awesome! : Durajim
  • I'd say worse. Spore was fun for the early part. The civ and later sucked (they should have contracted ... : JuffoWup
  • less, because i paid full retail for B&W : smax
  • Totally. There was zero fun in Spore from the time I managed to force myself to play it. Zero. : node
  • B&W was incredibly fantastic, what are yee on aboot?! Spore was just awful. : niceguynick
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    internet news flash: it's now cool to like black&white : arizona bay
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      Black and White 1 was pretty average and very very overhyped. B&W 2 on the other hand was awesome. : marmite
      • B&W 2 was one of the worst games I've played! God I hated that game so much! : Hemtroll
  • Woah, woah woah!?!?! There is actually some people who enjoyed Black and White? : razlebol
  • B&W may be the perfect game to employ Natal/Kenect. The hand of god controller would work well as your a... : Fooldozer
  • It was way worse and way more disappointing than B&W. I didn't even pay for Spore and I wasn't looking fo... : marmite

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• On dedicated servers where both they and you are a regular and you know each other back in 1998 : SpaecKow
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  none unless you play w/cool shackers :( : FrayLo
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    shack battles are great but infrequent and never happening the one hour when i can just sit down and play... : EvilDolemite
    • What game do you want to play? : soggybagel
    • I may just be lucky but I've always been able to grab a few shackers on my friends list and play l4d2 or ... : .frame
    • I know, it's tough to schedule, sometimes you just want to sit down and play. Sucks. : FrayLo
    • There is a regular shackbattle scheduled for every night of the week except Saturday. Also l4d2, tf2 and ... : jimmy_legs
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  they're on Shacknews. : _jon
  • agreed!! : .frame
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  Play with Shackers during Shackbattles... there seems to be a crew for practically every game. : wilcon
  • ^^^^ this : PlanetPerfecto
• the biggest problem with multiplayer gaming is the other people. i would like to play with shackers but... : vitek r
• somebody needs to link mercfox's shackbattle calender : RetroRedEyeJr
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  where are the like-minded gamers who are competitive, but also understand it's just a game, and can have : haiku
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    i don't have a PS3 but moreso, wipeout has always terrified me. it looks so fucking competitive, like pe : EvilDolemite
    • Well I played with Tasty and Shavenewok once or twice and got into it pretty easy after a few games. Even... : SpaecKow
  • They're all stoners. : moe6
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  whatever dude... qq more... : daVinci1980
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    Seriously though, when I get defeated by an impressive strategy in SC2, or by a simple strategy that's ju... : daVinci1980
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      I'm not like this all. I'll chit chat while the game is starting out or whatever, but when it's over, i'l... : Ellissd
      • I don't keep chatting, I just want them to know I'm not a bad sport and I enjoyed the game even if I lost... : daVinci1980
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      You're over thinking it. : walker270
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        It's to counteract the fact that people are douchebags and usually when they type 'gg' at the end of a ga... : daVinci1980
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          Yeah, you're really over thinking it. Whiny cry babies will either just quit outright without saying a... : walker270
          • There were posts here on the shack about people being whiny when posting 'gg' at the end of matches durin... : daVinci1980
• dunno how common these are, but vouch leagues. : miasma&!
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  try playing on the pc : fried rice
  • i do : EvilDolemite
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    lol if you think PC gamers are all socially well-adjusted : RikiTiki2
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      probabilistically, you're better off on PC... if i had to guess. But yeah, it's not like 100% or anything... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
      • I had no idea probabilistically was a real word, thank you. : sharpie
• The best way to combat this is just to ignore it and let your playing do the talking. It has worked for m... : Godhatesfatpeople
• We need something between Xbox live (a pay service that is moderated and managed) and an old school multi... : MaxPete82
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  I just disable as many of the communication portals to other players as possible. Very rarely do other p... : walker270
  • This is why I've never used a headset on a console : PixelPie
• I don't play online games much any more unless it's with people I know personally or shackers. It ruins t... : boarder2
• out of like 100 games I only get a few trash talkers. it's just adolescents looking for something to elev... : Shai-Tan
• Don't get fed up. Just understand that retarded people exist, and they will invade your space at times ei... : c0ucheh
• i think the worst ones are the whiners actually who don't just play the goddamn game instead of caring wa... : JINKY
• what mulitplayer games are you referring to in general? i play TF2 with non-shacknews people, as well ... : dopeman
• THIS = HoN, and I love it : shackwack
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  Nowhere. Either you enjoy competing or you don't. There are levels in-between where if you are beaten you... : terath
  • I should add, most people are sore losers. Human nature I'll guess. : terath
• I tried to explain to someone on Heroes of Newerth once that it was possible to lose a game and still hav... : sharpie
• oh shut the hell up : Ajax
• buying stupid shit at a box store with girlfriend. : losder5000
• Multiplayer gaming is idiot proof now so you get mostly idiots. Back in the day you had to be kind of in... : Omaha
• gg ED. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• People don't play for fun anymore - they play to see who can be the biggest asshole. : genom

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• looks like the site's been overloaded.... but I did get a peek at the stats on some of the new gear. Hol... : captfarrell
• ugh, I was trying to dump my account but those hunter changes look godly. I might have to play it again!... : lcizzle
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  The big thing that struck me is how many of the classes have abilities that you used to get fairly early ... : Vincent Grayson
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    Don't all skills scale now when you level? You just don't have to physically go to the trainer and buy th... : lcizzle
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      Right, but that makes each level less of an obvious impact on the player...so going many levels without a... : Vincent Grayson
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        most classes have enough spells to cover a new spell every 2 levels, I'm certain there won't be any empty... : graceofdragons
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          I haven't look at all of them yet, but there's definitely a few big gaps during the rogue leveling. : Vincent Grayson
          • I think they said that their goal in changing the spells was to make it so that you always get something ... : BlackCat9
    • Yes, and every classes spell distribution has been reworked from level 1-85 : graceofdragons
  • Keep in mind, new skills are acquired through talents as well. : action wombmate
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  the paladin changes mostly look agreeable. they're not really changing much besides giving us an AoE hea : electroly
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    That's how it has been for Paladins since the beginning. When they try to make it awesome, they make it t... : lcizzle
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      god paladin healing is so boring : graceofdragons
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        and it'll be even more boring when they force us to use long heals instead of FoL. fuck a 3 second cast ... : electroly
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          lol sorry I'm a prot pally and a priest healer, i love looking at Healing Done, I use about 5 spells raid... : graceofdragons
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            it's all about timing your heals, keeping ss and beacon up on the right people, keeping judgement of ligh... : electroly
            • I always enjoyed Paladin healing, weather it was Flash of Lights (and ending the fight will 80% mana and ... : Piett23
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              imho timing heals went out a long time ago, I won't raid 25s anymore, because it's just a huge spam fest,... : graceofdragons
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                the five second rule is like the antithesis to everything i hold dear. worst fucking idea ever : electroly
                • poor solution to an old problem : graceofdragons
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                  What's this now? : action wombmate
                  • spirit-based mana regeneration (the "while not casting" number in the tooltip for your mana regen stat) s... : electroly
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                    the five second rule, full mana regen doesn't start until 5 seconds after the completion of your last spe... : graceofdragons
                    • Now, it doesn't start until combat ends, from what I recall. : DianeOfTheMoon
          • errr I'm a shammy healer and rarely use Chain Healing at all, and even then its just as its going to be b... : jbury
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    Sounds more like "we could have made it the way electroly thinks it's awesome, but we don't think it's aw... : action wombmate
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      "the way electroly thinks its awesome" is how holy paladins worked in TBC and Wrath so i'm not sure if yo... : electroly
      • i mean they seem to pretty much agree that it would've been nice to retain this paladin-specific mechanic... : electroly
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        No, but plenty of people think Paladin healing is boring as it has been in its mostly unchanged state sin... : action wombmate
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          ultimately it'll be fine, it's just a mana cost issue. blizzard has repeatedly tried to make paladins mo... : electroly
          • Cataclysm will actually be the first time I've healed a dungeon in months and months, so no matter what I... : action wombmate
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  Mwasher. Re: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23359372#itemanchor_23359372 I'd probably guess it's... : Senate5000
  • Yea I will prob give it a few days then patch up and give it another shot : mwasher
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  Wow, warriors still look boring. : hbalce1
  • Warriors rule, best class evar. : Liquid
  • fury warriors duel weilding 2 2h weps? 100% arp? REDICULOUS : Vincenoir
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    I thought so until I got one to 80. Most dynamic tank class I've played yet. You're always doing somethin... : drhazard
    • Prot warriors are one of very few WoW classes that are basically fun to play from an action perspective. ... : FlatlineDixay
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  Shaman changes look so boring. Is there even one new elemental spell? : D45hiz
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    dude what? boring? YOU CAN CAST WHILE MOVING : graceofdragons
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      I guess thats ok, but its such a very short time. Not really that amazing. : D45hiz
      • In PVP it is. : neokolonial
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    Shit, anything's better than the new rogue skills. Fucking healing and damage negation and that smoke scr... : Vincent Grayson
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      Are you shitting me? That smoke screen thing is fucking nasty and ass rogues can now mark people so they ... : lcizzle
      • That's gonna be a gamewinner like Heroism. : Marrbe
    • Arcane Mages are getting punished for casting spells, it seems. Fire gets a DOT added to everything - ... : genom
  • They should have just made DPS Shaman into spectacularly crit-ing death machines and Resto into unkillabl... : eskimo spy
  • There are no new Resto Drood spells and this is GREAT. I liked the set from LK perfectly, making them mor... : node
• Anyone been reading the Cataclysm Lore Details over at World of raids? I aint gonna spoil it, but whoever... : ukmostwanted
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  If anyone has any questions, I've been in the alpha for the last couple of months and have played a Shama... : AllYourBase
  • Talk about Earthquake. : Marrbe
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    I'll be levelling a Druid again with a friend doing Shammy, how's levelling elemental these days? And I d... : node
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      If you don't have a server yet you might wanna think about Al'Akir, I'm there with [7]kami and Vincenoir ... : Bamii
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        Haha shit you guys are playing again? :) : jbury
        • Yep, started playing this week :S Wanna join? : Bamii
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        I've thought about that server before since a few friends are on it. But my old Hunter main is on burning... : node
        • Ah ok, fyi: I've been told there's loads of pug's going on at any time of the day on Al'Akir. : Bamii
      • O SH! i smell a EU guild forming ><! BTW Ive downed singdra on my main, so when (yes when!) we get there ... : Vincenoir
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  Is WoW: Cataclysm anything like Homeworld: Cataclysm? : Vividvoid
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    Yes. It is EXACTLY like Homeworld: Cataclysm. : kallanta
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      Can they really trademark the word Cataclysm? It's been used before by other games (like HW). : Vividvoid
      • Probably since they were both just subtitles. : aggressor
  • yup, they are both expansions : JuffoWup
• Artwork is top notch again. : [7]kami

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• Hi Immy : Magitek
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  is a kevin pereira like a justin bieber? : CoRDS
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    justin's beaver : moshman
    • thats horrifying : CoRDS
• post'n'run! : moshman
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  i'm not sure your drumming style really matches Rodrigo y Gabriela, especially the dbl bass kicks : filthysock
  • he is ok , but he is no (this guy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DVbt5W-DNc : CoRDS
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  video is not available : moshman
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    finally. its not just Australia : CoRDS
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      solution: we invade you guys and you guys fly our flag in exchange we let you watch US youtube. sign ... : xxiv
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        This is a fabulous deal, you get a military invasion - which you love, we get to look at American interne... : SpaecKow
        • as long as we put canadian flag stuffs on when we travel its all good : CoRDS
        • you could have left out the ied part kow. it touches a nerve. : xxiv
• Wow, impressive, kevinp. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Pretty cool :) : imperator
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  pretty sweet kevin now show us you playing rockband3 : Chandler55
  • I can't wait to epic fail the stringed guitar instrument in RB3... Come on calluses! : kevin pereira
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  Impressive, immy. But you know the only thing we care about is: On a scale from pink to purple to b... : anhero
  • claaaaasssssssyyyyyy : virus
  • or yours for that matter, you beast : anhero
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    burnt sienna. : kevin pereira
    • (¤) :* : anhero
    • hahah christ :D : jbury
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      Speaking thereof, are Munn and her sphincter still at AOTS (I don't watch regularly) or has she gone all ... : SpaecKow
      • Haislip is a gem on television, so if she gets more airtime, I approve. : threeup
    • * C R A Y O L A C R A Y O N ' D * : virus
    • You can leave the Shack, but the Shack never leaves you. <3<3 : BlackCat9
    • hahaha! : marmite
  • the things i would do to her (assuming she cant use her voice ) : CoRDS
• You are at least as good as a crappy drummer with no life living in a van touring the midwest trying to f... : threeup
• Awesome drumming, I think it moved a little bit. Also is it true that If I touch you, I automatically had... : drbriefs
• Nice work! : ZeroSignal
• I'm not easily impressed but that, that impressed me very much. : randomnull
• This is great man, I love the music as well. : Bamii
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  needs more high def pasty white : Patch-e
  • oh and it was pretty cool, nice work : Patch-e
• I liked this, nice one mr p. : niceguynick
• great! but the drumming is not in sync with sounds, at least on my computer. AITOO? : fsck
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDlyjBQWWY : moshman
  • oops, misreply, but I guess it fits in here too being a shameless showoff thread : moshman
• pretty snazzy stuff pereira. : braaains
• Hah wow is that what rockband will be like in a few years? Also good work on the drums. : gakera
• I was kind of digging it but then when it kicked in at around 1:10 it was awesome. : mrwolf710